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The politicians and celebrities, and the reporters who interviewed them, weren’t in three separate businesses. They were in three interrelated branches of the same industry of narratives.
It was the media’s job to turn some politicians and celebrities into culture heroes based on their politics. While doing everything possible to destroy those politicians and celebrities with the wrong views.
The politicians were expected to pass the agendas that the reporters and celebrities wanted. And it was the job of the celebrities to make the politicians and the reporters look as cool as possible.
Definitely true about Matt Lauer - my wife’s sister used to be a producer at the Today show many years ago, and she said that not only did everybody know, but that top management had to know as well due to the number of complaints to management, so NBC management’s claims of ignorance about Lauer are complete bullshit. Lauer was a known scumbag, so it was all the more disgusting on the Today show the day after Lauer was fired when Savannah Guthrie and her female cohorts were nearly in tears about what a wonderful, cuddly teddy-bear Mattie-poo was and how they were all in total shock, etc.
Great oped on the grim realities of the left wing Mediots in America and their bosses.
Remember 18 years ago when the pornographer Larry Flynt offered a million dollars to any women who had an affair with a member of Congress?
Hundreds of women came forward to report affairs with democrats - ONLY TO DISCOVER THAT LARRY FLYNT WAS ONLY LOOKING FOR WOMEN WHO HAD AN AFFAIR WITH A REPUBLICAN.
Press liars and pornographers work for the deep state... and the democrat party.
Guthrie wasn’t saving Lauer, she was saving herself and other women at NBC. They were accomplices is his womanizing and that would destroy their images. I think Lauer raped the woman who “passed out” and I also think NBC negotiated a non disclosure payoff agreement with her. Her story is nutty but makes sense if a secret “rape” is factored in.
Thakks for posting.
What about this..
The dims sacrifice a few of their own for the ultimate prize.
It gets out of hand, snowballs beyond their control..
But...
As the dust settles eyes will turn from the left to the right , the prize.
What the sacrifice was done for..
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
What you say cannot happen without going through Quantico, Camp Pendleton, Camp Lejeune, and don’t forget Ft. Bragg, Norfolk, etc. And then you have what’s hiding behind millions of blades of grass.
Not happening.
So obvious it smells. Trump will turn the pack back on themselves to the last dog.
reporters that dont report
Notice how the revelation that the FBI agent Peter Strzok was having an affair was glossed over? How trustworthy can a man be if his private life is consumed with moral turpitude. I thought the FBI was supposed to be staffed by “boy scouts”.
No, we all have feet of clay.
Having an affair is NOT the same as rape anymore than openly dating young women 40 years ago ( and meeting their mothers) is the same as Al Franken feeling up women while they’re sleeping.
Get a grip... Oh, and rape like what Bill Clinton did - it’s worse than kissing a women without ‘permission’.
Shaking a person’s hand it not as bad as slugging them in the face with a baseball bat either. If all ‘ touch crimes’ are the same - there is no crime.
The it’s ‘all the same’ is an excuse for evil... always has been - always will be. Don’t fall for it Thumper.
Wedding vows invariably invoke God or Holy ordinance or some other pledge of loyalty or fealty.
You may call me old fashioned or an anachronism or out-dated or naive. It doesn't matter. I take a person at his or her word. Should that person violate that "trust", their "word" is no longer valid.
Each scandal comes with histrionic handwringing. The media churns with phony thinkpieces wondering how we can prevent a culture of abuse. The answer is as easy as it is hateful to the left.
Bring back checks and balances by breaking up the leftist networks . . .
The First Amendment is another of the checks and balances on power. The press was meant to check the power of political institutions. But rival papers were also meant to challenge each other. Instead the media functions as a consolidated political trust. The same singleness of purpose that allowed everyone in the media to go after President Trump every single day also let #MeToo’s sexual harassment thrive.
The only way to change that is to end leftist monopolies on power.
A progressive monopoly on power doesn’t make the world better. Just ask the victims of #MeToo.
The issue is always, “Who can bell the cat?” Who can disintegrate the “leftist monopolies of power?”My proposed solution, partial tho it inevitably would be, is to attack monopoly journalism at what is, IMHO, its core - the Associated Press. In 1945 the AP was found by SCOTUS to be in violation of The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890
But of course, in 1945 the mission of the AP - the conservation of scarce, expensive telegraphy bandwidth in the nationwide distribution of the news - was still so important that the AP was, very credibly, considered “too big to fail.” And the case brought by UPI against the AP was limited in scope. So overall, nothing really changed.
Now consider the reality in the 21st Century: telegraphy bandwidth is now dirt cheap. With pictures and video, and with a worldwide membership, surely FR alone consumes more bandwidth now than the entire AP did in 1945!
Now consider the torts: all the libeling of American society which defines “liberalism” just as surely as it defines journalism. A lawsuit must be brought under Sherman which will, under the weight of triple damages Sherman provides for, utterly shatter the AP and delegitimate all the “cooperating and graduating” going on among the membership of the AP.
Ping.
Thanks CIC
BTTT
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