Never heard of "The Week"? Well get in line because neither have most any other people. The only time you ever will get a chance to see anything by them is if you look at left-leaning aggregator sites like Yahoo News that consistently look around for all the liberal stuff they can find and then compile it into one easy-to-access echo chamber of leftist ideals.
In a recent publication, Ryan Cooper, who is a "National Correspondent" for The Week came to the conclusion that Joe Biden is "very popular with the public right now" and of course took any attempt that he could to take a stab at Donald Trump - which is probably the reason why Yahoo News featured the article at all. As I have mentioned before, most leftist news stations are hemorrhaging viewers and readers now that they can't bitch about DJT all day to their seriously TDS addled viewers.
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by "human touch" they mean "completely partisan"
The Week used to be a magazine that almost nobody read but now it is a weekly news website that nobody reads. Just like Bob Dylan said "the times, they are a changin' " and *The Week" has changed nothing about their ideology. It is based out of New York so I suppose it shouldn't be at all surprising that they LOVE everything liberal and HATE everything conservative.
In a recent op-ed (which is all they do really) Ryan Cooper came to the very not objective conclusion that Republicans could win fairly if they wanted to, but choose not to. He goes on to point out blue states that have Republican governors and how the lovely and saintly people of these states choose to elect these leaders of the opposite party that they vote for in presidential elections because these honest, democracy-loving people are interested in having checks and balances as far as legislators are concerned. When referencing Maryland, Massachusetts, and Vermont he had this to say.
In all of them the legislature is heavily dominated by Democrats, and many liberals clearly prefer to have a governor of the opposite party to provide a supposed check on one-party rule
Give me a fucking break, dude. You don't honestly expect anyone to believe this garbage do you?
Mr. Cooper goes on to explain that these examples of blue states having conservative governors is somehow indicative of how Democrats (unlike Republicans of course) are willing to vote for someone that is on the other side of the political spectrum when the reality is that issues that exist in a particular state such as Vermont aren't necessarily a party affiliation type system the way that it seems almost all presidential elections are. I don't know the particulars of Vermont but it really isn't that uncommon for governors of particular states to be on the opposite side of who that state tends to vote for in presidential elections.
10 states in the United States for whatever reason, vote for the party that is the opposite of whatever party the President of the country happens to be at the time. New Jersey has done so since pre 1990. I'm not going to pretend to understand why that is but it is just something that happens. Oh and by the way, red states do it too but Ryan is not interested in mentioning them.
Ryan Cooper is just another mouthpiece for one side of the political fence and he is just another face in the media crowd that doesn't do journalism, he does activism disguised as journalism. He does the same old tricks that almost all major media does: He points out the shortcomings of the other side while the side he affiliates with is guilty of exactly the same thing yet he doesn't even mention those situations.
Of course he goes on to include hits on Trump that don't even have anything to do with what the article is about but in a time where these sorts of publications have dedicated the past 5 years to almost nothing other than Trump-bashing I suppose the habit is hard to break. Also, the few viewers that The Week actually has probably really want to see more fuel for their Trump-Derangement-Syndrome tanks.
If you ever read an article that seems to speak to you and you agree with, I highly suggest you go and have a look at what the political affiliation of said publication is. You might find out that you are also stuck in an echo chamber and you may want to branch out a bit because there is a good chance that the article, like the one made by Ryan Cooper, is intentionally excluding very important information that would make his overall point rather moot.
Past article written by Ryan Cooper include such gems as
- How Joe Biden could vaccinate the world
- A bad jobs report is no reason to panic (it would be the opposite if Trump was in power of course)
- Republicans' deal with the Donald (hit piece, obviously)
- Biden's big spending plans are good
- The conservative assault on civil liberties
- There is no immigration crisis
And the list of liberal talking points goes on and on. Every single one of Mr Cooper's articles have "opinion" written under them and that is exactly what they are. Every article is one deeply liberal author's perceived reality and his sources that he references are other deeply liberal publications.
So I suppose if you are a liberal and you want to read article after article of things with zero objectivity and merely re-enforce your political leanings via the intentional elimination of any statistics that don't support the opinion narrative.... look no further than Ryan Cooper from The Week!
