CNN’s White House reporter got an award this week – from, of
course, the circled wagons of a largely discredited media – that largely hides
its misreporting behind the First Amendment like a snake oil salesman hides
behind a fake medical cure. Media keeps trying to sell us distorted information
as truth, plaguing us with distractions. We get an unrelenting stream of
half-truths via our smart phones from CNN, the Washington Post, and The New
York Times and if you can imagine even HBO -- and somehow believe we’ve been
informed. This sleight of hand would make Nazi propagandists green (yes, and I
mean it in that way, too) with envy.
The news biz has become so slanted for so long it’s almost
impossible to find an honest journalist these days, and we may have to reach
all the way back to Mark Twain to find the last one (and he may well be the
only one to that point since Benjamin Franklin.
Mark Twain, who was a white, straight, southern male, has
come under fire from the ridiculously phobic left these days partly because he
managed to write the only legitimate anti-slavery novel that stopped short of
becoming propaganda.
Once jailed for taking on corrupt political figures in
California, Twain fully understood just how corrupt media could become as well,
and seemed to predict the kind of crap we get from a media in league with
Democrats.
“It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played
with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive,” Twain wrote “There are
people who think honesty is always the best policy. This is superstition. There
are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.”
This appears to predict what we now see coming out of a
Democratic-controlled media, which hides truth behind false facts – or perhaps
better, tells half truths that they sell us snake oil-like as the whole truth and
nothing but the truth, and the only crap fit to print.
Media has become more adept at creating the illusion of
being objective, when there is nothing behind the curtain except manipulation
and distortion. While the 19th Century had more than its fair share of yellow
journalists, the modern crop appears to be suffering from a bad case of hepatitis,
and as another old saying goes, “pisses on your leg and tells you it’s raining.”
And because media is selling this misinformation to people
who already believe the stuff they’re peddling, truth is not an option, and
objective reporting is not profitable.
We like to think that intelligent people have the option to
turn off radios, TVs even smart phones rather than accept these bogus providers
of snake oil as legitimate sources of news. But, unfortunately, most
intellectuals are married to these skewed sources of news, choosing only to
read papers, listen to news report or follow research they already agree with,
and so further indoctrinate themselves, believing they are really educated.
They read rags like The New Yorker or Atlantic which they already know will
never give them the other side of any story other than the one that is drenched
with liberal propaganda or such intellectuals will delve into questionable
anti-white books on slavery, leaving them ripe for when Democrats come to them
for reparations.
Being a legitimately educated person means you have to
challenge all that crap college professors hand out, even at the risk of
flunking out. Better to flunk out in college than to turn into a Democratic
flunky or worse when you get out. Questioning authority means questioning those
aspects of authority you think you agree with since schools do their best to
brainwash you from birth.
Twain also went on to note that loud obnoxious people like
anti-Semite in Minnesota or that crazy nut on Long Island is not guarantee of
truth.
“Noise proves nothing,” Twain wrote. “Often a hen who has merely
laid an egg cackles as if she’s laid an asteroid.”