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May 18, 2017May 29, 2017

The Deep State Playbook

The combination of a compromised press and our corrupted intelligence bureaus is ominous. Most folks accept the premise that most of our news media hates the current president, to the core. It likewise becomes clearer each day (see video) how the intelligence community feels about the president. Trump-hysteria infects the heart which clouds the mind leaving no one immune.

The Washington Post and CNN will eagerly accept and publish anything that demeans Trump, provided it comes from a ‘reliable source.’ They are not going to investigate the other side of the story and they damn sure don’t fully question their prized sources to obtain a complete narrative. But they do require a legitimate source, they don’t make shit up. This lone criteria in our current climate created a perfect game plan for the deep state (our intelligentsia) who are themselves per se an unending fountain of reliable sources. Here is an imagined example of how it works;

After high level meetings with adversaries, like Russia, our CIA reviews every detail of the meeting for any data to glean. CIA agents and technology detect countless nuggets of information to examine. We can assume presidential meetings receive more than a once-over. We can also assume defensive reviews take place to ensure our side did not give something away to the adversary. If there is a suspicion that something passed from either side, there is further review. This is where the chicanery comes in.

Let us pretend there is a routine call for a review of something Trump said that is potentially sensitive data. Regardless of the outcome of said review, a corrupt source tells a CNN stooge that they can confirm “there is concern Trump may have disclosed sensitive data to the Russians.” This is not a lie, it’s a little exaggeration and cherry picking of facts, but when CNN finishes the evening news, there are calls for impeachment. CNN has mastered the art of laundering innuendo into facts to make it suitable for endless repetition. The best part, no one can dispute classified information.

The basic cycle of intelligence agents illegally leaking half-truths to the gung-ho corrupt press repeats until the president falls.

May 12, 2017May 23, 2017

Another Way CNN Perpetuates Anti-Trump Hate

We have detailed here and here some of the tactics used by CNN to propagate the Democratic agenda and perpetuate a hatred of the President. But there is another tool in their toolbox that is as absurd. Here’s how it works and an interesting recent problem they faced:

If a story is about immigration, CNN brings on guests who are illegal immigration success stories. If a story is about Trump rebuilding the nuclear arsenal, CNN brings on the author of a book about nuclear holocaust. The tactic is simple, CNN chooses an “expert” with a slanted point of view,

But when CNN reported a story about the Attorney General cracking down on crime, they faced a problem maintaining their stance as the opposition. An audience would find it ridiculous if CNN sided with the criminals. So what did they do? They found the 1 in 10,000 peddlers of poison, who turned his life around, and interviewed him. They are shameless.

UPDATE 05/15/2017: CNN is playing the race angle. Increases in law enforcement or criminal justice is racist, it disproportionately affects blacks.

May 2, 2017May 5, 2017

What Jimmy Kimmel Did Was Wrong

Jimmy Kimmel seems like a really nice guy and compared to many other people working the late night circuit, he seems to have a high degree of integrity. On May 1st, Mr. Kimmel went public with the story of his newborn son who was born with a heart defect that was surgically repaired. His son’s prognosis thankfully looks great. But during Kimmel’s emotional monologue detailing the ordeal he took a turn into politics, while trying to sound apolitical. His motives were pure but his actions were not.

…before 2014 if you were born with congenital heart disease like my son was, there was a good chance you’d never be able to get health insurance…

…if your baby is going to die and it doesn’t have to, it shouldn’t matter how much money you make…

…don’t let their partisan squabbles divide us on something every decent person wants…

This sounds reasonable, but is it? Mr. Kimmel unintentionally employed an age-old trick used by seasoned politicians. This maneuver is not different from the countless times Donald Trump showcases families of people with loved-ones murdered by illegal immigrants to make his point on illegal immigration. These arguments are hard to oppose because they rely on emotion overtaking logic. We should all be wary of any issue portrayed in this way. It is rare to have a nationwide argument, with one side angelic and the other side monstrous, it’s never that simple.

These matters are more complex. There is a valid argument that the United States of America should adopt universal government-provided healthcare, but that is not the issue at hand. Obamacare does not guarantee everyone health care.

So… Jimmy created an argument where his side is demanding all Americans receive medical care and the other side only offers care to rich people. This was not unlike how Meryl Streep argued against kicking every person, born outside America, out of the county. Both celebrities are fighting fights that are not based in reality. The two of them made up imaginary arguments in lieu of the complicated arguments we actually have.

If we keep Obamacare, premiums will rise, and more young healthy people will be unable to afford their insurance payments. Some of these young-ins will drop out of coverage while the sick remain in the insurance pool. This will lead to insurance companies profits dropping and in turn, will cause premiums to rise yet again. Then more healthy people drop coverage. And so it goes. Most experts do not deny this is where we are heading. This cycle was labeled the “death spiral,” and it is the rationale that stands against Kimmel’s Obamacare endorsement.

Now, anyone can also pull on our heart-strings to explain this half of the debate.. like so; with rising premiums the family of five in Iowa, making fifty thousand dollars a year, can no longer afford insurance and when their baby gets sick and they don’t go to the doctor, their baby dies; so we must end Obamacare.

If we lived in an age where we had journalism, the public would hear both sides and form an opinion. We don’t, today, all you will hear on CNN is that Trump wants 24 million people to lose insurance so you should go join a protest. The main-stream-media presents only one side of the issue to their audience and so did Mr. Kimmel.

So please, let’s pray for Jimmy’s baby but not ignore what problems we have in this country with our health system. We need to solve these problems and carrying anti-Trump signs does not solve them.

The full video of Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue is here.

April 20, 2017May 11, 2017

Is CNN Left Wing Enough?

In an age where reverence of network news is at an all-time low, the level of introspection at these networks is even lower.

Recently; Vox, an even more left leaning outlet than CNN, ridiculed some aspects of how CNN covers news. Vox made some valid points about how CNN dramatizes the news in a manner which seemingly mimics sports coverage, (albeit a behavior true of all news networks.) And then they went on to criticize CNN, I kid you not, for inviting people who support Trump onto their network to speak. (Video below) You see, in their warped mindset, the liberal-anti-Trump perspective is so very right and the Trump perspective is so very wrong on each and every issue, that CNN permitting someone on air to expound on the wrong side of the debate is downright television treason.

Video courtesy of Vox

Vox would prefer to hear just one side of a debate, their side. It is worth noting that an overwhelming majority of the anchors, correspondents, and paid analysts on CNN are anti-Trump. A typical panel, as seen in this website’s last post, is outrageously one-sided.

The ironic reality that Vox couldn’t comprehend is that CNN brings lone Trump supporters on air to serve as punching bags for gangs of folks supporting the liberal Trump-hating side of every story. The daily routine CNN employs, entails lining up full panels of pundits, along with anchors serving as ringleaders, to laugh at the solitary Trump supporters and cheer their like-minded compadres who mock and deride anything these Trump whipping boys and girls say. If we distill the Vox vs CNN conflict down to the core, it’s two divergent philosophical positions on how best to manipulate an audience. Does the network show the audience only their favored side of the story, or does the network systematically rip apart the other side of the story with sheer numbers of one-sided punditry and good old-fashioned bullying? Thomas Jefferson would be proud either way.

Now for the saddest part. Whose criticism will CNN listen to? The entire right side of the American public begging for fair coverage or the minuscule fringe left, like Vox, that is too liberal for even CNN? I’ll give you a hint, throw reason and logic out the door.

March 31, 2017May 11, 2017

How to be an Objective Cable News Network

There are many clandestine ways to skew your cable news network to one side of the political spectrum. What stories you choose to cover, how the anchors describe the events, how they moderate, and of course-commentary. Until recently the networks still offered the audience balanced panels. I mean, an audience would be repulsed by competitions of four vs three, or five vs two etc. We all have an inherent sense of fair play. But now, CNN is perfectly content with a five vs one panel, with the moderator helping out… the five.