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Who believes the MSM anymore?

The New Neo Posted on October 27, 2020 by neoOctober 27, 2020

With the MSM’s differential treatment of the obviously sketchy – and obviously Russian-sourced – Steele dossier versus the much more convincing evidence of the Hunter Biden laptop, the final stake should have been driven through the heart of the MSM.

From Kurt Schlichter:

Take a look at the Hoover Biden laptop thing. We have a computer that the Toast of Medellin gave to a repair man and forgot about because meth-huffing losers forget about stuff. We got his signature on the papers. We got his ambulance chaser demanding it back. We got the testimony of a veteran with a vaguely Slavic name whistleblowing it, and I was told that it’s literally treason to doubt whistleblowing veterans with a vaguely Slavic name (maybe they have to look like a bratwurst in their uniform for this to apply – it’s hard to keep track of the ever-changin’ rules).
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And yet we have Leslie Stahl, a licensed, approved journalist of journalism, telling the president that the laptop revelations are not verified.

No verified? If some hobo on a corner took a break from nadlering all over the streets of San Francisco to tell a passing NYT reporter, “I like James Bond movies and I’m pretty sure I saw Putin paying for Don Jr.’s latte at a Starbucks on Castro Street” we’d see a headline the next day reading “Anonymous Intelligence Insider Reports Trump Family Receiving Payoffs From Russian Leader.”

And then there’s this from Bernard Goldberg, whose long-time specialty has been MSM mendacity:

It’s not their reasoning, dishonest as it is, that’s so annoying. It’s the sanctimony of these journalists that’s galling. They’re not running the story because they don’t want to be participants in a smear campaign that might affect a presidential election – and they want us to really believe that?

Let’s make sure we understand that these are the same people who ran story after story about a fake dossier that was packed with lies about Donald Trump.

They’re the same people who ran countless stories informing us that Donald Trump was a Russian asset.

These are the same noble journalists who gave Adam Schiff more airtime than their own anchors get – all because he said he had solid proof that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians.

So any sentient being ought to recognize that the press is not fulfilling any sort of objective function in our society and in our elections. It is the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. Actually, that’s been true for a long time. But it’s so crystal clear at this point that to deny it would seem like madness.

And yet it happens every day. And the people who still believe in the veracity of the MSM are often intelligent in many other ways. The persistent power of propaganda is vast, and a mind is a difficult thing to change.

That’s what the MSM is banking on. It’s not so much that, as Goldberg wonderingly writes, “they want us to really believe” what they write, despite the contradictions and the obviousness of the bias. They want enough people to believe it to sway the election. They’re not pitching their approach to you or me. They know their audience, and they are counting on the faithfulness and susceptibility of that audience.

That’s why they do absurd things like pretending Biden was addressing George Lopez when he said “four more years of George…George…”, as the Orwellian/Soviet “fact-checker”at the once-proud WaPo claims. The fact that you can easily find the video and watch it, and see that of course he meant no such thing – he was very obviously substituting George Bush for Donald Trump, for a moment – doesn’t matter to the WaPo and the rest of the MSM hopping on board, although you might think it should. They believe that their audience either (1) won’t watch the clip; or (2) will watch it already having been primed to believe what the MSM says about it rather than their own lying eyes:.

The clip is unequivocal, and Biden is not referring to George Lopez (who was part of the panel he was addressing at the time):

I strongly believe that Joe Biden is the worst major party candidate ever to run for president in my lifetime. He is cognitively challenged, physically old as well and looking frail, corrupt, a long-time liar, not very bright even in his prime, wrong about almost every stand he’s ever taken in his long long political career, and will be putty in the hands of the left.

And yet the press is so eager to facilitate his election that they willingly and eagerly cover themselves with even greater shame than before. But then again, they have no shame.

Posted in Election 2020, Press | Tagged Joe Biden | 37 Replies

She put the “walk” in WalkAway

The New Neo Posted on October 27, 2020 by neoOctober 27, 2020

Great WalkAway story:

And here’s another fascinating political change story. I would say “from an unlikely source,” but after reading a good many of these stories, I’ve noticed that a not insignificant number of them are from people who don’t fit the stereotypical demographic of the right.

I suppose neither do I, although not as dramatically.

Posted in Political changers | 17 Replies

Amy Coney Barrett is sworn in as SCOTUS justice

The New Neo Posted on October 26, 2020 by neoOctober 26, 2020

Clarence Thomas did the honors.

Posted in Law | 67 Replies

It’s hard to find laughs in politics this year

The New Neo Posted on October 26, 2020 by neoOctober 26, 2020

But this is pretty funny, especially the Biden parts:

Posted in Election 2020 | 10 Replies

The new whiteness of the Jews

The New Neo Posted on October 26, 2020 by neoOctober 26, 2020

Please contemplate this:

On October 17th, the New York Times published an op-ed celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Million Man March that neglected to mention the anti-Semitic history of its organizer, Louis Farrakhan. In response, former Times editorial board member Bari Weiss tweeted that the institution had adopted “a worldview in which Jew hate does not count.” The author of the Times op-ed, Howard University professor Natalie Hopkinson, replied that “ppl who have become white”—that is, Jews like Weiss—“should not be lecturing Black ppl about oppression.”

Jews can be all things to all Jew-haters: outsider “people of color” when necessary, insider privileged whites when necessary. But the common denominator in these categorizations is that the hate against them does not die. It just takes on different guises. And of course, Farrakhan has always been a spreader of the poison.

Professor Hopkinson is a professor at a traditionally black university, so she’s shaping woke minds in one of the oldest hatreds in the book, under the guise of “anti-racism.” Sweetly Orwellism, is it not?

Here’s her bio:

Dr. Natalie Hopkinson is an assistant professor in the doctoral program in Howard University’s Department of Communication, Culture and Media studies, and a fellow of the Interactivity Foundation. Her work explores questions about the arts, cultural identity and place; postcolonial history, gender, and media. She has been a columnist at the Huffington Post and was formerly a staff writer, editor and media/culture critic at the Washington Post and The Root. She earned an M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Maryland-College Park and her B.A. in political science from Howard University.

From the Quillette article:

For much of the last century, the liberal position on race in America was that we should eliminate discrimination and prejudice, treat everyone as an individual, and award opportunities on the basis of merit. Some groups, like Jews, Asian Americans, and other minority immigrant groups have flourished under this system, but black Americans continue to be represented in fractions of their societal proportions in many elite settings. In response, the progressive view has evolved. Today it holds that treating everyone the same without regard to race is actually racist because it fails to consider the impact of historic and systemic discrimination. In this way, systemic racism is preserved by judging members of historically marginalized groups as less worthy according to ostensibly race-neutral criteria (for instance, test scores).

The writing of Ibram X. Kendi—professor, Atlantic columnist, and bestselling author of How To Be An Antiracist—provides the intellectual framework for the contemporary antiracist movement. Kendi argues that:

“The most threatening racist movement is not the alt-right’s unlikely drive for a White ethnostate but the regular American’s drive for a “race-neutral” one… there are ideas that express hierarchy and inequality. There are policies that create equity and inequity. The other aspect of it that is troubling is that there’s no such thing as a ‘not racist.’ There is only racist and antiracist.”

Instead of “equality,” progressives like Kendi favor “equity,” a system under which jobs and opportunities are apportioned among different groups in shares mirroring their representation in larger society. In his book, Kendi is clear about how this must be achieved: “The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.”

It’s a neat Orwellian trick to substitute “equity” for “equality.” Most people are not into parsing words that carefully, and the words sound so much alike that one can be forgiven for thinking they refer to the same thing. But they most definitely do not. The first corresponds roughly to equality of opportunity and the second to equality of outcome along racial categories.

I’ve written about Kendi before, in particular in this post. His book How To Be An Antiracist presently has about 13,000 reviews, 87% five star and 8% four star. It is ranked number 140 in books (it’s been out for well over a year and I’m virtually sure it has been ranked much higher in the past). Kendi is influencing a lot of people to think this way, and it is a profoundly racist way to think.

[NOTE: And right on schedule, we have a “Jews for Trump” car parade in New York being the target of rock-throwing and other attacks.

Posted in Jews, Race and racism | Tagged anti-Semitism | 57 Replies

A good idea for Pennsylvania vote counting (plus: changing your vote)

The New Neo Posted on October 26, 2020 by neoOctober 26, 2020

Not that the plan would ever be implemented. But it’s a very good idea, and it might actually make for a more fair vote count. From commenter “David”:

Since ballots can still be received 3 days after the election date, can we have a moratorium on counting any votes in PA until all the ballots have been received?

ADDENDUM: Until this year, I had no idea that some states allow you to change your vote. This could actually end up being meaningful:

The laws allow residents in seven states who have already voted for select candidates by mail to change their minds, usually within a specific time frame after the first ballot has been cast. In some states, voters can resubmit ballots several times.

The seven states are Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and New Hampshire. The procedure varies in each, and in Minnesota the deadline to do this has passed (14 days before the election). It often involves requests by mail. In Wisconsin, there are only a couple of days left (deadline is October 29).

Our election process has been purposely degraded and been made vulnerable to massive fraud and/or locking in votes early (before too many harmful revelations come out) under the banner of voter inclusiveness.

Posted in Election 2020 | 19 Replies

You might ask your Democrat friends and relatives where they stand on a post-election “Truth and Reconciliation Commission”

The New Neo Posted on October 26, 2020 by neoOctober 26, 2020

Bringing this to their attention might start a few “interesting” discussions:

A professor at the University of California-Berkeley is pushing the idea for the creation of a commission after Election Day that will target President Donald Trump and all of those who “enabled” him.

Robert Reich, a UC Berkeley professor of public policy and a former labor secretary in the Clinton administration made his argument for a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” this weekend on Twitter as he lamented when “this nightmare,” referring to Trump’s presidency would be over.

The committee, as suggested by Reich, would “erase Trump’s lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe.”

His idea of blacklisting Trump supporters and launching a massive censorship campaign sparked plenty of supportive responses on the left. But Reich later slammed critics in another post, claiming they were “responding to this tweet as if it’s a radical, undemocratic idea.”

Not the least bit radical – no sir, of course not. How could anyone think such a thing?

And as far as “democratic” goes – well, I suppose it would be “democratic” (in the purest sense of the word) as well as “Democratic” to do this if over 50% of Americans agreed with it. And, who knows? Perhaps they do, thanks to the relentless leftist indoctrination in education and the leftist media propaganda to which we’ve been subjected for many years. But if the majority of Americans do believe it, that’s just another example of the brilliance of the Founders in setting the US up as a republic rather than as a democracy in which tyranny can easily take over through a simple majority.

The Democrats are doing their best to fix that little design flaw. They think such a governmental structure was a big big mistake, because they perceive it as having kept them from taking over completely.

[NOTE: I would imagine that some on the left will point out that in 2016, Trump supporters did something a bit equivalent by yelling “Lock her up!” about Hillary Clinton at some of his rallies. However, that was in reference to a very specific charge regarding the emails and classified information, not any sort of general cry to criminalize supporting Obama or boycotting anyone who had been part of his administration. Nor has the Trump administration pursued Hillary in any way except to criticize her.

Imprisoning former elected or appointed government officials (especially those high up in a previous administration of the opposing party) is always fraught with danger because of the banana republic and/or totalitarian implications. Best to use the tool only reluctantly and sparingly as well as very very specifically.]

Posted in Election 2020, Law, Liberals and conservatives; left and right, Liberty, Trump | 57 Replies

In senectus* veritas

The New Neo Posted on October 24, 2020 by neoOctober 26, 2020

* As I strongly suspected might happen, Latin scholars have come to my rescue. They’ve told me that the word “senectus” is incorrect and instead it should be “senectute.”

Posted in Election 2020 | Tagged Joe Biden | 78 Replies

And now a word from Twitter

The New Neo Posted on October 24, 2020 by neoOctober 24, 2020

Posted in Uncategorized | 8 Replies

What motivates Biden voters

The New Neo Posted on October 24, 2020 by neoOctober 24, 2020

I’m going to make some generalizations in this post, of course. But I know a lot of Biden voters, and I’m writing about what I’ve observed.

As commenter “physicsguy” says:

Every Biden voter I know is only motivated by the goal of getting Trump out. That’s it. Harris and Biden’s qualifications, what they will do etc. NEVER enters into their thoughts. They want Trump GONE! In some very strange way that I can’t fathom, Trump represents an existential threat to their psyche.

And as commenter “kolnai” writes:

They’re probably also motivated by their assessment, which they will only admit in hushed tones to fellow partisans, that Biden will be President Potemkin.

I find it difficult to believe that anyone believes Biden will be wearing the pants in the relationship between the left and the American people. His insistence on his own independence from said left – “I beat them” – while proudly adopting the leftiest of them all as his running mate rings hollower than his proverbial foghorn.

I believe the first is the real motivation, the deepest and most basic motivation: get rid of Trump. And I believe the second is the excuse: Biden doesn’t matter because he’s not going to be in charge anyway.

The first is voiced loudly. The second is almost never voiced – perhaps not even in the silent internal voice. But I believe it’s the justification many Biden voters use for attempting to elect an obviously woefully inadequate (at best) Biden.

So, if “Trump represents an existential threat to their psyche” is the real reason, why is that the case? I don’t think it works the same for everyone, but I actually think it is surprisingly similar and that one really can generalize about it.

I was speaking recently with a friend who I think exemplifies this basic reaction. She’s not a leftist. She’s relatively well-informed politically, she’ a lifelong Democrat although not doctrinaire, and she’s intelligent. What she expressed was a personal revulsion that she could not explain adequately – and this is a person who is ordinarily highly articulate and even well-versed in the language of describing thoughts and emotions and how they go together.

But in the case of Trump she was reduced to saying that he disgusts her. When pressed, she added “the way he talks” and seemed to be referring to his insults. And yet this particular woman is not a fragile flower, and is a rather blunt person herself. So it remained mysterious to me.

Finally she added, “He embarrasses me. It embarrasses me that he’s the president of the United States.”

When she said that, I thought “Bingo! That’s the essence of it.” Something about Trump – or perhaps many things about Trump – are simply repugnant to a lot of people. Many are women, but there are plenty of men in the group as well.

Plus, Biden – and Obama as his surrogate (or is it the other way around?) – plays on people’s desire for less discord (these are quotes from Obama’s recent Pennsylvania speech):

And with Joe and Kamala at the helm, you’re not going to have to think about the crazy things they said every day. And that’s worth a lot. You’re not going to have to argue about them every day.

It just won’t be so exhausting. You might be able to have a Thanksgiving dinner without having an argument.

[Trump’s tweets and demeanor] embolden other people to be cruel and divisive and racist, and it frays the fabric of our society, and it affects how our children see things. And it affects the ways that our families get along. It affects how the world looks at America. That behavior matters. Character matters.

See how he touches on the same points that I’ve mentioned – included affecting “how the world looks at America”? For many people, this is on a visceral level.

Posted in Election 2020, Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe, Obama, Politics, Trump, Uncategorized | Tagged Joe Biden | 125 Replies

I sure hope…

The New Neo Posted on October 24, 2020 by neoOctober 24, 2020

…that this sort of thing translates into black votes for Trump:

Morning Reader Data Points:

National Daily Black Likely Voter Job Approval For @POTUS – October 19-23, 2020

Mon 10/19 – 25%
Tue 10/20 – 24%
Wed 10/21 – 31%
Thu 10/22 – 37%
Fri 10/23 – 46%

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) October 23, 2020

I find that last figure hard to believe – not that it’s not warranted, but just that it’s a huge jump.

But as I said, it this amounts to any kind of significant increase in votes for Trump from the black community, that would be enormous news.

Posted in Election 2020, Race and racism, Trump | 21 Replies

I have a feeling that Pennsylvania will feature highly in the coming election

The New Neo Posted on October 24, 2020 by neoOctober 24, 2020

They’ve certainly set it up that way:

Today the PA Supreme Court ruled that county clerks could not reject absentee and mail-in ballots where the voter signatures didn’t match. Politico reports:

“The Pennsylvania state Supreme Court ruled Friday that ballots in the state cannot be rejected because of signature comparisons, backing up guidance issued by the state’s chief elections officer heading into Pennsylvania’s first presidential election with no-excuse mail voting.

“’We conclude that the Election Code does not authorize or require county election boards to reject absentee or mail-in ballots during the canvassing process based on an analysis of a voter’s signature,’ the state Supreme Court wrote in an opinion signed by six of the seven justices, including five Democrats and one Republican.”

The decision seems to be based on the fact that the state Election Code doesn’t have a requirement about this, so one can’t suddenly be added.

And SCOTUS has already ruled that Pennsylvania can allow ballots to to arrive up to three days after Election Day and with no postmark. That already seemed like a perfect setup for fraud. And now this. And in one of the most important swing states of all.

That is no accident, I believe.

Posted in Election 2020, Law | 11 Replies

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