MSM Lies

Open Thread

Mark Noonan43 Comments

I guess even the New York Times is sorta conceding that we’ve won the war with Iran – someone has ordered the Democrats to pull the plug on that one. Didn’t help their cause that the Mullahs are essentially endorsing the Democrats for the mid-terms. That chart I posted in the previous thread tells the tale – oil is flowing. Except Iran’s oil, because we’re not allowing it…because we control the Strait. Now, to be sure, the Mullahs might try some mad dog attacks in a desperate attempt to keep gasoline prices high in the USA, but they are completely boxed. As I’ve been saying – the side which controls the air and sea has won…the only thing left is figuring out how to tidy it all up. As long as we remain firm – and Trump will – there’s no other ending than Iran conceding to our demands.

Lost in the shuffle of that attempted hijacking/mass murder is that Israelis were flying from a Muslim nation back to Israel. I think that even a lot of Muslims are giving up on the whole Islamist thing – there’s no future in it. Sure, you can keep fighting and dying and hoping that in a century you might make it to Tel Aviv but only an insane person does that. To be sure, there are a high number of insane people in the Muslim world but it is a lost cause. And it has happened before – in the aftermath of the first Muslim advances out of Arabia, they tried for decades to get at Constantinople – fighting with fanatic determination. But after multiple failed campaigns, they did give it up…and Constantinople remained Christian for another 800 years, well long enough for Europe to make itself (until recently) Muslim-proof. I think the defeat of Iran will go a long way towards ending all of this – without them to mobilize and pay for insanity, the well will dry up.

Side note: early on the reporting about the hijacking implied it was just some sort of scuffle between the pilot and copilot. You really can’t hate the media enough. They are claiming that they didn’t know the facts…which is just another idiotic lie as the story came out with the copilot clearly trying to murder the pilot so he could crash a plane full of Jews. The MSM hates you, hates your country, your family, your religion…all decent things of humanity. And so they bend over backwards to protect…what? A lunatic Islamist unfit for decent company of any kind.

Video of a British town taken 50 years ago – it was all very British, and is now long gone. Keep in mind that this was deliberately destroyed by the British Establishment. The Left was in the vanguard but even the British Right eagerly participated. Because the Establishment came to hate Britain. Just as our Establishment hates us. They looked upon that clean, tidy community of hard working, law abiding people and a sense of loathing came over them. It was so boring! Just common people doing common things! Didn’t they know you could be a degenerate? Where was the room for perversion???? How can people live in such a place???? They set about, step by step, destroying it – teaching the youngsters to be degenerates. Putting people on welfare and drugs. Importing foreign savages. Telling them via the schools there is no God. Here, listen to some second rate music which insults decency! Laugh at your history! Don’t get married! Don’t work hard! Sobriety is for suckers!

We’re still within an ace of that happening here – Democrats get back in they’ll impose that while also making it illegal for us to win elections. It will really be a choice between fighting or dying. I hope it doesn’t come to that. I don’t think it will. I do believe we’re going to win – but it will be a close run thing.

Hey, Conservatives: Stop Believing MSM Lies, Ok?

Mark Noonan22 Comments

Some people on the right, foolishly accepting MSM framing, are horrified by a proposed anti-abortion law in South Carolina. The MSM is framing it as a ban on so much as talking about abortion – but I read the bill and while it does ban someone from, say, maintaining a website which instructs you on how to perform an abortion, I don’t see anything in there that I object to. After all, abortion is to be illegal, right? And as an illegal act, shouldn’t it be illegal to tell someone how to do the illegal act? I’m a pretty strong 1A guy here but if there was a website telling people how to set IED’s for the police, I think I’d have an objection to it being allowed to continue.

Of course, I’m no lawyer – so maybe there are aspects of this I’m missing. If so, then those in the know should be telling us their objections on that level…not just accepting MSM framing and running with it. I mean, for crying out loud, we all know the MSM lies all the time about everything. And on the abortion issue they are currently working overtime to spread fear among urban and suburban white women on the subject of abortion. If you click the linked article, you’ll see a series of links within it with frightening headlines about women losing their right to privacy – so, you know, the whole point here is fear-mongering. The MSM wants the reader to be afraid that those inbred, hill-ape, Christo-fascist morons are trying to impose theocracy. The bill doesn’t do that. What is does do, aside from making abortion illegal and defining an abortion, is make it illegal to prosecute the mother for obtaining an abortion, illegal to coerce a woman into an abortion, illegal to transport a minor across State lines to obtain an abortion, makes abortion legal to save the life of the mother and codifies the legality of contraception.

Not exactly Theocracy stuff.

But people on our side ran with it. Why? Can’t look into souls, of course, but I suspect that many are actually pro-choice but don’t want to come out and say it lest they lose Conservative audience share. Also, of course, quite a few of these people have liberal friends and they want to be sure such friends know they’re not like “those people”. You know – not like you and me.

And this is just one of many examples – couple days ago I saw that Hugh Hewitt was saying we had to codify same sex marriage and legalized birth control on the Federal level to prove we’re not going to ban SSM and birth control. So, we’re to play into DNC fear-mongering because…why? To stop something that isn’t happening? Or does Hugh and those like him just want something to separate from “those people”? Look, you inbred hicks, you got your abortion ban in some States, now you’d better sign on to a federal law imposing SSM even though the Constitution gives no warrant to the Federal government on the issue.

No. No, no, no and f*** no. Please, stop it: stop ratifying liberalism. We’re Conservatives, dammit. No, we don’t have a particular interest in banning SSM but this doesn’t mean we’re suddenly ok with it, nor that we’ve come around to approving the idea of the judicial activism which created it. SSM was (we hope) the last fling of leftwing judicial activism. Don’t put our stamp of approval on it.

And in the name of all that is decent in the world, stop believing the MSM. At all. Best if you simply stop consuming it – even if this costs you a gig or two. No amount of money is worth being associated with liars. But if you feel you must consume and participate, then at least have the common sense to know they’re lying and go to the original source to see what is happening before you comment. Yes, this might upset your liberal friends and some people might think you’re an inbred redneck…but that’s ok: the people who hate you for being actually Conservative are stupid and not worth caring about.

Destroy the Corporate Media

Mark Noonan40 Comments

I’m sure you’ve heard the story of the mounted Border Patrol people being accused of whipping Haitian illegal immigrants. I’m sure you also know the story is a complete fabrication. It never happened. Nothing even remotely like it happened. But, the MSM created the lie and they are still running with it. Today, Axios ran a story (I won’t link to them) with the headline:

Gov. Greg Abbott to Border Patrol agents who whipped at Haitian migrants from horseback: “I will hire you to help Texas secure our border.”

Can you believe it? Well, of course you can: we’re all used to this. It is, perhaps, just a little more brazen than it used to be, but egregious lying has been par for the course for the MSM since at least Reagan took office. As I said – and as you know – no whipping took place. As far as eyewitness accounts go – including from the photographer who took the picture being held up as proof that a whipping happened – nobody was hit by anything. But what got me going was a comment about the story from Stephen Miller: a good guy and a smart, well informed person.

There are decent journalists at Axios but why the f**k should we even read or listen to them when their employer is pulling this shit?

I had to put a correction on that: no, there are no decent journalists at Axios. Any decent journalist would refuse to be associated with an organization which lies like that. Technically, I guess there could be – but if they don’t quit their jobs within 24 hours, that will be the proof that none of them are decent.

These aren’t mistakes. These are deliberate, malicious lies. The whipping lie also isn’t the first malicious lie out of the MSM. They’ve done it again and again and again. And it isn’t done for ratings. There is no profit motive here. MSM audience figures are a dumpster fire of fail. CNN is paying Anderson Cooper (who is worth $200 million) about a million dollars a month for a show barely a million people bother to watch at any given time. You don’t do that if money is the motivator – but you will do that if your goal is to promote a Narrative and you need a host who looks and sounds good on TV while reading the most monstrous lies off a teleprompter. Don’t think that isn’t a talent! Most of us would look nervous or embarrassed trying to lie like an MSM host. But they pull it off with aplomb: it is what they’re paid to do.

So, what are we going to do about this? What, that is, will be our response to a gigantic Corporate propaganda machine spewing lies against us 24/7?

A few years ago, all of us would say, “nothing”. We were firmly convinced that the First Amendment was sacrosanct and even the most disgusting lies must be endured so that we can at least have the chance to tell the truth. But it isn’t like that any longer, is it?

Over the past 4 years, especially, the corporate media has actively participated in the shutting down of alternate voices. They have lied about and doxxed persons and organizations merely trying to present the news. They have urged action against such people and organizations to dry up their revenue streams and remove them from various platforms: and they have had a lot of success. It started with Yiannopoulos (if you haven’t followed his saga: the latest I’ve heard is that he’s stopped being gay…which may be another advertising gimmick, but who knows?) being banned and pretty much the entire Right went silent about it. He wasn’t the hill to die on! And then hill after hill was passed by. Lots of non-Left voices have been effectively silenced and without any government action: just the corporations obeying the orders of leftwing pressure groups. Some on the right still try to draw a distinction between Corporate and Government action…but I can’t see it. Not any longer. To me, when You Tube bans a non-left account, it is merely the government using Corporations to do things that the government couldn’t get away with. But, however you want to view that particular issue, the bottom line is that Corporations are banning our speech while allowing the most disgusting lies to be broadcast from Corporate sources.

This isn’t, you know, fair.

If we wish to survive – if we wish to be free and fully able to participate in the public square – the corporate media (profit and non-profit) has to go. All they do is lie. All of their lies serve the Democrat party. Their lies are slickly presented and convince millions of Americans to vote not just against their own interests, but against basic common sense. The First Amendment does not apply to Corporations: that is the standard we must adhere to. That no publicly traded corporation has any First Amendment protection. Furthermore, no person or entity has a right to lie – that is, there is no First Amendment protection for ever broadcasting or publishing anything factually untrue. If you lie, you are liable. I know I’ve said this before, but now with this whipping story, I really do believe my assertion has teeth. Pudding Brain has promised to make the border patrol agents pay – for doing nothing. If the President of the United States, urged by lying media, will punish Border Patrol agents for nothing, what can be done to you any time the corporate media decides to target you?

It is time to drop the quiet dogmas of the past. They won’t do. Our opponents dropped them a long time ago. They will oppress us to their maximum ability at any time. Time to start removing the protections they hide behind while trying to club us to death.