White House issues marching orders to media outlets

Yes. Yes, you are. I only need to read your meandering, “So, am I guilty of a ‘you too’? Ok, yes, sort of. But is that a fallacy? No, because of the 10x worse aspect I pulled out of the air and you have no argument blah blah blah…” Talk about weasel wording.

Since you need an argument, even though it was initially implied and you failed to pick up on it, here:

The Whitehouse memo constitutes a conflict of interests, and Oliver Darcy’s failure to push back on it in any way shows he has no problem with a conflict of interest on behalf of the Biden administration.

You do understand that accusing someone of hypocrisy on its own is not a logical fallacy, right?

Tu quoque is Latin for “you too” which is where the name comes from. Did I engage in a “you too”? Well, kind of. I mean you can say I did even though my original post pointed out that what Trump did was ten times worse, so the idea was that your apathetic attitude towards Trump’s transgressions by comparison is bad not because he did the same thing, but rather because what he did was far worse. But whatever, for the sake of argument, sure, I engaged in a “you too”.

Does that make it a logical fallacy? No, because once again… you never presented an argument to begin with and discrediting your point whatever that was was not the point. I’ve even acknowledged that there is something wrong with what the Biden WH did so why discredit something I agreed with in the first place? The point was that the only reason you think this warrants attention is because of your political bias.

discrediting your point whatever that was was not the point.

What fallacy would you say it is?

Reality: The White House has no control over any credible media source.

You: Eh… that’s not the point! Your misapplied fallacy is the point!

 independent of the Executive Branch 

You are saying that my hypocrisy on a political matter illustrates my political bias. Because of that bias, my position can be ignored.

Marching orders given; marching orders gladly recieved! Oliver Darcy at CNN dutifully reports on the White House issuing instructions to media and proceeds to follow those instructions in the very same article without even a hint of irony or self awareness. It must be read to be believed:

In the previous administration we saw prime time cable news anchors appearing on stage with the president at his rallies, one of those anchors was known to have nightly conversations with the president discussing White House strategy.

I fail to see what you’re pointing to here that we didn’t see ten fold in the previous administration which you didn’t seem to have any issue with.

That’s not what I argued. The position which you hold and the seriousness with which you hold that position are two different things. Pointing to hypocrisy addresses your seriousness, which is absolutely valid.

So he dutifully follows without a sense of irony, which is unbelievable. That was the point made - that it’s so difficult to believe a news anchor would align themselves with a presidential administration.

but lord forbid the Whitehouse requests an investigation into Ukraine corruption or election irregularities. Now that there is an improper crime of treason punishable by a firing squad!

It’s very sweet of you to tag team in your bud’s defense like this. Do you think he needs a breather?

Too bad mathematics is rooted in white supremacy…