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Always Trust Predictions by DaTechGuy Iryna Zarutska Murder in Charlotte Edition

Posted: September 8, 2025 by datechguy in crime, media, Uncategorized
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Me today at 6:22 AM EST via Twitter X or whatever you want to call it:

In case you can’t read the tweet:

PREDICTION: Sometime today

@realDonaldTrump will make a public statement about the Murder in #charlotte on video and the MSM will suddenly discover the story of Iryna Zarutska’s murder under the heading: “Republicans pounce” #unexpectedly of course #IrynaZarutska

Trump today:

Axos today via Instapundit:

AXIOS GOES INTO FULL REPUBLICANS POUNCE MODE TO TUT-TUT ZARUTSKA MURDER: Stabbing video fuels MAGA’s crime message.

MAGA influencers are drawing repeated attention to violent attacks to elevate the issue of urban crime — and accuse mainstream media of under-covering shocking cases.

  • Shocking video of the fatal Aug. 22 knife attack on 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail car in Charlotte, North Carolina, dominated weekend conversation on Trump-friendly social media.

The big picture: The rising number of surveillance cameras in public spaces, including on Charlotte’s light rail, has become a big accelerant in these cases.

  • The video is easily shared or leaked, and can instantly pollinate across social media — a visual counterpoint to statistics showing crime decreases.

Glenn opines:

“Since the number one rule for the legacy media is ‘thou shalt not support anything Trump does,’ naturally the Zarutska murder can’t be covered. And it won’t be, unless they can find — or manufacture — some alternative angle that will make Trump look bad. So far, they’ve come up a dry hole. So nothing.”

And that’s why Axios started off Monday by blaming the video of Zarutska’s murder, and Republicans’ response to it. It’s adjacent to their fellow leftists originally demanding omnipresent police body cams, and then being shocked that almost invariably, they show the police responding competently to violent crimes being committed:

In fairness this was easier to predict than the questions Joe Biden was getting at press conferences.

Just Because We Lied to You About What You Saw With Your Own Eyes on Joe Biden Doesn’t Mean You Should Believe Your Own Eyes on South Africa Says MSM

Posted: May 21, 2025 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, media, politics
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Donald Trump decided to present the president of South Africa, with the entire press corps in the room the evidence of the danger to white farmers in South Africa:

This was actually confirmed as as issue by a SA official at the Oval Office today, but hey are you going to believe your own eyes or CNN?

Trump played the video in front of the guy. Every single network was there, and yet every single network denied what they say.

The irony? All of this took place 24 hours after the Biden health story where the media talked about how they missed a story right in front of their eyes.

Why anyone trusts them is beyond me, but I suspect is bubble reinforcement because once people decide they were wrong they have to see themselves in the light of truth, and that’s just too much for most leftist’s these days.

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

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