column popped out the other end the ai actually came up with this column trump got press coverage as favorable as or better than biden is getting today sure biden has had his troubles with the delta variant afghanistan and inflation but the economy is rebounding impressively he assigned major legislation he has restored some measure of decency calm and respect for democratic institutions has he cassie though dana are you sensing a sense of calm and decency from this white house are you respecting how about respect for democratic institutions you got the white house ripping on the supreme court every single day you have the democrats in congress talking about killing the filibuster you have the democrats talking about completely rewriting the bargain between the american citizen and their government you're talking about the federal government cramming down vax mandates on NUMBER_TOKEN million employees across the united i feel like the restoration isn't going all that well but here's the point for the media it doesn't matter what joe biden does joe biden ought to be treated with kid gloves because he is a democrat and so according to dana milbank the real threat here is the media are being too kind to the authoritarians he says we need a skeptical independent press but how about being partisans for democracy the country is in an existential struggle between self-governance and an authoritarian alternative and we in the news media collectively have given equal if not slightly more favorable treatment to the authoritarians yes that's right i'm sure that the media dana milbank have been very favorable to the authoritarians like donald trump at the expense of joe biden it's been very rough for joe biden it's not that he's a crowd president it is that the media have been on the side of donald trump and the authoritarians in just one second we'll get to how the media are actually treating the various sides because let's be real about this the media treat joe biden as a president who is having his troubles but they treat the other side of the aisle as fish as as fascist racist this is how they treat it right dana milbank's perspective on the world is in fact mirrored by broad swathes of the media and you can tell this from their coverage of these issues we'll get to that in just one second first let's talk about the need for life insurance if you are a responsible adult you do need life insurance i mean let's say that your parents are actually king and queen of a kingdom you have a couple of kids and one of those kids happens to be gifted with the ability to shoot ice from her hands and you teach her to to try and control this in certain ways but then you decide to take a see an ill-advised sea voyage and as your ship is being washed under the waves you think to yourself man number one i probably should have gotten in touch with those trolls a little bit sooner about a a renewed second opinion and two i really really need the life insurance that was a bad move policy genius would have been the help that you needed policy genius makes getting a life insurance quote very easy first head on over to policy URL_TOKEN shapiro answer a few questions about yourself
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