Republican National Convention

Was a “modern day minstrel show” ... according to MSNBC ... see: Washington Times Article. This type of vile rhetoric paints this channel for what it is ... a sewer. And then its sewer rats turn around and dare say we “need to bring our country together.” Vile is not a strong enough word.


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Bombshell?

Here is a possible bombshell you won’t see on CNN, MSNBC ... or any alphabet network for that matter.


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Headlines

National Republicans sue California to block mail-ballot election

Trump threatens to move GOP convention over coronavirus restrictions in North Carolina

Trump accuses MSNBC host of murder ... Mika begs Jack: Make it stop!

Chicago mayor launches police raid to shut down black church’s Sunday service

Federal judge strikes down restrictions on Florida felons voting

Oil on track for its best month ever after rebound, but traders say it’s ‘not out of the woods’

Violence erupts as crowds swarm to reopen beaches ...

EU: End of U.S. leadership, rise of China ‘happening before our eyes’

U.S. is ahead of China in vaccine race, former FDA chief says

Coronavirus updates: Japan seeks to end Tokyo’s state of emergency, Trump bans travel from Brazil

Six shot at Daytona Beach ...

Trump calls on Sessions to drop out of Alabama Senate race

Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda

It surely was predictable. Much of the media has gone down its favorite rabbit hole ... finding a way to castigate Trump ... this time for the COVID-10 devastation. He coulda done more in January to stop the Wuhan virus ... so that it woulda not turned into a pandemic.  He shoulda declared a national emergency and shut down the country. Spittle-flecked Joe Scarborough says everyone knew what a huge problem this was in January ... see: Diagones’ Middle Finger entry.

This blog likes to juxtapose images. But this time I am asking you, dear reader, to juxtapose time frames. Imagine for a moment one of Trump’s nightly coronavirus task force pressers ... with VP Pence and Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx and the generals and FEMA et alia ... but imagine instead this is all happening in January of this year ... when Trump still might have nipped this pandemic in the bud. Got the image? See Trump directing the task force to ask people to social distance? To not travel to or from impending hot spots? To self quarantine?

Now switch to Chris Cuomo on CNN or Morning Joe on MSNBC or George Stephanopoulos on Sunday morning ABC. Can you see them pointing angry fingers at Trump for trying to  distract America from his impeachment trial?  The snarling rhetoric would be vicious. Adam Schiff would be beside himself eviscerating Trump for compounding his heinous guilt ... lying about the threat coming out of China.

Most of our national media woulda been dripping with hypocrisy just like they are now in their trying to rewrite history.

Networks

Ever wonder what the letters in the alphabet networks stand for? Well, you’re in luck. I recently found an old dog-eared copy of TV Guide and, on page 52: found the following revelations to help us decode these network abbreviations:


CNN — Colluders’ News Network

MSNBC — Maligners Shoveling Noxious Bull Crap

CBS — Crazy Before Sanity

CNBC — Can Not Be Candid

ABC —  Actively Berating Conservatives

PBS — Pretty Banal Simpletons

NBC — Nasty, Bilious Cowards

 NPR — Neo-Progressive Radicals


I was not surprised at these translations ... are you?

Party Poopers

There seems a cadre of people, Anthony Scaramucci being the latest, who can change political parties at the drop of a MSNBC Contributor contract. Joe Scarborough, Omarosa, Nicole Wallace, Arianna Huffington, etc. ... these people must have a very squishy moral compass ... in that they can put a finger in the air and change their political “convictions” based upon which way the wind is blowing.

This suggests to me that what they are saying today is about as heart-felt as what they were saying yesterday ...

Fractured Definition

Donnybrook — a rivulet named after that MSNBC contributor Mr. Deutsch.

Headlines

‘These are our sisters’: House to condemn Trump’s racist tweets

Trade war to drag on as Trump says long way to go and China strikes hard-line tone

CNN, MSNBC say‘racist’ 636 times ...

Bedlam on House floor: Pelosi storms off amid boos from members

Planned Parenthood ousts head amid heightened attack on abortion rights

Big banks signal Fed rate cuts may not be so great for them

Schumer announces support for slavery reparations ...

McConnell: Everyone ‘tone down’ rhetoric, Trump ‘not a racist’

Pelosi ‘hopeful’ about reaching budget deal this month

Roger Stone avoids jail, banned from major social media after judge rules he breached gag order

Poll: Republican support RISES after racially-charged tweets ...

Study: Social media usage linked to teen depression

Headlines

National poll: Kamala Harris just two points behind Biden

Tesla stock surges after setting new delivery and production records

Gallup: American pride hits new low ... Nike pulls [Betsy Ross] flag shoe ...

Hunter Biden admits to rental car incident with crack cocaine

MSNBC not planning to air Trump’s July Fourth celebration live

Housing is providing another in a line of troubling signs pointing to an economic slowdown

Judge blocks policy keeping asylum seekers locked up ...

Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher found not guilty of killing ISIS fighter

Sanders trails Buttigieg by millions in second-quarter money chase

Trump administration says it will print census without citizenship question

Trump massive $105 million fundraising haul ...

Poll: Two-thirds of Americans back citizen question on census

Headlines

Trump backs off national emergency with no end to shutdown in sight

Investors are hiding out in cash. Assets in money market accounts surge past $3 trillion

USA secretly takes nuclear material out of Africa -- with Beijing's help

Donald Trump mocks Democrats for Puerto Rico trip

Barr pledges to allow Mueller to complete investigation

Cramer says the bear market in stocks ended on Christmas Eve

Poll: Trump approval lowest in year

ABC's Karl: Mueller report 'almost certain''to be anticlimactic'

Trump urges Turkey president not to 'mistreat' Kurdish fighters

GOP's John Kasich is looking to work for CNN or MSNBC as he considers running for president in 2020

Gilette ad challenges men to shave their toxic masculinity  ...

Evidence of operations at NKorea nuke facilities

Headlines

The campaign to confirm a diplomatic novice to America' top U.N. post

Finally, signs of a Santa Claus

First year of no violent tornadoes in USA ...

German Supreme Court rejects child marriage law

Nielsen deflects blame for boy's death in Border Patrol custody

Oil surges 10% after the settle, rebounding witch stocks after Christmas Eve sell-off

MSNBC beats FOXNEWS in key ratings for first time ...

Week 16: 'Monday Night Football' ratings hit record low

How Trump gave away this secret War Zone trip

Trump cancels meeting with Iraqi leadership after a 'disagreement,' Iraq PM says

Update: Putin setting up bomber base on Caribbean island ...

China lauds Cuba for rejecting 'individualism'

Cable News

"Fox News clearly labels its news versus opinion people

CNN doesn't clearly separate their news from opinion

MSNBC doesn't seem to have news, just mind-reading opinion"

Scott Adams in "The Dilbert Blog" 

The Price of Perfidy

John Brennan, the former Communist and suspected secret Muslim, has had his security clearance revoked by President Trump to the consternation of most of the chattering class and poison peners. Brennan had been the head of the CIA under Obama and is now one of the vindictive chatters on MSNBC ... clawing Trump has impinged oh his freedom of speech. No, no ... it his on his freedom of listening.

It seems abundantly  clear that Brennan and the others mentioned by Trump as possible losers of security clearance  had formed the core of a cabal opposing Trump in the most pernicious  ways. Had they succeeded in their evil, Hillary would be president and their actions would have been rewarded ... at the country's peril.

We escaped this national disgrace by a whisker ... and the price of this perfidy will likely be that all former intelligence operatives will lose their security clearance (including, hopefully, Hillary and maybe even Obama himself if they can be linked to this plot).

Observation

The only two TV networks that covered live President Trump's recent Tampa, Florida rally were Fox News and CSPAN. The over-the-air TV networks, MSMBC and CN did not cover this rally ... so why were many of these media cameras there?  And why was CNN's chief provocateur, Jim Acosta,  quite  visibly present? Hmm?

Headlines

Brennan in op-ed: I won't bite my tongue' on Trump criticism

Trump's tariffs on US allies will shrink the saving  Americans get front tax cuts

Kim aide at White House to deliver letter ...

Jobs boom:t U.S. adds 223'000 in May -- exceeding expectations

Trymp: Why hasn't Samantha Bee been fired over crude Ivanka remark?

Investors shy away from Mexican stocks as leftist pulls ahead in the polls

U.S. oil output jumps to revord 10.47 million barrels per day ...

MSNBC absolves Joy Reid of 'hateful' writings

Trump bends the truth as he tries to beat back Russian probe

Tesla workers say factory paint shop is a mess and fires are worse than Tesla let on

Stormy Daniels' lawyer [Avenati] dogged by his own legal battles ...

Driver riddled with bullers in 'machine gun' attack in Kahn's Londom

Shades of Shading

Some WaPo pajama boy has spent months documenting Trump's 3,000 "lies" ... see: Washington Post Story. Now there are lies and there are lies ... and it is best to differentiate between these shades of such shading. Below is my way of placing a metric (low to high -- 1) Shading the truth ... 2) Misleading  ... 3) Spinning ... 4) Exaggerating ... 5) Accentuating the negative ... 6) Fibbing ...  7)White lying ... 8) Prevaricating ... 9) Lying ...  19) Being mendacious ...  11) Telling whoppers)  on such mendacity ... and this author's take on where prominent "liars" lie on this lying spectrum.

My approximate positioning of this group is as follows:

Fox News -- 1.5

Mitch McConnell -- 2.5

Trump -- 4.0

Nancy Pelosi -- 4.5

MSNBC -- 5.0

Main-stream media -- 7.5

Chuck Schumer -- 8.0

Bill Clinton -- 8.5

Barack Obama -- 10,0

CNN -- 10.5

Hillary Clinton -- 11.5


Now, if this isn't taking a stilk to a hornets nest, I don't know what is?

Disruption

According to the recent Mueller indictment the purpose of Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election was to disrupt and disorient (disAsia?) both party's candidates. Whatever monies Russia spent on this endeavor produced little return except, perhaps, for the anti-Trump demonstration in front of the Trump Tower shortly after the election.  (Touted by CNN and MSNBC ... and attended by Michael Moore and a large group of lefty moombats.)

Now the following idea is not original to me, but it is rather obvious -- the media, the deep state and Hillary's posse are doing much more than the Ruskies could ever have hoped to disrupt the American political system. The pure irony of this situation is that Mueller is more effective than Putin ever could to throw sand in the smooth functioning of our current government. (OK, OK .... Trump helps things along a little.)

Headlines

Clapper predicts 'other shoes to drop' in Mueller probe

Media isn't so sure Trump colluded with Russia anymore

More than 80% of adults owe somebody else money ...

Report: Mueller zeroing in on Kushner

Trump mocks Oprah Winfrey

CNN, MSNBC glowingly promoted Russian-organized anti-Trump rally

Wild, weird weather everywhere ...

LA Times: Banning AR-15s would end mass shootings

Trump comes in last in expert presidential ranking survey

Donald Trump surprises by endorsing Mitt Romney for Senate run

Privacy advocates cry foul on bracelets to monitor AMAZON workers ...

Mayor cites JFK assassination, demands NRA cancel upcoming convention in Dallas

Off the Mark

Facetious hat?

Mark Halperin is my favorite liberal journalist. But, it seems that he too has been caught up in the latest societal pogrom as five women have accused him of sexual harassment ... and he has been sacked at MSNBC ... see: CNN Story

Why is he my favorite? Because about two years ago he was asked on Morning Joe what he thought of President Obama. He said, after being assured his answer would be bleeped, that Obama was "a dick" He obviously wasn't bleeped ... and was then suspended for just a few weeks.

Fooling Themselves?

MSNBC shows like the Rachael Maddow Show and Morning Joe have been climbing the cable TV ratings charts ever since they moved to the vanguard of the never-Trump movement. CNN on the other hand is emulating the Hindenburg. What's the diff? I think that the audience expectation for CNN is for news ... an area where it has lost great credibility ... whereas MSNBC is looked at for opinion which it offers in abundance ... mostly rabidly anti Trump and anything he stands for.

The question is: Is MSNBC and other "resistance TV"  channels fooling themselves? Surely, many Hillary voters are finding solace in the anti-Trump spittle spewing on these channels. But those on the right, like myself, also tune-in to see how over-the-top the rhetoric can go on these channels. The fact that Fox News has also moved leftward has also freed up some conservative viewership looking for comic relief.

Bottom line: If the liberal cable channels think that these ratings bumps are permanent, they may be disappointed once the American psyche adjusts to Trump's unorthodox style ... and these opinion rants become hyperbolic, like too much rich food ... and it's time for a diet.