“I hired you to raise the vocabulary level of this paper. I want to keep the journalistic level very low.” – Transylvania 6-5000
How can we change history if you have your own copy? Paging Winston Smith – we need to edit the past.
Every once in a while it’s good to try new things. This post probably a one-time thing, but I had all this material, and couldn’t resist.
What is it?
It’s a list of stories where the media was so biased that they performed anatomically impossible acts to sell their stories. I have double this number of examples, but I consciously steered away from more sensitive topics where the media contradicted itself.
Why?
Well, I described one of the examples I had with The Mrs.
The Mrs.: “Don’t use it.”
John Wilder: “Why? I fact checked it. It’s legitimate. Both stories are still on their web site.”
The Mrs.: “It detracts from the message. It may be true, but people will just focus on the subject, and not the point you’re making.”
I took The Mrs.’ advice. I skipped that example. And 27 others. I could have doubled the post length with more examples of unintended irony or media just contradicting themselves on Tuesday because Monday’s message wasn’t convenient.
The Mrs. is right.
The message isn’t the topic of the contradiction, it’s the contradiction itself. The topic of the contradiction was more sensitive than the ones presented below. If you wanted to convince someone of the lie, showing them a lie without the baggage might be more helpful. That’s my theory.
I didn’t create any of these, I caught ‘em wild on the Internet. If you know of any that are factually inaccurate, please do let me know. I didn’t check all sources, and anything added in the image itself isn’t mine.
The snarky comments below? Those are mine.
Remember, these are the people that are attempting to convince you how to vote in the next election. These are the people who want to control your views. These are the people who want to be immune from your comments, and, in the case of the Vice® comment above, not be held to account for the things they said in the past. History is inconvenient. As you will see.
When is a wiretap not a wiretap? Well, did they really use wires?
As we all know, old ladies with walkers commit 50% of the crimes in the United States.
To make CNN happy, all Joe has to do is fog a mirror.
It’s a conspiracy theory that George did the thing he bragged about doing?
Democracy dies in darkness? How about irony? Does that need a tanning bed?
Is it Schrödinger’s murder rate, which is neither down nor up?
Oh, and Schrödinger’s ratings, too!
If the White farmers move to the United States, would they be African Americans?
I think these two were posted within an hour of each other. Those crazy night shift guys!
Well, she has a point. I mean, as long as they’re attacking businesses, it’s not domestic, right?
Ahh, England. You’ll only be in here once, right? Oh. More to come?
Apparently family leave is awesome, unless you’re a woman. Which is anyone in 2020.
Whew! How things change in a month! Did Khan need a diaper, too?
So, does that mean the Vikings can kick the Maori out of New Zealand?
Literally no one could have seen this coming, right? Must be racism.
It’s vital to know about certain candidates, right? Must be a guy thing?
Oh, not a guy thing. Hmm. What could the reason be?
Joe Biden denies that his dementia is dementia is fair?
We reject the idea that people are stealing the things we said people are stealing.
The fires that the scientists predicted nearly a year in advance? It’s misleading to say that we mismanaged them. Bigot.
Whew! Fact free journalism that’s based on convincing people to do the things we want! Zimmerman, get on that right away!
Ahhh, the Left has him now!
Get that girl a GoGurt, stat! She’s been saved by the entire population of Syria!
I’m naked. Except for my jeans, underwear, socks, and the shirt I have. Oh, and the cellphone. Totally naked.
Hmm, so if a person gets out of prison after spending decades in for being in a terrorist group doing terrorist things and was caught with hundreds of pounds of explosives? Well, kind of a terrorist. But what a great resume to get a board seat on a charity with nearly a billion dollars on the books!
Same writer. I guess that only Some Woman Lives Matter?
Yasmin just can’t catch a break. Allegedly. What a fantastic American.
Get a television show, fascist. Then people know you’re telling the truth.
Guard your mind. What are they pumping into it?
I wonder if the Party of Biden would consider using Biden’s past 44 years as an example of what we could expect from a Biden presidency. They instead attempt to tear down Trump. Tells me right there they don’t have much go on. Kamala Harris is the real candidate.
Biden’s mental state will be in full display on the debates. It will be cringe worthy. Someone had written that Biden ‘contracting’ COVID and being unable to participate in face to face debates will happen – we will see.
Not Biden’s fault about his mental state – many near 80 year olds have mental capacities beginning to slip. I can remember when Ronald Reagon’s advanced age was used as a weapon against him from the Left.
Yes. The idea is that the swamp will cure the swamp. Which has been the platform as long as I have been alive. Thankfully for the Dems, the kids haven’t figured that out yet.
Contrasts like you present are gonna become harder and harder to find with the past being erased.
It’s all about current reputation now, not recorded history….so says Reputation X:
https://blog.reputationx.com/block-wayback-machine
Wikipedia scrubbing is also a similar issue:
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/02/kamala-harris-wikipedia/
Abe said it best:
https://pics.me.me/dont-believe-everything-you-read-on-the-internet-abraham-lincoln-5242750.png
The truth? That’s what we say today. Right?
“There are two things in the world I can’t stand: people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures… and the Dutch.”
-Nigel Powers from the movie Goldmember.
cdynak! Nice to see you again!!!!
Well quoted.
I can attest that living life ignoring the media is a life well lived. (I get all my news at WilderWealthyWise.)
Ha! Then you should come over to our place. We get all of our news from things we made up in dreams and /pol/.
Yeah … I try to stay away from the channels you mention (Vice, CNN, Newsweek, USA Today, NBC, etc.). We don’t even have cable because we don’t wish to be the drop in the ocean that funds this nonsense.
CNN is so awful that just the brand name reminds me of Baghdad Bob. This channel is so ridiculous, it’s almost funny, “Fiery but Mostly Peaceful Protest” with the background pretty much engulfed in fire.
Mostly for me it’s back to books and far too much internet browsing (in spite of trying to stay away which doesn’t seem to work), with a growing suspicion of non-STEM books written after around 2008. But I try to keep an open mind or at least know the author’s bias.
Actually I’m surprised at the amount of mindless political matter getting into the STEM documents. The engineering journals are rife with the green new deal stupidity. I was a member of ASME (mech engr). They released a position statement that said ASME backed the forced requirement for electric vehicles. There were no notices or vote from the members. I bugged the leaders of the subgroup in charge. Guess what, none were engineers. They were lawyers and clerks, everyone. I cancelled my membership.
It’s a crime that Winston Smith has taken over the editorial department. I’ll probably write a post fairly soon about what The Mrs. has seen from the new “journalism ethics” – I promise it’s nearly Lovecraftian.
The Truth? It has always been out there. And always will be. But it’s not on CNN. Or Fox.
In general, I just avoid the news, even “conservative” Fox News. It isn’t hyperbole to say you simply can’t trust anything they say. This is of course by design, how many people are going to cast a ballot for a vegetable in November because of four years of Orange Man Bad rhetoric?
BTW, on a different subject you asked about books about the Russian Revolution.
I am starting to read a new book named uh… “The Russian Revolution” by Richard Pipes. It was written in 1990.
It has a lot of detail, and just from reading chapter 1, “1905: The Foreshock”, it’s starting to feel like I am watching the third movie of the Hunger Games without seeing the first and the second.
Nice to know from the book that often university students were a pain in the behind even back in 1860, and the revolutionaries of their day were often students or dropouts.
Fox 2060: “We must defend children’s transgender relationships with elderly transgenders.”
“If the White farmers move to the United States, would they be African Americans?”
Oh that would really make a few heads explode.
Kim Du Toit at Splendid Isolation moved from ‘Seffrika’ to these united states of America.
He may be an acquired taste.
In his website:
* He likes firearms and nice automobiles.
* He is enormously fond of enormous amounts of meats, plural, for breakfast.
* He playfully pokes fun, with pictorial evidence!, at drunken women.
* He is absurdly not supportive of Seffrika GovernmentAgents… or TheGovernmentAgents in general.
* His weekly Caption Contest offers a fun-filled snapshot of current nonsensery with his encouragement for readers to compose appropriate captions.
(My captions tend to play a little loose with the ‘community standards’ ‘suggestion’.
Why?
Well, for starters, I am a community of one.)
Today’s Caption Contest pictorial instigator:
* what happens if your bridesmaids ‘accidentally’ lose their gowns during a wedding-related soiree?
Kim Du Toit has a distant heritage of north European, although his family settled southern Afrika centuries ago.
Splendid Isolation is among my daily stops.
The two-way ‘Comments’ section is pure gold.
My highest recommendation!
But, as we all know, nothing can quite compare to the wisdom from Perfesser Wilder.
I am grateful to BisonPrepper for his ‘you need to read WilderWealthyWise’ advice!
He ardently wishes the Narnia books had never been written (?!) and he posts his pervy nudie pix *not* under a cut. But I can confirm that he’s a wonderfully salty (in the “salty sea dog” not millennial usage) writer, and has *great* gun posts. And yes, the train smash girls posts are funny.
I like Grouchy Old Cripple. He also posts hottie tottie picks, but courteously places them under a cut.
Marge, I went there, and I enjoyed. And I stopped going. Why? I didn’t want to steal his ideas. That makes me sad, but it’s also the biggest complement I can give. Straight up news folks? I can go there. But guys that spin it with giggles?
I try to avoid.
I hope. We could use those families.
Hi John, you shine a little light into my email on a regular basis. The fact that you can approach difficult subjects with a little humour takes the sting away. Its also a bit confusing to those not open to a more flexible range of thought. Thanks, please don’t stop. I wish I could offer this kind of insight to the world. cheers Loris
Lori – I can’t stop. It’s a condition of my parole. (okay, I’ve only been arrested once, but that’s another story, and the sheep isn’t talking)
I like the biggest contradiction of all…
Those who support “Blue Lives Matter” are the ones that are directly targetted by the government itself.
https://identitydixie.com/2020/08/29/myth-of-the-20th-century-james-lafond-waking-up-in-indian-country/
Yup. And Officer Friendly will serve those papers, or do that raid, with a smile.
Dan Bongino has a saying: “The media tell A story, not THE story.”
Gavin McInnes has said on many occasions: “In every news story, half the facts are wrong.”
I know many people who swallow whole every story given to them by the media. Like baby birds with mouths wide open, they accept anything the Legacy Media shoves down their throat.
There are lots of ways our society is being destroyed, and I put a dishonest and partisan press near the top of that list.
One quarter of all news stories are bald faced lies made out out of whole cloth. One quarter of all news stories are exactly the opposite of reality. The remaining half of all news stories are merely wrong.
It’s at the top. And in the middle. Would these “journalists” have lasted a second at a place that valued subjectivity. But that’s another post that I’ll have to have The Mrs. help on.
Read an observation yesterday that less than 7% of American troops participated in WWII. Does that mean that WWII was “mostly peaceful”? I extrapolated that to the shooting of the Antifa murderer in Lacey, WA and suggested that police departments now start reporting “mostly peaceful arrests” when suspects are shot.
And that’s the truth. But lies are so convenient for the media.
Breaking News-an anonymous white house source says that diabolical KGB mastermind Trumphitlersatan-SS punched a baby! (h/t/-Babylon Bee)
All clowning aside I feel ill being in the vicinity of Bolshevik enemedia agitprop. Elder fam members lap that teevee hype up and believe every line.
They always love those touchy feely human interest stories at the end of the report where some greasy haired CPUSA RAT pretends to care about the working class man/woman lumpen proles.
Then it is time for some apple sauce and orange juice while I fire up the solitaire screen.
If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
Mark Twain
Have A Clown Wig And A Smile, I think I have your nose. Honk Honk.
Why deal with the truth, when you can make pretty little lies?
To put the most charitable spin on the suppression of archives, publishers are willing to go to print (virtually) with anything that crosses their desks, knowing that they can edit, re-edit, and re-re-edit the story as they get closer to the truth, and never be held responsible for poor decisions made by anyone who only read the “rough draft”.
If it’s wrong enough, I guess they can try to pass it off as “humor”.
Which reminds me, that (so I’ve heard) we have a generation or two of young adults who have gotten most of the awareness of current events from reflections on late-night comedy shows. If they grow up thinking that “everything is a joke”, no wonder they have trouble taking anything seriously. Joining a mob to march downtown doesn’t take any great awareness of history or law, not the sort of awareness that could be used to synthesize a reasonable proposal to actually solve problems. It’s so much easier just to throw a tantrum, and insist that somebody else work out the details.
Babylon 5 was a great television show. One line has always stuck with me: “No. We say serious things in a funny way, but when the joke comes, people stop listening. The real comedy all happens in the senate. They do .. they do one idiotic thing after another, but people listen because they say it seriously. I don’t know whether we’re leaving comedy to go into clown school, but all I do know is that, uh .. comedians don’t matter.”
“Well, if you don’t matter, nothing matters. I mean, the only reason politics exist is to ensure that people have the freedom to laugh.”
Great post, sir. Into my files it goes. One of the examples you left out was a pair of articles from Slate, 4 years apart, dealing with the Electoral College. The 2012 article praises the EC for wisely picking Obama, while the 2016 article decries the EC as a tool of White Supremacy— and Sexism(m-dash in original). I knew about the California trees and suspected much of the rest.
Stay safe
Lergnom, if I had that one, I’d have posted it. Perfect. You stay safe, too.
Interesting article on Antifa journalism:
https://reason.com/2020/09/04/youre-not-allowed-to-film-the-fight-for-control-over-who-reports-from-portland/
Welcome to 1984.
I’m glad to see the spirit of Green Helmet alive and well
That would mean I need a manservant. And Pugsley is way too surly.