The Protection Racket Media has spent the last few weeks running with a new narrative of panic pornography: “white rural rage.” Along with “Christian nationalism,” these media explanations of the current dysfunction in American politics start and end with Donald Trump and his alleged “threat to democracy.” The general gist of these narratives is that […]
In today’s Amiable Skeptics episode, which will go up early this afternoon but was taped later in the day yesterday, Adam Baldwin and I briefly discussed the upcoming State of the Union speech. Adam had found a fun betting site for the SOTU, which I put in the headlines, and we made a few of […]
Chalk this up to Joe Biden’s “confusion,” as Jazz wrote about yesterday, or to his lifelong habit of flat-out lying for self-aggrandizement. Perhaps Biden is “winning” every poll in his own fantasy world, but in reality, he’s in trouble — and Democrats know it. Now that the smoke has cleared on both sides of the […]
In a sane world, this would be satire. Instead, Adam Rubenstein’s lengthy essay at The Atlantic attempts to inject sanity into a journalism industry that has turned into a partisan cult. And when we say cult, we mean it — all the way to the finger-snapping struggle session Rubenstein, a former Opinion editor at the […]
Old and busted: “Ultra-MAGA!” New hotness: “Christian nationalism!” The mainstream media has chosen their narrative for the upcoming election season. In order to convince voters to support an increasingly senile Joe Biden, the Protection Racket Media has to panic them into believing that Donald Trump’s election would be worse than an incapacitated incumbent who can’t […]
According to a recent ABC News/Ipsos poll, 86% of Americans now believe Joe Biden’s too old to serve as president. The mainstream media’s fluffing of Biden and deflection to the fitness of Donald Trump hasn’t fooled most voters, and that includes 73% of Democrats. In fact, the mainstream media hasn’t even fooled itself. Now that Robert […]
Welcome, Login to your account.
Welcome, Create your new account
A password will be e-mailed to you.