Posted on 02/19/2021 10:15:59 AM PST by Rummyfan
In a new updated edition of his book Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another, journalist Matt Taibbi offers a term for a new practice of the corrupt mainstream media: bombholing.
Bombholing is the practice of splashing wild and unsubstantiated stories all over the media. Then sending those same stories down the memory hole when they don’t pan out. Finally, media immediately distract viewers and readers with a new “bombshell,” which makes people forget the old “bombshell.” Viewers are led “from mania to mania.” Goaded into focusing on today’s outrage, people quickly forget the previous “bombshell,” which was a dud.
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When I Got Bombholed
The most incredible piece of bombholing I ever witnessed was by Joe Scarborough. Within the space of one week, Scarborough went from hyping a ludicrous story, to denouncing it and anyone who had spread it or believed it. It was also a story I was personally involved in.
On September 27 Scarborough had on his program John Heilemann, a left-wing journalist. Heilemann had secured an “exclusive” interview with Julie Swetnick. Remember her? She asserted that she’d witnessed Brett Kavanaugh, then a nominee for the Supreme Court, attending ten high school parties where girls were drugged and gang raped. I was friends with Brett in high school, and Swetnick also claimed that I was at the parties.
Gilding the Perjury
Swetnick’s change came on the heels of an allegation by Christine Blasey Ford that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in high school. Ford, who worked with an opposition researcher the summer of 2018, also claimed that I was in the room when the alleged assault took place.
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Yes! Like Ted Cruz vacation - what does that have to do with the ERCOT board of Michigan and Illinois lawyers who invested 25% of Texas ececricity in unstable Wind Power and failed to hedge/price risk manage natural gas supplies into well forecast winter weather.
Well explained in the book 1984.
bkmk
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