Posted on 08/15/2016 8:27:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Clinton Media have gone from malfunctioning to mad, from “dishonest” to deranged. Their coverage of the 2016 election is no longer tinged by liberal bias, but is about moving viewers and readers into a parallel universe, an alternate reality of the media’s making.
The media monolith’s latest imbecility is to offer effusive plaudits for their candidate, Hillary, because this life-long politician whose ill-gotten gains have come via the political means, not the private productive means, has released her tax returns for 2015.
This is something Donald Trump has yet to do—for the candidate is under audit and has been advised to refrain from doing anything that’ll give the most corrupt and dangerous of government agencies a lien on his assets—or liberty, for that matter.
Befitting an arm of our technocratic managerial state—the Internal Revenue Service regularly criminalizes the actions of "non-compliant" victims, even when the alleged crime is, more often than not, unintentional. And it matters not that the "Rights of Englishmen," bequeathed to the American Founders by their philosophical forbears, stipulated that there is to be no crime without intent. Also unconstitutional is ex post facto (or retroactive) law. Yet the rogues at the IRS routinely change laws as they go, and criminalize "actions that were legal when committed."
Lest anyone forget, the IRS is famous for unleashing its corrupt kleptocrats—Lois Lerner is exhibit A—on innocent tea-party and 9/12 patriots in order to, very plainly, destroy them.
Oh yes there is.
Clinton will never be perp walked for flouting state secrecy laws, much less audited, or, conversely, criminalized by the IRS in the course of an audit. Were he merely to be accused of tax violations; Mr. Trump is certain to be destroyed by both political factions.
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty," forewarned Thomas Jefferson. When it comes to the IRS, Jefferson's bar has been met. Trump needs to be very afraid.
From the glowing reports about Clinton’s tax releases we learn, too, that as charity, “The couple gave $1 million to their private Clinton Family Foundation,” which is, the media monolith asserts forcefully, entirely “different than the Clinton Foundation that has been the subject of scrutiny.”
If you say so.
Before the Trump tax onslaught came the unnerving specter of Trump Tower being scaled by a man seeking “a meeting with the candidate.” Sticking to its mandate to disregard or downplay the real dangers to Mr. Trump, the media collective saw nothing remotely ominous about a man with a kitbag, willing to risk death by climbing to the candidate’s abode. It was all quite droll really.
Conversely, the same sorts hollered “assassination” when Trump (who has a record of speaking incoherently) made an inarticulate, but straightforward, comment regarding the power of the gun lobby and its vast constituency (you and me) to stop the Clinton agenda.
Certainly every Ordinary Joe with a funny bone in America chuckled at Trump's Russia repartee—the call for Russia (or any hacker) to locate Hillary Clinton's missing emails. Trump’s tongue was obviously firmly in his cheek. But to media, this well-aimed barb about Hillary’s carelessness with classified email was a signal to develop a storyline about Trump as … a Russian sleeper, the inspiration for the FX spy series, “The Americans.”
Still on the topic of spies, Iran has executed an American asset in an act that appears linked as effect to cause to Hillary’s infamous emails. Poor Shahram Amiri had the misfortune of being discussed by the secretary of state’s staff on her insecure server. The correlation between Amiri’s demise might not be as strong as the Iran ransom-release cause-and-effect; but it deserves serious consideration.
Not according to Cable Clinton. Those who wondered whether the Iranian nuclear scientist executed by Iran for treason might have lived, if not for Hillary’s recklessness, were quickly dubbed conspiracy theorists.
Trump remained jovial and full-of-life at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where a baby with big lungs was disturbing the peace. But the deadpan zombies under discussion panned him for his alleged anti-baby comments. Trump, who really does have the most resilient of temperaments, simply shrugged and coined a funny term: Pavarotti Baby.
To borrow from a phrase Trump repeats a lot—even more so than the Second Amendment, reality is “under siege” by a colony of cretinous correspondents and commentators.
Thank God for the government run school system, eh, Libturds? If it wasn't for generations of uneducated boobs out there, no DemocRAT would have a chance at winning office anywhere within the cozy confines of The United States of America.
Hillary using her “willful suspension of disbelief’ ?
“The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers... [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.” —Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers 8:632
As Yakov Smirnoff would say: “In America media builds Potemkin Village for people.. in Soviet Russia, people build Potemkin Village for the media”
I wouldn’t laugh
>>a parallel universe<<
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Precisely.
That is why we have to change tactics. Screaming about Hillary’s corruption is like speaking louder to a person who speaks no English. It’s not going to get the point across . . . just make them mad.
That’s why I think Trump needs to start creating his own alternate reality (albeit realistic). But it is still so different from current-day America that it may feel like a fantasy.
That is perfectly alright! People love a good fantasy.
In Trump’s reality, people have IMMEDIATE PAY RAISES due to tax cuts and multiple job opportunities, and a HUGE UPSURGE of FREEDOM due to cancellation of Gov. regulations and cancellation of political correctness.
The bad people can be punished, and the good people will experience the euphoria of FREEDOM such as we have never known in our lifetimes.
It will be the land of milk & honey.
The problem for the Clinton campaign is that they’re trying to measure it by 1990’s campaign rules. Problem: Donald J. Trump is playing by 2016 campaign rules, especially using social media to reach voters in way that completely bypasses the MSM, much to the MSM’s great annoyance. The very fact Trump’s campaign appearances are overwhelmingly popular (they need overflow space at every appearance!) and Trump’s gigantic advantage in outreach over normally-Left leaning social media tells me the MSM view of things might be way wrong.
If a man doesn't read the newspapers, he is uninformed. If he does read the newspapers, he is misinformed.
And especially in America today.
The media has jumped the bias Shark.
Today they have made a criminal out of Manniford because somebody in the Ukraine allegedly wanted to hire him and allegedly set aside funds if this every happened - it didn’t.
Today, the media is reporting this as a potential crime - sheesh. Manniford is guilt of being competent and in demand and the media is guilt of slander.
I spent about 10 minutes daring to listen to Fox News, but had to turn it off before I busted a sprocket. Some dim bulb was complaining about Trump’s dangerously sloppy language. From context, it’s obvious what he’s saying to everyone but the willfully ignorant.
If he had said “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse”, they’d spend days breathlessly reporting that it’s not humanly possible to eat an entire horse, nor ethical, for that matter.
Just call them what they are
The Ministry of Propaganda
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