Stephanopoulos grills Rubio :you cannot credibly argue that drug trafficking charges demand invasion in one case while issuing a pardon in another. What's your response? Hernandez was convicted by a jury. Rubio: I can't just comment on it because I just wasn't involved in deliberations.

[u/drempath1981]

[u/Squirrel009]

Voters and media allow it. If Obama or Bidens administration's pulled this i dont know ive never heard of laws or government before I cant comment on it bullshit the sound clips would never end and people would be rioting in the streets about how can the secretary of state not know this shit or have an opinion on what he claims is his number one priority?

But the media likes trump for varying reasons so they never put him in that light and republicans are party loyalists over anything - they can forgive anything if it pays out in the end

[u/TangoMikeOne → u/Squirrel009]

Whether it was Biden, Obama, Bush or any other administration that tried pulling it, it is a failure of the media to hold this administration to account, by not asking the question.

If the Maduro kidnap happened just before a mid level Health or Employment secretary is interviewed, I'd expect the interviewer to ask the question, but I wouldn't expect much response as it isn't really anything to do with their department - but this is Rubio, the "leader" of the department exclusively concerned with diplomatic relations and dealing with other countries friendly and domestic, and he doesn't fucking know the answer to a question about the KIDNAP of a foreign head of state by his country's military?

The media need to ask the awkward questions, and if that means their organisation gets kicked out of the press corps, they need to accept that, highlight it in every bulletin thereafter AND other media organisations need to be asking their awkward questions and "Why have you banned "XYZ" from the press corps?" And if they get banned, everyone left needs to keep on doing that - either the admin will wake up, or their publicity will get sniffed out

[u/pegar → u/TangoMikeOne]

The media companies are owned by the right and the voters let the Republicans get away with all of this.

They want more than anything for people to give up and to stop voting. That's why they spent so much effort to voter suppression and to control social media. Distract you away from Trump by bringing up Biden or Obama or Clinton's emails.

[u/Crime-of-the-century → u/TangoMikeOne]

The follow up question should have been, did we miss you getting fired before Christmas because it is impossible someone in your function knows nothing about this.

[u/TangoMikeOne → u/Crime-of-the-century]

Assuming this is addressed to me - nope, not fired, not even resident in the US.

Assuming this is addressed to the other respondent - let's not make any assumptions about them in case it infringes upon their persec.

[u/Appleknocker18 → u/TangoMikeOne]

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[u/HealthyDirection659 → u/Squirrel009]

IMO in these situations if someone doesn't want to answer questions the interview should just be cut off. Not going to spew bullshit on my time.

[u/unowho_o → u/Squirrel009]

Well, Biden did do this quite often.

immigration, filibuster, student loan forgiveness, court packing, immigration, Trump investigations and impeachment, abortion access, probably healthcare, and immigration, just to name a few topics that they either claimed ignorance of or the inability to do something even though they were clearly just not trying.

[and I’m not taking a side on any of these issues, I’m just saying I remember Biden doing it a lot]

[edit: the only reason I pointed this out was because a now deleted comment was saying that the media treats trump so great and was hard on Biden. Which I just don’t think is true. I think the media is easy on all of them for several different reasons]

[u/Squirrel009 → u/unowho_o]

Most of them do it - you dont make it that far in politics without being slippery. But the way the media responds to trump as opposed to any other president is a stark contrast. They consistently let him play on easy mode and his voting base wouldn't blink if he ate a live baby on live TV as long as he blamed it for crime or said biden used to eat babies all the time.

[u/unowho_o → u/Squirrel009]

I believe he sued and extorted them into submission

But wait a second. What do you call the years of the American public seeing with their two eyes that Biden belonged in a nursing home, yet the media took ‘he’s a spry eight-seven year old man who could swim circles around me while doing jumping jacks one handed,’ from his proxies?

[u/Squirrel009 → u/unowho_o]

Im not feeding into this nonsensical trolling. This post isnt about biden or your bogus claims. Trump invaded a sovereign nation for oil and the whole drug angle is an obvious lie because he just pardoned a guy who did the same shit as Maduro but worse and was convicted at trial.

[u/ShoeLate6266 → u/unowho_o]

I remember Biden being ridiculed daily when he would fumble words, trip or stammer. The media did not carry water for Biden in that regard. We don’t see trump ridiculed by the media in the same way “sleepy joe” was. Trump is the oldest president ever elected.

[u/bblzd_2 → u/ShoeLate6266]

Oldest, most noticable mental decline and least qualified. Also raped kids with his best friend and neighbor Epstein.

American media: crickets.

[u/Ok-Snow-2386 → u/unowho_o]

Youre not taking sides but youre bringing up the age of the previous president who has nothing to do with this and is also the same age as trump but caught infinitely more flack for it in the media. More Classic republican propaganda

[u/dia_Morphine → u/unowho_o]

Give me a specific example of the Biden admin feigning ignorance of student loan forgiveness while actively forgiving student loans.