Today in Witch-Hunt Culture
16th June 2023
Fox News Parts Ways With Producer Responsible for ‘Wannabe Dictator’ Chyron (Daily Beast)
Tucker Carlson Takes Aim at Former Bosses Over Biden Chyron Reaction (Newsweek)
White House rips Fox News as the right-wing channel launches sinister attacks on Biden (CNN)
Scarborough Launches Campaign to Trash Trump Documents Trial Judge (NewsBusters)
DeSantis War Room Posts Bizarre Video Suggesting Biden Is a Groomer: ‘Keep Your Hands Off Our Kids’ (MEDIAite)
I Was a Big Marco Rubio Fan. I Was So, So Wrong. (Daily Beast) Still are.
UN Secretary-General Proposes ‘Global Digital Compact’ To Push Laws Against Online ‘Hate’
J. D. Vance and the Yahoo Caucus (The Atlantic) One of the Cloud People is upset that the Dirt People get to vote and run for office.
First look: Book on Capitol intrigue out in 2025 (Axios) A book by two NYT reporters focusing on Republicans in the 118th Congress. Bias? What bias?
Conservative Justice Gorsuch echoes ‘woke’ historians in railing against historical injustices (NBC News) Just one specific injustice, which the reporter has puffed up to “historical injustices” in general–no doubt a case of wishful thinking. I rather doubt it made him hesitate to join the witch-hunt mob during his confirmation hearings.
‘More extreme, more violent’: experts’ warning over khaki-clad Patriot Front (The Guardian) The so-called ‘Patriot Front’ seems to me to be an obvious false-flag operation by persons on th the Left; they’re the typical proglodyte’s vision of a right-wing Antifa analog that matches nothing one would expect to see in the real world. Even the world ‘front’ is a left-wing term–nobody on the right uses, or would use, it.
DOJ probe into Minneapolis police finds racial discrimination and excessive force (NBC News) My, what a surprise. Cue exodus from Minnesota by police officers.
‘Systemic problems’ at Minneapolis Police Dept. led to George Floyd’s murder, Justice Department says (CNN) Except, of course, that George Floyd wasn’t murdered, witch-hunt to the contrary notwithstanding.
NSA staffer linked to ‘America First’ movement joined Jan. 6 mob (Washington Post) Linked to! That proves it!
CNN Beats Down Penny: “Issue of Taking Things into Your Own Hands”
J.D. Vance, the Senate’s MAGA dealmaker (Semafor) MAGA is the New Nigger, and Semafor is the new Narrative bleat-sheep.
Company Fires Catholic Man for Marking Pronouns ‘Assigned by God’
CNN’s Jake Tapper and ‘Whistleblower’ Frances Haugen Bemoan Free Speech on Facebook
Losing a Battle in Culture Wars, Left Resorts to Intimidation