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CNN’s Dana Bash and the Oldest Profession
You can see it. Dana Bash struggled to ask questions she didn’t want to ask, because she knew that even the easiest question would tax the dim-witted woman Bash and her employer were committed to promoting. You could see the discomfort on her face. There may yet be a spark down there, deep inside, screaming at her betrayal of what she imagined her career would be.
Bash: How do you explain your apparent change of position on [name an issue; she’s changed them all]?
Harris: “My position/feelings/values have not changed,” despite her positions having changed completely on essentially everything.
I thought Dana Bash actually looked pained knowing that she was prostituting her professional reputation, whatever is left of it, in service to such a stunning mediocrity. No follow-ups, no “but you said” responses, nothing that would justify one calling oneself a journalist. No evidence at all that she wasn’t on the DNC payroll.
Did Bash think to herself, I am throwing away the dregs of my integrity for you, and I’m so much better than that? Or did she just smile, and think of CNN?
Keeping a woman of Harris’ resounding incompetence afloat must necessarily drown countless others. In some ways, the worst thing about this fraud of a campaign is that it demands so much from those who sacrifice their integrity in order to throw Harris the softballs that are absolutely essential to her survival — softballs that Harris nonetheless whiffs with embarrassing consistency, whiffs with the lack of self-awareness that only truly stupid people can pull off with confidence.
She is a joke of a candidate, a ludicrous mistake. Trump is a lot of things, but stupid is not one of them. Harris is stupid.
She could still win: Our press is that bad. But she will win only if the press drags her across the finish line, its collective hand placed firmly over her mouth, whispering, “Just shut up” every step of the way.
Published in Election 2024
I suspect many of them refuse to do that, because if they just report the facts they aren’t “doing” anything, and a robot could replace them. Indeed, perhaps mostly they should.
There was a period of history when they pretended to separate reporting and opinion, though, and in which high school textbook writers tried to fool students into thinking it worked that way.
I just tried to find “journal-list” on the Internet and I couldn’t do it. that was the email list in 2007 2008 among all of the leftist journalists.
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Scott Adams has made that assertion on his podcast with lots of video and soundbites to illustrate it.
Or Professional Journalists for that matter.
I just wish they would go back to being honest about it.
I don’t know that they were ever “obvious” about it, as in stating “Yes, I’m biased.” They just didn’t try to deny it all the time.
Back in the day, the papers were quite clear. This whole objective thing is a post WWII artifact.
It is not normal.
Ironically one of the great complaints about the internet and having all these different voices is that people are fractured and listening to the news that they like.
That is exactly what it used to be when you had multiple newspapers and people would read the newspaper they liked.
I think it was the Aurora that was so pro Jefferson and the Democrat Republicans.
If somehow the media were able to be objective, I might have a different opinion, but they are so clearly unobjective. They are so clearly biased towards the elite point of view and they grow more elite all the time. More uniform in their mindset all the time and are literally married to the very people they’re supposed to hold accountable.
Heck, let’s look at Jonah Goldberg. He’s A pundit. Not a reporter so there is that. But he’s literally married to somebody who works in politics or at least used to work in politics. Now he was open about it. How often does some mainstream media person stand up and say now is a disclaimer? My wife works for the Democrat Party?
I get all of my information from biased sources. I ***never*** lose a policy argument.
You don’t need inflation.
You don’t need the government producing anything except actual public goods.
There is nothing wrong with the Constitution, except we aren’t following it closely enough.
Unfunded liabilities are an epic disaster.
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