This article is liberal commentary. Victimhood is an essential piece of conservative mythology which plays a key role in mobilizing the right. Conservative propaganda labors to manufacture a strong sense of grievance among adherents, seeking to convince them they’re victims of profound mistrea[...]
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Tucker Carlson compares Trump to sexual assault victim
This article talks a lot about Darwin Awards. Fox News intellectual Tucker Carlson complained Friday the “left” calling Trump’s health mishap a self-own “is the same as blaming the victim of a sexual assault,” Huffington Post reported on Saturday, October 3, 2020 (read story he[...]
Trumper punches TV reporter
This article contains news and liberal commentary. A Trump supporter attacked a journalist outside Trump’s Duluth rally on Wednesday, September 30, 2020, news media reported. Trump and Biden supporters had lined up on opposite sides of a street near the airport and Dymanh Chhoun, 34, a photojo[...]
Trump goes gutter crawling again
This article contains news with liberal commentary. Journalists are indispensable. Most of what we know about current events is because of them. Without journalists, we would only hear propaganda. Journalism has standards for truth and accuracy; it’s a noble profession. Reporters and editors c[...]
September 15th, 2020 - 7:40 pm § in News Media
9/15/20 Headlines
Scientific American endorses a candidate for the first time in its 175-year history. Read story here. Sen. Lindsey Graham demands his opponent’s tax returns after defending Trump’s refusal to release his. Read story here. Louisville pays Breonna Taylor’s family $12 million. Read story here. [...]
BLM more popular than Trump
This article contains news with liberal commentary. This was back in June, so it’s old news, but it has just come to my attention and it’s too delicious to pass up. “Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who’s been railing against the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in recent days amid[...]
September 11th, 2020 - 1:42 am § in News Media
Police union boss doxes reporter and jokes about it
This article contains news with snarky liberal satire. The Seattle police union’s president is being investigated for allegedly publishing the reporter’s press pass on social media, a Seattle TV station reported on Thursday, September 10, 2020. Read story here. Reporter David Obelcz accu[...]
Trump urges supporters to harass Steve Jobs’ widow
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Study: 96% of BLM protests are peaceful
Since George Floyd’s murder, there have been ~11,000 demonstrations in the U.S. Police intervened in 725 of them, and used force 400 times or in roughly 1 of every 28 protests There were 100 government and police assaults against news media in these protests Rightwingers organized 360 counter-[...]
Fox rejects anti-Trump ad from teachers union
This article is part news, partially opinion, and quite a bit of satire for people who still have a sense of humor Fox News has refused to air a 30-second ad criticizing Trump’s Covid-19 response submitted by the American Federation of Teachers’ Super PAC, which it has every right to do.[...]