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‘The News Media Explain It Just Fine!’

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Hi there! Mr. Nature is out there watching ants or something, so I thought I might as well take his place today–I, Dr. Credulous! Sit down and have a drink of Kool-Aid!

You know, a lot of people are saying our free and independent press has lost a lot of its credibility lately, especially in light of some really big stories, just recently, that they totally got wrong. To which I answer, “Pshaw!”

I choose rather to believe the editors, publishers, and news anchors at The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and all the rest of them. They said, “We don’t investigate the stories; we just report the news.” Well! Does that say it all, or what?

Besides, who says they got any of those stories wrong?

The “Covington kids” really did seek out a poor old defenseless Native American and smirk at him. I seen the picture!

Jussie Smollett really was attacked by white supremacists pretending to be these two guys from Nigeria, or whatever it was. Didn’t the DA in Chicago give him a total free pass?

Donald Trump really did tell that Cohen guy to lie, we all know Mr. Cohen would never tell a lie unless the president ordered him to; and for Special Prosecutor Mueller to say the story wasn’t true was just his way of being a nice guy.

And also Russiagate was real. I don’t care what they say. Obviously the Mueller team was paid off by Trump to cover it all up.

And how, you ask, do I know that all those things are true?

Because the news media said they were, that’s how!

I’m Dr. Credulous, setting the record straight.

Putin, Russia Outlaw Fake News

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“Are you showing disrespect to me??”

As America’s politicians gnash their teeth for envy, Vladimir Putin’s compliant Russian legislature this month has outlawed “disrespect” and “fake news” (https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2019-03-19/putin-passes-law-punishing-fake-news-and-content-insulting-or-disrespectful-to-russia).

The Russian government–that is, Mr. Putin–will decide what is fake news. And if they bust you for it, you’ll face fines and/or a prison sentence.

As for “disrespect,” that’ll be punished pretty harshly, too. Just to keep people on their toes, they haven’t defined “disrespect” or declared which public figures are to be immune from it. Here in America, that would be all Democrats and their clients.

We are unable to confirm reports that the Democrat National Committee has sought Putin’s advice in drafting the party’s 2020 platform.

 

Covington Kids Sue Media

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Good news!

The Covington Catholic High School kids who were smeared by Far Left nooze media are suing The Washington Post for a whopping $250 million, with more lawsuits to come (https://www.theblaze.com/news/breaking-family-of-covington-teen-nails-washington-post-with-a-massive-lawsuit?utm_content=buffer2261c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=theblaze). The suit says the Washington Post “ignored basic journalistic standards.” Ya think?

The students, peaceably waiting for their bus after taking part in a massive pro-life demonstration in Washington, D.C., were first heckled and taunted with racist insults by some doofuses calling themselves “Black Hebrew Israelites,” and then accosted by a “Native American activist” who marched up and banged his stupid drum in their faces. For this the media rushed to label them racists-biggits-haters picking on a poor old Cherished Minority man.

On WOR radio this morning Mark Simone pointed out that the full 30-minute video of the incident, which clearly showed that the students were the ones under unprovoked attack, had always been available on Youtube for everyone to see–but our free and independent press either didn’t bother to watch it or else just ignored everything that didn’t fit their “narrative” [English translation: “bulls*** fake news].

It’s about time! As long as our nooze media recklessly ignores the truth in its rush to turn America into a socialist hell-hole, they need to be held accountable for stirring up racial and cultural animosity.

Sue their freakin’ pants off!

‘Journalists’ Fall for Another Hoax

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Not exactly a “news anchor,” but he’ll do

Speaking of noozies totally falling for hoaxes and rushing to “report” false information as “news”…

Last week The New York Times, Washington Post, and Bloomberg News all shouted from the housetops the “news” that a new “study” had revealed massive discrimination against women in the high-tech industry (https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/02/18/journalists-fall-for-completely-fake-stats-about-sexism-in-tech/). According to the hoax, when women applied for tech jobs without revealing their sex, 54% of them were offered interviews; but when they did reveal that they were women–thousands of ’em, by the way–only 5% were invited to an interview.

Oops. The source of this “study” is no longer available, no one can find its supposed authors, it wasn’t published anywhere–and it may not actually exist in any form at all!

That didn’t stop the noozies from leaping aboard the bandwagon and using each other as their sources. When I was a newspaperman, they used to call that “rewrite”: lift the story from another paper and change a few of the words.

Now they’ve got egg on their faces and are quietly whispering their mea culpas.

It never occurred to anyone in the noozerooms that the story was preposterous on its face. Like, only 5% of computer jockeys are women? You mean people who get paid real money for being reporters… believed that? Even for a minute?

Of course they did. It fits their “narrative” that America is a sexist hell-hole and needs to be ruled by liberals with Hillary Clinton in the White House. Only leftids can clean up this mess! So they ran with the story. Like they always do.

In writing the First Amendment, complete with its guarantee of freedom of the press, our country’s founders never anticipated that practically the whole freakin’ news industry would make itself worthless as a source of information. Live and learn.

Meanwhile, we can’t be confident that any of the nooze we hear is true.

The Easiest Question in the World to Answer

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In the wake of yet another ballyhooed “hate crime” revealed as a hoax–instantaneously embraced by every prominent Democrat, celebrity, and nooze media dullard–a writer for PJmedia.com asks what has to be the easiest question in the world to answer:

“Why does the media keep falling for obvious hoaxes?” (https://pjmedia.com/trending/why-does-the-msm-keep-falling-for-obvious-hoaxes/

Ooh-ooh, I know! I know! [Raises hand, waves it furiously; jumps up and down in seat]

Uh, it’s because they want these stupid stories to be true!

They have this “narrative”–euphemism for “stupid mythology that only a real jerk would believe in”–that says America is this hateful, violent, racist, homophobic, sexist, no-good stinkin’ place that perversely refuses to allow itself to be ruled and managed and dictated to by liberals. So naturally us Americans attack Persons Of Color and Proud LGBTQ Persons every chance we get. We usually wear our MAGA hats, too, when we do it.

So some drip of a TV celebrity manufactures a “hate crime” and every lib shouts their outrage from the housetops–and it turns out not to be true.

Mark Steyn once said, commenting on yet another phony hate crime, “Now they’re mad at us for not hating them enough!” Bullseye, brother.

But the fake nooze media want those stories to be true, so whenever they catch the scent of one, they run with it. And when the lie trips them up, they immediately start hunting for another.

This Is Journalism? Teens Demanding Vaccinations?

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The gang at the Chicago Tribune–do they truly think we can’t see their bias?

The headline reads, “Unvaccinated teens fact-checking their parents and trying to get shots on their own” (https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/ct-anti-vaccine-parents-20190210-story.html). Like, how many times, when you were 14 or 15 years old, did you find yourself sitting on the porch steps and thinking, “Gee whiz, I wish I could get more vaccinations! Confound my parents! What could they be thinking of?” Hint: never.

The Trib digs up one 18-year-old who posted such a thought on Reddit–“god [sic] knows how I’m still alive”–and from it extrapolates a mass movement among teenagers who want to be vaccinated against freakin’ everything. This kid’s parents didn’t think so. The fact that he’s still alive casts doubt on the urgent necessity for beaucoup vaccines. His Reddit post did get a lot of comments, from which the Trib deduces “a growing discussion online.”

And they begin a sentence with the words, “As anti-vaccination movements metastasize…” You know–like cancer. Cancer metastasizes. Ooh! Doggone dogma!

This is ideology. Secular humanists keep promising to deliver us an earthly paradise, free from disease and poverty and bad dates, etc., if only we’ll all do as they say. In their world, no disease will be allowed–so there, God! You couldn’t do that, but we can! If only the ignorant rabble will obey us. So their own dogma demands that everyone be vaccinated against everything; and then, if a disease does turn up somewhere, it must be because some religious fanatics failed to heed the government.

I wonder what my parents would have thought of me “fact-checking” them. They didn’t generally use the word “hubris,” but in that event it would have come in handy.

I really shouldn’t need to add that some vaccinations have done good (the smallpox vaccine, just to name one)–but to vaccinate against every possible disease is just utopian humanism running wild. But then it doesn’t know any other way to run.

Stupor Bowl Ad Urges America to Respect the Nooze Media

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If you had nothing better to do yesterday than to watch the Stupor Bowl–really: no sock drawers to sort out? no paint to watch drying?–you probably saw a commercial by the Washington Post citing a number of journalistic martyrs who died or disappeared in the line of duty (http://www.therepublic.com/2019/02/03/us-super-bowl-super-bowl-ads-the-latest/). Narrated by left-wing actor Tom Hanks, who used to be funny, way back when, the ad concludes with the WaPo motto, “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”

Gimme a break.

Didn’t we just see CNN list a disgraced Democrat governor as a Republican? Didn’t the nooze media just report that President Trump ordered his lawyer to lie to investigators–a whopper big enough to move witch-hunter Robert Mueller to declare the story “not accurate”? Didn’t they just try to put over a fictitious “FBI report” that Donald Trump is working as a Russian agent? And then there was that malarkey they spouted about the kids from Covington Catholic High School being racists-biggits-haters.

But we could list nooze media lies all day long and not run out of them.

In fact, WaPo, “democracy” dies when it submerges itself in lies, hysteria, panic, and aggressive ignorance–as ancient historians like Polybius, Plutarch, and Thucydides, and our own country’s founders, knew very well: which is why they took such care to give us not a “democracy,” but a republic.

For our totally unreliable, Democrat Party shill nooze media to try to win us over by trotting out a roll call of murdered journalists is every bit as revolting as some sleazy televangelists likening themselves to the early Christian martyrs.

I wonder how many dozens of viewers fell for this last night.

 

A Time to Stand Firm

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In one of the most spectacular displays of fake news yet, big-time nooze media jumped all over a bunch of high school kids for allegedly “taunting” adult “activists,” as the boys waited for their bus home from the weekend’s March for Life (https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-met-covington-catholic-dc-video-kass-20190122-story.html).

See, a couple of the kids had MAGA hats, so that meant they are White Supremacists so they have to be confronted by “activists” and called names and threatened… so then the nooze media can whip up some video showing the “activists as victims,” and so on.

What really happened? A group of “Black Israelites”–can anybody tell me why any black people would be fanatically devoted to abortion?–started yelling at the kids and calling them names, and then an old fraud of a “Native American activist” ran up and started banging his stupid drum in one kid’s face–and ooh, forsooth! they “bullied” him, too, and him a poor old war hero–and it all goes to prove that these kids have “White Privilege” or something.

Why did I call Big Chief BS a fraud? He’s a professional protester. He goes around the country protesting everything. No visible means of support. Oh– and what, pray tell, is the connection between “Native American activism” and abortion? What a load of pure crapola.

It has now been proved beyond a doubt that the whole incident was concocted, spun, and blown up by the Far Left Crazy and their owners in the nooze media. Even more shameful was the alacrity with which assorted pseudoconservatives who actually conserve nothing hopped on the “Native American activist” phoney’s bandwagon.

And then there was the “CNN personality,” who has no personality, who said, speaking of one of the boys who’d worn a MAGA hat, “Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid’s?” I nominate yours, doofus.

They had to close the kids’ school, Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, and open it again yesterday–with “a heavy police presence” because of all the threats of violence by the Loving Left. As has become the custom among “progressives,” the children’s families were “doxed”–that is, their identities and home addresses revealed, so as to invite vandals or assassins.

Attention, Covington Catholic High School–this is a teachable moment: not just for you, but for all the decent normal people in America. Learn this, and learn it well.

The ungodly are out there in force, desperate to seize control of our country. They hate us, they hate our God, they hate our morality, they hate our way of life. And they lie: the truth is not in them. They are out there seeking to conquer us, to subjugate us–and they must be defeated. There more of us than there are of them, many times more, and we must dedicate ourselves to defeating them. For good. Because the only alternative they’ve left us is to be ruled by them–and we’re not having it.

‘Maybe Lying Newsman Wasn’t Lying’ (2015)

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In addition to being a disaster, Hurricane Katrina, lo those many years ago, was notable for the astonishing number of untrue stories that came out of it.

Untrue news stories, “reported” by alleged professionals.

https://leeduigon.com/2015/02/06/maybe-lying-newsman-wasnt-lying/

Oh, how they longed for that stadium to be filled with dead bodies! How they licked their lips with anticipation, as they waited to “report” that half the people in New Orleans had drowned!

The term “fake news” hadn’t yet been coined, back then. But fake news abounded. Along with fake reporters.

‘Should Journalists Be Beheaded?’ (2016)

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Gee, ya think?

Misbegotten headlines have always been a rich source of accidental comedy (“New insecticide kills aunts on contact!”), but you’d think that today, with all the time and money spent on education, and all the technological back-up, howlers from the press would go extinct. But not so!

“Imam says journalists should be beheaded during Fox News interview.”

https://leeduigon.com/2016/06/15/should-journalists-be-beheaded/

I don’t think the headline writer meant to raise the question of should journalists be behead; and, if so, when and where. I wonder what the answer would be, if you took a nationwide poll. During the actual interview, though–I don’t know. It’d make a mess of the studio.