A new AP-NORC poll is out and, consistent with earlier polling results, shows that there remains a disconnect between the media coverage and public opinion over the Biden corruption scandal. Despite the continued dismissal or downplaying of the scandal by many in the media, a massive 68 percent of Americans believe that President Biden acted either illegally or unethically in his involvement in his son’s foreign dealings.
The largest group (36%) believe that the president has done something illegal. The second largest group (33%) believed Biden has done something unethical.
Only 30% of American adults believe Biden has “not done anything wrong” as he has repeatedly claimed. It seems like the same 30% has remained supportive on every issue for Biden — the same unchanging support that we have found at the extremes of every poll for both Biden and Trump.
Notably, however, 40% of Democrats now believe Biden has done something illegal or unethical in his handling of his son’s business dealings.
The percentage is overwhelming among Republicans at 96%.
What should worry Biden is that 74% of the key independent vote believes that he has done something illegal or unethical.
What is most striking about these polls is that the public has reached these conclusions despite a media that is overwhelmingly protective of the President. Most major media outlets downplayed or ignored the Hunter Biden laptop story while adopting ever-changing narratives to excuse the President’s role.
Just this week, the Boston Globe ran a story titled “Attacking Biden, GOP tries to have it both ways; He’s old and feeble — and a master criminal?” Of course, you do not have to be a genius to engage in influence peddling. You just need to be corrupt. Menendez was no Brainiac in taking cash and cars from foreign sources. Moreover, one of Hunter Biden’s corrupt clients reportedly viewed him as dumber than his dog but still gave him millions. The labyrinth of shell companies and accounts were set up by others, not the President or his son.
Despite the media running cover for the Bidens for years, the public is just not buying it. Indeed, they are not buying the media. The Washington Post recently acknowledged that it will lose $100 million and announced a new round of layoffs or buyouts.
CEO Patty Stonesifer blamed the continuing loss of readers and revenues on being “overly optimistic” about its growth in readership, subscriptions and ads for the past two years. There is a continued effort at failing media outlets to blame their losses on everything other than their embrace of advocacy journalism and writing off half of the country with its strident political bias.
In fairness to Stonsifer, advertising revenues are down for newspapers with the rise of digital sources for the news. However, the embrace of non-traditional sources of news is not, in my view, entirely due to technological or platform changes.
Much like some companies pursuing woke agendas despite opposition from their consumers, media executives cannot acknowledge that their brand of journalism may be at fault. Editors at the Post and other leading outlets have rejected objectivity in favor of advocacy for journalists — blurring the line between reporting and commentary. That was evident recently when the Post publicly reaffirmed that it was standing by the false reporting of Philip Bump on a variety of disproven stories. These are conspiracy theories and false claims that have been long debunked from Lafayette Park to the Hunter Biden laptop but the Post just declared that Bump was correct.
For his part, Bump recently became irate when confronted with his past false claims, declaring “I just I’m gonna lose my mind. I’m gonna lose my mind.”
Notably, the interviewer explained that many do not believe his reporting and Bump dismissed them as uninformed and said that they need to listen to him as the expert on such matters.
Noam Dworman asked “is there nothing we can talk about … half the country believes this stuff.”
Bump: “I know, because half the country doesn’t actually dig into the issues.”
Dworman: “Here’s your chance to disabuse people. They don’t read the Washington Post.”
Bump responded: “There’s just no point, because all you want to do is you want to have me here as the putative expert so that you can present me with things that have been debunked multiple times that I’ve written about.”
Dworman: “What’s been debunked?”
Bump: “These, these claims. I’ve written about this, this argument about his dad calling him. I’ve written about this. Did you read what I wrote?”
Dworman: “It’s not debunked. Neither of us were there.”
Bump: “Well, I debunked it in the standpoint that I’ve already addressed this and presented the counterarguments to it.”
Before leaving, Bump explained that there was little value to explaining his past claims “because you don’t listen to the press. I’m sitting here and I’m telling you, you’re wrong about these things, and you don’t listen, and you continue to insist upon things that are, you know, parsing of language. And it’s just, it’s this is why I keep saying it’s silly.”
Once again, the Post recently stood by Bump’s past false claims.
This is why the Stonesifer’s account is so striking. She assured staff that “we are working to find ways to return our business to a healthier place in the coming year.” That “healthier place” could be with more balanced reporters.
There are still excellent journalists at the Post who can restore balance in its coverage and regain the trust (and business) of readers. However, it requires a bit of self-awareness and reexamination on the part of the owner and the editors. Instead, the Post continues to write for that same 30% revealed in the poll by the AP, which steadfastly supports the Bidens despite rising evidence of corrupt influence peddling and false statements. You cannot sustain a major publication on 30% of the readership while writing off any conservatives or independents who want balanced coverage.
The disconnect in these polls shows that many in the public are simply dismissing the common narrative of the media. The uniformity in much of the coverage, particularly in the Biden corruption scandal, leaves many with the feeling of a de facto state media. That appearance is not helped with the White House giving marching orders to the media on how to attack the investigations into the Biden family while powerful Democrats warn reporters to “back off” the Bidens.
I have been a columnist and a television analyst for roughly three decades. I have written for papers like the Washington Post and worked for NBC, CBS, BBC, and Fox. I care deeply for the future of these media outlets. However, the lack of impact of the media on public opinion reflects the record low levels of trust in the media found in numerous polls. That is the result, in my opinion, of the embrace of advocacy journalism and echo chamber coverage. The “healthier place” for the media is the very place that many reporters abandoned in the past with the tradition of objectivity and neutrality in journalism.
“EVERYONE NOW IS MORE OR LESS A SOCIALIST” – “THE GOAL OF SOCIALISM IS COMMUNISM”
“Poll: 68% of the Public Believe that Joe Biden Acted Illegally or Unethically in Hunter’s Foreign Dealings”
– Professor Turley
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“It’s the [Constitution], stupid!”
– James Carville
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“the people are nothing but a great beast…
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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68% of the public believe communist redistribution of wealth should provide them with other people’s money, or “free stuff.”
68% of the public believe that communist affirmative action should provide them with other people’s status, or “free status.”
68% of the public believe that the principles of communism—central planning, control of the means of production (i.e. unconstitutional regulation), redistribution of wealth, and social engineering—hold dominion in the U.S. and that the Constitution and Bill of Rights are archaic and irrelevant, if they even know those documents exist given the deficiencies of their education.
68% of the public believe that admissions affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, HHS, HUD, EPA, Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc., are not only constitutional but imperative and mandatory. Of course, Article 1, Section 8, and the absolute 5th Amendment right to private property make all of the foregoing irrefutably unconstitutional, understanding that it is pure antithetical and illicit communism.
In the American restricted-vote republic, with a thesis of freedom and self-reliance, the “beliefs” of 68% of the public were not solicited, immaterial, and ignored.
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“The true reason (says Blackstone) of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons, as are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own.”
“If it were probable that every man would give his vote freely, and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote… But since that can hardly be expected, in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications, whereby, some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting; in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with each other.”
– Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775
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“[We gave you] a republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin, 1787
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You couldn’t.
“Crazy Abe” stole it, commencing the incremental implementation of the principles of communism in 1860.
By the time of Comrade General Secretary Lyndon Baines Johnson’s “Great Society” and “War on Poverty” (poverty won, by the way), America had arrived.
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“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.”
– Abraham Lincoln, from his first speech as an Illinois state legislator, 1837
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“Everyone now is more or less a Socialist.”
– Charles Dana, managing editor of the New York Tribune, and Lincoln’s assistant secretary of war, 1848
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“The goal of Socialism is Communism.”
– Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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“They consider…that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln…to lead his country through…the ‘RECONSTRUCTION’ of a social world.”
– Karl Marx to Lincoln, 1865
I’ve commented in the past that you wouldn’t let Brandon drive a school bus. I wouldn’t want him to be a crossing guard. We’ve got a guy in the White House who is not mentally competent nor is a man of good moral ethics or values even if he knew what day it was.
LOL that you think the context makes that a sensible claim on Trump’s part.
Here’s a longer quote:
If he [Mitt the Loser Romney] and RINO Paul [Ryan] fought as hard against Obama as they do against President Donald J. Trump, they would never have lost. They would have beaten Obama. But remember, Republicans eat their young. They really do. They eat their young. Terrible statement, but it’s true. And that’s the problem with so many in our party. They just don’t have the loyalty and the strength to stick together. They go after people who are on their side rather than the radical left Democrats that are destroying our country. These people are losers, and the Republican nation must stop following their failed ideas and policies.
“Eat our YOUNG” definitely does not make sense in this context. And we know that it’s not a normal slip of the tongue because he repeats it for emphasis. And if he actually mean “eat our own,” it’s a supremely ironic statement given that he’s attacking other Republicans there and do is doing what he’d have been criticizing.
Saying “eat our YOUNG” is his dementia showing again, even if you cannot admit it.
This was a response to Iowan2 and became decoupled; this site can’t even keep comments properly threaded.
What a great comment!
Hugs & kisses!
It is a common colloquialism. Much like circular firing squad. Self defeating actions.
It is a meaningless tossed out line. Something great communicators do. Thats why he’s a great leader.
Actually, the two phrases “eat their young” and “eat their own” have different meanings, and the former doesn’t mean “self-defeating actions.”
LOL that you think “a meaningless tossed out line” is “Something great communicators do” and makes him “a great leader.” Meaningless lines are the opposite of what great communicators use, and the opposite of what great leaders invoke.
“eat their young” and “eat their own” have different meanings,
This is a debate you believe you can win?
How pathetic can you get.
Awww, now you try to beg the question, isn’t that cute.
The republicans do have young now you dumb dumb – it’s Trump’s movement – the newest youngest movement in the republican party.
Only 30% of American adults believe Biden has “not done anything wrong” as he has repeatedly claimed
Those same 30% believe Israel is to blame for Palestine beheading babies and setting them on fire, which is a DNC talking point, come to think of it. Biden’s Handlers have abused the word “evidence” so much so that more than 68% of Americans have decided there exists no evidence to believe he was, is or ever will be a US President.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby last week said that Iran had “broad complicity” when it comes to Hamas due to their support for the terrorist organization, but that they had yet to see “any specific evidence that tells us they were wittingly involved in the planning or involved in the resourcing and the training that went into this very complex set of attacks” that were carried out.
No “evidence” that Iran was involved. No sirreee Bob! And then they wonder why 68% of Americans believe he’s a lying sack of shites. Here’s some evidence from Jake “I would not know evidence if it bit me in the ass” Sullivan
The Middle East Region Is Quieter Today Than It Has Been in Two Decades’
Jake Sullivan, Biden’s National Security Adviser
drop these Biden people in Gaza, and watch Hamas run for their lives
Has anyone heard whether Biden and Blinken got that $6 billion back from Iranians? Imagine the outcome if they exhibited Hunter’s dogged determination in getting the Chinese to pay.
The $6B was never given to the Iranians. Imagine the outcome if people actually understood the details of the things they talk about.
Hey Anonymous, thanks for the fact check, looks like you’ve found your calling. And keep the dream alive! You still have a chance to join the Democrat party elite!!
Anyway, the $6 billion ransom deal with the Iranians would have worked out a lot better if they had retained Hunter to structure it!!
68% of Americans can see through MSM DNC narrative and have the critical thinking skills to prove it.
Good for them!
Poll: 100% of the workers at corporate media outlets are desperately clinging to their dream of becoming members of the Democrat party elite.
Epstein: Are we to believe Fox News is not owned by a multinational corporation? You thought it was a mom & pop business?
Keep the dream alive, Anonymous! You’re inspiring the next generation of party functionaries!!
Are you using “multinational corporation” as a pejorative, comrade?
Are you green with envy and insanely jealous?
90% of competent and industrious Americans own financial instruments issued by multinational corporations in 401Ks or other investment vehicles, if not directly.
If this is the case, then this means that some of the hard core base are relenting to the overwhelming information (disfavorable)that has made it past the media blockade and the DOJ and FBI stonewalling.
That 30% on each side are the victims of Mass Formation. In each of their own ways, they are the ones who sent the pitchforks after Frankenstein’s creation. With similar results.
Odd!
I just noticed that Biden, Barack and Bush aren’t reminding us that Islam “is a religion of peace” as they usually do when people are murdered for Allah.
Maybe it won’t wash anymore…except at Harvard and other ‘prestigious’ universities…and cable news.
It’s come to this. Stanford law is going to Zoom rather than in-person classes for security.
They must be worried Israelis will attack.
Just kidding. They won’t say who scares them but we all know. Here’s more:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/10/it-has-come-to-this-the-hamas-lockdown.php
ROFL
AMEER HASSAN a classroom episode in which AMEER HASAN has been been suspended for telling Jewish students to take their belongings and stand in a corner. The instructor said, “This is what Israel does to the Palestinians” The instructor then asked, “How many people died in the Holocaust?” When a student answered, “Six million,” the lecturer said, “Colonizers killed more than 6 million. Israel is a colonizer.”
https://africam.berkeley.edu/people/ameer-hasan-loggins/
Ameer has conducted research for Harvard University’s Du Bois Institute for African and African American research (The Hip-Hop Archive) and currently works with Harvard University’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice
standford locked up his profile – the pic at your link is priceless
So the big baby lefty cowards must have been scared at their own protests.
Maybe they realized keeping their big fat yaps shut was too hard and the future employment blacklists were filling up with their names too quickly.
So it’s back to the pod. They will have no job and they will be happy.
In some ways, Harvard has become the MSNBC of universities.
They’re shifting to a noble warrior narrative. The Hamas fighters are honorably and bravely struggling for a better world. They fearlessly confronted helpless unarmed children at Israeli kibbutzim, including babies in their cribs, and killed or captured all of them. Rarely in pitched battle has such physical courage ever been witnessed!
https://nypost.com/2023/10/11/the-faces-of-israeli-child-hostages-in-hamas-slaughter/amp/
“The Hamas fighters are honorably and bravely struggling for a better world”
Hopefully they will find a ‘better world’ for them in Hell…soon—leaving us with a truly better world.
I saw a short video of Israeli soldiers with Hamas captives and was disappointed they weren’t already dead, but I do understand the need for combat theater information. Get the information and then finish them. Israel has been too humane with these monsters in the past. Time to be Medieval. They, Hamas, understand that if nothing else.
I am trying to be restrained with my true feelings here.
That’s okay go with it genocides are so cool. Pogroms, holocausts, do it man.
Gee, I wonder why, it wouldn’t be that Israel and the jews were attacked and so it’s a holocaust so don’t say anything – there’s 6 million ways from the Sabbath you’ll be beaten out of DC and your life and funding will end.
DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
BS. I’m a Democrat, and of course they’re crimes — war crimes, in fact.
“There are still excellent journalists at the Post who can restore balance in its coverage and regain the trust (and business) of readers.”
I am sure there are some honest journalists at the WP, but I wish the Professor would name the ones he thinks are excellent when dealing in the political realm.
We should not look to restore the WP because it proved itself dishonest. It should disappear from our news shelves and make room for new news sources on the news shelves. Honesty is valuable and can better be used by those who never engaged in the dishonesty of the WP.
It’s a spook outlet like so many others. You do what you’re told and when they chop the head off any of your reports you shut up and take it.
This is an absurd post. News Media needs to report the news in the most accurate way they can, period. Public opinion needs to have zero influence on the reporting. To live in a world where polls determine facts is part of the reason the politics in this country are so messed up.
tell George Soros I want a refund for supporting his influence peddling schemes in US national elections by hiring troll farms with idiots like you
Davis Junior (but you can call me Sammy)
I agree, news media does need to report the news in the most accurate way.
However, MSM clearly does not. We see them spin and spin and spin again, and again, and again, parroting DNC talking points.
Polls have nothing to do with influence on reporting. We just see through the spin, the DNC narrative and are not buying it.
What else is a clear indicator We The People still have our critical thinking skills, reason, common sense is people are turning away from MSM for independent media like Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss’s The Free Press. Some of them have even larger paid subscriptions than MSM. I have a paid subscription to The Free Press. And that kind of thing has MSM running scared and to a degree, the DNC.
Joey B profited himself and his family on the taxpayer’s dime. By the way, when is Hunter going to pay his fair share?
I see that now that Hamas has butchered civilians the Washington Post and other left wing news outlets are saying that the Harvard students are in the wrong. These students have been the front line soldiers for the Post and others in the woke and censorship brigade. The Post is now abandoning their solders in the field. These are the same young solders who try to convince us that Joe Biden has done nothing wrong. Who do the American people believe to be unhinged? The people of the country are withdrawing their hard earned dollars to support the Post and the Bud lite crowd. But just like Bump, the Post and the Harvard students will wear their straight jackets until the last dog is dead in Israel.
The polling simply reflects the power of propaganda on vulnerable minds.
Acrimion, that’s it. Because the American people wont accept your leftist propaganda you resort to calling them stupid. The odds presented by the polls testify to the ones who are actually brainwashed. The people see it and because they see it is you sir who refuse to be educated.
Rep. Ritchie Torres: Democratic Socialists are ‘indoctrinating’ young Americans with anti-Israel hate in ‘moral monstrosity’
https://nypost.com/2023/10/15/rep-ritchie-torres-democratic-socialists-are-indoctrinating-young-americans-with-anti-israel-hate-in-moral-monstrosity/
Mind you, Ritchie Torres is Puerto Rican/Black, gay and a Democrat. He never finished college, almost committed suicide because of his sexual identity, got counseling, and as a mid-30s male, has found his voice. He has come out swinging against the Left, but particularly the Cult Squad members who have never met a scientific or objective fact they insist are “debunked”. It’s refreshing that a Democrat Latino gay Member of Congress calls bullsheet on Democrats in his caucus
TiT,
I prefer to call it what it really is and our leftist friends cannot accept: 68% of American’s have critical thinking skills, reason, common sense to see through the MSM and DNC narrative.
Hence, they are here, squealing like a stuck pig that we question their narrative, see through it, and come to our own conclusions. We dont just blindly believe what ever MSM spews. We read credible sources that do not advocate for activism journalism but objective journalism.
That is why they are in such a tizzy. The facts the good professor has them in a panic as they are losing their power.
How marvelous.
In this age of rage, harebrained politicians and an electorate that tunes out balanced dialogue in favor of tik-tok “influencers” it’s going to be interesting to see what happens to the media.
Jonathan: Congratulations! The AP/NORC poll reflects the incessant campaign to discredit Joe Biden–your many columns, the negative coverage by Fox News (your employer) and the right-wing MAGA so far unproven claims that Biden has committed “crimes”.
The Q is, not what the public thinks at this point in time, but what exists as facts to prove Biden committed crimes–like bribery. Despite 9 months of investigation Comer’s Committee has come up empty handed. There isn’t even support among House Republicans for a Biden impeachment inquiry. This is reflected in other polls that show only about 45% of the public supports an impeachment inquiry.
Then are other polls that show DJT’s support is continuing to erode. In a recent ABC News/Ipsos poll 65% of respondents think the criminal charges against DJT are “serious”. 52% think DJT should have been charged in connection with Jan. 6. Jack Smith’s trial re Jan. 6 is scheduled for trial starting 3/4/24. If DJT is convicted before the 2024 election what impact will that have in the polls? If the poll Q is: “As a convicted felon do you think Donald Trump should be precluded from running for president?” What do you think the response will be? I have a pretty good idea.
As to your running battle with the WP you claim the paper has lost readership due to its “brand of journalism” (a Woke agenda and “advocacy journalism”)–that “may be at fault”. But then you have to admit ad revenues for newspapers are down across the media. This has nothing to do with how the WP reports the news.
While you say “there are still excellent journalists at the Post (who you don’t name) you continue to attack Phillip Bump. Why? Because the Post has debunked not only DJT’s conspiracy theories about the 2020 election but all your false claims about Joe and Hunter Biden. You falsely claim any attempt to point out the facts is, by your definition, “advocacy journalism”. When it comes to that claim you never point the finger at Fox News where you work. “Advocacy journalism” is a staple at Fox. They continue to push out false stories about the Biden family and you provide an echo chamber for their views.
Take the false claims Fox made about the 2020 election and endorsed DJT’s lie about the election being “stolen”. That got FOX in a lot of legal trouble. Rupert Murdock had to settle the Dominion defamation lawsuit for $787.5 million! Smartmatic voting systems is seeking $2.7 billion from Fox in their related defamation lawsuit. It seems Fox’s version of “advocacy journalism” has dire legal consequences because it relies on spreading misinformation and disinformation and conspiracy theories. That’s the kind of “advocacy journalism” you apparently endorse. No wonder you are no longer a columnist with the WP!
Facts have no place on this blog. If you have not noticed, this site has become a “Get Hunter!” focused blog. There is a big difference between what Turley says while under oath and the trash he can post on this blog.
Too wordy
TL;DR- Dennis did great with the ideological aspect of journalism school, but washed out on the writing part.
Dennis, I didn’t read your comment because I never read your comments. I started ignoring you after about the 100th time your comment was a moronic screed against Trump or conservatives even if the issue had nothing to do with either one.
Folks, save your time and your sanity by ignoring Dennis every time he posts a comment.
HullBobby,
You know I just scroll past!
Hullbobby: Actually, I think you do read my comments–as does Upstatefarmer and Iowan2. You choose not to respond because you have nothing to offer by way of rebuttal. Iowan2 thinks I am a “retard”…by missing entirely the subject of the discussion”. If he would take the time to read my comment he would notice I covered every point in JT’s post. Iowan2, you and Upstatefarmer are cult follower of JT. Anyone who might disagree with the “leader” is automatically labeled a “retard”.
Doesn’t matter to you and the above who have already made up your tiny brains. You guys are like 2 of the monkeys in the Japanese pictorial maxim: Misaru who sees no evil and Kikayaru who hears no evil!
Dennis the retard shows up and exhibits his redardation, by missing entirely the subject of discussion.
Boy are you foolish. The lib left demoncrat sons took over fox and it wasn’t Rupert doing jack. It was demoncrat tools pumping up the next election steal.
2020 was absolutely stolen there isn’t a shred of doubt at all, and it was stolen with millions and millions of illegal votes.
No one trusts the voting machines from smartmatic or dominion, and no one should. If you had any programming or tech skills you’d know exactly why.
When the dems lost they were screaming and holding voting machine hack conferences right in the house buildings and it only took minutes to hack and corrupt the vote output. A lot of us remember all the demoncrats screaming on the house and senate floors and I watched all your steal the vote output from c-span to the lib social media channels.
Fox didn’t have to pay or settle crap – the big word is the judge was so biased they got scared and did it but we know the real truth, the boy wonders decided and they funded the next steals upcoming.
” The wire service reported that Dominion was valued at about $226 million in 2020, citing court filings.Apr 19, 2023″
LOL now anyone tell me 787.5 million is a real settlement for the real company … for real reasons.
Only a doofus would believe that.
Fox Corporation has a net worth of $14.47 billion.
That’s encouraging, but changing actual voting behavior in our coddled times has become indistinguishable from asking people to switch faiths or even tolerate other faiths, something current events are showing us is probably not very bloody likely. Guess we’ll see.
Additionally:
‘Editors at the Post and other leading outlets have rejected objectivity in favor of advocacy for journalists — blurring the line between reporting and commentary.’
Previously I had termed it editorialization, but ‘commentary’ (i.e. a ‘take’) is a much better assessment. The generations that grew up or became addicted to screens cannot easily differentiate between the concepts at play here, they were not taught to intelligently question or think critically. The culture of web 2.0, online ‘experts’, and ‘influencers’ et. al. has proven to be more toxic to human minds than the Hollywood culture of the past could have ever hoped to have been.
Excellent post. Our MSM has more than earned every ounce of our scorn and rejection, and it’s much too late for them to walk it back. Time will tell if that matters one iota. I come from a place where people loved to beetch and whine, but only 35% voted, and that mostly blue (often simply out of lazy habit).
James,
Well said and I agree!
Trump yesterday: “But remember, Republicans eat their young. They really do; they eat their young. Terrible statement, but it’s true.” His dementia is showing again.
Trump yesterday: “But remember, Republicans eat their young.
Even a retard understands context matters.
LOL that you think the context makes that a sensible claim on Trump’s part.
Here’s a longer quote:
“If he [Mitt the Loser Romney] and RINO Paul [Ryan] fought as hard against Obama as they do against President Donald J. Trump, they would never have lost. They would have beaten Obama. But remember, Republicans eat their young. They really do. They eat their young. Terrible statement, but it’s true. And that’s the problem with so many in our party. They just don’t have the loyalty and the strength to stick together. They go after people who are on their side rather than the radical left Democrats that are destroying our country. These people are losers, and the Republican nation must stop following their failed ideas and policies.”
“Eat our YOUNG” definitely does not make sense in this context. And we know that it’s not a normal slip of the tongue because he repeats it for emphasis. And if he actually meant “eat our own,” it’s a supremely ironic statement given that he’s attacking other Republicans there and so is doing what he’d have been criticizing.
Saying “eat our YOUNG” is his dementia showing again, even if you cannot admit it.
100% Know that Democrats are Fascists and the FBI, IRS, SS, DC judges, DOJ, etc are 100% corrupt for Democrats!