Posted on 07/19/2018 11:38:05 AM PDT by servo1969
Conservative comedian and commentator Steven Crowder has begun a new segment on his YouTube channel called "Crowder Confronts," where he and his team will do what the mainstream media won't, and actually call a person out for their slander or calls for violence where everyone can see it.
Too often, the media's leftist bent will cause it to ignore things that a leftist or protected group would do, yet wouldn't dream of allowing anyone on the right to get away with. One of the things it tends to ignore is the constant calls for violence against the right from the left.
During one of Crowder's "Change My Mind" segments on the fact that there are only two genders, an angry transgender individual posted Crowder's location and suggested people do him harm, and destroy his property in order to teach him a lesson. Naturally, this didn't sit well with Crowder and his crew, who found the trans individual and proceeded to ask him in person why he said what he said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEy0XuE0Kyo
The entire episode made waves and prompted Jessi Cape of the Austin Chronicle to "report" on the incident. I put "report" in quotations because what she really wrote was an opinion piece laced with inaccuracies that she attempted to pass off as actual reporting titled "JuiceLand Employee Harassed by Right-Wing Comedian."
The journalist accused Crowder of releasing the location of the transgendered individual's job (he didn't, she did in her post), and accused him of being alt-right (Crowder is shown on multiple occasion to denouncing the alt-right on his channel). Cape neglected to post the video I posted above to her article, which is the video she was writing about and omitted key details about the video in her article to make Crowder appear more like a villain. She also claims to have reached out to Crowder but instead contacted a line at CRTV who Crowder is affiliated with, but does not work for.
Crowder confronted Cape with her inaccuracies over the phone and received interesting responses to his statement of facts. For one, Cape repeatedly told Crowder that the facts -- such as the fact that he's not alt-right -- were just his opinion. Crowder goes through the details Cape omitted, and at the end summarized Cape's horrid lack of journalistic integrity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NNmixz2mhc
This video is important, not just because it was fun to watch, but because this is the sad state of journalism in 2018. Cape fell into the bad habit of believing that her opinion is fact and that Crowder's actual facts were just opinions. This belief that her politics are the politics of truth allowed Cape to write her story and call it journalism.
The question is, where does Cape get the hubris to end up at that conclusion? Crowder is quite literally showing her that she is factually incorrect, and yet Cape either can't or won't recognize that she had committed journalistic malpractice. This would have been completely forgivable if she was writing an op-ed, but she wasn't. As she tells Crowder, she considers herself a journalist and what she was reporting was what actually happened. All statements to the contrary are just "opinion."
Subscribing to a political philosophy does not automatically make you more correct than someone else when it comes to storytelling. Journalists are human and are bound to get things wrong from time to time for a plethora of reasons. However, having the facts handed to you on a silver platter after making little effort to get the facts, and STILL denying the facts once you've been confronted with them is the exact opposite of being a journalist.
That makes you an ideological activist. Cape is definitely one, and sadly there are too many like her in today's media, especially in the mainstream parts of it.
And then they wonder why people trust the media less and less.
I saw this yesterday.
She claimed he is “alt right”. He isn’t.
She claimed she could not find the post calling for violence against Crowder. The posts were shown in the video and the transgendered person he confronted admitted on camer that those were his/her posts.
She listed Crowder’s height (6’2’) and described him as “hovering over” the person he confronted and conveniently left out that the entire time Crowder said over and over again he was against violence and did not want to see any violence against anybody. She tried to portray him seeking to physically intimidate. Had she included his repeated statements at the time against violence it would have totally destroyed the image she was trying to paint.
She never talked to him and claimed she had contacted him. She had not even though it would have been easy to do since his contact info was readily available.
She did not link the video she wrote the article about even though it’s available for all to see unedited on YouTube.
This was a classic example of Leftist media bias and outright lying. Congrats honey! You’re the latest example of why the public does not trust and cannot trust the media.
This guy is great. My favorite is when he stood outside with a bunch of illegals waiting to be picked up as day laborers. That one needs to be brought out again and someone in congress needs to play it for the congressional record.
Crowder Ping.
Pretty much par for the course. We have an entire generation that has been taught truth is relative and there is no such thing as facts, just “my truth.”
She is one excuse after another for her “omissions” and misstatements.
Obviously she Can’t Understand Normal Thinking.
This is a serious mental malfunction. This is widespread and should be deeply troubling to anyone with a brain.
This woman/“journalist” is a perfect example of someone who perpetually lives in a bubble where everyone thinks and acts like she does. She cannont handle a different opinion or the word “no”.
Subscribing to a political philosophy does not automatically make you more correct than someone else when it comes to storytelling.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Unless the journalist is a liberal fascist.
People generally do not believe that we are dealing with a liberal fascist movement initiated by Obama. Its true.They are mortal enemies of America as we know it.
This well written describes the history of liberal fascism
in America and how it came to be:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
Restaurant owners, employees and like minded patrons are allowed to harass conservatives anywhere and in any way. Maxine says so.
It’s freedom of expression.
Conservatives are not allowed to respond.
Leftist logic. Their beliefs are “truth”. Whatever you say to challenge that belief is a “lie”, unless you prove it incontrovertibly to the point where they’re embarrassed. Then it’s “just your opinion”.
I saw a thread a few minutes ago and that woman looks like the reporter who broke into a Republicans house today.
In TX somewhere, maybe?
I couldn’t locate it again...
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Wish I had more on that burglar, her name and media outlet.
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Great interview. Just goes to show that you can immediately bring out the fallacies used, and bias of lunatic liberals just by asking questions. In his case, it was stating facts and then asking questions. It gets them Everytime.
Both of those You Tubes were SOOOO depressing but thanks, truly, for posting.
The educational system of America is responsible for all of this.
Thanks.
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“My favorite is when he stood outside with a bunch of illegals waiting to be picked up as day laborers. That one needs to be brought out again and someone in congress needs to play it for the congressional record.”
And this too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-s1_nfs7f4
Wasn’t that a NYT reporter?
Correct, two different female reporters, in two different states.
There’s a link somewhere on the thread.
The MSM is going moonbat crazy.
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