Maher ‘I Think We Underestimate How Much America Has Been Choking on Political Correctness for 25 Yr

Maher’s particular idiocy never included politically correct nonsense, especially the stuff coming out in the last five years or so. There are a lot of idiot lefty comedians waking up to the fact that the outrage brigade can and will ruin their careers in about 25 seconds of social media frenzy if they dare to say the wrong funny thing.

Freegards

Political correctness for 30 years... Extreme Media Bias for around 60 years... and Progressive Privilege for around 20 years. And it all contributes to Liberal Bias in every aspect of our society.

“Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”

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I can also remember that both JFK and his father thought very highly of Senator McCarthy as well.

Bobby Kennedy worked for McCarthy:

“In December 1952, at the behest of his father, Kennedy was appointed by family friend Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy as assistant counsel of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations,[64][65] However, Kennedy disapproved of the senator’s aggressive methods of garnering intelligence on suspected communists.[66] This was a highly visible job for him. He resigned in July 1953, but “retained a fondness for McCarthy”.”

-Wikipedia article on Robert F. Kennedy

The Venona Papers.

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RFK was a staffer to Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954. JFK, his brother, was a U.S. Senator. It was John who arranged to be absent from the December 1954 censure vote. Sorry!

The look on the face of a liberal when they finally realize that they are completely and totally out of the main stream.
Absolutely priceless!!

RFK went to Wisconsin to attend Joseph McCarthy’s funeral. Joe McCarthy was the godfather of Bobby’s oldest daughter.

"The House Un-American Committee was formed in 1938 and ran until 1975 was the one that investigated Hollywood. McCarthy did not serve on that committee nor did he testify before it."

Thank you for posting that.

I'm surprised by how many stupid people think that SENATOR McCarthy ran the HOUSE UAC.

Or that McCarthy somehow created Hollywood black lists.

Hollywood has always been liberal, as if they would even listen to or obey some republican senator's wishes.

Yes, you’re right. My point, however, is that there never really was a blacklist, something that was phony yet the Left tagged McCarthy with the blame for it.

AND YOU’RE A BIG PART OF THE REASON WHY

IMHO, there is one specific reason for PC: The unanimous - unanimously wrong - 1964 New York Times v. Sullivan decision.
In Sullivan, the Warren Court held that the First Amendment requires that politicians not be permitted to sue for libel except in egregious circumstances. Meaning, no one ever tries it.
But there are gaping holes in SCOTUS’ logic. First - a fact not raised in the Sullivan case - major journalism functions as a cartel. The wire services are continuous virtual meetings of all major journalism - and all major journalism behaves precisely as Adam Smith described in Wealth of Nations:
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
I identify Smith's predicted “conspiracy against the public” with the enormous, and by now traditionally believed (or at least believed to be right in principle) propaganda campaign to the effect that “journalists are objective.” Alexander Hamilton asserted that
“The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.”
And that precisely describes the MSM’s self-promoting propaganda. Three ways to think about the “journalists are objective” claim:

Objectivity is a laudable goal, but not a state of being. It is hard to try to be objective, because the discipline forces you to seriously examine in what ways “where you stand depends on where you sit.” And the issue does not begin and end with taking care that the facts are right; what is, and what is not, a story is a hard issue if you actually desire to be objective.

Precisely because it is so hard, the default for “journalists” assiduous to remain in good standing is to substitute for the true meaning of the word “objective” the much easier “journalists are unanimous.” "Ain’t nobody got time" to actually try to be objective - but any fool can go along and get along with all the others. Failure to go along can mean failure to get along: you can easily find yourself labeled “not a journalist, not objective.”

”If it bleeds, it leads.” All journalists know full well that they are systematically on the lookout for bad news and negativity about society. Death: Reality vs. Reported illustrates the point very nicely. In 2016 the three biggest causes of death in America were Heart Disease (30.2%), Cancer (29.5%), and “Road, Falls, and Accidents (7.6%). Deaths in those categories do not reflect particularly poorly on society. But the three leading cause of stories about death by- prominence in The New York Times and The Guardian - were Terrorism (>33%), Homicide (>22%), and Suicide (>10.6%). Deaths in those categories get almost 2/3 of the coverage, even though they represent <0.01%, 0.9%, and 1.8%, respectively, of actual deaths in 2016. Precisely because they reflect poorly on society. And, not coincidentally, suggest the need for government action.
Since journalists know that they are negative towards society, any claim that “journalists are objective” corresponds to a claim that “negativity is objectivity” - a claim that could only be made by a cynic. But if “A” and “B” be opposites, cynicism towards “A” corresponds logically not to cynicism, but to naiveté, towards “B.” Thus the internal logic of commercial journalism aligns with cynicism towards society and naiveté towards its near opposite, government. IOW, the internal logic of commercial, general circulation news reporting has a pro-socialism, anti-limited government, slant.

The plaintiff Mr. Sullivan in the 1964 case was a Democrat - but a Southern Democrat, in 1964 in bad odor in elite Democrat circles - not to mention, the type of people the Republicans fought the Civil War against. This made the Sullivan decision nominally bipartisan, ruling against someone neither “liberals” nor Republicans (in 1964 - see, Rockefeller, Nelson - there was a nontrivial overlap in those two categories) favored. Bipartisan coloration masks the fact that since 1930 “liberal” has been a euphemism meaning - but not vocalized - “the political perspective of the journalism cartel.”
“Liberals” systematically go along - and famously get along - with journalists. Liberals never get libeled, but conservatives routinely do. In the aftermath of the success of Republicans in recruiting the children of the Southern Democrats reified in the 1994 Republican “takeover” of the House after 40 years in the minority, the two parties are the (liberal) Democrat Party and the (conservative) Republican Party. And there is not now any bipartisan odor to a decision which assures that although Republicans get libeled routinely, they never get to have the facts (not opinions, facts) adjudicated.
The bottom line is that the Sullivan decision entitles the “liberals” not only to their own opinions but to their own facts. And that is Political Correctness.
But doesn’t the First Amendment require the Sullivan decision? No. The reason that pornography cases and apolitical libel cases have always been given a hearing in court is that the First Amendment does not actually grant journalists - or anyone - rights. 1A, and indeed the whole Bill of Rights, were crafted and adopted to conserve the status quo ante the adoption of the Constitution. The rights in Amendments 1 through 8 are, under Amendment 9, not superior to any other right recognized in law at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. Including the right to seek redress in court for libel.
The First Amendment does not give journalists a title of nobility or a confer priestly status on the profession. It does not require politicians to allow their reputations - and those of their adherents - to be sullied with falsehoods. Basically, the Warren Court made that part up.
The Sullivan decision is an engine for making it difficult for "those to whom [the people] intrust the management of their affairs” to resist "unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.” It must either be bypassed, or overturned.

Thanks for the ping; posts. BUMP!