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Come on. Let's not act like they were ever held to much of a high standard back during the "fair and balanced" days.

I think when you take Hannity's role on 1/6 and consider it in the context of all the lies told on Fox News about the last election, as well as the fact that the network is currently tied up in close to $4bil in libel lawsuits involving the last election, it all seems pretty fucking bad

I mean, the fact that Fox News is currently party in a multiple multibillion dollar libel lawsuits involving the previously election is a pretty significant difference as well.

I agree, I don't think it would happen. The fact that Americans view fellow Americans who disagree with them as bigger adversaries than our actual foreign adversaries or a deadly virus is telling.

The squawking about comorbidities is pretty insulting to anyone with the least bit of intellectual curiosity. Especially assuming, especially with the issues you raise being pretty prominent in American society, most Americans have at least one comorbidity, if not multiple. But it's yet another example of how blind partisanship just drives the narrative.

Sudafed AM/PM for me

I hate to be this guy, but I'd probably want to see more polling before being too happy about this one. Although I do think the idea that Whitmer maybe a stronger incumbent than has been assumed by national figures is plausible.

Most firings make sense, this one doesn't.

Dan Campbell: Grizzled NFC North Vet lol

Of course they weren't in a hurry. They were in the catbird seat, playoffs almost entirely guaranteed. The only question was whether Carlson would send them to Cincinnati or not.

It was a weird call, but people are really underestimating the idea that LV would have still tried kicking that field goal. Especially with Carlson, who is a really good kicker. The risk of going to Cincinnati over KC is worth it IMO.

And if it ends in a tie, the Steelers missing will end up coming down to them choking against the Lions. Can't make that up.

Just when you thought you've seen it all lol

Trump says US will have 'substantially under' 100,000 deaths from coronavirus, lower than initial estimates "The minimum number was 100,000 lives and I think we'll be substantially under that number," Trump said during a White House press conference. "Hard to believe that if you had 60,000, you can never be happy, but that's a lot fewer than we were originally told and thinking." I swear, people just memory-hole this stuff...

Saget joins Betty White, Peter Bogdanovixh and Sidney Poitier. Seems like an unusual amount of celebrity deaths since the turn of 2021

And then there's this. I've seen a lot of bad football over the years, but rarely do you see the buy-in that these guys continually convey with respect to Campbell

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/16/913560563/cdc-director-says-covid-vaccine-likely-wont-be-widely-available-until-next-year In terms of why Trump doesnt get more credit, as well as some of the distrust sewed during his administration, I do think the article above details comments that have been sort of memory holed over time. Specifically tying vaccine distribution to the election (contradicting his own CDC Director) was a serious mistake made by Trump. For whatever reason, people just seem to gloss over it and forget about it.

I agree with you that the administration dropped the ball on testing, for what its worth. Doesn't "hurt my feelings" to say that, it's simply factual. But while it's easy to blame partisans in regards to the polarization bit (big surprise, thermostatic partisanship is bad for the country!), I honestly don't know how the administration is supposed to deal with that. That die has been cast for a long time and, like election fraud, has become a litmus test for a number of people. Obviously they will get blame in the court of public opinion because the buck stops with them, I just don't know in practice what they should be doing that would effectuate a different result.

You literally made it political in the rest of your post. Again, see my response to your initial post... I don't have any feelings one way or another, just sticking to the facts.

Totally forgot they had Dave Mlicki as well for a spell. Man, those years were such a dead-end for the franchise.

You should try practicing what you preach.

Trump's contradictory messaging is a big reason why his administration doesn't get the credit they may deserve on the vaccines. He just never embraced it as forcefully as he should have politically, and his latest pivot toward vaccine promotion is probably a recognition of it bring one of the more popular things accomplished during his term.

Regardless, I don't watch cable news and honestly don't give a flying F what Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow or other media commentators have say about any of this stuff.

But here's the thing. Archie appears to be blaming Joe Biden for not fixing the virus when we have learned that a highly transmissibile variant has arisen and has caused this latest surge. By extension, he's basically doing what you are complaining "people in media and in conversations" did with Trump. Yet you led off by saying "Archie is right". That seems contradictory to me.

Correct. And? I'm not sure why I have to answer for the claims of others.