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1 posted on 12/31/2018 5:45:00 PM PST by be-baw
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No hearings no presidential wannabes lecturing us all, nominate and vote. It’s what schumer would do if he was in charge.


38 posted on 01/01/2019 8:25:37 AM PST by Kakaze (I want The Republic back !)
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Roberts has been chief justice for more than 13 years, but he is only 63 and could lead the court for an additional two decades or more. That allows Roberts, who began his legal career as a lawyer in the Reagan administration, to take a long view, McGinnis said, and await a time when political tensions and concerns about the court's reputation subside.
. . . which feels a whole lot safer when there is not a socialist in the White House.

The case of all cases must be brought, and accepted by SCOTUS. I refer to the case the Republican Party must bring against every institution which promotes the conceit that journalist is (in fact) objective - and that includes not only the MSM (personified in the Associated Press and its membership, and all other major journalism) but the Federal Election Commission (the product of legislation which is constitutional nonsense without the assumption of journalistic objectivity) and the FCC.

The fact that Establishment journalism affects objectivity is actually a manifestation of subjectivty. Subjectivity is the natural condition of man, because everyone thinks that their own opinions are right (or they wouldn’t be their opinions). Attempting objectivity is hard - because against natural inclination - and actually achieving it is not reliably attainable.

Establishment journalism defines itself (in fact, not in its affectation) as a mutual admiration society of people who never question each other’s objectivity - and who will launch a hostile propaganda campaign against anyone who does (especially if they claim to be journalists when doing so). That is an effective PR technique - but it ersatz objectivity, and the institution of it is the product of a conspiracy against the public. The natural result of a century and a half of continuous virtual meeting over the AP “wire.”

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. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)
The rules for commercial success in journalism include “If it bleeds, it leads,” “Man Bites Dog, not Dog Bites Man,” and “There’s nothing more worthless than yesterday’s newspaper. Those rules filter historical perspective out - and what remains is inherently hostile to conservatism. Because of this fact, the New York Times v. Sullivan decision - nominally fair as it is - actually is slanted against conservatism. Sullivan prevents most civil action against journalists for libel by either Democrat or Republican politicians, but Democrat politicians are never libeled. And Republican Politicians routinely are.

39 posted on 01/01/2019 10:37:49 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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