#Lester Holt

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After Hulk Hogan spoke -- again, as one of the keynote speakers during prime-time on the final night of the Republican National Convention -- and they went back to the panel of anchors on NBC, Lester Holt just had a look on his face that couldn't have been a better illustration of "What the fuck has happened in this country?"

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A tease of Jonathan Bailey and Jeff Goldblum's interview for NBC Nightly News

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jonathan Nicholson at HuffPost:

A combative and sometimes prickly President Joe Biden challenged the idea he has not demonstrated he’s up to the rigors of another presidential campaign Monday, showing no signs that he’s listening to either overt or subtle calls for him to step aside. In an interview in the White House with NBC News anchor Lester Holt, Biden took issue with Holt asking if he wanted to “get back on the horse” after his lackluster debate performance against GOP nominee Donald Trump June 27. “I’m on the horse. Where have you been? I’ve done 22 major events. Met thousands of people. Overwhelming crowds. A lot happening. I’m on the horse,” he said. “What I’m doing is going out and demonstrating to the American people that I have command of all my faculties,” Biden said, citing his almost hourlong press conference at the end of the recent NATO summit in Washington as an example.

At various times in the interview, Biden expressed frustration with what he saw as a focus on his flaws, rather than on his opponent. At one point, he asked why Holt or other journalists had not given more coverage to the myriad untruths told by Trump at the debate or to past critical statements the new vice presidential candidate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) had made about Trump prior to his selection. “He’s said some things about me, but see what he said about Trump. What’s with you guys? C’mon, man,” Biden said. [...] Biden also defended the tone of his language in discussing Trump against allegations it may have led to the assassination attempt against the GOP candidate Saturday. He described a conversation between the two after the incident as “very cordial” but brief. Biden said he still felt safe under the Secret Service’s protection but said it was fair to ask if the agency had been unprepared for Saturday’s attack.

President Joe Biden gave an interview last night to NBC’s Lester Holt rightly calling out the media bias in favor of Donald Trump.

From NBC's Interview of Joe Biden, 07.15.2024:

[kelly-clarksons]

kellyclarksonshow: Thursday on Kelly is heating up with Scarlett Johansson and @ trixiemattel PLUS a round of Kelly's Spellys hosted by @ lesterholtnbc!

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What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

Lester Holt

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[nosferdoc]

“This doesn’t sound like you’re turning down the heat, though.”

— Lester Holt.

[koko-online]

Christ.

Watching the interview with Lester Holt was soul-crushing. Every time he appears, I think it can't get worse, and it does.

This grown ass 81 year old came off like a petulant child. He did that thing where you laugh and smile to keep things polite when you want to murder someone.

Holt lending credibility to the idea that milquetoast ur-moderate Joseph Biden's rhetoric is responsible for the shooting was stupid, but you need to be able to change the narrative on that as president. I could do that and I'm not media trained at all.

Meanwhile the discussion of his candidacy was perfectly valid! Dude needs a wake-up call, there is no path to victory here.

Step down, literally anyone else can take his place. Most likely Harris, but I think Whitmer would probably be a more effective choice. Harris has nothing beyond name recognition, and Obama showed that people will absolutely give a no-name a shot (and as a former Michigan resident, she's worth a shot).

fucking ALSO, in another interview that came out, my dude adopted the Zionist label??????? who is that for???? like yeah, we know you are, but why the fuck would you say that while trying to earn votes?????

you fucking NEED Michigan and you're taking an anti-palestine stance?

your lead in fucking god damn deep blue MINNESOTA is slipping away to nothing AND YOU TAKE AN ANTI-PALESTINE STANCE???????

(for those unaware, both of these states have huge islamic populations, and led the charge on the 'uncommitted' vote in the primary largely over the issue of Palestine)

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Grand jury accuses Trump of conspiring to defraud the United States

I love the QR Code that allows people to read the actual indictment.

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WAIT THEY HAD LESTER HOLT GUEST AS HIMSELF?

Granted, I wouldn't have known he was a real person back when I first watched Warehouse 13 but WOW. Ok, all these people showing up...

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Identity V characters with random images:

(Part 2)

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Oliver Willis at Oliver Willis Explains:

The media industry, in particular, thrived during Trump’s time. Instead of sleep-inducing policy wonkery as they had to contend with during President Barack Obama’s two-terms, Trump lurched from drama to drama and crisis to crisis. When he wasn’t feuding with celebrities or Saturday Night Live, he was pissing off NATO allies, mismanaging a pandemic, or bowing to North Korea’s dictatorial regime. And of course there was the steady stream of racism and misogyny.

Four years into President Joe Biden’s time in office, it is clear to anyone with open eyes that the mainstream press desperately wants to go back to the good old days. They want easy stories and a torrent of clicks to their websites and eyeballs on their broadcasts. They want to be able to churn out a series of bestsellers, compiling information they should have been reporting in newspapers and broadcasts, packaged as buzzworthy scoops to juice book sales. Like Zaslav, the mainstream media - the New York Times, CNN, Associated Press, the networks and the rest — tipped their hands as they took part in the post-debate media orgy. Biden’s performance was putrid, as he has admitted, but the coverage went above and beyond with the press beating the drumbeat for Biden to drop out of the race louder than a Taylor Swift concert extravaganza. The press misses Donald, their meal ticket, their path to riches and an easy day at the office. He makes a big show of speaking negatively about his coverage, but like a wrestler working a gimmick to get the audience out of their seats, everyone in this pantomime is playing a role.

[...] The press does not like criticism from the left. The left is supposed to just suck it up and take it and bow before them. Simply because the left side of the aisle does not share Trump’s position that the free press is the “enemy of the people,” that is supposed to be carte blanche for lies, unfair coverage, and agenda-based reporting against Democrats. Nonsense. Biden was well within bounds to push back on the media’s reprehensible behavior and in fact he should have been more forceful. Because in this election — as in past elections — the Republican Party isn’t his only opposition.

The people who continually carry water for specious and debunked right-wing attacks, like the Swift Boat lies of 2004 or the Willie Horton smears of 1988 or the email faux scandal of 2016 are all the same people: The media. The Republican Party and conservatives have a steadfast ally in the mainstream press that amplifies their bad faith attacks without context, who abdicate their roles as journalists or fact checkers to operate as stenographers for whatever dumb thing Republicans come up with. When George W. Bush and his team wanted to sell lies about weapons of mass destruction, they didn’t go to Fox News. The went to the New York Times. Of course the press should investigate and press back on claims from Democrats, and when Democrats lie or massage the facts, the news media should take them to the rhetorical woodshed. That is their job. But for too long they have operated with two sets of standards for the two parties. What is merely a faux pas by Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Trump is seized upon as a major crisis and scandal if the perpetrator is Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Joe Biden (along with Al Gore, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton). This cannot continue to stand, not without some blowback.

Oliver Willis wrote a solid piece on why Joe Biden was right to call out the bothsiderist MSM in a Monday interview with NBC’s Lester Holt.

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February 12, 2024