Re: OT: Ukraine WH-meeting news coverage

On 3/2/2025 3:06 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

 super70s  <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

 On 2025-03-02 15:59:32 +0000, suzeeq said:
 

 On 3/2/2025 6:43 AM, NoBody wrote:

 On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 22:55:00 -0500, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
 wrote:
 

 On 3/1/2025 8:47 PM, Rhino wrote:

 On 2025-03-01 5:01 PM, moviePig wrote:

 
 A quick glance at major TV news websites puts the Zelensky WH meeting
 as the top story at ABC, CBS, and NBC.  Fox, meanwhile, places it
 fourth, with the headline:
 
      QUESTIONS SWIRL AROUND POSSIBLE ZELENSKYY RESIGNATION AFTER HEATED
 TRUMP EXCHANGE
 
 (And Fox's next story gives Brett Favre's opinion on the WH debacle.)
 
 Even now, this sort of schism still takes me by surprise...
 
 

 It really distresses you when the major media outlets don't all take
 exactly the same "correct" line on the issues of the day, doesn't it?
 You would have LOVED the Soviet Union back in the day or both
 contemporary Russia and China: all the "news" outlets take the same line.
 
 Just to REALLY undermine your sense of order, you should watch Brett
 Baier's interview with Zelenskyy on Fox. You will be VERY surprised at
 how he DOESN'T pile on to Zelenskyy.
 
 Then again, you'd need to "invest" some time and I know you hate doing
 that - unless of course you know in advance that a recommended video is
 going to take the "progressive" line. But here it is anyway, just in
 case....
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqLcBwUT_E [23 minutes]

 
 I watched the first half ...which, with one big exception, seemed a
 relatively normal interview.  That exception was that Baier opened with
 -- and *pursued* -- a suggestion that Zelensky owed Trump an *apology*.
 I found that a true WTF moment ...similar to how Fox's website (above)
 leads with a question about Zelensky's *resignation*, ffs.
 

 
 He does owe Trump an apology.  He was rude, ungracious, and
 unthankful.  It's never a good idea to try to lecture the person who's
 giving you a ton of money.
 

 Trump was even more rude and downright bullied him. Then JD jumped in
 and double down on it. They both provoked Zelienskyy, and you expect
 him to be thankful for that?

 
 Vance thinks he's the heir to the MAGA throne. He's running for
 president and assumes all these draconian Trump policies are going to
 be popular after they've had four years to ripen on the vine, I
 wouldn't bet on it. He gave the same kind of blustery "campaign speech"
 in Germany last week.

 
 No different than DeSantis running for the nomination in 2024. We have
 learned that a Republican who isn't Trump will not be taken seriously by
 Republican primary voters by running as an imitation Trump.
 
 The only one Vance convinced was Trump himself, since he turned 180
 degrees from condemning Trump to praising Trump.
 
 There is no Republican Party without Trump. Trump has no annointed
 successor. I guess they'll all have to run... as themselves... in the
 2028 presidential primary season.
 

Let's hope so.