By Sam Huntington
The American news media began in 1729 with an entertaining press written and produced by Ben Franklin. Its focus was satire and matters of interest (he thought) to the public. A few years later, William Cosby, governor of New York, hauled John Zinger into court accusing him of seditious libel. His attorney successfully argued that newspapers should be free to criticize government so long as the accusations were true. It was this case that led the founders to consider “freedom of the press.”
Back then, it was supposed that the people had an inalienable right to know what government was up to. Of course, in explaining what the government was up to there was considerable license for the writer’s point of view, which we may assume was a viewpoint shared by the publisher.
Public assassination in the press began early in our history. Politicians soon learned how to manipulate the press for their own purposes. If we think the Steele Dossier is a disgrace, read how Thomas Jefferson anonymously conspired to hatchet his boss, President George Washington. Jefferson’s cabal made scurrilous claims, none of which were true. The dye was cast, however. News media became politicized and it has been that way ever since.
Is this problem getting worse? Considering the continual effort to mislead readers and listeners, I’d have to answer in the affirmative. The news is not only too often “fake,” lies and distortions frequently end up re-transmitted on such social platforms as Twitter, Face Book, a plethora of truly bizarre blogs, and YouTube. This would not be a problem if Americans were capable of sifting through bull feces to discover the facts. Critical thinking, however, is not one of the American public’s strong suits.
Independent research takes time; no one has time for it. The consequences of this are serious. Public apathy is an automatic win for politicians, who we might observe are inveterate liars. People who accept lies as truth become easily led sheep, easy marks for political wolves. People who become rabid enablers of dishonest press and their political masters harm themselves, their loved ones, their communities, and the nation.
How much faith or confidence can one have in a loved one who is a prolific liar? Now substitute the words “loved one” with “member of the press.” There you go, America. Here’s your sign.
Sam,
ReplyDeleteThe news is not only too often “fake,” lies and distortions frequently end up re-transmitted on such social platforms as Twitter, Face Book, a plethora of truly bizarre blogs, and YouTube. This would not be a problem if Americans were capable of sifting through bull feces to discover the facts.
Yep.
Of course, another problem is that the mainstream media, the vast majority of the media, have become propaganda tools, making it difficult to get to the bottom of anything. **sigh**
The American press have been political whores for a very long time, AOW. We are at a stage now, I think, where there is NO honest reporting in the United States. All stories, even the fake ones, do contain smidgeons of truth. I think it is not state propaganda as much as it is leftist hype that does have its purposes. And people wonder why Trump relies on the silly platforms, such as Twitter. Were it not for that silly platform, none of us would have any idea what Trump has been up to. No longer content to report the news, so that the American people may be informed of national and international events, we have a press intent on driving the train ... and leading us to hell.
DeleteBe thankful for twitter. Otherwise we wouldn't know what a feckless idiot we elected.
DeleteI notice that fake news is a left invention, no mention of Breitfart, Gateway Pundit or "Talent on loan from synthetic morphine" Limbaugh.
Let's face it. Fake news simply means you don'y agree with it. It doesn't follow the libertarian party line.
I believe the "news" in the USA is much more propaganda than it ever was in the USSR.
DeleteIt was nice of Ducky to chime in with examples of "scurrilous lies".
DeleteHi Ducky,
DeleteHere's the Breitbart Link
Could you please give us an example of 'Fake News' on the order of"Rightwing high school student mocks honorable Native American Vietnam veteran?"
Sam said, "[T]he continual effort to mislead readers and listeners [is real.].
Delete"The news is not only too often “fake,” lies and distortions frequently end up re-transmitted on such social platforms as Twitter, Face Book, a plethora of truly bizarre blogs, and YouTube.
"This would not be a problem if Americans were capable of sifting through bull feces to discover the facts.
"Critical thinking, however, is not one of the American public’s strong suits."
I couldn't agree more, but the question that hangs in the air that no one seems to want to deal with is "WHY are Americans so woefully ignorant, and so easily misled and manipulated by scurrilous, agenda-driven propaganda?
I've been trying for YEARS to answer that question with what-I-know-to-be facts about foreign, pointedly deleterious influences that have been brought to bear on "The American Mind," but I've either been studiously IGNORED or rudely DISMISSED as a "righwing nut job"or something of the sort.
I won't bother to offer my explanations again, but I hve YET to see anyone even TRY to refute my assertions with anything but name-calling and cumsy, shallow, witless attempts to assasinte my character.
I would only add o Sam's statement that these lies and distortions may end up on "social media," but more importantly they are ROUTINELY OFFERED BY MAINSTREAM NEWS OUTLETS IN PRINT AND ON TV AS LEGITIMATE NEWS.
I ,personally, don't believe "The Press' SHOULD be "free" to publish DELIBERATE LIES –– unless they re clearly, and prominently labelled as FICTION, FANTASY, or WISHFUL THINKING.
The ENEMEDIA should be held strictly ACCOUNTABLE and SUBJECT to CIVIL and CRIMINAL PROSECUTON an SEVERE PENALTIES for deliberately MISLEADING the public.
Hi Silverfiddle
DeleteLet's remember that the true story came out after the initial rush to judgement.
This has not been the cae in matters like right wing standard Project Veritas for intance, Too bad your favorite, Michael Savage, isn'y still spreading the truth.
Benghazi,Benghazi,Benghazi
DeleteCheck out the recent news on the Mueller report that's been buried by coronavirus.
DeleteDucky,
DeleteSo, I gave you a link and you can't provide us one concrete example?
I am watching the news on the Democrat-Russia collusion against Donald Trump's campaign. Not looking pretty for Democrats.
ON CANARDO'S CHARACTER
DeleteThough to tell you is unkind
It's sad you have a feeble mind
Your limitations legion
Provide laughs throughout the region.
Too bad there's no prosthetic
For a brain that's damnably pathetic.
How sad will be the day you find
That you were born without a mind!
@ducky: "Fake news simply means you don'y agree with it."
DeleteDisagree. News can be wrong (honestly mistaken), or exhibit any number of biasses which we may or may not share, while still qualifying as real news.
Fake news refers to stories with zero factual basis: whole-cloth concoctions conjured up specifically to appeal to the imaginations of a target audience.
This is how I understand it anyway, and I resist the persistent overuse (and [deliberate?] misuse) by certain POTUS'. We need some word to refer to what fake use used to mean. If we surrender it we'll need a replacement, because this deplorable phenomenon (as Sam reminds us, as old as America at least) is not on any kind of decline.
@ Franco ...
DeleteThe question you asked was, Why are Americans so woefully ignorant and so easily misled and manipulated by scurrilous, agenda-driven propaganda?
You’ll find the answer to this question in our system of public education. As Jayhawk observed (below), public education no longer teaches how to think, it focuses on what to think. This has been going on now since the 1950s and for all kinds of reasons, it has gotten worse over the years. For many years in this country, leftism was “cool.” Adopting the platform gave its proponents a sense of purpose; they were much like pedophiles in the sense that they were drawn to an environment most receptive to their ideologically whacky view of the world. The fact that the human brain isn’t fully formed until the mid-to-late 20’s helped, of course ... hence Lenin’s promise of “Give me the child ...”
Students learn mathematics, some forms of science, and music through rote memorization. We “learn” our multiplication tables, we learn the algebraic operations, we apply these processes to such things as chemistry, we learn the chords. It dawned upon the leftist educators, what a great way to teach the social sciences, as well. I’ve seen young children cry when their teachers told them horrific stories of white cruelty to native Americans; they learned nothing about Indian depredations, of course. And what fun it was to play Muslim in the 9th grade geography class accompanied by lessons of the crusades, another example of white cruelty toward peaceful loving Bedouins.
The fact is that today, what most students know about anything is from what their classroom teachers told them, and the reason for this is that most students in grades 6 and above cannot read or comprehend anything about the fifth-grade level. Kids today do not know how to think because they never learned how to read ... which was never really necessary because classroom teachers told them everything they needed to know to pass the teacher’s exams. In English class, the only reading accomplished in high school is in class with teachers struggling to get them through Shakespearian text. Romeo and Juliet is about all that 13-14 year-olds can understand because they’re living it; Ivanhoe? Songs of Roland? Forget it. Nor can the modern student write a cogent sentence, and so they never develop an ability to express themselves.
As AOW mentioned (below), students learn how to feed on what they imagine their teachers want to hear when asked to express a thought, verbally or in writing. It all comes out as gobbledy-goop. There is only two goals for exams offered by classroom teachers and standardized graduation exams: passing students from one grade to the next, and allowing them to graduate from high school. Classroom teachers pass their students because they want to keep their jobs. It would appall you to know the shenanigans going on between testing companies and state boards of education.
Where we end up in all this is that few high school graduates can think critically. They are, essentially, brain dead ... but this is the goal of public education: produce a citizenry only marginally literate and a people easily manipulated by the political elite. This is why our young people today are so woefully ignorant. It is by design.
"this is the goal of public education: produce a citizenry only marginally literate and a people easily manipulated by the political elite. This is why our young people today are so woefully ignorant. It is by design."
DeleteAlso works out nicely for the economic elites who thrive on a society comprised mostly uncritical consumers and minimally competent worker-drones; so this perverse downward pressure on educational standards is being applied from multiple directions. AFAICT the only resistance comes from teachers who see the profession as a vocation, and families engaging proactively with education. Humans are naturally curious: this is what gives me some hope.
But how rare is the ability to think critically, and how much does it really vary over time and across different regions?
jez,I suppose fake news can run the gamut between Orson Welles'' WAR OF THE WORLDS broadcast and William Hearst's ginning up the Spanish American war (to stay with the Welles theme).
DeleteThe Gulf war is an excellent recent example of "fake news'.
So you are correct.
But the way it is currently used is to refer to anything published by the NYT or broadcast by any but Fox news. In other words anything progressive regardless of accuracy.
Sam, you've described the bulk of Trump's base.
DeleteRight, Ducky ... and the bulk of either party's base. There is nothing cerebral going on in America on election day.
DeleteThank you, Sam. Your LUCID –– and ACCURATE –– testimony reflects and reiterates most of what I, myself, have been saying on these and other pages for YEARS, albeit in different words.
DeleteI have maintained –– and will CONTINUE –– to maintain that Education in the West has been infected, polluted, weakenedand bastardzed by CULTURAL MARXIST thinking.
That's painfully obvious those few of us left who have not been seduced and subverted by this evil ideology. Those subjected to it remain deaf, dumb and blind to the way their brains have been numbed and perverted. They THINK they've been "EDUCATED," when in fact they've only been INDOCTRINATED. A tragic state of affairs!
You may have not used the term Cultural Marxism, but you have expressed exactly what the EFFECTS of that pernicious influence has produced.
Naturally, the Left will tell you that Cultural Marxism either does not exist, or that it's a none-too-subtle form of anti-Ssemitism. As always, the Left will stop at nothing to obscure and deny the TRUTH as they routinely vilify anyone who dares to tell it.
How will our disgusting, degraded Infotainment Media Complex conduct itself when government starts funding it with bailout money?
ReplyDelete“There is a real interest in public health to keep people informed in this crisis.” Nice try, John Schleuss, President of the News-Guild Labor Union. I was reading at Bunkerville today, a well-researched blog. This blogger is an older lady, apparently, who is “locked in” at a continuing care facility. According to her research, journalists are not reporting anything worthwhile about Covid-19. Most of us did not know about the high numbers of death among nursing home/continued care patients. Most of us didn’t know that the governor of New York (along with governors in several other states) has forced these facilities to accept Covid-19 patients discharged from hospitals while not fully recovered. It is a stupid decision that exposes the most vulnerable people to infection and, just as bad, the people who work in these facilities. If the press is not going to keep the American people informed, then what good are they? Well, but Gov. Cuomo does get wall-to-wall coverage from the adoring press ... probably more than even the US president. You said it ... “disgusting.”
DeleteSam,
DeleteTrump relies on the silly platforms, such as Twitter. Were it not for that silly platform, none of us would have any idea what Trump has been up to.
And for that reason, I do not object to his use of Twitter.
As for Bunkerville's post today, I'm sure that she has her facts correct. She typically does! The msm, on the other hand, [bleeped for foul language].
I was reading in the Smithsonian that AOW linked to a few posts ago as to how disease shaped America.
DeleteInfluencing "journalism".
"Past epidemics fueled the growth of civic debate and journalism in the U.S., too. As far back as colonial times, newspapers built their audiences by providing an outlet for debate on controversial issues, including disease. Founders of the New England Courant—the first paper in Colonial America to print the voices and perspectives of the colonists—launched their paper as a vehicle to oppose smallpox inoculation during the 1721 Boston epidemic."
See AOW? I was paying attention.
Ed,
DeleteI had no doubt about your paying attention!
I'm not a Sean Hannity fan. That said, this is beyond the pale:
ReplyDeleteNY Times Blames Sean Hannity for Bar Owner Coronavirus Death, but Timeline Bungled and Ignores Reporter’s Own Tweet.
Excerpt:
Ginia Bellafonte [sic] blamed Hannity and Fox News for inducing bar owner to take fateful vacation on March 1, but Hannity statement at issue was a week later, and in late February, Bellafonte herself tweeted for people not to worry about the virus.
Much more at the link above. Note: the correct spelling of this "journalist"'s name is Ginia Bellafante.
The NYT: "All the news that's fit to print"? Really? I think not!
I take issue with, "Independent research takes time; no one has time for it." It says, in effect, that we want democracy, but not if we have to work for it. We will vote based on truth, but only if we do not have to exert any effort to obtain the truth.
ReplyDeleteFood is important, but I don't have time to search for it and prepare it. I will eat, but only if the food is delivered to me ready to eat.
Fake news is easily determined on the face of it. There are contradictions within it. There are inconsistencies. There are "facts" which do not agree with what can be readily observed. One has to be, extraordinarily lazy to fall for the current level of fake news on the level that, "Joe Biden did nothing wrong in Ukraine."
"No one has time for it" was said in the context of people being too lazy to make time to discover the whole story. Your analogy about food preparation is a good one. That's where we are today in terms of consuming what others put on our plates.
DeleteToo bad no like buttons on blogger.
Delete+1
DeleteIt's not just laziness, Sam, it's the inability to think critically, the inability to have original thought, and the inclination to think whatever one is told to think by the "party" whose ideology one subscribes to.
DeleteJayhawk,
DeleteYes, indeed. That's the way it's been for years. I tutor several high school students who are in public school systems, and it's like pulling teeth to get any answer from them when I (1) ask an open-ended question or (2) ask them to justify an answer. They desperately try to read my face to see what I think. Good thing that I grew up playing poker!
That has to be frustrating.
DeleteI was in a Facebook discussion with my niece, who is in her mid-40s, a few months ago. I don't recall the idea she was espousing, but she defended it by saying, "This is not a radical idea."
I responded by citing the definition of "radical" (relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something), and said that it was a radical idea but that made it a good idea and that big problems are not solved by conventional thinking.
She responded by saying that that definition was not when she meant when she said radical. I asked her to define what she did mean by it, since we could not have a reasoned debate if we did not first have a mutual understanding of the term we were debating. She was not able to come up with what she meant when she said "radical" but insisted that I was still wrong and that the cause she was espousing was not radical.
This sounds like CS Lewis's observation that most words decay into a mere synonym for good or bad. "Radical" has been used to paint ideas as scary or dangerous for so long, that soon that will be all it means.
DeleteThe use of such terms as good or bad tells us nothing; they are completely subjective, as are, I suppose, many adjectives. British colonists in the Americas began thinking radically, and through the test of time (at least initially) there was a good result. Germans and Russians began thinking radically, too ... with horrific results. It may even be true that radical thinking is never a bad thing, but the application of radical thinking can have disastrous results. This explains why “the people” should never trust politicians; these are folks charged with devising and implementing social policy that for the most part benefits themselves. They have made a complete mess of it..
Deleteyep, it's a great loss. The fewer precise, descriptive words we have, the poorer our ability to describe and reason together about the world.
DeleteYUP! What's been happening to the language ever since the politicos and the press discovered how profitable i was to pander to the Lowest Common Denominator and thus glorify Vulgarity, Vice and Sin is decidedly "Double-Plus-Ungood."
DeleteAstonishing that Orwell never knew he was a Conservative!
Newspeak: The only language that gets smaller and smaller (loose quotation of Orwell)
DeleteImpoverished language for an intellectually-impoverished people.
American schools: turning out the lights in children’s heads since 1635. I think that our public-school system is more like a factory where the main product line is obtuseness. No snickering, now ... we have spent a lot of money to get to where we are today, much to the delight of the American press.
ReplyDeleteThe schools stopped teaching children HOW to think, and began teaching them WHAT to think.
DeleteThere's a great meme showing a teacher asking her class what they learned while homeschooling.
Delete"The media lies to us"
"The left is trying to subvert American values."
"Don't trust authority figures."
Ed,
DeleteI think that I've seen that meme over on Facebook.
Couldn't find the link I was looking for but Abraham Lincoln shut down various media outlets. One New York newspaper in particular was cited for Treason during the Civil War and the military was sent to destroy its offices and equipment and jail the members. I don't see why that wouldn't be an appropriate response to outlets like CNN and MSNBC today.
ReplyDeleteNews is one thing. Fake news - treasonous news - totally different.
It's tough to know when you're joking.
DeleteUnfortunately, you are probably serious here.
I fully agree, Kid, and I sincerely hope you are NOT kidding.
DeleteFoundations of Culture - Careful what you "step" on.
ReplyDeleteBad link above.
Delete@ Ducky
ReplyDeleteI hope you're feeling better/improving. Best to you.
This isn't something I do currently, but I feel I need to incorporate a non-western news-source into my habitual reading/viewing. That naughty Chomsky has been making me notice my complacency about the assumed quality of the British news. I'm enjoying occassinal glances at PBS, but I think I need to go further afield.
ReplyDeletePBS News/NPR does good work. Try Japan's NHK
DeleteNONSENSE! PBS has essentially the same pointedly leftward bias as The New York Time, The Washington Post, The boston Globe, The L.A. Times, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC the Nation, an The Daily Worker (if TDW still exists ;-).
DeleteI freely admit most of these left-leaning outlets publish articles written in good Standard English, which has becime icreasingly hard to find these days, but their smoothly written, at times even elegant, prose does nothing to cover their crypto-Marxist -Globaist orientation.
I'm surpised you've fallen for their deceitful wiles.
The ignoble old bastard NOAM CHOMSKY should have been taken out and SHOT decades ago. His acceptance today is clear, unmistakable sign of how badly our mores and values have degenerated.
It worries me when the news is too homogeneous. To the extent that events are open to it, I want to hear from a multitude of interpretations. In my opinion, the danger arises when you hear only one point of view, even if it is one you share -- this is what people mean when they about echo chambers. I'm not a Tory, but I like to flick through a Telegraph every once in a while (it's gone downhill in recent years).
DeleteI don't mind hearing Globalist-inflected news as long as I can hear from the nationalists (don't like 'em, still want to hear from 'em) and plenty of special regional interests too.
As for chomsky, I wonder if you've found much to disagree with in his Propaganda Model of the media? [Of course you're an enthusiastic exponent of anti-communist (and now anti-Islamist) feeling, so leave that aspect to one side.]
You are right about one thing. Grand Narratives infuse all the stories (news or otherwise) that we hear. It would be nice if they didn't, for the grand narratives are the products of the paranoiac-critical... reflecting the hopes and fears of the journalist-narrator...and I have little in common wilth the neoliberal journalist. The "conservative" narrator s little better... a Glenn Beck blackboard like compilation on unrelated events linked only through paranoiac speculation.
DeleteMuch like the "People's History of the United States"... a history based soley on the fears of oppressed minority groups. Such grand narratives are disgraceful and I see little difference between Beck and Zinn's paranoiac fear of American citizen out- groups.
DeleteYep. Cynicism is just romanticism with a few of the colours swapped around.
DeleteI'm really worried that there's a Grand(er) Narrative pervading our media in the western capitalist democratic worldview, which even your two examples, though they seem at a glance to be in diametric opposition, fail to escape.
The news is all about advocating a position and pushing propaganda.
DeleteThe left made much better dissidents and civil libertarians than the current crop, and that's not a knock on people taking a stand now. People doing it now are real people with ordinary lives and jobs, so they're not good at the agitprop and they don't have the pop culture artists on their side, so the message falls flat.
Silver Lining
ReplyDeletePower Line
by John Hinderaker
It’s an ill wind, they say, that blows no good. Even the coronavirus can produce a heartwarming story or two.
The Guardian reports on the dire state of the U.S. newspaper industry: Media outlets across the US have already responded to a huge drop in advertising triggered by the economic shutdown by sacking scores of employees.
Some newspapers, just as demand is at its highest, have stopped printing – reverting to a digital-only operation that is just as vulnerable to the whims of advertisers.
The decrease in advertising was swift, as businesses tightened spending due to the economic impact of Covid-19. . . .
HOW COULD THIS BE BAD NEWS FOR U.S. CITIZENS? A_N_Y_T_H_I_N_G ... THAT CRIPPLES AND HELPS TO DETER THE MACHINATIIONS OF THE LYING, WHOLLY PROPAGANDISTIC .. E_N_E_M_E_D_I_A ... SHOULD BE REGARDED AS "MANNA FROM HEAVEN" BY CONSERVATIVE-LIBERTARIANS.
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ReplyDeleteThis is Who the Hell They Are
ReplyDeleteAmerican Thinker
by Mark Landsbaum
God bless the media. Without it, I wouldn’t have known that CNN’s Don Lemon indignantly demands to know, “Who the hell do you think you are?!”
Yours truly has only a vague sense of who Don Lemon is and has never in my memory seen his program on TV or him in the supermarket or anywhere else, but I can answer his question.
Mr. Lemon reportedly directed his question to armed protesters who, despite the nation’s lockdown and stay-at-home orders, had gone public to demand their constitutional rights to assemble, to lodge their grievances with their government and to arm themselves. That would be the First and Second Amendments, respectively . . .
DON LEMON IS LIVING PROOF THAT A HANDSOME YOUNG, CLEAN-CUT NEGRO WITH WHITE FEATURES WHO SPEAKS GOOD STANDARD, ACCENTLESS WHITE ENGLISH CAN GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING. LEMON IS REALLY JUST A "TOKEN NEGRO" USED BY THE LEFT TO SIGNAL THEIR GREAT VIRTUE IN RECOGNIZING THE "EQUALITY OF BLACK MEN," AND THE INFAMY OF CAUCASIAN PREJUDICE. IN OTHER WORDS DON LEMON IS AS WELCOME AS THE FLOWERS IN MAY –– AS LONG AS HE VEHEMENTLY SPOUTS THE CRYPTO-MARXIST PARTY LINE WRITTEN FOR HIM BY HIS MASTERS ON THE MARXIAN-GLOBALIST PLANTATION WHO OWN HIM BODY AND SOUL.
HERE is the link to the above article in American Thinker.
DeleteThis sonnet was penned twenty-three years ago in reference to the Clintons‘ Whitewater woes, but I see now that the basic sentiments apply to the way politics in the DC Swamp is conducted all the time. Proof once more that "The more things change, the more they remain the same.” - FT
ReplyDelete_____ Sail On, O Ship of State ______
What the truth might be no one can find.
Hopeless is the quest on either side
Invested as they are in staying blind
To anything that points to Power denied.
Entrenched in battle lines made to endure,
Weapons drawn and ready to attack.
A motivating force that’s quite impure
Twists logic into seeing white as black.
Examining our leaders’ feet of clay
Removes us from confronting our own flaws,
While they decisive action can delay
On how to rid the Nation’s Face of yaws.
Electing pugilists who throw the fight
Scorches angels’ wings, yet sheds no light.
~ FreeThinke
The names change. The sets change. The costumes change, but the SCRIPT, ALAS! never varies.
I try PBS sometimes for news...it's CNN all over again.
ReplyDeleteBY the way; when are voters going to wake up to how FOX has approx 30 very liberal, extremely articulate advocates for their side ALL DAY LONG? Donna Brazile, Jessica Tarlov, Goodstein, Fowler, Williams...more and more and more.... probably about 15 a day...sometimes more.
CNN's only Republicans are Never-Trumpers and they appear approx 3 times a week.
But FOX IS BIASED and CNN IS TRUTH? :-)
By the way, who knew BILL COSBY was once gov of NY? :-)
As for the dispersions to Breitbart, I feel the same way much of the time, frankly. And I know (with certainty thru his family) that Andrew would not be happy. What libs refuse to accept (except those I've met with him, all of whom would tell me how much they loved him because HE WAS FAIR) is that he'd been a leftist who woke up as he was shown conservative thought by his father-in-law, Orson Bean. THEN he got it, THEN he realized this country is in trouble because of the leftwing media's dominance. Not that it was WRONG all the time...he didn't rock that way...because it was too LOUD.
Good piece, Sam.
Jessica Tarlov. arggghhh. Like fingernails on chalkboard.
DeleteHey Boomer! What's chalkboard?
Ed, I keep WISHING she'd:
DeleteA. LEAVE
B. GET A SPEECH COACH! Almost impossible to listen to that awful screech, you're so right.
We just had a drive by protest in Denver this weekend, the clever Antifa types showed up in medical costumes, and the useful idiots in the Infotainment Media Complex reported it as "Gallant Medical Personnel stare down MAGA dunces"
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DeleteIt would help if people wouldn't wear goofy gorilla suits and then present themselves as one of us.
DeleteBut that's who the media would gravitate too.
I just imagined that protesters might bring one of those car dealership inflatables holding a sign and the media would attempt to interview it.
At this point, I say the nation deserves Biden and a Democrat majority in both houses.
ReplyDeleteOnly if they vote for him. Legally.
DeleteYup. We're definitely ready for some incoherent babbling, and Biden's just the dunce to deliver.
DeleteSam -These new age 'reporters' really do frustrate me, with their smirks and outright belligerence. Every time Trump starts an answer to one of their condescending and disrespectful false narrative questions to him with an, "Are you ready?", I get excited thinking he will pull a loaded crossbow from behind the podium... but alas, he just nails them with more truth. That's not as satisfying as the crossbow bolt warning shot would have been but a close second.
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