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The Media Hates You And Is Shocked That You Hate It Back
Townhall.com ^ | May 17, 2021 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 05/17/2021 3:20:39 AM PDT by Kaslin

I guess we’ll be told we’re unseemly if we giggle at the cancellation of useless stooge Don Lemon’s low-rated airport lounge video muzak, or at how the Israelis leveled the Gaza high-rise housing the AP and Al-Jazeera. Well, color us unseemly, because when the media suffers, we celebrate.

And we’re not going to apologize for it. Half of America, at least, now cares about the media precisely as much as the media cares about us – that is, not at all. In fact, we actively wish it ill. We cheer when some trash website or paper folds. The frequent layoff announcements make us giddy. Sad journalists whining about how people on Twitter dare criticize them cause us to howl in delight.

Our contempt for them is a result of their contempt for us. And as individuals and collectively, we should do whatever we lawfully can to hasten the collapse of the mainstream media as an institution.

Harsh? Nah.

See, the media hates us and actively sides with our enemies. It’s always amusing how these hacks do not even bother to hide their full-throated collaboration with the people who want us silenced, disenfranchised, and/or dead, yet get all huffy when we refuse to treat them as the neutral truthtellers they aren’t. The most active supporters of censorship in our culture are members of the news media itself, bar none. They cover up Democrat perfidy and invent Republican scandals. They try to police our language. They condescend to us. They dox innocent citizens. They lie all the time. They carry water for liberal leakers. They try to get our own (real) reporters, like Townhall’s Julio Rosas, killed for refusing to follow the narrative.

Yet, we’re supposed to pretend they deserve our respect and deference, that they are courageous heroes battling for truth. Pfffft. They are a joke. The media is garbage, and we must treat it as such.

Take Don Lemon, preferably far away. Apparently, the business model of catering to Blue-Anon shut-ins who wear their masks in the shower isn’t working out so well. He’s off the air as of last week – maybe he’ll come back in some form to torment people running to catch a Delta flight, but perhaps CNN is tired of getting ratings on par with the Macramé Channel and the Enlarged Prostate Network. I have some history with this human punchline – in my last appearance on CNN in December 2015, he cut my mic when I refused his command not to point out his ridiculous hypocrisy regarding Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit. He will not be missed except by his fans, both of them.

Also, Don’s fellow licensed and registered regime advocate Brian Stelter is a potato. The tube’s #1 tuber is still on the air, for now, flacking for his masters and dodging hungry Dubliners.

Over the weekend, America cheered as the Israelis flattened the building housing the Associated Press in Gaza. This led to widespread laughter and high-fives among American patriots. And we were even happier when we later found out that the same high-rise had also housed some Hamas military HQs.

American journalists informed us this was terrible, but they never quite explained why. After all, the Gaza branch of the media is not a bunch of Middle Eastern Woodwards and Bernsteins digging up the truth and not caring whose toes they step on. They are dedicated Palestinian propaganda transcriptionists who play a central role in facilitating the terrorists’ information operations against the only free country in the region. They chose a side, and it was the other one. So, don’t ask us to care when they get treated like it.

Now, some might argue that a free society needs a crusading media to function. That’s a nice cliché, but it assumes both that we still have a free society and a crusading media. If you think we have a free society, think again. There is a war on dissent and the media is leading the charge in coordination with its tech buddies. Try posting some COVID stuff that doesn’t slavishly follow the (ever-changing) narrative. You could in a free society. Understand that the media supports the suppression of unapproved speech – they want everyone else gagged and dissenting information suppressed. They call stuff that rejects their narrative “disinformation,” as if the clowns taking dictation from Raggedy Ann McCircleback are the arbiters of objective reality.

And a crusading media? These are the same people who had a presidential nominee’s son cold taking megabucks from foreigners – including the Chi Coms – and who was blasting rails off the behinds of strippers, and they actively suppressed the story because it would hurt their preferred candidate. If it was Don Jr. instead of President Asterisk’s Snortunate Son, it would have been wall-to-wall coverage. The best part was that the same people who bought the bogus Russian pee-pee tape story whole-hog were suddenly squeamish about “Russian disinformation” that everyone knew was nothing of the sort. The media made a conscious decision to suppress perhaps the juiciest scandal in American history to help the Democrats, so please – ask us to care when bad things happen to it. Please. Ask us.

Now, you can’t personally fire Don Lemon or drop a missile from your F-15 on some building where the media is actively collaborating with America’s murderous enemies, but what can you do to hasten the destruction of the garbage media?

Number one, don’t patronize it. Don’t subscribe to enemy media outlets. Don’t watch them. Give them nothing.

Number two, never help them. When mainstream media outlets call you to get some info, refuse to help. And tell them why – because they suck. And GOP hacks, you need to rethink going on the media that hates us – I get the idea of speaking to the other side to expose them to the truth, but it won’t work. If you are effective, you’ll get diverted, distracted, or your mic will be cut off like Lemon did with me.

Number three, support GOP candidates who will cut off the special privileges the garbage media enjoys. The media now wants additional antitrust exemptions and intellectual property protections from Congress to save it from collapse. How about…no?

Number four, mock the media. There is no institution with a more inflated sense of itself than the press – that smug self-satisfaction is one of the things that helps make up for the crummy pay (though most young journalists today are rich kids whose birthing parent and daddy subsidize them). Your refusal to pretend that these oafs deserve respect causes them no end of fussy fury. So, refuse.

The media hates you. You owe it nothing. Give it nothing, except your contempt.


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1 posted on 05/17/2021 3:20:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The leftist media is the information warfare wing of the democrat party.


2 posted on 05/17/2021 3:22:36 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Kaslin

One-way, anti-truth, programmers hate us. They want us dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nW-IPrzM1g

they slept soundly in their beds last night

just sayin’


3 posted on 05/17/2021 3:29:15 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Kaslin

I heard the building was empty so celebrations seemed a bit subdued.


4 posted on 05/17/2021 3:29:52 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: joma89
"The leftist media is the information warfare wing of the democrat party."

Exactly.

I won't buy a newspaper...a neighbor gives me his when he's done with it in exchange for my monthly Archaeology magazines.

5 posted on 05/17/2021 3:34:10 AM PDT by blam
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To: Kaslin

Big ‘Thumbs Up!’ for this. I do think that the WaPo & NYT have a directed sewer line from the DNC to their ‘news’rooms!

However, this is unfortunately nothing new! I can remember a PBS(?) group show from the 1970s where noted reporters of the big 3 networks, CBS/NBC/ABC, responded to a postulated Vietnam War scenario. A reporter embedded with a NVA unit realizes that the unit is about to ambush an US Army unit. The participants claimed their ‘journalistic ethics’ would forbid them from saving American lives!

Also in this vein, remember how CNN revealed how the Bagdad Office knowing and willingly carried Saddam Hussein’s propaganda & lies just to keep the office open. They never revealed why they thought their decision was a good one!


6 posted on 05/17/2021 3:38:28 AM PDT by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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To: Kaslin

Bookmarked


7 posted on 05/17/2021 3:40:37 AM PDT by flatpickingflyer
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To: Kaslin

Well he’s preaching to the choir here but I love the way he writes.


8 posted on 05/17/2021 3:43:40 AM PDT by xp38
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To: SES1066

When some of those same Vietnam-era journalists sought out the Khmer Rouge for stories (and probably to defend their murders), they were never heard from again.

The Khmer Rouge recognized unproductive consumers when they saw them...


9 posted on 05/17/2021 3:44:14 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Kaslin

After fox earned its DS chops cheerleading the coup have they made that hard right yet? They follow the Uniparty B Team model of supporting conservatives until conservatives show signs of success, then out come the daggers. “Give us your money and ratings, we’re your pals until it means something, then watch your back”, foxy B Teamers.


10 posted on 05/17/2021 3:44:18 AM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Kaslin

ISIS made a mistake beheading infidels.

Instead, if they would have gone into the New York Times building and beheaded all the “journalist”, ISIS would still be around today. /spit.


11 posted on 05/17/2021 3:47:19 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: joma89
A little justice here.

Don Lemon went from obscurity to get his career kick started and his ticket to the big time punched by outright fabricating a false narrative during the Treyvon Martin and Mike Brown media frenzies.

Up til then , the media had always been biased and disingenuous, but those were the first times it was obvious they were just making it up as they went to incite riots. And don Lemon was the vanguard of the revolution we are seeing play out

12 posted on 05/17/2021 3:59:07 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: Kaslin

Corporate Media is run by oligarchs and staffed by perverts and degenerates. Of course they hate Trad Americans. Simply ignore them.


13 posted on 05/17/2021 4:07:31 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Vote harder, sucker. Yeah, that's the ticket. ..)
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To: Kaslin

The media is bringing it’s demise by attacking my way of life and my country.
I would have cheered a flattened building full of AP scum.


14 posted on 05/17/2021 4:09:42 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: Kaslin

Love the Kurt! Raggedy Ann McCircleback!! Snortunate son!! He is Hilarious!


15 posted on 05/17/2021 4:09:52 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: joma89
The leftist media is the information warfare wing of the democrat party.

The Democrat party is the political arm of the Leftist Globalist korporations.

16 posted on 05/17/2021 4:13:43 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: SES1066

the scumbag who arrogantly stated he would not tip off US troops on ambush was no other than Mike Wallace. Peter Jennings was also part of that chorus


17 posted on 05/17/2021 4:15:36 AM PDT by slapshot (Coke wants me to act less white? Well I will buy less Coke- Get woke go broke-)
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To: blam

I won’t buy a newspaper...a neighbor gives me his when he’s done with it in exchange for my monthly Archaeology magazines.

______________________________

I can’t stand to read one word of any LEFTIST rag.


18 posted on 05/17/2021 4:19:25 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught (president FRAUD of the divided states of China)
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To: Kaslin

The last honest reporter was Clark Kent. Since then, it has all been downhill.


19 posted on 05/17/2021 4:26:14 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: Kaslin

Quite honestly, I would not be surprised if the primary target of Israel bombing the AP building was their enemy, the AP, and Hamas being in the same building was just a convenient excuse to smoke out their primary allies, the AP. Can’t say as I blame them


20 posted on 05/17/2021 4:38:51 AM PDT by chuckee
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