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It’s Fun Watching The Press Humiliate Itself
Townhall.com ^ | July 26, 2021 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 07/26/2021 3:16:04 AM PDT by Kaslin


Source: Townhall Media

You gotta love the lib reporters meekly accepting the delicious iron discipline of black-clad Mistress Psaki as she demands “Why do you need to have that information?” when asked about the number of infectos in the petri dish that is the * White House. The only way that kink-fest could have been more on the nose with regard to who our esteemed journalismers actually are is if her severe black outfit was vinyl. Apparently, getting flogged by the Democrat dominatrix turns their collective crank because they just took it. They always just take it. And our Fourth Estate will eagerly beg for more.

Now, it’s not even the gross double standard at play here that’s significant – imagine the fussy fury of the lib-simps if one of Trump’s vanilla spokespeople publicly abused them like that. We’ve learned that the lib-press is immune to shame, at least the kind that comes from having their rank hypocrisy exposed by conservatives. No, it’s that when their Dem domme cracks the whip, they just take it, meekly, obediently, like the groveling submissives they are.

Someday, someone will look back on this pathetic abdication of the media’s dignity and write a history of how the ink-stained wretches of the past became the craven conformists of today, and how now they revel in their own subjugation. Call it 50 Shades of the Gray Lady; when you read the hot scene in the forbidden White House press playroom at page 247, you’ll want to draw a warm bubble bath, light a lavender-scented candle, and pour yourself a goblet of Trader Joe’s screw-top chardonnay. Grrrrrrrr.

Imagine being these people. You can’t? Okay, then take a shot of Dickel Rye and try again to imagine being these people. They all grew up wanting to be the crusading Woodward and/or Bernstein – who themselves were less ace reporters than eager conduits for a disgruntled bureaucrat hack who exploited the callow correspondents to settle his personal scores – and instead they grew up to be the Gimp in the less interesting version of Pulp Fiction that is the DC milieu.

They aren’t breaking stories. They aren’t uncovering wrongdoing. They certainly are not comforting the afflicted or afflicting the comfortable. They are the ruling caste’s janitors. They are drones, thralls to their elite masters, marching in grim conformity in step to the official narrative, never complaining, never questioning, never dissenting. These are licensed, registered, regime journalists.

They all came from the same kind of deep blue enclaves that imagine that the Monkees weren’t singing about them in “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” except theirs had Volvos and Teslas instead of charcoal burning everywhere. They all got stamped out of the same molds at the Ivy League conformity factories, emerging clutching their meaningless credentials. They all wrote for some dopey blog like Vox, with daddy subsidizing their Brooklyn apartment, then got on a “real” paper or network. Now they are ready to reinforce the status quo that gives them their nearly meaningless meaning. Every single one of them is interchangeable, identical in their tiresome mediocrity, with each seeking to distinguish themselves from their competition by being the sloppiest tongue-bather of the narrative du jour.

They sure as hell aren’t going to defenestrate all their years of desperate striving by asking President Asterisk anything harder than what’s his favorite flavor at Baskin-Robbins. They’ve got a desiccated old zombie staggering about just one “Boo!” away from wetting himself and not one of them is willing to point out that he’s so senile he makes second-term Ronald Reagan look like Charles van Doren.

Yeah, we’re really going to do this. We’re really going to have Grandpa Badfinger sundown it in front of our eyes as our glorious media channels Sergeant Schultz – “I see no-thinnnnnng!”

And they tell themselves that they are heroes, brave firefighters, courageous truthtellers. Yeah, whatever gets you through the night, Deadwood R. Murrow.

Oh, the power of self-delusion. They are a punchline for a joke that’s not funny, and they know it. But they accept that they are worms destined to squirm under the heels of their Raggedy Anne-esque dominatrix. Perhaps it makes it easier when they choose to savor the pain of their own humiliation instead of rejecting being pawns and serfs like normal people. After all, standing up is hard. There are consequences. You can’t be one of the cool kids anymore. You lose your standing – look at Glenn Greenwald or Bari Weiss. Their heresy – their honesty – has set them apart. It’s made them pariahs. And now it seems like they have no friends. But they do have their dignity.

And that’s better by a mile.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: fakenews; jenpsaki; leftwingmedia; media
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1 posted on 07/26/2021 3:16:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

So True!


2 posted on 07/26/2021 3:20:23 AM PDT by fedupjohn (Waiting for Trump's new Caribbean Resort "Club Gitmo" to open for business! )
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To: Kaslin

Les Nessman looks like Edward R Murrow compared to these people.


3 posted on 07/26/2021 3:27:09 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: fedupjohn

Only if they and their idiot audiences were just smart enough to realize that they are humiliating themselves. They still have megaphones. They should be getting nooses.


4 posted on 07/26/2021 3:35:53 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Kaslin

Psaki” “Why do you need to have that information?”

Correct response from reporter: “Why are you afraid to release it? Why are you withholding it?”


5 posted on 07/26/2021 3:46:20 AM PDT by motor_racer (Who will bell the cat?)
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To: Kaslin

Sycophant’s turned into pycho-phants———screw them all.

When the true Revolution begins they will be the first to go.

The real enemy of the people. Professional liars. The outright lies and deception are only possible because of them.


6 posted on 07/26/2021 3:49:59 AM PDT by scott says (Servant of the Living God--YHVH)
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To: motor_racer

The correct response is “because it’s our information, bought and paid for with our tax dollars by a government We the People own not you! We pay your salary and have every right to that information!”.


7 posted on 07/26/2021 3:57:08 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: motor_racer

Was the reporter Peter Doocy, who is the son of Steve Doocy. one of the hosts of FOX and Friends?


8 posted on 07/26/2021 3:57:18 AM PDT by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
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To: Kaslin

“Why do you need to have that information?”

What was the question?


9 posted on 07/26/2021 4:21:25 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Kaslin
Any time a journalism student is asked, "What drew you to journalism?" the answer is ALWAYS, "I want to make a difference." Never a thought given to making certain that history will have a true and accurate description of current events. (although considering the state of journalism today, that would be making a difference.)
10 posted on 07/26/2021 4:37:29 AM PDT by Roccus (Prima di ogni altra cosa, siate armati!)
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To: Kaslin

Not “the press” or maybe “the press” in name only. They have become a wholly-owned subsidiary for the leftists. They shovel whatever BS they are told to by their elitist masters, then dutifully avert their eyes and ignore everything else. A young lady in heels on a street corner in the bad part of town has more self respect and integrity than they do. At least she isn’t pretending to be someone else. (Though I hear they are generally willing to do that, but it costs extra.. :-)) I wonder what other services “the press” are willing to perform for a few more crumbs from their masters?


11 posted on 07/26/2021 4:50:57 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: Kaslin

Mainstream journalists are the lowest form of life found on Earth.


12 posted on 07/26/2021 4:51:02 AM PDT by I want the USA back (To find out who really rules you, find out who you're not allowed to criticize. Voltaire. )
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To: Kaslin

They are Democrat operatives, members of the Democrat propaganda arm.
Why wouuld they bite the hand that feeds them?


13 posted on 07/26/2021 4:58:18 AM PDT by kanawa ((Securing the 2022/2024 elections is of paramount importance.))
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To: I want the USA back

MSM talking heads look and sound like a bunch of fools. There are still sheeple who believe their propaganda!


14 posted on 07/26/2021 5:20:14 AM PDT by FreedBird (T)
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To: Kaslin

They wonder why their audience has dropped 75%.


15 posted on 07/26/2021 5:21:44 AM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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To: ThunderSleeps

Every news program is an advertisement for the destructive Democratic Party.


16 posted on 07/26/2021 5:21:55 AM PDT by FreedBird (T)
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To: Kaslin

Author whose name I can’t spell is such a great writer!


17 posted on 07/26/2021 5:37:02 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: Kaslin

Usually, Peter Doocy, who is the son of Steve Doocy. one of the hosts of FOX and Friends, is the only reporter asking any real questions. The rest are just brown nosing and asking softball, ice cream flavor type questions.


18 posted on 07/26/2021 5:46:17 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (A world in which dogs write poetry is more believable than the world as seen through the Media)
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To: Hatteras

It was something to do with how many people at the White House have CoVid whichever variant because of the Texas delegation bringing it there.


19 posted on 07/26/2021 5:47:49 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: Kaslin

Tell it like it is, Kurt.


20 posted on 07/26/2021 6:08:03 AM PDT by OKSooner (Salute the Marines.)
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