Posted on 08/03/2020 6:47:44 AM PDT by street_lawyer
Readers of the WSJ are smart enough not to be fooled by liberal view point hidden messages, but it would be nice, especially now that the democrats have gone full communist mode, for the WSJ to start a campaign of exposing the individuals in the republican party who must be voted out of office because they are not joining Trump in his efforts to expose the deep state and the hypocrisy and corruption of democrats. The Journal could also find a way to reach moderates who read the publication and move them further to the right.
It is important for conservatives to be as far right as the democrats have moved left. To reiterate for emphasis lest it be overlooked. We do not have far right radicals with conservatives in between them and moderates. That’s a ploy to either embarrass and silence right thinking individuals, or it is a confirmation that being GWB like is how a “real” conservative act, talks, and does not respond to criticism.
The problem with the WSJ is that it is stuck in what used to pass as conservative opinion but is no longer enough to overcome the opposition. The Journal has not put up roadblocks and guard rails to channel conservatives. It has not fearlessly stood its ground to prevent the slippery slope into a China centered domestic policy. It could have been antidote to a media which has pressured WSJ readers who are CEO’s of multinational companies to donate millions to Black Lives Matter and support the China centered policy positions of the democrat party. WSJ has not been ahead of the wave of China centered policies that has now engulfed the nation. But others were.
Many authors have published books for several decades warning about China, the devaluation of the Dollar, the unsustainable national debt, inflation, deindustrialization of America, and other topics that were not taken seriously by the WSJ. So-called conservatives accused Glenn Beck when he was a FOX of being a fear monger, an opportunist and a flake. Only he got it correct 100%. Beck was awake while the WSJ and others were asleep.
My opinion of the WSJ is not recent. I have been comparing the WSJ to authors of more than 50 books, beginning twenty years ago just prior to GWB running for office. As the slide into a China centered and now full blown cultural socialist nation was occurring, the WSJ was talking about rearranging the chairs on a nation sinking into a sea of propaganda by the national media, foreign government influence, and global governance. The WSJ was authoring article about how the Freedom Caucus was standing in the way of bipartisanship bills, such as the first government stimulus, when the Caucus stood its ground. Republicans (read RINO’s) and democrats in Congress responded by not only closing the government but were successful in blaming conservatives. And this included the WSJ.
This is a quote from a more recent WSJ issue entitled “U.S. Government Shutdown Enters Fifth Day”
“The majority of Americans don’t think a #TrumpShutdown is good policy, and it’s unfortunate that it continues during this holiday season. It’s time Trump and the Republicans re-open the government now!” Democratic Rep. Doris Matsui of California tweeted on Wednesday."
You might say, that it was not the opinion of the WSJ. It was the opinion of Democrat Rep Doris Matsui. Still the WSJ repeated the message unnecessarily without any pushback. In fact, it was worse. The WSJ instructed its readers with this quote:
“I am all alone (poor me) in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come back and make a deal on desperately needed Border Security,” Mr. Trump tweeted earlier this week. “At some point the Democrats not wanting to make a deal will cost our Country more money than the Border Wall we are all talking about. Crazy!”
I doubt the WSJ would have included this quote except that it makes Trump look like a cry baby “(poor me).” In case you missed it, the democrats were being reasonable but Trump AND House Republicans (read Freedom Caucus) were the obstructers.
"The shutdown, the third of the year, started early Saturday after Mr. Trump and House Republicans upended a bipartisan Senate agreement to fund the government through Feb. 8. The president has indefinitely delayed his holiday trip to Florida as the White House negotiates with lawmakers."
There can be only one conclusion: WSJ is not conservative by today’s standards, and it certainly is not a Trump supporter.
Uh, NO
Occasionally.
Closer to journalism that the NYTimes, but to answer your question: No. It is not worth the price of pay-wall admission.
But it has conservative leaning articles every now and again.
They have some conservative elements in their opinion section, but overall the answer would have to be no.
And they did recently withstand calls by the left to censor their conservative opinions they do deliver, so there is that.
I know a bit about this as I worked for a competing conservative paper.
ONLY their OPINION PIECES are supposed to be conservative. Just that one column. the rest of the paper is not.
They agree to have a “Chinese all” between the two seas of the paper. So you may see varying views at times.
only if you put “neo” in front of “conservative”. Even then, it’s a close call.
I appreciate knowing your opinion.
Have you ever seen Paul Gigot on Fox on Saturday afternoons? A bigger globalist milquetoast I’ve never seen.
Not a chance in hell!
Their opinion section can be conservative. But it can be greedy globalist. They can be war mongers. And they can advocate for large defense spending while also lamenting any spending. They basically have traditional conservative talking points when it suits them.
Right now our biggest problems are anarchists, Swamp, China, and lock downs. And while trump is fighting these things, the WSJ is often fighting Trump because he is not as pure as they would like.
No.
The Editors are Corporatist, Globalist, and Pro Infinite Illegal Immigration. PAUL GIGOT SUCKS SOROS’ D***!
The News is moderate to mildly liberal.
Hillary-Hatred Derangement Syndrome
Dorothy Rabinowitz Sept 29, 2016
Very shortly prior to the 2016 election Trump as the republican candidate .Rabinowitz joins the chorus of moderates in doubting that Trump could build any part of a new wall. She was totally wrong and only fed into the democrat narrative that Trump could not deliver on his promises.
“No one has the heart, by now, to pretend that such a wall will actually be built, but that’s all right with Mr. Trump’s dauntless fans, who can find plenty of other reasons for their faith in him. “ Not exactly a full throated endorsement of Trump’s candidacy by Rabinowitz.
She accused Trump of a “darker aspect” of his character, his “disregard for the truth”, and his “self-obsession,” and “ignorance.”
They represent “Wall Street” not Americans.
Especially American workers. Mom and Pop who get up and go to work every day to feed their families.
No, they have long been the mouthpiece of Bush League Republicans who are in reality Democrats wearing R jerseys for camouflage.
Globalists all.
The schism between WSJ’s reporting (largely standard MSM approach) and the editorial page (mainstream conservatism, if somewhat offended by Trump) has gotten so bad that the edit page offered a commentary on this last week. It seems the reporters were complaining that the editorial page contradicted their reporting. This of their news coverage as standard propaganda on Oz the Great and Powerful and their editorial page as Toto pulling back the curtain to expose the little man working the levers.
The editorial page is generally conservative. The news articles are still liberal though. It’s just a question of who writes them.
As Rodney Dangerfield said when asked "How's your wife?" I'd say here "Compared to what?"
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