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.

link Hollywood Outraged Over Pia’s ‘Idol’ Elimination | Access Hollywood – Celebrity News, Photos & Videos.

Normally there would be something seriously wrong if I  happened to agree with the Hollywood glitterati on anything.  Even if I didn’t know the particulars of an issue, it’s a safe bet I and most other rational people would be on the opposite side of them.   In this case, no less than uber lefty Tom Hanks has expressed outrage that the most talented American Idol contestant Pia Toscana was voted off last night’s show.  And I agree with him!  What next? Either he starts collecting guns, or I start driving a Prius.  Both seem unlikely.  But it goes to show how much disbelief there is in the aftermath of Pia’s elimination from a TV show.  We haven’t seen this much horror after a vote since the 2008 U.S. elections.

This incident has galvanized people of all ages, values, and viewpoints to express disbelief and outrage at an apparent gross injustice.   Clearly, all could see the superior talent that was showcased by Pia during her time on the show.  Whether this was just the way the votes rolled or whether it was some diabolical ratings orchestration by the Fox network is not known.  In lesser countries, there would be riots in the cities and perhaps even some be-headings.  Thus far, calm in the streets.

Luckily, our gal Pia has her future secured.  While she did not win the ‘talent contest’, she undoubtedly gained millions of fans who could see and appreciate her abilities and sympathized with her untimely ousting. Ironically her talent and poise contrasted glaringly with the ‘artist’ Iggy Pop who performed just before the final vote was announced.  Here is a guy, who, if he were female would be considered a raving crack ‘ho for the spasmodic screaming which passed for entertainment.   Whoever the eventual winner is, it’s a fair bet they will be forgotten in a short time even as Pia’s career skyrockets.  Just goes to show you, the people aren’t always right.  Or, like many elections, maybe only adults should be allowed to vote.