George Rebane
Two-faced reporting. How many times have we seen the same liberal reporter be comfortable with two distinct narratives depending on whether they are on FN or NPR, CNN, or any other lamestream outlet. Unfortunately, NPR’s politics correspondent and a woman of gravitas, Mara Liasson is such a two-faced journalist. As an FN panelist for years, she always presents very balanced views of the topics discussed. However, when we see her elsewhere, especially on NPR’s home turf, Mara becomes an extremely convincing hyper-partisan with an extremely effective delivery of the current TDS narrative. Last Saturday morning Mara did her pirouette from Trump-the-Russian-colluder to Trump-the-one-who-Russia-put-in-the-WH. With her even pitched alto voice she intoned how “All of our intelligence agencies agree that Russia influenced our election in Trump’s favor”. With that assertion she would have been eaten alive on FN. There was no discernment between ‘sought to influence’ (for which there is evidence), and “influenced” (for which successful fait accompli there is absolutely no evidence). But Mara, a true patriot of the progressive cause, let her NPR audience know again that Trump’s 2016 victory remains illegitimate and a fraud perpetrated by a foreign power. And frosting on the cake was her accusation that Trump attempted to “cover up Russia’s influence”(??!!), all which is the new post-collusion narrative heading into the election now that the four-year collusion farce has proved to be an embarrassment.
‘Largest ever DMT survey travels to the fringes of psychedelic science’. This psychedelic drug – also known as psilocybin and formally N,N-dimethyltryptamine – is today “on the cusp of final FDA approaval as groundbreaking PTSD (and suicide) treatment.” An additional benefit of the widespread use of this drug will accrue to the elderly who often are depressed, lonely, and desperately are trying to stave off their fear of death. DMT would literally then give them new lives for their remaining years. (more here)
Obamagate – “… the fact is that we already have more compelling evidence that the Obama administration engaged in misconduct than we ever did for opening the Russian-collusion investigation.” (more here) And this is not a conspiracy, it is instead the beginning of a large-scale criminal investigation that will be driven by evidence made widely accessible, and opposed by all the forces of collectivism and globalism that are taking an historic hit during this hyper-fabricated C19 ‘crisis’. Having said that, the outcome is by no means certain, given the Left’s control of our media, education, entertainment, and the deluge of embedded dumbth that has already covered the land. The proponents of Obamagate may well end up in re-education camps.
[18may20 update] Sanctuary cities are popping up, much to the chagrin of lockdown liberals. Atwater, CA is one of the latest as reported here in the American Thinker. (H/T to reader) I guess both sides can have sanctuary cities, “sanctuary from tyrannical government draining the lifeblood from the people”. “The Dems are discovering that with sanctuary cities, what goes around … comes around.” The Left’s sanctuary cities are designed to weaken America, and the Right’s are hell-bent on saving America. In our Sandbox you can see the glee with which liberals report any rise in C19 cases, again confirming what future they all root for.
[19may20 update] Interesting column by George Boardman in the 19may20 Union (here). His outline of the cases facing SCOTUS is informative and reveals just a tinge of his TDS and political leanings. He also gives today’s betting industry a treatment. Bad news for sports-betting going forward, but he does encourage the ability to place bets on distinct outcomes of non-sports events like election winners, political appointments, sex-abuse allegations, etc. Readers will recall that RR also described such a betting market with proceeds going to winner-designated charities. All in all, Mr Boardman gave us some good food for thought.
Reopening the country is yet one more polarizing experience for America. This is now beginning to be seen by national commentators in major publications. Such an attitude toward returning to a healthy post-covid state of affairs was apparent to many of us two months ago. RR readers were aware of and extensively started discussing this ‘perfect storm’ for progressives. Writers like congress critter Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) asks and answers ‘Why Does Reopening Polarize Us?’, and he almost gets it right (here). His labored insight is that “The divide over lockdowns reflects deeper differences in attitudes about risk, liberty and morality.” Actually, he misses it on ‘risk’ and ‘morality’, but hey, batting 333 is good in any league. The Dems have the exact same assessment of reopening risk as do the Repubs; both know that the economy will bloom again and the deaths will be minimal when we reopen. The Right welcomes it, the Left is terrorized by it. And morality as a guiding principle for the Left is and always has been a joke – recall cracked eggs and omelettes. Today we hear a lot of them promote lockdown policies with use the old moral shibboleth, ‘If it saves even one life, then it’s worth doing.’ According to Rebane Doctrine, that competes for the all-time, most butt-stupid belief award, especially when held by public officials.
Covering anything beyond the C19 news is now a “diversion” as far as the Dems and their lamestream lackeys are concerned – that’s the new narrative. Never mind what all else is going on in the world, and especially in the rapidly developing Obamagate case involving Gen Flynn and three years of Russia collusion lies fostered by federal agencies at the highest levels. And a judge who is so far outside the law that it defies classification – a court is supposed to adjudicate cases that are brought to it by legal adversaries, when none exist, then the judge of the court has no legal basis for starting to beat the bushes in order to make/revive a case. But that makes no never mind to the evil Dems, the only news that’s fit to print today involves only their allegations against the Trump administration.
Hear about the new regs prescribing how the NFL must recruit head coaches? Yep, the gummint has a new role defined for itself. Now each team looking for a new head coach must certify that it has included at least two, count ‘em, two blacks for the job. There’s a new one for the land of the free and the home of the brave. Any peoples willing to put up with this kind of bullshit deserves its chains. As Pogo once said, ‘We have met the enemy, and he is us.’
C19 testing continues as a source of abundant heat and no light. The Dems are still screaming about the lack of testing. All the while hundreds of thousands of test kits are sitting on shelves all over the country unwanted and unused. No one yet has any idea about what kind of tests should be used in what kind of feasible testing programs to support what kind of public policy decisions. The only use for ‘testing’ in America is as a political football played by politicians and watched by over 300 million double dummies who have no idea what the real issues are. We just sit there and nod or shake our heads, depending … . (example here) Check on Pogo, one mo’ tahme.
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