Shot in the Dark

Category: Narrative For Sale!

  • They Know What Matters

    Humans: “My God, this is horrible. Those poor girls…“ DFL/Media (pardon the redundancy): “OK, who leaked the video?“ Well, no – I’m actually not exaggerating (thread): The problem, Ms. Moriarty, is that nobody trust you or your office. Not even a fair chunk of people who would never consider not voting for the DFL.

  • Urban Progressive Privilege: Sign O The Times

    The Strib finally hired a new editorial cartoonist to replace the worthless and unlamented Steve Sack. It’s Mike Thompson. And he’s brought a new sound to Minneapolis. No, not the popping of the Glock full-auto conversion. It’s the wailing and gnashing of entitled, plush-bottom, White progressive Minneapolis Yoo-hoos losing their spit over being lampooned by…

  • Waiting On “Wilson Derangement”

    I flipped on NPR last night to catch a (large) part of a Terry Gross interview with historian Adam Hochschild, on his new book about the grave threats to democracy during World War 1. And it was a dismal time indeed. “Sedition”, defined broadly, threw thousands in jail. The Department of Justice deputized people to…

  • Deflecting Like Their Lives Depend On It

    The DFL is getting nervous about crime; their line has morphed from “We ARE tough on crime!” to “The other guys are no better”. Dane Smith’s editorial parrots the execrable Paul Krugman; both of them are utterly, unforgivably wrong. “Red” states with crime problems have one or more of the following factors in common: 1)…

  • How Can You Tell The Strib Is Lying About Republicans?

    The Star Tribune continues to earn its keep as the DFL‘s “unpaid “ PR machine: For those of you who weren’t paying attention to the GOP convention last weekend – it hardly needs to be said, but nothing of the sort of happened. A move to disaffiliate with the “Log Cabin Republicans” (to be fair,…

  • Kangaroos Everywhere

    SCENE: The studio at the National Public Radio Twin Cities bureau. Mitch BERG is sitting, in headphones, in front of a microphone. Around the corner of the table is Cat SCAT, designated “fact checker” at the (possibly fictional) progressive blog “”MinnesotaLiberalAlliance.Blogspot.com“, she is the office manager at a small phrenology practice. Through the glass, an engineer, an…

  • Game On

    The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals says — no mandate for you: A federal appeals court has upheld its stay on President Biden’s vaccine-or-test mandate for companies with at least 100 employees. In a 22-page ruling on Friday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the mandate was “fatally flawed,” and barred the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)…

  • In The Bag

    This blog was founded primarily to lend my small, relatively insignificant voice to pointing out the growing bias and ethical turpitude the mainstream media. That was in 2002 – a much more innocent time, relatively speaking. As we’ve documented the proceedings in the Rittenhouse trial, I’ve noted the scabrous, depraved slant in the coverage. Someone…

  • Realization

    That feeling when you search, and search, and search, believing that something you see on social media just has to be from the Babylon Bee. But it’s not.

  • A Bit Of A Reach

    NPR (I listen so you don’t have to) has a story on Paris’s crack problem – which, after a year of lockdown, has gone pretty public. Near the end of the piece, the reporter reassures the NPR audience that at least there isn’t any gun violence, due to France’s strict gun controls. Thing is, even…

  • Let’s Cool Things Down

    SCENE: A conference room at “Minnesotans for All Progressive Causes” – a non-profit group financed by progressives with deep pockets – for the weekly message coordination meeting. MyLyssa Silberman, reporter for National Public Radio’s Saint Paul bureau, covering the “Fake News” and “Diversity” beats, waits in the conference room along with Betty Rae Torstengaardsen, senior…

  • Two Rules, One Narrative

    If government tells you something, distrust but verify. And then, usually, distrust some more. If the media tells you something – at least, anything about an event that is especially socially fractious – distrust, and verify even harder. And, as always, usually wind up distrusting even more. If any of Big Left’s social hangers on…

  • In A Newsroom Earlier This Week, Almost Certainly

    REPORTER: “Maxine Waters called for violence” EDITOR: “Did she do it on January 6?” REPORTER: “No” EDITOR: “Then it wasn’t violence”.

  • In A School, Somewhere In California, Most Likely

    TEACHER: “Marco, can you gell us what the ‘Holocaust’ was? MARCO: “Er…January 6?” TEACHER: “Correct…”

  • On “Hockey Night In Vermont”, Soon.

    PLAY BY PLAY ANNOUNCER: “Gascoigne checks O’Reilly into the boards…” COLOR GUY: “Oh, wow. Cheap hit, there…” PLAY BY PLAY ANNOUNCER: “Aaaaand off come the gloves. We’ve got a donnybrook going here” COLOR GUY: “Hockey used to be such an artistic game. How far hockey has fallen, since it’s first ever fight, last January 7”.…

  • Somewhere In Kenwood

    MOM: “Why isn’t your homework done, Junior?” JUNIOR: “January 6” MOM: “Fair enough”.

  • Somewhere In Highland Park, Probably

    GUY A: “Who was that woman who got arrested here in Highland a few years back for being a terrorist?” GAL B: “Sarah Jane Olson. She was arrested for being involved in January 6″. GUY A: “I thought it was from in the Symbionese Liberation Army, back in the seventies?” GAL B: “Couldn’t be. There…

  • One Day, Driving Through The Eastern Ukraine

    TOUR GUIDE: “Welcome to Volgograd – formerly Stalingrad”. TOURIST:”Excuse me – will we see any monuments to the Battle of Stalingrad?” TOUR GUIDE: “What?” TOURIST: “The epic battle between the Nazis and Soviets, in 1942-43?” TOUR GUIDE: “I don’t understand. There was no war or violence of any kind before January 6”. KOMMISSAR (yelling from…

  • A Press Conference, Someday Soon, Most Likely

    GOVERNOR WALX: “Any questions?” REPORTER: “Tell us why you moved people with Covid into nursing homes?” WALZ: “It was January 6. It was responsible for everything“. REPORTER: “Thanks!”

  • It’s More Or Less Inevitable

    BOSS: “Er, let’s talk. You’ve turned in no work yet this year.” PROGRESSIVE EMPLOYEE: “After January 6, how could I?” BOSS: “Fair point”.

  • In A Blue-City School, Somewhere, Probably

    TEACHER: OK, Chad, what do the Gulf War, World War 2, World War 1, the Civil War, the War of the Roses, and the French Revolution have in common? CHAD: Um… TEACHER: Besides being called wars. CHAD: Um…I don’t know? TEACHER: None of them existed. Because there was no violence of any kind before January…

  • Too Good To Fact-Check

    COP (PULLING WOMAN OVER): “Do you know how fast you were going, ma’am?” WOMAN: “After January 6, does it even matter?” COP: “Good point. You’re free to go”.

  • Heard, I Suspect, In Every Progressive Home

    PROGRESSIVE PARENTS: “Now, Barack, eat your lima beans… CHILD OF PROGRESSIVE PARENTS: “After what happend January 6?” PROGRESSIVE PARENTS: “Damn. He’s right”.

  • Profiles In Courage

    As clubby, self-referential and solipsistic as the modern “elite” (and even not-so-elite) media is, I should have probably predicted we’d see scenes like this whenever Trump was on the brink of leaving office. Never mind that “the Lightworker” Obama was did a whole lot more actual oppressing of “journos” than Trump. Links No. To these…

  • Sandman’s Counterattack

    Fresh from victory against CNN, Nick Sandman’s attorneys are widening their scope: Lawyers for Covington Catholic High School senior Nick Sandmann reportedly will file lawsuits against five additional media companies this week for smearing Sandmann last year. Sandmann’s lawyers submitted a status report with the U.S. District Court in Covington last week that showed that…