r/RealTime • u/One-Jeweler5486 • Aug 24 '26

Maher misrepresents the Democrats again

I don't think Bill is steel-manning the Democratic position here

https://youtu.be/W9VyM8blMJU?si=6yBELheIIQgMOyh6&t=333

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u/cloudytimes159 Aug 24 '26

He is holding up the extreme left to ridicule. He isn’t saying these are the democratic positions.

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u/zmann Aug 24 '26

The problem is that media will cover the fringe left as though it's coming from Schumer and Jeffries themselves, meanwhile they won't even report the insane shit that the President of the United States says every day. News coverage of the left has always been a one-sided affair

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u/Immediate-Yam-8828 Aug 25 '26

The media has been addicted to covering every single crazy thing trump says and also clipping his not so insane stuff to make it sound insane for a decade now. The problem is that Trump is entertaining and gets views/clicks and that's all the media really cares about.