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1 posted on 05/12/2020 3:26:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Both. They are stupid but they think they are so very smart compared to us. It is called the Dunning-Kruger effect and it is a fact that the dumbest among us think they are the smartest.

This is why the character Fredo in the Godfather is the perfect caricature of these people.

JoMa


2 posted on 05/12/2020 3:32:27 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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The media has always been partisan - and at least since Hoover has been overwhelmingly Leftist. Anyone here old enough to remember the coverage during Nixon's presidency? Wall to wall attacks, distortions, smears.

The only thing that dilutes the media's power now are sites like the Freerepublic.

3 posted on 05/12/2020 3:34:13 AM PDT by Chainmail (Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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Todd and Stelter are furnishing their audience confirmation bias.


4 posted on 05/12/2020 3:36:55 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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Stelter is a nitwit


5 posted on 05/12/2020 3:42:41 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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Very interesting language structure and full of feeling. Contempt and hate? But it show how the smug talking heads think they are empowered to act toward their paid-for agenda. Expose em All. Expose all of the Coup Plotters and their complicit media. It is TIME.

That attitude was on full display over the weekend on Meet the Press and the ironically named “Reliable Sources,” when the personalities that host those shows committed arrogant and hypocritical frauds on their audiences that can only happen when you’re marinated in the ignorance of your own body odor.

6 posted on 05/12/2020 3:44:56 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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Can sum it up like this.

No most people are not stupid, they are just sheep.

7 posted on 05/12/2020 3:58:57 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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"...It's so disappointing to look at what we're seeing from right-wing media these days, where there's such an obsession with the deep state and these revelations about the Russia probe and the decision about Michael Flynn..."

Wow. He REALLY said that? Really? After nearly four years of non-stop, hyperventilating narrative by him and his peers to promote outright fabrications and lies on the same subjects?

I have to admit, I am a bit floored by that.

9 posted on 05/12/2020 4:41:15 AM PDT by rlmorel (The Coronavirus itself will not burn down humanity. But we may burn ourselves down to be rid of it.)
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I listen to Dan Bongino regularly, and his viewpoints on the media exactly mirror my own, but his personal experience gives his added weight.

He has spent a lot of time around them due to his time in the Secret Service, and he maintains that they are the dumbest, least reality based people around.


10 posted on 05/12/2020 4:43:27 AM PDT by rlmorel (The Coronavirus itself will not burn down humanity. But we may burn ourselves down to be rid of it.)
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Yes, they really think that we are stupid. When they look at us they somehow see the word STUPID tattooed on our foreheads. Someone needs to do a study of the average ACT/SAT scores in the schools of journalism at our universities compared to the averages for the other disciplines. I bet that the journalism schools enjoy some of the lowest on our campuses.


12 posted on 05/12/2020 4:44:38 AM PDT by Saltmeat (69)
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bump


13 posted on 05/12/2020 4:58:47 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Some of these people, I met them -- zero interest, Okay? Like zero." -- Donald J. Trump)
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There's a tradition in that crowd of scribblers that goes way back.

Somehow they always think of themselves as possessing a superior judgment and that their perspective is absolute.

But, with every word, they demonstrate that they are not. It's become more obvious in direct proportion to the lack of bias they achieve.

For a very long time now, they have been writing and speaking only to one another.

Every day I wonder if it's possible for them as individuals and as a profession to BE any more irrelevant. It always reminds me of the quote:

“Liberalism is the ideological disguise of the will-to- power of some people, who could not themselves BE less liberal.”

14 posted on 05/12/2020 5:01:12 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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So, Trump says opening is up to the governors but he has the authority and Fauci the Fraud claims he makes the policy for the governors.

Anyone feeling stupid yet?


17 posted on 05/12/2020 6:04:54 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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Yes. Next question ...


18 posted on 05/12/2020 6:10:14 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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