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'Republicans Pounce' On Democrats' 'Hypothetical' Plan To Destroy Judicial Branch
[THEFEDERALIST] "Republicans pounce" is a favorite framing used by corporate media to spin newsworthy topics they are forced to cover at Democrats’ expense. Instead of reporting the news, the news becomes the fact that Republicans or "conservative media" are reacting to said news.Such is the case with the consequential news that Joe Foreign Policy Whiz KidBiden  ...Candidate for president in 2020. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.... said he would not share his stance on court packing until after he was elected, an announcement that sounds more like a hostage situation than a campaign promise. The Washington Post reported the former vice president’s shocking and unprecedented statement with a masterfully spun tweet Thursday, writing, "Republicans continue attacking Biden, Harris over hypothetical ’court-packing’ question." The "Republicans pounce" spin here is threefold. The first is that "Republicans continue attacking Biden, Harris." This is the classic framing that whatever newsworthy event Democrats have caused is overshadowed by the fact that Republicans are attacking them for it, not that Biden and Harris might have taken an extremely newsworthy stance that voters should absolutely be aware of. The lede of the article that was tweeted doubles down on this framing. The story is not led by the news of Biden’s statement and question-dodging, but the news that "Joe Biden and running mate Kamala D. Harris are facing growing pressure" to discuss the issue of court-packing. The second element in the art of the spin here is the description "hypothetical." The deployment of this adjective might be grammatically correct in that all questions about a future administration’s plans hinge on the hypothetical situation that a candidate wins the election, but it’s used here as a way to downplay or delegitimize the fact that adding more Supreme Court justices is a serious idea that a number of Democrats have actually endorsed. Shortly after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey ...U.S. Representative-for-Life from Massachusetts, serving since 1976. He is a member of the Democratic Party, naturally.... tweeted that "we must abolish the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court." Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 44.85078 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... told fellow Democrats in a widely reported private conference call last week, "Nothing is off the table." Rep. Joe Kennedy said Democrats’ response to confirming Judge Amy Coney Barrett was simple, "We pack the court. " Posted by: Fred 2020-10-12 |
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