Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Behold another banner week for the heroes of our intrepid mainstream media, that motley collection of pompous and obnoxious incompetents, perverts and – at the risk of repeating myself – liberals. In just the last few days we’ve seen how a major media personality got his network to build him a creepy sex lair in his office and watched as a flat-out lie tanked the stock market – well, not really “tanked,” since the Trump Boom is still booming, though the media is loath to report that fact since prosperity wrecks the official Trumpocalypse narrative. And next week, if (when) the guy the liberal media tried to paint as Judge Jailbait beats the guy the liberal media tried to cover for by not reporting how he thinks abortions are cool up until a kid gets his learner’s permit, the liberal media will take yet another well-deserved failure lap.
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The mainstream liberal media is primarily composed of stumblebum leftist jerks who want all the glory and respect due a caste of objective, moral truth-seekers, yet who don’t want to do the hard work of actually being objective or moral or seeking the truth. “I can’t pass, and I can’t tackle, and practice is really a hassle, but I’m wearing a sportsball jersey so I want your adulation and a Super Bowl ring!”
Nah. They think we owe them respect and trust when all they’ve earned is our contempt.
You have Matt Lauer, probably America’s most highly-paid journalist, who “everyone” knew was a skeevy weirdo who’d probably creep out Woody Allen. Well, everyone did know, except us, the media’s audience. Our media overlords didn’t think we needed to know that little bit of information. Some obscure Texas congressmen sends texts of his ancient junk to a girlfriend and, after he dumps her, she gets mad and puts them up on the web? Oh, that’s news – America must know that vital info. But when the flagship anchor of the flagship show on the flagship broadcast network uses his powers to basically build a sex dungeon in 30 Rock – nope, not news. Shhhhh. Matt’s just bein’ Matt. Move along. Nothing to see here. For gosh sakes, look at how much he hates the NRA!
And then there’s Brian Ross, the ABC News goof whose 100% false claim about candidate Donald Trump cavorting with Russia gave millions of mouth-foaming anti-Trump weirdos like Bette Midler doppelgänger Joy Behar a collective Muellergasm at the thought that the Flynn plea might not turn into yet another disappointment. And of course it did. Talk about un-news – they were giddy and, as a real journalist demonstrates, the plea means nothing. They were looking for Mueller to convict Donald J. Manson of mass murder and all Mueller’s managed to do was write one of his girls a ticket for double parking outside Sharon Tate’s house.
ABC’s reporting was totally wrong, but they left the lie out there, knowing it was false, for hours. In the meantime, the thought that Trump might be in trouble trashed the market for a while – funny how investors are terrified that Trump might not remain president. Eventually, ABC issued a “correction.” A “correction?” When you are real journalists, you issue a correction when you misreport that Lena Dunham ate fifteen muffins for second breakfast instead of twelve. When you are real journalists, you issue an apology and fire a bunch of people when one of your meat puppets outright lies.
But, of course, the mainstream liberal media hacks are not real journalists. They are transcriptionists for their progressive masters when they aren’t molesting the interns.
And then there’s the Roy Moore thing. The people of Alabama are told by their urban betters that the media’s claims about him were “scrupulously reported” by the Washington Post, as if that conclusory assurance somehow makes its reporting unimpeachable. Gosh, if the people in the Beltway are impressed, then you rural rubes better abandon the West Point graduate you’ve known as kooky but upstanding for decades and elect the socialist. Because, you know, it’s scrupulously reported.
What kind of nut might think a mainstream media outfit would lie about a conservative who is about the take a critical Senate seat? That’s crazy talk. Sure, Fusion GPS (the group of ex-journalists that manufactured and promulgated the fake Trump dossier) had unnamed journalists on its payroll – gosh, the WaPo and the rest of the media sure aren’t curious about who they are – and yes, WikiLeaks revealed journalists working for Democrat campaigns, but it’s super paranoid nutso crazy to think this Moore thing smells fishy. Heck, no one covers the backcountry of Alabama beat better than the Washington Post, certainly not the local Alabama media that has covered Moore for 30 years and never gotten wind of this bombshell through Moore’s multiple elections! How dare you hicks not immediately accept at face value everything the liberal media says!
If (when) Roy Moore gets elected he ought to send the liberal media a dozen roses to thank it for his victory; their coverage is an in-kind campaign contribution. No one but Moore and his accuser knows whether Moore cavorted with an underage girl or not, but the voters of Alabama have a perfectly legitimate basis to disbelieve the media’s claims – the sordid track record of the media itself. Would the liberal media lie to hurt a conservative? Are you kidding? It does that every day, and the difference is that now we’re woke.
You mainstream media hacks want trust and respect? Maybe you shouldn’t Tweet out instructions to contact Senators to defeat the tax bill like the New York Times just did. Maybe you should stop covering for the off-camera leering and grabbing and pinching of the talking heads who excoriate Trump for misogyny. Maybe you should stop hiring journalists who are ex-Obama flunkies. Maybe you shouldn’t email offers of assistance to Democrat campaigns. Maybe you should stop lying to us. Then maybe voters might trust you. Maybe people might respect you. And maybe you wouldn’t deserve the contempt we normals hold you in.
I still contend. It’s Clinton fainting and falling on her head on camera that will be be the death of her and fake news.
Incredible that the media portrays itself as the judge and jury. The US is terribly divided and the primary question, as I listen to the media talk about the new tax reform, is how much longer can this go on? Our national debt in 2001 was $5trillion. Today we’re at $20trillion. As long as the dollar is still the reserve currency we’re ok but eventually every country on the globe is going to say “enough.” At that point in time, and I don’t think its too far away, the USA will see the real tragedy of our politicians and their minion media.
Rob, I agree, the Chinese are working to break the USD as the currency used to transact oil purchases. The point at which other countries follow China will be the downfall of US fiat currency. No idea when that will happen, but there is evidence that it has begun.
I’ll get slammed for saying this, IMHO the MSM, Democrat Socialists, and Republican Never Trumpers and RINOs all know President Trump has real leadership skills, and that scares the #2 out of them.
Yes Kurt I do agree…..they do suck……
AMEN KURT!!!
The mainstream media has always been dishonest. From the “yellow journalism” of the late 1800s and early 1900s to today’s “fake news, journalism has shown its true (communist) roots.
From the lies about the Spanish-American war to the New York Times’ walter duranty hiding the truth about and denying the artificially engineered and forced communist “famine” in the Ukraine, to the lies about the 1968 Viet Nam communist Tet offensive (a military victory for the South Vietnamese and American troops) reported by walter cronkite as a military defeat, cronkite and his ilk were successful in prolonging the Viet Nam war for years, giving “aid and comfort” to the enemy, who bragged about being supported by the U S media.
Look at NBCs doctoring of GMC truck gas tanks, rigging them to explode, and the deliberate mischaracterization of George Zimmerman’s conversation withe the 911 dispatcher, deleting a key phrase, as well as showing Trayvon Martin as a 12-year-old rather than his more recent “thug” facebook picture.
The media has become a “fifth column” of the government and is not to be trusted.
To our advantage, we now have the internet, which gives the ability for ordinary citizens to be real “journalists”, quite often getting and reporting the story TRUTHFULLY before the mainstream media.
In fact, there are calls by “mainstream media” to “license” journalists, in an attempt to keep these “citizen journalists” out…twenty years ago, any journalist suggesting such a scheme would have been thrown out, but nowadays…
Using a Boys of Summer theme…
If that post wasn’t a dinger knocked out of the park, then at least it was a bases loaded triple off the wall in deep RIGHT center, off the bat of a decent RIGHT handed slugger.But, there shall be no pats on the butt for such talent. Or, claims of sexual harassment would result. Hell, the Skipper can’t even say ‘attaboy’ anymore. The gender cops would demand dismissal, citing favoritism.
Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Prius.
The MSM repeats old lies to bolster the Useful Idiots even when the truth is known by Conservatives. As for the economy, only the stupid buy bonds at rates lower than inflation. We The People have been set up to become a Venezuela by TPTB because they know Debt beyond a point is a death trap for Goy. The Central Banks are pushing Debt to the Moon by printing money to buy worthless bonds and if they slow it, we get killed by deflation; if they continue, we get killed by inflation. This time the Shearing Of The Sheep will be a Slaughter.
The entire MSM is intoxicated with a false belief in their own self worth, and a bloated sense of their power. Idiots. Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.
The Real Rob,
Yesterday I had lunch with my old boss. He still thought that CNN was providing news. I don’t know for sure if the red pilling took hold but he seemed to agree that the MSM has no credibility. Maybe I did some good.
Great rant Kurt.
I quit trusting the MSM back during the early Clinton administration.
Not to imply they were trustworthy before that but that is when I became fully aware of it as alternative communications and news sources started to become available.
Hell yeah! The title pretty much says it all.
One can say all the maybe’s they desire.But there is only one way to hurt them,and that is in the pocketbook. Don’t buy their papers,don’t watch their nightly news. Cancel Satellite or cable tv. If enough of us do that….Then we are truly woke. I have not read a paper in years,have not watched any MSM news in years. I live rural so I put an antenna on the roof. When I canceled the direct tv the women asked why. I told her the programing sickened me,so I put up an antenna. She replied “Well your still gonna see it with the antenna” I said “Yes I know,but I won’t have to pay for it”
DUH! Doesn’t say much for your awareness/intelligence at this point in time!
I watched about 10-15 minutes of CNN this morning while sitting in an airport waiting for a plane. Good lord was it laugh out loud funny. Every story they ran was anti-Trump propaganda or at least had an anti-Trump bias. They talked about him sniffling during an 11 minute speech then dug up some tape from a debate with Hellary where he sniffed a bit. They had quotes from Sanjay Gupta as to what could be medically wrong with him then the big bombshell was they played a clip where he slurred a word. That took 5 minutes. Then there was a story about Russia-gate and how Donald Jr. was grilled by CONgress for 5 hours. They pretty much implied he was guilty and had something to hide and then discused how invoking attorney-client privilege because a lawyer was in the room was not correct. Then after that, I think they m0ved on to Flynn. It was non-stop comedy on that channel. I hadn’t watched CNN in years (no cable) other than the bits I see on Mark Dice youtube videos. I was laughing out loud a few times because it was so funny. And to think they actually take offense at being called fake news?