Posted on 04/11/2022 2:45:10 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The next day saw a discussion with Dispatch editor Jonah Goldberg, who also waved away the Hunter Biden laptop story, which he later stated on Twitter that he did not believe “on it’s face.” Goldberg’s flippant attitude and smug gatekeeping was a perfect example of how so many pundits and thinkers are now more interested in hearing what each other have to say and bathing in self-satisfied pontifications rather than in serving their audiences.
But the ultimate irony is that former President Barack Obama was a special guest, appearing onstage alongside Jeffrey Goldberg. Breitbart reporter Charlie Spiering later summed up his comments on Twitter: “At Atlantic forum, Obama defines ‘disinformation’ as ‘a systematic effort to either promote false information, to suppress true information, for the purpose of political gain, financial gain, enhancing power, suppressing others, targeting those you don’t like.’”
That’s true and it should have been a rare moment of self-introspection for the former president. Among Obama’s own disinformation campaigns were blaming the Benghazi terror attacks on a video and Politifact’s lie of the year that “if you like your plan you can keep your healthcare plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” Yet no one from the Atlantic, CNN, or the Dispatch saw the deep irony in appearing alongside Obama at a conference about the dangers of disinformation.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectatorworld.com ...
Jeopardy! answer: "What is CNN?"
Jonah Goldberg.....spit.
On Fox Business Channel, election night of 2016, a commenter named "Kennedy" called the media a "self-licking lollipop that with each lick tells itself how right it is". This as they sat absolutely stunned that Donald Trump was winning the presidency. Who could ever forget the New York Times website stating at 7 p.m. ET that Mrs. Clinton had a 99% chance of winning only to watch those odds drop and drop and drop the entire night. Glorious! Glorious!
Obama defines ‘disinformation’ as ‘a systematic effort to either promote false information, to suppress true information, for the purpose of political gain, financial gain, enhancing power, suppressing others, targeting those you don’t like.’”
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Like the Alinsky “birther” attack on everyone who knows what natural born citizen means.
And that Obama is not one.
What was really sad was how many we thought were on our side that joined in on that.
btt
Its been liberalized
Its been feminized
It blends opinioms with facts, they dont know how to do a proper hard news story anymore, and worse, don’t want to
The bias is so one sided they cant see it
The only agenda is to protect friendlies and smear enemies
They love giving themselves self praise and awards
When I think of 2024, I can see a Republican like Mitt Romney winning. You know: because Biden and Harris have been such a huge failure, the country will be "ready for a Republican". And the deal will be that Romney (or whomever) will be allowed to win as a Republican, as long as he promises to govern to the Left of Obama/Biden/Harris.
And the journalists will know all about the deal, and the reporting will be: "America is back and no one can question the purity of our elections now!!" Journalist will be so very pleased at the honesty of it all.
See Tagline for quick summary.
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