Back before longtime comment-section regular “Dog Gone” got irrevocably banned for life, she evinced a rhetorical pattern that, in recent years, has shown itself to be a bit of a pattern on the left, especially among left wing media, most particularly among the “Fact Check” set.
We saw this behavior in many instances – but the most comical was in 2012-2013, when I wrote my “Bruce Springsteen is America’s Best Conservative Songwriter” series, in which I built an airtight case that, notwithstanding Springsteen’s personal left-of-center politics, his music (at its best – fro 1975-1987, with a brief counter-relapse in 2002) resonates with many conservatives because it constantly iterated themes near and dear to the conservative heart and mind.
For the first dozen or so parts of the series, Ms. Gone’s response, over and over and over and over and over and over and (you get the idea) was “No he’s not!”
And then – as suddenly as a spring shower of logorrheic illogic – in the comment section of the final post, the tune (as it were) changed – to, more or less, exactly the point I’d been making for the previous dozen episodes.
Which is, in and of itself, of no great consequence.
But it does exhibit much of the behavior of the ongoing scam that is BIg Media’s “fact checking” side hustle.
Whose process I’ve broken down as follows:
| Something false | Something true | |
| If a conservative says: | The “Fact checkers” will call it false. | The fact checkers will call it “Mostly False” or “Partly true” or say it “depends on context” – and leave it there until a progressive or “liberal” says it. See below. |
| If a “progressive” / liberal says: | Depending on the importance of the narrative, the “fact checkers” will call it either “partly true”, or say it “depends on context”. | The “Fact Check” machine will call it “true – even / especially if they previously referred to it as false (see the cell above). |
The most egregious example, of course, was the reporting on Fredo Cuomo’s horrific, politicized, corrupt and incompetent response to Covid. When conservative alt-media reported, utterly accurately, about this last spring and summer, the “fact check” machine sandbagged the conclusion…
…until this past week, when the case suddenly served Big Left’s purposes in getting Cuomo out of the way, when suddenly “depends on context” turned into “this is the living truth”.
Verdict Rendered: And so it’s with great pride I introduce Berg’s 22nd Law of Mandatory Congruency – to wit:
The American media “fact check” industry exists to deflect the narrative caused by accurate reporting to benefit the Left.
As it is written, so shall it be done.
(British Accent)
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The fact checks are mostly opinion pieces. There is no indication tat the people chosen to write these things have any ability to tell shit from shinola. Besides, they are written like opinion pieces, meaning they make an argument. They don’t just state facts.
Bloody right you are!
Slight nitpick: Fredo ( Chris) Cuomo is the jerk on CNN. His brother Andrew is NY Governor. Doesn’t change your point.
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So, now golfdoc is “fact checking” mberg.
I don’t know, doc, all Cuomo’s look alike to me…
The way that the “fact check” scam works is a media outfit will decide to become a “fact checker” or carry a “fact check” column, in much the same way as your local cafe might decide start offering breakfast sandwiches or offer a “taco tuesday” special. They will then assign a random progressive staffer to write the column. These “fact checkers” have no more research tools available to them than most other people.
The staffer will then write “fact checker” columns that confirm his or her political biases (aren’t all newspaper features supposed to fall into “facts,” “entertainment,” or “opinion” columns anyhow?).
Eventually it becomes just another opinion page of the paper & is treated as such by the wise.
Today would be a good day for a prosecutor to explain fraud and the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion to a grand jury.
I suppose at some level Emery knows that his TDS is a sign of deep mental illness. We can only hope that someone stages an intervention.
“I want to thank Representatives ‘Shirley’ Jackson Lee…Lizzie Pinnela, uh, excuse me, uh, Pinell, and uh, what am I doing here?”
~Pedo Joe Biden in Houston yesterday.
Covering up Joe’s advanced dementia puts America’s national security in jeopardy.
That will be count 1 of Kameltoe’s articles of impeachment.
People criticized Pedo Joe for waiting a week to visit Texas, but he had no choice in the matter.
His caregivers refused to allow him to go until after the ice melted so he could shuffle around in safety.
It’d probably be better for everyone if they just let Joe bring his walker with him to work.
I mean, he’s not FDR. He has no dignity to protect; everyone knows he and his reprobates stole the election and he was a known pedophile back in the 80’s.
“ When is someone going to be charged for elder abuse for allowing this to happen? I’m no fan of Joe Biden, but allowing him to stand in front of Americans and pretend to be capable of being the President of the United States, is beyond the pale.
Where is Dr. Jill while her husband is humiliating himself in front of dozens of people watching him address the nation? A loving wife would never allow this to happen to her husband.”
Evidently Twitter is banning people who post video of the huge crowd of Trump supporters that showed up to mock and heckle Pedo Joe and his reprobate entourage in Houston.
They also won’t allow video of his shameful loss of cognition while trying to string a few coherent sentences together.
None of the fake news media covered the debacle, either.
Russians have more reliable news coverage than we do.
The reprobates are in a real pickle.
It’s too soon to remove Pedo Joe from office; it would spur mass protests, and perhaps a genuine insurrection. But his dementia is beyond plausible denial; what do? They can’t just call a lid on his public appearances and lock him up in the basement again…I suspect Dr. Jill will smother him with a My Pillow and blame Mike Lindell.
If Joe Biden is so mentally challenged that even Democrats don’t want his finger on the button, who’s running the country?
Somebody ordered National Guard troops to Washington. That takes a lawful order issued in the chain of command. There must have been earlier “heads up” orders, too. Did Trump do it before he left office? If not, who? SecDef?
Somebody ordered troops into Syria immediately after the election. Who issued the stand-up order? Who issued the go order?
Somebody just ordered an air strike in Syria. The Camel-toe says she didn’t know about it in advance. Joe forget to tell her? Or Joe didn’t know about it either, because he didn’t order it? Who did?
Has the military decided the election was a fraud so it has decided Donald Trump is still President and he’s secretly running the country from Florida?
Has the military decided the election was a fraud but Trump conceded and resigned so the military is secretly running the country until they figure out how to run a fair election?
Herr Doktor Professor Strunk wrote: “Russians have more reliable news coverage than we do.”
Too true. For example, it is obvious that Andrew Cuomo has been targeted by people in his own party for defenestration. Cuomo is accused of doing far less than what Bill Clinton is known to have done.
So who is behind it? Is it New York state driven or is it national?
Politically Cuomo is hard left, with the exception of supporting Israel against the BDS movement. Is that it? There are also rumors that Harris wants him gone because he is a possible competitor for the 2024 nomination. I don’t think that is true because Cuomo is tied to Albany corruption & that would keep him out of the 2024 presidential race.
I suppose that, since Cuomo’s minor sexual pecadilloes are being used as the grounds to force his resignation instead of his corruption, someone is trying to take him out surgically. They don’t want the corruption in Albany exposed.
How many investigative journalists live in New York? And they don’t want to name names? Jesus.
My guess would be that Barry Obama (with help from his people) are calling the shots. The last person to find this out would be Slow Joe.
Where is Dr. Jill while her husband is humiliating himself in front of dozens of people watching him address the nation? A loving wife would never allow this to happen to her husband.
Fake Dr is right behind the Bidon, always, out of camera view – unless Bidon stumbles and camera has no choice but to pan, – translating what the retarded one is mumbling.
Who’s running the country, indeed?
AS, the only thing Bidon is able to find is… nothing without the help of his nurse, Fake Dr., not even his pecker to go #1.
Has the military decided the election was a fraud so it has decided Donald Trump is still President and he’s secretly running the country from Florida?
Has the military decided the election was a fraud but Trump conceded and resigned so the military is secretly running the country until they figure out how to run a fair election?
JD, as a passively interested follower of Qanon, both those scenarios were front and center in the Q conspiracy theory swamp. Lots of circumstantial evidence made the true believers continue to believe (why does the White House go dark at 11pm every night? Why was the “marine” who accompanied Biden and Harris at the swearing in not wearing any decorations on his coat while the Marine who accompanied Trump and Pence had tons of metal on his?, etc).