Archive for 2021

MARK JUDGE: Private Spies, Anti-Trump Lies, and the Christine Blasey Ford Fraud. “With the rise of political spies and opposition researchers, plus the demise of gatekeepers like honest reporters and editors, there are no guardrails in the media anymore. Anyone can make any claim about anyone, and without any proof the story can make it into the media. There are no more reality checks.”

But don’t call it “fake news.” The fakers don’t like it when you do that.

OPEN THREAD: Stay with me, we’ll take the night.

JAMES LILEKS: “What do you do when everyone else is finding horrors in the past — slithery alabaster horrors sliding their tentacles through the loam of the human record, injecting poison into every stratum — and your discipline doesn’t seem to be loaded with evil? You’re eager to help! You want to be an ally! So you reexamine the past, interrogate it. That’s a commonly used word, and it’s amusing, as it makes you think of some hard-boiled precinct captain propping up a dead body in a chair under a single light and grilling him. Confess! You were there, we know it! The more you deny you had anything to do with it, the more we know you’re guilty! So what has to be tossed on the pyre this week? Furniture.”

Pull up a Barcelona Chair and read the whole thing.

NY TIMES CHATBOT TEACHES YOU HOW TO OVERCOME VACCINE SKEPTICS. It appears to be an earnest attempt to teach people how to teach others to come to believe the “right” things, though I can’t escape the feeling that helping people overcome skepticism of government policy is just a super awkward fit for a newspaper.