Where Can We Go for The Truth Anymore?

In this messed-up mixed-up world the formerly respected Fourth Estate has devolved into a collection of flat-out liars, brain-dead ideologues and unmitigated ignoramuses. Turn on any of the mainstream media channels or go to any one of hundreds of online outlets and you’ll be swamped in effluent.

The horrific murderous tragedy in Waukesha, Wisconsin in which a man deliberately and determinedly drove his SUV at a high rate of speed through a parade last week is being called a “parade crash” by the most liberal media outlets.

According to 95% of the media talking heads and their cohort, Kyle Rittenhouse is a ‘murdering white supremacist.’ Laughably, Snopes calls the three convicted felons who attacked Rittenhouse -- one a domestic abuser and rapist, another a pedophile, and the third a burglar -- ‘victims.’ Snopes goes further saying those three felons were there to ‘peacefully protest.’ Never mind the fires, the looting and property destruction. None of which was discussed in the vast majority of the media during Rittenhouse’s trial or after his acquittal.

Now we have a new variant of COVID-19 which the physician who first encountered and reported it says is “mild.” In a report in the Telegraph, Dr. Angelique Coetzee, a GP for thirty-three years who also chairs the South African Medical Association says, "Their symptoms were so different and so mild from those I had treated before."

“Pelosi is not buying property in Florida”

You state THIS as fact from those same media sources you just discredited.

I don’t know if she is/was buying a house in Florida, but IF she were, I’d think she might want to keep it a secret until all the papers are signed.

Would she make such a purchase under HER OWN NAME? Maybe a dummy corporation or a manager.

Most media quote that “Nancy Pelosi did not buy $25 million Florida mansion”.

Maybe it was $26 million. Maybe not purchased in HER name. Maybe she changed her mind or THAT deal fell through.

““Nancy Pelosi just went into contract to buy a Florida oceanfront mansion listed for $25,000,000,” Gabe Hoffman said. “Just checked with top broker in area who confirmed this information: 10,000 sf property on Jupiter Island just changed to ‘pending’ on MLS.”

Is it TRUE?

I don’t know and neither do you.

““The Buyer may be possibly listed as Pelosi-related 3rd party, Land Trust, or holding corporation,” Hoffman continued.”

I don’t know if this guy is trustworthy, but he put his name out there not just AFP Fact Check or Yahoo news.

Only a Yahoo would believe anything from Yahoo News.

I know you could quote from a plethora of stories saying she isn’t, but I’ll just remind you with one word “Gravitas”.

Traces back to two sources: the Associated Press, and the Warren Court.
By the AP, I mean not only the AP itself but its member newspapers and also any “competing” wire services as well - since they constitute a “hive” in which no dissent is safe.
By the Warren Court, I refer to the 1964 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision. Which was unanimous, with enthusiastic concurrences - but which was novel because no one believed its conclusions from the Founding Era up to 1964.
We all love us some First Amendment, and Sullivan “expanded” 1A - making Sullivan sound wonderful. The snake in the woodpile is that by suppressing fear of libel suits from government officials it empowered the journalistic “hive” to fully flower into the demagogic "media” which we all despise.
Why was Sullivan a novel decision? For the simple reason that it violates the Ninth Amendment. The Federalists didn’t want a bill of rights in the Constitution (or they woulda put one in the unamended text), a position for which they had legit reasons. Because of the organic nature of Common Law, any attempt at creating a comprehensive bill of rights would have been a novel, and hubristic exercise. After all, common law arises continuously out of court decisions, and that process continues to this day and will never finish.
The fear was that the enumeration of rights would produce a ceiling over our rights rather than the floor under them envisioned by the Antifederalist advocates of a bor. That fear of a ceiling on rights was articulated in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments - and was vindicated in spades by the Warren Court’s Sullivan decision.
Think of it this way: my right to swing my fist stops before I hit your face. Rights are a zero-sum proposition. Sullivan presumes to take rights away from politicians who do not go along and get along with the journalistic hive. As if that did not impact the rights of the members of the public at large (us) who also do not willingly go along with that hive.
Sullivan should be overturned, but only partially. We all want to comment on FR without fear of gratuitous libel suits. The people who need to become terrified of libel suits are the members of the AP and other wire services. Their sin is raising the price of creating or reporting news which is not “politically correct.”

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