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Oops, They Did It Again: The Mainstream Media Buries Trump’s Outrage
The former president spent the weekend spewing dangerous nonsense at a rally. The press spent its weekend polishing it into palatability.
It’s a pretty sad commentary on the way our mainstream media cover Donald Trump that if you really want to know what Trump said at a given rally, you would be wasting your time going to
The New York Times or
The Washington Post and you really need to read Aaron Rupar.
Who is Rupar? He’s a liberal
Substacker and
prolific tweeter who prints all the news
The New York Times doesn’t deem fit to print. The latest case in point is Trump’s weekend rally at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin—an appropriately named venue for a speech in which Trump was barking out hatred and bile like a mad dog.
If you’re the sort of person really steeped in campaign coverage, you may have read about what went down; if you missed it, spoiler alert: Trump said something at this rally so insane and offensive that even the
Times finally roused itself to cover it. Trump called Kamala Harris “mentally disabled” and added: “Joe Biden became mentally impaired; Kamala was born that way.”
That statement, whatever else we might call it, was obviously news, so the
Times couldn’t help leading with it. Ditto the
Post, which decided to produce a story that emphasized Trump’s violation of politically correct manners. The
Post piece quoted a mental health advocate scolding Trump for his insensitive language—as if what he said was offensive only to people struggling with mental illness!
Meanwhile, here are some other things Trump said at the rally, which you had to read
Rupar’s X feed to know about.
“These people are animals” (referring to migrants).
“I will liberate Wisconsin from ...
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