No. of Recommendations: 6
Tiedrich:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in Germany this week, attending the Munich Security Conference — and for some unknown reason, The New York Times decided it would be super-fun to mock AOC by quoting from a speech she gave, and leaving every verbal tic intact.
Rebecca Solnit: “I've transcribed dozens of interviews. With rare exceptions, everyone speaks with those um/uh tics, little restarts, hesitations, and most of us speak in sentence fragments with emphases, tones, pauses that create coherence not replicable in print. Spoken and written are distinct. Translate fairly.”
Tiedrich:
but, more importantly, have you ever seen one instance in the press where Donny Convict was quoted verbatim? no, you have not. the fuck-torrent of incoherence that seeps out of Dear Leader’s rancid anus-mouth gets sanewashed to the hundredth degree.
right now, Donny’s obvious cognitive impairment has reached the point where he can’t even manage to fart out a complete sentence. his speeches are full of false starts, fragments that drift off and go nowhere, incomprehensible slurring, stumbling and stammering, lost trains of thought, and pure batshit insanity.
and the press is only too happy to edit that shit out. anyone reading printed accounts of Donny’s pressers would have no idea that his brain has gone fuckity-bye.
if that kind of kid-glove treatment is acceptable when quoting Dear Leader, then it’s sure as shit doubly-acceptable when quoting AOC.
I’m racking my own brain trying to figure out why the Times would take such a cheap shot at AOC. ‘because fuck you, that’s why’ is the only rationale I can think of.
do better, New York Times.
And thus Dope thinks AOC is stupid and Trump is brilliant. When will the press stop showing this bias and stop sane-washing Trump?
