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Thread #174576 Message #4234004
Posted By: Lighter
08-Jan-26 - 02:56 PM
Thread Name: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
Jesse Watters's viewers won't care too much how many children she has. It won't register.
"Self-proclaimed," "poet," "Colorado" [a blue state]," "pronouns in her bio" paint her as a far-left, possibly LGBTQ, weirdo. "Lost her life" not "was killed." Meaning: "sad, but she should have behaved herself." (Weirdos don't often do so.)
The diction is prejudicial: charged language, argument from verbal connotation. Perhaps Fox's broader coverage was fairer (I haven't been listening). Contrast the effect of "a 37-year-old mom from Colorado, whose ex-husband told Fox [as he did CNN] that she'd never taken part in a political protest."
We all use "pronouns." But Fox means a very special kind of pronoun. Otherwise, why even mention?
The Vice-President has very emphatically said that she "lost her life because she tried to ram somebody with a car." Videos from various angles make this statement doubtful at best.
However, because DHS and the President have already called the incident an "act of domestic terrorism," charges almost certainly will never be brought.