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Is our media learning

Monday, June 18, 2018

As of late, a few hopeful signs have been springing up in the media’s coverage of the genius and his administration. They still aren’t calling a lie a lie, but they are coming ever closer. Consider this, from a story in today’s New York Timesabout a statement put out in Melania Trump’s name about the Naz-like […]

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Look what I see in my crystal ball

Thursday, June 14, 2018

It appears that Lyin’ Sarah will be leaving her present positionsometime in the relatively near future, though she denies it now.  There is a microscopic chance that she will not get a well paid gig bloviating on one of the cable networks, and not necessarily Fox News. No one will ever mention that she was a […]

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An eternal question

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Why do the cable news networks (and I’m not talking about Fox, where it’s a given) constantly give airtime to the most insane members of Congress? Even when the interviewer pushes back, the mere fact that they put these people on television validates their mendacity. There are sane members of Congress. There are probably even Republicans […]

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The Times reaches for its Thesaurus

Sunday, May 20, 2018

It’s been noted repeatedly across the internets that whenever a white male engages in a mass shooting (and it’s almost always a white male), the American media almost always gives him a partial excuse because he is a “loner”, implying some form of mental illness. We don’t see that sort of mental illness excuse advanced […]

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Hurt fee-fees on the right

Monday, April 30, 2018

Has it ever been thus? Over the last few days we have witnessed what should be a strange phenomenon. The institutional press has rushed to the defense of a woman (that would be Sarah Huckabee Sanders) who works for a man who holds them in contempt. She herself holds them in contempt, and habitually lies […]

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Warren’s future

Sunday, January 21, 2018

This morning’s Boston Globe has a front page article about a problem Elizabeth Warren will have if she runs for president. She will have to defend her claim to Indian heritage, a claim she apparently made based on what she’d been told as a child. The Globe eludes the fact that this can only be […]

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New York Times doing it again

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

The New York Times wants to hear from people who voted for the Very Stable Genius. I’m not providing a link, as I’m too lazy to look for it, but there’s a little box on the letters page today inviting VSG voters to let the Times know how they thing the genius is doing. I […]

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Nazis don’t really care about free speech

Sunday, November 19, 2017

I am going to beat a still living horse, the media’s persistent willingness to buy into the terminology of the right. We’ve grown so used to terms like “pro-life” that even many on the left use them precisely the way that the right wants them used. What brings this to mind, yet again, is this […]

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Worse Than Both-siderism

Monday, October 9, 2017

A lot of left wing blogs vent about the media’s penchant for “both-siderism”; defined perhaps as the media’s reflexive need to assign blame to “both sides” for anything happening in our culture, even when there is no objective basis for so doing. Broadly speaking, the media feels the need to blame both sides for the […]

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Only one side!

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Almost everyone on the left is aware of the “both sides” mentality of the mainstream press. Why, there are some bloggers who specialize in exposing the absurd lengths to which the media will go to insist that “both sides” are equally bad. (I highly recommend driftglass, see one of his many great takedowns of David […]

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