And that’s a bummer. I want to trust people on “my side” but Salem Media is just as much in the narrative selling business as the New York Times or anyone else.

— Niketas Choniates

Sadly true. Some news sources are more honest than others, some are more reliable than others, but there’s always an agenda.

It’s better to be honest with ourselves about that, as you note. The alternative leads to where so many Democrats are now, trapped in a web of self-deception.

No doubt. There’s the shady things he’s done, and then there’s the things he says to journalists. He seems to present himself as a Forrest Gump like character who just happened to be present at whatever thing it was that’s in the headlines now, and no doubt makes some kind of living at it.

She indeed is an MD. She may not be a practicing physician but the “fake doctor” headline is simply a lie, and PJ Media should do better. The Free Beacon headline accurately described her, but PJ Media decided to lie.

And that’s a bummer. I want to trust people on “my side” but Salem Media is just as much in the narrative selling business as the New York Times or anyone else.

Though Pernell does have an M.D. from the Duke University School of Medicine and completed a residency with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, her LinkedIn page does not mention having treated patients.

Nope. But now I do.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/haftar-hemeti-and-lobbyists-libya-connection

More like a guest villain on burn notice

Ben-Menashe sounds like an exceedingly shady character.

The accusation that Robert Maxwell worked for Mossad originates from the same person who accused Epstein of working for Mossad, Ari Ben-Menashe, a former member of Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate. He does not seem to be a particularly reliable source, though antisemitism seems an unlikely motive for his accusations.

When fifty or five hundred outlets all say the same thing, it can sound like there must be something to it, but a lot of times they are just all getting it from the same place.

I assume you caught that, aside from acting out Nilsson’s song, that skit was also an homage to Maurice Sendak’s, “Where the Wild Things Are?”