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The Daily Blast: Dems Brutally Shred Shady Wall Street Journal Hit Piece on Biden's Age

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Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal published a dodgy hit piece about President Biden’s age. Then something unusual happened: Democratic lawmakers went nuclear on the piece, going on record to forcefully undermine its core assertions. This deserves some discussion: Could Dems better “work the refs” the way Republicans do? When liberals do criticize coverage, why do newsroom leaders shrug it off? Why do editors insult our intelligence with phony justifications for the overemphasis on Biden’s age? We chatted with Aaron Rupar, a shrewd media observer and author of the “Public Notice" Substack, about the deeper problems with the press this episode reveals.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal published a hit piece about President Biden's age. Then something unusual

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happened. A number of Democratic lawmakers went absolutely nuclear on the piece,

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publicly attacking it by going on record to forcefully undermine its core assertions.

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That's something Republicans do more often than Democrats,

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so we think this moment deserves some discussion.

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Is there some better way that Dems can quote unquote

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work the refs the way Republicans do? When liberals and Dems do criticize coverage, why do newsroom leaders

2:11.8

often seem to just shrug it off? Why do

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