Psaki on Biden’s Mental Acuity: Cover-Up “Is Such A Loaded Phrase,” “I’m Not A Doctor, Aging Happens Quite Quickly”

 

Harvard rebrands DEI office as Office of Community and Campus Life

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Columbia Journalism Review editor fired after insisting on ethics, deadlines

‘Sickening’ Media Tips Off Illegals to ICE Raids

HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Fauci Asked Biden For A Pardon Knowing He Had Legal Liabilities About Gain of Function

Hyperbole, Lies, and Delusions

“…Hyperbole, lies, and delusions are all forms of falsehoods, but of different magnitudes. The first are exaggerated claims not meant to be taken literally. Trump himself is no stranger to this oratorical device. Lies are exaggerations or falsehoods the speaker wants others to believe – and, while shameful, are a too-frequent feature of modern political discourses. Delusions are false beliefs at odds with observable reality.

Jerry Seinfeld’s “Soup Nazi” is an example of hyperbolic name calling. Seinfeld and his audience understood it was an exaggeration so grotesque that it was funny. No one thought the soup guy was actually a member of the SS. Jussie Smollett’s claim that MAGA bros assaulted him was a lie, albeit a calculated, elaborate, and harmful hoax. The Salem witch trials were the terrible consequence of a mass delusion.

So, is Pritzker channeling Seinfeld, Smollett, or Cotton Mather?

“It’s wrong to snatch a person off the street and ship them to a foreign gulag with no chance to defend themselves in a court of law,” Pritzker said.

“Standing for the idea that the government doesn’t have the right to kidnap you without due process is arguably the most effective campaign slogan in history,” he said before adding, “Today it’s an immigrant with a tattoo, tomorrow it’s a citizen whose Facebook post annoys Donald Trump.”

He went on in this vein for a while:

• • “Our retirees don’t deserve to be left destitute by a Social Security Administration decimated by Elon Musk.”
  • “Our citizens don’t deserve to lose health care coverage because Republicans want to hand a tax cut to billionaires.”
  • “Our federal workers don’t deserve to have, well, a 19-year-old DOGE bro called Big Balls destroy their careers.”
  • “Autistic kids and adults who are loving contributors to our society don’t deserve to be stigmatized by a weird nepo baby who once stashed a dead bear in the back of his car.”

This is all absurd…”

CNN Platforms Sinaloa Gangster After Blacklisting 2020 Election Questioners

“…Far-left CNN, a disgraced propaganda outlet that spreads conspiracy theories and political violence, added to its disgrace Saturday by platforming a Sinaloa cartel gang member — presumably hoping he would trash President Trump…”

Fightin’ Side of Me

German States Look to Ban AfD Members from Serving as Police or Civil Servants

European libs are more like American Democrats than American Democrats:

InsiderAdvantage’s Matt Towery: “There’s A Blackout On Accurate Pollsters”

“…I want to make another point, too. You have InsiderAdvantage, Trafalgar, Emerson, Rasmussen, RMG, all of these polling companies have been ranked at the very top. They have very low error rates. But you never see their polls on any news program. You’ll see it on your show and Laura Ingraham, but you never see them in the news. There’s a blackout on the accurate pollsters…”

Trafalgar’s Robert Cahaly: Media Is Pushing Fake Polls To Pressure Congress; Senators And Reps Aren’t Falling For It

You can trust media aligned pollsters to fudge results in accordance with the wishes of their funding source.

Yet Another Woke Judge Goes Lawless

The Cost of Arrogance: NPR’s undoing is a cautionary tale for the media

“…“Let’s Go Brandon!” became a familiar political battle cry not just against former President Joe Biden but also against the mainstream media. It was first heard during an Oct. 2021 interview with race-car driver Brandon Brown after winning his first NASCAR Xfinity Series race. When NBC reporter Kelli Stavast’s questions were drowned out by loud and clear chants of “F— Joe Biden,” the reporter quickly and inexplicably declared, “You can hear the chants from the crowd, ‘Let’s go, Brandon!’”

“Let’s Go Brandon!” instantly became a type of “Yankee Doodling” of the political and media establishment.

The response of the public itself has been deafening. Readers and viewers have left mainstream media in an exodus. Despite falling revenues and ratings, most of the media seems entirely clueless or, at least, unyielding. Even as media outlets plummet in revenue, editors and reporters continue to saw at the branch upon which they are sitting…

And

…It will now have to choose between sustaining its bias or expanding its audience. It certainly has every right to be a left-leaning outlet (as do right-leaning outlets), but it has to sustain itself in the marketplace. It is the same question that other media outlets must face as more Americans turn to new media. With polls showing the press at record lows in trust, media companies are increasingly writing for each other rather than most of the public…”

Related example of media delusion:

Capehart: Trump’s Opposition To PBS Is A Fundamental Attack On Our Constitution, The Foundation Of This Country

The constitution provides no mandate for publicly funded broadcast networks. Our country was founded with a separate from government news industry that received no taxpayer or government funding.

Sean Penn Says Trump ‘Might Destroy The World’ — Says He Is ‘Not Unlike’ A Spouse-Murderer

Liberal Mental Disorder presenting as delusion.