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The Media Has Been Reduced to Lying to Themselves

Posted: April 27, 2025 by datechguy in media

Count Rugen: Come, Sir, we must get you to your ship.

Westley: [smiles] We are men of action. Lies do not become us.

Count Rugen: Well spoken, Sir

The Princess Bride 1987

If you look anywhere in the media you repeatedly see the MSM selling the idea that Trump’s first 100 days were a failure, that Pete Hegseth is getting ready to resign, that the trade deals are all failing and that Trump voters are deserting him in droves.

Alas none of this is true and more importantly Trump voters who can be confirmed as Trump voters and not as nameless trolls on twitter are all in:

Luntz focus group of Trump voters to a man were still with him and Luntz couldn’t believe it.

The media narrative has long since reached its sell by date to conservatives and are instead trying to convince voters of the left that the Trump administration is about to fall and to convince themselves that they are on the winning path.

They should instead take this advice from Robert Stacy McCain on covering stories:

To be truly objective, you have to be able to get enough distance from your personal feelings in order to concentrate on the Three Rules of Journalism: Accuracy, accuracy and accuracy.

In recent months, we’ve witnessed a parade of big-time journalists trying to explain how they somehow overlooked a rather important fact, namely that Joe Biden was far gone in a state of senile dementia. Oh, these journalists tell us now, they were deceived — victims of a conspiratorial cover-up in the White House — even while many millions of ordinary Americans were pointing to the obvious evidence of Biden’s senility and shouting the truth on Twitter, Facebook, etc. These same big-time journalists who, since the election, have freely admitted the truth about Biden’s decayed mental condition, had previously denounced the truth-tellers as agents of a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. We were told that videos of Biden’s bumbling and stumbling were “cheap fakes,” and yet now — when the election is over, and there is no longer any advantage to the Democratic Party lost by admitting that Biden’s was unfit to serve as president — these journalists expect us to take them seriously when they claim they had no idea about it, back when the truth mattered most.

They have sold their souls to the Democratic Party, and whatever the Devil paid them, it was more than their filthy souls were worth.

Have I digressed into another pointless tangent? Perhaps so, but my point is that too many journalists got into this business for the wrong reason. They think of themselves as secular missionaries with a pious duty to “make a difference.” Well, hey, sweetheart, how about you just try to get the facts right, collect your paycheck and go have a beer?

If you’re not out to report the facts, you’re not reporting you’re selling something and that why Scott Jennings can beat a room full of CNN psychopaths’ every time, because he doesn’t have to sell anything, all he needs to do is tell the truth.

A Proud Moment for Me & A Disgrace to the MSM

Posted: March 27, 2025 by datechguy in Blame Biden Administration, media

Yesterday at work the subject of my past journalism came up. I mentioned that there were two things that I was most proud of:

  1. Being referred to as “The hardest working blogger at CPAC” by Stacy McCain
  2. Honest reporting, never having altered or editing my videos to spin facts or being bought

A great example of this came from a story you haven’t heard that I didn’t write. After the Scott Brown election there was a surge in interest and morale in the GOP and there was a particular GOP state rep that was getting some traction both on talk radio and in the news and went on a bit of a speaking tour in the state (let me point out that this was in the days of flip phones rather than smart ones). Said speaker had an event locally and I went to attend it and brought my little camera, the same one that I would use years later in Worcester to film and question Donald Trump, and prepared to cover her speech to a good sized Tea Party crowd.

When she saw me with the camera at the start she said she did not want the speech recorded or filmed. When I heard this I promptly left and didn’t bother to cover her speech or event, my thought being if you’re talking to voters and not willing to be recorded then I can’t trust what you’re saying publicly and I never bothered to cover her again.

That’s what the press should have done when the Biden Administration did this: (emphasis from link)

In an interview with Cenk Uygur on “The Young Turks” show, LaRosa admitted: “They did bully a lot of journalists, and I think they would tell you that now. They wouldn’t have told you at the time.”

LaRosa didn’t want to say the reporters were “co-conspirators,” but it’s impossible to see all of their obsequious cooperation with Team Biden and think that word is inappropriate.

Uygur asked how they bullied the press, and LaRosa said Joe’s handlers insisted they had to pre-approve the quotes used in stories. That’s helping shape the story, not something an “independent journalist” would accept.

LaRosa added “you saw them get caught trying to script questions to radio reporters” last summer. They didn’t just “try.” The radio hosts the Bidenites selected were happy to use the pre-scripted questions. LaRosa added: “It was very reminiscent to me of being on the campaign in 2020, where these young press staffers in these states like New Hampshire, or Iowa, or Nevada, they were sort of like dog trained to make the questions conditional for interviews.” Questions had to be submitted for approval.

Frankly I would not trust the reporting from anybody who consented to this without revealing it.

I’m with Ace on how this should be handled:

So obviously, Trump or Katherine Leavitt should ban every reporter who asked a “pre-screened” question of Biden — thus perpetrating a fraud on the American people, and showing that they are nothing but Democrat propaganda officers — from ever setting foot in the press room again.

Make them argue in favor of “pre-clearing” staged questions for a mentally-incompetent archliberal incompetent.

And what profith a person if they get to ask the President a question at a press conference but lose their own honor?

The real question is if they had any honor to lose

Five Trump Thoughts Under the Fedora: The First Big Test, Orders Up, Learning Nothing , The Missing Meme, A slight Bow

Posted: January 31, 2025 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, Blame Trump, media, under the fedora
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The Collision of a flight with a military helicopter over the Potomac is the first real big test for the Trump administration.

This is something that has to be handled wisely, Trump needs to be presidential while at the same time highlighting the importance of competence vs DEI when dealing with important life and death jobs.

Of course the press spin has helped him as it again seems to be titled toward amplifying the loudest and most hysterical “Blame Trump” declarations.

I suspect Trump’s instincts will prove wiser than the press’ but time will tell if I’m right or not.

While Trump executive actions have been swift and decisive and dizzying there is one thing that needs to be remembered.

All of these actions that Donald Trump has taken and he has taken many rather popular acts are completely reversible because they are by executive order.

If he wants them to stand beyond his presidency Trump needs to get these thing codified into law and the fact that the GOP house has not taken any action along those lines yet disturbs me.

Of course they might be waiting for an opportune time or might be waiting for a spending bill that can’t be filibustered to attach his EO’s to, but whatever the tact they need to keep this in mind otherwise the next Democrat president can and likely will put all of this nonsense that Trump has removed back in play with a single signature.

One of the things that never ceases to amaze me concerning the media and Donald Trump is their complete inability to learn from their mistakes.

President Trump after a term in office and four years to think about how to achieve his goals has pivoted in terms of tactics to adapt them to current conditions and has used this to achieve the highest approval ratings he has ever scored.

Meanwhile the media continues to try to spin and play “gotcha” in an age where the net allows us to debunk them to a public that doesn’t trust them.

Perhaps never having been taught how to think but only how to react they may not know how to deal with the onslaught of action that this administration has become and serving a niche market means they don’t dare go out of the zone.

They’ll have to wait for a mistake, one will eventually come but will they be ready when it does?

I’ve been surprised by the lack of focus on Abortion in the hearings for RFK JR.

The reality is that it’s going to take republican votes to sink any Trump nomination and the place where Kennedy should have been most vulnerable was abortion being a lifelong Democrat. Of course his description of abortion as a tragedy rather than something to be celebrated shows his age.

That they didn’t press it more suggests it’s all about show and fundraising from true believers than anything else.

Of course the unwillingness to celebrate killing kids rather than simply tolerating it at alone might be enough to cost him Collins and Murkowski. But will it cost him more?

As Trump’s press secretary welcomes new media to the press conferences in DC allow me to take a slight bow.

While I was unable to secure Trump as an interview in the closing days of the blog as a business I can take a bow for another matter.

I’m welcome to allow someone to correct me but unless I’m very much mistaken the very first question asked of Donald Trump either on the campaign trail or as President by a member of the new media in an official setting was asked by me in Derry NH in September of 2015

Not a bad legacy

Five Quick Trump Week 1 Thoughts Under the Fedora: Pardon Me, Predictable Press, Trump’s Kasserine Pass is Behind him, To Their Faces, Questions Every Day and Getting the Message

Posted: January 24, 2025 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, Blame Biden Administration, Blame Trump, media, politics, under the fedora
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You can’t get a better contrast between the Trump administration and the Biden Administration than the pardons issued. All the people Trump pardoned are folks that he thought were punished for their political beliefs and or overcharged were pardoned at a time when it would cause maximum blowback from the media.

Most of those Biden pardoned were those who had aided him in attacking his political foes or enriching him and or enriching him and his family and were pardoned at a point least damaging to his presidency.

Oh and there were the killers as well.

It was hilarious watching the press go after the J6 pardons and acting as if Trump didn’t care about police less than 24 hours after Biden commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier who killed two FBI agents. along with quite a few other violent criminals.

It is even more ironic that as they still complain about this they are ranting about going after violent thugs that have been let free by blue state authorities directly after committing violence because they came here illegally.

The narratives never change from the press, never.

The biggest contrast so far from Trump term 1 to Trump term 2 is the fact that the inside people are no longer restraining him.

There were a lot of things Trump wanted to do in term 1 that people in the Senate or in the Cabinet or elsewhere repeatedly advised him not to do or secretly tried to stop him from doing and Trump trying to get along went along.

Not any more, like the US army at the Kasserine Pass he learned from his last term and the years in between and is plowing full speed ahead.

One of the best realities of the situation has been Donald Trump telling people to their faces actual reality. From his inaugural speech to Davos Trump has not hesitated in calling a spade a spade and doing so in the face of those who deserve it.

Such frankness in saying the truth aloud is completely foreign to Capital Hill and their minions.

I wonder how they will deal with it?

The biggest Contrast between this week and last week has been press access.

Trump has taken questions every single day and spontaneous questions from hostile press outlets and hasn’t ducked any of them.

The press has had almost nothing to say about their sudden access and the the contrast between a president who IS in charge and a president who isn’t.

But industry has got it and Chrysler has already announced that they will restart one plant in Illinois and build another vehicle in Detroit.

Jobs no doubt that the blue governors of those states will take credit for.

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