It has occurred to me and many others that the charges the media is currently salivating about against Trump, those concerning Ukraine and Joe Biden and the supposed whistleblower (who might not actually be a whistleblower), may ultimately boomerang back … Continue reading →
Here a tweet from CNN’s Brian Stelter: "The media of our country is laughed at all over the world now," Trump says, looking straight at the White House press pool and saying "You're a joke." What a disappointing use of … Continue reading →
The Times hit piece on Kavanaugh that I discussed yesterday is still in the news, partly because the Times issued an addendum/correction to say that oh yeah, we forgot to mention it, but the supposed victim is reported to have … Continue reading →
You gotta say this about the NY Times: they keep trying. If one lie [*see NOTE below] doesn’t work, they come up with another similar lie and hope that the second lie makes the first lie seem more true. Or … Continue reading →
Here’s a tweet posted today by The New York Times that has since been taken down, probably because they got too much criticism for it: Eighteen years have passed since airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center. … Continue reading →
Snopes may be starting to regret its decision to fact-check the satire site Babylon Bee. The Bee’s response has been to mock Snopes relentlessly. And Snopes provides such a big fat target to mock.
Continue reading →It may seem almost funny to those on the right who’ve been complaining for years (pre-Trump, anyway) about how the right never fights back—but people on the left often say the same thing about the left: that is, that the … Continue reading →
Here’s an interesting Twitter thread: Thread: On Media Narratives 1. Once upon a time, the legacy media controlled the daily news narrative. There were three principal broadcast TV networks which took their nightly news cues from the NYT and, secondarily, … Continue reading →
…is the fact that the Democrats were the party of slavery as well as the party of Jim Crow and segregation, and the Republicans were the anti-slavery party. If slavery is so very central to the entire story of America, … Continue reading →
By now you may have read something about the NY Times’ 1619 Project to rewrite American history as the story of racism. Not just racism as a part of American history—racism as the story, the root of the story, the … Continue reading →
The left has been anti-Israel for a long, long time. And “anti-Israel” is often a cover for anti-Semitism, and a rather poor one at that. The main clues that indicate anti-Semitism rather than mere criticism of Israel are (1) if … Continue reading →
….and is pretty darn pleased with what it sees, for the most part. Just needing a little tweaking to get the narrative right. The link above is to a Slate article about a session Times executive editor Dean Baquet had … Continue reading →