Category Archives: Journalism

Special-Needs Media Six Months Late To Recognize The Trump Revolution

Donald Trump, Elections, Iraq, Journalism, Media

Chris Hayes’s MSNBC replacements did a token mea culpa for themselves and their brethren across the malfunctioning media, for dismissing the political staying power of Donald Trump.

Whether they’re missing the Trump phenomenon or the bogus casus belli for war in Iraq (see “Iraq Liars & Deniers: We Knew Then What We Know Now”)—these stupid establishment types only recognize truth once THEY arrive at it, sometimes years later.

Just like we identified the wrongness of the Iraq War in 2002 and not in 2012; very many of us marginalized writers of America also recognized right away (6/19/2015) that Trump was “a candidate to ‘kick the crap out of all the politicians’” and that he “could send the system’s sycophants scattering” (8/14/2015)

Alas, truth is arrived at officially in American public life only once the special-needs media get it.

The Opportunity Costs* Associated With Consumption Of Toxic Commentary

Economy, Intelligence, Journalism, Liberty, Media

QUESTION: “Why are insightful commentators and thinker whose observations have predictive power generally barred from the national discourse, while the usual foolish, false prophets are called back for encores?”

ANSWER: “The opportunity costs associated with consumption of toxic punditry are low or non-existent. Having their worldview affirmed, even affirmed in a parallel universe, is worth a lot to news consumers, who are keener to avoid the pains of cognitive dissonance than to get the real deal.”

I plagiarized myself above. “PUNDITS, HEAL THYSELVES!” (2004) is still correct after all these years.

However, the shift is coming. The cost of following the bimbos and their TV beaus and anchor, left and right, is rising. Advice: Look at their legs, don’t listen to their words.

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Opportunity cost (a concept your kids teacher likely doesn’t know): “The benefit that is sacrificed by choosing one course of action rather than the next best alternative.”

The Week’s Tweets (11/30-12/5)

IlanaMercer.com, Islam, Journalism, Media, Terrorism

The REAL STORY Behind Abdelhamid Abaaoud Liquor Swilling

Europe, Government, Jihad, Journalism, Terrorism

More moronity from the lovely Megyn Kelly. On the eponymous Kelly File, today, Kelly kibitzed about the the Paris Attacks mastermind, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, swilling whiskey in Paris’ Saint-Denis district, in contravention of Islamic law.

To those who still remember what investigative journalism is—all journalists should investigate nonstop—the real story is the criminal negligence of the French people’s so-called protectors. Abaaoud was thus relaxing and celebrating A DAY AFTER the successful attacks. Thanks to the worse-than-shoddy, pricey police work, Abaaoud had also managed to return undisturbed to the scene of the crime and survey his handiwork, SHORTLY AFTER THE ATTACK, milling about with the idiot French gendarmes.

Where were the roadblocks? Where was the simple police work, namely stop and question loiterers, after such a disaster?

Kelly is managing to transform her show to the Barbara Walters model she so admires.