Excellent, Brent. One of the things that has shocked and dismayed me since moving back to Santa Barbara in 2016 after three decades in NYC is how many people here trust the mainstream media.
Invariably, when people discuss current events - among a crowd at a party or just to me over lunch - I recognize their opinions as exactly what has recently been printed in NYT. They never attribute any of their words to a writer, they simply regurgitate it as if it was coming directly from their own brain.
These people are also, invariably, Trump haters.
At a party my husband and I gave in 2018, I was passing around some crostini to six people excitedly discussing Trump's Russian collusion. I knew I should be a good hostess and not talk politics but I was too disturbed by the lies they were repeating. So I said, “Okay, you've all been reading the New York Times on this, right?” They vigorously nodded. I added “Why on earth do you trust the New York Times?” They all stopped and stared at me. “What kind of idiot wouldn't trust the New York Times?” one sputtered.
I explained that I don't trust the New York Times, that they have lied to their readers repeatedly over the years. For example, during our involvement in Central America, they deliberately buried the money Bush made from drug trafficking. And how about the Weapons of Mass Destruction?
They asked who I trust. “I trust myself,” I said, “to check out anything I read in a news source to the best I can before I accept it as fact. And I can find nothing to support their claims about Trump being a Russian collaborator.”
I explained that I lived among the media when I was in NYC. And that what I learned was there are very few truly independent journalists. Mostly, they are people with high mortgages on their houses in Pelham Manor and children in expensive schools, and mostly their journalistic honesty was compromised long ago at Harvard or Yale or Columbia Journalism School by how much they cared about being seated at the right table.
Stunned silence. Shortly after the party, a longtime friend wrote me “I am extremely fond of you, Polly, but you have become deranged, delusional and dangerous in your support of Trump and we can no longer be friends.” I wrote him back that my support was not for Trump but for the truth. I never heard from him again, and sadly, he passed away in 2020.
So here's how the mainstream media has changed. It was always corrupt. But it allowed for some honest journalists and reporters to publish. Now it is completely corrupt and the honest journalists - like Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald and Miranda Devine - get ridiculed for doing a good job and with the except of Miranda, have to get independently published.
But the real problem is the readers who support the mainstream media propaganda machine. Media wants to make money. We'll never have a completely honest media, but we could have a better one if people clicked on news sites for honesty, not just on what makes them feel self righteous, safe in their stupidity and feeds their worst tendency, which is to find a scapegoat to blame for their unhappiness and failures.
Yes, last nights performance should relinquish any and all doubt as if Harris can handle the pressure. Can one imagine if it were Putin across the table?
Kamala responded as many lefty radicals do…in your face, stick it to the man and power to the people!
All 60’s/Alinsky tropes, but still very affective, ie. make whitey think you’re capable of mayhem and violence!
He kept interrupting her to ask her to answer his question, not slide into some off-topic rant. 'Let's be clear, I come from a middle-class family and Trump is a maniac' has nothing to do with Bret's question: "How many illegal aliens have crossed the border since you & Biden took office?"
Have her answer the question and NOT turn it to Biden isn't on the Ballot.... Answer the questions and Good for Brett to keep going as she was late on the minutes were ticking!!!!!!!!!!!
You're right, Dan, as president Kamala will never have to hold her own. Putin will never interrupt her. I don't need a president who can weather interruptions, do you? I just want that smile of hers beaming at me when she announces another little girl has died at the hands of one of her invaders. She's sorry! She really is! But she has a banana republic to pretend to rule over!
What a nice offer but I've watched his press conferences and town halls. I respect your right to vote for who you want, please respect mine. As Santa Barbarans we should all be coming together to save this city. No matter who is the next president this state is in peril.
Oh Mr. Brown, I was just trying to be nice to Kamala because she's had such a difficult life struggling to break through that glass ceiling. She worked her cute tush off for years and years and because she's a woman of some sort of color all she got rewarded with is a presidential nomination.
Rupert Murdoch told his FOX workers when they interview someone it's their airtime, not the airtime of the person being interviewed. Why? Because the interviewed are receiving the benefit of the exposure and should thank the interviewer for his/her time. With Harris, she stupidly knocked Trump continuously to FOX's Trump viewers which would be a big turnoff to them. So no, Dan, Bret didn't interrupt Harris, Bret was running the show, not Harris. See how that really works, Dan!
Watching the pundits today from multiple sources. Clearly, the responses by Kamala Harris during her interview with Fox yesterday, was a complete and utter disaster! Harris was vile, argumentative, arrogant and rude. Come to find out, her staffers were behind camera, waving their arms trying to get Harris to STFU!
But NO, her ego wouldn’t allow herself to show ANY class or intellectual ability. All her responses circulated back for her hatred of Trump.
Slithering and Slimy Harris definitely changed her tactics with Bret Baier going for the Jugular. To be honest, t took me a while to grasp what was going on with my marginal hearing. Instead of immediately going into the word salad approach, Harris avoided the incriminating questions by telling us "The real story," which of course was all BS. For the brain dead, no doubt Harris got through to looking better than usual. I think Bret was a bit unexpecting of a more slithering "intelligent" appearing Harris. Harris managed to overtalk Bret to her own advantage. But when going back to analyze everything Harris said in response to Bret's questions, the interview culminates with Harris appearing as her usual, evil self, spouting new lies stacked up on older lies. In summary, Bret nailed her into illustrating her evasiveness better than any other interviewer to date.
Nice snapshot of how it works, Brent. As a retired vet of the MSM, I wish more people would get some glances of what that business is like! Also a nice snapshot of how things have changed over the years, sigh.
Excellent, Brent. One of the things that has shocked and dismayed me since moving back to Santa Barbara in 2016 after three decades in NYC is how many people here trust the mainstream media.
Invariably, when people discuss current events - among a crowd at a party or just to me over lunch - I recognize their opinions as exactly what has recently been printed in NYT. They never attribute any of their words to a writer, they simply regurgitate it as if it was coming directly from their own brain.
These people are also, invariably, Trump haters.
At a party my husband and I gave in 2018, I was passing around some crostini to six people excitedly discussing Trump's Russian collusion. I knew I should be a good hostess and not talk politics but I was too disturbed by the lies they were repeating. So I said, “Okay, you've all been reading the New York Times on this, right?” They vigorously nodded. I added “Why on earth do you trust the New York Times?” They all stopped and stared at me. “What kind of idiot wouldn't trust the New York Times?” one sputtered.
I explained that I don't trust the New York Times, that they have lied to their readers repeatedly over the years. For example, during our involvement in Central America, they deliberately buried the money Bush made from drug trafficking. And how about the Weapons of Mass Destruction?
They asked who I trust. “I trust myself,” I said, “to check out anything I read in a news source to the best I can before I accept it as fact. And I can find nothing to support their claims about Trump being a Russian collaborator.”
I explained that I lived among the media when I was in NYC. And that what I learned was there are very few truly independent journalists. Mostly, they are people with high mortgages on their houses in Pelham Manor and children in expensive schools, and mostly their journalistic honesty was compromised long ago at Harvard or Yale or Columbia Journalism School by how much they cared about being seated at the right table.
Stunned silence. Shortly after the party, a longtime friend wrote me “I am extremely fond of you, Polly, but you have become deranged, delusional and dangerous in your support of Trump and we can no longer be friends.” I wrote him back that my support was not for Trump but for the truth. I never heard from him again, and sadly, he passed away in 2020.
So here's how the mainstream media has changed. It was always corrupt. But it allowed for some honest journalists and reporters to publish. Now it is completely corrupt and the honest journalists - like Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald and Miranda Devine - get ridiculed for doing a good job and with the except of Miranda, have to get independently published.
But the real problem is the readers who support the mainstream media propaganda machine. Media wants to make money. We'll never have a completely honest media, but we could have a better one if people clicked on news sites for honesty, not just on what makes them feel self righteous, safe in their stupidity and feeds their worst tendency, which is to find a scapegoat to blame for their unhappiness and failures.
" . . . deranged, delusional and dangerous . ." Oh, you kid! :)
“Deranged, delusional and dangerous … am I.” Didn't Peggy Lee sing that song? Or was it Julie London?
No, dear heart. It was 'Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered' by Doris Day. Lemme tell ya who's 'Bewildered' - Coo Coo Harris!
Maybe Kamala should sing “Is this all there is?” Or “Cry Me a River.” Or Leonard Cohen's great line “I fought the bottle but I had to do it drunk.”
Here's who she is . . .
"I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo, what the hell am I doing here?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5t9IXtTr6g
But here's who she thinks the world believes she is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C51c0vuLEng
I love Radiohead.
Congratulations goes to Kamala Harris in last night’s interview for coming off as; angry, unhinged and foaming at the mouth!
Don't you love the way MSM paints it as she was mistreated, like she shouldn't have to answer difficult questions as President.
Yes, last nights performance should relinquish any and all doubt as if Harris can handle the pressure. Can one imagine if it were Putin across the table?
Kamala responded as many lefty radicals do…in your face, stick it to the man and power to the people!
All 60’s/Alinsky tropes, but still very affective, ie. make whitey think you’re capable of mayhem and violence!
It's such a comedy. I just wish it were a comedy, like Dr. Strangelove, on the screen not life.
Sure, but in reality it’s Eldridge Cleaver, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale redux!
" . . stick it to the man and power to the people!. . " Big-mouth losers with a lotta hot talk until a bunch of red neck Americans show up.
Kind of hard to answer questions when Bret kept interrupting her!
He kept interrupting her to ask her to answer his question, not slide into some off-topic rant. 'Let's be clear, I come from a middle-class family and Trump is a maniac' has nothing to do with Bret's question: "How many illegal aliens have crossed the border since you & Biden took office?"
Have her answer the question and NOT turn it to Biden isn't on the Ballot.... Answer the questions and Good for Brett to keep going as she was late on the minutes were ticking!!!!!!!!!!!
You have a point, I would add so does Trump and pretty much every politician.
HA HA he was just getting through her change the subject!!
You're right, Dan, as president Kamala will never have to hold her own. Putin will never interrupt her. I don't need a president who can weather interruptions, do you? I just want that smile of hers beaming at me when she announces another little girl has died at the hands of one of her invaders. She's sorry! She really is! But she has a banana republic to pretend to rule over!
Would you like to watch some of Trumps town halls, or press conferences at the same time? So we could offer up our own opinions?
What a nice offer but I've watched his press conferences and town halls. I respect your right to vote for who you want, please respect mine. As Santa Barbarans we should all be coming together to save this city. No matter who is the next president this state is in peril.
Pol - re " . . who can weather interruptions . ." Did you mean to say . . .'who CAN'T weather interruptions . .?
Oh Mr. Brown, I was just trying to be nice to Kamala because she's had such a difficult life struggling to break through that glass ceiling. She worked her cute tush off for years and years and because she's a woman of some sort of color all she got rewarded with is a presidential nomination.
At the same time Trump got 400 million from his dad. Sorry, what were you saying?
I forgot - the poor kid.
Rupert Murdoch told his FOX workers when they interview someone it's their airtime, not the airtime of the person being interviewed. Why? Because the interviewed are receiving the benefit of the exposure and should thank the interviewer for his/her time. With Harris, she stupidly knocked Trump continuously to FOX's Trump viewers which would be a big turnoff to them. So no, Dan, Bret didn't interrupt Harris, Bret was running the show, not Harris. See how that really works, Dan!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC7ei-qykyg
Megyn Kelly dissected the interview. Recommend viewing for the Dan's of the world.
After the interview Kamala called McDonalds to see if she could get her old job back.
What a putz.
Watching the pundits today from multiple sources. Clearly, the responses by Kamala Harris during her interview with Fox yesterday, was a complete and utter disaster! Harris was vile, argumentative, arrogant and rude. Come to find out, her staffers were behind camera, waving their arms trying to get Harris to STFU!
But NO, her ego wouldn’t allow herself to show ANY class or intellectual ability. All her responses circulated back for her hatred of Trump.
What a sorry, sad, pathetic woman!
Slithering and Slimy Harris definitely changed her tactics with Bret Baier going for the Jugular. To be honest, t took me a while to grasp what was going on with my marginal hearing. Instead of immediately going into the word salad approach, Harris avoided the incriminating questions by telling us "The real story," which of course was all BS. For the brain dead, no doubt Harris got through to looking better than usual. I think Bret was a bit unexpecting of a more slithering "intelligent" appearing Harris. Harris managed to overtalk Bret to her own advantage. But when going back to analyze everything Harris said in response to Bret's questions, the interview culminates with Harris appearing as her usual, evil self, spouting new lies stacked up on older lies. In summary, Bret nailed her into illustrating her evasiveness better than any other interviewer to date.
Nice snapshot of how it works, Brent. As a retired vet of the MSM, I wish more people would get some glances of what that business is like! Also a nice snapshot of how things have changed over the years, sigh.
Here's the latest Gallup poll on how much Americans trust the media. Hint: it's below Congress.
https://tinyurl.com/y98jpuak