
THE BLAZE TV host Tomi Lahren’s November 30 appearance on The Daily Show seemed like a flashback from a previous era. As in snarky liberalism’s golden days under Jon Stewart, the host, now Affirmative Action comedian Trevor Noah, attacked Lahren’s “I don’t see color, Democrats are the real racists”-style talking points. Noah batted aside these Beltway Right platitudes, Leftists rejoiced, and the clips were eagerly passed around by smug SWPLs. [Trevor Noah Expertly Skewers Conservative Tomi Lahren, by David Moye, Huffington Post, December 1, 2016] But in 2016 conservatives and nationalists triumphed because they stopped playing by the enemy’s rules, accepting the enemy’s frame, and conceding the legitimacy of the enemy’s platforms. And the enemy, above all: the Main Stream Media.
Lahren, a protégé of #NeverTrumper Glenn Beck, apparently didn’t get this memo. And she was savaged for it.
Some perspective: For most of human history, power was rooted in possession of land. After the Industrial Revolution, power lay in controlling in the means of production. But today, the main source of power is control of information.
Having the power to control information (what Steve Sailer calls The Megaphone) gives you the ability to determine what issues will be discussed, what viewpoints are considered legitimate, and who is allowed to participate in polite society. It ultimately allows you to push an entire code of morality on others. And morality is, ultimately, a weapon more terrible than can be found in any arsenal [Weaponized Morality, by Gregory Hood, Radix, October 12, 2016].
The 2016 election was ultimately a battle between the commanding heights of media (newspapers, networks, and web portals) and what we could call the guerillas of media (/pol, forums, hackers, right wing trolls, and independent media outlets like us). The latter lacked power on their own, but they united behind Donald Trump, a man whose brand was so well-established that the Establishment couldn’t ignore him. It was Fourth Generation Warfare–this time over information.
And just as guerillas have been frustrating established armies all around the world on real-world battlefields, so did the online commandos frustrate and eventually overcome the seemingly invincible Fourth Estate.
But this victory wasn’t inevitable. From day one, the MSM tried to destroy Donald Trump, including his business empire, because of his stated views on immigration.
Since that failed, they have started turning on his supporters with three tactics.
- First, a blatant attempt to pathologize dissent–especially the Alt Right.
Soon after the election, the Leftist Think Progress blog announced that the Alt Right should only be called “white nationalist” or “white supremacist”. [Think Progress will no longer describe racists as “alt-right”, November 22, 2016] The AP dutifully echoed this pronouncement days later, warning journalists not to use the term and instead to stick to pejoratives. [AP issues guidelines for using the term ‘alt-right,’ by Brent Griffiths, Politico, November 28, 2016]
This is a literally Orwellian attempt to eliminate Crimethink through linguistic control. Of course, no such guidelines will apply to non-white Identitarian groups such as the National Council of La Raza, which will continue to be called an “advocacy” or “progressive grass-roots immigration-reform organization” [NCLR head: Obama ‘deporter-in-chief,’ by Reid Epstein, Politico, March 4, 2016].
- Secondly, a meme has been invented about so-called “Fake News,” which will be used to shut down dissident media outlets.
Needless to say, most the rationale for this is not just fake, but comically, obviously, wrong. Thus the Washington Post reported that VDARE.com (and many other sites) was a “Russian propaganda effort” based on no evidence at all. We ask: where is our vodka?
Rolling Stone, which pushed one of the most disgusting hoaxes in modern journalism at the University of Virginia, is having meetings with President Obama to discuss “fake news.” The Guardian fell for what appears to be a hoax decrying “online hate” precisely because it is impossible to tell the difference today between the latest virtue signaling craze and satire.
But algorithms are already being introduced to distinguish between “verified” and “non-verified” news sources. It can be assumed only Leftist sites will receive verification on social media. [Fake news on Facebook is a real problem. These college students came up with a fix in 36 hours, By Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post, November 18, 2016]
There is “fake news” and it is annoying, to be sure. There were plenty of cringey stories about non-existent celebrity endorsements of Trump i n the last cycle. But most “verified” or “mainstream” sources today don’t actually report but simply “point and sputter” or actually conceal real news. For example, even after the journalists got what they wanted out of the latest NPI conference, the MSM still couldn’t restrain themselves from simply making things out of whole cloth.
Actual attacks on Trump supporters are not covered, while unsourced, unverified claims of a wave of “hate crimes,” which mostly consists of handwritten notes most likely written by the supposed “victims” or incidents so trivial normal people wouldn’t even notice, dominate the headlines.
This is a far more insidious form of “fake news” than anything “the Russians” are promoting. And what about the lie of “hands up, don’t shoot?”
Another example: supposedly mainstream outlets are comfortable leveling wild charges Steve Bannon is somehow a “white nationalist.” Bannon on the evidence is actually a civic nationalist who has specifically denounced racism and, if anything, is showing troubling signs of moving towards the “DemsRRealRacist”- style talking points which led Conservatism Inc. to disaster. There are absolutely no statements by Bannon actually calling for, say, a white ethnostate.
In contrast, Rep. Keith Ellison, candidate to head the DNC, actually has c alled for a black ethnostate. [Keith Ellison once proposed making a separate country for blacks, by Justin Caruso, Daily Caller, November 26, 2016]. However, this has not prevented him from being “normalized” and celebrated by the “mainstream” media.
The logical conclusion of all of this:
- Thirdly, the Trump victory is clearly leading to increased attempts at outright repression.
Or, as VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow told the NPI conference: “What we are going to see in the next few years is an intensified Reign Of Terror.”
For example, Buzzfeed’s latest masterpiece of journalism: the shocking revelation that reality stars Chip and Joanna Gaines attend a church that disagrees with homosexual marriage [Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Church Is Firmly Against Same-Sex Marriage, by Kate Aurthur, Buzzfeed, November 29, 2016]. You know–like every Christian church for about 2000 years. The obvious agenda: to get the show canceled or the Gaines to disavow their own pastor.
This is the goal of most “journalism” today–to get someone fired or to get someone to disavow someone. The Southern Poverty Law Center (\$PLC to VDARE.com) makes a lucrative income from policing speech. ( Right, a graph of their endowment fund.)And journalists today are no different than the \$PLC. They do not report, they do not provide information, and rather than ensuring freedom they are the willing tools of repression.
And this repression only goes one way.
If you wouldn’t invite some communist demonstrator into your meeting, why would you invite an MSM journalist? They have the same beliefs, the same motivations, and increasingly, they rely on the same tactics. Aside from the occasional throwing of feces (as Richard Spencer learned at NPI), the preferred tactic of “Antifa” consists of pearl-clutching blog posts.
The repression is accelerating. Reddit is now moving to censor pro-Trump content on its site [Breaking: Unethical @reddit CEO vows to crack down on “toxic users” as right wing subreddit protests censorship, by Charles Johnson, Got News,November 30, 2016]. Having been purged from Twitter, many free speech supporters are moving to GAB, so The New York Times is trying to get that shut down too [The Far Right Has a New Digital Safe Space, by Amanda Hess, November 30, 2016]. And Kellogg pulled its ads from Breitbart, after Trump’s election, because it said it did not “align with its values as a company”. [Breitbart at ‘war’ with Kellogg’s over advertising snub, BBC, December 1, 2016].
Since the election, journalists have been paying tribute to their own courage, promising to hold Trump accountable. But there is no greater enemy to free speech than reporters. Shutting down the networks and shuttering the newspapers would be a boon to independence of thought, not an obstacle.
For his own sake, to defend his own Administration, Trump has to delegitimize the MSM, just as he did during the campaign. He should continue to use his Twitter account and speak straight to the people. He should not hold press conferences with national MSM and speak only to local reporters before holding rallies. If Twitter bans him, as Leftists are urging, he should nationalize it as a utility and make it a free speech zone.[Twitter has become a utility, by Alan Kohler, The Australian, October 17, 2016]
And Trump’s supporters need to act the same way. Stop giving reporters access. Stop pretending you can play the MSM for your own benefit. Stop acting like these people are anything other than hostile political activists whose only interest in life is to make yours worse.
Stop giving them what they want.
Your career, family, and entire life may depend on it. And so does the life of the nation.
James Kirkpatrick [Email him] is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc.
Lesson #1. The corporate media wants everyone to think it’s a neutral “mainstream media”. It is not, so don’t be a fool a refer to the corporate media as the MSM.
There’s a massive gap in the market for print newspapers and magazines, radio and TV stations, web magazines and social network sites for those of alt-right, white nationalist, civic nationalist, palaeoconservative, identitarianist etc views. The Business of America is Business, as Mr Coolidge said. So I would expect enterprising individuals and groups to be setting up such entities within the next few months. It must be the way forward.
This is the biggest opportunity since the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe in the 1990s to set up new media outlets and destroy the old regime’s propaganda mouthpieces. Lets call it creative destruction, except this time the neocons and neolibs won’t be smirking.
I would expect enterprising individuals and groups to be setting up such entities within the next few months
Don’t you need a lot of eyeballs and ears to make all of those new outlets a success?
Great read, Mr. Kirkpatrick! Thank you!
Not being Donald Trump, but especially not being Steve Bannon fanboys is the key to Make America truly Great Again… in my humble opinion.
Ann Coulter is doing a great job of putting pressure on Trump, Bannon, et al.
– https://www.unz.com/article/npis-spencer-vs-politcos-hirsh-etc/#comment-1665508
– https://www.unz.com/article/npis-spencer-vs-politcos-hirsh-etc/#comment-1665634
– https://www.unz.com/article/npis-spencer-vs-politcos-hirsh-etc/#comment-1665789
– https://www.unz.com/isteve/clinton-hq-in-brooklyn-who-needs-northern-white-catholics/#comment-1645952
Michael McCaul
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McCaul#Early_life.2C_education.2C_and_law_career
Whatever their plan is, it’s not going to work — there’s this thing called the internet…
The Narrative Donald, the Narrative…. Search your feelings, you know it to be true!
Come with me and together we will rule the world from Cultmarx headquarters.
Nobody who employs the term thinks of the MSM as neutral. “Mainstream” doesn’t mean “neutral.” MSM is an effective nickname mainly because it mocks bureaucrat-speak, with its endless, blunt acronyms. But also because it pinpoints what we want to talk about, which is the media that reaches the most people. What’s seen as the conventional, normal media. The fact that this gets confused with neutrality is part of the point of sending them up.
You can point out the corporate nature of the MSM if you like. Corporate Media is a great and useful term. But in no way does the term MSM conceal or take away from that angle of attack. Corporations are bureaucracies, after all.
This – about modern media, its importance and the mechanisms at work – might be of interest: http://folk.ntnu.no/tronda/articles/media-dynamics.pdf
No, from day one the MSM used Trump to sell papers. Remember TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP, around the clock, until he won the nomination. Then, like Dr. Frankenstein, they pursued their creature continually trying desperately to destroy it.
http://robertmagill.wordpress.com
Time for President Trump to do some Trust-Busting. Break up Big Media, and follow that with breaking up Big Banking, Big Defense, Big Accounting, and Big Labor.
Hey, the Empire Media and Feminism, Inc. wanted a fight, they got a fight. Now, those they hate own the 3 branches of government and there MAY be a reckoning. If they want to fight some more, if they continue to be obnoxious (we expected tantrums, those need to end), if they refuse to let well enough alone, let’s fight some more. We were always stronger, their strength came from White men after all. Sometimes, every generation or two, grown men need to assume the reigns. The children need to sit outside of the arena, they’ve done enormous damage. Didn’t know we still had it in us.
Gab.ai knows how to do it. They told those unamerican faggots to wait their turn.
A sad state of affairs indeed. Unless Donald Trump remains true to his election promises and completely drains the swamp of corruption, the old oligarchy, which includes the neocons who own the MSM, will continue to have their stranglehold over government. Witness John Bolton being considered for Secretary of State. Is he not the darling of the neoconservatives. It is too early yet, but I’m beginning to lose hope.
Commuting in to work today (7 December 2017, “A day that will live in infamy.”) I heard NPR (the dimocrat/federal “fake news” radio network) use the “fake news” meme when reporting that the Dana Farber Cancer Institute had temporarily canceled all advertising when they discovered, quel horreur!, they had an ad spot on Breitbart.
All three of the MSM (“fake news”) strategies on display in a fifteen second news spot!
I enjoy the discomfiture and often rage of anti-Trump folks when I point out to them that the major reason for their post-election hysterics was that they were absolutely sure Clinton would win; that this certainty was because they were ill-informed; and that they were ill-informed because their information providers ill-served them with lies and illusions.
Two weeks before the election I was writing to pro-Trump friends that the election would be close but I had high hopes that Trump would win. I always added the prediction that before the Tuesday election night was over we would see MSM talking heads openly crying on television. Most agreed with my assessment of the situation.
After noting these facts, I suggest that my pro-Trump friends and I made well-informed predictions of the the election’s outcome because we were better informed than the Clinton partisans who all relied on misleading news sources. Our sources of information provide a better picture of reality than the MSM. Put another way, the Drudge Report, the Unz Review, Breitbart, etc., are “real news” sources and the MSM are demonstrably purveyors of “fake news”.
It appears that the author of the piece has already been “captured” by the corporate media. It’s apparent in his use of “MSM.”
It’s perfectly clear to anyone with the intelligence of an ice cube that “MSM” itself is a misnomer and that it’s a subtle way of hinting that corporate media is somehow acceptable to the masses.
It’s a relatively new phrase and that should tell us something. Thanks to Google, we have a graph of word and phrase frequency over time.:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=mainstream+media&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cmainstream%20media%3B%2Cc0
Note: I did not get beyond the title because anyone who uses the term,”MSM” seriously is not to be taken seriously.
My concern is the left converging the high level internet backbone providers. They quietly just start dropping traffic to and from certain addresses.
The fake news is from the lying LSM and it goes back a long way, long before Katie Couric and her plagiarism, before Dan Rather and his fake hit piece on Bush, all the way back to the sinking of the Maine in Cuba and probably before that. After all, we are told the war of secession, more commonly known by the lie, “the civil war”, was about slavery. It was not, and Lincoln and the North started the illegal and unconstitutional war.
There is plenty of fake news right on Unz. We get barraged by it from the lying commie Tom Englehardt and others. It is a difficult path to pick through and no one can be certain that anything they read or hear is actually true.
If Trump can declare Twitter a utility to destroy them, perhaps the same needs to be done to Google. We also need to re-instate the laws that no news outlet can be foreign owned and I think no newspaper or broadcaster could be jointly owned. Disney and other movie companies should not own a broadcaster or be banned from having news programs and required to only do entertainment. We also need to find a way to get corporations and money out of politics. They can’t vote they should not be able to give money or effect a campaign in any way.
James Kirkpatrick
Unfortunately, Vdare.com for many years played a variation of the “LET THE RACE-REPLACEMENT ENTHUSIASTS DEFINE THE TERMS OF THE DEBATE GAME”.
Years and years of mind-numbing PISA scores-IQ test score mad calibrator policy wonkery debate with an enemy who openly desires our racial extermination.
For years, Vdare.com has been making the policy wonk case for getting the right kind of nonwhite legal immigrants into the US…..Asian legal immigrants. What else are we to make of Steve Sailer’s recent blizzard of posts about PISA scores-at time when Chinese and Hindu “Americans” are voting The Historic Native Born White American Majority into a racial minority in post-White Toilet “America”.
Alt-Media vs MSM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CKqan61Mmg
Maybe so, but the term is clearly used to neutralize dissent and increase acceptance regarding the trash corporate media presents.
Since we seem to be talking in terms of nobody and everybody here, I’ll add that everybody knows that nobody wants to be left out of what’s been certified as mainstream. Everyone wants to be “in” and what could be more “inner” than “mainstream? The term is obviously meant to make pure propaganda (and worse) seem acceptable.
Since it’s not, don’t use it, please.
No “probably” about it.
How did that apple come to get nibbled in de Garden?
And to show that the vaunted US is no exception (note the date).:
One can’t go too far wrong by following the guidance of the immortal Senator Jesse Helms who said “I don’t care what the New York Times says about me, and no one I care about cares what the New York Times says about me.”
Not your best, Mr. Kirkpatrick, disjointed, but I am generally to liking your articles.
I pasted the list of ‘fake news’ sites into a text editor, but had to reboot and forget to save it first, can assure you that Unz.com was on the list, among many other sensible sites.
Amen. He should nationalize the FED and the so called health care system while he’s at it. By the way. I can remember when the whole country was a free speech zone.
If you think the new media outlets will give you real and truthful reporting then you are deluded, it is just another obfuscation like the pigs in the Orwellian’s Animal Farm, by the time the new media outlets win their war, they will behave exactly the same like the old MSM they destroyed to protect their turf, status quote, the interests, the way of life or the greasy troughs.
Anybody does not tolerate difference or different opinions they are the pigs in the Orwellian’s Animal Farm, the old regime’s propaganda mouthpieces.
James, great piece but you forgot to mention how dumb it is for alleged White Nationalists like Spencer or David Duke to hand their heads to the libs. It is our heads actually..and our children’s.
I agree…never talk to our enemies.
Spencer and Duke sacrifice White heads for 15 days or years just for their own egos. The vanity factor in Duke is well known. With Spencer, he is now proclaiming his homosexuality status and tells everybody ‘to get used to it.’ Never mind the nazi Show, neo or Whatever.
WN needs to go back into the closet and figure out how to come out again in more Normal appearance, shorn of weird haircuts and the props of Springtime for Hitler.
Joe Webb
Probably because they’ll be co-opted one way or another by the usual suspects.
What fake news hit piece did Rather do on Bush the Deranged? They reported he was AWOL from his Texas NG post, and it was true Georgie went AWOL to avoid the flight physical, which included an urinalysis.
That the Bush Machine fought back and helped change the narrative to it’s CBS’s fault for some typo doesn’t change the fact Bush the Deranged was AWOL during the Vietnam War and his Daddy helped cover his ass.
“But today, the main source of power is control of information.”
‘Control’ of information I guess is the operative word here. Still, while it is very important, somehow the US, as well as Europe, Whites have discovered our dispossession process.
The role of the Internet has been immense in helping folks understand what is happening to White people and White culture and society.
While immersed in the ‘Media,’ regardless of one’s politics, the Media seems to be all important. This is normal but surely it should be seen as distorting lens on reality.
Whites , like other people, mostly pay attention to their immediate environment, from paychecks to neighborhoods, schools, and most importantly, race.
The spectacle of sanctuary cities and their feral critters particularly comes to mind. The lib media likes to feature them, with the consequence that white people are forced to come to terms with the official lawlessness, and their, again, dispossession by illegals, etc.
Again, Whites have and are awakening….despite The Media, and in part , because of it. How many photos of ugly folks doing ugly things does it take to re-mind anyone? Etc.
Arguably the Media is responsible in large part for the Trump Awakening. (this is not an complete endorsement of Trump….he is a bit of a wild card for sure, and continues to softly beat the drum of race equality, promising to Fix the ghettos, etc. Joke. )
The jewyorktimes has dug its own grave, and thank the gods for that.
Joe Webb
This is always their modus operandi. They go along with the process in order to make sure the most vulnerable Republican gets nominated. Then right after the Democratic convention, they “discover” all these harmful things about the Republican nominee, and they time their stories in order to cut him off at the ankles. The idiot cuckservatives fell for this every time. Trump told them to stuff a sock in it. And he prevailed. The last time I looked, the MSM was walking around with a sock hanging out of their mouth.
I absolutely do not think of the corporate media as neutral, but they still by far reach most people so they are MSM.
It’s called “clickbait.”
Why don’t you do some research about why Rather and his producer was fired from their positions on 60 Minutes? I don’t like Bush either, but deranged? No. A RINO snake in the grass? You bet!
Nice try, but no.
http://www.conservapedia.com/Mainstream_media
In the circles I escaped, “MSM” was favored as a term of dissent because it’s also an acronym for “men who have sex with men.”
The “Big Six”:
http://www.frugaldad.com/media-consolidation-infographic/
Mr. Kirkpatrick observes three strategies:
–pathologize dissent
–use the label of “fake news” to shut down dissident news sites
–accelerate and expand repression
This actually parses as one strategy: identifying, targeting, hounding, and destroying anyone who dissents from the Narrative Cathedragogue, shoring up the latter’s power/control.
The writing has been on the wall since Bill Clinton signed the Telcoms Act of 1996, whose Title 3 allowed cross ownership of media, therefore consolidation.
This was designed by cable investor corporations and the infotainment and propaganda sectors to shore up centralization of control, both of content and delivery. Make the network big enough, with high enough up-front costs, and only big players will play. Then redefine acceptable content (interracial rape porn or calls to kill police officers or white people resulting in death is acceptable, for instance, but political dissent from people who vote for Donald Trump/reject Hillary Clinton is not).
The three categories of broadband control–intermodal, intramodal, and independent–were created precisely (some of us thought) to make it clear that smaller players were not only not welcome, they were targeted for destruction.
Today’s “fake news” and “hate speech” drumbeat is a deliberate effort to extend TCA 96’s foot in the door on censoring content. This was contained in its Title 5, the Communications Decency Act.
A view at the time:
http://www.oswego.edu/~messere/telcom4.html
At the time, the Dem left/progs lined up to revile TCA 96, while the MSM ignored it mostly.
Today the Dem left/progs are firmly in the camp of consolidation, repression, and silencing. I think it was Eduardo Galeano who said of TCA 96, “Never were so many held so incommunicado by so few.”
– https://www.unz.com/jderbyshire/trump-vs-the-real-nuts-the-gop-uniparty-establishment/#comment-1630050
The Vatican-Zionist alliance just got one of their own nominated for Secretary of Homeland Security. Maybe he is not as bad as Michael McCaul, but still…
Apparently, General John Kelly is best friends with General Joseph Dunford, who is a ‘fervent Catholic,’ so I assume he is too:
– http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/archives/2014/06/10/quiet-brawler-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-next/78547606/
Ana Navarro seems to be happy about the appointment; via Twitter:
– https://twitter.com/ananavarro/status/806526950873436161
Ana Navarro’s One-Woman Revolt Against Donald Trump
– http://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/ana-navarro-and-the-p-word
How about the U.S. starts being hawkish on immigration enforcement and dovish/moderate on foreign interventionism for a change…
Disengage from the World/Disinvite the World
This seems like a good place to mention a theory of mine. I think the reason we find the click of a button, both the sound and the feeling, so satisfying a feedback mechanism in so many user-interface mechanisms is because it simulates the effect of crushing a bug, the moment its exoskeleton gives way and our finger or thumb slams down on the opposing surface.
http://radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com/2016/12/07/black-employees-file-class-action-lawsuit-against-cnn/
Uh oh, Lib media attacked by blacks as ‘racist’.
… banned from having news programs and required to only do entertainment
Who decides what is news and what is entertainment?
Like I said,
But even if non-MSN media were indeed somehow connected with Russia, what is wrong with that by itself? The Alt-Right or whoever there seem to be more enraged that they have been accused of connections with Russia and their principal rebuttal is that they have no real connections whatsoever, but they don’t even raise an issue that in the West it’s become a norm that the very fact that someone is connected to Russia makes anybody an illegal persecuted hated outcast. Why does nobody see this utter Russophobia which somehow resembles much the worst forms of real racism? I already feel myself like a Jew in the Third Reich. How long will it be before anti-Russian pogroms actually start? In the media space anti-Russian pogroms are running wild already. The haven’t build media concentration camps yet, but they have issued blacklists already.
Bezos is good at spotting opportunities. He could sack his Washington Post newsroom and get a new lot to write Trump favourable articles. He would be broadening the WaPo’s appeal and also getting preferential access.
Murdoch did the same in 1981 when Thatcher won the UK premiership, and it worked out well for both of them. He got the Times and Sunday Times and she got her MSM propagandist.
This is the biggest threat. Once the forums of free speech and dissidence get shut down, the real party will begin. I imagine it will be a lot like what happened in USSR during Stalin’s purges. People will just disappear. No one will talk about it, there wont be anywhere to talk about it.
Not one I identify with, entomology being one of my hobbies and bugs doing a lot of the work of keeping me from having to use farm chemicals.
In fact the psychological engineering of button-interfaces has more to do with neural feedback connections between tactical, auditory, visual, and pleasure cortical regions. Not everyone is hardwired the same on this.
The internet isn’t invincible. No electricity, no internet. No server access, no internet. Loss of permissions, no internet.
Once ISP’s start censoring sites the government declares “dangerous” or belonging to a group declared as “racist” or some other pretense, then we know we lost. The constitution is only a paper shield, and it keeps getting in the way of our elites who want more power.
Lol. O’Keefe has bonafide greatness, but lil chameolonBen? Scorched earth NeverTrump 6 weeks ago, but somehow relevant now? More boilerplate on muh Constitution while remaining blind to the consequences of his Invade the World / Invite the World advocacy (including msm, neocon suppression of paleocons). Does being GOPe mean a lifepass on dumb? With apologies to Stewart Copeland, here’s a repurposed 1983 ditty. A salute to Benworld, as sung by Kevin Williamson, backing vocals by Egg McMuffin-
Don’t tell Neocon HQ I said so
But are you safe Ben Shapiro?
We were at a policy meeting
They were planning new ways of cheating.
I didn’t want to rock your boat,
But you sent this dangerous note
You’ve been letting your entryism show.
Are you safe Ben Shapiro?
Ben Shapiro are you safe?
Are you sane Miss Shapiro?
Miss Shapiro are you sane?
Is anybody alive in here?
Still white knighting for Ms Fields out there?
Is anybody w/ balls in here?
Nobody but us in here
Nobody but Cucks.
Is anybody alive in here?
Nobody but Cucks.
Your Alt Light uniform don’t seem to fit
You’re much too neocon in it.
You’ve been letting your feelings show.
Are you safe Miss Shapiro?
Miss Shapiro are you safe?
Is anybody alive in here?
Still shilling 4 open borders out there?
Is everybody a liar in here?
Nobody but us in here
Nobody but Cucks.
Repeat…. (& n’oubliez pas)
Most of the world has already lost freedom of speech. It has been curtailed in the name of protecting minorities from ‘hate speech’.
The USA may well be the last bastion at this point. Even a website like Unz Review would likely be shut down in Australia, Canada or the EU nations.
The US is fortunate that their guarantee of free speech was made very explicit and enshrined in the constitution. If the elites are successful at chipping away at this freedom it will be very dangerous for the entire world.
Any attempts to take away freedom of speech need to be met with aggressive pushback. There is a lot at stake.
Exactly. Twitter will stay twittery, and no one has influence over it. Renegades and trailblazers will remain avant garde and invisible.
No sense reacting in a hostile or authoritarian manner. That would only fuel the fire that will soon burn out all by itself. Let the leftists who think they have the only megaphone continue their strong arm tactics. The election of Trump and the massive decline in readership of liberal newspapers is a situation they obviously still cannot fathom, and one that they cannot dig themselves out of unless the right does something truly stupid, like turning authoritarian on them. To do so would be to make the same mistake the left made.
Media Empire says Mark Dice is also ‘fake news’.
Understatement. Once freedom of speech becomes explicitly restricted in an effort to protect a preferred narrative of the establishment, it could easily lead to war. Once a critical mass no longer believes official “news” & that all official information is essentially psy-ops to pacify, people will assume that we have essentially suffered a silent coup d’etat.
Piss poor is what this latest James K’s items is.
He must be out to lunch…
Couldn’t read it, bad prose, doesn’t sound like Kirkpatrick.
Somebody called it: disjointed, amen unreadable is another term for ya.
As I said in a previous entry, in the self-appointed democracies of the putrid West, the media do not report any news.
They just read or print whatever prepared transcripts are handed to them by their government/masters.
You see, in the Prople’s Democratic Republic of Korea they do the same, because the PDRK is Democratic too. There is a kinship.
Ditto me on all of that.
To me it was very obvious that most polls were utter BS, they contradicted each other on a daily basis, and were using biased sampling.
And of course there was that miserable hag Hillary. A self righteous grumpy, Marxist lesbian if there ever was one.
BTW, NPR should be defunded.
There are 3,141 counties in the United States. Trump won 3,084 of them. Clinton won 57.
Three Million Votes in Presidential Election Cast by Illegal Aliens
http://www.infowars.com/report-three-million-votes-in-presidential-election-cast-by-illegal-aliens/
great pro Trump video by Paul Joseph Watson:
Yes. Mr. Udo Ulfkotte,
You are right!
President Trump
Drain the swamp!
I don’t believe this for a moment. The feverish atmosphere in the Washington Post and New York Times newsrooms had everything to do with a select group of Counter Cultural leftist editors and journalists engaging in an all out (anti-White) culture war, with their owners orchestrating the project.
He’s given a warning to Big Pharma on drug prices and teachers unions on school choice which seem like good places to start.
But it’s interesting that the Counter Cultural left prefer to retain the historical Anglo American exterior names and form of their propaganda tools (Washington Post, New York Times, NPR etc.)
That way, it’s easier to claim to be the respectable centre (main stream) of US opinion while feeding through their counter cultural (counter Anglo) message.
Same with Congress, Senate and the Supreme Court that are all awarded the respect that they have gained historically while having recently morphed into something entirely different.
Thanks for confirming my suspicions, Sir!
Note to all scribblers.: Like I said above, anyone who uses mass media’s term, “MSM,” for itself in a serious or non-satirical manner cannot be taken seriously.
True.
In 1920 Upton Sinclair wrote a fine book, “The Brass Check,” detailing the outrages of American journalism and the media.
The media was pure hogwash then, and it’s worse now. He would have agreed with Twain, a journalist and newspaper editor himself who (echoing Thomas Jefferson),purportedly said, “if you don’t read the papers, you’re uninformed; if you do read them, you’re misinformed.”
Here’s the Jefferson quote regarding newspapers that I alluded to above.
Yeah, yeah, I know he was a liberal, slave-owning, constitutionalist and office holder, but he was right about a lot of things including the media of his day.
Can you call something mainstream when it has less than 5% of the population watching it? I think time has passed these dinosaurs behind. Oh sure that plan to censor the net seems like a good idea. Kind of like putting the lid on a pressure cooker down tight when its already past the point of blowing up.
At this point, the lamebrain niche status whoring media can either go out of business or burn down. Being relevant stopped being an option in the 20th Century.
Excellent. Breaking up all the monopolies would free all the people from their predatory grasp. Every economic good or service of substance, including information, would quickly become better, faster, and cheaper.
You apparently have a lot more faith in the non-commercial aspect of the MSM than I do. I recall all shades of media on the Trump meme all year long for it’s cash value.
MSM is not “communist” or “leftist” or “progressive”. They destroyed Bernie with almost as much enthusiasm as they smashed Trump. And Hillary is emphatically not “progressive”. Her agenda is indistinguishable from Bush’s agenda. Pure neocon.
It’s not about ideology, it’s just gang loyalty. Soros rules the universe, and Hillary was the Soros front this year. When Soros picks a new front, MSM will switch loyalty to the new front.
Legacy media? Controlled media?
Sure, they just “accidentally” forged those documents. Uh huh.
Lighten up, Francis.
“Disengage from the World/Disinvite the World”
Perhaps a little clunky. How about “Don’t bomb ’em over there; don’t bring ’em over here.”
DSM Dark Side Media?
They supported the WMD and “9/11 fire collapse stories + every ME war + Homeland Security + the Patriot Act and the NSA.
So what’s your point? Catholics shouldn’t be allowed to join the military and become generals or die in combat?
Your insane babbling about the Vatican /Jewish conspiracies has gotten you banned from a lot of conservative and White advocacy sites.
Gee, doesn’t take much to make you lose hope, does it? Unqualified, 100% victory or it’s all for nothing, huh?
Limp noodle boy, or shill?
– https://www.unz.com/jderbyshire/trump-vs-the-real-nuts-the-gop-uniparty-establishment/#comment-1634141
Why don’t you follow you own advice, and just ignore me, Alden?
– https://www.unz.com/jderbyshire/trump-vs-the-real-nuts-the-gop-uniparty-establishment/#comment-1634065
Typo: Why don’t you follow *your* own advice, and just ignore me, Alden?
Why do you think U.S. Marines died and were stationed in Lebanon, Alden? Against the advice of some of President Reagan’s advisors.
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings#American_and_French_response
I personally believe those Marines were there to protect Vatican interests in that part of the world – which includes Jerusalem and by extension Israel – not to protect American interests:
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon#Religion
– https://www.unz.com/jderbyshire/trump-vs-the-real-nuts-the-gop-uniparty-establishment/#comment-1630050
Why are there and why do they want more U.S. troops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo? Again, I believe, because it benefits the Vatican:
– http://www.stripes.com/news/defense-expert-calls-for-thousands-of-us-troops-in-africa-1.264739
O’Hanlon sounds like a pretty Celtic-Catholic name to me… he seems to be a Catholic Neocon…
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_E._O%27Hanlon#Letter_by_Project_for_the_New_American_Century
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo#Religion
And don’t forget the Zionist-Vatican alliance power couple par excellence; Cass Sunstein and Samantha Power:
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein#.22Conspiracy_Theories.22_and_government_infiltration
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Power#Views_on_projecting_military_power_to_prevent_human_rights_abuse
Leftist have pushed a narrative that any speech that incites violence is not protected speech.
Of course this is another big lie, but they have loaded the federal courts with plenty of leftist stooges that advocate this kind of infringement.
They’ve already convinced many people that federal hate speech crime prosecutions are legitimate, so their next advance into federal censorship of incitement is not a stretch.
Leftist fondness for microaggressive speech demonization will be used to stoke their hysteria for more federal censorship.
Addendum:
I forgot to mention Vietnam:
– https://www.unz.com/plee/trump-we-wish-the-problem-was-fascism/#comment-1618786
Vietnam why did we go?
– http://www.reformation.org/vietnam.html
– https://www.unz.com/plee/trump-we-wish-the-problem-was-fascism/#comment-1619707
– http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/debates.html
William Buckley Vs Gore Vidal
I was more of a kid then, but I remember well watching the debates between Buckley andVidal.
Me and my mom, of course who was in the home at the time tended to think Vidal had superior arguments, but even if you like W.F. Buckley’s oddness, when you think about it, Vidal wins.
Buckley is too weird looking to begin with, and what a gaddamed fruit… That f’n prig is about the most obnoxious f’n white m’fr’ I ever sawr… and hey…
But seriously… James Kirkpatrick did a lot of good work in his day… some time he was a little too far toward the right corporatists, for me, but the guy did use good language and he made pretty good sense.
I don’t think the above article is authentic from J. Kilpatrick because I couldn’t read it… because the lanquage didn’t flow, what they call Prose… real good lanquage… almost Poetry, ‘might say, and that above article is BS.
Oh yeah you make me remember now…
I was ready to go into the Army, my only good experience was not school, but the boy scouts, where we learned the skills that would be similar to army preparedness.
But in those days, we thought sure we will go to the army, and we will do right. The concept in our minds, I think, was that we, us boys, would be ready to defend. Defend, and of course what ever even I guess, kill enemies.
The examples you posted relate to IRISH Catholicism, a creature as different from ROMAN Catholicism as zionism is different from Torah Judaism.
IRISH Catholicism is political, not religious/spiritual, as is zionism.
You might be interested in this article about William F. Buckley Jr.:
William F Buckley – A Case Study In Narcissistic Personality Disorder
– http://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/william-f-buckley-a-case-study-in-narcissistic-personality-disorder/
– https://www.unz.com/article/rule-or-ruin/#comment-1624652
I assume you were referring to James J. Kilpatrick in your comment, right?
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Kilpatrick
Here one of my comments on Eugene McCarthy and Catholic Vietnamese, etc. immigrants/refugees. Again, we see the Vatican-inspired “Invade (Protect) the (Catholic) World/Invite the (Catholic) World” scheme play out:
– https://www.unz.com/article/rule-or-ruin/#comment-1625914
MSM is embedded with the regime even in peacetime . they are more dangerously infective than the body fluid of the disease carrying cockraches
CNN’s job is to copy and paste from the lips of the regime . It also has learnt what to say about the boss’s plans or modus operandi being in the lying and ass kissing game for all along
” http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/rep-tulsi-gabbard-smokes-cnn-shill-us-funding-terrorists-syria-video/ri18105
Jake Tapper: “Are you really suggesting that US govt is funding these terrorist groups?”
Tulsi Gabbard: “Ah, I’m not only ‘suggesting’ it. This is… this IS the reality that we’re living in.”
Tapper: “Not directly though??”
Gabbard: “Most Americans… if… if you or I were to provide money, uh weapons, or support or whatever, to a group like Alqaeda or IsIs, we would IMMEDIATELY be thrown in jail! Ah. However, the US government has been providing money, weapons, intel assistance and other types of support, THROUGH the CIA, DIRECTLY to these groups that are WORKING WITH, and are AFFILIATED WITH Al-Qaeda and ISIS!”
Tapper: “So, you’re saying that the CIA is giving monies to groups in Syria, and those groups are ‘working WITH’ Al Nusra and ISIS?” http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/rep-tulsi-gabbard-smokes-cnn-shill-us-funding-terrorists-syria-video/ri18105
Gab bard:There are/there’ve been numerous reports, from the NYT to the WSJ and other news outlets, who have declared that these ‘rebel groups’ have formed these battlefield alliances with Al-Qaeda… that essentially IS Al-Qaeda; groups in charge of EVERY SINGLE ‘rebel group’ on the ground, fighting to overthrow the Syrian Govt.”
Tapper: “The US Govt says that they vet the group that they give money to, very closely. And, that you’re wrong… and that, there are no alliances between groups that the American taxpayers fund, and these other groups; obviously, they ALL are fighting Assad.”
Gabbard: “Uh, I beg to differ; evidence has shown, time and time again, that, that is NOT the case. WE are DIRECTLY and INDIRECTLY supporting these groups who are ALLIED WITH or partnered with alCIAda and ISIS, and working TO overthrow the Syrian government of Assad. And, we’ve also been providing that support THROUGH countries like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar, to do that! http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/rep-tulsi-gabbard-smokes-cnn-shill-us-funding-terrorists-syria-video/ri18105
Yeah, Kennedy helped Diem so much that he OK’d his murder. I’m glad no one is that interested in helping me.
You are correct about that, but there is more to the story/conspiracy:
– http://www.reformation.org/chapter20.html
Might it be possible and conceivable, that President Kennedy was assassinated by the orders of Cardinal Spellman and the Catholic lobby as “revenge” for Diem’s assassination?
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Spellman#Lyndon_Johnson_and_Vietnam
The impact Cardinal Spellman had on the United States’ history and destiny is difficult to overestimate, in my opinion, and he was also one of the main drivers behind the Zionist-Vatican alliance. Many people forget, that Emanuel Celler’s grand-father was Catholic:
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Celler#Early_life
The Vatican wants to control Jerusalem, and that is why they collaborate with the Zionists/Israel Lobby:
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_Agreement_Between_the_Holy_See_and_the_State_of_Israel#Diplomatic_relations
But the Vatican really calls the shots behind the scenes, in my opinion (emphasis added):
– https://www.unz.com/article/rule-or-ruin/#comment-1624652
– https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-curley-effect-versus-the-kennedy-effect/#comment-1619098
The Vatican also calls the shots at the United Nations to a large degree:
Sorry Secularists, But Yes, The UN Can Be Led By A ‘Fervent Catholic’
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/sorry.secularists.but.yes.the.un.can.be.led.by.a.fervent.catholic/98302.htm
Why is soros still alive, can’t someone do something about that?