The American Media Should Not Be Trusted

[BillsFanNC]

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

Hahahahahaha.

 

Silly media.

 

Thats not gonna happen.

 

 

 

News outlets seek access to evidence in Paul Pelosi attack

Associated Press, by Olga R. Rodriguez

 

SAN FRANCISCO -- A coalition of news organizations, including The Associated Press, filed a court motion in San Francisco seeking access to evidence against the man charged in last year's attack on former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi. During a Dec. 14 preliminary hearing, the San Francisco district attorney's office introduced audio and video evidence against David DePape, the man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi. But it has refused to release the evidence to the media. Attorneys for the coalition said in the motion filed Wednesday that “the public and press have standing to assert their rights of access to court records and proceedings.”

 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/news-outlets-seek-access-evidence-paul-pelosi-attack-96399519

[BillsFanNC]

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

Media begins squirming over Biden

 

After the midterms, the opposition party took over the House intent on bringing down the president.

The press rejoiced.

 

You could almost see the foaming of the mouth of Greg Sargent of the Washington Post as he wrote, on January 14, 2019, "Two new blockbuster scoops about President Donald Trump’s relations with Russia — combined with fresh signs that Trump will drag out the government shutdown indefinitely — should renew our focus on the quiet but critical role that Mitch McConnell has played in enabling the damage that Trump is doing to the country on so many fronts."

 

{snip}

 

The list included:

Possible obstruction of justice and abuse of power by the president

Hush money payments and security clearance irregularities, among others

Russian election interference and other potential foreign influences over President Trump

Tax returns, tax returns, tax returns

Trump’s meetings with Vladimir Putin

 

Nothing came of any of this. No indictments. No legislation. Not even an impeachment. The impeachments were for silly stuff that happened later.

 

Times were good. Trump made the economy strong and kept us out of more wars. The press was free to indulge in its dreams of making history.

 

Now eggs are $8 a dozen at Piggly Wiggly and Putin's invaded Ukraine. Republicans control the House and they are ready to look at Hunter's laptop and into Biden's presidency.

 

The press is alarmed.

AP wrote, "House Republicans on Wednesday opened their long-promised investigation into President Joe Biden and his family, wielding the power of their new majority to demand information from the Treasury Department and former Twitter executives as they laid the groundwork for public hearings."

Oh no. They are demanding information!    Information!   Nooooo!

 

And AP warned the public, "The Republican-led committee sent a series of letters requesting financial information from the Treasury Department about financial transactions by members of the Biden family that were flagged as suspicious activity. Those reports are routine, with larger financial transactions automatically flagged to the government, and are not evidence on their own of misconduct.

 

"Lawmakers also requested testimony from multiple former Twitter executives who were involved in the company’s handling of an October 2020 story from the New York Post about Hunter Biden, the president’s younger son. Republicans say that story was suppressed for political reasons.

 

 

"Moving quickly after taking control of the House, Republicans are setting up a messy, politically explosive showdown with the White House that could delve deeply into the affairs of the president’s family and shape the contours of the 2024 race for the White House."

 

What word is missing from those three paragraphs?

Laptop.

 

More at the link:  https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2023/01/media-begins-squirming-over-biden.html

 

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[JDHillFan]

Pitiful. Can any of the resident defenders add some insight here? Shouldn’t he have been asked about it? I’ve always been led to believe censorship is bad. Was I lied to?

[BillsFanNC]

2 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:

Pitiful. Can any of the resident defenders add some insight here? Shouldn’t he have been asked about it? I’ve always been led to believe censorship is bad. Was I lied to?

 

On these types of things they typically just remain silent and ignore it. Sometimes one of them will try to hand wave their way around it....which is always good for a laugh.

[BillsFanNC]

And who here down at PPP still chooses to believe long exposed liars?

 

@BillStime @Tiberius @redtail hawk @ChiGoose et al

 

 

 

[BillStime]

👆🤣🤡😂

 

Freaks can’t make up their mind.  

 

 

@BillsFanNC= desperate AF for any win 

 

 

 

[BillsFanNC]

 

[B-Man]

 

 

When It Comes to Trusting the Media, We're Past the Point of No Return

By Joe Cunningham

 

It’s very hard to argue with the idea that we’re now past the point of no return when it comes to whether or not to trust the mainstream media. Even with Donald Trump out of office, the media hasn’t stopped. They’re only getting worse in their partisan attacks and it’s getting to a point where conservatives really have no recourse other than to not engage anymore.

 

The fact of the matter is that the mainstream media has become what is always claimed conservative media to be – totally biased propaganda from one side of the political aisle. And we’ve gotten to a point where we can’t read what they write and really take a lot of it very seriously. When an industry that is supposed to be objective and fact-based has to create something called a “fact checker” whose job seems to be nothing more than finding ways to say that a Republican is lying, you sort of get the idea that that whole objective thing really doesn’t apply.

 

And we really have reached the point in media when objectivity is just out the window. It’s now less about honest fact-finding and more about “I’ve got to get my clicks.” And there are a lot of dishonest brokers out there, both on the left and the right, when it comes to searching for clicks rather than fighting for the truth.

 

There’s really no going back at this point to the way it used to be. The media really hasn’t been the same since the Drudge Report first came out all those years ago and really exposed Bill Clinton and his lying and scandals. The internet has provided us with the means of finding information that cuts through the spin that comes out of the mainstream media, and as part of that effort, RedState was formed.

 

But as the media started spiraling into obsolescence, it also found new ways to attack those that would cut through its spin. The rise of social media and Big Tech made it possible for these allegedly honest brokers to report things as misinformation, to say that they are not trustworthy, or to just attack their credibility in whatever way they can. The result has been absolutely devastating. Conservative media oftentimes finds itself ridiculed and belittled and pushed out of the way because it does not follow the lead of the mainstream.

 

And yes there are people on the right who take advantage of this as well and they use Big Tech and social media in order to attack sometimes legitimate opponents of theirs. But the majority of the time it is the left attacking the right. It is the left trying to put the right out of business. It is the left trying to kick the right out of the town square.

 

https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/01/21/when-it-comes-to-trusting-the-media-were-past-the-point-of-no-return-n691367

 

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[B-Man]

 

 

THE STINK ISN’T NEW, JUST THE MEDIA’S WILLINGNESS TO NOTICE: 

 

Weekly White House Report Card: ‘Stink of corruption’ over Biden.

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/weekly-white-house-report-card-stink-of-corruption-over-biden

 

 

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[BillsFanNC]

 

Edited January 22, 2023 by BillsFanNC

[JDHillFan]

 

[BillsFanNC]

 

[B-Man]

 

 

The ‘six documents’ hoax in latest discovery of classified docs destroys
the narrative of ‘transparency’ and ‘good faith’

by Thomas Lifson

 

Many media outlets -- and even the GOP House Judiciary Committee -- are reporting that “6 documents” were found Friday in the latest search of Joe Biden’s Wilmington, DE mansion. But a careful reading of the statement of Biden’s personal attorney Bob Bauer, on which this conclusion is based, reveals it to be at best a misunderstanding and at worst a hoax.

 

(snip)

 

“Six items consisting of documents with classification markings” is deceptively vague  What exactly are the “items”? Are they Bankers Boxes full of hundreds of documents? They could be.

 

This is the opposite of the “transparency” upon which the kid glove treatment afforded to Biden

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/the_six_documents_hoax_in_latest_discovery_of_classified_docs_destroys_the_narrative_of_transparency_and_good_faith.html

 

 

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

 

"Support the narrative "

 

 

THIS ARTICLE TAKES THE “ASIAN HATE” ANGLE, BUT IT WAS ASIANS DOING THE SHOOTING: 

 

‘No safe spaces’: For Asian Americans, California shootings add to growing mental health crisis.

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/01/25/anti-asian-violence-causing-mental-health-crisis-asian-americans/11113582002/

 

 

 

Anyway, the fear-mongering news media should take some (most of) the blame for the stress and anxiety here.

[BillsFanNC]

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

                                         

Edited January 29, 2023 by B-Man

[B-Man]

 

Latest Biden Documents Revelation Exposes the Duplicity in the Press

 

The news that came out today regarding Biden and the classified documents issue that continues to metastasize is becoming more problematic for the press.

 

The cabal of journalists who spent six months telling us how Trump’s document seizure had almost rendered our democracy has been in a knot for weeks attempting to downplay or dismiss Jose Biden’s own culpability. Now, one of the questions many looking at the press have been asking – namely, when is the FBI going in to retrieve sensitive data – has been answered. It is a far from satisfying explanation.

 

As discussed earlier, we’ve now learned that there have already been visits from the Feds, to both the Biden Center in Pittsburgh, as well as the President’s private residence. This presents a problem for the administration, as they have been massaging this story, and it has routinely blown back in their faces with the grace of a Daffy Duck musket. As stated, this makes the administration look like dolts after touting “its supposed cooperation and transparency.” 

 

But this is looking just as bad for the press corps. How is it that we are only learning today about these visits from the Feds? They went to the Penn Biden Center in early November, on the 9th. (A full week after the discovery on the 2nd, and conveniently the day after the midterms.)

 

How are we only today learning about these visits from law authorities? Official White House statements aside, where are all of the contacts in the press with Justice officials?

 

https://redstate.com/bradslager/2023/01/31/latest-biden-documents-revelation-exposes-the-duplicity-in-the-press-n696898

[BillsFanNC]

Imagine that? Journalistic principles and integrity.  Crazy talk.

 

 

[BillsFanNC]

They will never admit to even minor "errors" so there's no way they will ever admit to or try to rectify this cluster *****.

 

The media is forever lost to reality, just like so many PPP leftists who still believe what they report without question. 

 

Heres a good rule of thumb leftists if you ever want to attempt to get out of your bubble of propaganda.  When legacy media, in unison, blasts a story on repeat on 11, then you can rest assured that you aren't being told the truth.

 

 

[nedboy7]

Also from Matt Taibi.....

 

Two and a half years into his presidency, Trump has already staked a claim to a role in history usually reserved for hereditary monarchs at the end of a line of inbreeding. Historians will list him somewhere between Vlad the Impaler and France’s Charles VI, who thought his buttocks were made of glass.

Much of America loves its Mad King, whose works are regularly on display. Russians under Ivan the Terrible used to watch dogs being hurled over the Kremlin walls when the tsar’s mood was bad. Americans have grown used to late-night insults tweeted at nuclear powers from the White House bedroom.

Royal lunacy is traditionally a secret, but in Twitter-age America it’s a shared national experience. We are all somersaulting down and out the sanity chute. The astonishing thing about Trump is that he wasn’t foisted on us by a council of Bourbons, or by succession law. We elected the man, and are poised to do it again.

History will judge us harshly for this, and will look with particular venom at Trump’s political opponents in both parties, who over the years were unable to win popularity contests against a man most people would not leave alone with a decent wristwatch, let alone their children.

Trump’s original destiny was the destruction of the Republicans as a viable entity in modern American politics. Then he ran a general election like he was trying to lose, and won. Now his legacy is the spectacular end of America’s fragile racial consensus.

[B-Man]

10 minutes ago, nedboy7 said:

Also from Matt Taibi.....

 

Two and a half years into his presidency, Trump has already staked a claim to a role in history usually reserved for hereditary monarchs at the end of a line of inbreeding. Historians will list him somewhere between Vlad the Impaler and France’s Charles VI, who thought his buttocks were made of glass.

Much of America loves its Mad King, whose works are regularly on display. Russians under Ivan the Terrible used to watch dogs being hurled over the Kremlin walls when the tsar’s mood was bad. Americans have grown used to late-night insults tweeted at nuclear powers from the White House bedroom.

Royal lunacy is traditionally a secret, but in Twitter-age America it’s a shared national experience. We are all somersaulting down and out the sanity chute. The astonishing thing about Trump is that he wasn’t foisted on us by a council of Bourbons, or by succession law. We elected the man, and are poised to do it again.

History will judge us harshly for this, and will look with particular venom at Trump’s political opponents in both parties, who over the years were unable to win popularity contests against a man most people would not leave alone with a decent wristwatch, let alone their children.

Trump’s original destiny was the destruction of the Republicans as a viable entity in modern American politics. Then he ran a general election like he was trying to lose, and won. Now his legacy is the spectacular end of America’s fragile racial consensus.

 

Link please.

 

 

We need the timeline.

 

Also, it is clear for every sentient person, that this dislike of Trump only ADDS to the validity of his exposure of the false Russia-gate narrative.

 

But you be you.

 

 

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[BillsFanNC]

15 minutes ago, nedboy7 said:

Also from Matt Taibi.....

 

Two and a half years into his presidency, Trump has already staked a claim to a role in history usually reserved for hereditary monarchs at the end of a line of inbreeding. Historians will list him somewhere between Vlad the Impaler and France’s Charles VI, who thought his buttocks were made of glass.

Much of America loves its Mad King, whose works are regularly on display. Russians under Ivan the Terrible used to watch dogs being hurled over the Kremlin walls when the tsar’s mood was bad. Americans have grown used to late-night insults tweeted at nuclear powers from the White House bedroom.

Royal lunacy is traditionally a secret, but in Twitter-age America it’s a shared national experience. We are all somersaulting down and out the sanity chute. The astonishing thing about Trump is that he wasn’t foisted on us by a council of Bourbons, or by succession law. We elected the man, and are poised to do it again.

History will judge us harshly for this, and will look with particular venom at Trump’s political opponents in both parties, who over the years were unable to win popularity contests against a man most people would not leave alone with a decent wristwatch, let alone their children.

Trump’s original destiny was the destruction of the Republicans as a viable entity in modern American politics. Then he ran a general election like he was trying to lose, and won. Now his legacy is the spectacular end of America’s fragile racial consensus.

 

Also from Matt Taibbi, yesterday.

 

But thanks for confirming that you like your journalists to only report with a one sided bias.

 

You know that someone cannot not like Trump, like myself, and at the same time be aware of an obvious concerted campaign to take him down with bull *****, right?

 

 

[Tommy Callahan]

18 minutes ago, nedboy7 said:

Also from Matt Taibi.....

 

Two and a half years into his presidency, Trump has already staked a claim to a role in history usually reserved for hereditary monarchs at the end of a line of inbreeding. Historians will list him somewhere between Vlad the Impaler and France’s Charles VI, who thought his buttocks were made of glass.

Much of America loves its Mad King, whose works are regularly on display. Russians under Ivan the Terrible used to watch dogs being hurled over the Kremlin walls when the tsar’s mood was bad. Americans have grown used to late-night insults tweeted at nuclear powers from the White House bedroom.

Royal lunacy is traditionally a secret, but in Twitter-age America it’s a shared national experience. We are all somersaulting down and out the sanity chute. The astonishing thing about Trump is that he wasn’t foisted on us by a council of Bourbons, or by succession law. We elected the man, and are poised to do it again.

History will judge us harshly for this, and will look with particular venom at Trump’s political opponents in both parties, who over the years were unable to win popularity contests against a man most people would not leave alone with a decent wristwatch, let alone their children.

Trump’s original destiny was the destruction of the Republicans as a viable entity in modern American politics. Then he ran a general election like he was trying to lose, and won. Now his legacy is the spectacular end of America’s fragile racial consensus.

Wait what, he isn't the hard core Righty/trumper the MSM is trying to make him out to be?

 

 

[B-Man]

Woodward: I tried to warn you journalists about the Steele dossier

ED MORRISSEY

 

Consider this one of the more interesting pull quotes from a gargantuan effort at the Columbia Journalism Review to determine what went wrong in Russiagate.

 

Washington Post reporter and author Bob Woodward only plays a small role in this four-part series as a voice in the wilderness of narrative journalism, but significant enough to highlight.

 

The authors of “Trumped Up: The Press versus The President” spoke with Woodward about where everything turned poisonous. That’s an easy point to identify — the Steele Dossier, swallowed whole by mainstream media outlets despite its clear and obvious problems. Woodward reminds CJR that he went on air at the time — on Fox — to call it a “garbage document,” only to be roundly ignored by his fellow reporters, especially at the Post:

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/02/01/woodward-i-tried-to-warn-you-journalists-about-the-steele-dossier-n527763

 

[Doc]

35 minutes ago, B-Man said:

Woodward: I tried to warn you journalists about the Steele dossier

ED MORRISSEY

 

Consider this one of the more interesting pull quotes from a gargantuan effort at the Columbia Journalism Review to determine what went wrong in Russiagate.

 

Washington Post reporter and author Bob Woodward only plays a small role in this four-part series as a voice in the wilderness of narrative journalism, but significant enough to highlight.

 

The authors of “Trumped Up: The Press versus The President” spoke with Woodward about where everything turned poisonous. That’s an easy point to identify — the Steele Dossier, swallowed whole by mainstream media outlets despite its clear and obvious problems. Woodward reminds CJR that he went on air at the time — on Fox — to call it a “garbage document,” only to be roundly ignored by his fellow reporters, especially at the Post:

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/02/01/woodward-i-tried-to-warn-you-journalists-about-the-steele-dossier-n527763

 

 

It would be nice if he named his former partner as one of the biggest trangressors...

[nedboy7]

1 hour ago, Chris farley said:

Wait what, he isn't the hard core Righty/trumper the MSM is trying to make him out to be?

 

 

He is a guy that bashes both sides. Don’t you approve of that? 

[wnyguy]

1 minute ago, nedboy7 said:

He is a guy that bashes both sides. Don’t you approve of that? 

Duh

[nedboy7]

1 hour ago, BillsFanNC said:

 

Also from Matt Taibbi, yesterday.

 

But thanks for confirming that you like your journalists to only report with a one sided bias.

 

You know that someone cannot not like Trump, like myself, and at the same time be aware of an obvious concerted campaign to take him down with bull *****, right?

 

 

 

Typical take from you.  Not sure why you would think I like one sided journalists.  My point was if you gonna listen to him about the left you should read about his stories on your beloved GOP.  Easy to claim you are bi partisan.  I highly doubt you disliked Trump until the GOP turned on him. 

1 hour ago, B-Man said:

 

Link please.

 

 

We need the timeline.

 

Also, it is clear for every sentient person, that this dislike of Trump only ADDS to the validity of his exposure of the false Russia-gate narrative.

 

But you be you.

 

 

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/taibbi-trump-2020-be-very-afraid-872299/

[B-Man]

 

 

No surprise.

 

 

[JaCrispy]

7 hours ago, nedboy7 said:

He is a guy that bashes both sides. Don’t you approve of that? 

You mean- like a REAL journalist?

[BillsFanNC]

In the ongoing tales of eagerly rejecting the evidence of your eyes and ears...

 

The media aren't corrupt liars.

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

Newsrooms Are Now Officially Democrats’ Newsletter Operations

Issues & Insights, by The Editorial Board

 

The media’s leftward bias has been obvious for decades even as “journalists” denied their alignment with the Democratic Party.

 

No honest person took Chris Cillizza’s 2016 claim that “reporters don’t root for a side. Period” to be true. All we’ve ever asked for is an admission from the media that it worked for the Democrats.

 

We’re a little closer to that today. Tuesday’s headline in the Daily Caller brought the light: “Major News Outlets Say They’re Ditching Objectivity In The Name Of ‘Diversity.’” The story beneath the headline tells us that, after interviewing more than 75 ”media leaders to gauge how the industry views the concept of ‘objectivity,’”

 

https://issuesinsights.com/2023/02/02/newsrooms-are-now-officially-democrats-newsletter-operations/

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

 

The truth always comes out. 

 

 

[Tiberius]

Boy, this sounds like something we have heard before 

 

MOSCOW — 

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday criticized what he said were skewed media portrayals of Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine as he met with mothers of Russian soldiers fighting there.

"Life is more difficult and diverse than what is shown on TV screens or even on the internet. There are many fakes, cheating, lies there," Putin said.

 

https://www.voanews.com/a/putin-decries-media-lies-at-meeting-with-soldiers-mothers-/6850504.html

[B-Man]

 

They know that they are losing the argument.

 

The Associated Press Instructs Journalists to Take Pro-Abortion Slant in Their Reporting

 

 

Just in case you needed any more proof that the press deserves to be called the “activist media,” the Associated Press issued new guidance in November 2022 to journalists related to how they frame issues surrounding abortion. The AP’s style guide was updated to direct journalists to put the term “crisis pregnancy center” in quotation marks and to refer to them as “anti-abortion” centers.

 

The Daily Signal reported:

The AP added this entry between Nov. 20 and Nov. 27, 2022, according to The Daily Signal’s search of the Wayback Machine. The guide describes the centers as “set up to divert or discourage women from having abortions” and warns writers against “potentially misleading terms” like “pregnancy resource centers or pregnancy counseling centers.”

 

“If using the term anti-abortion center, explain later that these often are known as ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ (with quotation marks) and that their aim is to dissuade people from getting an abortion,” the style guide entry states.

 

Thomas Glessner, president of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, told the news outlet that journalists adhering to these guidelines are “disgraceful” and argued that “if they actually cared about integrity, they would know that pregnancy centers seek to help women who are facing unplanned pregnancies with material and emotional support.”

 

The Associated Press’ stylebook is the most commonly used among journalists and news outlets. Its guidance tends to be followed across the board, with some exceptions.

 

Naturally, the pro-abortion lobby was ecstatic by the new guidance. 

 

 

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/02/04/the-associated-press-instructs-journalists-to-take-pro-abortion-slant-in-their-reporting-n698722

 

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[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

If it did happen back during the Trump administration they should easily be able to release the documents dated back when it did happen.

 

So, please explain why high level Trump officials were not informed or show docs proving that they were informed back then.

 

 

 

 

I have kitchen colanders that don't leak as fast as the Trump administration.

A news items like this would have been headline news at the NYT, WaPo, & MSNBC within 24 hours.

[BillsFanNC]

The media doesn't lie. 

 

Keep rejecting the evidence of your eyes and ears leftists.