{"id":87841,"date":"2024-07-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87841"},"modified":"2024-07-04T07:46:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T12:46:12","slug":"sanitized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87841","title":{"rendered":"Sanitized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So the <em>Strib <\/em>is on the news like a Grateful Dead fan on that last bag of Fritos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democrats in Minnesota and U.S. ignored voter concerns about Biden&#39;s age. Then came the debate. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RBbdnJ2S4Z\">https:\/\/t.co\/RBbdnJ2S4Z<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Minnesota Star Tribune (@StarTribune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune\/status\/1808501298897006972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Democrats in Minnesota and US ignored voter concerns about Biden&#8217;s age&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That, they did. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;but&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;isn&#8217;t there something missing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like, maybe <em>the Star Tribune<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MPR News?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Four, the Five, the Nine and the Eleven?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did they not spend the last fuve years studiously ignoring Biden&#8217;s age, or attacking the messengers?  &#8220;Fact-checking&#8221; any claims that an 81-year-old Biden wasn&#8217;t more physically imposing than a 40 year old Chuck Norris?  Clobbering Big Blue at chess, while teaching a legion of celebrity chefs how it&#8217;s done in his spare time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this is nothing new.  There&#8217;s a very long list of stories the media did their darnedest to squash, deplatform or defame until it was politically impossible to carry on &#8211; after which, straight out of Orwell, they abruptly reversed course?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Biden&#8217;s cognitive state<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Russian collusion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Charlottesville &#8220;Perfectly fine people&#8221; slander<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The psychological, legal, social and economic effects of the Covid lockdowns\/<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Long term effects of &#8220;gender affirming care&#8221; (that one&#8217;s still in progress)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Everything to do with the Steele Dossier<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Russian bounties for US soldiers in Afghanistan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Drink Bleach&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Ivermectin story<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The cops &#8220;Tear-gassed protesters&#8221; before a Trump photo op<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hunter&#8217;s laptop was &#8220;Russian disinformation&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trump called the dead of D-Day &#8220;losers&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Putting unaccompanied children in cages along the border was Obama policy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eastern Europe was going to be an economic failure after the collapse of communism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reagan had <em>nothing <\/em>to do with the fall of the USSR<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Walter Duranty deserved a Pulitzer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s more.  Leave additions in the comments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone &#8211; I think it was Ayaan Hirsi Ali &#8211; said &#8220;don&#8217;t judge the Muslims you know by what Islam is, and don&#8217;t judge Islam according to the Muslims you know&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think that goes for MSM &#8220;journalists&#8221; as well.  Some (Tom Hauser, Fred Melo) do a good, diligent job.  But the media (as we showed them admitting almost eight years ago) not only don&#8217;t, but have no intention to .<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Strib is on the news like a Grateful Dead fan on that last bag of Fritos: &#8220;Democrats in Minnesota and US ignored voter concerns about Biden&#8217;s age&#8221;. That, they did. But&#8230; &#8230;but&#8230; &#8230;isn&#8217;t there something missing? Like, maybe the Star Tribune? MPR News? The Four, the Five, the Nine and the Eleven? 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