Today in Witch-Hunt Culture
27th March 2023
Fox Nation Wants Boomers to Think It’s Gone Mainstream (Daily Beast) Compared to the Daily Beast, it is mainstream.
Fmr. Attorney General Holder to Psaki: Jim Jordan’s attacks on Bragg are ‘height of hypocrisy’ (MSNBC)
The Neocolonial Oil Racket (Rolling Stone) The term ‘neocolonial’ means that it isn’t really colonial but they want you to think that it is.
‘Biased’ research proposal rejected after professor called trans women ‘male’ (Pink News)
TV news anchor taken off air after quoting Snoop Dogg during broadcast (N.Y. Post)
Mississippi TV Meteorologist And News Anchor Removed After Quoting Snoop Dogg Live On Air (Deadline)
Mississippi News Anchor Off The Air After Dropping Snoop Dogg Quote (Huffington Post)
‘It’s all about trolling’: how far-right influencers are shaping Republican narrative (The Guardian)
AP ‘Fact Check’ Sickos Say Medication Abortions are ‘Safe’ — For the Baby?
The Uniquely American Future of US Authoritarianism (WIRED)
PBS’s Amanpour: Pro-Life Autocrats Here and Abroad and the ‘Anti-Trans Hate Machine’
Prosecutor Admits DC Police Officers Acted As Provocateurs At US Capitol On Jan. 6
A silent whistle If you hear the ‘dog whistle’–you’re the dog.
Top Congressional Republicans bolster Trump’s violent rhetoric (Popular Information)
Trump and DeSantis have the same authoritarian plan to “drain the swamp” Aaron Rupar is the origin of the verb ‘to rupar’, coined by Scott Adams, which means to selectively edit an audio or video clip to make it seem that someone is saying something that he (or she) is not, or to make it seem that he (or she) said something which, in context, says something completely different. Examples are the Charlottesville Fine People Hoax, the Trump Drinking Bleach Hoax, and the Trump Called For Violence on Jan. Hoax.
Trump’s Favorite Extreme Think Tank Is Jumping Ship for DeSantis (Vice)
The gun that divides a nation (Washington P0st) The AR-15 doesn’t ‘divide the nation’, any more than it commits gun crime all by itself; the divide is caused by the people who want to ban it because it looks scary and puts their panties in a wad.
Then They Came for Poirot: Agatha Christie Censored
How Did America’s Weirdest, Most Freedom-Obsessed State Fall For An Authoritarian Governor? (The Atlantic) Helen Lewis does today’s Narrative Media hit-piece on DeSantis.
NBC’s ‘Lopez vs. Lopez’ Shames White Character with Woke Double Standards
STUDY: Be My (Leftist) Guest: How PBS’s False Objectivity Poisons Political Debate
Three LAPD Officers Suing Over ‘Killer Cop’ Site
WashPost Decries TN Republican Mourning Shooting Since He Owns Guns