Media Bias

[pErvinalia]

Given the Democrats are a centre-right party, it means NPR is biased to the right. They need more lefties to balance it out...

[Cunt]

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1905264864408256980
"Truth is a distraction from getting things done"

lol

So SMRT, much objectivity.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Fox News 'maleness advocates' must be disappointed that their idol has (for the moment) rolled back his imbecilic tariffs.
'Third most beautiful word!'

Donald Trump’s claim that “jobs and factories will come roaring back” due to his steep tariffs has been welcomed by some right-wing commentators who have argued that it will be a needed improvement for American workers’ masculinity.

The sentiment began to bubble up online after Trump announced a sweeping set of tariffs last week on nearly every other country in the world, sparking a colossal market selloff that continued into Monday.

Fox News host Jesse Watters—who regularly gives advice on what he thinks it means to be masculine—endorsed the argument on The Five Monday, explicitly mainstreaming a number of ideas that had so far been relegated to the right-wing fringes of the internet.

“When you sit behind a screen all day, it makes you a woman. Studies have shown this. Studies have shown this!” he insisted, without citing any. “And if you’re out working, building robots like [co-host] Harold Ford Jr., you are around other guys. You’re not around HR ladies and lawyers—and that gives you estrogen.”

The prior day on the same network, The Free Press columnist Batya Ungar-Sargon discussed a “crisis in masculinity” that tariffs could ultimately alleviate.

“It’s not just the destruction of the economic vitality of the working class,” she said on Fox & Friends Weekend in a segment that Watters was reacting to on The Five. “We shipped jobs that gave men who work with their hands for a living, and rely on brawn and physicality, off to other countries to build up their middle class.”

She added: “We imported millions and millions of illegals to work in construction, manufacturing, landscaping, janitorial services—jobs that used to give men access to the American dream."

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Former Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos led the charge on X last week, musing that a mass return to factory work will be more rewarding for America’s men than the current knowledge-based economy.

“Men are depressed and addicted and broken because they have nothing to do. They get no stimulation or satisfaction from BS email jobs,” he claimed. “I’m telling you, white Americans will love working in factories again. Making things, in the image and likeness of God the Maker.”

This rhetoric even veered into outright misogyny at times, with some arguing that a more manufacturing-based economy would naturally offer fewer career opportunities for women. This, in turn, would force them into relationships out of necessity and boost the country’s flagging birth rates.

As one prominent right-wing influencer wrote in a now-deleted X post: “you do not solve low birth rates by giving money to women, you solve low birth rates by taking money away from women.”

[source]

[Brian Peacock]

Give American men back their manliness, but for immigrant wages. That's a price every Real Man™ will willingly pay to avoid the shame and horror of becoming a feminised oestrogen absorber.

[pErvinalia]

It goes without saying that fox news hosts et al won't be working in factories.

[L'Emmerdeur]

That intrepid truth-seeker Tim Pool was given a seat at the White House press room recently, and also given the first question of the press briefing. He chose to attempt to smear the press corps while lobbing a fat gimme 'question' to Trump's press secretary. He set her up for more of the same Trumpist press-bashing, and she did her best to follow through.

Many of the news organizations that are represented in this room have marched in lockstep on false narratives, such as the “very fine people” hoax, the Covington smear, and now what’s being called the “Maryland man” hoax, where an MS-13 gang member — adjudicated by two different judges, I believe — is just simply being referred to as a “Maryland man” over and over again. Now, in an effort from the White House to expand access to new companies, you’ve created this “new media” seat. So, I’m wondering if you can comment on following this expansion, you’ve had numerous outlets disparage the companies that you’ve had sit here, as well as the reporters. I’m wondering if you could comment on that unprofessional behavior as well as elaborate if there’s any plans to expand access to new companies.

[source]

The press sec. Leavitt's reply is also at the source cited above.

The thing is, and I doubt this will come as any surprise (it didn't to me), pretty much everything Pool claimed was bullshit. I'm not going through every grievance and slanted half-truth that Pool spouted, but for instance:

The 'very fine people hoax' actually was an example of Trump catering to neo-nazis, not an innocent gaffe. His half-hearted walking back the comment when given a follow-up question doesn't change anything in his favor. The whole 'Unite the Right' rally was promoted by and populated with neo-nazis and closely aligned groups. There's no evidence of attendance at the event by any otherwise wholesome people (not neo-nazis and fellow travellers) who simply didn't want to see the statue of Robert E. Lee removed and happened to find themselves aligned with the neo-nazis.

As the linked Daily Beast article points out, any such 'very fine people' would have to have been completely oblivious, given the prominent presence of Nazi and neo-nazi symbolism in the banners and on clothing of the rally attendees. Such a hypothetical very fine person was as I say either unbelievably oblivious or they didn't mind marching alongside Nazis.

That's the Trump White House. Elevating a professional dolt like Pool (he's very successful in his chosen field) and getting just what they wanted from him in return. It reminds me of Putin's question and answer sessions with Russian media.

[Brian Peacock]

Whorenalist.

As per, the right seems to embody the most brazen, yet unknowing, manifestation of psychological projection.

[L'Emmerdeur]

At long last we may have a government reality show from the regime of the reality show president. If that doesn't Make America Great Again™ nothing will. The producer's name is a bit on the nose. A comic-book touch.

'Producer Swears ICE Reality Show for Citizenship Won’t Be a Complete Dystopian Nightmare'

A producer who pitched the Department of Homeland Security a reality show for U.S. citizenship is defending the concept, insisting it’s not the dystopian nightmare critics fear.

“This isn’t ‘The Hunger Games’ for immigrants,” producer and writer Rob Worsoff told the Wall Street Journal of his show, called The American, which is reportedly under review by DHS.

The proposal, which was first reported by the Daily Mail, comes as President Donald Trump‘s administration pushes an aggressive immigration crackdown, with the leader vowing to deport “millions” of immigrants.

...

According to the producer, The American would see immigrant contestants face off in a series of contests. They would potentially be quizzed on U.S. science and history, competing for fast-tracked U.S. citizenship, the producer said.

But no one’s getting kicked out of the country if they lose, Worsoff insisted.

...

DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin confirmed that the department is considering the proposal.

[Brian Peacock]

It's beyond parady.

[pErvinalia]

Only in America

[Sean Hayden]

Biden is 82 and Trump is 78, but you can only make money talking about Biden’s age and cognitive decline.

You'll never convince me there’s no devil.

[Svartalf]

well, you could make money talking about frump's corruption and inability to manage anything, probably not even his own pants... but you'd likely had a difficult time getting good media coverage and navigating the flak the maga crowd would direct at you

[Sean Hayden]

Biden’s cancer diagnosis raises fresh questions about his health in White House

BBC

—so fresh it sells itself