Posted on 08/28/2019 4:46:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the midst of the daily tarring and feathering of President Trump by our "objective" press, we are treated to some precious moments where these badly disguised political operatives write something unintentionally hilarious.
Take, for example, The New York Times story on Aug. 25 headlined "Trump's Allies Scour Internet to Punish Press." Reporters Ken Vogel and Jeremy Peters ominously warned, "A loose network of conservative operatives allied with the White House is pursuing what they say will be an aggressive operation to discredit news organizations deemed hostile to President Trump by publicizing damaging information about journalists."
Notice how journalists employ a language of scandal and conspiracy to insist those horrible conservatives are going to publicize damaging information about journalists, as if this is entirely different than their own daily output. Let's use their lingo. The Times is "an aggressive operation to discredit" anyone deemed hostile to liberalism by publishing damaging information about them.
This outraged front-page story came in the wake of Times politics editor Tom Wright-Piersaniti being forced to apologize for (and delete) objectionable tweets. On Jan. 1, 2010, he tweeted, "For example, I was going to say 'Crappy Jew Year,' but one of my resolutions is to be less anti-Semitic. So ... HAPPY Jew Year. You Jews." And this: "I don't hate Mohawk Indians, though. I love those guys. I just hate Indians with mohawks. Different indians, different mohawks."
A month ago, CNN photo editor Mohammed Elshamy was exposed for 2011 tweets. He apparently wrote, "More than 4 jewish pigs killed in #Jerusalem today by the Palestinian bomb explode," and "Despite everything happening now in Egypt, I'm proud of the army generation that liberated us from the zionist pigs @ 6 october 1973".
Those who live to expose Twitter outrages must be stopped!
Arthur Schwartz, an ally of Donald Trump Jr., tweeted, "If the @nytimes thinks this settles the matter we can expose a few of their other bigots. Lots more where this came from."
In The Times story, The Times admitted this was about "potentially embarrassing social media posts and other public statements," but a caption under another picture in the story warned, "The operation is the latest step in a long-running effort by President Trump and his allies to undercut the influence of legitimate news reporting".
So, in other words, everything The Times does is "legitimate." Everything its critics report about it is intended to "undercut the influence" of heroic journalists.
Not to be outdone in outrage, Times publisher Arthur Gregg Sulzberger issued a memo about his paper's allegedly "fearless and fair coverage" of Trump and complained, "They are using insinuation and exaggeration to manipulate the facts for political gain." The lack of self-awareness is mind-boggling. This sentence could be the motto of The New York Times.
A spokesman for CNN also looked silly by proclaiming that when those in government "and those working on their behalf, threaten and retaliate against reporters as a means of suppression, it's a clear abandonment of democracy for something very dangerous." Can we please stop these insufferable people from constantly insisting that they are the Embodiment of Democracy, and that when you attack them, democracy is abandoned, suppressed or endangered?
These journalists can dish it out against Trump and Trump backers, calling them the worst humans on Earth news cycle after cycle, but they're reduced to whining like children when someone somewhere says, "Boo!" about them.
Do people really need to “scour” the internet to find journalists hostile to the President?
Please pick me up off the floor and my tummy hurts now from laughing so hard!
Does the left intentionally lie, fully aware of what they are doing, or are they really unknowing useful idiots and they honestly believe what they are writing?
Actually I was pretty surprised there was an anti-Semitic “journalist” working at The NY Times and they didn’t know it.
I know it's naïve but, you get a whole different color with
"to undercut the influence of legitimate news reporting"
I actually read the Vogel/Peter’s NYT piece referenced here.
These bloviators had me.ROFL when they cited Media Matters as the great defenders of truth & unbiased professional journalism.
In fact, Media Matters is a non-profit that was FOUNDED on the dual objectives of attacking conservative media, and training journalists-as-activists to promote a “progressive” (left wing) agenda.
Media Matters’ bias is stated right there in its mission statement!
They lie intentionally ... and will continue to do so until they are dragged into the light of truth by those they were oh so sure had been brainwashed by their brilliance.
But first they should be mocked and shamed.
INDEED!
It’s one thing to report the news accurately; quite another to try to INFLUENCE folks with it!
Perhaps a moment at the computer while drunk is the root of the problem. In Vino Veritas
Don’t type on the internet while drunk
NY Times politics editor Tom Wright Piss-Ant
The morning after the 2016 election, the media had about a 12 hour surge of self-examination and a few startled, wavering moments of lucid reflection. “We Were Wrong,” they said. But the clouds came over them again and it became merely, “We underestimated what horrible, racist, capitalist pigs all white people are!!! Except us, of course.” And that’s how they’ve operated ever since, like hypnotized drones who almost shook it off, and then sank back down again.
This offensive against the Liberal Media Machine must escalate. We need to shut these pukes down.
“Don’t type on the internet while drunk”
Are you suggesting I am drunk?
Does the left intentionally lie, fully aware of what they are doing, or are they really unknowing useful idiots and they honestly believe what they are writing?
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This is a question that I have been raising about fringy libs for the last several years, and since I don’t know any of the ones who are actively engaged either in politics or in the media sphere, I have yet to try to drill down on one of them to find out.
I would posit the hypothesis that there is a mix of active liars and useful idiots. The main difference is that the former are the active indoctrinates, and the latter are among the more active members of the indoctrinated class. In many ways, this is a cult. They just don’t have a compound and take each other’s money (shhh... they take yours). Either way, whether conscious liar or willing idiot, they all believe the ends justify any means. There is no fair play. No good faith. There is only relativistic ‘truths’.
There are leftist trolls all over dba. Most of them are too lazy to make an in depth profile so are pretty easy to spot. They argue points and ridicule people on news sites.
Perhaps you heard about Trump’s luncheon meeting with the Pope on a yacht anchored on the Potomac. The Pope’s mitre was blown into the water by a gust of wind and Trump said: “Let me get that your you, Your Eminence.” whereupon he vaulted over the edge of the boat, walk on top of the water over to the mitre, picked it up, walked back to the yacht, jumped back onto the yacht, and handed the mitre back to the Pope.
The headlines the next day: “Trump Can’t Swim”
Of course not but perhaps investigation might be in order. : )
The statement was directed toward editors that in weak moment might drunkenly post something they soberly know is bad
Very true. This approach goes back at least as far as the French Revolution -- "You have to break some eggs to make an omelette."
They keep their eye on the "truth" that they want an omelette -- they don't care about the damage they do, as long as they get a nice breakfast at the end.
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