I agree Sasha that much of the country now sees through the mainstream media BS but there is still a huge part of the country that is on board with it. They either believe the lies or they believe that the lies are necessary to protect the country from Trump.
I have many friends, as I'm sure you do, who are still positive that January 6th was an insurrection and any argument to the contrary is seen as crazy conspiracy talk. This same dynamic happens on issue after issue, from election fraud to the Ukraine war to the COVID vaccines. I don't know what it will take for these people to see the truth. And I really can't imagine what justice would even look like if all the people who have been lying to us are held accountable.
I have been incredibly fortunate in my life and not too long ago I rather foolishly believed that America was somehow immune from the forces that have corrupted men since history began. It has been very painful for me to realize how wrong I was. I hope you are right and that enough people wake up before it is really too late and we face societal collapse but I fear that we may have already passed the point of no return.
Coincidentally I had no idea that Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi had a podcast until I listened to it this morning. We must be on a similar wavelength.
Leonard Donnie Jr., WAPO top editor for 17 years, said the secret part out lid recently; “What we found has convinced us that truth-seeking news media must move beyond whatever ‘objectivity’ once meant to produce more trustworthy news,” Downie wrote in the essay.” Meanwhile, Mother Jones (something I used to subscribe to; yikes!) has this headline “Columbia Journalism Review’s Big Fail: It Published 24,000 Words on Russiagate and Missed the Point”. In sum, Democratic Press machine now says only working-class racist fools expected or want an objective media and we’ll gaslight them every time they ask for it. F them.
Another excellent piece Sasha. It’s really hard for me to see a way for the legacy media to find their way back to relevance. They don’t seem interested in doing so anyway. It’s now propaganda 24/7, brought to you by Big Pharma. And the lefties hold out their bowls like Oliver Twist - “please, sir, may I have some more?”
This was a very well written eulogy. I have to shout out this line as very witty: "Those of us who have no problem with drag shows don’t really understand why how this has suddenly become the job of the Democrats or Hollywood - to push it on our kids." I feel like most of us who are politically homeless now didn't spend all our lives on the far right--we just value the objective truth. Watching the clips you chose, when the truth mattered, makes me sad for what we have lost that my kids have never known.
Thank you, Sasha, for another stellar article. Reading it I am once again reminded of visionary Paddy Chayefsky's brilliant script for "Network" in 1976. It was so apparent that by blurring the lines between news and entertainment we were on collision course, of which to this day, we have not recovered. Bravo to the great Sidney Lumet for bringing that kick ass film to the screen. To anyone who has never seen it, I highly recommend watching. Carry on...
Thank you Sasha for your intellectual honesty. We all need that l, right or left. You are a breath of fresh air helping to drive the pollution of lies coming from big media.
The anger and grief over the damage that is being inflicted on this great nation by the left and the media is indescribable.
The infantilizing of the masses is a long and well documented story. What can be an amazing tool becomes the cudgel with which to dominate and subjugate, in this case the internet and MSM. All opposition becomes treason to the mission.
You write: "With Carlson, you know not getting bullshit. And believe it or not, that’s the same thing Trump offers. He boasts and exaggerates, sometimes even outright lies, but overall, he’s giving it to the people straight. And that’s why they trust him and why they don’t trust the legacy media."
I have to disagree there. Since Trump will not admit that the vaxx is obviously ineffective and killing people, he's not giving it to the people straight.
I don't trust Trump anymore exactly because of the vaxx. I know one person who died suddenly at 34, another who got myocarditis, another who got tachycardia, and a fourth with an auto-immune disorder - and all those things happened after getting the vaxx. And Trump somehow still wants _credit_ for rushing the development of this poison. Ugh.
Sasha, never before have I experienced a writer who’s every word seems to come straight from mind! I know that sound weird, but it’s true. I look forward to every article you write & this one was of particular interest to me as our legacy media has degraded itself to a level not seen before! I am SO sick & SO tired of the same “catchphrase” of the week being parroted from the mockingbird media day in and day out! Family/friends continue to believe what’s being fed to them via MSDNC & CNN and they vehemently hate Tucker Carlson without ever hearing one word he’s said. Many refuse to believe that Tucker’s research team is stellar and he (often times) speaks truth...they refuse to accept that! I took my head out of the sand many years ago and it’s been refreshing & liberating to realize that there might be another side to the stories that Americans are being fed! Thank you for speaking truth...
The only point of rebuttal I will mention, that I read, was "this is not what democracy looks like..." (not sure that's verbatim).
Actually, that is exactly what democracy looks like. French revolution-esque, where they even turned on their own, as the mobs raged, burned, pillaged and beheaded anyone they suspected was not 109% committed to the rage victim mentality.
That is one of the primary reasons we were founded as a Constitutional Republic. Not a democracy.
Democracies always end up looking like our current corrupt, insane, leftists in power, in our govt, in big tech, big pharma, MSM, Hollyweird, etc.
So very proud of the narrow gate you've chosen, to reach Truth.
Once you accept that our ‘news’ is really propaganda, the things you see on it make a lot more sense. If you aren’t on board with the destruction of America, then you’ll find a lot of things that are wrong with ‘the news’. If you are obsessed with what’s wrong with America, the MSM news is the way to go.
And about Hillary- had she run a typical campaign for a Midwestern Democrat here, she would have easily won. But she ran the campaign she probably ran in NYC and LA. Trump being the bastard who was going to take on China was such an easy sell here in the Detroit area. A lot of us loved that he was a bastard and was going to take on China and support the domestic auto industry. She ran the wrong campaign here, given the economics of Michigan in 2016. Had she listened to Debbie Dingell’s insights to Michigan, Hillary would have been President. But she ran the wrong campaign here and despite that -she nearly won. You can’t run a NYC campaign here and expect a huge victory.
Don't forget about Andy Ngo and how he had his ass beaten by communist(mostly white) Antifa while covering government endorsed riots for the last four years.
Narrative creators, enforcers and followers all suffer from the same limitations. They are banal, close-minded, superficial and, above all, conformist. They can be highly educated but they are almost never brilliant.
That Hillary's team ran such a poor campaign was not a surprise because their selection to the team was because of their limitations, not in spite of them.
Great post. It motivated me to become a paid subscriber because your road to where you're at today seems almost identical to mine. It's nice to share the ride with a good communicator. I'm looking forward to more well-written, engaging articles. Congrats, and thanks!
I agree Sasha that much of the country now sees through the mainstream media BS but there is still a huge part of the country that is on board with it. They either believe the lies or they believe that the lies are necessary to protect the country from Trump.
I have many friends, as I'm sure you do, who are still positive that January 6th was an insurrection and any argument to the contrary is seen as crazy conspiracy talk. This same dynamic happens on issue after issue, from election fraud to the Ukraine war to the COVID vaccines. I don't know what it will take for these people to see the truth. And I really can't imagine what justice would even look like if all the people who have been lying to us are held accountable.
I have been incredibly fortunate in my life and not too long ago I rather foolishly believed that America was somehow immune from the forces that have corrupted men since history began. It has been very painful for me to realize how wrong I was. I hope you are right and that enough people wake up before it is really too late and we face societal collapse but I fear that we may have already passed the point of no return.
Coincidentally I had no idea that Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi had a podcast until I listened to it this morning. We must be on a similar wavelength.
Leonard Donnie Jr., WAPO top editor for 17 years, said the secret part out lid recently; “What we found has convinced us that truth-seeking news media must move beyond whatever ‘objectivity’ once meant to produce more trustworthy news,” Downie wrote in the essay.” Meanwhile, Mother Jones (something I used to subscribe to; yikes!) has this headline “Columbia Journalism Review’s Big Fail: It Published 24,000 Words on Russiagate and Missed the Point”. In sum, Democratic Press machine now says only working-class racist fools expected or want an objective media and we’ll gaslight them every time they ask for it. F them.
Another excellent piece Sasha. It’s really hard for me to see a way for the legacy media to find their way back to relevance. They don’t seem interested in doing so anyway. It’s now propaganda 24/7, brought to you by Big Pharma. And the lefties hold out their bowls like Oliver Twist - “please, sir, may I have some more?”
This was a very well written eulogy. I have to shout out this line as very witty: "Those of us who have no problem with drag shows don’t really understand why how this has suddenly become the job of the Democrats or Hollywood - to push it on our kids." I feel like most of us who are politically homeless now didn't spend all our lives on the far right--we just value the objective truth. Watching the clips you chose, when the truth mattered, makes me sad for what we have lost that my kids have never known.
Thank you, Sasha, for another stellar article. Reading it I am once again reminded of visionary Paddy Chayefsky's brilliant script for "Network" in 1976. It was so apparent that by blurring the lines between news and entertainment we were on collision course, of which to this day, we have not recovered. Bravo to the great Sidney Lumet for bringing that kick ass film to the screen. To anyone who has never seen it, I highly recommend watching. Carry on...
Thank you Sasha for your intellectual honesty. We all need that l, right or left. You are a breath of fresh air helping to drive the pollution of lies coming from big media.
The anger and grief over the damage that is being inflicted on this great nation by the left and the media is indescribable.
The infantilizing of the masses is a long and well documented story. What can be an amazing tool becomes the cudgel with which to dominate and subjugate, in this case the internet and MSM. All opposition becomes treason to the mission.
You write: "With Carlson, you know not getting bullshit. And believe it or not, that’s the same thing Trump offers. He boasts and exaggerates, sometimes even outright lies, but overall, he’s giving it to the people straight. And that’s why they trust him and why they don’t trust the legacy media."
I have to disagree there. Since Trump will not admit that the vaxx is obviously ineffective and killing people, he's not giving it to the people straight.
I don't trust Trump anymore exactly because of the vaxx. I know one person who died suddenly at 34, another who got myocarditis, another who got tachycardia, and a fourth with an auto-immune disorder - and all those things happened after getting the vaxx. And Trump somehow still wants _credit_ for rushing the development of this poison. Ugh.
Sasha, never before have I experienced a writer who’s every word seems to come straight from mind! I know that sound weird, but it’s true. I look forward to every article you write & this one was of particular interest to me as our legacy media has degraded itself to a level not seen before! I am SO sick & SO tired of the same “catchphrase” of the week being parroted from the mockingbird media day in and day out! Family/friends continue to believe what’s being fed to them via MSDNC & CNN and they vehemently hate Tucker Carlson without ever hearing one word he’s said. Many refuse to believe that Tucker’s research team is stellar and he (often times) speaks truth...they refuse to accept that! I took my head out of the sand many years ago and it’s been refreshing & liberating to realize that there might be another side to the stories that Americans are being fed! Thank you for speaking truth...
Good article. Great observations.
The only point of rebuttal I will mention, that I read, was "this is not what democracy looks like..." (not sure that's verbatim).
Actually, that is exactly what democracy looks like. French revolution-esque, where they even turned on their own, as the mobs raged, burned, pillaged and beheaded anyone they suspected was not 109% committed to the rage victim mentality.
That is one of the primary reasons we were founded as a Constitutional Republic. Not a democracy.
Democracies always end up looking like our current corrupt, insane, leftists in power, in our govt, in big tech, big pharma, MSM, Hollyweird, etc.
So very proud of the narrow gate you've chosen, to reach Truth.
God bless.
Sasha
You Rock!
You nailed the MSM again.
When will they ever learn?
Wh will they be out of work?
Once you accept that our ‘news’ is really propaganda, the things you see on it make a lot more sense. If you aren’t on board with the destruction of America, then you’ll find a lot of things that are wrong with ‘the news’. If you are obsessed with what’s wrong with America, the MSM news is the way to go.
And about Hillary- had she run a typical campaign for a Midwestern Democrat here, she would have easily won. But she ran the campaign she probably ran in NYC and LA. Trump being the bastard who was going to take on China was such an easy sell here in the Detroit area. A lot of us loved that he was a bastard and was going to take on China and support the domestic auto industry. She ran the wrong campaign here, given the economics of Michigan in 2016. Had she listened to Debbie Dingell’s insights to Michigan, Hillary would have been President. But she ran the wrong campaign here and despite that -she nearly won. You can’t run a NYC campaign here and expect a huge victory.
The MSM has zero incentive to be truthful when their viewers and readers want to be lied to.
Don't forget about Andy Ngo and how he had his ass beaten by communist(mostly white) Antifa while covering government endorsed riots for the last four years.
Narrative creators, enforcers and followers all suffer from the same limitations. They are banal, close-minded, superficial and, above all, conformist. They can be highly educated but they are almost never brilliant.
That Hillary's team ran such a poor campaign was not a surprise because their selection to the team was because of their limitations, not in spite of them.
Great post. It motivated me to become a paid subscriber because your road to where you're at today seems almost identical to mine. It's nice to share the ride with a good communicator. I'm looking forward to more well-written, engaging articles. Congrats, and thanks!