it’s wild that so many official spokespeople in the biden administration get up in front of cameras every day and do the classic trump move of making a really extreme statement that absolutely requires verification but when asked for a source they just say “many people are saying this” and move on. the point is that journalists will pick up on the extreme statement and reprint it and not have any immediate fact check about who the “people saying this” are and when it inevitably gets debunked in the future it doesn’t matter because the damage has already been done, any follow up or retraction will not get anywhere near the amount of traction the initial extreme headlines did. literally the exact same beat for beat trump playbook but it’s biden admin people doing it so ? Oh They’re All Just Doing Their Jobs! they’re “reporting” on what important people have said! what, reporters gotta “check facts” now? ……… it’s fucking absurd. “many people are saying this” became such a joke when trump said it and now people are like.. grimly nodding going well i’m sure many people ARE saying it wow i gotta take this seriously and i shouldn’t ask questions because that would be disrespectful