Bunker Busters nuke liberal narrative
MSNBC unaffected.
Donald Trump is overweight, but only liberals think of him as a white whale. Like Captain Ahab in Moby Dick they have gone insane, believing that their lives can return to some fantasized normal state if only Trump is dispatched to the bottom of the ocean, literally or figuratively. Lately it’s been more like literally.
Like other people with obsessions, Trump haters feel the need to gather with their own kind. They want confirmation that their disordered thinking is razor-sharp logic, that their idée fixe is the only idée in town. For them, that meeting place is MSNBC.
The people at CNN and the major networks have hated Donald Trump for years, but occasionally they would feature something that didn’t focus on Trump. Not good enough. Like stalkers focused on a specific movie star, they want to hear nothing about anyone else. Donald Trump is the source of all evil in the world, so it’s hardly worth their time talking about this year’s soybean crop or watching cats riding Roombas. It’s Trump, Trump, Trump.
On June 21, MSNBC’s home page featured nine major stories at its top, the area newspaper people call “above the fold.” Of those nine stories, six mention Trump in the headline. All of the stories, in one way or another, are about him.
“As Trump floats special prosecutor on 2020, he should be careful what he wishes for,” "Obamacare overcame brutal polling results. Trump’s megabill likely won’t.,"Ari Melber cautions media not to move on from ‘gigantic awakening’ of Trump resistance," and on and on. Every one seems to say, “Once we get rid of Trump, everything will be perfect. Children will laugh again. The sun will shine again. A Hershey bar will be a nickel.”
Because of their fixation, MSNBC fans don’t require anything as weighty as the truth. An article can be based on specious reasoning or outright falsehoods—no problem. Yesterday an article gleefully quoted former White House mouthpiece Jen Psaki’s MSNBC program which replaced Joy Reid in January, leading to this headline in May from the Daily Mail:
Ah, well. That didn’t affect Psakii’s credibility with her coworkers, which featured her comments in a large-type pull quote:
‘I’ll get to it in two weeks’ is one of Donald Trump’s absolute favorite tactics. He literally uses it all the time. And most of the time, in fact almost every time, when two weeks rolls around, Trump has either completely forgotten about whatever it was he promised in the first place or, and I think this is more likely than the first one, he’s hoping people have just moved on.
Psaki reloaded and fired again: “One likely possibility is that Trump doesn’t want to have to make a decision about this at all,” Psaki said. “He just wants to keep punting it down the road. He doesn’t mind the speculation, the attention, but he doesn’t want to actually commit to a decision — and it’s not hard to see why.”
That was Thursday night. Saturday night Trump dropped monstrous delayed-fuse bombs on Iran and sent in 30 Tomahawk missiles to wipe out nuclear bomb production centers. What Psaki claimed was a delaying tactic by her favorite subject of hatred was simply a ruse to take attention away from his clear decision to stop Iran right now. No matter; the Psaki article remained on MSNBC’s home page on Sunday, under the heading of “Must Reads.”
Another article based on cotton candy and thin air was headlined “The Dodgers statement about turning around ICE didn’t come out of the blue.” Get it? Dodger blue? It was written by a guy named Julio Varela, whose last name reminds Spanish speakers of chicken pox (variicela—two can play that game).
Like most liberal writers, Varela made much of the story about himself, such as writing of pitcher Fernando Valenzuela’s 1980s appearance: “As a Puerto Rican kid, Fernando’s rise was one of the first times I experienced a cultural bond with Latinos outside my own heritage,” thereby admitting that even he ignored Mexican-Americans back in the day.
The article was ostensibly about the Dodgers’ resistance to evil immigrant-seeking ICE agents. The masked agents had tried to pull up in the Dodgers’ parking lot to grab illegal aliens who might have planned a pleasant day at the ballpark. The Dodgers officially tweeted “They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization. Tonight’s game will be played as scheduled.”
Except it didn’t happen. Homeland Security later tweeted that no ICE agents had been sent to the stadium. No surveillance or other video exists to show they had appeared and no one was arrested. No matter. Varela wrote “Whatever happened in the Dodger Stadium parking lot will continue to be dissected by anti-ICE protesters and MAGA supporters…what the Dodgers did Thursday needs to cascade throughout all of MLB.”
What? False accusations? Woke posturing? MSNBC’s fans don’t care. As a liberal Tarzan might say, “Orange man bad. Ignoring federal law good.” If there’s not enough truth to hate Donald Trump with, rumors and allegations will do MSNBC just fine.
The abject lying by liberal media is breathtaking. I know, I know... hyperbole - with a dose of sensationalism, to boot - has been the center pole for journalism's tent for eons. They've gotten away with it in past years. After all, English playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote "the pen is mightier than the sword" some 180 yrs ago.
BUT, the advent of technology, especially with its most potent application of social media, exposes the miscreants of the journalism world. Yet, they are too filled with their own self-aggrandizement to see it much less acknowledge it. They continue on as if its 1920s all over again where they could say whatever they want and not fear any fact-checking.
Exhibit 1: Marrou's expose' of Jen Psaki's idiotic position on Trump supposedly waffling on his "two week promise." Yeah... riiiiiiiggght, Jen. Let me offer this instead: why don't you do us all a service and take those same two weeks to "circle back" to your assertion (to employ your own oft-used phrase. Jen!)... and then quit. Just quit. You'd be going all of us a huge favor, particularly you.
As it is, thought, you and all of your liberal brethren at MSNBC are the epitome of the derogatory phrase:
IT'S BETTER TO BE THOUGHT A FOOL THAN TO OPEN ONE'S MOUTH AND REMOVE ALL DOUBT.
Face it, Jen Psaki. We have no doubt about your integrity as a journalist. Just leave.