Media Corruption
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"Plans to protect the 2024 elections" = Plans to interfere in the elections by suppressing unhelpful narratives and truths.
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Not enough affirmative action for swimming classes?
ABC Smears DeSantis: Appeals to 4Chan, Makes Trump Seem 'Chill'
"For instance," Coaston huffed, "he's been repeatedly hitting Donald Trump this week for being, like, comparatively centrist on LGBT issues. You've heard from Log Cabin Republicans, you’ve seen Caitlyn Jenner saying what’s going on here?"
DeSantis is apparently running to "appeal to people on 4Chan," according to the same leftist.
She ended her rant by helping DeSantis appeal to conservative voters. DeSantis is "the most right-wing, edge-lord person you have ever seen on the internet."
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To paraphrase the great Rush Limbaugh: you will always know who the media and Democrats fear by who they are attacking.
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Affirmative Action can and does do good with ONE PROVISO - if and only if it show preference to equally qualified persons of previously under-represented groups. You must admit, that if a hundred applicants apply to Harvard with the same credentials - and 10 of them are black - and none of them or maybe just one of them are selected - that yeah, that's racist. A purely RANDOM selection of equal applicants would yield a higher number.
It became and remains problematic if it ignores credentials and gives preference on the basis of race while ignoring having lower grades and scores. This is largely because - it is EASIER to do this. To admit based on scoring for grades, and test scores and race. Give a high enough point score for race, and the rest doesn't matter as much.
It became and remains problematic if it ignores credentials and gives preference on the basis of race while ignoring having lower grades and scores. This is largely because - it is EASIER to do this. To admit based on scoring for grades, and test scores and race. Give a high enough point score for race, and the rest doesn't matter as much.
The Elon Musk private jet tracker resurfaces on Threads and immediately goads Mark Zuckerberg
Jack Sweeney, the college student and creator of the banned @ElonJet Twitter account that tracked the movements of Elon Musk’s personal jet, has now launched the tracking project on Meta’s rival platform, Threads. “ElonJet has arrived to Threads!” Sweeney posted to the new @elonmusksjet account on Thursday. As of Monday, July 10th, the Threads account currently has 80,000 followers.
Sweeney addressed his second posting on the @elonmusksjet Threads account directly to Mark Zuckerberg, asking the Meta founder if he can remain on the platform. Sweeney includes a shoutout in the Threads bio of @elonmusksjet to the @zuckerbergjet account dedicated to tracking the location of Zuckerberg’s private jet. That account hasn’t posted any live information yet, but Sweeney has been actively tracking the movements of Zuckerberg’s jet across Meta’s Facebook and Instagram services for some time.
The account tracking Musk’s jet already appears to have been suspended and subsequently restored on both Threads and Instagram (where it’s been active for months) in the last few days.
Morning Mika blames White House staff for Biden's falls and gaffes
Mika Brzezinski is angry at the White House staff because she thinks they are not protecting Joe Biden enough. Protecting him how, you ask? Protecting him from himself. It is clear to even a loyal Democrat like Mika that Joe Biden is failing and she is letting his staff know that she blames them.
Mika is a swamp creature who lives in New York. Her father was Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was the National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter. Her brother, Mark, is a diplomat. He was Ambassador to Sweden during the Obama years and he is now the Ambassador to Poland in the Biden administration. Mika is well-connected and tied in with the Democrats and the DNC. Mika acts like an insider. For example, in today’s show, she felt entitled to scold the White House staff. She doesn’t think they are doing their job.
She delivered a rant, letting off some steam at the expense of Biden’s handlers.
It’s difficult to believe any sentient human really believes that a gaggle of suburban moms are readying for the next Beer Hall Putsch. Then again, the people who cynically spread this kind of smear rely on the credulousness of paranoid Trump-obsessed Democrats. They’ll believe anything, apparently. As Stalin (probably) said: “Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.”
The contention makes literally zero sense. The quote in question — “He alone who owns the youth gains the future” – was used to hyperbolically compare the outlook of Hitler with Joe Biden and other Democrats. Similar framing, though perhaps distasteful, is well within the norms of American political debate. French can find them regularly in his own paper.
While Biden is no Hitler, like many of the left, he is something of an authoritarian when it comes to your children. Well not your children, exactly. The president believes they’re “all our” children. And not only that the state has the right to trap them in schools, but that bureaucrats have the right to dictate what they learn and read against the wishes of parents. As the murderous dictator Vlad Lenin said, “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
Even when these parents use the mechanism of our democracy to elect people to enact change in those state-run schools, they are labeled extremists and Hitler stans and book banners and censors. If they complain about the state of American education to their school boards, the federal government might label them a terror threat.
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The contention makes literally zero sense. The quote in question — “He alone who owns the youth gains the future” – was used to hyperbolically compare the outlook of Hitler with Joe Biden and other Democrats. Similar framing, though perhaps distasteful, is well within the norms of American political debate. French can find them regularly in his own paper.
While Biden is no Hitler, like many of the left, he is something of an authoritarian when it comes to your children. Well not your children, exactly. The president believes they’re “all our” children. And not only that the state has the right to trap them in schools, but that bureaucrats have the right to dictate what they learn and read against the wishes of parents. As the murderous dictator Vlad Lenin said, “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
Even when these parents use the mechanism of our democracy to elect people to enact change in those state-run schools, they are labeled extremists and Hitler stans and book banners and censors. If they complain about the state of American education to their school boards, the federal government might label them a terror threat.
David French Joins The Mob To Smear Moms for Liberty
Surely David French knows you can quote terrible people in history without endorsing their underlying beliefs.
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And now they’re coming for the podcasts. Two weeks ago, AFP ran this alarming headline:
Oh no! Not PODCAST misinformation! Misinformation like, claiming the shots don’t stop transmission, or that the covid virus leaked from the Wuhan lab. The article identified misinformation super-spreading podcasts like Joe Rogan, Charlie Kirk, and Steve Bannon which, according to the article, often include things that completely-reliable and presumptively un-biased “fact checkers” have deemed to be false.
The fretful fact-checkers worry, because the “conversational tone” of podcasts make them seem more believable, or something. So people might accidentally believe something that’s not officially approved by the government, which could damage the Nation’s cognitive infrastructure. It’s like a highway bridge that starts cracking after a conversational tractor-trailer filled with moonpies of misinformation collides with the cognitive overpass.
It’s JUST like that.
Presumably, the censors are just now getting around to the podcasts because lazy SBU and FBI agents prefer keyword searching over actually reading or listening to content for themselves. Anyway, don’t worry, the have people on the job now, and soon will be “fact checking” podcasts and rating them as unreliable:
I’m sure they will be super-duper careful never to flag people’s OPINIONS or issues that could be argued either way as disinformation, because that would be crazy unconstitutional, right? You believe that, don’t you?
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AT WAPO, AN EPIC BLUNDER
Jennifer Rubin is a left-wing columnist for the Washington Post. So, naturally, she hates Ron DeSantis. On Friday, she published a column arguing that DeSantis’s conservative policies endanger Florida’s economy. The headline was, “Florida might pay for MAGA cruelty and know-nothingism.” Just another objective day at the office at WaPo! Unfortunately, her entire column was based on a grotesque factual error.
The centerpiece of Rubin’s piece was this absurd claim:
This assertion came from a Business Insider article that, when Rubin wrote, had already been corrected. In fact, the exact opposite is true. The Post had to correct Rubin’s error:
This is one of those corrections that destroys the entire point of the original article. The correction implicitly acknowledges that the column never should have been printed in the first place. Both the Post and Ms. Rubin should be embarrassed, but we know from experience that, as a hard-core apparatchik, Rubin doesn’t embarrass easy.
But this is the point I want to make: it is truly extraordinary that a left-wing columnist and (presumably) an editor at the Washington Post are living in such a bubble that they are unaware of the fact that Florida, under Ron DeSantis, has become America’s number one boom state. Americans are moving to Florida as fast as they can dump their houses in New York, Illinois, California and Minnesota. This chart, from American Experiment, shows net domestic migration for each state from 2019 through 2022. Florida is on top, with Texas in second place:
Jen Rubin spews tripe about Florida, forcing the WaPo to issue an embarrassing correction
By Monica ShowalterTalk about stupid.
Jennifer Rubin wrote a column in the Washington Post, absurdly claiming that Florida was so badly run and so "cruel" its residents were fleeing, basing her entire article on this errant premise, and forcing the Washington Post to issue an embarrassing correction.
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More humiliatingly, Rubin's error was first corrected by readers on Twitter, at least one of whom actually went into the statistics Rubin should have gone into and found the problem. The WaPo had to issue its correction afterwards -- and who knows if they would have, had the Twitter correction not been so loud and out there first.
What an embarrassment. It's not just that Rubin should have known better than to get her statistics from Business Insider (or any outlet full of cub reporters on their first jobs out of journalism school), instead of original sources. It's that intuitively, she should have been skeptical, as the preponderance of news stories do cite the tremendous success Florida has had in drawing residents, based on its low-tax, low-regulation, pro-family, pro-freedom policies, brought in by Florida's excellent governor, Ron DeSantis. She also throws in an attack against President Trump, or rather, his MAGA movement, for good measure. See, she's got this all worked out.
Jen Rubin read one piece from Business Insider and she instantly believed its silly claims because it said something negative about DeSantis and by extension, President Trump? What a gullible doofus!
What we have here is ideology destroying what should be a natural skepticism about weird statistics. When normal reporters run into one of those, they double-check, they look for an original source, as well as a second source; they go over how the statistic was put together.
Not so Jen Rubin -- and her leftist editors. They hear something bad about Ron DeSantis and jump right in to use whatever weird thing they just heard to attack him, pathetically covering themselves with the sludge of error -- and sometimes irredeemably so.
Nothing clouds a reporter's judgment quite like extreme prejudice and hate.
Nets Spend 527 Minutes on Trump Indictment, 0 Seconds on Biden Burisma Bribery
Over 39 days (June 8-morning of July 18) the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) broadcast networks crammed their evening, morning and Sunday roundtable shows with a total of 527 minutes of coverage dedicated to the Trump indictment.
But how much did the Biden/Burisma alleged bribery scheme receive?
Zero seconds.
The Burisma scandal story and its ties to Joe “Big Guy” Biden has legs.
On July 12, Fox News reported that GOP lawmakers “erupted” after “learning about about a 2015 email chain” with a Burisma executive from Hunter’s laptop that so far ABC, CBS, NBC have yet to report on.
A July 12 article by Fox News’ Jessica Chasmar, Brooke Singman and Cameron Cawthorne detailed the revelations from the email exchange:
Prepare for Big Distraction – IRS Whistleblowers Scheduled for Public Testimony in Biden Bribery Scandal Tomorrow 1:00pm
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Tomorrow (Wednesday), the House Oversight Committee will hold a public hearing at 1pm ET, gathering information from two IRS whistleblowers who have come forward with evidence the DOJ and FBI pressured them to stop the investigation of Hunter and Joe Biden and their alleged bribery schemes.
Essentially, large payments were made by foreign governments, and affiliated businesses within China and Ukraine, to Joe and Hunter Biden in exchange for political policy. The IRS agents investigating the case were blocked by DOJ and FBI officials during their investigation of the criminal activity.
Both IRS agents are going to testify publicly.
In advance of the testimony, a senior FBI supervisory special agent has now corroborated the claims made by both whistleblowers.
CNBC Puts All Blue States In Top 10 States To Live, Red In Worst 10
CNBC’s Scott Cohn portrays himself on Twitter, not as some progressive commentator, but as simply a “journalist.” However, on Friday, Cohn released two articles: one on the top ten states to “live and work in” and one for the bottom ten. Despite all the migration out of blue states and into red states, Cohn’s top ten was exclusively blue, while his bottom ten was exclusively red.
Right away it was obvious that Cohn started with a predetermined conclusion that red states are terrible, defining liberal policies on social issues to be positive, “The study measures quality of life issues including crime, health care, childcare and health care, as well as inclusive policies on discrimination and reproductive rights.”
Of the worst ten (Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Indiana, Missouri, Alabama, South Carolina, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas), “reproductive rights” appears six times while “inclusiveness” appears eight times, and “voting rights” appears seven times. Here are some of what Cohn considers to be the lowlights of various red states: