Archive for 2021

THE HUNTER GETS CAPTURED BY THE GAME: CNN Reporter Learns a Valuable Lesson From Ron DeSantis: Investigate.

Do not miss the clip at the above link. If the media were truly objective, I suspect many would be angry with DeSantis’ pushback. But since they abandoned that long ago, it’s a well-deserved response to a series of “how long have you been beating your wife”-style questions.

POLITICO REPORTS BIDEN, DEMS EXPECT GEORGIA LOSS TODAY: If Politico is reporting it on election day, the Dems must know something.

CHINA CENSORS JOURNALISTS, SO DOES THE WEST: Kurt Mahlburg is an Aussie journalist, book author and Christian blogger who details in this piece for the Canberra Declaration just how deep mainstream media censorship of its own dissenting voices has become in recent years. A bit lengthy but well-worth the reading time.

OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves.

DEVIN NUNES TELLS THE TRUTH UNTIL IT HURTS: The more Rep. Devin Nunes was attacked, the more he wanted to understand what was behind the Russia collusion narrative. His opponents couldn’t have been more wrong in how to contain him.

NICE WORDS BUT I DON’T BELIEVE THEM:

OLD AND BUSTED: Turtles all the way down.

The New Hotness? Watergate all the way down: Carl Bernstein calls Trump’s Georgia call ‘far worse than Watergate.’

The Hill, today.

But how does it compare to all of the other Trump moments that Bernstein said was “worse than Watergate?”

Carl Bernstein — Bob Woodward’s old reporting partner — says the tape of Trump admitting to downplaying COVID-19 is worse than Watergate, calling it ‘homicidal negligence.’

Business Insider, September 10th, 2020.

Legendary investigative journalist Carl Bernstein: ‘The Trump presidency is worse than Watergate.’

Business Insider, August 3rd, 2018.

Carl Bernstein: Russia probe feels ‘worse than Watergate.’

Chicago Tribune, November 2nd, 2017.

Will anyone ask Bernstein his thoughts on how Trump compares to Dubya, whom he also compared to Nixon?

Carl Bernstein: Bush Has Done “Far Greater Damage” Than Nixon.

TruthOut, January 24, 2007.

Carl Bernstein: Bush More “Disastrous” Than Nixon.

The Nation, August 8th, 2007.

Senate Hearings on Bush, Now:

Worse than Watergate? High crimes and misdemeanors justifying the impeachment of George W. Bush, as increasing numbers of Democrats in Washington hope, and, sotto voce, increasing numbers of Republicans – including some of the president’s top lieutenants – now fear? Leaders of both parties are acutely aware of the vehemence of anti-Bush sentiment in the country, expressed especially in the increasing number of Americans – nearing fifty percent in some polls – who say they would favor impeachment if the president were proved to have deliberately lied to justify going to war in Iraq.

—Carl Bernstein, Vanity Fair, April 17, 2006.

Flashback: “The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”

Carl Bernstein, 1992.