Another in long history of absolute lack of self awareness.
Ruhle: “We need to cover the Democrats finding their lane and report what this administration is doing.” Soooo… you’re just shilling for one party? Okay.
Category: Media
This category can include topics related to what you see/hear/read about the events happening today as well as what is intentionally NOT reported.
This is a really good synopsis on how the MSM have lost the trust of the people, as well as the residual repercussions that eventually elevated Trump to the White House once again for a second term.
“I see one lie after another sold to us, the unsuspecting public who deserved better. The 51 experts on the Hunter Biden laptop. Russiagate. The generals. COVID leaked from a lab was racist, attempting to close the border from China was racist, the photo op story that was debunked, “Jacob Blake was unarmed,” and on and on it went.”
https://sashastone.substack.com/p/how-the-medias-elitism-cost-them
We all know some who took similar elitist positions, promoting their own warped views, while continually berating any opposing voices. To sum it up, how is that working out for them?
All that is left for those now left behind and ignored, is to continually drum up more angst within their echo chambers (BlueSky) and occasionally organize another event (for the people) that is universally ignored by most everyone.
Now, we see calls for a General Strike. Let’s see, that effort (started in 2022) requires over 10 million signees before they launch their devastating attack to cripple the administration. To date, they’ve gathered a total of about 324k. The problem is, they need about 250k each month to reach their goal before this administration has completed its term. At the rate they are now building support (9k/mo), they’ll finally reach that goal in 1150 years!
There have also been numerous (and humorous) other protests and boycotts, they claim has widespread support but is just the same few dozen loud voices, repeating the same unsubstantiated rants that have been falling on deaf ears for many months now.
One thing I do admire about these folks is their tenacity – as well as completely ignoring factual news reports that contradicts their argument by simply refusing to acknowledge them. Even though they state that they will acknowledge being wrong in the future when they’ve utterly failed to do so so often in the past.
I’ll let the author above summarize how to deal with their superiority complex:
“Or, in simpler terms, get over yourselves”.
And I’ll add: GET SOME PROFESSIONAL HELP!
We’ve all heard these well timed reports in the past by the MSM and government officials. Suddenly, everyone with a microphone in front of them all start repeating the same phrase ad nauseum. Often, there is a certain phrase to denote this action but not always. Similarly, a specific topic is pulled out of the air and they all mirror their coverage to attempt to reinforce that point.
Here is a fiery and energetic textbook example from our not too distant past:
I’ll register them here going forward and we’ll see how big the list gets. They seem to try a new tactic every week – and still haven’t caught on that no one is listening to them. Since, these stories usually always “break” on the weekends, I’ll use Mondays to try to predict the new theme.
3/4/2025:
Sorry, but have been busy prepping a car to be traded off. However, this one was just too easy to ignore so will let the clip speak for itself very redundantly.
Notice, how not a single one of them can offer a shred of proof? They just use their tried and true fear mongering and their obedient lemmings fall in line.
02/23/2025:
Being still early on Sunday, I haven’t detected a particular phrase. But, it’s early and the Sunday news programs often kick off new campaign so we’ll wait and see. However, one thing I am noticing is everyone is alarmed that traditional “norms” are now being violated by the new administration.
Newsflash, inviting invaders to invade our nation isn’t a norm. Having male senate staffers having sex in the Senate hearing room and filming it is not a norm. Having your cross dressing nuclear energy official steal luggage from airports isn’t a norm. Telling mentally ill men and boys they can go into girls and women’s private facilities and subjugate us is not a norm. Teaching little girls they are boys and little boys they are girls is not a norm. Pushing letter people porn into k thru 12 schools is not a norm.
THE PRESS LAST YEAR: “Harrison Butker (a current NFL Pro Bowl kicker) needs to shut up on social issues, no one cares what an NFL kicker has to say!”, when speaking at a private Christian college and lifting up traditional family and Christian values – you know, what used to be called “NORMS”!
THE PRESS THIS YEAR: “Hey everyone! Here is a guy who is washed-up punter from over a decade ago – you NEED to hear him call Trump a Nazi!!!”
02/21/2025:
Last weeks message was that there was a rift growing between Trump and “President” Musk. All were saying Musk had seized power and Trump was fuming. In actuality, Musk is advising the rightful president, who is making all of the decisions. Of course, all of it was quickly debunked with a side-by-side sit down interview soon after the reports were issued.
FINALLY, they get proof of the crashing bromance between Trump and Musk.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he’d like to see Musk “get more aggressive.”
See that? He thinks Musk isn’t working hard enough! Liberal media, do your thing!
Moving on to their latest example from this week, is another story that they all seem to be echoing in unison. This latest charge now is Trump voter remorse.
In nearly every case cited, those supposedly regretting their vote voice their displeasure due to policies that were a major and often repeated point of his platform and was promoted throughout the campaign.
“When we said safer borders, I thought he was thinking, ‘let’s stop the drugs from coming into the country,’” Staci White, a 49-year-old from Omaha, Nebraska, told the paper. “I didn’t know he was going to start raiding places.”
Really? He literally has been promising for over a year that he would carry out “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”
Another voter claims she is “absolutely embarrassed” she voted for Trump because, among other things, his focus on deportations. Another mentioned Trump’s tariff threats against Mexico and Canada.
Again a major part of his platform. Again, are we really supposed to believe these Trump voters were blinded by Trump following through on his long-established campaign promises? Not only was Trump talking about imposing reciprocal tariffs on other countries throughout his campaign, but Trump’s tariff threats literally achieved exactly what Trump wanted.
Over on Fox News Channel, Jessica Tarlov claimed that a (unnamed of course) 20-year-old college student from the Midwest and a conservative, pro-Trump family found himself turned off by the “chaos” of the Trump administration—I’m not sure what the chaos is, exactly—and Trump’s tariffs on China, as if he didn’t campaign on that very issue.
So now, there is a groundswell of disillusioned and regretful Trump voters that are distraught over him doing exactly what he promised all along?
This entire narrative of regretful Trump voters feels like a yet another coordinated psyop designed to undermine his presidency . The media, desperate to manufacture the illusion of widespread buyer’s remorse, has trotted out a handful of supposedly disillusioned supporters who claim they had no idea Trump would actually follow through on his most well-known promises. Are we really supposed to believe that these voters—who backed a candidate famous for his tough stance on immigration, tariffs, and draining the swamp—are now suddenly shocked and appalled that he’s doing exactly what he said he would?
Some examples in reverse chronological order:
- Trump voter remorse
- Trump/Musk feud
- The purge
- Constitutional crisis
- Threat to Democracy
- Firing squad
- Bloodbath
- Existential threat
- x
- Russia, Russia, Russia
- Walls are closing in
xx
This guy has some guts. From what I can tell, he still works there. At least he did up until now but will likely be soon looking for a new gig for having an opinion. However, it is a fascinating read on how the fog lifted for him and how he tried (in vain) to address it.
Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think.
“It’s true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding.
In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust
My beef is with those who followed a similar path but refuse to reflect on that journey or what it has done to this country, the media and society in general. I’ve sensed a growing segment of this crowd realizing their mistake and falling silent but there are still those doubling down and launching more salvos from their echo chambers. Thankfully, those salvos are increasingly falling a deaf ears.
This response sums it up well:
Going out on a limb here but guessing she is too stupid to be embarrassed by that statement. But keep on clapping along you trained seals and those regularly tuning in. Your Oracle has spoken and you all can be once again amazed at her sheer brilliance.
Since the last thread on this topic was once again hijacked, I’ve created another to actually address this topic. The previous thread turned into another sprawling mess that I hope to condense and clean up – eventually.
While the media is now warning us to only get the news from THEM (and to NOT do your own research), others are trumpeting to DO your own research, but only from valid, accredited and vetted sources. The problem with this argument is you’re only getting HALF of the story, and that “vetting” has repeatedly failed them as they consistently end up on the wrong side of the story when the facts eventually emerge.
My take has always been to REMEMBER what the source has stated before to determine if they are credible going forward. However, when you see/hear nearly ALL the established media repeating the exact same script (word-for-word), you really wonder what their motives are and who is distributing the scripts that they all follow. When you hear them all echoing the exact same thing, you can be sure there is no longer any independent investigation happening and they are all simply reinforcing the narrative (aka propaganda).
It certainly reinforces the news we see lately where legacy media is crashing with failing revenues and viewership, while independent sources are rocketing to the top and thriving.
“Because for an industry that owes its existence to the trust of its readers and viewers, most of news media decided instead to play the arrogance card and take advantage of that trust.
Rather than being merely the observer and then objective reporter of what’s happening on the field, today’s journalists got the bizarre idea (from who knows where) that they are as good or even better than the actual players and thus inserted themselves in the game. This despite the fact that no one actually wanted to see them on the field”.
I will admit that this can be extremely dangerous to our democracy as many independent sources lack the standards to research and verify their sources and only exist to reinforce their views. However, as we learned from the Hunter laptop story, the alternative is those striving to control every aspect of our lives taking over to decide what is truth and those with memories can easily recall how well that worked out.
Biden’s AI plan to censor you revealed: Researchers say Americans can’t ‘tell fact from fiction’
“one researcher told NSF officials “broad swaths of the public cannot effectively sort truth from fiction online.” The researcher specifically called out “military veterans, older adults, military families” and those in “rural and indigenous communities” as particularly vulnerable to believing misinformation.”
Hmmm. They left out those put on watch lists for the unforgivable action of purchasing a bible.
Once again, I emphasize having some recall:
- What was reported and by whom?
- What happened to opposing views?
- After the facts eventually emerged, which position was correct?
The cabal behind the new measures above already tried the “Disinformation Governance Board” which was soundly rejected so have now relabeled it as the “Trust & Authenticity in Communication Systems”.
As always, such efforts show contempt for the American people. They claim Americans could not tell fact from fiction online and that conservatives were even more susceptible than the public at large.
Americans are too stupid to distinguish truth from lies on their own, so they need benevolent leftists to handle everything so that we poor unwashed need not trouble our empty heads over matters that are too hard for us to understand.
Not surprising. These are much the same arguments I’ve had from visitors to this site. They all share the trait of waking up to a new history every day with no acknowledgement of what has gone down in the past.
And here is the latest example. Remember all of the hoopla last week about the amazing “jobs created”? No one mentions the numbers are always inflated upon release but then are ALWAYS quietly downgraded in the following weeks. The rosy January report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is already crashing.
However, once again, a truth emerges that you won’t see reported in the MSM.
“Birth/Death assumptions” means just that. The BLS assumes that so many jobs were created or destroyed and (kind of) fixes the imaginary numbers when the real data come in. Now you know why jobs always seem to get revised downward. Seeking Alpha adds that “many believe the Household survey is a more accurate measure of employment when compared to the headline number.”
What is becoming painfully obvious to these bad actors is they have lost their grip on shaping public opinion. Of course there are still some who will blindly ignore the blatant transgressions of the past several years, but the vast majority of their support has simply fallen silent and melted away.
So instead, they are forced to play the only card they have remaining by once again censoring any opinion that contradicts the approved narrative.
With so many now getting their news from independent sources, I don’t understand how they think this is going to work.
UPDATE 11/2/2024
Since we are now 4 days out from the election, let’s review where we are at on this topic. The amount of BS spewed out has been nothing but phenomenal, but thankfully, NO ONE is listening to them anymore as their audience dries up and their “journalists” flee the sinking ship.
Just review what has transpired the past several months as you digest the discussion below. I have to stifle the urge to say I-TOLD-YOU-SO!!!!!
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