…but it’s nice to have it all out there in one place.
Executive summary: Unless the shooter is a White male Christian right-winger [some redundancy], the media won’t say much about a shooting, even a “mass shooting”.
And if the shooter is a trannie, homosexual, mentally-deficient left-wing asshole [again, some redundancy], the silence will be deafening.
Apply the above filters as necessary.
Whenever the Left goes all Hair On Fire, that generally means good things are happening. Take this little bit of news, for example:
After it was announced Monday that local businessman and Sinclair Broadcasting Group executive Chairman David Smith had rescued The Sun with plans to revitalize it to a robust status, the left is apoplectic.
Why? Sinclair, the local news behemoth Smith runs, has been accused for years of tilting right. Based on the hissy fits pitched by the AP, the Baltimore Banner (an online site started after the Alden purchase), CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, it seems like journalists would rather the paper die all together than be run by someone who’s not a leftist.
Well, duh; if the Left can’t control something, they try to destroy it (see: Donald Trump).
And if, Lenin forbid, that change may tend towards conservatism, the screaming will ratchet up exponentially.
And so it happened in this case.
CNN reacted the way you’d expect. Oliver Darcy, their deranged liberal media hall monitor, whined in his media newsletter that it’s a “deal that has set off alarm bells” since Smith’s local stations around the country “has previously inserted right-wing editorial segments into its local news broadcasts.”
Writing on Threads and X, NPR media writer and former Sun reporter David Folkenflik huffed that “Smith was dismissive of the Sun’s journalism” and “deflected questions about his own political activities.”
He also seethed that “Smith has been a major funder of GOP candidates; more recently he has funded far-right outfits like Project Veritas and Turning Point USA & financed local ballot initiatives.”
Folkenflik made sure to take a swipe at Sinclair stations: “Sinclair…has pulled the news coverage and commentaries on those stations markedly to the right, ultimately becoming quite supportive of Trump.”
Oh noes… I see the End Of Democracy all over this one. That, or the End Of Civilization As We Know It.
Who knows? The Sun may even turn out to be a decent newspaper.
I see that the silly Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone Magazine is having his pee-pee whacked for the cardinal sin of saying (supposedly) that Black artists are not as articulate as their White counterparts.
I’m reminded of the priceless Frank Zappa quote (about Rolling Stone itself), and I’m going by my admittedly-creaky memory:
“Rock journalism can be described as people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t speak, aimed at people who can’t read.”
I always thought that Rolling Stone was a silly magazine, aimed at White rock ‘n roll fans, mostly talking about White musicians. Their lists of the “Greatest [whatever]” were apparently written by people aged 18 who had no idea of any music that had been released any more than two years before they turned 16, if that.
And Wenner himself was nothing more than a rock groupie, his magazine giving him the backstage pass to all the top bands’ acts. He was an inconsequential player in a silly age, and why anyone would want to read, let alone buy his book will remain a mystery.
I’d actually never read the Washington Free Beacon paper before, so imagine my surprise when I saw this breathless headline on their website:
Curious to see why anyone would actually give a flying fuck about this topic, I read on and discovered this amazing feat of investigative journalism into Tom’s latest squeeze. First, there’s her Twitter/X label:
I’m thinking that’s a clue right there, but let’s not get blinded by evidence like that. (I mean, should we trust Twitter/X at all?) What else? Oh yes, there’s Veronika Rajek’s picture on her Instagram page:
Well, if that isn’t proof that the Joooz control world banking, the diamond and gold business and everything, then what is?
Here’s my actual question: why would anyone waste valuable time and space “investigating” this situation?
Listen, Tom Brady Superbowl hero once married to some Brazilian model etc. etc. But in the grand scheme of things, now that he’s retired from throwball, he’s about as relevant as last week’s rice pudding. (Sorry Tom, but it’s true. You matter less than Vivek Ramaswamy, who is reputedly of Indian descent.)
Anyway, for one more example of excellent journalism, there’s this little snark:
Brady recently un-retired from football and then un-married supermodel Gisele Bündchen, whose Germanic name and Brazilian heritage have us wondering what her grandfather was doing during the Battle of the Bulge. Other than winning his eighth Super Bowl, dating a Zionist smokeshow would be the ultimate rebuke to the vegan shiksa who tried to ruin his life. Maybe Veronika will even let him eat a cheeseburger.
What a pointless fucking piece of trash this Washington Free Beacon is, and its staffer, one Tim Rice, needs a swift kick in the balls for putting this piece of utter nonsense in a newspaper.
I won’t be going back. And nor should anyone else.
Here’s one more pic of Miss Rajek, only without that offensive Jooo symbol around her neck:
I can’t imagine why ol’ Tom would want to bonk her, myself. [exit, drooling]
The Greatest Living Englishman has turned his ire towards the BBC, and at climate fearmongers in general:
Amazon Prime star Jeremy Clarkson has slammed weather forecasters for spreading what he has described as “green propaganda” in his latest column.
The Clarkson’s Farm presenter, 63, went on to explain that due to inaccurate weather reports, he and many other farmers and been forced to “take a massive financial hit” for “absolutely no reason”.
Jeremy recalled how earlier this week, weather presenters had claimed “an apocalyptic storm would arrive in Britain on Tuesday night”.
The Former Top Gear host went on to explain how, due to predictions of weeks of “torrential rain and gales”, he had felt forced to harvest his crops even though they weren’t ready because the moisture content was too high.
“Yes, I’d have to pay £10 a ton to dry the grain after it was harvested but better to take that hit than have the whole lot ruined by the storm,” he wrote in his column for the Sun.
“We worked tirelessly until 11pm and when I finally crawled into bed, utterly exhausted, I noticed that all of my neighbouring farmers were still out here, doing the same thing.”
Here’s what he was talking about:
But:
The ex-BBC star went on to express his outrage when he had expected to see “Armageddon” the next morning only to be greeted by “blue skies and a gentle breeze”.
“So the farmers had brought in their harvest early and taken a massive financial hit that they can’t afford… for absolutely no reason,” Jeremy fumed.
So he lashed out.
“They feel compelled, when it’s warm, to paint their maps dark red and talk about ‘extreme heat’. And similarly, to keep Greta and the snowflake army happy, they need to say when it’s a bit chilly, that we will all soon be buried under a 20-foot snow drift,” he complained.
“They see their weather forecasts now as political weapons. Baseball bats which can be used to beat the oil companies into submission. And they’ll mangle statistics if that’s what’s necessary.”
He then went on to beg weather forecasters to share “the truth” with farmers and to save their “propaganda forecasts” for people who need to “turn the heating down”.
“They think that the constant wrongness doesn’t matter, because a wonky weather forecast only affects people planning barbecues,” he stated. “But to farmers, it bloody well does matter.”
Frankly, if I were a British farmer, I’d subscribe to an actual meteorogical service and learn to interpret the data for myself.
And refuse to pay the BBC license fee, like millions of other Brits are doing.
It’s not often that I comment on celebrity stuff, but this takes the cake:
The American people still hold a grudge against the Royal Family for how Princess Diana was treated, claims a senior journalist at ABC News.
The late Diana, who died in a car crash in Paris in August 1997, captivated the hearts of people worldwide with her charm, grace, and unwavering commitment to humanitarian causes.
And she had a particularly strong impact in America – with rumours she even planned to give up her life in the UK and move Stateside.
What a load of bullshit. I dunno where this “senior journalist at ABC News” conducted his poll — no doubt among his “senior” journo buddies, over several cocktails at some foul Manhattan bar.
I doubt whether the average American under age… I dunno, maybe 60 — even knows who the Virgin Princess was. And among the over 60s (like me), the reaction is most likely in the “who gives a rat’s ass?” class.
Indeed, the whole Royal Family concept is treated with barely-concealed contempt Over Here, with only a few royalty groupies even aware of the dramatis personae in Britishland’s little social soap opera. (I know who most of these parasites are, but that’s only because my university degree is in Modern Western Civilization — such as it was — and it’s necessary to know these goofs only because of the part they played in European history prior to WWI.)
And as it turns out, Prince Charles only married this upper-class twit because he couldn’t marry Camilla — yeah, that worked out well — and even better, she wasn’t the saintly Lady/Princess Di, but a shallow little Sloane Ranger (Britain’s Valley Girl equivalent, named for their fondness for the shops and clubs of Chelsea) who won the ultimate Sloan Prize: to marry royalty. And that worked out well, too. Not.
Anyway, there is no “grudge” Over Here towards the Royals. I bet this “senior journalist at ABC News” only made that statement to create some controversy prior to Charles’s coronation next week.
Sic semper iournalisti (or however they would have put it in 100 AD).