Excellent points, all. I particularly liked this one:
Remember Indian-Drummer-MAGA-Smirk-Boy? Media strategically cut the vid showing the Indian walking up into his face, beating the drum. When I saw that vid, I immediately assumed the media was being fuck faces. Looked for the original clip. Found it: it was nearly an hour and kept getting removed from YouTube. But I found it. It was exactly what I thought it was: a young man wearing a MAGA hat, showing extreme restraint in front of an asshole who walked up on a bunch of kids and beat his drum in their faces.
His name is Nick Sandmann and he sued six or seven media outlets for defamation. He settled with WaPo for $250 million, and CNN for almost as much. Every victim of media malpractice should do the same, even if it make lawyers rich in the process.
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