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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsThe return of facts, and their habit of destroying lazy arguments — Mark Textor, Business Insider
Facts are powerful. But look around at political and social commentary today. The use of real facts to prosecute an argument is the exception, not the rule. Instead, we get what people “think”
The Left Needs Operation Trump-Russia — American Thinker
Their swift rejection of fact and rapid adoption of fiction has precedent in the aftermath of the JFK assassination. The lack of credible evidence of a Trumpian conspiracy does nothing to diminish the left’s hysterics. That Trump joked about Russia and suggested that he would like to have a cordial relationship with Putin is enough for the left to believe in the collusion theory. They will not be convinced otherwise because of their continuing unwillingness to process the outcome of the presidential election in an emotionally healthy way.
The only way they could cope with this catastrophe was to do what many did after Dallas in November 1963: Discard empiricism in favor of wild theory. For some, a conspiracy by John Birchers, Cubans, or Mafiosi to kill Kennedy imbued his death with more raison d’être than the impulsive target practice of a paranoid shipping clerk with a mail-order rifle
Random Note #193,672 — An accusation in search of a crime
They then workshop it and decide who best, which expert de jour to interview to build the story, to give it credible legs and move the story along in the desired direction. What we’re dealing with here is the equivalent of an information arsonist who, in the first instance brings the fuel to the scene of the crime pours on the accelerant then ignites the story. As others pitch in they also add to the fire and further fan the flames into an all out conflagration.
It’s a coup — American Thinker
A great line “..An accusation in search of a crime..” something of a twist on the old line “..A headline in search of a story..” They arrogantly believed the last election was theirs to be had with Hillary Clinton at the helm to continue Obama’s legacy of “leading from behind.” Their mission is the “transformation of our free market, our sovereignty, and our culture to a Socialist/Communist New World Order. They didn’t count on billionaire Donald Trump, who had never before held office, to throw a wrench into their radical agenda by injecting himself into our body politic, and in return they are waging a relentless coup to have him removed from office.
Meet WaPo — Fake News Ground Zero
Second only to George Soros, Jeffrey Bezos, who owns the WaPo, The Washington Post, which is ground zero for almost every negative “fake news” attack column against President Trump since 2013 – is the single largest financier of left-wing causes and the anti-Trump propaganda hitting our headlines every single day.
It’s getting very ugly — Monica Crowley talks to Sean Hannity
It’s getting very serious and very, very ugly. Trump wasn’t meant to win. It was in the bag for Hillary Clinton or at least that was the plan. Now they’ll stop at absolutely nothing to wrestle control away from Trump.
There’s the problem right there — Higbie vs Bolduan on CNN
“Do not attack the stellar reporters of CNN” says the 30 something, screeching shrew to the retired Navy Seal.
More Roadrunner, Wily Coyote and falling anvil antics
If there is a god, this should happen. If for no other reason than to drive the media and the vaccous, phoney, empty suit talking heads totally nuts. More nuts, berserk and unhinged than they are already
Trump and the media — Wily Coyote, Roadrunner and falling anvils — Nothing to see here.
This is the stuff of Wily Coyote and the Road Runner. The media yet again hit by another falling anvil. Another bucket of cold water over the Marx Stream Media.
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking — Qantas and the Over the top Overheu ban
I find something quite chilling and disturbing in the decision by Qantas to invoke a lifetime ban on pieman Tony Overheu for his assault on Alan Joyce. In the minds of many Australians Alan Joyce has misused and abused his public capacity and profile and the corporate...