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Slurs Not Working Anymore
by Tom McLaughlin
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The Mindless MSM Talkingheads — Time to Detox
Long before sunrise each day, Patriot Post editors are reviewing hundreds of news and policy reports in order to segregate the few important trending stories from the endless loop of mainstream media noise.
All that noise occurs because news and opinion platforms, whether print, cable or online, are almost universally sustained by noxious advertising. Thus, those outlets are, first and foremost, compelled to recycle the hype, ad nauseam, in order to keep the ad revenue flowing. Some of the "conservative news" media outlets are as guilty of this hype as the Leftmedia — a prime example being the now-ubiquitous "Fox News Alert" banners.
Of course, print and cable media hold great contempt for competing online media — though print and cable media increasingly depend on their own online presence for ad revenue — arrogantly asserting that they are the only legitimate arbiters of news, policy and opinion.
A case in point would be a CNN story this week: "Trump supporters call to boycott Pepsi over comments the CEO never made, which is both a hit piece about "Trump supporters" and a condemnation of online media, particularly Facebook, where many people now get their news. (The Patriot Post now has more than 500,000 Facebook followers.)
According to the CNN story, which, by the way can be read on Facebook, "Fake news has been a major issue during the election." CNN goes on to blame "Facebook for not doing enough to remove false content," and complains about "sites designed to trick people."
Facebook is already blocking reputable conservative news and commentary, but that is beside the point. CNN leads the pack of propagandist "fake news" sites, and the ubiquitous reference to "Trump supporters" in this headline betrays that bias — as if there are not a plethora of examples of leftist groups propagating false information to foment discontent. Indeed, this CNN "news report" ends with a reference to some obscure "white supremacist" group in an effort to equate them with "Trump supporters," no doubt evidence of yet another "whitelash" in the election night words of CNN talker Van Jones...
Fact is, consumers should be skeptical of all media sources — print, cable and online — especially those creating and recycling news hype, notably incessant polling, in order to generate ad revenue. But the most unfettered resource for news, policy and opinion is the online medium, where the reputable exercise of First Amendment "freedom of speech" and of "the press" are most vibrant. It is time to detox from the relentless MSM claptrap. ~The Patriot Post
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Michael Barone: "Liberal pundits Jonathan Alter and E.J. Dionne characterized the liar-Clinton email lawbreaking and lies as non-scandals. Maybe they weren't scandals in Chicago and Massachusetts, where they grew up, but they were in the outstate Midwest. Hints of liar-Clinton's general election weakness came in Democratic primaries, when she lost outstates badly in Wisconsin and Michigan and ran barely even in Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Maybe outstaters were voting not for Bernie Sanders' socialism but against liar-Clinton's 'damn emails.' Team liar-Clinton is now saying it was beaten by FBI Director James Comey's intervention. But Comey would not have been heard from if liar-Clinton hadn't broken the law. That's a vote-loser in the outstate Midwest — and an election-loser in America." ~The Patriot Post
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liar-nObama undermines Trump
with ambitious new climate change plan
by Ben Wolfgang
{washingtontimes.com} ~ President-elect Donald Trump says he’ll abandon his predecessor’s global climate change deal, but that didn’t stop the liar-nObama administration this week from rolling out a new, even more ambitious plan to cut U.S. emissions by 80 percent by 2050... undermining the incoming president on the world stage two months before his inauguration. The latest proposal, which critics on Capitol Hill say is dead on arrival as soon as Mr. Trump enters the White House on Jan. 20, is being sold to the rest of the world as a long-term road map to U.S. greenhouse gas reductions. It comes as Mr. Trump is also under growing pressure from foreign governments and leading U.S. companies not to walk away from President liar-nObama’s climate change vision. Seeking to reassure the rest of the world, Secretary of State John F. hanoi-Kerry told a United Nations climate conference in Morocco that U.S. progress against global warming essentially is permanent, all but ignoring the fact that Mr. Trump has made it crystal-clear he plans to scrap the administration’s climate agenda immediately...
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Liberal Distortionist Attempts To
Twist Rep King’s Words...
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The witch Rep Steve King agreed to an interview with is named Stephanie Ruhle, but Stephanie Rude is more appropriate... as are other names that Democrat activists are normally referred to by, most of which are not family friendly. She smiles at the beginning and the end of the interview, aside from those two instances, it’s one failed gotcha attempt after another. She’s got one job, promoting the Democrat agenda, and clearly, being well informed, objective, fair or professional are not necessary qualifications. She leads off by jumping on the “Steve Bannon is Satan” train, citing Mitch McCon-nell’s personal cowardice in not supporting him as some kind of a benchmark of what is reasonable. McCon-nell is not a standard for anything other than duplicity and submission. He’s the last person by which others should be measured... http://rickwells.us/liberal-distortionist-attempts-twist-rep-kings-words-dealt-humiliating-shut-out-loss/
.Fake News Mainstream Media Push For Censorship
Of Truthful Alternative Media
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ With accolades for Donald Trump delivering our Republic from the brink of death and there being no better selection for Attorney General than Senator Jeff Sessions... Alex Jones notes that Sessions is going “to burn the globalists to the ground.” He references the globalists efforts now underway to salvage their program that is collapsing in on them around the world, quoting liar-nObama as having said that “Globalism is in crisis.” Paul Watson offers up his views on the latest assault on those exposing the globalist agenda, their being labeled and targeted by the illegitimate mainstream media as a serious issue, fake news outlets. He begins, “Having lost the election and lost the argument, the butt-hurt left and the rigged media is desperate to salvage some scrap of credibility. So they’ve decided to create a new panic of a so-called, ‘fake news.’ Pressuring Google and Facebook to take action against ‘fake news’ websites.”...
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Incoming CIA Director Has Reputation
for Confronting Iran
by Adam Kredo
{freebeacon.com} ~ President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) to serve as the next CIA director is garnering early praise from senior congressional insiders and foreign policy experts... who told the Washington Free Beacon on Friday that the lawmaker has won plaudits for taking a tough line on Iranian intransigence and investigating the liar-nObama administration’s secret negotiations with Tehran. Pompeo, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, earned a reputation among his Republican colleagues for his aggressive investigations into liar-nObama administration secrecy surrounding last year’s nuclear agreement with Iran, multiple sources confirmed. Multiple investigations by the lawmaker unearthed documents showing that senior U.S. officials engaged in secret talks with Iran that led to the payment of nearly $2 billion to Tehran by the United States...
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Allred Smears Of Trump Failed,
Issued Laughable Warning Against Retaliation
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ A couple of days after the election results came in with surprising results for most of those who don’t have a clue as to what is going on in America, Gloria Allred and one of her “clients” went before the public to do a little damage control... It’s really bad; so bad that it can’t be ignored, if for no other reason than to help clear Mr. Trump’s name and reputation. The smear merchant broken-nose parasitic attorney Gloria Allred stepped in it with both feet and her lying clients have found themselves now covered in it from head to toe – deep doo-doo. The Donald Trump victory blew the heck out of their plans to extort money from the man who will now soon be president. We can imagine the preparation for this theatrical presentation that went on between Allred and Summer Zervos, the embarrassing, pathetic gold-digger and really bad actress sitting next to her. Allred probably told her, “We’ll go out there and warn Mr. Trump, with all of these sympathetic media types on our side as witnesses...
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Slurs Not Working Anymore
by Tom McLaughlin
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ Racist, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, misogynist — all these epithets now aimed at Donald Trump and his supporters used to be directed my way. Why? Because I was a teacher who taught students to think critically. I was “poisoning young minds,” said leftists who believed they knew better how issues should be covered in public school — their way and no other. I didn’t just offer “both sides,” because seldom are there only two. I offered multiple viewpoints on controversial issues, encouraged each student to pick what sounded best and defend it. I fostered the kinds of diversity that genuinely improve education: diversity of thought and opinion. To many on the left — and it may now be accurate to say most — the only kinds of diversity that count are those of skin color, sex, or ethnicity. However, Those don't help if everyone thinks alike, and that’s how it is throughout academia now, kindergarten through graduate school.
About once a month, I wrote up classroom Socratic dialogues and published them, maybe two hundred or so. Most of my other columns expressed my own opinions on the issues of the day and after about 1993 or ’94 those opinions were increasingly conservative. Many readers on the left assumed I was pushing my opinions on students and tried to have me disciplined, silenced, fired, or have my teaching license pulled. All along the way, letters to the editor appeared with the slurs listed above. I read them in class and students were surprised.
“But you don’t tell us what to believe,” they responded.
“Evidently they don’t know that,” I’d answer.
“We should all write letters back and tell them,” some suggested.
“You can if you want,” I’d say, “but not in class. You have to do it on your own.” Several did.
There were classroom dialogues on affirmative action in which I’d explain how racial quotas worked in college admissions, hiring, and awarding public contracts. After publishing those, I was “racist.” There were discussions about jihad and Koranic verses encouraging Muslims to kill infidels, etc. After them came “Islamophobic” slurs. We discussed illegal immigration and I described what I saw after flying down to the Mexican border. After those came out, I was “xenophobic.” We discussed referendum questions on Maine’s ballot about gay rights, gay marriage, partial-birth abortion, Indian casinos, and others. After writing up them up, I was “homophobic”; “misogynist” ; “racist”; and so forth.
When I read those letters aloud in class, students asked: “Don’t they bother you?”
“They did at first,” I responded, “but they don’t anymore. Calling me ‘racist’ or ‘misogynist’ doesn’t make it so. Name-calling indicates the writers have run out of arguments, and slurs are all they have.”
“They did at first,” I responded, “but they don’t anymore. Calling me ‘racist’ or ‘misogynist’ doesn’t make it so. Name-calling indicates the writers have run out of arguments, and slurs are all they have.”
I enjoyed playing devil’s advocate with students. It was easy to parrot arguments from left, right, or middle because I held them over the years. Like liar-Hillary Clinton and Barack liar-nObama, I had been an Alinskyite radical. Then I moved right to become a liberal before finally emerging as a genuine conservative in my forties. My evolution, as described first by either Georges Clemenceau or Winston Churchill, went thus: “If you’re not a liberal when you’re twenty, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re forty, you have no brains.” Unless they read my column regularly, students didn’t know what I really thought.
Efforts by leftists to have me silenced or removed from teaching flared up sporadically for ten or twelve years and I kept a file throughout. After retiring, I wrote it up and tried to shop the manuscript around to various agents with no success. Times are a-changin’ however, as witnessed by the evening and morning of November 8 and 9. Liberals controlling media were shocked to discover that, like me, there are millions out here who have become inured to their ubiquitous slurs. They shot everything they had at Donald Trump and others who didn’t march in lockstep, then sat back expecting their favored candidates to win as they always had, and were shocked when they didn’t.
From 9:00 pm Tuesday night and 1:00 am Wednesday, I flipped through the liberal news channels: NBC, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, and ABC. Pundits were all lined up but gone were the smug expressions of election nights past. They were ashen — all of them. How could we have been so wrong? they asked each other. Why did all those “working class” white guys switch to Trump? Did they not listen to us? Well no, they didn’t. They heard you cry wolf for decades and they’re not listening anymore.
Maybe it’s time to shop my manuscript around again. I had been calling it “Poisoning Young Minds,” but maybe it’s time to call it something else. “Teaching While Deplorable” perhaps? “Irredeemable Instructor”? "Privileged Pedagogue”? I have to think about this.
http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2016/11/slurs-not-working-anymore_21.html
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