Posted on 12/30/2018 6:24:53 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
All fake news, all the time. – If you still do not believe that our national media establishment is 100% in the pocket of the Democrat Party and coordinates messaging with that political party on a daily basis, consider the following story.
We are now in Day 9 of a partial “government shutdown” that exists over the issue of illegal immigration. Early this week, in the midst of this “government shutdown,” a California law enforcement officer was murdered by an illegal alien who he was attempting to arrest for what would have been the illegal’s THIRD DUI crime. Yes, that’s right: thanks to California’s sanctuary laws, this illegal had already been arrested for and convicted of two DUIs, has known gang affiliation, and despite all of that had been allowed to just get out of jail and roam free on the state’s highways to put more lives in danger.
Anyway, that murder took place four days ago now, and in all that time, not one Democrat officeholder has been asked by one intrepid “journalist” to comment on the situation. Think about that: California has 53 members of the house and 2 U.S. senators, and not one of them has had to field a single question about how they can continue to support open borders and sanctuary laws when their state’s police officers and citizens are being murdered by illegal aliens.
The reason why is obvious: The media and the Democrats are coordinating on a narrative, and that narrative dictates that only Republicans must field difficult questions about illegal immigration. Any “journalist” who violates the narrative runs the risk of being dis-invited from all the best dinner parties. This is not complicated, folks.
Speaking of fake news… – two other fake news stories dominated the fake media this week, and boy, were they doozies.
First, you had the “bone spurs” story. This story, which we’ve heard many, many times before, made a comeback this week, with “new” information. That “new” information came in the form of the two daughters of the doctor who treated Donald Trump for bone spurs in 1968 claiming that her father – who is conveniently dead – told them that he faked the diagnosis on orders from Trump’s father Fred Trump, so that Donald Trump could avoid the military draft in effect at the time.
1968 is half a century ago, for those who are chronologically challenged.
So, first of all, who cares? Other than a bunch of pedantic Millenial soy boys and valley girls staffing the fake reporter desks at CNN and MSNBC, that is.
Second of all, why should we believe these two women? In all seriousness – there is literally no reason at all to believe they are anything other than liberal attention-seekers. They bring with them zero supporting evidence – no documentation, no statements from their father or any other doctor. No media outlet would have dreamed of going forward with this story were it leveled at a Democrat president, yet every media outlet in America has parroted the claim this week.
Third of all, who cares? Yes, that deserves repeating.
The next big fake story of the week came from the pathetic McClatchy News Service, which updated its claim from earlier this year that ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen had visited Prague during the 2016 campaign to hold secret meetings with Russian agents. This story has been debunked more times than the one about the moon landings being faked, but that didn’t stop McClatchy running with an update claiming that …
“A mobile phone traced to President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen briefly sent signals ricocheting off cell towers in the Prague area in late summer 2016, at the height of the presidential campaign, leaving an electronic record to support claims that Cohen met secretly there with Russian officials, four people with knowledge of the matter say.”
Those “four people with knowledge of the matter”? They are not merely anonymous sources – they are anonymous sources being quoted by other anonymous sources, as Brit Hume so ably pointed out:
Brit Hume ✔ @brithume It turns out that the new McClatchy story on Michael Cohen in Prague is not based on intel their sources saw but what their sources’ sources said they saw. The story remains exclusive. https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/28/michael-cohen-prague-mcclatchy/ …
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dailycaller.com 3,741 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy The reason why McClatchy’s story remains “exclusive” is that it is so obviously faked that none of the other fake media outlets want to touch it.
This is the sort of nonsense your President has to put up with on a daily basis. It is intentional, it is relentless and it is unending.
The News Misleadia has taken to lying, outright.
The shutdown is a direct effect of the do-nothing RINOs shirking their duties and thinking they could prove Trump a liar and under their thumbs by trying to force him to sign a wasteful continuing resolution...screw the Dems - this is on the Repub House and falls right into traitor Ryan’s wheelhouse.....I remember when he “accepted” the Speaker position as long as his demands were met.....the other RINOs colluded with him to ensure the Dems got their way as the RINOs tried to act as if they were helpless.
On the McClatchy story the real test is whether Mueller has the so called evidence. I think not. Cohen told Mueller he’s never been in Prague. If Mueller could prove otherwise he would not have accepted the plea he made.
Those “four people with knowledge of the matter”? They are not merely anonymous sources – they are anonymous sources being quoted by other anonymous sources, as Brit Hume so ably pointed out:
Brit Hume @brithume It turns out that the new McClatchy story on Michael Cohen in Prague is not based on intel their sources saw but what their sources’ sources said they saw. The story remains exclusive. https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/28/michael-cohen-prague-mcclatchy/ …
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Bit Hume seems to have some pretty good Tweets even though he seems to be part of the Washington elite.
Bit Hume seems to have some pretty good Tweets even though he seems to be part of the Washington elite.
He maintains his watchability by once in awhile going against the crowd, but in a way that rides the middle....
this is on the Repub House and falls right into traitor Ryan’s wheelhouse.....I remember when he “accepted” the Speaker position as long as his demands were met.....the other RINOs colluded with him to ensure the Dems got their way as the RINOs tried to act as if they were helpless.
So true. He was still in aftershock that he and Mittens didn’t make it so figured he could be the next in line “ candidate” with approval of the cabal...
According to Andrew McCarthy, if Mueller was working on a "collusion" case, he would not be indicting the colluders. He says you save up the colluders, Cohen, Flynn, Papa, Carter and have then testify against the Potus, for collusion. The fact that he is sentencing all these "colluders" for lying, proves, McCarthy says, Mueller's got nothing.
“He was still in aftershock that he and Mittens didn’t make it so figured he could be the next in line “ candidate” with approval of the cabal...”
I think people underestimate his ambition - the play he made to steal the nomination from Trump was legendary, and was only stopped when he was told that if he went through with it, not only would he be destroyed in November (by the Republican base sitting out the election), so would every other Republican on the ballot, down to dog catcher.
It’s great that he’s out of the House, but I really doubt he’s going away.
I said as much 15 years ago.
The American press is corrupt.
CNN - “We pay people to lie.”
You are absolutely right. It’s hard to understand how more people don’t see that.
On the other hand, maybe they do but it’s more comforting to stick you head in the sand.
He’s right. He had nothing.
nope- I’ve been saying it right along ever since obama took office- before he did, liberals and the msm were at the very least, a little coy about their disdain for the right and for morals and for our country, but once he took office, and blatantly assaulted the right at every turn, shoving his lying socialist agenda in everyone’s faces, against our wills, the liberals and msm were emboldened to take the gloves off and not even pretend they love the country anymore-
IF we get another democrat president in the near future, we can kiss our constitutional protections goodbye- the left are just salivating at the prospect of denying us our rights- and we can likely kiss at least some of our sovereignty goodbye too, and prepare to pay through the nose for a natural cyclical event like climate change, which we have absolutely nothing to to do with- unless we do what france has been doing
BUMP
. . . and the reason for that hides in plain sight. Newspapers were fractiously independent, and blatantly about their individual printers’ opinions and POV, until late in the Nineteenth Century.From the beginning of the Republic, news sharing among newspapers was encouraged by the institution of special low postage rates for the mailing of newsprint, but news sharing went into overdrive with the institution of the first wire service (the New York Associated Press) four years after Morse demo’d the Baltimore-Washington telegraph line in 1844. The NY AP went national as simply the Associated Press not many years later. Members (not subscribers, members) of the AP share their stories over the AP “wire,” nationwide - ”the wire” is a virtual meeting of journalists nationwide.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)Late or soon, the continual virtual meeting of journalism over the AP “wire” - and via the other wire services, with similar effect - simply had to result in a conspiracy against the public. It is utterly naive for anyone to assume anything else. By the mid-late Nineteenth Century, people began expressing suspicion of the propaganda power concentration which the AP represented. The AP responded that it carried stories from many newspapers, and those newspapers were (in fact, at that time) notorious for not agreeing about much of anything. So, the AP claimed, the AP itself was “objective.” And that was the beginning (or at least an early expression) of the “journalists are objective” con.What interest do all journalists have in common? All desire to attract attention and be influential. And what better way to do that than to be known for objectivity? This is obviously in the interest of all journalists, but actual objectivity is difficult to the point of impossibility - and even seriously trying to be objective entails the unnatural act of seriously considering the possibility that you are wrong, and that “where you stand depends on where you sit.” So instead of taking the high road, and seriously trying to be objective while restricting themselves to claiming merely to try to be objective, journalists found themselves in a “meeting” which allowed them to tacitly or explicitly agree that
Being dis-invited from dinner parties is the least of it. Any such journalist is ejected from any relationship with any news organization in good standing. To claim to be a journalist while denying the objectivity of the herd is to start a propaganda war with the people who buy the most ink in the world.The "conspiracy against the public” which Adam Smith would have predicted consists primarily of homogenizing the viewpoint of journalism into its natural default. The rules for commercial success in journalism have political implications. “‘Man Bites Dog,’ not ‘Dog Bites Man’,” “If it bleeds, it leads,” and “There’s nothing more worthless than yesterday’s newspaper,” taken together, constitute a filter through which historical perspective cannot readily pass. And therefore what does pass that filter is hostile to conservative thought.
The natural propaganda wind of journalism is toward socialism, and thus “liberalism”, as Rush Limbaugh puts it, “is a gutless choice.” A political party has to exist to exploit that propaganda wind - and they call themselves "Democrats.” They don’t have to explicitly collude, they just naturally agree. Which is not to say that they do not explicitly collude - only that it is unnecessary to try to prove it.
This is how McClatchy covered the Iraq War during President George W Bush's administration:
As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch
A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by at least one-third in the past six months, and that's cut the pay of thousands of workers who make their living digging graves, washing corpses or selling burial shrouds.
-PJ
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