Tag: Both Sides Do It
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Thank You, Lawrence O’Donnell – The American News Media IS Being 2016 Stupid All Over Again
During the 2016 campaign, the American news media demonstrated remarkable (if not downright shameless) ineptitude. Donald Trump ate the news media for lunch and then farted them out right back in their own faces. And they went all Oliver Twist and asked for more. Please, sir! Fortunately, not every member of the Fifth Estate bought…
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Democrats Govern, Republicans Rule; There’s A Difference
Whatever “it” is the news media thinks both sides do? They don’t. And pretty much never have done. Though our corporate press insists Democrats and Republicans are variations on the same theme, they could not be more dissimilar. If the last decade has demonstrated anything – again and again and again – it’s that Democrats…
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Trump Corrupts EVERYTHING – The News Media Included
Here’s a stone cold fact: Donald Trump CORRUPTS everything he touches. E V E R Y T H I N G . That includes the news media. Now, the American press entered the Trumpian part of our history already corrupted by the conceit that “both sides do it”. “Both sides do it” is corporate journalism’s…
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The News Media Chose “But Her Emails” Over “He’s F*cked”
Donald Trump‘s election fraud trial has made two things crystal clear. First, it doesn’t matter what Michael Cohen says. Every other bit of evidence says Trump willfully misled the American electorate about who he is. Of course, the jury will have the final say in the matter. Having served on two juries, I have faith…
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Calling Republicans “Traitors” Isn’t Political
Donald Trump was a liar long before the press finally called him one. An authoritarian and a fascist, too. The same applies to “traitor”. He is one and has been one all along. Ditto the rest of the GOP. What, after all, is a pro-Putin Republican if not a traitor by another name? Calling them…
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Trump’s Two Supreme Court Cases Are Connected
In the next week, ex-president and lifetime criminal Donald Trump will have two huge cases before the Supreme Court. The weird thing is, they’re connected in essential ways. The even weirder thing? Our inept news media hasn’t seen or made the connections. But the two cases ARE connected – and the fact that no one’s…
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Alas Our News Media Is Intellectually Lazy And Stupid
There’s a great line in National Lampoon’s Animal House. Dean Wormer stands before our heroes – the boys from Delta House – but he’s focused on Flounder in particular. “Fat, drunk, and stupid,” says Dean Wormer, “is no way to go through life, son.” Dear News Media: think of me as Dean Wormer and you…
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“Things Both Sides Don’t Do #245,991 – Nikki Haley Edition”
Yesterday, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley attended a town hall in New Hampshire. A citizen asked her a very simple question. “What was the cause of the United States Civil War?” Gosh, even as the Confederate states seceded, they rattled their sabres and said “we’re going to war over slavery!” They were quite proud of…
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Drowning In A Sea Of Schmucks
In Yiddish, according to Leo Rosten in his essential The Joys Of Yiddish, “schmuck” can mean three things: a penis, a fool or a son of a bitch. Looking around at the various problems pushing humanity to the precipice, I see plenty of penises, fools and SOBs. Plenty of schmucks. Hell, they’ve surrounded us as…
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Opinion Polls v Horse Manure
If the Trump years have demonstrated anything, it’s the utter vacuity of our news media. When all this madness finally slows to a modified crawl (if it ever does) – after we’ve delivered justice to all those deserving it – we’ll turn our attention to the press. While a few intrepid news people have met…