Category: Big Alt-Media
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An Escalator With No Top
It’s become a bit of an easy trope on the right: Star with “You think you hate the media?” Add some bit of loathsome leftymedia depravity Button it up with “You really don’t hate them enough”. It’s a progression with no end; every day brings new loathsomeness. It’s entirely possible it’s a barrel with no…
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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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High Strategy
George W. Bush’s Air Guard record. Mitt Romney’s tax returns. The Russian Collusion hoax. The “Perfectly Fine People” hoax. “White Supremacists started/did most of the rioting in Minneapolis!” “Kids are coming to school hungry in Minnesota”. And now this: Woodruff posted a tweet “Clarifying” her regret that she’d been caught: But it’s out there.…
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There May Come A Time…
…when the left comes to realize that it was a, er, tactical error to pick people like these as their public face: But it sure hasn’t been this election cycle.
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Literal
Exasperated conservatives sometimes refer to the media as “the enemy”. It’s understandable – the media at the editorial and national level is in general a PR firm for Big Left – and accurate in terms of long-term effect. But not since Walter Duranty has it been quite this literally true. Five Israeli families are suing…
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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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One Reason I Love Elon Musk
He called out America’s de facto Ministry of Information for what it is: Big Media is rallying around their own – as they always do: “Could undermine confidence” NPR hosts actively pine for Marxism. They plot, in the open on the air, for ways to censor dissident media, not to mention using media to direct…
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All Things Dispensed With
I worked in radio long enough that I make a point of never revelling in the job misfortunes of others. So yesterday’s news – 10% staff layoffs at National Public Radio – don’t provoke a happy jig. I wish em all luck, even the most useless mid-level bureaucrat among ’em. But…has the organization learned the…
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Nothing To See Here
Hunter Biden paid $50K a month to rent a house he claimed he owned: Hunter Biden claimed he paid $49,910 a month to live at President Joe Biden’s Delaware residence where classified documents were discovered, a document shows. The file, labeled “background screening test,” shows Hunter Biden lived in the president’s Wilmington, Delaware, residence between…
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Root Causes
“It’s Been a Minute” (henceforth IBaM) s one of the current plague of podcasts repackaged as radio shows that plagues both public and commercial broadcasting. As we discussed yesterday, some are better than others – some are OK radio, some are utterly dreadful as radio. IBaM is pretty clearly trying to sell infotainment coverage smothered…
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Just The News!
The “MN Reformer” is yet another effort to start a news organization by progressive plutocrats with deep pockets – because after the Minnesota Monitor, the Minnesota Independent and MNPost, certainly the fourth time’s the charm. They’ve actually done some decent reporting over the last year. Emphasis on “in the last year” – when there wasn’t…
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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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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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Just Remember…
The real danger to our society is “right wing terror”. As the gone-but-not-forgotten, perma-blocked Dog Gone used to say, the danger is a wave or conservative violence that will “dwarf 9/11”. While we wait,and wait, and wait, we saw this from a “journalist” for “Rewire News Group” re the firebombing in Madison we talked about…
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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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I Wanna Make Some History
Last week’s kerfuffle between Spotify (and their contract employee, Joe Rogan) and Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Barry Manilow and (reportedly) Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters, may not mark the point where the iconoclasm and “rebellion” of popular music fromthe 1950s through the 2000s finally died. But it’s certainly a waypoint on populist conservatism’s path to…
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Inhuman
Remember in the 1980s, when some “conservative” fundies rejoiced at the deaths of AIDS patients. It was a pretty depraved stance. Everyone knows that. Someone tell the fairly irredeemable LA Times drone Michael Hiltzik – who has reprised that particular bit of human depravity by declaring “Mocking some anti-vaxxers’ deaths is necessary“. Helpfully, he adds…
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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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The Usual Suspects
Trump supporters on the Mall “Trump Supporters” who stormed the Capitol. We’ve seen the horned-hat guy before: Wasn’t there a famous incident a centuray ago, a fire blamed on innocent people which gave a certain politician the excuse to seize power?Are we absolutely certain the troublmakers were ordinary Trump supporters, same as the rest of…
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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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Male Like Me
President Trump is so strong, so virile, so . . . hyper-masculine, just like a Vladimir Putin or some Confederate general. MPR really misses Pajama Boy. Joe Doakes I’ve got friends…well, semi-professional acquaintances that haven’t gone completely mad with partisan rage, anyway – at MPR, so I’ll not comment on the locals. But it seems to…