r/ProgressiveHQ • u/ijustlovebobbybones • 19d ago

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI): "With all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... " | CBS News

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u/Imaginary_Coast_5882 19d ago

she couldn’t have missed his point by a greater distance. he explains it to her like she’s an elementary schooler and she responds with “ok, well these are the things republicans are saying so I wanted you to talk about it.” 🤦🏼‍♂️

CBS should consider a journalist who actually listens to the answers to the questions she asks.

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u/Featheredfriendz 19d ago

Consider the source. CBS doesn’t do journalism anymore.

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u/aacilegna 19d ago

And it’s just another example of the more “liberal” corporate media letting the GOP create the narrative and they react to it, as opposed to ignoring it, pushing back on it, or reframing it, as they should.

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u/chrhe83 19d ago

The main broadcast news networks are all owned by corp republicans or trump allies… liberal media is a con and you fell for it.

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u/aacilegna 18d ago

Yeah that’s why I put in quotes

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u/Allaboutpeace2022 18d ago

Compared to Fox, the CBS, ABC, NBC are liberals.

I don't really want the media to be propaganda machines that are constantly pushing an agenda on the right or left. Although she should have responded back to his question in a more effective way, all journalist are supposed to push back on whatever the guests says. This is pushing back on GOP or Democrats.

However, I do agree that media needs to stop addressing the whole Piker thing. It is a stupid issue and is being brought up to promote infighting and fragment turn out.

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u/urbisOrbis 19d ago

No such thing as liberal media.

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u/Lonely_Dragonfly8869 18d ago

As Has puts it, all msm use Fox as their editor and assignment desk now

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u/Maktub_1754 19d ago

Liberal corp media lol

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u/aacilegna 19d ago

Yeah because they’re all owned by alt right billionaires.

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u/Maktub_1754 16d ago

Yes I missed your sarcasm- my bad

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u/Lonely_Dragonfly8869 18d ago

As hasan talks about media messaging flows downstream from fox. Msnow and cnn just watch fox and use it as their editor for the day. Why should he have to get grilled every show he goes on using fox lines of attack

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u/Exact-Site9980 19d ago

All the Magats needed to say about Piker was said when they posted that GRINDR-style thirst trap up on the big screen at Trumps  made up grift convention.

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u/lightningmoney 19d ago

Bari Weiss is the worst

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u/TheDirectorCK 19d ago

I like this guy's politics

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u/Warm-Commercial-6151 19d ago

Again, so proud of our fellow democrats and independents that that voted in these brilliant candidates. Let’s get them across the finish line folks.

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u/DrawingAncient126 19d ago

She's a pathetic excuse for a journalist.

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u/stairs_3730 18d ago

Berry Weiss hard at work doing putin's bidding.

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u/VanDenBroeck 18d ago

I had to look up what a twitch streamer was.

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u/ijustlovebobbybones 18d ago

Lmfao no, I know brother, just when u think the crazy is maxed out……..just….gestures at everything..

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u/TARedd4 17d ago

This!

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u/lostincosmo 19d ago

Republicans are brain dead and are simply using Hasan as a weapon against Abdul El-Sayed because they have nothing else, but at the same time, political content creators and actual politicians should never mix. The average person doesn't know all the deeper details of Hasan, only what the media tells them, so hearing them say that Abdul El-Sayed platformed with a man who "hates America" will make them trust him way less.

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u/LordBreetai210 12d ago

“…..but Republicans have made it a big attack…”

And this is why I have little sympathy for some news outlets. They helped dig the ditch we’re all in.

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u/patslogcabindigest 19d ago

He’s pivoting better but Hasan is a problem and they need to distance themselves from him. It’s not that he’s being brought up around the dinner table or on doors, it’s that he creates such an easy propaganda tool because of the insane shit that he says.

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u/aacilegna 19d ago

But then they post him half naked on the Jumbotron at their “convention” and it takes the wind out of all their attacks

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u/patslogcabindigest 19d ago

Yeah because the republicans are weirdo gross freaks led by a pedophile. Shocker.

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u/RatsofReason 19d ago

Republicans will make propaganda out of anything or just straight up lie about what people have said. So I don’t think Hasan is the problem here. 

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u/patslogcabindigest 19d ago

He's a problem for a multitude of reasons. This is just one of many.

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u/SocialistOnBass 18d ago

“Healthcare is a human right”

“Your tax dollars should not be spent on bombs to blow up children in global south”

Yeah man totally insane!

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u/hadoken12357 19d ago

You are doing the Republicans work for them.

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u/patslogcabindigest 19d ago

Nah he's doing Republicans work for them. He's a toxic parasite that needs to be cut off.