A TOUGH CHOICE: Worst of MSNBC 2017.
Archive for 2017
December 31, 2017
SHOCKED, SHOCKED: Sean Davis: The Top Ten Underreported Stories of 2017.
KINGS OF FAKE NEWS: This Is CNN.
A YEAR END LIST YOU CAN BE GLAD YOU AREN’T ON: The craziest medical mishaps of 2017.
FIXING OBAMA’S MISTAKES: Iranian Protestors Rally for Regime Change And Freedom, Trump Calls For Support.
MISANDRIST AND PROUD: Auld Lang Syne: HuffPo Feminist Writer Resolves to “Kill All Men” in Hateful Tweet.
A MORE PROACTIVE HR? THAT’LL IMPROVE THE COMPANY BOTTOM LINE: What bosses need to do now in the #metoo era.
FIFTEEN OF THESE ARE WISHFUL THINKING: 18 crazy things that will happen in 2018.
INCLUDE ME OUT: New Year’s Eve in Times Square sounds like a urine-soaked hell.
NEWS YOU CAN USE! Ben Franklin made up 200 terms for being wasted.
BE CAREFUL OUT THERE: Flu widespread in 36 states, CDC reports.
December 30, 2017
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AN OPEN THREAD FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT: Discuss your New Year’s Eve plans or whatever else interests you!
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Why Can’t the American Media Cover the Protests in Iran?
The short answer is that the American media is incapable of covering the story, because its resources and available story-lines for Iran reporting and expertise were shaped by two powerful official forces—the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Obama White House. Without government minders providing them with story-lines and experts, American reporters are simply lost—and it shows.
It nearly goes without saying that only regime-friendly Western journalists are allowed to report from Iran, which is an authoritarian police state that routinely tortures and murders its political foes.”
Read the whole thing. And note this:
Networks like like CNN and MSNBC which have gambled their remaining resources and prestige on a #Resist business model are in even deeper trouble. Providing media therapy for a relatively large audience apparently keen to waste hours staring at a white truck obscuring the country club where Donald Trump is playing golf is their entire business model—a Hail Mary pass from a business that had nearly been eaten alive by Facebook and Google. First down! So it doesn’t matter how many dumb Trump-Russia stories the networks, or the Washington Post, or the New Yorker get wrong, as long as viewership and subscriptions are up—right?
The problem, of course, is that the places that have obsessively run those stories for the past year aren’t really news outfits—not anymore. They are in the aromatherapy business. And the karmic sooth-sayers and yogic flyers and mid-level political operators they employ as “experts” and “reporters” simply aren’t capable of covering actual news stories, because that is not part of their skill-set.
That dovetails perfectly with Robert Tracinski’s theory regarding the hard left bias of the network late night TV hosts – it’s the only way to keep what’s left of a inexorably shrinking audience.
THE EDC TOURNIQUET: Development And Application.. There’s a surprisingly large civilian market.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Why Does CNN International Maintain a Twitter Blackout On This Major Event?
There are now a couple of tweets at CNN International around the theme of “President Trump tweets his support for protests taking place in Iran, writing, ‘The world is watching!’” and the same text adding, “Corrects to show photo of anti-government protests instead of pro-government protests.” But CNN International certainly isn’t watching. Their tweets include such blockbuster news as:
● “YouTube’s top viral video in 2017 was a singing man in an oyster costume. And who could forget the time this professor’s adorable kids crashed his BBC interview?”
● “It takes 300 people, 12,000 parts and a year to make a single Steinway & Sons piano. Here’s how the pianos are made.”
● “Apple offers $29 replacement batteries immediately.”
● “The World Health Organization will recognize gaming disorder as a mental health condition in 2018.”
● “Here are the full lyrics to ‘Auld Lang Syne’ so you don’t mumble your way through it.”
● “These were the exotic supercars of 2017.” *
Contrast that with a scroll down Glenn’s Twitter homepage right now. In order to prop up the mullahs and former President Obama, and avoid Trump being able to brag about spreading democracy during his watch, CNN International really seems determined to live-up to how the late Roger Ailes described the network to Brian Lamb in 2004:
Or as Jim Treacher once said:
* Exotic supercars? How can CNNi praise them when parent company CNN reported “John Kerry: Climate change as big a threat as terrorism, poverty, WMDs” in 2014?
WE NEED A UNIVERSAL FLU VACCINE: As flu epidemic spreads, 11 deaths reported in San Diego County, Calif.
On the other hand, if we had a universal vaccine, and nobody got the flu for 20-30 years, and then a mutant strain emerged that the vaccine didn’t stop, would it be a “virgin field” type epidemic that would kill huge numbers of people? Not sure.
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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: College Presidents Say: “Hate Speech Is Not Free Speech:” But there’s no “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment. They hope that if they pretend otherwise, their view will eventually come true.
A LITTLE LATE? Barack Obama urged to make public statement in support of Iranian protesters. Sorry, Obama picked sides already in this fight, though to be fair some of his hangers-on are already trying to credit him with overturning the Mullahs’ regime.
CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS: “Feminism has been hijacked.” “The polls show that feminism has always struggled to win the hearts and minds of the majority of people. Most women don’t identify as feminists. It’s become kind of fashionable, but I’m not sure what the consequences will be. I think feminism might alienate as many as it attracts. I think it’ll certainly scare away most men, because it seems, in its current form, very male averse.”
Ya think?
CNN’S IRAN CORRESPONDENT: World Thinks That America Doesn’t Have A ‘Moral Leg To Stand On’ [VIDEO].
And as Ace notes, “This Is CNN: Oh, they did cover the Iran rallies. The pro-government Iran rallies, I mean.”
Meanwhile, as Stephen Miller writes at Fox News, “The New York Times simply described the protests as economic grievances, the same way Iranian state-run television described them,” adding:
How will the Obama Presidential Library wing look celebrating a nuclear deal with an oppressive Iranian regime that could possibly be deposed by security forces and the military joining with protesters, thirsty for democracy and a return to an Iran before the 1979 revolution?
More to the point, how will it look if the Trump administration, of all things, facilitates and encourages such change in Iran?
The prospect of this is not lost on the self-styled resistance and anti-Trump media, all too anxious to witness the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Obama Library or hand a Nobel Prize to former Secretary of State John Kerry.
Overseeing the fall of an oppressive, hardline Iranian regime that sponsors terror all around the globe – followed by the rise of a democratic Iran not interested in aggression against its neighbors – would be a foreign policy victory for President Trump, one of the biggest for a president since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Take a bow, Valerie Jarrett and Ben Rhodes: In order to buy an extra 15 minutes for the charade of Obama’s Iran deal, you’ve reduced the DNC-MSM to shilling for the Iranian mullahs. I’ve heard vague reports they’re not entirely woke when it comes to LGBT issues and intersectional feminism, but I’m sure that’s all just rumors and hearsay.