Category: American News Media
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Dear News Media: Repeat After Me — “Both Sides Don’t Do It, Both Sides Don’t Do It, BOTH SIDES DON’T DO IT!!!”
Maybe our news media’s problem is one of projection. They can’t walk & chew gum at the same time so they assume Democrats can’t and citizens can’t. But, thing is, anyone who isn’t a journalist CAN do two things at once. Some of us can even hold two conflicting thoughts in our heads without our…
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Not Only Don’t Both Sides “Do It”, Both Sides Don’t Even APPROVE Of “It”
Maybe our news media’s problem is one of projection. They can’t walk & chew gum at the same time so they assume Democrats can’t and citizens can’t. But, thing is, anyone who isn’t a journalist CAN do two things at once. Some of us can even hold two conflicting thoughts in our heads without our…
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What Did YOU Do In The CYBER War, Daddy?
Anyone who thinks it takes bombs and bullets to win a war is an idiot doomed to lose every war he ever fights going forward. Please — let’s not that idiot. Call it asymetrical war, call it cyber war. Call it anything you like. Russia is waging it against us regardless of what we call…
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What If The Truth Is We CAN’T Handle “The Truth”?
A core question we each have to wrestle with: what’s our personal relationship with “The Truth”? You know what I mean — the TRUTH: the stuff we know about ourselves (being ourselves) that no one else could ever know or will ever know. The stone, cold TRUTH we all know down deep. Who we really…
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It ISN’T About Politics, Part II: Even For Republicans It Isn’t Always About Politics; Sometimes It’s About Criminal Conspiracy…
Dear MSNBC, CNN & The Whole Rest of The MSM: Yesterday I ranted at you for ascribing everything the Democrats do to “politics“. It’s not true. Some people, when they take an oath of office, actually take their oaths seriously. To assume everyone does what they do for political reasons is to assume every one…
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Dear MSM — No, It ISN’T About POLITICS
The most insidious form of “Both Sides Do It” journalism is its insistence that, no matter what, it’s always about politics. Democrats objecting to Republicans suppressing Democratic votes (they never do seem to suppress votes evenly between Republican voters and Democratic voters) is — in this view — political rather than legal. Those stolen votes…
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Dear TV Pundits: Donald Trump Doesn’t Stop Being A TRAITOR Just Cos He Takes In A Ballgame
So, you’re watching the cable TV news. The on-air team smell blood in the water. Hard evidence keeps mounting that whatever drawer you put the Mueller Report into, Trump’s behavior toward Ukraine is impeachable on steroids. The really astute talking heads — the Malcolm Nances, the Natasha Bertrands, the Nancy Wheeler’s, the Lawrence Tribes, the…
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Dear Journalists: Recognize That We, The News Consumers, Are Your Audience; If We Tell You We Have A Problem With You, LISTEN!
I had a little back-and-forth this morning (using my Mulligan Jesus Twitter account) with the Washington Post’s Philip Bump. Nothing significant. For some reason my tweet annoyed him enough to respond. I view Bump the way I view most journalists – he’s a guy doing a job, sometimes well, sometimes not. I hold journalists in…
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Either Every Vote Counts Or No Votes Count
We need to make up our goddamned minds about voting. Personally, I believe that literally EVERY VOTE counts. In election 2018, according to the Washington Post, in 133 races out of the 4,137 run that election cycle, the winner’s margin of victory was under 100 votes. That’s 3.2% of all races. That would mean that…
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Storytelling For Dummies (And America’s Main Stream News Media), Part 24: How Villains Work
Villains (and by villains I mean good villains) have to play by certain rules — or they can’t be good villains. For starters — villains must have a good reason to be villainous. There are plenty of mediocre villains — Bond level villains included — who seem to have no other purpose in life than…