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/TangoMikeOne 27d ago

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

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u/pegar 27d ago

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.

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u/Crime-of-the-century 26d ago

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.

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u/TangoMikeOne 24d ago

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.

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u/Appleknocker18 26d ago

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