There used to be a barrier to entry for a lot of professions that kept incompetent boobs out of them. Doctors had to have a minimal level of understanding of science, for example, to even enter medical school, then they could fail out if that knowledge did not advance sufficiently. Now, med school applications are first run through the progressive food pyramid to see how many boxes get checked to determine what level of foreknowledge, if any, is required of applicants. Journalism is the same way – “Are you on the team?” is a more important question than “Are you in any way qualified to do the job?”
With the barrier to entry being roughly “Can you pronounce your own name?” the standards, as low as they already were, have cratered for journalism – for God’s sake, Joy Reid claims to be one! In fact, all of MSNBC and CNN can, and do so regularly because they set their own standards. The only thing anyone can do to have any of these people declare someone not a journalist is work for Fox, otherwise, it’s game on.
That helps explain some of the garbage we saw this week reported as “news.”
The week started with Hunter Biden being convicted on all of the gun charges against him. This was about as shocking as declaring water wet, and just about as consequential. Of course, he did it, he wrote about and filmed himself being a junkie at that time. The only defense against recording yourself committing a crime is to declare yourself so untrustworthy that you have to keep your valuables hidden from yourself.
That defense, however, does not bode well against charges that someone desperate for money for drugs would sell access to his father. Sure, he’d commit felonies when it comes to purchasing a gun, he’d be a tax cheat, he’d also film himself having sex with prostitutes – many of which look underage and all seem to have been human trafficked from the other side of the planet (which weirdly is of no interest to anyone in journalism. Honestly, how hard do you think it would be to track down some of these women? There are pictures and videos, so it can’t be that hard for someone with the resources and commitment, but that word is the key…) and what was the story?
“Mr. President, will you pardon your son?” There is no answer other than “No.” That’s also a lie. Damn right, he’ll pardon Hunter, but not until after the election, when he will never again face any consequences from voters. Why the hell wouldn’t he?
Dumber still were the people suggesting he’d get out of that on a technicality by commuting Hunter’s sentence. Why would he do that? Hunter is going to get probation and no jail time. Why go through the motions of a pardon with none of the benefits? What are you sparing him from, a couple of meetings with a parole officer? He’ll pardon him to wipe his record clean, not unburden him of the last few chats with a guy who likely thinks the meeting is as dumb as Hunter does.
Then there was the saga of “Lia” Thomas, the “female” swimmer hindered only by skill and the water resistance coming from the penis in “her” bathing suit.
“She” lost her appeal to force women’s swimming to allow “her” to try out for the women’s team in the Olympics. This was reported as “Swimmer Thomas denied the right to swim in the Olympics.” This is simply not true on any level. “Lia” can swim all “she” wants in the Olympics. All “she” has to do is qualify with other men, because “she’s” a man.
The problem for “Lia” is he sucks as a male swimmer. I mean, he’s better than most men at swimming as far as the species goes, but he’s well down in the hundreds as far as the best male swimmers are concerned and the Olympic team is not that big. He has as much of a chance to qualify for the men’s team as he does in needing a tampon.
That’s not to say “she’s” pretending to be a woman for swimming contests – I suspect he’s got mental health issues that are being indulged rather than addressed, which will one day haunt him – but reality has to be at the forefront of sports, even if it’s not a factor in journalism.
Speaking of journalism without any sense of reality attached to it, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan put together one of the dumbest packages in the history of television journalism this week. Entitled, “These Trump supporters say America isn't a democracy. And they're okay with it,” this “dual citizen” should track down and sue whatever teacher taught him about American history because they failed him.
“What's happening here is that the word, and the concept of, ‘democracy’ is being attacked as a way to neutralize warnings about Trump being a danger to democracy. The argument goes -- Trump is a danger to democracy, so what? We are not and never were a democracy,” the moron tweeted.
That’s so beyond stupid it’s hard to know where to start, but it is exactly what you’d expect to hear at left-wing editorial pitch meetings.
Rather than point out the sheer stupidity of the concept, which is so obvious to anyone with an IQ larger than their shoe size, I want to point out how they get to that point.
The leftist media operates under the belief that they are better and smarter than everyone else, and therefore have a responsibility to think for everyone else and protect the great unwashed from anyone they deem a threat. It’s a repackaging of the awful “progressive movement” of the early 20th century, which engaged in forced sterilizations, experiments on “undesirables” and led directly to the Nazi and communist progressive atrocities they now try to claim were somehow “right-wing.”
That’s why they “talk” about the “horrible” things Donald Trump has said…but they don’t show them. “Donald Trump called Nazis ‘very fine people,’” is one of their favorite lies. They don’t often, if ever, show the actual clip; they simply repeat the lie as though everyone was there and equally outraged.
But the real reason they can’t show it is it would be maybe 3 seconds long, which would arise suspicions, because if it they gave it context they would have to show Trump saying, “And I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis or the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.” Pretty unambiguous, which is why they never show it.
The same reason they don’t show Trump talking about being a dictator “on day one.” They talk about it all the time, but to show it would be to show how he was joking in response to a question about people like those leftist “journalists” saying he wants to be a dictator.
When jokingly asked if he was going to be a dictator, as the left has declared, Trump responded, “No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border, and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.”
They don’t show that clip because you can tell he was joking, “journalists” simply say Trump has stated he wants to be a dictator on day one. You have to be on as many drugs as Hunter Biden to believe that, so the only option is they are lying.
You do have to ask yourself why people, whose position is based on trust with the audience, would lie so brazenly when all their audience would have to do is look something up for themselves and realize they’ve been lied to. It’s because they’re trained to not look things up for themselves, they’re trained to stay on the thought plantations of the various media outlets. It’s not, “We watch conservative media outlets so you don’t have to,” it’s, “We watch them so you won’t, so please don’t.”
Nothing terrifies the left like someone using their remote or a search engine to see something for themselves, because so little of what they put out there stands up to even basic scrutiny. Why do you think they hate what Elon Musk has done with Twitter? They controlled it before, but now people are allowed to post whatever they want, including full-context videos and actual research and opinions that progressive talking points cannot stand up to.
Leftists aren’t used to being challenged or having to prove what they say, Rachel Maddow simply declaring something is proof enough inside their bubble. But the problem with any sealed bubble-like environment is you begin to run out of oxygen, which leads to brain damage. While leftists are not literally suffering from oxygen deprivation, intellectually they most certainly are.
Confident people with the truth on their side do not fear opposing viewpoints or lie about them. If Donald Trump were half the monster they make him out to be, all they’d have to do is keep their cameras on him. But they don’t want people looking, they don’t want people to see without the filter of them in between.
Liberals lie to their audiences about what conservatives say and want to do, conservatives show you what liberals say and do. Sure, we tell people how senile or angry Joe Biden is, or how he lies about his life and policies, but then we show you him doing just that.
Media Democrats will tell you Republicans are “election deniers,” we can show you 24 minutes of clips of Democrats denying every election they’ve lost. Not asking questions about how things were conducted, declaring them stolen “without evidence,” a favorite phrase of the left.
I don’t expect honesty from the left, it’s not their strong suit. Instead, they have a form of Tourette’s Syndrome that has them belching our catchphrases and poll-tested tropes designed more to satiate than to inform. They are the Xanax of intellectual curiosity. When you can’t deny something is true, it’s much easier to deny it exists. This is the premise under which liberal media, and the Democratic Party, operate. And it’s why they need to be destroyed come November.