I am agreeing with you. The rank hypocrisy is astounding.
I just googled Sydney Sweeney Jeans (I didn’t Google image search, I promise) and saw stories from, in order:
Global News (Canadian, left leaning)
The Guardian
Vanity Fair
NPR
The Guardian again (commentary, first one was an article)
Fox
CNN
The New Yorker
Not exactly a who’s who of right wing propaganda.
I don’t think that’s what anyone here is saying. Problem is, when annoying woke people (and it was more than just one) say stupid stuff, it is every single time going to be amplified by the Right as an example of Left lunacy. It’s as predictable as the tides. And then when the Right responds, the more mainstream Left can’t help but respond in kind amplifying it even more.
If the people on the far fringe of the Left want to get rid of the MAGA fringe, this is not the way to go about it because it makes them look like fools.
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The only thing I know about this story is that Trump
Mentioned that she’s republican.
It didn’t make it into any of the leftist newsletters I have subscribed to.
It’s only coming up because Fox went crazy on it first and it got a lot of traction on right-wing news. As I said, the other media outlets are reporting on the right-wing reporting of it. They aren’t originating the outrage. And when Trump walked himself into commenting directly on it to the press, well, then mainstream media is almost obligated to write about it.
Again, I was reading about it on Fox days before Trump commented about it, and was thinking it would be yet again one of the faux-outrage hits that don’t hit (they actually try a lot of things out, most of them don’t generate the outrage they want.) I was actually surprised it got as much traction as it did amongst right wing media.
You gotta call a spade a spade, though. Right wingers definitely amplify in a deranged way, small or near meaningless outrages. Like a few trans athletes out of thousands. Or the rare trans boy found in a girls locker room.
But the Dems and left wing have been pretty accurate in their portrayal, however harsh it is, about the MAGA-right. If anything, thye’ve been undercalling how fascistic and Nazi-friendly (see not only Hasan Medhi’s debates, but any one of the numerous other trips into a Trump rally on video - it’s everywhere there) the MAGA base is, and sanewashing most of Trump’s outrageous behavior. Like, Greenland and Canada our enemies? Really?
No kidding. You’d think she was named in the Epstein files or something.
I’m sure the Right wingers who call out the “annoying woke” people who originally whined about these ads would say the same thing.
I actually suspect with pretty good reason the Fox news editors (I know Murdoch owns it and tussled with Trump but the Fox editors still play 100% to Trump’s favor) saw this as a good new distraction to Epstein.
I mean, just look at the Fox headlines “trending” topics that run on the top of the Fox website, not just now, but weeks ago through the entire Epstein peak. Epstein made it in there for like one day, and that was it. The very next day - it was replaced by “Obama” and “Russiagate”. Again - Obama, now, seriously? It’s absolutely ludicrous.
Today’s choice sensationalist fox trending headline topics that I’ve just cut and pasted off the Fox website right now:
TRENDING
I know Zohran Mamdani is big news in NY, but come on man, that was like 2 weeks ago, and he’s not even in office yet. It’s 100% outrage and distraction, and zero relevance to the lives of the typical Fox viewer.
This is what I mean though. Neither party or mainstream section of either side of the political spectrum ultimately controls who supports them. There are a lot of loonies out there, and they exist on both sides. The double standard is that the left is not granted any of the copious grace that the right is given. Again, we’re comparing an annoying person on the Internet with actual white supremacists. The former group can apparently sink a political campaign by association and the latter won’t. That’s not to mention that the political extremists on one side have much more sway on actual policy than the other side.
That’s not helping. Heck, I’m going to directly call out those looney too-far-left critics of the ad that started this whole mess in the first place, even though it’s not their fault at all that Fox gets to amplify anything they want to the extreme - I don’t agree with the far lefty critique of the ad and I don’t think the ad is meaningfully ‘racist’ even if it has mild tinges of it to me. I’d have rather they just left it to be what it is - an ad.
But you can always trust the Fox outrage machine to demonize and blow up any perceived slight to white people, no matter how small. I guarantee the number of people this far left is far smaller than the proto-fascist right-wing fans that even have full political support of all their Congressional leaders and the President and likely half the Supreme Court justices in their views. We dems def aren’t running around waving Karl Marx books, lecturing about communism, or secretly planning to dismantle capitalism despite what Fox keeps characterizing us as. However, the lurch toward right-wing fascism is as open and undeniable in our gov’t and the MAGA base as ever - and continues to be more so - it’s very real and you can’t two-side this one.
Oh, it’s definitely in the news.
How many of those stories were making a big deal about potential racism and how many were reporting just that it is a story?
That’s kind of funny. Some people on the Left start a problem. Some people on the Right amplify the problem. Now we’re only allowed to talk about the problem on the Right and if we bring the Left back in it’s “two-side.”
I agree that the Right is much more a source of problems right now, and that the Right leaning media in particular seizes on anything they can to distract, confuse, etc. That doesn’t mean the Left doesn’t have its own problems too.
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That still sounds like false equivalence to me. The issue that Fox and right wing news is amplifying is not even a real issue. And it’s an obvious distraction from all the other real issues trumps waded into that he wants to avoid at all costs.
This really is a complete nonissue for all but the most extreme dems. Its far more accurate to use
Marjorie Taylor greenes extreme viewpoints and bad info as an example of mags than this for dems. It’s actually pretty far off the typical dem, who haven’t even seen or heard of the ad until trump started making a fuss over it.
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There’s no “equivalence.” I’m not arguing that anything is equal to anything else.
Left leaning dipshits made a big deal about these ads. They sound dumb, and loony, and the very model of overly woke idiocy.
Some Right leaning media figures and outlets (Fox included) seized on that for the very purpose of painting the entire Left with a broad brush based on these dipshits. As I said, this was as predictable as the tides.
For sure though it’s another attempt at an Epstein distraction. I suspect the slew of ridiculous recently announced tariffs are also meant to continue the distraction. There’s a video trump at a rally throwing out a guy in the crowd holding up an Epstein photo, and he looks quite concerned and surprisingly short on the riffed insults when confronted with it.
So let’s get the rules straight.
You said, “When people on the Left wonder why they get painted as woke lunatics, this is one of the examples that will be used.”
So now I can say in response to a random neo-NAZI advocating for the death of blacks and jews, “When people on the Right wonder why they get painted as racist lunatics, this is one of the examples that will be used.”
Naw they’re already there
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Unfortunately, I think there’s a fair amount of stuff that used to be the way out there fringe stuff that is now much more prevalent and yes, we paint the entire Right with it, for better or worse.
I’m not justifying it. Just pointing out the obvious way that the world works.