There is a great line in the great movie “Chasing Amy,” where one character tells another (who happens to be gay), “I feel a hate crime coming on” after they have an amusing back and forth. While writer/director Kevin Smith would likely hate my use of that line and everything about my politics, I don’t really give a damn because it’s funny and it fits how I feel when I watch leftist journalists operate in a post-Trump world (and I’m still a fan of Smith’s work anyway).
Think what you will of Donald Trump – personally, I could use a break from hearing about and from him – no one did more to expose the hypocrisy of the left than he did, and he didn’t actually do anything to cause it except to exist. Hillary Clinton was supposed to win in 2016, breaking the “glass ceiling” and ushering in an era of GOP destruction. Instead, she lost to this “monster,” setting off Democrats, both with and without press passes, into a rage-spiral that not only hasn’t stopped, but has only sped up. That included “conservatives” who seem to resent political victories they claimed they always wanted simply because they were done on his watch.
Donald Trump didn’t make them insane, his existence simply sped up the process – pulling back the curtain, or actually pulling the curtain and the rod off the wall completely. I truly despise them.
The reason for the title is watching these people “cover” the revelations of Twitter’s internal deliberations and actions on the Hunter Biden story before the 2020 election is something to behold that should make everyone sick, I know it does me. I won’t go so far as to say it would have changed the outcome of the election, but to pretend it couldn’t have is asinine. And the people pretending otherwise deserve a swift smack across the face with the cold, dead fish of reality, if only metaphorically.
But viewers and readers of the leftist media wouldn’t have any idea of the story at all. CBS News didn’t bother covering it at all. The Washington Post and New York Times burned their calories downplaying collusion between government and soon to be government officials and the silencing of a media outlet’s major story because they’re on the other team.
The Times downplayed the whole affair, writing, “Mr. Musk and Mr. Taibbi framed the exchanges as evidence of rank censorship and pernicious influence by liberals. Many others — even some ardent Twitter critics — were less impressed, saying the exchanges merely showed a group of executives earnestly debating how to deal with an unconfirmed news report that was based on information from a stolen laptop.” (Emphasis added)
This is telling that it’s a rehash of an old line of attack on the story – that it’s “hacked” info from a “stolen laptop.” When not pretending it was the most elaborate Russian spy game ever, leftists insisted the material was “stolen” and, therefore, shouldn’t be reported on because “standards of professionalism” or something. This is an industry that dines out on leaked information, classified/personal/whatever. If it’s useful to the left’s narrative they are all over it like a rash.
Speaking of rashes, the Hunter Biden story was of no interest, so it was dismissed as “stolen,” even though the chain of custody of the laptop was never in doubt or the legality of the repair shop’s ownership after it was abandoned was irrefutable. Hunter was a junkie/drunk/prostitute frequenter, the only people who didn’t know this were people who didn’t want to know it. That a junkie wouldn’t be mindful of where their stuff is or concerned with forfeiting ownership of that property, especially when they have plenty of money and don’t need that property to sell to buy more drugs, surprises no one. Still, leftists pretended the idea that it was abandoned was insane.
The evidence of the Biden family’s involvement and benefitting from Hunter’s businesses was unhelpful and needed to be buried. When CBS News finally got around to “verifying” the laptop was real, their 5-minute story explaining how they contacted computer experts who (pretty easily) verified it’s real involved no mentions of any of the content on the laptop and no follow up reporting on it either. It’s gross.
Worse was the way MSNBC treated it. Watch this segment on the Symone Sanders show (I don’t know what it’s called, nor do I care) with Michael Steele, MSNBC’s token “Republican” (challenge: find one issue on which Steele is still conservative on. I’ll wait.) It is clear from watching it that neither host nor guest know anything about the story as neither remotely address details. What they do have is talking points, likely fed to them by producers via the DNC. I’m embarrassed for them.
If NBC News had standards everyone involved in this segment would be fired. It is in no way designed to inform an audience, it is designed to discourage the audience from consuming anything related to the story – meant to prevent curiosity or investigation and perpetuate ignorance. You can disagree with the conclusions of what the story means, but to be as stupid and lazy as Steele is (to say nothing of his wholesale sell-out of everything he once professed to believe) would embarrass a kindergartener. But Mike is just happy to hammer his easy money checks. Gross.
There isn’t a single left-wing outlet that did any honest reporting on the story. Armies of flying monkeys – Ben Collins, Brandy Zadrozny, etc. – were dispatched to make sure their audiences stayed, unquestioningly, on the Democrat thought plantation. Like the entirely to of the Biden family business scandals (how did a family with no skills or abilities make so many millions in industries they had no knowledge of, but political influence over?), no efforts were spent trying to refute the facts, only to discourage anyone from learning about them. It’s not “I read these documents so you don’t have to,” it’s “You don’t need to read these documents at all, nor do you need to investigate anything related to this story. Trust me, there’s nothing there.” If journalism had an opposite, that would be it.
If “journalism” were a protected class (not just a favored one by the left), the thoughts I have toward the people earning large sums of money allegedly practicing it would be a hate crime, were they acted on. As it stands, they aren’t practicing journalism, they engage in protection. They are engaged in actively keeping their audiences ignorant out of fear they might, with access to unapproved information, draw conclusions inconvenient to the power establishment. They’ve gone from “We speak truth to power” to “We protect the powerful from the truth.” It’s a hell of thing to watch and absolutely justifies my contempt for all of them.
I remember when a group aired a TV commercial on behalf of George Bush in 2000. It had “bu roc rats” scroll across the screen to emphasize that incompetent burocrats would be deciding your medical options.
Tony Snow mused that the simple commercial had “. . . rats” flash & describe a traight of the DNC. (“Weasel” would’ve been more accurate.) The press was unconcerned & uninterested.
But two weeks later the DNC called news outlets and whispered that the commercial was planting subliminal suggestions like The Manchurian Candidate.
That was all the prompting needed for the press to go full dungeon & attack Bush for a 72 hour cycle.
It was a classic example of how the press was nothing more than an extension arm of the DNC. DNC snapped their fingers – the courtier press jumped.
The legacy media are doing BZ k flips to ignore the smoking gun proof in the Twitter documents
The media still refer to the death of George Floyd as a murder by a white police officer. But I believe that if they framed it truthfully, that it was a fentanyl death and angled to show the devastating effects of this wicked poison, much good could have been done.
Instead the death and destruction caused by their feckless journalism persists to further divide America.
IT ALL BEGINS AT UNIVERSITIES AND EVEN HIGH SCHOOL.
Go to the University of New Mexico’s DailyLobo.com and you’ll find what I’ve known since the ’80s when I was attending numerous meetings by the NM Peace Council an affiliate of the U.S. Peace Council headed by the CPUSA, with the WORLD PEACE COUNCIL RUN BY THE SOVIET KGB, SO NM CONNECTED TO THE KGB. The head of the Peace Council yelled at me when I asked him if he was a Marxist since he had just returned from Cuba and had nothing bad to say about it. Two weeks later, George Meyers, head of the CPUSA Labor Department, was guest speaker at the NM Marxist Educators for Socialist Action meeting headed BY THE MAN WHO CHEWED MY OUT FOR ASKING IF WAS A MARXIST! “I’m not a Marxist and don’t you ever accuse me of being one. I’m the furthest thing from it. I’m a Patriotic American.” NOW HE’S THE HEAD OF THE MARXIST GROUP and Meyers then advocated, “The overthrow of the United States… THROUGH FORCE IF NECESSARY! BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER!” THAT’S CIVIL WAR! WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW?
I then went to the Daily Lobo with a letter, not printed. Other meetings, more letters, not printed. Then at a meeting on El Salvador I asked The Marxist if he was one and he denied it. The standing room only crowd was yelling at me. A Daily Lobo reporter came and asked my name so he would put that in the article. I told him to ask The Marxist if he headed the NM Marxist Educators, he did, the man denied it, I showed up, he admitted it.
Part Two: (site says too long so I have to divide it up.)
BIG NEWS. I WAS INTERVIEWED. ARTICLE NOT PRINTED. WHY? BECAUSE THE EDITOR WAS AT THE MARXIST MEETING WHERE SHE INTRODUCED HERSELF AS BEING IN THE NM COMMUNIST PARTY!!!!
THERE IT IS! It starts with Journalism Departments and their radical professors. After asking if there was at least one Conservative in the Daily Lobo, “I think Brandon is.” None of my letters were printed, my comments to reporters at protests and meeting were not printed. Then Oct. 18, 2001, it finally got printed but they did that so they could have a few weeks of people countering mine. I countered back, not printed.
Since then, the newspaper has been taken over by an editor who is in the LGBTQWXYZ community so she turned into her personal agenda.
NOW “UNDER MODERATION???????” Which word got freaked them out?
MY NINE-YEAR OLD NIECE: “TRUMP IS HITLER!” I said, “Who’s that?” “I don’t know.”
Her mother, my sixties hippie sister. At school too? On the news?
It lack of Journalistic Ethics and one-sided reporting, starts in HS, on to universities, then city, state, and now the nationally with the MSM. Remember JournOlists which was a group of five-hundred plus digging up dirt on Republicans, and even promoting false info? Did they retire? Look at Media Matters.
“THE MSM looks at Trump, and the Republicans, under an Electron Microscope while they look at Obama, Hillary, the Biden’s, and Democrats, with a BACKWARDS HUBBLE TELESCOPE!” SC
Our “news media” are garbage. Just a bunch of partisan hacks and activists who give each other Lucite-block awards they don’t deserve. They have richly earned the opprobrium in which the vast majority of the public holds them
We already know that the M.S. Media is all Fake News one don’t need to be a rocket scientists to know that
Agree. And great headline. They are truly and utterly despicable excuses for human beings.
These are miserable persons who live in the misery that will hopefully go away once they are totally in charge and can make everyone else miserable instead.
Somehow they think they’re members of the George Carlin club have a ride on the train…they ain’t members of the club and don’t have a ride on the train despite what thoughts float about at annual Washington Press Club dinner.
CNN Facts First is a False and Misleading name
You know what I am tired of hearing about? How tired everyone is of hearing about and from President Trump! There must have been a memo for “Journos” again. . Same few words repeated.
The biggest story not only in America but Western civilization…the veritable end of the idea of The United States through corrupt illegal and immoral attacks on a president and all he can say is
“thats so yesterday”
Ugh!
Nothing to take seriously here.
The term left-wing journalist is an oxymoron. It has become glaringly obvious that the shills employed by the likes of the NYT, WAPO, CNN, CBS, ad nauseam are simply left-wingers with a pen. They do not seek to report the news or the truth. They are the mouthpieces of the DNC and every other left-wing organization in the world.