Category: Branding
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Maybe Being Wrong All The Time Means You Shouldn’t Be A TV Pundit
Personally, I blame it all on MSNBC. Every time they put a lying asshat like Hugh Hewitt on its air, they cultivate the culture of lying for profit. It’s hard enough to wrap one’s head around the same news network having a great talent like Nicolle Wallace on its air alongside a useless turd like…
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Prisoners Of The Box
TV must’ve seen us coming. There were people who thought – as TV first sparked into being – that TV could never replace radio. That was shortsighted to be kind. And it was said by people who’d been alive while movies were invented and then spread across the planet as the most successful way to…
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There Simply Is No “It” That “Both Sides Do”
Even now – as Republicans alone stand in the way of stopping gun violence (yes, a few Democrats stand with them) – our news media insists that in order to solve this crisis, “both sides” have to come down off their high horses! That’s because “both sides do it” brand journalism insists that every argument…
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Who Are Gun Rights People Soooo Afraid Of? Answer: The Rest Of Us
What must run through the mind of a grown man who feels compelled to strap a rifle to his body before he feels safe enough to exit his house. And, if he has to run into Walmart to pick up some milk and lard? Or his Viagra prescription? That’s going to require wearing the biggest,…
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The Right Relies On Magical Thinking That The News Media Will Present As Real
America lives inside a gun violence nightmare because of magical thinking that “more guns equals more safety”. The tell that this is magical thinking and not reality is that there’s zero data to back it up. Even when a data set sits on their chest and slaps them sillier than the worst schoolyard bully, conservative…
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In Their Defense, Corruption Just Comes “Naturally” To Conservatives
Where corruption’s concerned, both sides don’t do it because both sides can’t. They don’t have the means. Put aside political labels for a second. Ideology may inspire corruption but without the money and power to realize those inspirations, ideology is a nice car without an engine. Those with money and power have the tools required…
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No, You CAN’T Run Government Like A Business Because They’re Two DIFFERENT Things
Thinking you can run a democratic government like a business is as silly as thinking you can run a mortuary like a birthing business. They exist on opposite ends of a spectrum. The mortuary and birthing business may both be for-profit businesses that require extra sensitivity in their workforces, but aside from that, no matter…
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What White Guys Really Mean By “Replacement Theory” Is “We Can’t Compete”
I have to admit that when white supremacist Nazi sympathizer marched through Charlottesville back in 2017 chanting “Jews will not replace us”, I was baffled. As Jonathan Sarna (scholar of American Jewish history, modern Judaism and Israel studies at Brandeis University) points out, “Jews are barely replacing themselves, let alone the white population as a…