The Total End Of MSM Credibility

The Total End

Of MSM Credibility

by

R.E. Prindle

 

Not only has Faux News been hi-jacked by Leftist commandoes, it appears that the Wall Street Journal has too.  In the weekend (7/10-11/19) issue the paper has devoted a full two page article by one Clint Watts to ‘Our New Terrorism Problem’ followed by ‘lethal white supremacist attack.’

While we might think that Clint Watts is just another Leftist loony he has somehow acquired impressive sounding creds.  Get this:

 

Mr. Watts is distinguished research fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the author of “Messing With The Enemy:  Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians and Fake News,” [Stop that laughing this is serious business.] published by Harper (which like the Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp.).  He is a former FBI special agent and a former executive officer of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.

I’m always suspicious of ‘distinguished fellows.  Bomber Billy Ayers of the Weathermen was a ‘distinguished professor’ at UIIlinois.   And note News Corp own the WSJ and Harpers while publishing Watt’s book.

 

In fact the formula for responding to ‘America’s white supremacist terrorists emergency’ is quite clear- because of our hard won experience in fighting jihadists from Al Qaeda and its spawn, Islamic State we must swiftly and carefully apply the best practices of the two decades since 9/11/2001 to counter this decade’s domestic terrorist threat by passing new laws, increasing resources and enhancing investigators capabilities.

What sort of hot house steam room are this guy and his fellows living in?  There is no White Supremacist threat.  In a country filled with revolutionary Moslems, Mexican revanchists, Chinese expansionists and what have you this noodlehead thinks that a non-existent White Supremacist organization is a major threat that pushes all other concerns aside and needs more legal erosion of our rights, spending more vast sums of money and heavier surveillance of no one knows whom while foreign terrorists are given a free hand, free from any suspicion, and their anti-American operations funded by the US government.  Politicians tremble in fear of being called racist by their enemies so they wage war against Americans.  Is anyone paying attention to this nonsense?

Watts has a seriously compromised intelligence.  Has he heard of the Democrats’ suicide contingent and its large and well funded and armed paramilitary outfit called antifa for which the police authorities are not to interfere in their criminal activities - that they are to stand down and watch antifa destroy property and brutalize people?  They say interfering will only make the problem worse?

And the Wall Street Journal has the audacity to endorse and publish Watts’ bushwa?  Good god almighty.

I do not hesitate to say that Watts and the WSJ are so stupid that Watts can say and the WSJ  publishing this:

Lacking any centralized leadership white supremacist terrorism overwhelming involves the online self-radicalization of isolated young men.  As a result, there is no terrorist headquarters to discover and target.

Now, Watts has just compared the non-existent White Supremacist threat of isolated, self-educated on the internet men with Al Qaeda and the Islamic State that has headquarters that can be located and multiple nodes that can be activated as headquarters if one is destroyed and unlimited funding, as does antifa by the way, into the hundreds of billions if not trillions, much of it which has been provided by the US government itself under Obama, one hundred and fifty billion at one swipe, and these Moslem military units remain undefeated  to this day, twenty years on but a few self-educated  so-called White Supremacists  with neither organization nor money are an emergency?

Watts has no credibility and I might add the WSJ has sacrificed theirs by publishing this bilious crap.

Now, who owns New Corp and what is their background?

Peggy Noonan And Alabama Women

Peggy Noonan And Alabama Women

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R.E. Prindle

 

Peggy Noonan came up with an interesting essay in the Wall Street Journal of 11/18-19/17 concerning the sexual issue, specifically concerning Alabama’s Roy Moore, who, as far as I can tell, committed no crimes .

Ever sensitive about Republican sexual peccadilloes the Democratic perverts are forcing Moore to undergo a second confirmatory election to give the Democrats another shot at defeating him.  Good god, how they wish they could have forced Trump into a second confirmatory to give Hilary a second chance of winning and how they would have been driven committable had he won.  Not as bad thing actually as we would have been relieved of the whole miserable lot.

I don’t know that Doug Jones, chosen to run against Moore, has been sexually vetted to insure he is clean, but in any event Peg approvingly quotes Jones:  I’m not in favor of anything that is going to infringe on a woman’s right and freedom to choose.

This is a live issue with certain women: they insist that they choose what they do with their body.  Yes, indeed, but this has societal and legal ramifications with real consequences.

The first issue is when is a woman a woman?  At the time Jerry Lee Lewis was pushed down in the mire for marrying his 13 year old cousin it was legal in his home State; he was completely within the law and his and his wife’s rights.  She should have been free to do with her body as she wished.  Nevertheless Jerry Lee was literally crucified.

Recent laws have pushed statutory rape to the age of eighteen.  Any male who has sexual relations with a sub-eighteen, even by a day, sub-eighteen himself or not is guilty of statutory rape.

At the same time in girls’ or women’s terms any girl still a virgin past sixteen is a retard.  There’s a conflict there isn’t there?  Who is going to deflower the women and yet with few exceptions every girl of sixteen has been deflowered?  Still, women say that it is every woman’s right to do with her body as she wishes.

Let us assume then that a girl becomes a woman at fourteen when her womanly attributes become obvious and she knows it and struts her stuff.  So, the law forbids a woman to function as a woman for four long years when her hormones are driving her crazy.

And this raises the question of prostitution.  If a woman can dispose of her body as she wishes then she has the right to sell her favors.  In this day and age that would be for several thousand dollars a night.  Obviously, the laws as now written prevent women from becoming easy millionaires by forbidding her to use her body as she wishes.  Technically this is unjust.

Even more unjust is arresting some poor John who has done no wrong in purchasing a woman’s product of which she is free to dispose.

Of course, the law forbids a woman from exercising this privilege or right.  Like marijuana advocates say when the product is made legal crime will cease.

This then poses a problem for candidate Doug Jones.  Regardless of whether he favored young women Moore will have been perfectly within his rights, in the above considerations,  in pursuing the women as long as didn’t use force.  Rape, of course, violates the woman’s right.  That they may have acquiesced to the importunatations of Moore doesn’t mean Moore is liable for any censure.  The women have no complaint.  Certainly a firm no or I’ll call the police would have sufficed to dissuade anyone but a rapist.

So, the whole sexual brou ha ha appears to based on outmoded laws or behavior of women if women are to truly have control of their body.  If they err in judgment that is their own concern.  If they want to terminate a pregnancy the day before birth or even murder the new born it is the product of their own body and no concern to society.  Right?

Whammo! We've Reverted To 1984, Pt. I

 

Whammo! We’ve Reverted To 1984, Pt. I

by

R.E. Prindle

 

Now that Trump has been elected and taken office the attack on him has changed.  Gaslighting is in full force.  Of course. the forces led by the warlord George Soros are in open rebellion, rioting in the streets and promising all sorts of condign harassment, but the ‘thinkers’ at the Wall Street Journal take a more subtle approach.  One wonders what Trump means to them.  The reaction can only be compared to when goofball FDR assumed office, or, perhaps Herbert Hoover’s term when everyone piled on. 

In FDR’s first term he was perceived as a threat to democracy by the Right so perhaps Trump is threatening the fantasy world of the Left.  One imagines that they can see their Weltanschauung begin to evaporate into the thin air that they breathe.

Both groups must now construct a Trump to suit their needs.  For the nonce let’s concentrate on a couple articles in the 1/24/17 Wall Street Journal.  One by Bert Stephens, a real Trump hater and the other by William McGurn, no relation to Machine Jack McGurn, who seems more amenable to Trump.

Stephens who I have reviewed before is a regular contributor to the Journal, indeed, one of its editors.  I don’t know how he got his job, nepotism perhaps.  In this effort, accentuate effort, Bret seeks a fictional character who best characterizes Trump.  Needless to say, his speculatives, Willie Stark, Jay Gatsby or the American Psycho are all derogatory including the character he settles on, Thomas Mann’s Peeperkorn from The Magic Mountain.  A character to mock as sub-human.

Bert then runs through derogatory historical characters settling on Napoleon III of whom the Red writer Victor Hugo noted:  He is not an idiot.  With encomiums like that Bret then turns to the grit or meat of his condemnation by turning to that mega icon of the Left, Hannah Arendt.   She who invented the Authoritarian Personality to vilify anyone on the Right.  As Bret saved Hannah for a clinching last two paragraphs I quote, Drumroll:

And then there is Hannah Arendt’s “Origins Of Totalitarianism” with its clear eyed analysis of how public cynicism toward flawed political institutions can be transformed by a wily regime in an assault on foundational concepts of truth, the substitution of facts with Kellyanne Conway’s “alternate facts”.

 

Here the narrative is clear, Bert’s essay is right because he’s based it on a ‘clear eyed’ authority who, being Jewish, can’t be contradicted safely.  If others think Arendt is not the ultimate authority why, then they are just plain kablooey.  And as the master of the subject, as a leader of the right sort of people, thinking and doing the right sort of thing is infallible.  Miss Arendt carefully places her finger on the villains -wily regimes-  who abandon the paths of righteousness favored by the Right Sort, to assault foundational concepts of truth.  Foundational concepts of truth, many think truth is impossible to ascertain, let alone foundational concepts of it whatever they may be.  Sounds darn good though, doesn’t it.  Foundational truths.  Hmm?

One gathers then Miss Arendt and by extension Bret represent the truth, honesty personified.  As Miss Arendt was Jewish writing about Nazis who the bearers of truth and untruth are is clear thus Bret cleverly associates Trum with the Nazis.

What does the ‘assault on truth’ consist of?  The substitution of ‘facts’ with Kellyanne Conway’s ‘alternate facts.’

True facts are true and alternate facts that are automatically false.  Who determines true facts are indeed facts?  What is fact and what is not?  Why the controllers of the narrative.  Who is controlling the narrative here?  Why the Liberals; so facts are determined to serve their ends.  In this case the Liberals presented a pair of photos purporting to show the maximum attendance at Obama’s inauguration on the left hand side and Trump’s on the right.  In these days of photo shopping we are then asked to believe the photos are undoctored.  They may be but the mere presentation of photos does not make facts, but assuming the photos individually are authentic, thus making them ‘facts’, their pairing is wide open to manipulation and thus has to be authenticated, not just accepted, as the Liberals ask.  Their pairing is stated by the Liberals to be a fact.  The truth.  It isn’t.

Representing Trump who declared the pairing to be no fact Kellyanne said the Trumpers had ‘alternate facts’ meaning I presume a different interpretation of the attendance situation.  As the Liberal pairing was a false representation of the situation it was no fact, in fact it was dishonest.  Cleverly seizing the narrative Liberals acted as though their opinion was fact condemning Kellyanne’s ‘alternate facts’ as Orwellian double speak from his novel 1984.  Double speak is something the Democrats are expert at as witness the Obama administration. 

Not surprisingly the sales position of Orwell’s 1984 jumped from obscurity to number 1 on Amazons sales chart.  Note, amazon is only one outlet easily controlled and it was the sole outlet cited.  How many copies of 1984 does one have to buy to manipulate amazon’s sales list on any given day?  A couple hundred or thousand?  Easily and cheaply done and of course they could be returned shortly after the point was made.  The point?  Trump is Big Brother with all that entails and his ‘alternate facts’, which indeed he could certainly have as do any two lawyers in a court of law.

Bret continues his accusation into the last paragraph:

“One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties [of the twentieth century] was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive,”  Arendt writes.  Anyone watching Ms. Conway’s performance with NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday (1/22/17) knows that one needn’t be totalitarians much less elite, to employ the same tactic.

So, Kellyanne was employing a tactic favored by totalitarians but needn’t necessarily be a totalitarian. She’s also beneath our dignity, nothing elitist about her.   This raises the question then do only Nazis or would be totalitarians pursue the tactic of false facts for that is how they portray ‘alternate facts?’ 

Since our Liberal friends, championed here by Bret Stephens, created a false fact in their pairing of two pictures not directly related they are guilty of what they are condemning and hence Nazis and would be totalitarians and agents of the Big Brother of 1984.   People who live in glass houses….

Jeff Bezos Goes Offline

Jeff Bezos Goes Offline

by

R.E. Prindle

So! After a couple decades of being a premier internet innovator Jeff Bezos buys the nearly defunct Washington Post one of the most trashy Liberal papers around.

I mean the New York Times unloaded their Boston acquisition of a couple decades ago as a 7% solution. That’s right, they got back 7% of the billion they paid for it. That seems a little desperate doesn’t it?

Apparently all these newspaper companies are built on the model of Warren Buffett owning numerous other ventures so they’re still in business, merely dumping a money loser that as established press lords they can see no prospect of turning around.

Chicago’s Tribune Corp. is anxious to dump its Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. Once two power houses.

Even at Time-Warner one of the oddest corporate matches of all times, diversity doesn’t pay that much, they’re desperate to sell their major namesake magazine division that is the Time part of the company. AOL Time Warner. First they dumped AOL and now Time, Fortune et al.. I knew Time had erased itself when they aligned with a movie producer and relinquished control. The immediate first thing the movie people did was dump Time’s book division, Just shut it down.

Then they turned Time into a shill of the ADL, AJC, SPLC and Israel. Gosh, I wonder why their sales declined?

Which brings us back to Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post. If he continues the Liberal editorial policies of the Post and the MM it’s only a matter of time before he tires of subsidizing the Post. Therefore he must move to objective reporting rather than being an Administration shill. He doesn’t have to go Right Wing but he does have to take a more cynical view of things rather than being a rah rah cheerleader.

If he is capable of such a daring thing he will be able to vault over the NYTimes, USA Today and all the crap journals. I’ll even subscribe out here on the West Coast. I’m ready for some objective journalism. The reptile press can’t figure out why they’re going down or if they can they’d rather drown than swim with the times. Remember those buggy whips?

Going objective will be a huge leap for Jeff while staffing the Post with an objective crew may be difficult.

We’re rootin’ for you Jeff if you’re our kind of guy. But if you’re the limp wristed type maybe you’ll be able to get a dollar when you sell.