Category: Center-Right AltMedia
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That “State Government Absurdist Bingo Card” Is Getting Very Full
So, with the revelation last week that hiring managers and the MN Department of Human Services need to explicitly justify hiring white (presumably especially male) candidates for jobs, it’s not unreasonable to wonder – there must be some kind of deeply racist person driving these policies. Your reasonable question has been rewarded with an answer: Ooof. Someone…
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Turning Of The Tide
Reporter from the Star-Tribune questions Minneapolis Police Department assistant chief Katie Blackwell about the dozens of MPD cops who swore out affadavits that she perjured herself about Maximum Restraint Technique (MRT) during the Chauvin trial: Just kidding. It was Liz Collin, from Alpha. A conservative news organization, which does most of the actual “journalism” in…
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News You Can Use – Now For 47% Off When You Mention “Jeremy’s Razors”
I’m pondering renewing my subscription to Daily Wire. On the one hand, they’ve got good news coverage. On the other, the “membership” user experience needs work. So as part of my analysis process, I present: Mitch Ranks the Daily Wire Podcasts. Podcasts are rated in terms of Overall quality (subjective, judged by me), and Standard…
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Ask And Be Answered
Last week, I asked “why all the hate for National Review?” Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, responded: I had a subscription to National Review for decades. I let it lapse when I realized O’Sullivan’s Law applied to his own magazine. The writers I admired – who stated my views better than I could –…
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It’s The Cover-up
Earlier this week, we noted that an anonymous Hennepin county official had ordered an investigation of journalist Rebecca Brannon, who is just about the only reporter in the Twin Cities to be actively asking questions about the incident a few weeks back with sheriff Hutchinson.. Thanks to the Medina Police Department, they are apparently no…
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This Is What Authoritarianism Looks Like
Rebecca Brannon may be the best reporter in the Twin Cities. Not “journalist” – reporter. Someone who goes out and gets the who, what, when, where, why and how of a story. Comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable, as Nick Coleman used to say (but never do). Speaking of saying but never doing reporting?…
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Chesterton Alert, Part MCMVLX
The world has become too absurd to be satirized– G.K. Chesterton As God is my witness, I saw this headline for a few days on social media, and assumed it was The Babylon Bee. And then I wondered. And then I confirmed it. But it took a while.
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Art Imitates Life Imitates Art Imitates SITD
The world has become too absurd to be satirized – G.K. Chesterton When live imitates satire – why write satire? Pinky swear – when I started writing the various “Berg’s Laws“, something like 17 years ago, they started out as wry quips. Sarcastic bits of bemused satire. I didn’t expect every last one of them…
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Build It And They Will Come
Almost 35 years ago, reacting to the Democrat bias in the media, Rush Limbaugh brought fearless, joyful paleoconservatism [1]. Spends thirty years dominating the ratings. Decades ago, reacting to “liberal” slant from the Big Three and CNN, Rupert Murdoch creates Fox News [2]. It dominates cable ratings for decades. 2021: reacting to a landscape of…
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From The Archives
Seems like forever ago that Michael Mann published his hockey-stickgraph, Mary Steyn made fun of it in a column for National Review, andMann sued for defamation. The case has lingered for eight years in thecourts, only now entering the ‘discovery’ phase after National Reviewwas dismissed as a defendant. Mark Steyn was deposed by Michael Mann’s…
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Limbaugh
I got caught up in one of KSTP-AM’s constant rounds of staff reductions on April 4, 1987. I was 24, and very much in love with the idea of finding a career in a medium I’d discovered less than two years before, talk radio. Especially the conservative wing of it – as a newly-minted Reagan…
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Every Day And In Every Way…
…the Babylon Bee is reinforcing itself as America’s news source of record. Because this.
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When Satire An The News Run Neck-And-Neck
Babyon Bee may be America’s most credible news source.
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The Eternal Question Remains, Again…
…Is Babylon Bee satire, or is it the best straight news source in America?
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American Ingenuity
It comes in all shapes and sizes.
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All Is Progressing As Foreseen
This news should open things up for you-know-who.
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1000 Words
Heh. Indeed.
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Diminshed Expectation
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I had a day off last week and caught a bit of Rush Limbaugh’s interview with Vice President Pence. Rush hammered the Vice President from the word go and, I thought, justly so. His tone was respectful but his questioning was direct and gave no ground. It was completely…
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The Other Winners Last Tuesday
Other than the Trump campaign, and the people (should a conservative spring take hold)? Us. The alternative media. We pounded the mainstream media in this election like a piece of WalMart veal. After more than a decade of storming online to expose the national media as the serial-lying, double dealing, leftwing anarchists and activists they truly…
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I Hate Photomemes
The “photomeme” – the bits of graphic overlaid with a simple, usually simplistic, message – may be, along with Twitter, the greatest step toward Orwell’s “duckspeak” that Western communications have ever taken. But that doesn’t mean they’re not occasionally brilliant: But it’s rare. Oh, so rare.
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In Real Life
Rand Paul supporters – and maybe some Trump supporters – need to read and learn from this piece.
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Shot In The Dark: Banned By The Man!
Apparently I’m a one-person trigger warning! A longtime friend of this blog emailed: Mitch, I thought you might find this interesting. For the mornings this week, I’m camped out on the second floor of the MacPhail Center for Music, while my kiddo attends a harp class. (I’m hoping she takes an interest in something much…
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A Simple Request…
…for everyone in the mainstream media, alternative media, and talk radio – even conservative talk radio: Unless you work at a Red Wing outlet store and are changing your shelving, could you never, Ever, EVER use the term “Boots on the Ground” again? It’s gone so far beyond cliché, light leaving “cliché” right now won’t reach…
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Clear!
Katie Kieffer is back in town, and she’ll be signing copies of her first book, Let Me Be Clear, tomorrow night at O’Gara’s in Saint Paul. Hey, it worked for Vince Flynn. I may just stop by.
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What Happens In Nevada Used To Stay In Nevada
31 years ago last winter, a shootout between US Marshals and neo-Nazi tax protesters brought an avalanche of federal law-enforcement to rural North Dakota. Even then, long before the rampant militarization of federal law enforcement, the feds stomped about the place like an occupying army: The police – and, as I recall, a North Dakota…