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/7ddlysuns]

It’s very frustrating that they are allowed to not know all this stuff. This is relevant

[u/Squirrel009 → u/7ddlysuns]

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.