Category: Narrative For Sale!
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Sock Puppets
I’m sure this fellow was a real person – but there are so many things about this email to the Rochester Post – Bulletin, and Minnesota’s anti-gun social media is so packed with people who run multiple “sock puppet” identities, that it’s hard not to wonder if he isn’t a plant.
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Another Fearless Prediction
Lars Walker, author and longtime friend of this blog, has a prediction (from Facebook): Here is my prediction. Within a day or two, we will begin to see character attacks in the media against the 3 American service men who prevented the terrorist murders in France. Our culture cannot bear the sight of heroes. I…
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News Flash
Guy accused of shooting celebrity lion on private property on which he was contractually entitled to hunt, in Africa… …treats his own private property here in Minnesota like…private property. I wonder how many Strib reporters could find Iran on a map?
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Dogged
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Some of us right-wing kooks think the media has jumped on the Dentist Killed National Treasure Cecil the Lion story as a way to distract Americans from the baby-butcher videos. As proof, I offer . . . Imagine if instead of Planned Parenthood it was some puppy mill and…
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“Ombudsman” Is The New Green
A longtime friend of this blog writes: In their usual holier-than-thou fashion, NPR ticked me off this morning. I sent the following complaint to the NPR ombudsman. “On the morning broadcast of Friday, August 7, 2015, I heard the fact checkers make a very snide comment…that was at least 50% wrong. Scott Horsley and Steve…
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Bend Over Citizen: Part II – The NYTimes Demands A Police State
This morning, I beat up the Strib’s editorial board for babbling platitudes about gun control that I’m pretty sure none of them really understands. But there are times that sit back and thank all that is holy that the “brain trust” behind the editorial coverage at Minnesota’s pre-eminent media outlet is merely dotty, smug, and genially ignorant.…
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Bend Over, Citizen: Part I – Our Ignorant Priests Of Knowledge
Having been one level of activist on the Second Amendment or another for thirty years now, and having seen how far the issue has moved since the mid-eighties – when the Second Amendment seems to be on the ropes – it’s almost tempting to fall into a bit of complacent triumphalism. This past twenty years…
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Doakes Sunday: Accessories
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Story makes the point the woman in the car who survived because she was wearing her seatbelt (politically correct), whereas the motorcycle riders who died were not wearing helmets (politically incorrect). Completely missed the point that she had a stop sign, stopped for it, then pulled out in…
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The Mitch
To: the Gullible From: Mitch Berg Re: Trump I will close the borders, and make sure every American company that is illegally employing illegal aliens pays for it. I will also get the economy humming so good, the minimum wage will be irrelevant. And I will do it all on my way to my third…
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Settled Science
The NYTimes sloooooowly backs away from the “Settled Science” of 47 years ago: The New York Times just published an extraordinary “retro report”—a short video paired with an article—looking back at Paul Ehrlich’s “population bomb” theory, the fear that an uncontrolled human population would outstrip the ability of the Earth to support it. The Times lays out…
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“Sharp-Tongued”
Ryan Winkler is leaving the House of Representatives. Winkler spent nine sessions in the Legislature. During the last five or six of them, his job, coming from an utterly safe seat in Golden Valley, seemed to be “the DFL’s Costco version of Sidney Blumenthal”; to say and do the things that no DFLer in a…
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Everything You Need To Know…
…not only about the shootout (not “riot”) between rival outlaw biker gangs in Waco over the weekend, but about the idiot left’s race-baiting response? Yep – Kevin Williamson already has it, in this piece from NRO. I’ll let you read the whole thing. With Williamson, it’s always worth it; he bludgeons the incendiary mythmongering of…
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“World Ends: Blacks And Women Most Affected”
Back in 2008, I went without a car for ten months, opting to save gas money and walk, bike, or (as a last resort) use transit to get around. After ten months, I was in the best shape I’d been since college (thanks, biking!) – and agog at the amount of time I’d wasted waiting…
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Tone Sharks
If I ever need to describe the term “laborious”, I merely refer my listener to “any time public radio tries to prove that it isn’t biased to the left”. A few years ago, I heard “Weekend All Things Considered”‘s anchor, Bob Simon, carry on an extended conversation with that noted champion of media balance, Ira…
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The LA Times Is To “Science” As Public Rest Rooms Are To “Rest”
I’ve been beating up media figures and their attempts to besmirch the Second Amendment and its defenders for most of the past thirty years, in one form of media or another; talk radio, newsletters, email list-servers, the blog, and talk radio again. And I’ve noticed two major trends: As the actual facts about guns and…
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The Boogeygun Is Everywhere!
The night before the infamous “Saint Valentines’ Day Massacre” – in which Al Capone’s Italian mob rubbed out much of Bugs Moran’s Irish gang in Prohibition-era Chicago – the Italians spent a sleepless night assembling their Tommy Guns from parts they’d purchased around and about Chicago and its surrounding area. And before going out to…
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Our Sophomoric Overlords
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: NYT concedes Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction after all. But it wasn’t yellowcake uranium, so Bush still lied. So there. Neener, neener. Joe Doakes debating the media is a little bit like arguing with an overly precocious eighth grader.
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Mugged
Jon Stewart is leaving the Daily Show. Wherever shall I get my daily dose of smug mugging for the camera…: …in front of an audience of trained chimpanzees who’ve been conditioned to respond on cue? Colbert, I guess…
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Just Say Any Crap At All
I’m starting to develop this theory that the Democrats’ “messaging” strategy is developing into something like this: Tell voters pretty much whatever you think they want to hear. Assume the voters are too incurious to check up on it. There is no point 3. Submitted as evidence: Barbara Boxer’s speech against the Keystone Pipeline; I’ll…
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What A Difference Two Weeks Makes
Two weeks ago, standing in the way of the majority was “obstruction”. Now it’s what the minority is supposed to do.
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Lying, Criminal Or Both?
There’s an old saying; “success has a thousand fathers; failure is an orphan”. In the wake of the Democrat party’s nationwide electoral humiliation, the left is looking for things to hang their hopes on. It’s human nature; the good guys were doing it two years ago, too. So here’s what the Democrats are hanging their…
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Things You’ll Never See Or Hear On The Twin Cities Mainstream Media
Governor Dayton is, by all accounts, a decent enough person. My next-door neighbor, coincidentally, is a decent enough person too. She’s also got terrible eyesight as she approaches her eighties, and doesn’t belong behind the wheel, by her own admission. Nice lady; no car. One need not attack Governor Dayton’s personality to note that something’s…
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For Whom The Shill Polls
As part of a campaign to portray his election inevitable, because the economy is juuuuust hunky dory, Governor Messinger Dayton and his praetorian guard, the Twin Cities media, is pushing hard the notion that unemployment is down. Jeff Johnson rightly responds that underemployment – people working for less than they’re qualified for, because they’re taking…
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Doug Grow, Narrative Policeman
Surgeons do surgery. Baseball players? They play baseball. And Doug Grow? For four decades and change, generations of Minnesota voters know that Doug Grow is synonymous for flogging and fluffing the DFL narrative. Yesterday’s MinnPost piece on the Severson press conference (which I wrote about yesterday) is one for the record books. The DFL and media…
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One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other
The Star/Tribune is covering what appears to be an escalating war between a number of Minneapolis street gangs. Yesterday’s piece, bylined Libor Jany, breaks things down… …well, almost. I’ll add emphasis: The three people shot Tuesday were believed to have had some involvement in the Soundbar shooting, community leaders said. But those were only the…