What was Durbin trying to achieve by slamming the President on MTP yesterday?

[NewsCenter28]

Manchin, I can understand. He's in a tough state and anything he can do to help himself get elected in WV is fine by me.

But Durbin is from a solid blue state. He is in no danger of losing his seat. A simple "the special counsel is investigaing this and I will have no further comment until the affair is closed" would have sufficed. He is also the #2 senate Democrat for heaven's sake.

I can understand our senators getting cold feet if Hur had recommended impeachment or something, but that's not where we are at right now in the slightest!

No Republican senator, planning to run for election anyway, would have gone on MTP from 2017-2020 and treated Trump in this fashion.

We need Democrats to line solidly and firmly up behind President Biden, to have his back, as Democracy, itself, is at stake in 2024.

[PortTack]

1. Agree...it was really disgusting!

[NewsCenter28]

2. Thanks for the reply

Sometimes, I think I get hyperbolic and panic, but if someone else agrees with me, glad I'm not hyperbolic and panicky in this case!

[PortTack]

31. No..no hyperbole..you're absolutely correct

The espionage act considers willfulness and intent as to whether it was a criminal act. We all know who was willful and intent and who wasn’t. For gods sakes why didn’t Durban stick with the law??!!

[Walleye]

3. Yeah pissed me off he knows very well Biden didn't do anything wrong

[Ocelot II]

4. I have no idea - it makes no sense. I've always liked Durbin so this was

very odd and disappointing.

[orleans]

32. i always liked him until i had second thoughts about him after he

hopped on that anti al franken bandwagon. that pissed me off to no end

[Tetrachloride]

5. Maybe he wants to be primarued

[former9thward]

16. No one credible will ever primary Durbin

He has that seat for life if he wants it.

[Tetrachloride]

34. then someone incredible has a chance

[nevergiveup]

6. He is my Senator and he will hear from me.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Same Here

In fact I already sent a note.
Here's a link.
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email

[Cha]

11. TY, too!

[Cha]

9. TY!

[PatSeg]

7. That is so disappointing

I've always had a high regard for Dick Durbin.

[cachukis]

10. Did not watch, but suspect Durbin was representing the reality

of the moment.
If one of your own is exposed, the honor code demands you defend the code. I bet Durbin is confident that Biden is free from malfeasance, but has a responsibility to represent the party as above complicity in wrongdoing. He is expected to comment. Should he pooh, pooh what has become a political millstone or respond to what is obvious?
None of this would be discussed if it were not for the trump boxes of pandoraware.
If we respond like republicans, we become like republicans. I have a hard time sinking into that miasma.

[The Magistrate]

14. Of Course He Should Dismiss It, Sir

Any attempt to draw similarities between the situations should be explicitly rebuffed, the deliberate criminality of Trump highlighted, made front and center in any answer given by any Democrat to villager pundits eager to chum up a both-sides feeding frenzy among themselves. In fact, pundits ought to be denounced for even asking the question without making clear the differences themselves before the body of the answer is given. These people do seem to react better to kicks than kisses....

[cachukis]

15. Agreed that the cases are very different. Agreed that pundits

are not good at managing delineation.
If Durbin did not define the differences, he was not a suitable respondent. Did not witness the interview. I should be quiet.

[Frasier Balzov]

19. No, I take your point.

If we want the goddamn Trump indictments we need to chide Joe for the sake of moral clarity.

I just wish the goddamn Trump indictments would hurry up.

[The Magistrate]

22. I Am In A More Than Usually Waspish Mood, Sir

There's to be said for the view you express. i disagree with it, but my ire was directed to the view, not at you.

[cachukis]

23. Went and found the interview. It was on fox.

I stand by my inference. If we are to take the high road, then we must admit and learn from our mistakes. Durbin did explain the differences and did so by describing the protocols for handling classified documents.
It gives further justification to calling out trump when you can acknowledge your own team's fallibility and manage the gauntlet as well.
Durbin showed the fox audience a more admirable approach compared to the righteousness of his opponents.
Perhaps, most fox viewers will miss the point, but they are on the attack anyway.
And while I agree the punditry does a disservice to its audience, the public needs to hear from its officials.
It wants and needs to hear from Biden.
It never heard the truth from trump even when his administration responded.
Trump would come up with a distractor and the moment would pass.
This is a sticky wicket.
Politics vs. truth.

[cachukis]

25. I found a transcript on a fox news page. Have not found

it on MTP.

[Hassler]

12. Durbin knows he'll get invited back if he plays along. It's always

About face time.

[JohnSJ]

13. I no longer watch the cable news networks anymore, it is a waste of my time with misleading

information without context, and “bothsiderisms”

It is the same garbage every-time, and we fall for it

Did the press ever apologize for pushing us to invade Iraq based on a lie? There were a few people from Knight Ridder who said loud and clear there were no WMDs, but most of the media ignored that, and pursed the lie. When Hart/Rudman issued the report from the Clinton Administration that AQ was a major threat to the country, and the bush administration disagreed, and said they would do their own report, which was never done, where was the press reporting here w the ball was dropped by the bush administration?

When 11 days before the election, Comey sent a letter to the republicans in Congress how they were looking to see if Weiner’s laptop contained any new information, not only did the press mischaracterize that by falsely saying “email investigation was reopened”, but they had every right wing pundit parading across their outlets propagating that lie.

What they did to Howard Dean by making him look “unhinged”, to giving the swift boat pukes ad free coverage against Kerry by portraying it as some legitimate story

The press stopped doing their job a long time ago after Reagan and the Iran Contra scandal, and have been following that path every since

[Xoan]

18. Myelomalacia ?

[Stuart G]

20. At link below, the complete Durbin interview...Decide for yourself if Durbin was slamming Biden

Last edited Tue Jan 24, 2023, 11:07 AM - Edit history (2)

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/full-durbin-interview-i-wish-the-president-would-help-us-1142028355785

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ERROR.....ERROR...MISTAKE...WRONG POST........???????????????????????????.....DO NOT READ...ERROR ...MISTAKE...

I watched a small part. (very small, not all. was it about the timing? Or length of time to get approved?) I don't know.

I don't know nothing.. ...I did not listen to it... ......I haven't got a clue, says Stu.


error..........errror......error.....mistake......mistake.....wrong post.....error......do not read.......NO, I HAVE NO CLUE, SAYS STU

i left it up, just to show the mistake????????????????????????? I don't know what to do???? ............says Stu...

[orleans]

33. the link has the date of jan 21, 2018. i don't think that's the one that aired this past sunday lol

nt

[Stuart G]

35. Yes, I was wrong to post that. I made another mistake...I don't know what to say.

[Stuart G]

21. Listen to entire interview. at link above or below..See if Durbin "slams Biden"

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/full-durbin-interview-i-wish-the-president-would-help-us-1142028355785

[cachukis]

24. This interview is from some time ago.

[Patton French]

26. Completely pointless, IMO... NT

[kacekwl]

27. Not cool

Dick. A senator from my state of Illinois should know better.

[Polybius]

28. Durbin has huge security clearances

Is it possible that he knows something that we don't?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

29. Oh lordie. Cancel culture canceling a Senate Leader now

Hasn't this gone WAY to far? Last night the hallelujah chorus was trashing MSNBC!

[betsuni]

30. I watched MTP but no Durbin. Found a CNN interview, though.

If you mean the CNN interview, I saw no slamming of the president.

[Stuart G]

36. Sorry, I posted this...I was wrong, I didn't look at the date...MY MISTAKE...!!!