• @ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1767 months ago

    “In the fake news media, there are two sets of rules, and conservative[s] are always treated differently,” she continued.

    Well, she’s right about that much, but not in the way she thinks.

    Honestly, the fact that sociopathic whack jobs like Noem are even given the time of day by the media shows how beholden they are to conservative interests.

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      7 months ago

      It is so bad 🤣.

      Oh man, it was worse than I thought it would have been.

      She was asked multiple straight-up “yes or no” questions, and would dance around or try completely change the subject. When the interviewer called her on it, she’d spout nearly the same talking points again, and sometimes even a third time. If she was complaining about being interrupted its because, several times, she completely ignored the question being asked and simply went off into unrelated campaign style language. She was interrupted when the interviewer was pulling her back to answer the question being asked.

      90% of the questions she was asked were about direct quotes from her book. She even said “I refused to discuss who I met with”…but she had no problem discussing those things in the book? So bizarre.

      Her: “Why don’t you ask Joe Biden about things he misspoke about?”

      Interviewer: “I haven’t gotten an interview with Joe Biden, but I will ask him when I do. I have an interview with you so I’m asking you about what you said.”

      • SeaJ
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        157 months ago

        Did she take too much Xanax before that interview? I only got a few minutes in but there was zero inflection in her voice even when they called her on her bullshit of claiming to have met Kim Jong Un.

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          107 months ago

          I always thought sociopaths need to learn how to fake it well to operate in society. But I guess that requirement goes out fo the window when you replace society with GOP.

    • @wjrii@lemmy.world
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      287 months ago

      Her publisher removed it from the book, and announced that, but it’s always important not to be recorded admitting you were full of shit. This way, it’s less efficient to use the soundbite against her. But HOLY SHIT that was awkward.

      As for the books, it’s basically a rite of passage in both parties for younger politicians with ambitions to put out a memoir/manifesto. It lays out how you want to be perceived and sort of announces, “I am a serious political figure.” Sometimes it goes REALLLLLY badly.

    • @neidu2@feddit.nl
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      257 months ago

      “As soon as it was brought to my attention…”

      “I’ve travelled the world and met with many world leaders…”

      Even Skyrim NPCs have more varied responses than this.

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      77 months ago

      The publisher for Morning Joe Scarborough apparently launders GOP money and keeps Matt Gaetz in his old seat (FLA - 1). The dinosaurs are hoping their traditional media monopoly will drown out the counter arguments on the internet. This explains Sinclair media buyouts and that famous video of scripted joirnalism somewhat as well.

    • @Valmond@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      “People are not willing to have a hard conversation”, skips any not-even-hard question.

      Lol she sounds like a chinese trump knockoff, just rambling and repeating political talking points.

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    I mean you wrote the book lady. You could just lied and not said shit and later on when it came out that you did drive out to a gravel pit with the expressed purpose of shooting a puppy in the head…

    THATS when you cry fake news.

  • Flying Squid
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    597 months ago

    Apparently the new fake news is asking if what you wrote in your book was true.

      • @jaybone@lemmy.world
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        She had to have thought someone would read it, otherwise she never would have told her version of the dog story.

  • @some_guy
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    “In the fake news media, there are two sets of rules, and conservative[s] are always treated differently,” she continued. “That’s why Americans don’t trust the Fake News.”

    I’m a snowflake! I’m a snowflake! I’m a snowflake!

    It was around 2019 that I realized that conservatives have a persecution complex. I thought I’d unlocked some secret truth. Nope. It’s obvious to all of us who pay attention (I just hadn’t been paying attention).

    • @barsquid@lemmy.world
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      127 months ago

      They definitely are treated differently. Unfortunately they are given preferential treatment by spineless media outlets and the largest broadcast network in the country is their propaganda mouthpiece. I fucking wish Americans didn’t trust fake news.

    • @SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      They also tend to have zero self awareness. Democrats aren’t treated the same as Republicans because Republicans like Noem act much differently, evading questions and just incessantly blathering on.

      The American Republican party is a gathering of the stupidest people in society and is lorded over by the sociopaths who have no issues manipulating that gaggle of morons.

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        They think their persecuted because Christian Conservatives act as though they are persecuted. In readings of the Bible it is said that the Christian will undergo long suffering for their beliefs. Since they are the oppressors and not the oppressed they fabricate the persecution. Then their political leaders emulate this behavior because it’s common and acceptable to their indoctrinated followers.

        Couldn’t really imagine the GOP without the features of chiristianity. They should really just cut out the middle man and combine the church with the party. Nothing would change.

    • @stoly@lemmy.world
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      It wasn’t that you didn’t pay attention, you had to develop a framework to understand it and that takes experience.

    • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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      57 months ago

      I enjoyed the /r/persecutionfetish sub over on Reddit before I jumped ship. Its definitely a thing and has been for quite a while.

    • @rusticus@lemm.ee
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      57 months ago

      Her only play at this point.

      “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

  • Wait did this lady really call her own interview “fake news”??? What the fucking hell is wrong with America…? How tf is it possible that such people get elected!?

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    -37 months ago

    Conservative women with power are that unique example of where we should all really only ever talk about their tits.

    Hers are good / bad / neutral , amirite fellas?!