{"id":76894,"date":"2021-02-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76894"},"modified":"2021-02-27T10:03:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T16:03:25","slug":"meet-the-new-law-not-remotely-the-same-as-the-old-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76894","title":{"rendered":"Meet The New Law – Not Remotely The Same As The Old Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>” series, in which I built an airtight case that, notwithstanding Springsteen’s personal <\/em>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is, in and of itself, of no great consequence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it does exhibit much of the behavior of the ongoing scam that is BIg Media’s “fact checking” side hustle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whose process I’ve broken down as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/td>Something false<\/td>Something true<\/td><\/tr>
If a conservative says:<\/td>The “Fact checkers” will call it false. <\/td>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. <\/td><\/tr>
If a “progressive” \/ liberal says:<\/td>Depending on the importance of the narrative, the “fact checkers” will call it either “partly true”, or say it “depends on context”. <\/td>The “Fact Check” machine will call it “true – even \/ especially if they previously referred to it as false (see the cell above). <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em>, about this last spring and summer, the “fact check” machine sandbagged the conclusion…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…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”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verdict Rendered<\/strong>: And so it’s with great pride I introduce Berg’s 22nd Law of Mandatory Congruency – to wit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American media “fact check” industry exists to deflect the narrative caused by accurate reporting to benefit the Left. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it is written, so shall it be done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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