George Rebane
All nations that have yielded to a political monopoly have descended into autocracy on the road to tyranny.
[3nov20] Starting today – Election Day – we are going to witness an historic ramping up of fake news, Big Lies, and propaganda from the Left’s lamestream media channels. This will be the likes of something we have never seen, exceeding or at least rivalling the 19th century ante-bellum press reports and political commentaries. Finding reliable news sources to monitor the progress of the election and public square responses in the coming days will be difficult. Readers are invited to share links to outlets they consider reliable. And our leftwing readers are encouraged to present evidence about conservative outlets that are participating in this national charade.
Reader Barry Pruett sent this photo of Reno voters waiting in a long line to vote.
[4nov20 update] Fox News election reporting is a puzzle. Their projections continue to change without providing any evidence as to why. I’ve been a longtime critic of their claim to be “Fair, balanced, and unafraid.” As even some national conservative commentators (e.g. Rush Limbaugh) are starting to point out, FN has added a new reason to be afraid – the ire of the Murdochs, their ‘Never Trump’ owners. ‘Fair’ and ‘balanced’ are unachievable, and FN has always been a bit skittish in straying too far to the right of the lamestream. The choice of verbiage for their news copy is a dead giveaway. It’s a sad state of affairs when the best available outlet is also visibly tainted.
The Economist is clueless when it comes to interpretations of Americana and what’s going on in the United States, and its reportage regularly reflects that. But that ‘newspaper’ has something going for it that makes it a rare remaining class act in journalism. It is a privately owned enterprise and makes no pretense of being fair and balanced. It has a definite list to port of which it is proud, and you can see it reflected in almost every news article it publishes where it marbles its editorial ideology with its interpretation of the reported happenings; and that goes double for its opinionated commentators. Now that is what I call unafraid journalism. Take a look at the front cover of its most recent print edition – no puzzle there as to their position on our politics.
Pass the barf bag. I’ve had it to the gills with all these heavy duty journalists and experts on TV finding new and not so ingenious ways of saying, ‘I don’t know, beats the hell out of me’ when asked a question about who may win this or how that state will go. They’re paid big bucks to lay their balls on the line and make some kind of firm prognostication from all the data they’ve seen, the elections they’ve covered, and time they’re now spending puzzling on probable outcomes. I can say ‘I don’t know all by my lonesome.’ The only reason I tune in to those chowder heads is to glean some insight that my little pea brain has missed. Instead, we get these tautologies, ‘Well, if it keeps going like this, then X will happen, and if it turns around and goes the other way, then Y will happen (or worse, simply ‘X will not happen’)’. Well no shit Hoppy! What a load of crap they feed us between 5-minute commercial breaks.
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