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The inmates are in charge of the asylum.
23rd June 2020
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22nd June 2020
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22nd June 2020
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That’s becuase protesters are targeting vehicles. The ‘extremists’ in question are trying to escape being pulled from their vehicles and getting beaten.
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22nd June 2020
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The cesspool that is the United Nations Human Rights Council has decided that its top official, a Chilean socialist called Michelle Bachelet, shall “prepare a report on systemic racism, violations of international human rights law against Africans and people of African descent by law enforcement agencies, especially those incidents that resulted in the death of George Floyd and other Africans and of people of African descent.” The “systemic racism” and human rights violations are assumed. Apparently, Bachelet’s task is to write these conclusions up.
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21st June 2020
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20th June 2020
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19th June 2020
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Joe Rogan has called out the liberal media for neglecting to address Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden’s “cognitive decline.”
During an interview on his podcast, Rogan told evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein that media outlets “completely ignored” multiple verbal flubs that Biden has made while campaigning.
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19th June 2020
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19th June 2020
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In our experience, the “objective” media tilt dramatically in favor or abortion advocates. But amazingly, it’s not biased enough for them. NARAL Pro-Choice America released a “media analysis,” a “deep dive” this week on the way journalists cover abortion. They hired the Global Strategy Group, a Democratic polling and PR firm, to do the study.
How flawed is it? Start with how they read the media: “A random sample of more than 300 abortion-related articles were elected for study across ten major news outlets…from January through June of 2019.” It would be much more accurate to pick just one media outlet and read every article. But listen to some of their actual complaints/findings, which are really complaining that the pro-life side gets too much attention:
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18th June 2020
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17th June 2020
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17th June 2020
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As demonstrations continue to occupy part of the Capitol Hill district of downtown Seattle, MSNBC’s Vaughn Hillyard and Stephanie Ruhle defended the occupiers from accusations of anarchy and mayhem on Monday by citing their “very peaceful” nature and their dedication to community.
Hillyard hyped the, “very peaceful week here on these streets” and credited that peace to the city’s decision to abandon the East Precinct. Despite the fact the group calling itself the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest once called itself the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, Hillyard insisted, “this is not some hostile takeover.”
The former Soviet Union was very peaceful, as is today’s North Korea.
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17th June 2020
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Perhaps I need a new category, Today in Scarborough Derangement Syndrome.
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17th June 2020
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This piece in the New York Times is worth reading for sheer entertainment value. By Ben Smith, formerly of Buzzfeed, it is headlined “Newsrooms Are in Revolt. The Bosses Are in Their Country Houses.” With this sub-head: “Those who can afford it left the city, shining a spotlight on class divisions in the media.”
The “class division” is between those who can afford to decamp for the luxury of the Hamptons or the Hudson Valley, and those who have to stay in the city and be exposed to COVID-19. And also, I suppose, work. This is how the upper-media-class lives….
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17th June 2020
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This country is now dead and we must make a new one.
Meanwhile, Thotiana Lowe, a left-leaning writer at the supposedly formerly right-leaning Washington Examiner (owned by the same liberal corporatist who used to fund the Weekly Standard), writes that Columbus was racist and evil so, you know, might as well pull down his statues, too.
The problem faced by Popular Mechanics (and Popular Science and Scientific American and even the venerable National Geographic) is that their business model crashed and burned once the Internet got good. Nobody wants to pay for publications when information just as good is available for free. So they depend on advertising, which means they depend on ‘clicks’, which means they write everything in the standard click-bait formula that you see everywhere today. Which means they get ‘woke’ because the only people who are willing to work for such an organization are progressivism-steeped arrested adolescents who see nothing wrong with importing their totalitarian political agenda into every nook and cranny of life.
UPDATE: Woke Science: Popular Mechanics Instructs ‘How to Remove a Racist Statue’
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16th June 2020
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16th June 2020
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It’s hard to ‘Follow the Science!’ when the science is so bad.
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16th June 2020
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For a sufficiently ‘woke’ value of ‘fascism’.
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15th June 2020
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I guess being a ‘protester’ confers immunity against the coronavirus. Who knew?
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15th June 2020
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15th June 2020
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Bill Maher closed Friday’s edition of Real Time with a hyperbolic rant directed at Republicans on Capitol Hill. In addition to slamming the congressional GOP for always sticking by President Trump no matter what, Maher compared Republican Senator Lindsey Graham to a “slave abused by fat daddy” and warned that “democracy is about to stop breathing.”
I get the impression that Bill Maher is one of those fashionable people who at one time was considered ‘edgy and entertaining’ but has coasted to a crawl where he is just on the fringe. People watch him out of inertia and he gets paid out of inertia, in the same way that certain ‘classic’ black and white films get replayed on late night TV because they are ‘classics’ rather than because they are really worth watching.
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15th June 2020
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So now the left in Britain wants to take down statues of . . . (checks notes) . . . Gandhi?!? Apparently he was “a fascist, racist and sexual predator.” Anyone who read Richard Grenier’s classic book The Gandhi Nobody Knows knew this a long time ago, but I thought his anti-colonial bona fides kept him in good standing with the Intersectionale.
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14th June 2020
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13th June 2020
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12th June 2020
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11th June 2020
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11th June 2020
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Some of us predicted the National Review would run a “Two cheers for antifa rioting” article.
But we weren’t really predicting that — we were darkly, archly suggesting that that was within the realm of possibliity.
Barely.
Well, we should have put money on the actual prediction coming to pass.
NR is now ‘woke’. Let’s hope for all our sakes that it will soon go broke.
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10th June 2020
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10th June 2020
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Morning Joe has abandoned any pretense of being anything other than an abject mouthpiece for the DNC in general, and the Biden campaign in particular.
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10th June 2020
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During MSNBC’s Tuesday coverage of George Floyd’s funeral in Houston, Joy Reid took the opportunity to revise history and push the idea that all the racists became Republicans after the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Reid explained, “It was Lyndon Johnson completing the work that Kennedy began. That act would have been a 1963 act had it been able to go through. But the resistance of white segregationists, at the time white Democrats in the south, people who ultimately moved into the Republican Party in outrage over the betrayal by Lyndon Johnson, who betrayed his region and his race by pushing through the martyred Kennedy’s bill after the martyrdom of so many black men and women.”
Joy Reid doesn’t know much of anything, actually.
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10th June 2020
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It’s all about the Narrative.
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9th June 2020
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8th June 2020
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8th June 2020
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During Monday’s White House Press Briefing, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany dished out another liberal media smackdown with CNN being at the forefront for their actions over the past week and a half not only defending, but condoning looting, rioting, and violence done in the name of the late George Floyd.
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8th June 2020
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No surprises here.
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8th June 2020
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Bias? What bias?
On the subject of running with Biden, the co-host managed the most basic of inquiries: “I can’t let you go without asking have you spoken to former Vice President Joe Biden lately? And what has he said?” After Demings declined to talk about “personal conversations,” Dokoupil hailed the evasion by the Democrat: “All right. Neither confirming nor denying conversations under way. Very well done. Thank you very much.”
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8th June 2020
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As they do.
Former President George W. Bush’s spokesman vehemently denied an article from the New York Times that alleged he would not be voting for President Donald Trump in 2020.
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7th June 2020

“Trump Derangement Syndrome”: Is It Real?
Trump’s soulless nature has done the nation incalculable harm Washington Post.
Trump just showed us what he’ll be like after the election — no matter what happens CNN, so you know they got it wrong.
To Trumpers, the Shared Space of the Street Is an Unprivatized Threat The psychics at New York magazine bring their mind-reading powers to bear.
Zuckerberg-Funded Scientists Want Facebook to Censor Trump Biting the hand that pays them.
ABC Claims Trump Wanted ‘Combat Troops’ in D.C., Ignored Ambush of Cops Well, if Trump doesn’t, I certainly do. With machine guns. And grenades.
George W. Bush Not Voting For Trump In 2020: Report That doesn’t surprise me a bit.
A Smug And Haughty Anti-Trumper Who Is Actually Doing The Right Thing! (Yes, That Pig Is Flying)
White House Denies Widely-Repeated Story That Trump Wanted 10,000 ‘Active-Duty’ Troops To End DC Protests Actually, some Warthogs would have done it.
‘Get Over It’: Mike Huckabee Erupts On Romney, Bush, And Other Republicans Who Aren’t Supporting Trump
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6th June 2020
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5th June 2020
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5th June 2020
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After initially defending publication, the Times now claims the op-ed “did not meet our standards.” The op-ed was the result of a “rushed editorial process,” the paper adds.
But James Dao, the Times’ deputy editorial page editor, says that several editors saw the op-ed before it was published — “including one on the masthead: me.” Dao also says the op-ed was fact-checked. Thus, claims about a “rushed editorial process” and failure to “meet standards” are rubbish.
Dao gets to the heart of the matter when he states he is “sorry” that the op-ed had “this kind of impact on my colleagues.” This, then, is the Times’ new standard for op-eds: They must not offend lefty staff members.
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
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5th June 2020
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Democrats and media outlets like the Washington Post were among the hardest hit by the news, with the WaPo having to rewrite their pre-canned headline once the news broke.
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5th June 2020
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Junk science has a lot of friends in the Lamestream Media.
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4th June 2020
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When Jeffrey Zucker’s CNN settles on a narrative, they flood the zone with employees singing from the same sheet music; seeing as how they have a President to hate.
Such was the case on May 22 when CNN shows spent 90 minutes and 54 seconds heralding a now-debunked study that originally claimed taking hydroxychloroquine while battling COVID-19 could be fatal. Over on MSNBC, the total clocked out at a smaller but still sizable total of 19 minutes and 19 seconds.
For this count, the MRC looked at every hour of live programming from CNN and MSNBC May 22, and, in the case of CNN shows and MSNBC primetime, backed up by Nexis transcripts. Since the study went live just before 9:00 a.m. Eastern, each of the 10 subsequent CNN shows covered the study. On MSNBC, nine shows featured it.
How about coverage of the retraction? As of this study’s publication, MSNBC has ignored it while CNN has only given it one minute and 45 seconds during The Lead with Jake Tapper. So much for Jim Acosta’s claim last week that journalists correct their mistakes.
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4th June 2020
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George Will is just another pseudo-conservative pundit at The Washington Post. He’s Jennifer Rubin with shorter hair. His latest column seals this image, explicitly calling for a rout of congressional Republicans, much to the delight of the liberal media.
Joe Biden isn’t the only senile duffer in Washington.
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4th June 2020
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U.S. Navy veteran Michael White stepped out of a Swiss government plane in Zurich, Switzerland, and back into American freedom, Thursday, after spending two years in an Iranian prison on charges of allegedly insulting the supreme leader. In an interview with Fox News, White thanked President Trump for his release and for making America great again. But neither his release nor his thanks were covered by ABC’s World News Tonight and the CBS Evening News.
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4th June 2020
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4th June 2020
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4th June 2020
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Oh? Like what? Go around hating on white people? That’s not ‘combatting racism’.
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4th June 2020
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There is a movement going on now, believe it or not, to abolish the police. That phrase is ubiquitous in social media and is being taken seriously by many Democratic politicians. What would the world look like without law enforcement? I suppose the Wild West before sheriffs got hired, only way more crowded, with vastly more criminals and a more depraved culture. And of course the same people who want to abolish the local police department don’t want you to be able to defend yourself, either.
The benefit of ‘no police’ is that there won’t be anyone to arrest me when I shoot a looter. So it’s not all bad.
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