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Media Corruption
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Had a subscription to the Washington Star because it wasn't the Washington post
Here's Abramson's full post on Threads:
For context, Abramson was responding to a hit piece on Rufo published by the SPLC and reposted by NBC News' Ben Collins.
Here's Abramson's full post on Threads:
For context, Abramson was responding to a hit piece on Rufo published by the SPLC and reposted by NBC News' Ben Collins.
What he should have done is do a Jimmy Kimmel and claim his family safeties at risk. Then the media will claim that's not true and he can point back at Kimmel.
Biden recalls attending funerals of cops killed on Jan 6 – crickets from ‘fact checkers’
January 7, 2024 | Chris Donaldson | Print ArticlePresident Joe Biden delivered his big speech to mark the third anniversary of the January 6, 2021 chaos at the Capitol and as the teller of tall tales is prone to do, he embellished a key detail.
On Friday, the octogenarian demagogue uncorked his ugly rant for a small crowd near historic Valley Forge, PA, a location chosen for its Revolutionary War connection at a time when his regime is persecuting GOP frontrunner Donald J. Trump and his supporters like England’s King George once did to American patriots.
During the 30 minute diatribe, Biden claimed that he and First Lady Jill Biden attended the funerals of police officers who were killed during the so-called “insurrection” against the government.
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That's all that is needed - he never remembers anything.
But the case is often made of others - besides Sicknick - who committed suicide a few days, a week and a couple, six months later.
Aside from the fact that dealing with criminals and so forth are kind of part of the job of being a cop -
I am ALWAYS suspicious of someone who committed suicide when they are involved in a political situation.
Former ESPN host Sage Steele also noticed something peculiar that her former employer did at the medal ceremony. The national anthem of the winning nation is played, which the Canadian broadcast showed but was omitted here in the States. It was a great moment: the team bellowed the verses of the Star Spangled Banner, something the women’s soccer team would never do. That got deep-sixed by ESPN.
Steele did not hold back in her post on Twitter.
Well... it is hockey.
Speaker Johnson BUSTS CBS’s Brennan Mid-Question For Not Reading 2020 Texas Brief
When preparing to ask someone about a document that bears their name, such as a Supreme Court filing, before attempting to grill them on national TV over the aforementioned document, it is always a good idea to READ the document beforehand. But, alas, CBS’s Margaret Brennan did no such thing before attempting to grill Speaker Mike Johnson on the 2021 Texas amicus brief filed before the United States Supreme Court.
WATCH as Brennan cites the brief as a set-up to a broader point on questioning the 2020 election, and gets BUSTED:
Ultimately, Brennan wanted to use the Texas brief as a means with which to tie Speaker Johnson to the January 6th Capitol Riot. Make him an “insurrectionist”, if you will. By first asking Brennan whether she read the brief, Johnson nullified any intended effectiveness the question may have had.
Brennan, caught off guard, was instead reduced to sheepishly admitting that she read “extensively some criticisms of that”. Johnson proceeds to calmly explain the substance of the brief and why there was a sense that the Constitution had been violated.
What a fuking clown shoe .... I read the criticisms
Without Evidence, CNN Furthers 'Threats Against Judges' Narrative
Cable news continues to air live programming despite this, the week after Christmas, being a ratings wasteland mostly destined for year-end recaps and the like. Such is NOT the case on CNN, which makes the most of this time in order to advance a narrative previously debunked on CNN air. Watch...
Watch this extraordinary exchange wherein Brianna Keilar, sitting in for Kaitlan Collins, and her guest, who is a retired judge, talk about the alleged threats against the Colorado justices:
Absolutely fascinating.
I don’t need to imagine the judge’s hypothetical because we went through this very real scenario during the summer of 2022, when the Dobbs draft was leaked and the left organized a pressure campaign which included illegal marches in front of the conservative justices’ homes. There was also the matter of the arrest of a man who had flown across the country, dressed in black (including a mask) and packing rope and a knife in order to do God-knows-what to Justice Brett Kavanaugh and his family. These was very real threats against the judiciary, incited in part by the Democratic Senate Majority Leader. The guest, a retired judge, even goes so far as to acknowledge that Congress legislated protections for families of Supreme Court justices! And yet, somehow, those threats go completely unmentioned in this entire segment on threats against the judiciary.
As our colleague Bill D’Agostino noted, there is no evidence to support the existence of such threats. That doesn’t matter. Only The Narrative matters.
And in furtherance of The Narrative, the non-specific threats against the Colorado Supreme Court must be given a level of coverage commensurate to that which was denied to actual threats and actual intimidation against the conservative justices of the United States Supreme Court.
CNN Reporter Debunks Her Own Story About CO Judges: ‘No Specific Threats’ Made
CNN’s reporting on this non-story was reminiscent of those clickbait pieces where the actual body of the article itself debunks the intentionally eye-catching headline. During the 11 a.m. Eastern hour of CNN News Central, for example, co-anchor Sara Sidner teased Polantz’s report like this:
Wow, serious threats? Into the fray? Sounds like a bloodbath. Then came the actual report:
So to summarize: there was a “hoax” threat according to law enforcement, there are websites where people are referring to the Justices by their actual names, and “no specific threats” have been found. Kind of different from what Sidner was selling us in the lead-up to the segment, when you think about it.
That was how it went every time: an overwrought teaser, followed by a report that failed to deliver the goods. Polantz did mention that some wing nut on an unnamed website (which the entire media are describing only as a “far-right pro-Trump website,” so probably 4chan), had written “All f— robed rats must f— hang.” Disturbing language, to be sure. But given the FBI are practically addicted to arresting right-wing internet tough guys, the lack of any arrests in this case is rather telling.
Who knows, it’s possible some idiot will try to “take things into his own hands,” like that Biden voter who flew across the country in the hopes of kidnapping and murder Justice Kavanaugh. But even if that does happen (though let’s pray it doesn’t), that will do nothing to vindicate Sidner’s disingenuous framing of this story.
Media Outlets Bury Revelation That Epstein Accuser Retracted Trump Allegations
On Monday, multiple media outlets ran reports of Trump having been named in the latest Epstein documents, but failed to note in the lede of their articles that the accuser had actually retracted those allegations in 2019.
Court documents made available on Monday included Epstein victim Sarah Ransome’s 2016 emails to the New York Post suggesting that she had Epstein-related sex tapes involving half a dozen prominent people, including Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, and Sir Richard Branson.
Ransome, however, could not provide the tapes when asked, and no such footage has ever been uncovered.
Then in 2019, Ransome retracted her claims, according to the New Yorker, which reported that Ransome admitted to having “invented the tapes to draw attention to Epstein’s behavior, and to make him believe that she had ‘evidence that would come out if he harmed me.'”
Multiple media outlets nonetheless ran with the old — and retracted — news on Monday, burying the lede in their stories, which was that Ransome’s claims had already been retracted years ago.
“These baseless accusations have been fully retracted because they are simply false and have no merit,” Steven Cheung, Trump spokesperson, said in a Monday statement.
A headline by Daily Mail read, “Donald Trump named in latest Epstein documents: Sarah Ransome said he had sex with ‘many girls’ in email where she also claimed pedophile had tapes of the ex-president, Richard Branson, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton.”
“She retracted all her claims, telling Callahan she wanted to ‘walk away from this’, citing fears for her family,” Daily Mail eventually acknowledges in its article — four paragraphs down from the headline.
Another headline by the New York Post read, “Epstein accuser claims pedophile had sex tapes of Trump, Clinton, Prince Andrew and Richard Branson: new docs.”
“Ransome walked back the salacious allegations in an Oct. 23, 2016 email with a Post columnist, writing, ‘I would like to retract everything I have said to you and walk away from this,’ according to the filing,” the New York Post eventually admits in its article — also four paragraphs down from the headline.
Essentially, new salacious headlines were published by media outlets on Monday using old and retracted news from four years ago. That is the assessment of author and investigative reporter Vicky Ward, who first reported on Epstein in a profile piece for Vanity Fair in 2003.
Media Outlets Bury Revelation That Epstein Accuser Retracted Trump Allegations
Media outlets buried the revelation that an accuser of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein had retracted former President Donald Trump from her allegations.
On Monday, multiple media outlets ran reports of Trump having been named in the latest Epstein documents, but failed to note in the lede of their articles that the accuser had actually retracted those allegations in 2019.
Court documents made available on Monday included Epstein victim Sarah Ransome’s 2016 emails to the New York Post suggesting that she had Epstein-related sex tapes involving half a dozen prominent people, including Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, and Sir Richard Branson.
Another headline by the New York Post read, “Epstein accuser claims pedophile had sex tapes of Trump, Clinton, Prince Andrew and Richard Branson: new docs.”
“Ransome walked back the salacious allegations in an Oct. 23, 2016 email with a Post columnist, writing, ‘I would like to retract everything I have said to you and walk away from this,’ according to the filing,” the New York Post eventually admits in its article — also four paragraphs down from the headline.
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Media outlets buried the revelation that an accuser of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein had retracted former President Donald Trump from her allegations.
On Monday, multiple media outlets ran reports of Trump having been named in the latest Epstein documents, but failed to note in the lede of their articles that the accuser had actually retracted those allegations in 2019.
Court documents made available on Monday included Epstein victim Sarah Ransome’s 2016 emails to the New York Post suggesting that she had Epstein-related sex tapes involving half a dozen prominent people, including Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, and Sir Richard Branson.
Another headline by the New York Post read, “Epstein accuser claims pedophile had sex tapes of Trump, Clinton, Prince Andrew and Richard Branson: new docs.”
“Ransome walked back the salacious allegations in an Oct. 23, 2016 email with a Post columnist, writing, ‘I would like to retract everything I have said to you and walk away from this,’ according to the filing,” the New York Post eventually admits in its article — also four paragraphs down from the headline.
Media Outlets Bury Revelation That Epstein Accuser Retracted Trump Allegations
Media outlets buried the revelation that an accuser of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein had retracted former President Donald Trump from her allegations.
Liberal Media SUPPRESS Pro-Hamas Insurrection at the White House
If an insurrection happened and no one reported on it, did it really happen? Can the perpetrators of violence escape accountability if it escaped the notice of the corporate media? These questions were put to the test as the corporate media conducted a virtual blackout of Saturday night’s violent protests outside the White House.
A short and sweet summary the day after, with broader coverage the night of on Fox News. In sum, a large anti-Israel protest ended up at the White House, which resulted in several arrests, a near-breach of the fence outside the White House, with media and non-essential White House personnel being evacuated.
The scene was eerily reminiscent of the attack on the White House during the fiery but mostly peaceful George Floyd riot in Washington, D.C., which resulted in President Donald Trump being evacuated to the White House bunker, and multiple injuries among Secret Service personnel and other law enforcement personnel.
How did the other networks cover the calls for an intifada outside the White House, you ask? Here’s a quick rundown.
ABC: Absolutely nothing on Saturday night. Nothing on Good Morning America, ABC This Week, or World News Tonight.
CBS: A brief report on the daytime (less violent) portion of the march, replete with overhead shots on Saturday’s Weekend News. Nothing on Sunday Morning, Face The Nation, or Sunday Weekend News.
NBC: Nothing on the Nightly News or Meet The Press.
Absolute zero on the networks.
Emmy scandal reeks of widespread ESPN shadiness
Thus last week’s tale of ESPN, the self-destructive Disney sports network, winning sports Emmys for 13 years based on submitting fabricated names came as a shock — only in that it took so long to have its cover blown off. After all, once a secret is shared — and this con had to be shared by plenty — it’s no longer a secret.
Consider the path this couldn’t-end-well scam traveled, from the submission of phony names of imagined production staffers to those assigned to scratch off those fabricated from the statuettes and replace them with on-air talent, nearly 40 of them, from Kirk Herbstreit to Desmond Howard.
None even knew they’d been nominated? None asked for exactly what they’d been nominated or who they beat out to win? NATAS, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, took ESPN’s word for it for 13 years, never even slightly curious as to who all those nonexistent production folks are? Never even asked for a bio, even if it was bogus?
Or weren’t you allowed to ask questions?
Naturally, and presumably transparently, ESPN’s oblivious hierarchy was caught totally unaware — until the day last week when ESPN was caught at something it had little chance to contain. Heck, 13 years of bogus acclaim and purloined honor is a pretty good run, thus a damned good try.
The sports Emmys have always reeked of insider trading in service to egos that don’t much care if the flattery is sincere or based on a lie.
NBC ran an unintentionally hilarious and overheated story yesterday headlined, “Fears grow that Trump will use the military in ‘dictatorial ways’ if he returns to the White House.” Democrats are now painfully fretting about how mad Trump might be after all these horrible lawsuits are over, and what the former President might do once in office if he gets re-elected.
I know what you’re going to say. The democrats are just projecting again. True, but it’s funny how they are so tone-deaf. Behold this heroic description of a group of budding democrat insurrectionists conspiring to “interfere with an official proceeding”:
Skye unfortunately said, “fight back.” She should be more careful. Those are very violent words that could get you 36 to 72 months if uttered on the Capitol plaza. It’s also pretty rich for a woke activist to invoke “an existential moment for American democracy” while simultaneously suing to prevent candidates from appearing on both parties’ ballots.
So much for democracy, which I guess is now just a convenient buzzword along the way to a full-on communist dictatorship. You’d think they’d have a better sense of its meaning; the word is right in their party’s name.
But the best part was when NBC got down to brass tacks, describing it real fear — being hoisted on its own moronic tactics:
It gives a president considerable discretion in deciding what constitutes an uprising. You don’t say. Like, could unarmed Capitol Protests be considered an uprising? Just asking.
It’s so weird! I wonder how NBC might have got the idea that Trump could use the Insurrection Act? I mean, nobody’s used that dusty old law in over a hundred… oh, wait. That’s right. The democrats have invoked the Insurrection Act about ten billion times in the last three years since January 6th, 2021. Democrats have called every Republican they could find an “insurrectionist,” both in and out of court.
In other words, now that they’ve re-defined “insurrection” to include strolling into the Capitol at the invitation of police, democrats are starting to fret about what a Republican president might do with the very same laws they’ve been battering conservatives with for years. While all the many hand-wringing articles about Trump love to cite the George Floyd protests as an example of the kind of thing they worry Trump would crack down on, the reality is probably that every democrat involved in the “Russia Collusion” hoax is sweating worse than Kamala Harris in church.
I’ll say it: the “Russia Collusion” operation was an insurrection. And they know it, too.
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Axios Tries to Blame Trump for the Economic Woes of 2020... But People Remember What REALLY Happened
Following along hot on the heels of being scolded by various members of the mainstream media like Philip Bump (and former members of the mainstream media like Brian Stelter) about the importance of 'not doing your own research' and 'avoiding misinformation' comes the writers down at Axios. Through their choice of how to write a headline and how to report the news the Axios headline writers offer a timely reminder of the utmost importance of doing your own research so that you understand context... and that anyone in the 'mainstream' media is just as likely to lie to you as anyone else you're going to come across, if not perhaps moreso.
Let's see if you can spot the problem with this what Axios says here:
No matter your feelings about Donald Trump as a person or as a President, the way that the media attempts to obfuscate the facts about what exactly happened to the economy in 2020 to make it appear that it was due to some bumbling by Trump and not a global pandemic that caused worldwide economic problems is horrifying. Every time they do this they reenforce the idea that they (meaning the media and the powerful political and business interests they're often buttressed by) are indeed out to get the former President... a lesson that nobody in the mainstream media seems willing to learn in their haste to find a way to 'rid themselves of this turbulent man' to paraphrase Henry II.
But other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?
How anyone writes these things with a straight face is honestly beyond us, and writes as members of roughly the same journalistic class that is, again, spending its time saying that people need to stop doing their own research and listen to their betters in the media and academia who surely 'know better' and would never lead them astray. Fortunately for us no matter how much these self-proclaimed informational 'shepherds' try to corral their unruly flock with these types of open lies and half-truths, the sheep have learned to see what's beyond the walls of the pen and aren't inclined to go back.
Them's the breaks for the once proud media establishment in the Internet Age.
Philip Bump: Everybody Needs to Stop Doing Their Own Research and Start Listening to Philip Bump
If you've ever found yourself in a debate with anyone who's on the left on Twitter you've likely been told to 'educate yourself' or that 'it's not my job to do your research for you!' by your antagonist. Of course in many respects this isn't the worst advice in the world, having an informed opinion is always preferable, right? Our entire modern system of academia is based on this principle (... at least in theory), that it's better to have an educated and informed workforce and electorate than it is to not.
Of course the problem with people actually 'educating themself' and going off to do research on a topic to draw their own conclusion is that sometimes that conclusion doesn't sync up with the conclusion that your 'betters' in the major media outlets would prefer that you draw... and we can't have that! If people started thinking for themselves imagine all the harm it could cause!
Well don't worry, Philip Bump has arrived to inform everyone of the dangers of actually doing your own research on topics... Because of course it's Philip Bump who's out there White Knighting for just listening to journalists rather than looking into things for yourself. Bad things happen to Philip Bump when he's around people who think for themself and ask inconvenient questions.
The Washington Post has shown in the past that it agrees with Bump that he is beyond question, so they're clearly cool with this line of reasoning since they keep publishing Bump and fighting for him when people call him out for stuff. Shocking, right?
Don't question, never question. Philip Bump and the Washington Post know what's best for you, just trust them! Hey, where are you going?
There was a time in American history when the media was generally trusted, with CBS News host Walter Cronkite once having been considered 'the most trusted man in America'... but those days are long past. The rise to prominence of Fox News and CNN with their '24 Hours News' model debatably began the slow collapse of trust in the bite-sized news chunks during the nightly news hour as being the main source of information for most, and the rise of the internet the with a mass ability to do your own research most certainly rang the death knell for that, as well as for the dominance of the print media over the narrative. People like Philip Bump long for a time when their word, proclaimed from their high perch at one of the nations 'premier' media organizations, was the center around which the entire world seemed to circle... but that time is gone, in large part because people have learned that in many cases they had been being misled by them all along.
- Bump ran away from a live Podcast when he was challenged on the topic and could NOT back up his assertions