As IF Times

Source: The Post (2017) – Rotten Tomatoes

Observing the massive conflagration of liberal properties has been entirely amusing of late.  We refer not to the California fires of course, but to the majority of news outlets that purport to offer straight up reportage.

When I first began to make comments on the subtleties of bias that permeated most of the popular media’s offerings of news, those threads of bias were not always obvious.  As the years have passed and with the widening political divide in America, any pretext of objectivity has yielded to full blown whoppers and knee slappers on the part of many heretofore unimpeachable sources.  Like him or not, the election of Donald Trump has poked through the thin veneer of credibility of such outlets as CNN, NBC and ABC, not to mention the more foamy at the mouth MSNBC and the Washington Post.  He has exposed these outlets for their nakedly partisan skews.

It’s not that all of this now properly labeled “fake news” originates from these outlets.  Sometimes, it’s just a matter of reporting on the crackpot utterances of someone famous.  However, the fact that they give voice to the rants of the more logically challenged people of society, mainly ‘celebrities’, makes them complicit in their dissemination of fake news.  Just the other day, Chelsea Handler (who?) expressed that the massive fires in Southern California were somehow orchestrated by Donald Trump.  Of course, that’s preposterous.  We know that only Kim Jong Un can control the weather.

Recent revelations of galling hypocrisy and malfeasance within their own ranks is the most rapturous bit of schadenfreude that could be offered to the rational public, now hopefully awakened to the dangerous tilt that these outlets have all subscribed.  This tilt was recently best depicted by David Frum who recently opined in an interview that:

“…The mistakes are precisely the reason people should trust the media. Astronomers make mistakes all the time because science is a process of discovery of truth. Astrologers never make mistakes or at least they never own up to them because what they are offering is a closed system of ideology and propaganda…”

It hardly gets more Orwellian than that.  By the way, replace the word Astrology with Global Alarmists next time someone brings up that bit of fantasy.

It is therefore all the more galling that an upcoming film depicting the noble activities of the Washington Post will soon be offering their version of moral courage to the unwitting public. More amusingly, Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, those two pillars of liberal  sanctimony are cast as the sympathetic protagonists.  That would be like a film on how Pravda provides the truth and exposes corruption to the Russian people.  It’s assured that the film will be reasonably successful, if only because of the fan base of the title stars. It will however, compete with that other blockbuster film, also in the fantasy space, only slightly less believable,  the next installment of Star Wars.

Source: Bruce Springsteen is embarrassed to be an American | Fox News

Seems like there’s an endless supply of stupid from the alt-left hate spigot. As no doubt everyone is aware, many in the shrill alt-left community are not amused by their candidate’s loss in the last election and more specifically, with the ascension of Donald Trump.

We’re almost 2 months into the aftermath of the election and the snowflakes are still holding their breath and pounding their fists. Self styled ‘celebrities’ have vociferously come out in protest over the result.  Like an infested boil, they feel the need to constantly scratch and poke at it and worst of all, are compelled to share this with others.

Nobody cares. They may be yelling into an echo chamber, but normal people look at these ‘brave’ culture warriors in a new light; as entitled deniers of a democratic process.  I can’t recall the last time my plumber needed to foist his views of immigration upon me.  Nor do I recall my mechanic lecturing me on Roe vs Wade while performing an oil change.  We seldom need to direct our waiter to bring us the bacon mushroom burger but hold the political sanctimony.  Because despite their possibly strongly held views, nobody else cares what they think. It’s always been unclear to me why people whom are fortunate enough to make a living off of some marketable talent, think that their expertise and wisdom extends past their guitar pick or stage deck.  It’s the height of arrogance.

In 2003, The Dixie Chicks chose to enter the political fray with their negative sentiments on George Bush during a concert in the U.K.  That seems to be the model for Springsteen’s recent declaration of embarrassment of being an American at a concert in Australia.  Way to be brave Bruce, go for the low hanging fruit.  It would be a tad more impressive if you were in Saudi Arabia or China criticizing human rights.

The fact is, he could have just as easily revealed that he collects furby porn or prefers to wear string underwear.  It’s irrelevant.  Artistes of all stripes should get involved politically if they don’t like things by doing what regular folk do.  Write articles, be an activist, run for office, but don’t invade the sensibilities of paying customers with vapid rants.  Take the advice of the aptly named Dixie Chicks concert tour years ago… Shut Up And Sing.