Author: Doug Santo

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Higher education – Law school edition

What Georgetown Law did to one student who questioned COVID restrictions

“…For questioning Covid restrictions, Georgetown Law suspended me from campus, forced me to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, required me to waive my right to medical confidentiality, and threatened to report me to state bar associations…”

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Jonathan Turley on the self-destruction of American journalism/media…

Gallup: Fifty Percent of Americans Believe Media Lies to Promote Agenda

“…“Rise and Fall of the American Fourth Estate.” The speech explores the legal and political history of the free press in our democracy — and its rapid decline in the age of advocacy journalism. This week, a poll was released that shows just how much ground has been lost by this generation of journalists. Gallup and the Knight Foundation found that 50% of Americans believe that the news media lies in order to promote an agenda. Only 25% of Americans reject that premise.

The poll also shows that 52% of Americans disagree with the statement that “In general, most national news organization care about the best interests of their readers, views, and listeners.” Only 23% agree with that proposition.

The view of bias and untrustworthiness increased across the political spectrum, including among Democrats who usually favor the media given the liberal bent of the coverage.

It is also striking that the media is losing young viewers and readers with its current approach to journalism.

I have written for newspapers as a columnist for over 40 years and I have worked as a legal analyst for NBC, CBS, BBC, and Fox for over 20 years. I have watched the industry change each year as open advocacy moves from opinion pages to news reporting.

This latest poll is consistent with other polls showing that people are rejecting mainstream media in growing numbers. In 2021, a survey by the global communications firm Edelman (via Axios) found only 46 percent of Americans trust traditional media.  That mirrors earlier polls by Gallup showing an even lower level of trust.  Now this poll shows overwhelming distrust in the media.

I wrote a column a couple years ago asking how the media expects to survive while rejecting half of the country with overwhelmingly liberal coverage. Most news outlets seem to have written off conservatives, libertarians, and Republicans…”

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Life among Democrats – lowest common denominator edition.

Democrats remove honors classes from school to punish the smart kids

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How Democrats approach education… Don’t make minorities look bad

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Slowly, slowly, the truth seeps out. It can’t be stopped by censorship, lying, or disinformation…

The vaccines are not all they were cracked up to be.

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Democrats are determined to destroy our great military with woke stupidity. They have already destroyed our education system.

Biden Pentagon Quietly Expands Woke Transgender Policies in the Military

“…Military commanders, doctors and nurses, chaplains, and military men and women at all levels must endorse and act on this ideological belief or suffer career penalties if they don’t…”

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Democrats only follow laws they agree with. If they don’t agree, they are free to ignore the law and implement their own “narrative.”

Mayorkas Apparently Thinks It’s His Job to Decide ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Narrative Supplants U.S. Law

If any bureaucrat ever deserved impeachment, it is this clown.

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Biden Administration…

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Talent…

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An analysis of the cockamamie green energy dreams of California liberals.

California Dreaming

According to the California Energy Commission:

“To reach the 2045 target while electrifying other sectors to meet the state’s economywide climate goals, California will need to roughly triple its current electricity grid capacity.”

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Pot, kettle. Racial huckster as shameless hypocrite…

Al Sharpton: Giuliani Used 9/11 For Himself, Trump “Was Educated In How To Deal With Racial Politics” By Him

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Glenn Greenwald teases out the truth on liberal media and their shrinking audience…

Greenwald: Networks Don’t Apologize For Lying Because Their Audience Wants Them To Lie To Advance The Democrats

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Bill Maher appears to have experienced a late-in-life epiphany…

Maher: Statistics Show The World Is Not Irredeemably Racist And Things Do Change, We Never Celebrate Progress

Bill Maher as conservative Republican.

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In an administration staffed by far-left incompetent ideologues, this man stands out as most incompetent.

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