How does Pravda fact-check the titular party head?
For me, the main point is that, however the left tries to spin it, Biden is often contradictory, incoherent, and unintelligible to an alarming degree.
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I’m finding that the more Joe says something in public, the longer it is before his next microphone appearance.
I read that Kamala is now making his foreign policy calls for him. I guess this would be except for the Cash Calls, of course.
These people think they’re back to “normal.” Which means the “normal” standard of fact-checking is back and they no longer declare every single statement a lie if it can be in any way interpreted as less than 1000% accurate.
You can see it in the media pushback over Andrew Cuomo and COVID and even the reopening of schools. The media thinks they can go back to actually pretending to be journalists after doing everything they can to elect Democrats, which used to be how they operated. Bill Clinton actually got a decent amount of negative coverage when he wasn’t running for President.
Of course, there is no “normal” to go back to any more…but they haven’t figured that out yet.
Mike
In last night’s show Tucker Carlson lowered his big 5 inch naval guns, pointing them at the national media and opened fire. The moderately long closing piece was open mocking and ridicule.
There will come a time when the media can no longer cover for Biden. He recently told Anderson Cooper there was no Covid vaccine when he came into office a little less than a month ago. Cooper let it go by as if there was nothing to say about it.
Not that Anderson Cooper is really a journalist, nor that CNN is really a news network. Pity, really — I remember when I was still working overseas we could rely on CNN for reasonably accurate coverage. No longer — those days have been gone for a long time.
The same can be said for the major TV and print news organs — they’re propagandists, pure and simple.
But they will find it harder and harder to accept what Joe Biden says without reacting in some manner — probably surprise or sadness.
Pay no attention to the little “man” behind the curtain. Is it Kamalla, Jill, Susan, or really does it matter who is propping up the cloth-headed-dummy (PG Wodehouse) our POTUS?
And speaking of the cloth-headed-dummy:
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/02/17/biden-makes-troubling-comment-about-minorities-knowing-how-to-get-online-to-register-for-vaccine-n328620
Leftists realize they have a racist president? Not again! 🙂
But, but…Biden has a stutter!! That explains everything: all of his gaffes, incoherent comments, bizarre digressions… EVERYTHING! And if you question this, if you suggest there might be any other reason for any of the above, you are ABLEIST!!
This is now a very common talking point; I have heard it (unsolicited) from liberal friends more than a few times.
One has to begrudgingly respect the left’s ingenuity. How else could one rationalize the President’s disturbing mental lapses AND spin it to bludgeon his critics by using trendy intersectional jargon? After all, we are talking about a privileged, straight, white male who is the epitome of a Beltway insider. What else could they use? Ah yes…Ableism!!
The absurdities will only compound.
om,
Yes, that’s it Biden isn’t contradictory because these aren’t his policies being enacted. I would bet that he has almost no idea what is being done.
The thing I don’t get is why they agree to cart him out for these type of events when the media would just cover for him anyway.
He will be back in the basement for a while.
Every public appearance will be one more reason to pull out the 25th amendment and they don’t want to pull that trigger too soon else Madame Harris will not be able to run for 2 full terms.
I”ll never get this. For the most part the public is very forgiving. OK he/she made a mistake or misspoke.
But this is something Biden/MSM HAD to know for a fact! He just flat out lied and HE and MSM knows it.
This is why politicians and the press are considered scum of the earth today.
How long can Dr. Jill play the Edith Wilson card?
Some have also noted how Harris may be setting up to lead the U.S. delegation at the G8 in June, especially if Biden is still busy playing Mario Kart.
Xiden refuses to condemn the genocidal treatment of Uyghur Muslims. He dismisses it as a difference in “cultural norms”.
Meanwhile… “Wuhan Lab in China is Eligible to Receive American Taxpayer Funding”
https://amgreatness.com/2021/02/17/wuhan-lab-in-china-is-eligible-to-receive-american-taxpayer-funding/
Can’t you just see the headlines if Trump was still in office? Imagine the political firestorm that would erupt.
Instead, all we hear are the sound of crickets…
Geoffrey Britain:
I guess we can safely deduce that Biden is no fan of Sir Charles Napier, then.
From a Fraud-in-Chief to a Mounted-Bank (Harris). Perfect.
#NotMyPresidentJoe proves the caution that a liar has a difficult time keeping his lies straight and the truth a much easier route to follow.
Funny how the mainstream media accepts that Biden is a gaffe machine. Why not just admit that he is a plagiarizer from way back; in other words, he is a liar from long ago.
And we have happy allies now that the mean evil Trump is gone, right? Can’t count Israel because it really isn’t an ally per Biden.
As has been said elsewhere, we are in the best of hands.
May God Have Mercy on The United States, because the bad actors won’t.
Said before the Installation thought Sundowner would be gone by July 1 2021, looking like that date still might be a winner in the pool.
Neo. Love the Napier reference . Not sorry for the guys who loved to watch women burning to death.
The dems figured, one way and another, they could not lose. So they ran a demonstrably senile old corrupt bag man and the least favorite of the nom field for veep. Could be an “in your face” move.
They could have run some kind of a somebody. But perhaps a normal person would not be as malleable as The Swamp needs
When was it first noised about that Biden had a stutter?
I never heard that in the past.
Were people commenting on a Biden stutter when he was in the Senate? Is there some heart warming story from his past about a juvenile Biden repeatedly filling his mouth with marbles and determinedly standing on an orange crate for hours at a time, while reciting the Gettysburg Address and Shakespeare in order to heroically overcome this crippling deficit?
Or is this something recently cooked up?
Gee, that ought to work out great then, when the Kulaks of Kansas inform the Chi-den Administration that their cultural norms include retaining their guns and their bibles, and their heritage of rights and liberties memoralized in the Constitution of the United States.
MBunge,
I think you are right that there is no going back to the old ways, far too many of us are onto the ruse, and I also agree that some in the media may not yet understand this, but I think we may be close to the way things will be, post transition.
In the early days of the Internet it was fairly widely known that this new form of connection and communication would disrupt retail, music, print journalism, written communication and other industries. Even when most of us were still using physical modems to connect to the world wide web, it didn’t take a futurist to see massive changes coming. But it was difficult to predict how, when and who would be the disruptors. The music industry was the first to be turned upside down. Print journalism came next. We are in the midst of the transitions in retail and visual media.
Let’s look at print journalism. Many folks now get news from blogs, like this one, or news aggregators like Instapundit. Newspapers used to get most of their revenue from ads. Facebook and Google have sucked up all that ad revenue, and a lot of newspapers have gone away. As well as a lot of journalists. However, some outlets are surviving, and thriving, from subscriptions. How does this change their business model?
Let’s take the Chicago Tribune. It was always left leaning, but, as Michael Jordan may or may not have said, “Republicans buy sneakers too.” The larger the circulation, the more you can charge advertisers for space in the paper. So the Tribune used to shoot for a blander tone that didn’t offend too many people. If you remove ads as a viable revenue source, how do you make money? Subscriptions. And how do you keep your subscribers? By pleasing them. Look at the New York Times or Wall Street Journal as newspapers that have successfully navigated this shift.
Because video takes a lot more bandwidth than text, broadcast media is lagging print media in this shift. Maybe Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper haven’t forgotten how to be journalists, maybe this shift (and their bosses and marketing departments) is pushing them to change the way they present the “news.”
These people are so shameless that their nonchalant lying almost fails to rise to the level of “deception”.
Soon they will be wheeling out an inert Biden preserved in a large cylindrical tank of alcohol for press conferences, as Kamala Harris casually stands just outside the spotlighted area, old fashioned C.B. microphone in hand, answering prearranged press questions relayed by Jen.
Jen, reading from a print out, addresses the alcohol filled glass tube containing the president: “Here’s a good one from the New York Times, Mr. President. ‘What’s your favorite color?’ ”
Harris, clearly if dimly visible just outside the spot lit area, answers by pressing the button of her hand set and announcing, “This administration affirms and celebrates all colors and all the peoples that make up the humanity represented by them. Be they black, or brown, or yellow, or red, they all make up the rich tapestry of our collective, and I do mean “collective”, humanity. I should note here, that Science has proven that “white” is not really a color at all but constitutes the surface that refuses to be penetrated by color, and thus arrogantly rejects all colors. You may draw your own conclusion as to what this means in terms of our collective identity as human beings. Over to you good buddy'”
Jen: “Thank you Mr. President. And now a question on the horrible resistance met by your wonderful new executive order lowering the age at which mandatory practical pan-sex-mentoring and training must be undergone by young persons to 7. This, from MSNBC anchor …”
No govt. or political party in world history has had a more potent, effective and widespread propaganda arm than present day democrats here in the USA.
Stalin and Hitler had only radio, newspapers and “news” films shown prior to a movie at theaters.
The demokrats today have social media, TV, radio, newspapers, magazines and “press conferences” to get their message out there. The ultimate goal of this is obvious; thought control of the masses.
The compliant and deferential media ask mostly “approved” questions and a “tough” question from the media is:
” Bidet has previously said his favorite ice cream flavor was vanilla, but he was seen having a strawberry ice cream cone;” has Bidet abandoned his vanilla ice cream strategy that he campaigned on?”
To which the Minister of Truth, Psucki responds, ” Let me circle around to you on that, but note we have the first female Treasury Secretary in US history.”
To which the reporter responds.” OK, thanks for that clarification.”
The media is fully aware of what they are doing; they are promoting a political agenda that conforms to theirs. And towards that end, they will do and say anything.
And a very large % of the people will believe and trust the media.
Yep, propaganda works very very well.
It is the censorship of the social media which will kill the USA.
Never forget that, starting with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, none of them attended college for even a year. None of them are practicing Jews or Christians; they are unbelievers. They are as ignorant as stopped clocks. They have zero knowledge of ethics, philosophy, history.
I am presently reading, in my old age, a book, “Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law”, by a Univ. of TX in Austin prof. of government and philosophy (!) named “J. Budzisewski.” It is absolutely striking how the thinking of Aristotle (ca. 350 BC), who with Thomas Aquinas and John Locke forms the spine of this writing, and survives to this day.
It may be that Biden’s dementia-like symptoms are not owing to Alzheimers’ or Parkinsons’ or Lewy Body Dementia or Senile Vascular Dementia. I.e. they may be not progressive with age. The reason I say this is because he did have two brain operations in 1988 for what are called Berry aneurysms, one of which was slowly hemorrhaging, causing a lot of neck pain. These are small weak spots and dilations in the arteries just under the hypothalamus at the base of the brain, called the Circle of Willis. It’s where the carotid and vertebral arteries come together. Most people do not survive when these bleed. So Kamala may have more time to wait than we all think. When surgeons incise the brain for any reason, synapses and their associated memories are disturbed. I recall many times listening to him in his Chairmanship role in the Senate Judiciary Committee. I thought he always sounded oddly nonsensical and sometimes illogical….as now. It was not consistent. Just sometimes.
For some reason, his mood seems remarkably unfazed by all his earthly trauma. Of course, this could mean something too.
DNW:
Not a recent story. An old story.
@Skip:Said before the Installation thought Sundowner would be gone by July 1 2021, looking like that date still might be a winner in the pool.
July 2023. Ms Harris would like to have 2 1/2 terms as President and not 1 1/2.
I think it is possible for her to act as President under the 25th Amendment and still serve two full terms under the 22nd.
dnaxy
raises good points, with the unstated facts that about 40% of berry aneurysm ruptures are fatal, and a majority of survivors have permanent neurologic deficits.
Having that surgery (in a tough anatomic location) in 1988 had worse outcomes than today, I’m sure.
I had forgotten about Biden’s aneurysms, and I agree with dnaxy’s thesis.
It raises the prospect that we have a malign, brain-damaged but durable tyrant in the White House.
He may in fact have a frontal lobe syndrome from his surgery. Look it up. There are too many features to list here, but some apply to Biden.
“a very large % of the people will believe and trust the media.
Yep, propaganda works very very well.” JohnTyler
A larger percentage of the people distrust the media’s propaganda, demonstrated by Trump receiving (and by a considerable amount) more votes than any prior incumbent.
And, as the left’s actions refute their claimed motivations, that % is growing, if in fits and starts. Demonstrated by a significant amount of minority voters, voting for Trump. The #WalkAway movement is also growing because you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Finally, the democrat’s solutions are going to bring a massive amount of economic pain and cultural disruption to the public’s lives. We’re headed for a period of economic depression/inflation and they won’t be able to credibly blame Trump. When they do that anyway it’s going to further decrease their credibility. Add to that the vision of razor wire surrounding the former Capitol now known as Fort Pelosi and you have the worst imaginable “optics”.
dnaxy; Cicero:
Medical question here. Biden had his surgery decades ago, but his more noticeable cognitive decline is fairly recent. How does that factor into the idea that the aneurysm surgery is to blame?
Cicero,
I have never understood the Steve Jobs worship. He exploited Steve Wozniak (the true brains of the outfit) and many others in his life. It seems he may have turned a corner towards the end, and I hope he did, but I wonder if most folks who worship him really know anything about his career and how he treated his workers and those close to him.
“I have never understood the Steve Jobs worship.”
I would guess a lot of midwits fall in love with the idea of Jobs as this philosopher-king hybrid of hippie, corporate animal, and style icon. It’s basically what far too many upper-middle class knowledge workers conceive of as their ideal. Bonus points for Jobs not appearing to be a real super-brain, which makes him a more attainable fantasy.
Mike
I think it’s a tactic, afforded the Ds by the overwhelming partisanship of 90+% of the media.
Joe makes outrageous claim contained within his usual word salad. Quote, especially video, pushed far and wide by uncritical media. When called on it, tap dance around it, knowing that only a minor portion of the populace will have heard of the criticism, and all of those will be inundated by “explanations”. The target demographic, the LIV, swallows it. Mission accomplished.
It’s not just Biden. The bald-faced lie has become the Ds favorite rhetorical device.
“Let’s take the Chicago Tribune. It was always left leaning”
Actually many decades ago it was right leaning as was the LA Times. That was one thing that kept some balance in the media. While reporters have usually been on the left, many publishers (not all) were on the right and it was reflected in the editorial pages. The ChiTrib and LAT were founded by self-made men at a time there was fierce competition in the newspaper business so they had a healthy respect for free enterprise. But the papers were passed to heirs who never had to work a day in their lives so were guilt-ridden liberals, reinforcing the politics of the reporters. I do agree Rufus with your general point about the forces now driving media bias.
Thanks, FOAF. Was the SunTimes the counterbalancing left leaning paper back in the day, then? We were always a SunTimes family. I never asked my folks why.
MBunge,
I think a lot of folks believe he was an engineering and electronics genius. No? I mean, I know he was not, but don’t many folks think that?
TommyJay,
The Tucker Carlson clip made my day, thanks.
I don’t know Rufus, I’m not from Chicago though it makes sense that the Sun-Times would take a position in opposition to the Trib. The Trib’s former conservative/Republican leanings were well known, think of the infamous “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline that came from the Trib.
“I think a lot of folks believe he was an engineering and electronics genius.”
I don’t think “computer genius” is how people see Steve Jobs. That’s more how they see Wozniak or Bill Gates. I think the image of Steven Jobs is “Big Idea Guy” and there’s nothing people with excess education and a lack of success love more than imaging themselves as “Big Idea Guy” because “Big Idea Guy” doesn’t actually have to be that smart. He’s doesn’t have to spend years or decades mastering areas of knowledge or expertise. He doesn’t even have to necessarily succeed or achieve.
“Big Idea Guy” just has to “think outside the box” or “shake things up” or “challenge the system” and if he fails, well that just means the world wasn’t ready for him.
Look at Warner Brothers. At a time when movie theaters, a key source of the company’s income for generations, are facing perhaps the worst economic conditions in their history, Warner is deliberately making things even worse by putting all their 2021 releases on its HBOMax streaming service simultaneously with theater release. Why? Because some “Big Idea Guys” at Warner have decided that “streaming is the future!” Full stop. End of discussion.
And what’s going to happen to those “Big Idea Guys” if, five years down the road, the movie theater industry has collapsed or at least shrunk by 20 to 50 percent AND HBOMax is a flop? Nothing. They’ll either have moved on to their next job or get a “golden parachute” that means they never have to work again.
Mike
Every now and then in business you come across someone with serious issues who has managed through sheer luck or some kind of Taoist go-with-the-flow-don’t-fight-it insight managed to leverage their dysfunctions into great success and fortune. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Steve Jobs.
Horrible, horrible messed up person by all accounts. But what he wrought! Cribbing from Sir Christopher Wren’s tomb in St Paul’s: Lector si monumentum requiris circumspice. Or at least look down 🙂
And since one must speak well of the Dead, one great thing about Jobs is that he wasn’t woke and absolutely would not play footsies with the woke. Unlike the creepy lizard person who succeeded him at the helm.
Pravda does not fact-check his spokespersons either.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2021/02/17/wh-spox-refuses-to-answer-question-about-using-covid-relief-money-to-fund-abortion/#comment-5273400195
Q:”Can this administration right now guarantee that if the American Rescue Plan is passed that no tax dollars will go the abortion industry?”
Since Psaki would not give a straight-forward answer to the reporter’s question, the obvious conclusion is that Planned Parenthood is one of the community health centers that will get funding.
As a commenter there said:
As long as we are sitting in for the fact-checkers who are taking the next four years off:
https://libertyunyielding.com/2021/02/17/biden-stimulus-will-shrink-economy-in-the-long-run-researchers-conclude/
“Although it is economically harmful, Biden’s stimulus will probably help the political fortunes of the Democratic Party. That’s because the stimulus plan’s beneficiaries will be told or learn that they are beneficiaries, while its more numerous victims often won’t know what harmed them. People harmed by the stimulus often won’t be able to tell that they lost their job because of the stimulus rather than because of something else, like an economic trend. Citizens often won’t be aware of the fact that the stimulus plan is why they are paying higher prices or local taxes than they did before.”
FOAF, yes, and the same (perhaps, especially) for “Time” magazine, etc., etc.
One wonders if they have come to the conclusion that INSANITY is the new business model and that going bats**t crazy is required for financial success….
(On the other hand, no matter how unlikely, maybe they have become true believers….)
I was tempted to add that great quote by Ben Franklin — unless it was by de Toqueville — well, Reagan certainly used it.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.”
Misattributed all the way around, but it’s still a great (and true) observation.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler
Tytler didn’t say it either, of course.
At this point I think it is clear that we need to find out who is the power behind the throne, because it sure isn’t Biden. I think resort to the 25th Amendment is coming and that we ought to be considering who Harris is going to select as her VP.
Video for the “insurrectionists”.
“Mostly Violent”.
https://youtu.be/tEbF43GlsUA