Posted on 07/28/2019 5:43:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
It is amazing how much of life is mirrored in Seinfeld episodes.
You may remember the one where Elaine stood in front of the concession counter at the movie theater to get popcorn. She asks if it’s real butter that they put on the popcorn. The sweet girl says, “It’s like butter.” Elaine probes further, “But, is it butter?” She says, “It looks like butter.” Elaine persists. The concessions attendant finally says, “It’s yellow!”
The concession counter at the theater is analogous to our major media outlets. Once you’re in the theater, you’re a captive market, you’re in their bubble. They can put butter flavored oil on the popcorn knowing many consumers won’t know the difference. Take it or leave it.
For generations, the mainstream media have taken that attitude toward their readers and viewers. Political journalism gradually became less and less factual. It was like journalism. It looked factual. It sounded truthful. But, it became little more than their opinions dressed up to look like news. If it didn’t fit the narrative, that information was either ignored or the sources maligned. But, it wasn’t real journalism.
Like the oil on the popcorn, it was yellow. Indeed, historically we’ve known this as yellow journalism.
The sad result of this trend was manifested in the Mueller testimony this week. Poor old Bob Mueller has lived in the Washington Post, New York Times news bubble for many years. That’s probably why he was totally flummoxed by some of the questions Republicans asked him. He had no idea who Fusion GPS was. The world could see that the questions concerning the dossier and the FISA warrants were foreign to him. We wondered, how could he not know? Well, perhaps he had never heard of them. That side of the story has been ignored by his news sources. The Times, the Post and CNN simply pretended it wasn’t news.
Truth does indeed die in darkness. Tragically, so does a Democratic Republic. Self government requires a well-informed citizenry.
Sad as it was to watch, bear in mind that large swaths of the American electorate are in the same boat as the confused Bob Mueller. They simply do not know what they do not know. How could they? They have been been served the yellow oil that looks like butter for so long, they’ve forgotten (or never learned) what real butter tastes like.
Like cattle in a barn, they have been fed a daily ration of nonsense. For more than two years, they have been told that Donald Trump is an illegitimate President. That he was installed by Vladimir Putin as a Russian puppet. There was unquestionably evidence to support their conclusion of collusion. They just needed the right investigators to keep investigating until they found it. After multiple investigations and millions spent, no evidence was found.
But, that didn’t stop them.
Something had to be done to revive the narrative. So, Democrat Chairmen drug an aging, ill-informed Mr. Mueller in front of the glaring lights and television cameras. All in a naked attempt to get him to say that he believed President Trump may have been guilty even though there was no proof. The results were as painful as they were predictable.
It was a pathetic spectacle. Many felt sorry for the once respected former FBI Director. The Democrats and their fellow travelers in the media used and abused him. His reputation will never fully recover.
The greater and more troubling question is whether our Republic can recover? How can we save our representative form of government when major media outlets daily mislead and misinform, not just significant blocks of voters, but high ranking officials in government? Bob Mueller was a warning siren. It was shocking to see his apparent ignorance of significant facts concerning the real scandal and the silent coup that took place during and after the 2016 election.
Perhaps this episode will awaken millions of bovines in that barn. Maybe the coming cascade of facts from legitimate investigations into the real collusion will open their eyes. Hopefully they will begin to question things and come to realize that just because it’s yellow, it’s not necessarily butter.
I think to myself, "What the hell?". YOU are a news outlet, Fox News, why don't you do your own damn reporting instead of just repeating what some other outlet said?
I find that I can’t believe Mueller didn’t know who or what Fusion GPS are, yet I cannot fathom the advantage in pretending ignorance...Very strange place to be...
I wonder sometimes about rank-and-file journalists. Are they really satisfied with their lives as Winston Smiths, throwing facts down memory holes and confirming with extreme gusto that we’ve always been at war with Russia. And all for faceless bosses they can never hope to see.
Because Bret Baer is an idiot.
It’s not just Bret Baier and Fox News. All the media outlets do it.
On the face of it there would seem to be no one we could really “get our hands on” in regard to the abuse our country is suffering but once you realize the Brown Shirt Media is the enemy one begins to realize that perspective is gaslight they spread.
But Bret is one of the worst. Pretending to have “an objective approach” to the “news of the day” is letting VERY biased people decide just what the news IS. Bret could spend 45 minutes every hour educating people on #FusionCollusion and could have done so for the last three years. Instead he jousts with windmills, phantoms created by ghosts he dances with. Pursuing stories that are just ratholes provided to distract fools like him.
What reputation? Mueller was never the real thing. He has always been part of the yellow scum floating to the top of the DC cesspool.
Otherwise you have to plead incompetence in not investigating it. In fact it's not incompetence. It's corruption. He didn't investigate Fusion GPS and the dosier because it didn't fit the narrative that was being pushed.
I’m surprised I didn’t know this term before. I’ve seen it before but just guessed at it’s meaning. This time I looked it up. And you are right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
Leftards accept and use dishonesty to create new problems where none exist and to make old problems worse. They use the dishonesty that is the result of feelings or rationalizations that generate mind created fake realities. These, in turn, cause more and more unnecessary problems and unnatural destruction.
The Media, all of it, immediately began calling Bruce Jenner a “she” the day the wacko announced his stunt.
I sit there, staring at the screen, swearing an oath to burn their world before living in it.
We won’t make any progress as long as people are fooled by the R jersey.
Democrats in R jerseys are still Democrats.
It's obstruction of justice! Failure/refusal to investigate and report obviously pertinent information of the case!
Don't drop the soap Bobbie!
“It’s not just Bret Baier and Fox News. All the media outlets do it.”
I believe the technique is called “rip and read.” Every media outlet gets the majority of their news from either the AP or Reuters. Rather than saying news came from the AP, the media outlet will attribute the news to the first outlet using it.
It’s like retweeting something.
But to pretend you have an “objective” approach to the libtard agenda of the day is not just stupid but either morally stupid or intellectually vapid. Letting the enemy choose the battleground and even further allowing them to prepare the battleground is admitting defeat before even getting started. Faux News (outside of Tucker and Gutfield and a handful of others) could lead the way in challenging the Rats’ agenda but they don’t even try.
You BS is a load of crap
Fox is not your desired conservative propaganda outlet.
Fox gives the plenty of free air time to say what ever he wants. Every morning a spokesman gives a long momologue delivering directly the message of the day.
Your bigoted bias is Fake post. Made up Untrue
The editors of a few libtard media outlets decide what today’s news will be. That is a fact. 99% of what appears on Fox News is attending to this agenda. We have seen 3 years of a constant, unending stream of this. All we have learned of Fusion GPS, etc. has come from other sources and Fox News has almost completely ignored the coup. Instead of focusing on what should have been Watergate 2.0 they have covered for the coup by lending credence to Mueller and the libtard agenda. The Brown Shirt Media’s real power is the power to ignore and Fox News has failed us miserably.
Like the oil on the popcorn, it was yellow. Indeed, historically we’ve known this as yellow journalism.
The trouble is that your selection of what you discus, and what you do not discuss, expresses your perspective.The freedom of the press is not predicated on putative objectivity. It is predicated on the understanding that the reader (if any) manifests his own perspective when he reads a particular press. Neither the writer nor the reader is presumptively objective, and their rights do not depend on the opinion of any (read, the "government”) third party.
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