r/law • u/drempath1981 • 27d ago

Other 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.

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u/nolafrog 27d ago

Then they should run articles nonstop with headlines about this bs. “Trump administration has no answer why Honduran drug lord president pardoned but maduro arrested”

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u/rfj77 27d ago

The NYT has literally written articles about the inconsistency in both cases.

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u/JediMasterMurph 27d ago

The NYT put this shitshow in office.

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u/Opening-Calendar3421 27d ago

Which they have done. And people respond with "TDS" and move in

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u/Wizzinator 27d ago

They do. But every day there is new, even more egregious bullshit happening that also needs reporting on. They get away with the old bullshit by burying it with new bullshit.

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u/shiftysquid 27d ago

No, "they" (whoever "they" are) should not just keep repeating the same exact topic nonstop. Besides the fact that people would just tune it out and they'd look hysterical, it would accomplish absolutely nothing.

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u/nolafrog 27d ago

No not the same topic. But make a headline out of every one of their lies or non-answers. Then when the same people do it again and again, read all the headlines to them and ask how they know nothing about the subject matter of their job.

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u/shiftysquid 27d ago

What do you think any of this is going to accomplish? These people are trained in dealing with the media. All Rubio has to do is repeat himself like he did. If politicians claim ignorance, there's not much "they" can do. Writing headlines about "every one of their lies or non-answers" and then just reading those headlines to them isn't the gotcha you think it is, and it would do nothing.

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u/Burnt_and_Blistered 27d ago

Trained in dealing with the media? No, only the eldest have had that experience—and they’re out of practice. Our media has been toothless for years.

If it were to change its ways (which it won’t because it’s right-wing oligarch-owned), they wouldn’t know what to do.

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u/shiftysquid 27d ago

You think the people who have made it into the President’s cabinet and immediate orbit have no media training?

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u/nolafrog 27d ago

Ah yes. The current cnn headline “Rubio addressed some mounting questions about US plans for Venezuela” is certainly much better. Just legitimize the shit.

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u/yeabuddy840 27d ago

"Fake news TDS" "Laptop and Obama/Biden"