Shot in the Dark

Category: Narrative For Sale!

  • What’s The Matter With Paul Krugman?

    I’m not a member of the “White Working Class”.  I worked pretty hard to not be part of it, earlier in my life.  For better or worse, I’m a service-economy guy. Paul Krugman new yhork times. Democrats have to figure out why the white working class just voted overwhelmingly against its own economic interests, not pretend that…

  • Stardom

    Speaking for myself, I’m not going to participate in the left’s jabbering about “the Alt-Right” – which is to this cycle what “Vast Rightwing Conspiracy” was to 1996, and “War on Women” was to 2012; a mass smear attempting to tie the entire American “right” to the most noxious people who can possibly be linked…

  • The Strib: Lowering Their Own Bar?

    The Strib “reported”, after a fashion, about attitudes about Obamacare after an election where it was primarily responsible for ejecting the DFL from power in the Minnesota Senate. And it’s either a masterpiece of selective fact, or some fairly incurious reporting: Anxiety is greatest among Minnesotans with preexisting medical conditions. Before the ACA, insurance companies could…

  • Journo-List Redux

    Major papers mimeograph Hillary Clinton press release, call it “reporting“. Glenn Reynolds refers to today’s media as stenographers for the Democrats. He’s too charitable.  Stenographers have some professional standards.

  • Our Loathsome Media – Here And Everywhere

    This blog has always been dedicated to the idea that the mainstream media is a PR firm for the Democrat party nationally, and the DFL in Minnesota. While there are capable, honest reporters in the Twin Cities and nationally who do make a level effort to cover the news rather than paint Democrat toenails and…

  • Memories And Memory Holes

    Do you remember when the left and mainstream media tried to tie Sarah Palin to Jared Loughner’s spree killing in Tuscon, which wounded Gabby Gifford (and killed a bunch of people the media don’t care about) because she’d completely innocently used “crosshairs” on a map? Of course you do. Do you remember when Al Sharpton told people…

  • Open Letter To “Starting a Conversation” With Katie Couric And The Entire News Media

    To:  Katie Couric and the entire American news media From:  Mitch Berg, peasant Re:  Starting a Conversation Ms Couric et al, As we discussed last week, you got busted doing something that, in my day (and yours) would have gotten any young reporter unceremoniously fired; you edited a story specifically to invert the history, record…

  • To: The Entire American Media

    To:  The Media From:  Mitch Berg, Peasant Re:  Journalistic “Standards” Dear Media Katie Couric lied to the viewing public by maliciously editing her piece on “Gun Violence” to show a group of human rights activists as speechless when asked a fairly elementary question about gun control (when, in fact, they had several minutes of on-point,…

  • Unplanned Obsolescence

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Star Tribune playing the race card for Somali terrorists.  The reporter asks why there are no Blacks on the jury.  The reporter is stuck in a mental rut, asking the wrong question.   Americans are entitled to a trial by a jury of their peers, but what does that mean? …

  • Tricia Bishop: Let The Courage Of Your Convictions Guide You

    Baltimore Sun “reporter” Tricia Bishop, on her way to admitting she worries less about criminals than law-abiding gun owners (in Baltimore.  I’ll let that bit of knot-headedness sink in), says: And so, as President Barack Obama announced plans this week to tighten background checks for gun buyers and increase gun tracking and research, I thought,…

  • Fingers Crossed

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A buddy had an insight why Hillary won’t be indicted, won’t even be seriously questioned, about her ever-shifting lies: The standard has shifted. Washington’s “I cannot tell a lie” was replaced by Hitler’s The Big Lie which was replaced by Bill Clinton’s The Great Lie. The Great Lie does…

  • Lie First, Lie Always: The Strib Marinades In The Bloomberg Kool-Aid

    The Star/Tribune’s editorial board is a group of people, apparently in their sixties and seventies, who seem to spend their days pining away for a time when the media could say anything they want without fear of being caught out in public by people who know better. Those days are long gone.  Only the editorial…

  • Life Imitates Art Imitates Life

    Asher Edelman – the “inspiration” behind Oliver Stone’s character “Gordon Gecko”, played by Michael Douglas in the move Wall Streetˆ… …is backing Bernie Sanders. Of course he is.

  • Vide The Intellectual Giants Of The American Media

    Jonah Goldberg: I caught some of Morning Joe from my hotel room before I left for the airport. The caption for one discussion was “Were They Radicalized?” I keep seeing stories asking this question as if it’s some great mystery we may never get to the bottom of. The media and the Democratic party are…

  • Our Schizoid Media

    The World’s Most Elite Newspaper, Last Year:  “Terror watch lists are arbitrary, opaque, authoritarian and unconstitutional“. The World’s Most Elite Newspaper, Today: “Except for people who want to buy guns”.

  • Lie First, Lie Always: Crowd Source Edition

    So the next time some anti-gun talking head says “There’ve been 355 mass shootings so far this year”, remember – the figure comes from this site, “Shootingtracker.com“.  It’s a crowd-sourced site that allows pretty much anyone to report a “mass shooting” – defined as any event where three or more people (including the shooter) get…

  • Anatomy Of A Chanting Point

    Some years ago, an anti-gun group published a “study” showing that the rate of gun deaths was higher in red, square, stereotypically conservative flyover states where guns were plentiful and available to the law-abiding. Of course, it’s a misleading point – in keeping with the gun control dictum to “Lie First, Lie Last, Lie Always”.…

  • Charges

    The Henco Attorney’s office hit the noon deadline on Monday to charge the suspects in last week’s shooting at the Black Lives Matter rally. And the charges are interesting: Allen Lawrence Scarsella, 23, of Lakeville, was charged with six counts including second-degree riot and second-degree assault. Joseph Martin Backman, 27, of Eagan, Nathan Wayne Gustavsson,…

  • Nope. No Media Bias Here.

    Last week, we noted that Heather Martens – leader of “Gun Safety” group “Protect” MN, and serial liar – demanded $1,500 to discuss “gun safety” on my show, with me, someone with at least some track record of knowing the issue in some detail. We also noted that she did appear on KARE11 to debate “gun safety”…

  • Heads? Disaster. Tails? Catastrophe

    As we noted earlier in the week, the left is just dying to get the NRA out of its way. And they have been since I started following this issue – in probably 1980. It seems that lately, the left has taken to a three-tiered strategy for fighting the Second Amendment Human Rights movement: Lie About Everything.…

  • My Letter To The Strib

    After reading Heather Martens’ challenge in the Strib yesterday, I wrote this letter to the Editor. And since there’s not a chance in hell the Strib will ever print it, I’ll run it here, too: In her October 19 reply to DJ Tice’s October 11 editorial, Heather Martens says that the Star/Tribune should “do their homework, force the gun…

  • No Cigar

    Political movements rise and fall.  It’s part of political life in a democracy with a free market of ideas. Of course, there’s nothing that the purveyors of central intellectual planning would like more than for the National Rifle Association to fade into obscurity. In this CNN article, the writer quite tangibly palpitates at the idea.…

  • You Asked For It, John Oliver

    To: John Oliver, this month’s Rachel Maddow From:  Mitch Berg, ND Native Re:  Anger Mr. Oliver, The other night, during your largely erroneous segment on oil in North Dakota, you patronizingly told North Dakotans that they should “get angry”. I was born there, and I’ve spent years watching our self-appointed  “elites” – from Minnesota Public Radio…

  • The Thing To Remember…

    …about anything you see on John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” is that if John Oliver says it, it’s probably BS.

  • All The News That’s Fit To Gin Up From Pretty Much Nothing

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Star Tribune breathlessly reports that “questions” have been raised, front page, above the fold.  Why did 98% of the new state subsidies for rural bus routes go to Mn/DOT Commissioner Zelle’s former employer?  Conflict of interest?  Shenanigans?  What’s going on here? “Jefferson Lines and Land to Air Express were two…