What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

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Something to understand what nurses think about re the Current News and their opinions!

[Beerman, BSN]

On 1/24/2022 at 7:50 PM, subee said:

Well, it really was a stupid question:)  Biden just said what millions are thinking .  Many other international power brokers have made the same mic error.  Always better to just bite the tongue..

Based on how the WH and liberal media have been trying to frame the issue of inflation, it wasn't at all a stupid question.

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

45 minutes ago, Beerman said:

This is gold.  The humour will be lost on most here.

"I still haven’t stopped shaking after last night’s attack. "

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/dontbrowbeatmypete/

Yeah the humor is lost on me and no it's not gold, but gold is in the mind of the reader. I guess he's trying to say he doesn't approve by calling it a "violent incursion" on his friend?  

“But he’s attacking the free press, which is just doing its job. This is how we lose our democracy.” is channeling what people said about Trump and his invention of the idea that all news is fake unless he approves.   I said many times that the building of mistrust of legit media by convincing people that it's fake is harmful to our democracy.  I get the humor of channeling people saying this in the past about Trump, but it's not the same, so again the humor is lost on me.

Now my opinions about Biden, given the contentious relationship presidents have had with the free press over the decades I don't think this remark by Biden qualifies as anything more than a blip.

Like I said I can understand conservatives and especially Fox News having a field day with this.  Given that Biden wanted to make things more civil and coming out with this is just too juicy for them to ignore since it was their reporter.  What he said was ugly, unprofessional and embarrassing for the President to say.

About the question "Do you think inflation is a political liability [ahead of the] midterms?"  My opinion is not a good question.  It's a topic for the news panels and opinion writers, not a good question.  Biden's answer should have been, "if inflation is still an issue then, then yes it will be a political because your employer will make sure it's a liability along with the promoting the Republican candidates, along with crime in democratic cities, your sudden concern for drugs coming across the border, etc.".  

But no, the reporter didn't deserve this.  A president needs to keep his cool in a press conference.

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

1 hour ago, Beerman said:

 

"Gorman, who embarked on her splendid career as a poet of the oppressed while studying at a $50,000-a-year private school in Santa Monica, Calif., and then carried the work on to Harvard with the financial support of the Milken Family Foundation, was named the nation’s first “youth poet laureate,” and read a poem, “The Hill We Climb,” at Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration."

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/the-gift-outright/

That's just ugly.  

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

1 hour ago, Beerman said:

Based on how the WH and liberal media have been trying to frame the issue of inflation, it wasn't at all a stupid question.

The White House says 

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Today’s report—which shows a meaningful reduction in headline inflation over last month, with gas prices and food prices falling—demonstrates that we are making progress in slowing the rate of price increases. At the same time, this report underscores that we still have more work to do, with price increases still too high and squeezing family budgets.

Inflation is a global challenge, appearing in virtually every developed nation as it emerges from the pandemic economic slump. America is fortunate that we have one of the fastest growing economies—thanks in part to the American Rescue Plan—which enables us to address price increases and maintain strong, sustainable economic growth. That is my goal and I am focused on reaching it every day.

Perhaps he should be a bit more honest in saying that inflation may or may not get worse, but will be with us for a long time.  

The White House does seem to have a history of downplaying the issue.

It definitely looks like it will be an issue in the mid-terms and a political liability.  We're going to be real tired of it by then.  The question will be will people in anger vote for another party, or will they really think that republicans will do a better job with inflation.  I'm going to stay democrat because I don't think they will.  But I don't blame them for making it an issue because it is.

All the media I look at from time to time are reporting that it will be a political liability, mention his poor approval ratings, and made headlines out of inflation being the worst in 40 years so perhaps you need to clarify how the liberal media is portraying it.  

 

[heron, ASN, RN]

40 minutes ago, Tweety said:

That's just ugly.  

It certainly is. If a liberal had written that, the neocons would be hollering about class warfare. 

[subee, MSN, CRNA]

4 hours ago, Tweety said:

That's just ugly.  

Really ugly.  Her single mother was a 6th grade English teacher in Watts so I doubt that she grew up in luxury.  And so what if she did?  Does that somehow disqualify her talent?  Someone should be disparaged for being a success?  I think Beerman is jealous of her success and thinks she doesn't deserve it because why?

4 hours ago, heron said:

It certainly is. If a liberal had written that, the neocons would be hollering about class warfare. 

The only place a liberal would write something of that low caliber would be in some crazy far left rag and THAT would never be forwarded by any member here as representative of liberal thinking. Yet, we are repeatedly reminded that our conservative neighbors have a steady diet of extreme and divisive partisan rhetoric from what they consider to be their reliable and mainstream media choices.  This type of fabricated culture war is the bread and butter of conservative media in the 21st century.  

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Data reported here leave little doubt that conservatism is associated with less accurate judgments about a wide range of contemporary political topics. It seems increasingly likely that this is due, at least in part, to individual-level psychological differences associated with conservatism. It is even conceivable that we are underestimating the effects of bias. For example, we cannot rule out the possibility that conservative media generate or amplify misleading content in response to consumer demand. That is, these outlets may be producing content to sate the appetite of a credulous conservative audience.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abf1234

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/05/01/destroying-trust-in-the-media-science-and-government-has-left-america-vulnerable-to-disaster/

It's beginning to look quite a bit like there was some very unamerican discussion about unamerican strategies for Trump to retain lost political power swirling through the White House and Congressional communications in late 2020. Does that explain why conservative media outlets are tearing down a young poet rather than discussing the attempted coup? Does this foretell a situation where a percentage of the American population is simply going to be unaware of the evidence and facts defining the coup attempt because their preferred media outlets want them to be unaware and confused about what happened? 

 

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

2 hours ago, subee said:

Really ugly.  Her single mother was a 6th grade English teacher in Watts so I doubt that she grew up in luxury.  And so what if she did?  Does that somehow disqualify her talent?  Someone should be disparaged for being a success?  I think Beerman is jealous of her success and thinks she doesn't deserve it because why?

Yes, she was raised in a single parent household and she got scholarships to attend those presteigious universities and graduated with honors.  And she overcame a speech impediment.  One can give an opinion on her writing, because we call can have opinions.  But belittling her experience as an African American with genuine fears is just privilege no matter how unfounded they might be.

During the height of the BLM matters protests one of my black male patients of middle age looked at me while we were watching the news he had on "why should I worry about me or my son getting killed when we walk out of our house!"

I could say, "well sir, don't be so dramatic, let me give you some stats.  You're chances of being killed by a cope are one in 300 million and white people get killed by cops more often, and you don't even look poor or like a criminal".  

But I really just had to allow him his feelings with belittling them.  I don't fear walking out of my house or driving my car that I'm going to stopped and harassed.

The whole tone of the article posted is ugly and says a lot about the white man writer and his readers.  (and perhaps the one that posted it)

 

[Beerman, BSN]

7 hours ago, Tweety said:

That's just ugly.  

How so?

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

38 minutes ago, Beerman said:

How so?

see my next post after this one.  But there does come a time I give up and when  it's time to walk away after I've said my point of view and not harp on it. I'm there now.   Obviously we don't and will not think alike about it.

[Beerman, BSN]

2 hours ago, Tweety said:

see my next post after this one.  But there does come a time I give up and when  it's time to walk away after I've said my point of view and not harp on it. I'm there now.   Obviously we don't and will not think alike about it.

Actually, you did make good points and I see the article a little differently, now.

But, you bring white privilge into it.  I question how one who went to private school, then Harvard, and is a celebrity and best-selling author by the age of 22 has experienced much of the oppression she writes about.

A reasonable question, IMO.  You can debate that, but you certainly don't know what privilege and obstacles I've had in my life.  So, why bring that into it?

[Beerman, BSN]

7 hours ago, subee said:

 Someone should be disparaged for being a success?  I think Beerman is jealous of her success and thinks she doesn't deserve it because why?

No, not a disparagement of her.  More on those who have elevated her.

She deserves whatever she makes of the opportunities that have opened for her.  Kudos to her.  Judging what success people deserve is more of a liberal thing.

Definitely not jealous.  I grew up playing sports, and still am a big fan.  Also love live music, especially rock and country.   I may occasionally have a thought of how great it would be to be a different person.  But, that other person has  never been a poet.