Brainwashed by The New York Times

Thursday, August 15, 2019

After having not talked to what I once considered one of my closest friends, I was horrified to find that he had turned from a working stiff to a pseudo metro-sexual, a wanna-be upper west or east side (I forget which is worse) liberal intellectuals determined to shed any semblance to his blue collar background.

This is a man who spent his entire adult life relying on The New York Times to provide him with information, and so overtime as paper of record turned into a liberal rag, he turned into a pretentious jelly fish, so filled with misinformation about the real world that it’s no longer possible to even talk to him, let alone try to apply reason.

He still believes states outside New York and California have a poll tax (something outlawed in voting legislation in the 1960s), believes that the electoral college should be abandoned (not realizing that it affects only one elected office of president, and not caring a bit about the protections it provides other states smaller than New York or California since the point is to have his liberal views imposed on people elsewhere, so that the people he votes for automatically become president.)

He refuses to believe that members of MeToo are vigilantes, and that Antifa is not a terrorist group (akin to the KKK only wearing black hoods and masks rather than white.)

My friend no longer believes in the concept of citizenship – since he would give the vote to anybody citizen or not who pays taxes – regardless of how these people came to the country – thus feeding the Democratic party with future generations of voters.

While my friend and I would likely agree that ICE is out of control, and that immigrants should not be rounded up like cattle, we disagree on the future.

He claims that at one time voting rights applied only to white males who owned property (an inaccurate statement likely gleaned from The Times as well since voting is regulated by states and various states offered more liberal voting than others). So, to his logic, allowing non-citizens to vote is just another change similar to those of allowing ordinary men and women, black or white to vote. He, of course, would have this applied nationally so stripping the fundamental issue of states to regulate their own voting – currently protected under the constitution.

This idea that my friend would use the federal government to impose its will on people who may have a differing point of view is at the core of the current constitutional crisis. New York and California with their huge populations want to control how people live and think in other parts of the nation. This is why they tear down statutes and flags they find offensive, and why they block highways often far from the part of the country where they actually live – an illusion of New Freedom Riders which is a bogus argument pumped out by left wing publications like The New York Times.

Since so many of our forefathers are being discredited by liberal media, we can’t even draw on their wisdom to show how they intended to protect minority states (which are largely smaller, less populated and conservative) from the mob rule of urban elite. The electoral college keeps Iowa from being overrun by a pack of liberal radicals who have managed in their own states to register massive amounts of voters, some of which many suspect are not citizens or even legal residents, but lack of proof at the polls allows them to vote anyway.

My friend is very concerned about voter suppression in places like the south where proof at the polls is seen as unfair to people of color as if poor whites wouldn’t be equally inconvenienced by needing to get proper identification (as required by most states as a result of 9/11 and the passing of the Patriot Act.)

Since my friend reads only The New York Times, he is not exposed to alternative views on many issues such as Climate Change, foreign policy – and he even believes the Russians interfered with the 2016 election, and would still vote for Hillary Clinton if she ran in 2020, despite her taking over the Democratic Party and cheating her way to the nomination.

Since The New York Times’ role appears to be designed to protect Democrats – regardless of how outlandish their behavior or their opinions, my friend protects them, too.

My friend is not stupid. But he is ignorant, and stubborn, and once he makes up his mind on an issue, facts would move him – unless, of course, he reads them in The New York Times, and then it’s gospel.

NJ’s Pathetically Correct Attorney General

Saturday, August 10, 2019

Grewal just issued a report on biased incidents in the state of New Jersey.

More than half the reported cases came from colleges and universities, a scary concept since colleges these days have become incubators of misinformation where students are expected to find racism under ever rock.

One university even required white students to write an essay on why they should be ashamed to be white.

Pathetically correct in schools are constantly trying to rewrite history to reflect their somewhat twisted vision of reality, such as the Elizabeth activist who want to remove the name of Ronald Reagan because he once said something questionable.

We already know activists hated Lincoln during his own lifetime because he preserved law over mob rule when it came to outlawing slavery.

In San Francisco, fanatic radicals want to destroy a mural of George Washington because it also depicted Native Americans (a term many Indians hate) and slaves.

All of this comes at a time when Toni Morrison died, a good writer, but someone who fed into this anti-white crusade, a black woman who preferred propaganda like “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” to real literature such as Huck Finn (both books written by white people.) Of course, being a white male who once served briefly in the Confederate Army, Mark Twain has been called a racist, too – clearly showing how little of his work critics have actually read (he openly condemned slavery in several of his travelogues but since these radicals are better at banning books than reading them, they would not know this. You would expect Morrison, an author, to be better, but she was not.

We can’t expect better from Grewal because we all know that attorney generals on a state or federal level are required to be political stooges – and so like Holder – Grewal does not disappoint us. But the fact that he is feeding into this anti-white racist frenzy is actually dangerous – giving creditability to this illusion that there are white supremacists under every stone just as there were communists in the 1950s.  This gives license to monstrous terrorist groups like Antifa or productions by NBC depicting violence against those media and schools claim as evil – in these cases, anyone who ever even thought about voting for Trump.

 No doubt racism exists and incidents happened. But how many are provoked by overzealous zealots and something criminals like Antifa?

The most visible of this hatred came out after the 2016 election as fanatic liberals became shrill when they could not lie or cheat to get their candidate elected.

The establishment of a Joint Bias Task Force will only exasperate this anti-white prejudice es, adding more questionable allegations by already questionably reliable people, who imagine racism under every bed and homophobia in every closet

Grewal and his side kick, Oliver, should show convictions, not accusations, and detail the circumstance behind each of these reports. Otherwise, all they are doing is feeding this hate.

Popcorn people call Trump a racist.

Thursday, August 8, 2019

Democrat think tanks are spewing out a lot of crap these days.

This is not unusual for think tanks for the right or the left. What makes this dangerous is the fact that there is a built-in audience of true believers – I call them the pathetically correct (PC), who eat it up – the way movie-goers eat up popcorn.

To be in the in-crowd these days, you have to proscribe to a certain PC ideology, largely made up in these think tanks, and spread through media.

I call them big and little lies.

The Russian conspiracy to influence the 2016 election was a big lie – which taxpayers spent tens of millions to disprove.

Small lies are much more effective because no Mueller investigation is ever going to uncover them as lies, and popcorn-eating liberals gobble them up as fact.

One such lie is the idea that Trump is a racist. Another is that he supports white supremacists’ groups. Others paint him as misogynistic. While still others paint him as homophobic.

There is very little to collaborate any of these small lies except for a more than willing and dishonest liberal-controlled media that spreads them and distorts coverage to support these lies.

Day in and day out we hear how Trump’s rhetoric leads to gun violence by white supremacists, while media plays down those cases in which the culprit is actually a supporter of people like Warren and misguided and dangerous causes like Antifa (anyone who wears a mask is a criminal, white or black.)

If there is a terrorist connection, liberal media plays it down, but harps on any case that involves right wing killers, crediting Trump as the cause.

This comes even when the Trump Administration issues statements to the contrary. Braindead PC people still believe his rhetoric led to the violence, when they cannot actually support this with anything he said, just as they can’t support the claims that he is a racist.

This is fantasy that borders on psychosis, a liberal public unable to get over the shock that other people elsewhere in the country could win an election despite the massive voter fraud Democrats appeared to have used in 2016 to have the outcome come out differently.

We have transcended the concept of a fair media, and have evolved into a movement in which mainstream media has become an organ for spreading misinformation, pretending it is all the news fit to print, creating myths that popcorn people accept as fact because it fits in with their existing prejudices.

The truth appears to be exactly opposite of what these popcorn people believe, and when you have a sitting US congresswoman calling for the assassination of a sitting president and Hollywood spewing out movies that call for hunting down of Trump supporters, you have to wonder just who is actually inciting violence, and why mainstream media isn’t calling them to task.

But the answer is clear. Media has taken a side and is too busy screaming fire inside a crowded theater to actually report facts.

Living in the past

08-05-19

I live too much in the past, nostalgic for a time I found pain when I lived it, now far more innocent than time we pass through these days.

some joker on the intern posed an impossible choice between going back to 45 with $10 million or going back to my youth knowing all I know now.

I'd skip the $10 million for the chance to see old friends and family again.

perhaps to meet even family I didn't get to know enough when I met them only in passing.

delving into their lives in retrospect I realize just how much I missed or have forgotten or never knew and only by going back will I truly know them.

Everybody's youth seems more innocent than it actually is. My grandparents, my great grandparents even my great great grandparents each saw their worlds change and become more complex. Each saw the passing of family the way I have to become as my grandmother became and I have become, a sole survivor, burdened with my memories and the memories who came before me, knowing but not well enough my ancestors. but I have only bits and pieces to represent the whole, snapshots in time with which to preserve them.

if I could go back, knowing what I know now, I would know what to look fir, how to fill in all these missing pieces of all those people I have come to cherish through time.

Elated to be fired?

August 4, 2019

The first feeling I feel when I get fired is not panic.

That comes later when I try and figure out how the hell I’m going to pay my rent or mortgage.

The first feeling isn’t even negative, although that comes later, too, the unworthiness that makes me unacceptable.

No, the first feeling is always elation, as if the chains have been removed from me and I am able to move about unencumbered by responsibilities that I been forced to endure just to get a paycheck.

After 32 years as a beat reporter – 27 at the Hudson Reporter, the rest elsewhere, and the week in and week out ritual of a meeting deadlines, the elation this time was even more significant than during other terminations, feeling the links of chain drop one by one as I used by 30 minutes to pack up 27 years of accumulated stuff from my desk, putting notebooks and file folders into recycling, things I thought I needed fore to save for unrealized future stories.

I didn’t even hear the ticking clock in my head I had when fired from other jobs, my whole 30 minutes done in deliberate slow-motion since what I needed to take was significantly less than what I would leave behind – and not all of that physical.

To be unbeholden to anyone, returning to that point in life when I lived more or less carefree, assuming life would someone take care of me – the hippie-hobo life Kerouac wrote about in “On the Road.” Someone on the street of Hoboken even called me a “Darma Bum” as if my new-found freedom emanated from me, a radiation glow I could not keep contained had I wanted to.

How long this glow lasts is up to me – perhaps even for the rest of my life.

My real work

March 24, 1997

The daily grind goes on.

Monday morning rising to face one more week of deadlines.

I always have too much to do and make more promises than I can keep – a story for this cause or that, each a brutal battle from notes to finished copy that I always cringe over.

I keep looking for a formula that will make life easier, knowing I’ll never find one.

All this, of course, comes in the middle of what I like to think of as my “serious work,” those passages of purple prose which will put me in a literature book someday, guarantee me a place among the greats (how many other fools have thoughts like this, like the man at the poetry reading Saturday who ranted on about those writers who influence him, name dropping so heavily he could have served a biography for a text on western literature.

A large part of literary success is self-promotion, such as what happened with Whitman when he wrote reviews of his own book and gave himself high praise.

I am poor at self-promotion, and wish talented amounted for me, and hard work, and some aspect of self-belief. All writers, artists, musicians must believe they are destined for something, or they fail.

But some of us deceive ourselves, relying too much upon the world somehow discovering us.

I did well enough at the open reading this weekend, and more or less discovered a fact that I already knew, that people won’t tolerate long pieces, regardless of the quality. They like beginnings and endings, and would avoid the middles if possible, especial if those middles seem to go on and one.

Even poetry as been pockmarked by the punchy, sliced up images of post-MTV, and in poetry as in my old adage (to whom I can not give credit): keep it short stupid.

The problem is I don’t operate well in the realm of the ultra-short, where every word need be a pearl, where every image as sharp as a diamond. My work plods along in an emotional accumulation, where poetry demands lightning strikes. But I do have a few short pieces, and I’ll see where that gets me. Perhaps I can seduce some sucker into giving me a feature, where I can do what the hell I want.