John R. Houk
© January 24, 2018
Long ago I subscribed to Joshua
Pundit. I can’t even remember the last time I received a
subscription email from Joshua Pundit. In sifting through some of my
unread email I found a Joshua Pundit email dated 1/22/18. BUT it was not
the typical JP email I recall from the past. Evidently, the JP blog began running
feeds from another Conservative blog called Wow!
Magazine. Normally that kind of thing kind of irks me. However,
this time I am pleased.
Pseudonymous blogger “Bookworm” writes about being a
Conservative that has Liberal friends. Bookworm is highly aware of the news
coming from Conservative sources and Conservative social media discussions.
Bookworm is astounded by the lack of knowledge among her Liberal friends concerning
the worst corruption scandal in American history surrounding Obama, Crooked Hillary,
the FBI (Mueller, Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page & others), DOJ (Lynch,
Rosenstein & probably others), Dem Party, Leftist MSM AND God only
knows who else to date.
Bookworm reasons is the active misinformation, lies and
Leftist pro-Dem bias of the Mainstream Media reporting delusions about President
Trump and illogical media exoneration of Crooked Hillary and the Obama
Administration.
Think about! The Obama Administration spent eight
years of favorable poll ratings even as scandal after scandal hammered it. Why?
The Leftist MSM lied about the scandals, twisted the info to make the scandals
the object of Conservative disinformation or simply did not report any details
at all.
Bookworm uses an example MSM Leftist propaganda by its
coverage of the Leftist Woman’s March as opposed to the Pro-life Woman’s March
for life. If you talk to a Liberal and they are intransient about how good Obama
& cadres are while condemning all things Trump even after the American
economy is flourishing more in a year of the Trump Administration than eight
years of the Obama Administration.
JRH 1/24/18
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If an Obama scandal is revealed but the media ignores
it….
Posted by Bookworm
January 20, 2018
If the House releases the Nunes memo proving an Obama
scandal, but the media refuses to cover it, will Americans believe that no
scandal ever happened?
Unlike many of my readers, who seem to live in more
conservative communities and have like-minded friends, I’ve spent my entire
life in Democrat enclaves. Whether I meet the gals for coffee, walk the dogs
with a friend, or open my Facebook feed, I am inundated with Progressive-think
— everything from Trump-Hitler (an amped-up of version of Bush-Hitler), to “we
must open our border to third world immigrants” (or, as some wit called them
“Turd world” immigrants), to the fact that we are in imminent danger of
freezing, drowning, boiling, dehydrating, etc. to death because of
anthropogenic climate change.
Because of my social circles, I’m also aware that I inhabit
a very different factual universe than my friends do. In my view, the
government shutdown occurred because Democrats, a Senate minority, refused to
give Republicans, the majority, the votes needed to pass a budget unless
Republicans gave amnesty to over 3 million illegal aliens (or, as we can more
accurately call them, future Democrat voters). In other words, Democrats are
putting illegal aliens’ interests ahead of American interests.
It’s an entirely different story on the other side of the
aisle, though. According to my Progressive friends, the shutdown came about
because Republicans stubbornly refused to provide healthcare for poor children.
As always, even when talking about abortion, the Democrats doing it for
the children.
Two different universes.
Which gets me to the Nunes memo. The memo, which is highly
classified, purportedly contains Rep. Devin Nunes’ conclusions, based upon
viewing other classified material, that the Obama administration, the Hillary
campaign, and the DNC, were up to their eyeballs in highly illegal surveillance
activity directed against Donald Trump, all in an effort to destroy his
candidacy and place Hillary in the White House. If true, the Obama scandal instantly
turns Watergate into Nothing-gate, and reveals an attack on America’s
representative democracy the likes of which we’ve never seen before.
In my conservative world (blogs, emails, and conservative
Facebook groups), everyone is talking about the Nunes memo’s potential finally
to reveal a vast Obama scandal. In my Progressive world, though, no one is
talking about it at all. You know why? They don’t know about it. The mainstream
media is either ignoring the Nunes memo or completely downplaying it. CNN’s
take is that it’s just partisan
game-playing, proving nothing.
This is the same Leftist media, of course, that thinks that,
when Glenn Simpson’s testimony to the effect that based on no evidence
whatsoever but some hatred and gut instincts, “I think Trump is laundering
money,” this is the precise equivalent of “Trump is laundering money.” It’s
also the same Leftist media that, in the case of the New York Times,
put the Abu Ghraib story on the front page for 47 separate days, even though
few new facts emerged to justify this time of coverage. Somehow the Times never
found the same enthusiasm for the IRS scandal, Fast & Furious, Obamacare
lies, spying on journalists (which is, apparently, less bad than hurting their
feelings), Benghazi, Hillary’s secret server, etc. All of those got the “bottom
of page B47” treatment.
Another example of Leftist priorities in covering news is
the difference between the way at least one paper covered the March for Life
yesterday in Washington, D.C., versus today’s Women’s Marches. According to Fox
News, the March yesterday was expected to attract 100,000 people. That’s a lot
of people. Here’s a time-lapse video, which is impressive:
Facebook VIDEO: 2018
March for Life Timelapse
President Trump
addressed the march, the first time a sitting president has done
so. That’s big news. And yet the San Francisco Chronicle, which
covers Trump compulsively when it comes to Big Macs, white trucks, and feeding
Japanese fish, ignored his speech entirely yesterday, at least as of 3:30
P.S.T., when I grabbed this screen shot of my “March for Life” at the SFGate website. And no, you’re not imagining that
they only stories go back to 2017 and 2016, and that the lead for 2017 is that Pence
condemned abortion, rather than the fact that around 100,000 people, many
young, showed up to make a point:
Today [me thinks 1/20/18], the SFGate homepage is taken
up with the Women’s March:
Meanwhile, if you try again to do a search
at SFGate for the March for Life, this is what you still get, per a screen
shot from today, at 2:30 PST:
As a San Francisco native who grew up reading the Comical,
it wasn’t until the internet came along that I even knew there was a March for
Life taking place in American cities, including my home town.
Four more slightly random points regarding this weekend’s
marches before I get back to my point about media coverage or, rather, its
absence.
First point is that, on my Facebook feed, I’ve seen
Progressives castigating Trump as a hypocrite because he used to support
abortion. I also used to support it wholeheartedly. Now, I’m mostly pro-Life,
probably for the same reason President Trump is: We looked into the abortion
abyss and pulled back, repulsed.
Abortion today is not about liberating women. It’s about death
and, often, about minority deaths.
It’s a slippery slope that devalues life until we become a place of upside down
values in which Nancy Pelosi, an ostensible Catholic, claims abortion is
sacred. This is just so morally wrong, I don’t want to be a party to it anymore
and I don’t think Trump does either. People do grow and change.
Second point is that, if you haven’t seen it yet, Trump put
out a magnificent tweet trolling those silly women’s marchers:
Beautiful weather all over our great country, a perfect day for all Women to March. Get out there now to celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success and wealth creation that has taken place over the last 12 months. Lowest female unemployment in 18 years!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2018
How can #NeverTrumpers not see beyond their own prejudices
to the wonders of this president? And how can #NeverTrumpers, Democrats,
Progressives, and the whole cohort of people arrayed against Trump continue to
call him stupid?
Third point is that Dawn Perlmutter’s Mean Girls, Nasty Women
& Queen Bees : The embarrassing collapse of the feminist movement is
a must-read. How can you not love this?
They are political Barbie dolls
in pink hats trying to give meaning to their empty plastic boring lives by
bashing President Trump. In-crowd membership requires spewing anti-Trump
talking points, pledging to always vote democrat and emasculating their
husbands. The women who choose to dress as giant vaginas at the marches simply
have more issues than there is room to describe in this article.
[snip]
The truly despicable women are
the Queen Bees epitomized by Hillary Clinton, Linda Sarsour and Meryl Streep.
‘Queen Bees’ are women who do not mind living in a man’s world as long as they
can hold power and position in it. Unlike mean girls and nasty women, cliques,
popularity and protests are just a means to an end. They do not want to empower
women, just the opposite, they perpetuate institutionalized sexism, so they can
use it to their advantage. To earn power, these women exploit women’s issues,
protect sexual predators and step on the heads of other women even if they are
wearing pussyhats.
Fourth point is that Scott Adams thinks that the Republicans
are doing some magnificent
trolling of their own with the Nunes memo. They don’t need to
release it, he says. They just need to gossip about it. I’d like there to be a
blazing fire behind this smoke, but Adams has a point that the smoke will get
some good traction too even if we never see the fire.
And now back to my main point, which is whether the Nunes
memo revealing a vast Obama scandal (assuming that’s what it does) will matter
as either smoke or fire if the media refuses to acknowledge the memo. A friend
said that Progressive publications will be forced to acknowledge it if people
are led out of the FBI building and other government offices in handcuffs. I
don’t agree. I think that, should arrests happen, Lefties will just start
saying, “See?! We told you Trump was a fascist. He’s worse than Erdogan. He
really is Hitler.”
Most people are headline readers. If the media spins the
headlines or refuses to cover something at all, for most people, it hasn’t
happened, or it’s happened in the way the media said.
I think America’s media is the answer to that philosophical
question asking whether a tree makes a sound if it falls in a forest but there
is no one there to hear it fall. If the media plugs our ears and covers our
eyes, not only does the tree not make a sound, it doesn’t even fall.
As always, I am interested in what you think. I don’t often
throw in my own two-cents when people comment (mostly because anything I had to
say is in my post already), but I do read every comment, and I learn something
from most of them.
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MSM Ignores Facts & Liberal Voters are Dumbed Down
John R. Houk
© January 24, 2018
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Bookworm came late to conservativism but embraced it with passion.
She's been blogging since 2004 about anything that captures her fancy -- and
that's usually politics. Her blog's motto is "Conservatives deal with
facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as
facts."
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