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Another Lib Journalist Wakes Up

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This time it’s a journalist at Canada’s CBC named Tara Henley who couldn’t stand the dishonesty any longer.  When leftists can’t take the cognitive dissonance you know we’re close to the tipping point.  Of course I also find myself thinking, “It’s too bad you couldn’t see that this was the logical outcome of the nonsense you believe in.  But it’s not like I think these are reliable allies anyway.  These are just canaries in the coal mine showing that the Left has poisoned their own environment beyond what even their own partisans are willing to ignore.  It’s just the slightly less insane rats abandoning ship.

 

 

 

A Council of Pygmies

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Today I watched a clip from a recent episode of Meet the Press.  It must be at least fifteen years since the last time I watched that show and apparently, I hadn’t waited long enough.  The show had been degrading for decades when I gave up on it sometime early in the Obama era but I wasn’t prepared for what the 2021 edition had become.  I believe Vox Day may have coined the term “midwit.”  If not then at least it’s one of his favorite descriptive insults.  Well, Chuck Todd and his panel probably aspire to one day reaching the towering heights of the mid-witted.  Currently they’re about halfway up that slope.

The clip I watched was a discussion, if that term could be used for the bed-wetting panic that was on display, over whether Bison Man was preparing to storm the studio at NBC and put the whole panel to the sword.  I remember when Meet the Press used to consist of the most senior NBC journalists and guests from the leadership of both parties and senior administration officials.  Todd was surrounded by nobodies who wouldn’t be able to get their parking tickets validated in Mid-Town Manhattan never mind get access to Capitol Hill.  He might as well have been surrounded by those animated yellow characters called the minions or maybe brightly colored parrots that can recite short snatches of obscene poetry.  The nonsense they were spouting was not quite as intelligible or amusing as those alternatives but equally ridiculous.

Chuckie and the munchkins were describing how the current Republicans in Congress are in the hands of insurrectionists who are preparing to undermine all future elections by being mean.  Worst of all they intend to prevent voter fraud.  Egad!  And what they found most upsetting is that tens of millions of Americans inalterably believe that the 2020 election was won by voter fraud.  And these poor deluded fools believe this even though Chuck Todd has assured them (himself!) that this is not true.  Heavens to Betsy!  One of the geniuses on the show assured Chuck that he had brought to bear every piece of proof and assurance of accuracy that he could but this particular New York City fireman that he confronted wouldn’t believe him.  Shocking!  I wondered to myself if during this debate had the fireman mentioned that these same journalists trying to convince him about election honesty were also the ones who had assured him that Russian collusion was responsible for the 2016 election outcome?  Ah well.

I have to confess that I had to fast forward through some of the show because one of the kids, Kimberly Atkins, was just so annoyingly dull-witted that it exceeded my patience to listen to her rant.  She somehow got back to the Civil War and I just didn’t think I would be able to live long enough to get back to even the 20th century in time.  So let me just get to my takeaways from watching this charade.

The first point is that Meet the Press is no longer watchable by grownups.  The level of debate is about on level with what you might here at the Mean Girl’s Table during the 10th grade lunch period.  There is no usable information unless you are engaged in the study of some obscure aspect of abnormal psychology.  To describe the point of view as hyper-partisan is to miss the point.  These people are in no way different from what you’d see watching Joe Scarborough and his sock puppets.  It’s the same act.

The second takeaway is that they are very, very worried.  I guess it’s because no one is listening to them anymore, except in the echo chamber and the majority of the country want Dementia Joe to disappear and take the Cackler, Drunk Aunty Pelosi and Crying Chuck Schumer with him.  This is existential terror.  They need someone to do something about this.  The army or the FBI or Dr. Fauci has to do something to make all those tens of millions of Americans believe Chuck Todd and his minions when he tells them that the 2020 election was 100% honest and Joe Biden is the greatest president in history and the economy is just wonderful and there is no such thing as inflation or supply chain.

Now back in the 1990’s Tim Russert hosted the show and of course he was a lefty but he tried to maintain the appearance of even-handedness.  And he was a relatively intelligent man.  I have to assume if he were brought back to life and he was trapped as a guest on the current show he’d run screaming for the exit in under ten minutes.  Chuck Todd is an odious partisan hack with the appearance and personality of a rat.  I don’t imagine I’ll have a reason to watch even snippets of that show again for the remaining decades of my life on earth.  But if for some reason I must watch it I’ll make sure I’m under some powerful opiate to prevent me from trying to do myself in.

As One Commenter Said “Satan Has Recalled Chris Wallace to Hell”

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No, Chris Wallace is still alive but he’s heading over to CNN.  Finally!  I despise this man as much as anyone in the media.  Having him on Fox was a betrayal by that deeply flawed corporation.  Now that he can be the new Chris Cuomo I think he’s found his home.  Hopefully he can hit the gym and bring his biceps and lats up to Chris Cuomo standards.  I hope Wallace will enjoy his stimulating on-air banter with that super-genius Don the Lemon.

Biden Declared Major Emitter of Green House Gases at Enviro Summit

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This one’s too good to leave alone.

He is supposed to be committed to reducing emissions – but when President Joe Biden produced a little natural gas of his own at the COP26 summit, it was audible enough to make the Duchess of Cornwall blush.

An informed source has told The Mail on Sunday that Camilla was taken aback to hear Biden break wind as they made polite small talk at the global climate change gathering in Glasgow last week.

‘It was long and loud and impossible to ignore,’ the source said. ‘Camilla hasn’t stopped talking about it.’

It’s good to see that Dementia Joe has restored the dignity of the United States presidency abroad.  It’s no wonder that the press conferences now take place on a virtual reality set.  Hopefully Dr. Jill will equip the “Big Guy’s” pants with extra soundproofing after this.  Possibly Joe will be given a new acronym FOTUS.  I’ll let the reader do the math.

Of Eye Motes and Gored Oxen

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I make it a point to know by whom and in which an article is published.  Places like the New York Times and the Washington Post have had to resort to deceptive titling to fool normal people into clicking on their absurdly biased news and opinion content.  Ninety nine out of a hundred times I skip right past their offerings.  But today I saw an article entitled “Why Merrick Garland Can’t Win” (please do not click on this unless you’re willing to read leftist crap) written by Dahlia Lithwick in Slate.  Now if there was ever an article with three strikes against it this would be it.  But before I start my rant I just want to ask how does anyone get named Dahlia Lithwick who isn’t a character in some Victorian Romance novel?

I make it a point to know by whom and in which an article is published.  Places like the New York Times and the Washington Post have had to resort to deceptive titling to fool normal people into clicking on their absurdly biased news and opinion content.  Ninety nine out of a hundred times I skip right past their offerings.  But today I saw an article entitled “Why Merrick Garland Can’t Win” (please do not click on this unless you’re willing to read leftist crap) written by Dahlia Lithwick in Slate.  Now if there was ever an article with three strikes against it this would be it.  But before I start my rant, I just want to ask how does anyone get named Dahlia Lithwick who isn’t a character in some Victorian Romance novel?

So, before I decided to read this screed, I knew that nothing that Dahlia Lithwick could write or Slate would publish had any possible chance of me agreeing with it.  So, they were completely dependent on the title to fool me.  Based on the title it sounded like it was an essay proving that Merrick Garland won’t be able to distort his role as Attorney General to harm conservatives.  Well, I know from long experience that this is a ploy.  Instead, it will be a defense of Garland and all he does.  But I clicked on it.  Maybe I thought I needed to suffer for some terrible sins in my past.  But for whatever reason I decided to click on it.  And when I did, I found myself through the looking glass.

Dahlia Lithwick was moaning about how the evil deplorables were impugning the good name of Merrick Garland by pretending that he was the fascist instead of themselves!  Here’s a sample:

“Garland is currently attempting to restore confidence in an independent, professionalized, apolitical Department of Justice, but he is doing so in the face of claims by his opponents that the DOJ is the new KGB and that its jackbooted thugs are coming to arrest you in the dark of night for expressing peaceful opposition to a classroom curriculum. If you forge conspiracies where no conspiracies exist, at bare minimum you will have raised the questions. The questions backfill the truth. It doesn’t matter what the Garland DOJ is doing—trying to protect school officials who are threatened and stalked. The point is to say he’s creating an army of federal forces to enforce critical race theory in school. Try as he may, Merrick Garland cannot perform boring independence fast enough to outrun GOP claims that he’s a wild-eyed, violent socialist. And while the GOP currently exists only to cast everything you thought you believed into doubt, the real endgame is vigilantism. The endgame is to ensure that people mistrust government, election systems, school boards, the media, and the justice system enough to lend a hand in their destruction.”

Notice that the Department of Justice is just doing its boring job locking up innocent citizens that it wants to destroy for the FBI set-up on January 6th but it’s also doing its job when it allows BLM and antifa to run amok for a year in the streets of America’s cities.  And it’s equally doing its job when it threatens parents for opposing the brainwashing of their children.

But none of that is what is distressing Dahlia.  What bothers her is that we no longer believe this narrative.  Her side can pretend to believe every lie that the Deep State feeds to the media but we aren’t allowed to believe what our own damn lying eyes see in front of us.  She insists that we must believe in the honesty of the Deep State or the terrorists win.  She’s angry that after having the football pulled away a thousand times we’ve finally smartened up and don’t want to play the fool for her side again.  Poor Dahlia, so sad.

Outcompeting The Left

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Millennials aren’t patriots.  And they aren’t individualists.  They’re mostly sort of like grade-school children.  In fact, grade-school children that went to a really artsy-fartsy grade school.  There’s no way we are going to turn them into revolutionaries, ready to storm the barricades in search of liberty.  They don’t want liberty.  They want a latte.

But millennials will someday soon be the majority of voters in this country.  So even if they don’t believe in what we believe in we can get them to follow us if we can outcompete the woke option.  “What the hell is photog talking about?” you’re probably saying to yourself.  Let me explain.

Currently Silicon Valley is almost entirely composed of woke companies that have been telling millennials for twenty years that they are not only smart but also good.  Google famously had a motto “Don’t be Evil.”  Facebook, Twitter and all the other social sites spend half of their time just banning anyone who won’t acknowledge the need to worship the cult of pronouns.  Undoubtedly that sort of mean girl social selection activity has a definite demographic cohort that will relish that environment.  We call them Karens.  And right now, they seem to be the dominant life-form on planet Earth.  But as powerful as they are, I think there is a very large chunk of the millennial population that would like something more interesting to look at and talk about than Karen’s latest battle against accidental misgendering.

So how hard could it be to come up with a site that’s more interesting than that.  Look at what Substack has recently done.  They provide a platform for (among other things) journalists who are too normal to survive in the woke media environment.  Guys as liberal as Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi were hurled into the outer darkness by the likes of Rolling Stone and The Intercept because they thought that journalism should be factual.  Not unbiased mind you, but just not completely fake.  Now they’re making more money than they did previously by committing actual journalism and providing a service to readers who are tired of being lied to.

Other social sites have slowly begun to appear to compete head-to-head with the likes of YouTube and Facebook.  Rumble, Gab and BitChute are tiny players but they provide a service that isn’t available from YouTube.  The market for their product is growing and will continue to do so.  And it is attracting people with deeper pockets like Peter Thiele.

These are the beginnings of competition.  They barely register on Big Tech’s radar.  But that will change.  Better product will draw customers.  And honestly the entertainment value of Facebook and Twitter is pretty low.  I can easily imagine someone monetizing the audience that exists for reality-based news and entertainment.  It will happen and when it does it will attract more than just a right-wing audience.  It will attract everyone except for the left-wing ideologues.  A good example of that is the recent news that Greg Gutfeld was now the “King of Late-Night Comedy.”  Greg Gutfeld isn’t a conservative.  But he’s a libertarian who doesn’t alienate the conservatives who enjoy his humor.  He is vague enough about his own personal beliefs that Trump fans and normies think of him as their guy.  And that’s good enough.  I’d like it better if there were an even more right-wing guy who came on after Gutfeld on Fox News.  Someone a little more edgy but it’s a beginning.  If Fox News were smart, they’d give the Babylon Bee guys their own show too.  Of course, they currently have a YouTube channel of their own but I wouldn’t be surprised if YouTube eventually shut them down.  They’re that funny I assume they’ll be considered a threat.

And that’s my point.  The Left has become “all fake all the time.”  In the long run that becomes quite boring.  It can be outcompeted in a marketplace of ideas.  So, all we need to do is create that marketplace and let reality do the rest.

The Fabulous Adventure of Dementia Joe and the Tree of Life

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Well, you have to admire a guy that never quits.  If lies A through F don’t work there’s always G, H and I.  Coming up to the Jewish Holidays Joe spins another lie about going to the site of a tragedy that he can use for his narrative.  Problem is even his guys are tired of the out and out fabrications.  Joe claimed he visited the site of an anti-semitic mass murder in Pennsylvania.  But the people there told the truth and said he never showed up there at all.

We all need to stop worrying about truth.  Joe’s fake stories are much more entertaining.  In fact I want more fake.  How about the Adventures of Corn Pop and GI Joe Biden in Fallujah.  All it needs is the right comic book illustrator and it will sell millions.

Biden is the perfect representative for the Democrat party and in fact all of the Left.  He combines in equal measures self-delusion and intentional deception.  One slides seamlessly into the other.  And lately it’s on open display.  The Rout from Kabul is a brilliant military victory.  Sluggish economic growth is a dynamic recovery.  Broken promises on the end of the COVID lockdown is glossed over as “following the science.”

The only thing that’s new is that the media seems to be getting new marching orders.  Maybe they’re getting ready to move Joe out and move Lady Macbeth in.

Black Dreadlocked White Supremacist Goes on Shooting Spree in Austin

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Austin American-Statesman has withheld the description of a man who shot 13 people in Austin because “publication could be harmful in perpetuating stereotypes.”

And they’re right.  It’s obvious this black dreadlocked individual is a rabid white supremacist trying to disrupt the perfection that is the Joe Burden administration.

But just in case it is a bona fide person of color the Austin Police have asked him to send in a report at some convenient time to clarify why he had to defend himself against the white supremacists who must have waylaid him in the streets of Austin.

It will be several weeks before the BLM representatives approve whatever story the police piece together.  In the meantime the Austin American-Statesman has begun the Juneteenth celebration early by renaming the paper the Austin African-American-Statesman.

 

Silly Season 2021 – Toobin Strikes Back!

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Just when you thought it was safe to watch CNN again, he returns.

Jeffrey “why is everybody looking at me like that?” Toobin has returned to provide legal insight to the viewers at CNN.  But the female viewers will always be a little nervous from now on.  And in any remote interview everyone will be thinking, “Is he wearing pants and where are his hands?”  And when he’s in studio will we ever see a woman (or anyone) shaking his hand ever again?

We live in the age of miracles and wonder and seeing Jeffrey “tube lubin” Toobin return from the wilderness proves that there is nothing so awful and pathetic that a true progressive won’t come back from it saying “What?  What?”  Even Bill Clinton must take off his hat or pants to Toobin.

I agree with the statement of one of the commenters on this bizarre resurrection, “This man must’ve had some dirt on somebody with power ’cause this is just beyond.”

But my favorite comment was ” At least @CNN is honest now about having no journalistic standards whatsoever. Such honesty must be freeing!”

Surely the LGBTQ movement must have a letter for Toobin.  Maybe W for wanker.  Obviously the normal people don’t want him but during sodomy pride month there must be a special place for someone like Jeffrey who may have pride but definitively has no shame.

My Favorite Honest Commie, Taibbi Compares the MSM Coverage of Bident to Soviet Era Pravda

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Say what you will about his lefty beliefs Matt Taibbi paints a very clear picture of just how sycophantic the mainstream media’s portrayal of Dementia Joe is.  He especially mocks the earnest statement that Joe is just so dignified and serene that it’s impossible for a Saturday Night Live parody of him to be done.  He even includes the blooper reel of gaffe-master Biden hard at work.  And he identifies a primary reason for the uniformity of the “Dear Leader” schtick.  These “journalists” are terrified that anything less will result in the Politburo that calls the shots calling their bosses and demanding a pink slip be issued for disloyalty to the Party.

I’ve been plowing through the Gulag Archipelago and I know how painful it is to slog through the unending stories of judicial malfeasance and murderous partisan witch hunts.  And Taibbi accurately equates the obsequious headlines that greet every stuttering utterance of Dopey Joe with the same sort of groveling that the Soviet era newspapers Pravda and Izvestia churned out every day.  The fact that Pravda and Izvestia mean truth and news is not lost on Taibbi.  He understands the irony of the Orwellian nature of news under a dictatorship and he accurately equates the present one party state of American journalism with the Soviet organs of propaganda.

Good for you Matt, you old commie you.  It takes one to know one.