Posted on 02/18/2019 4:59:07 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
These particular white supremacists don’t appear to fit the profile. – If you’ve been keeping up with the whole Jussie Smollett hoax, you’ll know that the cat finally rushed out of the bag on Friday, when Chicago police released a photo of the two “attackers” who Smollett had described as being white supremacists wearing MAGA caps and screaming “this is Trump country!” while they assaulted him. Here’s the photo of the “white supremacists”:
Oh.
Turns out these are two brothers from Nigeria who are now confirming to police what some of us have known all along: That the entire episode is a hoax schemed up by an incredibly insecure person to smear President Donald Trump and everyone who supports him.
It’s important to remember that pretty much everyone in our fake news media spent an entire week participating in and perpetuating the hoax, just as they participated in and perpetuated the smearing of the Covington Catholic School kids a couple of weeks earlier. If you want to understand why so many Americans spend their lives in a near-constant state of outrage, look no further than the talking head on your television screen or editorial board of your local newspaper.
CBS news is perhaps the most guilty of participating in this brand of outrage fake journalism this week, dedicating its “60 Minutes” program to airing a puff piece fake interview with disgraced ex-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe in yet another effort to revive the rotting corpse of the media/Democrat “Russia Collusion” fantasy play. It is an absolute disgrace to the journalistic profession – whose own corpse is getting pretty smelly at this point – that a major media outlet would grant so much airtime to the promotion of a book that is little more than a 300-page smear of a duly-elected President of the United States.
Oh, wait, McCabe’s book is more than that, isn’t it? It is actually a 300-page outlining of a coup d’etat attempt that was organized and managed by a cabal of Obama holdovers at the FBI and DOJ. It is an outright admission of high treason, a plan to overturn the result of a national election. In a sane world, Mr. McCabe wouldn’t be on national TV being interviewed by the terminally smarmy Scott Pelley, he’d be sitting at the defendant’s table at a trial before a jury of 12 of his peers.
And we can’t blame the media alone for our state of perpetual outrage: They only do it in their unending efforts to support and provide cover for the Democrat Party, whose entire model for “success” relies on the Saul Alinsky/George Soros tactic of pitting one class of people against another.
In the latest of a million examples of this reality, Heather Nauert withdrew her name from consideration to become our country’s new ambassador to the United Nations late last week due to the constant assaults on her reputation and family from the Democrats and the fake news media. Her biggest crime? She apparently employed an illegal alien as a maid and paid her in cash.
Yes, friends, the exact same people who promote open borders so that all these poor people from Latin America can come into our country and “do the work Americans won’t do” went after Ms. Nauert for employing a poor person from Latin America for “doing the work Americans won’t do”. You seriously cannot make this stuff up.
Nor is the tactic limited to the national media – it is a constant feature in more local media, too. In Texas, out here in flyover country where I live, both the Fort Worth Star Telegram and Houston Chronicle were forced to retract a story from last week in which they accused Texas Republican Lt. Governor Dan Patrick of under-paying his property taxes.
When a friend commended the newspapers for correcting their story, I pointed out to him that no apology would have been necessary were both media outlets not so overly-anxious to smear any politician with an “R” next to his or her name. Indeed, if Dan Patrick were a Democrat, no story would have ever been printed, much less rushed to press without doing the 2 minutes of research needed to figure out that the reason why Patrick’s taxes on his home had gone down instead of up from one year to the next was because he had properly filed for the state’s homestead exemption, a tax reduction program to which every Texas citizen is entitled on their place of residence.
There is nothing to admire in what the Star Telegram and Chronicle did, just as there is nothing admirable about CBS promoting a criminal’s book or CNN and MSNBC spending 24 hours a day, 7 days a week promoting the latest smear du jour. It’s all just a part of the same tactic, the same business model, the same effort to fake the news in support of a favored political party.
When the news media is fake, our entire society suffers. If you want to see the true enemies of the people, just pick up a newspaper or turn on your TV. You can’t miss ’em.
That is all.
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Divide and conquer.
don’t forget the foreign media, especially BBC with its massive reach via BBC World Service. they spread the Smollett rubbish far and wide, in a variety of languages.
BBC carries the same video in almost every link since 30 Jan; like other FakeNewsMSM they us “attack” not “alleged attack” in headlines. in their most recent, however, they have stopped linking their earlier pieces:
17 Feb: BBC: Jussie Smollett had no role in own attack, lawyers say
Police have only said the “trajectory of the investigation” has shifted...
VIDEO: Attacked actor “has tasted brutality of hatred”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47269827
No, they don’t, at least not for me.
I’ve turned it off, all of it, all of them.
I have no further use of televised “news” in my life.
It is the source of government mass mind control in this country, and it’s very effective, but its fundamental flaw is I have control over my tv.
Reject The Narrative.
16 Feb: BBC: Jussie Smollett: Suspects held over attack on actor released
VIDEO: Attacked actor ‘has tasted brutality of hatred’
(bbc links)
Chemical thrown on TV star in ‘hate crime’
Jussie Smollett: I’m the gay Tupac
Police release CCTV in US actor attack case
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47258348
30 Jan: BBC: Empire’s Jussie Smollett: Stars show support after attack
VIDEO: Attacked actor ‘has tasted brutality of hatred’
Naomi Campbell, who starred in the first two seasons of the musical show about a hip-hop mogul whose sons and ex-wife fight over his business, said that one of the most beautiful things to happen to her when working on Empire was meeting Jussie Smollett.
Alongside a picture of the two of them, she called on the Mayor of Chicago to catch the “despicable people” who have committed this “act of hate”...(read the rest)
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-47053406
there is more, but you get the picture.
First time an American has scammed two Nigerians. Lol
I am reminded of an episode of the original “Star Trek” TV series with Michael Ansara as a Klingon commander on board the Enterprise.
An alien entity took control of the ship and instigated strife between humans and Klingons. The entity thrived on the negativity, violence and hatred between the two races.
Only when the two races were able to overcome their inborn animosities were they able to get rid of the alien.
The media and Soros thrive on our animosities.
My late Dad served in the Navy in World War II, in Destroyers, both on the North Atlantic Convoys and in the Med. Had two shot torpedoed and sunk. Shot down a German Stuka that was drawing a bead on him. Spent the last half of the war on Guam.
He came home, married my Mom and went through Journalism School at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I asked him, “Why journalism?” Dad told me that he believed it was the most noble of professions.
Dad spent most of his career in either the Navy or Army. He volunteered to go to Viet Nam to cover the National Guard and Reserve units who were deployed there. There, he got frustrated when he discovered that “the most noble profession” was lying about what was going on incountry to the American People. The chief liar was Dan Rather who told my Dad that “...I might be a Communist, but as long as I am bureau chief, the American people are only going to see Viet Nam the way I want them to see it!”
I miss my Dad, who will be gone 30-years this month, but I am glad that he didn’t live to see the total disintegration and corruption of his once-admired “most noble of professions”!
“In a sane world, Mr. McCabe wouldn’t be on national TV being interviewed by the terminally smarmy Scott Pelley, he’d be sitting at the defendant’s table at a trial before a jury of 12 of his peers.”
In any other world but ours, McCabe would have already been convicted, sentenced and shot.
I am convinced that the media is the #1 culprit inciting “justified” violence, dividing the citizens and creating an unstable atmosphere of unwarranted hatred. I despise them...
The hoax is as good as the truth to the left and minds of mush. A battle in our continuing civil war in America is the 2020 campaign. The left is trying to fracture,shed and divide the Trump coalition.
I graduated from same in 1979. I guess I wish he would’ve spoken to some of our classes. Now I have a hard time admitting my major, but do along with accepting that politicians will spin. My biggest complaints, greatest animus, are against the “journalists” (read propogandists) who have ruined this once-noble profession.
They taught Truth-not-Spin in my day at UW, at least that’s what I learned. But then again, Annie Laurie Gaylor, now head of Freedom From Religion, was head of the Daily Cardinal newspaper then...maybe I was just young and naiive.
P.S. I thought it was pretty funny a couple years ago that when I went online to look at the UW Journalism Department, I kept getting a Warning: Do Not Proceed to their probably infected site. Rest of the university sites were fine.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
I earned a BSEE from the UW in 1970. Required to take three courses in liberal arts, so I chose History. Freshman year had “Freshman English”. Today’s students are basically illiterate, but they feel really good about themselves.
PS: I went back in five years to get an MBA, not for the payoff, but to develop my interpersonal relationship and communication skills. I could see the place deteriorating even then!
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