It is absolutely pathetic to witness our media’s “shocked, shocked that gambling is going on here in Casablanca” moment.
Journalists and talking heads in the mainstream media have all become Captain Renaut. Worse, they trot out White House insiders, donors, people who have had close contact with Joe Biden, who express the same cluelessness about our President’s decline.
It is an insult to our intelligence at this point, a farce. Grown adults wiling to appear on camera, and in print with a byline attached, saying they had no idea our President was a dementia patient.
Maybe they should all begin to read me here on Substack. I claimed in a column a year ago that there was no possibility they could run Joe Biden for a second term, seeing as how he’d gone into, as our family has always called it, his “dodage”.
I’m a wholesale patio furniture salesman from Florida, not some high powered journalist working in the mainstream media. It is impossible for me to see, and for them to miss it all.
I truly believe that the debate was a bellwether moment in the relationship between the mainstream media and its audience.
I believe that the stark reality of our President standing and mumbling and bumbling through the debate, and then being helped off stage by his wife in a pitiful display of his complete demise, will cause a break between readership, viewership, and a connection to the people, to what is our major, mainstream media in this country.
The only “news” that I would even consider turning on over the past few years was Fox News. There was some level of “trust” in Tucker Carlson to speak truth to power. Once they shit-canned him I pretty much turned off Fox News completely. The only time I turn on that network anymore is to view the first fifteen minutes of “The Five”, when I want to see what I suspect is the most real and open discussion one can find on television of people engaged in topical debate. Otherwise there is no, and I mean zero consumption of the mainstream media in our home.
You can no longer trust them. Any of them. Fox News is so one-sided in their coverage of the genocide in Gaza that it is sickening. You will never, not in this lifetime, get any truthful information on Israel from Fox News.
They moved up the debate to “the earliest Presidential debate in history”. Yet the press is incurious as to “why”. Could it be they wanted Joe to fall flat on his face, so they’d have enough time to replace him, have an open convention? Hey, I’m a furniture salesman, what do I know, can’t be asking journalistic questions. Why would you put a dementia patient into a stand-up live debate? Ever? Absent some serious cocktail of drugs to create peak awareness you’d never do that. Yet they did, why?
Now we should have had a clean break from the people and the mainstream media at this very moment, known now as “mostly peaceful protests”
One must absolutely disconnect from a media source that will lie to you with impunity. That will tell you to believe what they are saying, and not your eyes, ears, and brain function.
In truth, for most of my adult life, I have tuned into the mainstream broadcasts with a healthy skepticism bordering on contempt. You cannot move a George Stephanopoulos from the inner sanctum of Satan Central and onto the set at ABC and not realize that something foul is afoot at the Circle K.
Trusting a George Stephanopoulos to tell you the unvarnished truth is akin to believing that Nancy Pelosi is a “public servant”.
I broke from the mainstream media right about the time that Peter Jennings retired and Bill and Hillary wandered onto the national stage. I was extremely happy that the internet and Youtube began to give us real journalism with Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal, Tucker Carlson, and Jimmy Dore providing unbiased coverage of the major events of our day.
Personally I find it just incredible that anyone watches MSNBC, and CNN at all. Ever.
But I’ve come to realize that we have a third of our adult population that is wrapped up in a state of total emotion over our politics today. They have become consumed emotionally over Hillary’s loss, over what they’ve been told is their loss of reproductive freedoms. They have bought into the fear narrative of having Trump re-elected, and we have a very emotional and needy audience of the Left that requires someone to give them a sense of shared and collective experience. A voice from the television that tells them they are right, and that someone is fighting for them, and for them not to despair. Not to lose all hope. Networks that reinforce their infantile emotional approach to all of life.
They get to cry along with Rachel Maddow, rage along with Joy Reid. And view Lawrence O’Donnell as some “father figure”, but not their harsh, demanding, overly critical father, the one they actually had, and hate. No, the kind, liberal, “you can smoke pot in the house, just don’t let your younger brother see you” kind of dad they always wanted. The kind of dad who can’t wait to see the new tattoo, and is extra happy the new boyfriend you brought home is a person of color. Lawrence O’Donnell is that kind of dad.
And it isn’t all women who just watch MSNBC, not at all. How else would the Beta Male get their news? Their “hero” is the very fey, totally emasculated, completely feminized Chris Hayes.
Now this is a man you want in the foxhole with you, a man you surely can trust with your life.
Yeah, right. This man-boy couldn’t tell you which end of a gun the bullet comes out.
But he reinforces every Leftwing trope you believe in as a good Liberal. Please don’t notice good Liberal audience that both Hayes and O’Donnell believe in DEI with all their heart and soul, but never yield their big time anchor job to a person of color. Funny how conviction never leads to action of ultimate conclusion.
So I can understand a third of the American electorate who is emotionally unstable, you may know them as Liberals, or Left Wing, I understand how they need a group therapy session each evening, an electronically induced “hug” from the airwaves, to let them know they are loved. And to reinforce all thoughts of “Orange Man Bad”, though to a person they cannot reasonably provide chapter and verse on Trumps actual sins.
They blame him for overturning Roe V Wade but don’t want to recognize that all he did was turn it back into a states rights issue, and as denizens of New York and California they’ve lost nothing in what they call “reproductive freedoms” and what should be better known as the murder of a fetus. Somehow the mainstream press has convinced women they’ve lost “rights”, when they live in deep blue states where nothing at all has changed about their “freedoms”. Nothing. At all.
Sensible adult humans need to turn off all mainstream media. At this point they’ve become disconnected so completely from the truth they need a total repudiation.
They want to promote a narrative, not truth. They want to “protect us” from what they fear, and not just provide clear and truthful information absent fear or favor. They want to shape our thoughts, not inform them.
There was indeed a point at which journalism, the local paper, the local television news was adversarial to power. A tool of checks and balances on our government, on the powerful, on the overly influential. But no more. They picked a side. They sold out. They became amplification for the messaging of the powerful. The mainstream media did a complete about-face.
There was a time I used to watch quite a bit of “mainstream media”. I turned it all off, absent a few minutes of “The Five” here, or “Gutfeld!” there, or perhaps debate coverage, or election night coverage. And I haven’t missed it at all.
You should follow my lead. It leads to a healthier mind.
As a stable, emotionally solid adult individual I do not require bias confirmation, or emotional support. I do not need Joy Reid to inform me of the dangers and terror of having a Republican Party in charge in our nation. I do not need to be reminded about our inherent racism on a minute, by minute basis.
I’m certainly not so addled as to listen to a Rachel Maddow for years, night-after-night, about how our President is a “Putin Puppet”, colluded with Russia, and “the walls are closing in”, only to find out the entire thing was made up as an opposition research project by the Clinton Campaign to damage their opponent. And I’m not so brain dead as to continue to tune in after realizing that I was lied to night-after-night.
Over here in common sense land you only get the chance to lie to us once.
Not nightly. Or Daily. Or by the hour.
And we are so intelligent over here in common sense land you don’t get to lie to us by omission. We intuit what is unsaid, what is left out, what is ignored. We have this natural ability to “read between the lines”, and hear what you didn’t say. Loudly.
That is a magical gift given to Conservatives, but somehow completely absent in the Liberal Left.
Perhaps that is what makes us so superior. Though you call us all deplorables we certainly saw that Hillary was a phony liar, a grifter, a self-absorbed power craven criminal. You missed that one completely.
We saw clearly our President was a dementia patient. We knew from the basement strategy, it didn’t take us years. I’ve known that Biden was a piece of meat with two eyes since the 2020 contest.
Of course you didn’t see it on the Left, your head was too far up the ass of MSNBC, and CNN to ever notice. Hard to see anything with your head up Joy Reid’s ample anus.
Getting that emotional connection to your confirmation bias comes at a price.
That price?
The Truth.
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Even the local newspaper and TV reporting is infected with the Marxist propaganda