It's amazing how the media handles right-wing bullshit [View all]
It's not hard to see the pattern.
Watching MSNBC and CNN fall all over themselves to "cover" the latest fart out of right-wing media is fascinating.
Seems that some obscure filing from the Bill (most corrupt AG ever) Barr appointed counsel John (how the fuck does the still have a job) Durham, has the right-wing exercised to the point of political assassinations.
Of course, Durham's filing is all bullshit. The media knows it's all bullshit.
When my kids were younger, they were full of bullshit. One day, my kids were playing by my "old" truck. My daughters name was scratched into the tailgate of the truck, in my daughters handwriting, and she was holding a rock in her hand.
She insisted that it wasn't her, and that maybe someone else, or a bird had done it. Her story was bullshit. I knew it was bullshit. She knew it was bullshit. I showed her how to use wax and a buffer. The scratch ended up faintly visible, and I still have that truck. Today, when I see the faint scratches, it makes me smile.
You know what I didn't do? I didn't go to my wife and report my daughters story as if there was something to it. I didn't bring in avian experts to talk about how "it was possible that a bird had done it, but unlikely".
Just watched a show where they initially got it right about the Durham bullshit, and basically called it bullshit. They then spent about 20 minutes discussing the bullshit, and explaining how the right-wing thinks the bullshit was the greatest scandal in the history of scandals.
By the time they were done, you could almost forget the most important thing...IT WAS ALL BULLSHIT
That is not an accident.
Whether it's this, or Benghazi, or Butter-Emails, or Vince Foster, or Whitewater, or Climate Scientist emails, or Wikileaks, or Tan Suits, the story morphs from bullshit, to wow, look at how outraged the right-wing is at this bullshit.
Damn, sure looks like a lot of people are pissed about this bullshit. Damn, the right thinks this bullshit is Watergate, Tea Pot Dome, the Whiskey Rebellion and 9/11 rolled into one.
The media get away with this because they treat right-wing outrage as "news".
It's a tired and old trick.
Some obscure nothing-burger bullshit happens. Faux News, hate radio and right-wing media get outraged by it. They beat it 24/7.
Soon, the news is NOT that something is bullshit, it's that there is outrage about the bullshit, so there must be something to it
Lather-Rinse-Repeat!
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