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Offline SVPete

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Keep crying wolf about Trump, and no one will listen when there’s a real crisis
By Kyle Smith
nypost.com
November 20, 2016 | 3:31am
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Nevertheless, a word of neighborly advice to our more genteel media friends, the ones who sit at the high table in their pristine white dinner jackets and ball gowns. You’ve been barfing all over yourselves for a week and a half, and it’s revolting to watch.

For your own sake, and that of the republic for which you allegedly work, wipe off your chins and regain your composure. I didn’t vote for him either, but Trump won. Pull yourselves together and deal with it, if you ever want to be taken seriously again.

What kind of president will Trump be? It’s a tad too early to say, isn’t it? The media are supposed to tell us what happened, not speculate on the future. But its incessant scaremongering, the utter lack of proportionality and the shameless use of double standards are an embarrassment, one that is demeaning the value of the institution. The press’ frantic need to keep the outrage meter dialed up to 11 at all times creates the risk that a desensitized populace will simply shrug off any genuine White House scandals that may lie in the future (or may not).

Hysteria is causing leading media organizations to mix up their news reporting with their editorializing like never before, but instead of mingling like chocolate and peanut butter the two are creating a taste that’s like brushing your teeth after drinking orange juice.

Look at the bonkers reaction to every move made by Trump’s transition team. ...
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After reports of discord and disarray dominated the news for a day, later stories suggested that disgruntled lobbyists who couldn’t get past the doorman at Trump Tower were leaking the information, meaning that, as Trump tried to drain the swamp in Washington, the media were taking the side of the swamp. ...

Please take my word for it, this is Must-Read grade! Kyle Smith is a non-Trump-voter media insider who flays, eviscerates, and fillets the MSM with many specifics, yet rather succinctly.
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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  • ha ha, charade you are

Please take my word for it, this is Must-Read grade! Kyle Smith is a non-Trump-voter media insider who flays, eviscerates, and fillets the MSM with many specifics, yet rather succinctly.

You were right, that is a pretty raw read. I'm hearing more and more grumbling on this subject in the past week, but sadly, probably not enough to change anything

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need to keep the outrage meter dialed up to 11 at all times creates the risk that a desensitized populace will simply shrug off any genuine White House scandals

Already happened to anyone with a lick of common sense. You saw the election results, right? No one on the right believed a single damned thing they were saying, and we still don't. All it's done is make them ratchet up the bullsh@#$ even more. The clowns in the general media will do nothing more than double-down. We are already witnessing that as well.

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If they keep it up they will guarantee Trump a 2nd term.
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Already happened to anyone with a lick of common sense. You saw the election results, right? No one on the right believed a single damned thing they were saying, and we still don't. All it's done is make them ratchet up the bullsh@#$ even more. The clowns in the general media will do nothing more than double-down. We are already witnessing that as well.

In another example, as soon as that video miraculously emerged in late September I knew what the next two stages would be:

1. After allowing some time for Trump to respond, several females would step forward with 20-40 year old claims that would be difficult to fact-check;

2. ConservaMedia folk would, nevertheless, expose the accusations as false or very extremely implausible, and many/most of the accusers as probable Clinton or D operatives.

So I reflexively disbelieved the @#$% and what I expected is what happened. Not only is it more difficult for liars to remember their stories, but the more details in a story - to make it seem credible - the more pitfalls the liar creates (like claiming to be groped on an airplane the airline never flew, or claiming to be groped at a concert on a date when there was no concert).

And what the MSM do not, cannot, and will not get is that every lie, every partisan act is a betrayal, not only of the truth, but of the TRUST of readers, listeners, and viewers. Betrayed trust is extremely difficult to rebuild, at best. The MSM won't even acknowledge what they've done or that it was wrong, so they aren't even at the start of any path to rebuilding trust. Most seem to be doubling down (or quintupling).
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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Democrats are perennially insisting that their ideas are just FINE, they just can't get their ideas OUT to the public. Even with ACBCBSNBCCNNNRPMSNBC beating the drums for them, they JUST CAN'T get their ideas heard by the American public. They are SO unlucky...

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