I was looking over some headlines and the following one by the NY Times caught my eye. “How Do We Deal With a Superpower Led by a War Criminal?” And being the objective, logical thinker I am, I thought, “The New York times is turning on Biden? How strange!”
Of course I joke, ha ha. But really think back to the disastrous Afghan surrender debacle. When a suicide bomber killed thirteen American military personnel Biden ordered a retaliatory drone strike that killed a car full of Afghan children. I think the NY Times would have been happy to label a Republican Commander in Chief as a “war criminal” on the strength of such a stupid and irresponsible act.
It’s remarkable just how little objective truth any longer enters into “the news.” It’s propaganda all the time. And it’s not a one way street. Both sides blast away with their spin 24/7. And we’ve all adapted. I don’t think I give credence to a single thing I read in the mainstream media unless it passes all of my smell tests. And that goes double for right-wing sources.
Nowadays I tend to look for stories that give bad news for their own partisans. Those are the only stories that I can depend on not being propaganda. After all you don’t tell bad news that isn’t true about your own guys. It doesn’t sell papers or garner clicks or whatever the business model is now.
So that brings me to the latest headlines.
Biden approval rating at lowest point in CBS News poll
Democrats face steep odds in bid to keep Senate
Is the US headed for a recession?
Biden Admits Being Bribe Taking Big Guy
Okay, I made that last one up myself. But you get my point from the other ones. The news is so bad for the Democrats and Biden that even they can’t lie their way out of this one. Eventually as we get closer to November I expect to see the New York Times come out with a headline that covers the whole front page with the words,
Run for the Hills!!!
How sweet it is.