Posted on 01/15/2019 4:27:32 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
What ever happened to Matt Drudge? – The blaring, all caps, bold-faced headlines atop the Drudge Report landing page this morning read “SHUTDOWN TURNS NIGHTMARE” and “GOVT PARALYZED”.
My goodness, you mean to say that, here on Day 26 of the longest partial federal government fake “shutdown” ever, we’re finally starting to see major detrimental impacts to not just the government itself, but also to the public at large? That’s obviously what Matt Drudge wants you to believe.
The trouble is, when you click on those headlines to read the stories behind them, that is not the narrative you will find. Not at all. Take the “SHUTDOWN TURNS NIGHTMARE” story first. Click on that shock header, and are taken to an Associated Press story with a similarly-alarmist header that reads in slightly small, non-caps letters: “No. of no-show airport security screeners soars in shutdown”.
My goodness, it “soars”? Boy, that must mean half of the TSA airport security agents aren’t showing up for work, right? Surely, all of the nation’s airports must be in lockdown and air travel grounded to a halt as a result. Right? Well, RIGHT?, as Drudge would ask it.
Um, no. If you bother to read all the way into the 2nd paragraph of the typically-slanted AP story, you see this sentence: “No-shows among screeners jumped Sunday and again Monday, when the Transportation Security Administration reported a national absence rate of 7.6 percent compared with 3.2 percent on a comparable day a year ago.” The emphasis added there is mine.
That’s right, Matt Drudge thinks it’s a “NIGHTMARE” that 7.6 percent of TSA airport agents are calling in sick. Folks, a typical flu epidemic results in a higher absentee rate than that.
Oh, but the AP didn’t stop there. Their reporter managed to find the perfect air traveler who was willing to say that “It’s chaos out here.” So, why is it “chaos” out there, according to one Vincent Smith, the air traveler in question? “This line, I’ve been here about 15 minutes and it has moved 2 feet.” Oh, golly, welcome to Atlanta Hartsfield Airport on a Monday, dude.
But it just gets better in this fake story. Here’s another passage halfway down the page: “Delta Air Lines, the dominant carrier in Atlanta, and other airlines said they were advising passengers to get to the airport at least two hours before domestic flights and three hours before international trips.” You don’t say.
Here’s what the AP doesn’t tell you: Delta and every other U.S. airline have been advising passengers do exactly that since 9/12/2001. Every frequent air traveler in America has heard that exact advice 1,000 times in the last 18 years, and most of us studiously ignore it, because it has always been fake advice. But hey, maybe this time, 26 days into this fake partial government “shutdown,” it’s real. There’s a first time for everything.
Ok, that’s enough on that fake story. Let’s now click on the Drudge alarmist header that reads “GOVT PARALYZED”. Note that this one is not only all-caps, bolded and in a huge font, but is also in italics, so Matt Drudge wants you to believe this one is really, really, REALLY terrible, possibly the end of the world for all of us. He wants you to believe that our entire federal government is not just impacted, it is PARALYZED by this fake, partial government shutdown that has 1 out of 14 of TSA agents – GASP!!!! – calling in sick.
So, you click through and what do you find? A story from several fake journalists at the fake Washington Post recycling the narrative that President Trump and congress can’t reach a deal to re-open the fraction of the government that has been sort of, partially “closed” for the last 26 days.
Oh.
It’s your standard WaPo fake story: Everything is President Trump’s fault, no mention of the fact that many of the intransigent Democrats who have offered zero compromise in 26 days vacationed with 109 lobbyists in Puerto Rico at taxpayer expense over the weekend, then the standard segue into 300 words about Russia. There is literally no actual “news” in this story at all.
But Matt Drudge wants you to believe that it is the most earth-shattering story of this day, January 15, 2019.
Hey, when is someone going to write the real “news” story on this fake government shutdown, which is that, here we are, 26 days into it, and the biggest impact on the public at large that the AP can find is some whiny jackass at Atlanta Hartsfield Airport who is having to wait in line maybe 15 minutes longer than he normally would when travelling out of that particular location?
Think about it: We had 800,000 federal workers missing a paycheck on Monday, more than half of whom are furloughed, and that’s the biggest impact anyone can find? What in the hell do all those people do every day? Why do the taxpayers keep having to fund hundreds of thousands of expensive jobs that provide no public benefit or impact? And if you, like 98% of our fake news media, want to blame something on the evil Orange Man, why isn’t anyone in the Trump Administration using this as an opportunity to identify government waste and invite most if not all of these furloughed workers to make their furloughs permanent?
Isn’t that the real story here? When is someone going to write that one?
Wait, I guess I just did. Somehow, I don’t think that story will be getting linked at the Drudge Report anytime soon. Doesn’t fit the narrative, you know.
Oh, hey, another Democrat wasting her time running for President. – This one would be New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, whose time came and went four years ago and she didn’t realize it. Or, more accurately, she lacked the courage to take on the Clintons.
Four years ago, she was the far-left (well, far-left for four years ago, anyway) pretty face who could have theoretically attracted younger voters. Today, she’s just another face. Not as pretty as Kamala Harris or Tulsi Gabbard, not cutting edge in any way, lacking any signature issue or win she can point to, not nearly far-left enough for the Millennial Democrat voters who prefer a true Commie like Bernie Sanders or the endlessly cute Beto instead.
Two years ago, Sen. Gillibrand thought that using the “F” and “S” words a lot in her speeches would help her presidential ambitions come true, because some pollster told her Millennials like politicians who curse a lot in public. Irish Bob O’Rourke is the prime example of this tactic resulting in some success, though not enough to beat Ted Cruz. But it didn’t work at all for Ms. Gillibrand, so she dropped it after awhile.
A year ago, when the whole #MeToo thing started picking off all manner of high-profile liberals, Gillibrand, who had been an ardent apologist for Bill Clinton for a quarter of a century, suddenly decided to publicly go after her hero. That burst of intestinal fortitude lasted about five minutes, probably until someone reminded her of all the dirt the Pantsuit Princess has collected against pretty much everyone in Washington. Then Gillibrand timidly scurried back into her Clinton apologist corner.
Bottom line, Sen. Gillibrand is wasting her time. Don’t let her waste any of yours.
That is all.
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Answer to headline …
… NO!
And, sure enough. Now there's another bogus "Russia" distraction. Besides that Romney in DC is inspiration to purge the Republican Party of conservatives.
It isn't "three dimensional chess" that the border wall should've been started by EO, at the very latest when DC pols took this long weekend. It isn't even follow the dots.
One thing that needs to be emphasized on our side is why it has to be now - it’s the last chance since house is now dem. Rinos lost seats because they didn’t do this when they had it all. If not now- NEVER.
It seems that President Trump still trusts the judgement of people whose mission is to stall his initiatives into oblivion. I’ve said this before....he should’ve brought some early supporter Deplorables with him to DC. Instead he brought people who had DC connections and others without much contact with Trump’s base.
When has the BSM ever printed the real story about anything?
No, they will never report the truth. They report that most illegal immigrants come by air and overstay their visas and this “crisis” is being compounded by the fact that furloughed TSA agents and Coast Guard have opened up our airports and waterways to increased drug trafficking and worse. And not for nothing, but people cannot apply for refugee status or asylum at a US embassy in their country. Embassies and consulates do not process those requests. You MUST be at the border or already in the country to request asylum/refugee status.
The President IS the humanitarian crisis here per the MSM.
That is what is being broadcast 24/7, plus the sob stories.
A couple of weeks ago, someone here on FR led me to https://www.whatfinger.com/
It is a site dedicated to “The Relentless Pursuit of Creating The Greatest Aggregate Link News Site On Earth”. I have not looked at Drudge ever since. It is conservative, quick to load, and mostly current. In my view, Drudge will soon join Kodak, New Coke, Edsel, and buggy whips in the dustbin of history. It has no mandatory refresh, and opens in a new tab, making it much quicker and easier to use.
Yes, Whatfinger.com is where I go as well, though I do still check Drudge in the morning. But Whatfinger updates its page 10-12 times every day, where Drudge will update his 2-3 times, and Whatfinger has quadruple the content.
MATT DRUDGE is a bend over boy,
He can be bribed or extorted.
This is a measure of just how cranked up the Left really is against President Trump. They actually got to MATT DRUDGE.
I do not care if our president continues the shut down right into November of 2020. Our economy is booming and our furloughed federal workers can seek employment elsewhere.The smart ones are doing that right now. Say goodbye to airport TSA,the airlines can do their own security, and welcome the further expansion of US military deployment along our Southern Border.
I saw that Drudge headline today, as well.
If anyone had any doubts he’s gone over to the other side - here you go.
Tabloid “journalism” at its worst and ALWAYS meant to paint President Trump in the worst possible light.
Why he’s thrown away his target audience of so many years is beyond me.
The Amish still need buggy whips.
;-)
“Oh, hey, another Democrat wasting her time running for President. – This one would be New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, whose time came and went four years ago and she didn’t realize it. Or, more accurately, she lacked the courage to take on the Clintons.”
It’s a money grab for all the Dems. They will get the money donated to them, kick some back to the DMC, kick some back to the eventual nominee and bank the rest.
One thing I’ve learned about EO...
What’s done by one president’s EO can also be undone by an another president’s EO.
Obama’s legacy is the EOs he imposed to “fundamentally changed” the USA.
But President Trump changed them all back.
Enough with EOs.
The Congress needs to do its job.
The Government Shutdown is NOT a crisis for those of us who don’t work for the bloated government.
We’ll wait.
Twas not Nancy Pelosi that won the House for the Democrat Party...Twas none other then Republican Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, and his RINO human scum & vermin buddies that purposely lost the House to the Democrats. End of story.
Federal Government workers, please tell us how good it feels to be without your paycheck while your Democrat, low life shyster politicians, are sunning themselves, dining like kings & queens on “Lobbyist” and sipping Mai-Tai drinks poolside & beach side in luxury hotels in both Puerto Rico & Hawaii. Man....do they have your number, screwing you folks every which way but loose.
As for Puerto Rico, don’t be fooled, the hotels and tourist sights are up and running, the island has full power and major facilities like Lufthansa’s Heavy Aircraft Maintenance aircraft overhaul facility has been running at 100% for many months. The thanks goes to your POTUS, Donald J. Trump. Face it the Democrat Politicians in PR are absolutely useless crooks who have bled Puerto Ricans dry from many, many years.
That is why Millions of Puerto-Ricans live in Florida, New York & New Jersey. That is why Puerto-Ricans in Florida cast most of their voted for Republican, Rick Scott who is now Senator, Rick Scott.
You “missing your paycheck” these days can get back to work with pay in five minutes...if only you mobbed both Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer...today dan demanded that they give POTUIS, Trump his request for 5.7 Billion bucks to fund and build the Souther Border Wall.
Let me give ya hint Fed workers....POTUS, Trump will win this battle...you either fix it today, or you are going to be without paychecks for a very long time...Remember the wise guy Air Traffic Controllers, that bpoldly threatened POTUS, Ronald reagan....they all got fired and lost their jobs. Ya all better wake up....Fed dummies!!!
Folks across the entire country. Please donate to Retired USAf, hero, Brian Kolfage’s “Build the Wall Go Fund Me Campaign” at: www.webuildthewall.us. Now at $20,530,000,00 and climbing every day. 350,000 Americans have already donated starting at $5.00...going up to $10,000 dollars...give what you can afford, every dollar given is much appreciated. Support POTUS, Trump!!!
“NO!”
Beat me to it.
There's no way this House is going to pass one cent for this wall. Steve King is just the start. With the help of useful idiot "Republicans", they'll purge committees of everyone who doesn't accept their agenda.
Matt Drudge has gone over to the dark, wild side. He has taken to posting radical headlines...but, when you read the story behind his headlines...there is zero there. Matt Drudge is done as a reliable news and information source. I have stopped reading him ages ago. Poor lad is not with it and is severely, unbalanced!!!
What is fake is not that the Washington Post is a newspaper, and not that the people who write stories for it are journalists.What is fake is the conceit that people cannot be journalists unless they agree with the politics of the Washington Post’s journalists. But don’t try to tell them that - if you do, you will be told that you are “not a journalist, not objective.”
Well, guess what! Nobody can be certain of their own objectivity. Meaning, that the people who say that someone else isn’t objective are almost certainly right - but their insinuation that they themselves are objective is even more likely to be wrong.
People aren’t interested in writing about things about which they have no opinion, and everyone thinks that their own opinions are right - or they wouldn’t be their opinions. Seriously attempting to be objective means scrutinizing your own opinions from the perspective that it is all too likely that where you stands is strongly influenced by where you sit. This is not natural to anyone, but to seriously attempt objectivity you have to strive to make yourself do it.
Forming a mutual admiration society which will claim objectivity for you, while demanding that you do the same for them, is a great way to do a head-fake towards objectivity, but is not a serious effort at the real thing. And that is what we get from any journalist who is not being battered incessantly by claims from the mutual admiration society that they are not a journalist.
Someone sewed the media’s lips to democrat butt years ago...
So no, honest reporting is NOT going to happen.
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