Category: Lefty “Alt”-Media
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Grabbing Straws
Big Left tries to build a new narrative for the Kirk murder.
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Q: What Does An Unlubricated Proctology Exam Look Like?
Liek this “legal note” – aka “bit of emergency ass-covering from the legal department” – that Sunny Hostin was forced to read on The View lest Matt Gaetz sue them for slander. The pain was visible. And glorious. And I don’t think they’re done.
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Road Nowhere Near Taken
I met Cenk Uyghur – host of “Young Turds” – once upon a time. Now, I’m a pretty polite guy. And I had bigger things going on than having to waste time on the guy. So even though my first impression of the guy was pretty awful, it never occurred to me to uncork on…
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The New Political Geography
Perhaps you heard – conservatives won big in EU elections last weekend. You might have missed it, because the news only referred to “the far right” – as if Francisco Franco were back from the dead. Indeed, it’s yet another term that today’s left have rendered meaningless: Let not pretend this is accidental. Big Left…
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An Intellectual Palate Cleanser
Sunny Hostin on The View: Climate Change caused the eclipse, has brought out the cicadas: I wonder what “intellectual self-defense” looks like, legally? Because this woman is an immediate danger of destroying or gravely injuring the national intellect.
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Air Davos
George Soros and his, uh, “activist” investment operation are set to take a controlling interest in Audacy, the nations’ second-largest radio station chain: The Soros investment firm, which is listed alongside other Audacy lenders that are members of the “ad hoc first lien group,” is poised to have its debt converted into Audacy stock as…
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The Real Victims
SCENE: Mitch BERG is leaving a guitar shop on Selby Avenue after dropping off an instrument for some repairs, when MyLyssa SILBERMAN, reporter for National Public Radio’s Saint Paul bureau, covering the “Fake News” and “Diversity” beats, steps out of a chi-chi coffee shop. SILBERMAN: Merg. BERG: Oh, hey, MyLyssa… SILBERMAN: Terrible, what’s going on…
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I Read Deena Winter In The “Minnesota Reformer” So You Don’t Have To
Earlier this week, the Minnesota Reformer – a news outlet financed by “progressive” plutocrats iwth deep pockets – did its review of AlphaNews’s “Minneapolis Has Fallen”. The claims – well, I’ll let the tweet do the talking for the piece, entitled “I Watched Minneapolis Has Fallen So You Don’t Have To”. Let’s go briefly through…
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Tea Leaves
Every DFL politician’s social media feed is raving about this puff piece from HuffPo which christens Tina Smith “the Velvet Hammer”. The Velvet Hammer? I can think of lots of adjectives to add to Smith’s hamfistedness. Velvet ain’t one of them. And what usually happens after you see DFLers posting “attagirls” over inexplicable media. puff…
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All That Is Needed Is That You Keep Sending Money
A friend of the blog emails regarding an email he got from Minnesota Public Radio regarding their recently-finished pledge drive: Wait a minute. I thought that government subsidies was only a small portion of their funding. So which it is? Here was the email: MPR’s Spring Member Drive ended last week, and we made great…
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Shots Fired
In the wake of his move to Twitter, some bad news for Tucker Carlson. He’s been banned from… …uh… “Tribel”. Because apparently nobody’s banning people on Mastodon. Or Air America, apparently.
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Those Of You Who Predicted Adam Kinginger Would Land A Plum Republican-Bashing Gig At MSNBC…
…were wrong. It was CNN. Doy.
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Unquestionably
The U of M paid Nikole Hannah-Jones $50K to speak at the U – and complied with a demand to conceal the evidence (emphasis added by me): Hannah-Jones participated in a Dec. 6 “moderated discussion” as part of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs Distinguished Carlson Lecture Series. According to a contract obtained by Alpha News, the university paid…
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Let Them Eat Pasta!
Anyone remember Mika McFeely? He’s sort of the Filene’s Basement version of Ed Schultz, another guy who got his start talking about grown men chasing balls around fields, and decided to go into being a political, talking head. He’s the Heitkamp family’s token liberal on KFGO in Fargo, and proof that the talent bench for…
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Dysfunctional
One of the more controversial stances I’ve taken on this blog is “MInnesota Public Radio News sucks less than most local news organizations”. It’s not an unblemished statement, of course. With some of their staffers, their eliminationist leftism slips out (or comes gushing out in a tsunami of foul, scabrous rotting bile). And you don’t…
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Our Idiot Elite, Part MMMLCCXVII
In twenty years of first blogging and then social media, you’d think the semi-literate popsies that populate the ranks of “new big media” would have learned by now: trying to make people you disagree with sound dumb, about things you’re not especially smart about yourself, is going to backfire. Molly Jong-Fast – a gift that…
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Intellectual DNA Testing
I occasionally listen to public radio – not “in spite of” the fact that they have turned into the public relations arm, not just of “today’s left”, but of the “progressive” upper middle class. It reflects their angsts; I imagine a drinking game involving taking a shot whenever there’s a mention of Covid, January 6,…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Angst
Elon Musk buying Twitter is generating some…exaggerated reactions from progs: The idea that they are not, in fact, an inevitable force of history seems to confuse and frighten them.
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For The Record
Matt McNeil is a talk show host, of sorts, on AM950, the Twin Cities putative “progressive” talk station. [1] Now, McNeil has a habit of blocking everyone on social media that can beat him in an open debate on logic, reasoning and facts – which is, to be fair, pretty much everyone. He was, in…
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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…
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Emphasis
Lede: ZOMG 29% OF REPUBLICANS THINK ORANGE HITLER WILL BE “REINSTATED”. Buried: So do 13% of Democrats.
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It’s A Start
CNN’s ratings, without Bad Orange Man to thump on, plunge: That leaves 55 to go. I’m doing my bit.
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Ricardo Lopez: Middle School Reporter
Ricardo Lopez writes for “MN Reformer”, which is a website in the tradition of the old “MN Monitor” – basically a propaganda site funded by progressive plutocrats with deep pockets, Further proof that not only the Democratic party, but its pet media (and the Reformer is nothing but a paid PR lapdog for Ken Marti)…
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My Checklist
My “Black Friday” checklist:Wednesday before Thanksgiving: Make sure I’ve got groceries and essentials sufficient to get through ’til Monday. Check. Anticipate the places I need to go for the next three days, and map out routes avoiding major malls, Targets, Walmarts and commercial districts. Check. Switch on NPR and start counting all the “celebrities” and…
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Out Come The Long Knives
What Tom Bakk and Dave Tomassoni did this week in Minnesota, it seems Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia is doing, more or less, in the US Senate. And progs aren’t happy about it: While he would certainly never acknowledge it, Joe Manchin just took it upon himself to go on national television, and had…