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The Iowa shooting didn't check the right boxes. Move along, nothing to see here...

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And another reason for the silence; the weapon used was not one of the scary black "assault rifles". If they cannot demonize the shooter or the weapon there is no story.

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It seems to me that you are right on with the common and regular reporting of the news. And by the way, I had to "google" "Alphabet Gang" to understand the final paragraph. I learned something and got the point.

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How anyone can continue to watch or trust the “mainstream” media is beyond me. They are morally bankrupt and totally corrupt. Are they collectively that brain dead to not see what they are doing? Seriously…

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Like Jamie Dupree (former Cox Media Group DC correspondent) often said, 'Media bias isnt always in how it covers a story, but in which stories it chooses to cover or not cover.'

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The year is 1968, and Walter Cronkite - the pillar of objectivity by anyone's standards back then - airs a special on the Tet Offensive, an objective overview of not just Tet but the war in general. At the end of the recorded footage, Cronkite sits at his desk and clearly states that his OPINION is that the war is not being won, that the best we can hope for is to negotiate peace. Real or imagined, some say this was the turning point of the war. But it was certainly a turning point in journalism, where a reporter's opinion could change an outcome. And I ask myself, would Woodward and Bernstein have doggedly pursued Watergate had our president been a Democrat? Would a Democrat president have been excoriated for pardoning his Democrat predecessor? Certainly by Reagan's nomination (even before he became president), the media was having a field day expressing their opinion (the "Bedtime for Bonzo" jokes abounded). "The good old days of real journalism" are a long, long time ago, if indeed they ever existed at all.

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Exactly, spot on.

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Vivek Ramaswamy gives an epic smackdown of an activist reporter (but I repeat myself) from the Washington Post. This is absolutely perfect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G1bEGzvCWU

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Thank you for all of your Notes, Erick.

#TheDevil must love the SSRIs and other psycho drugs they’re feeding the troon people these days. Some have suggested those meds can open up a “portal” in the mind through which demonic entities may pass as freely as a Somali terrorist pedophile can enter the country at our southern border. Save us, Anita Bryant. 🙏🏻🙏🏿🙏🏽

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This will ultimately be given the same coverage as Audrey Hale, it's the communities fault because this is middle America, homophobic, bigoted, white, gun culture, conservatives made him do it.

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Liberalism is a mental disease, birds of a feather.

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Our headline today, the Scorpion stings the Frog. In other news, water is wet.

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Sorry, but we don't have a real MSM to cover news. We used to. We had real, professional journalist. For the most part those days and those journalist are gone. What we have now, except for a few outlets, are activist, not worthy of our time nor our attention. Their only use is to gin up hate for the sake of clicks on some media site, because clicks not facts count today, and to support the extreme progressive America hating left, whether it be a smear piece on Republicans or some un-factual puff piece on Dr. Jill, or Obama's latest words of wisdom scolding Israel for have the audacity to defend itself.

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Check out The Free Press, System Update (Glenn Greenwald), Racket (Matt Taibbi), and Public (Michael Shellenberger).

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Thanks, I will check those out.

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I almost forgot Darryl Cooper, who has the MartyrMade podcast. I just finished a 25-hour series of his on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and I can't recommend highly enough. It's called Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem (available free on Spotify). I began it with skepticism, but I ended it feeling he showed no bias on the issue. It was fantastic. Cooper originally earned "notoriety" after writing this piece about Donald Trump, which I just tracked down and read last night: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/author-of-the-mega-viral-thread-on

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Way to do your part helping people free themselves of the captured media, a disease on our nation. Keep it up!

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There's so much to read and so little time!

This morning I read one of my new favorite quotations in a Free Press column by Jamie Reed, the whistleblower at the transgender clinic. It's already posted on the wall in my office.

"When I realized I was wrong, I didn’t instantly conclude that everything I’d been taught throughout my life was a lie. Instead, it just stirred in me the desire to be more vigilant and informed. I educated myself. I read the research—not just skimmed, but studied—and I started to listen to people, smart people, outside of my bubble."

There's a chapter in Adam Grant's Think Again called "The Joy of Being Wrong." He makes the point that, if you don't look back at how stupid you were a year ago, you're not learning anything new. I love that! The problem is that everything new I learn just makes me realize how little I know. :)

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Humility is a good thing.

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I kept wondering yesterday why there was so little coverage. Then I finally found the story and knew. If one is a gender confused kid loaded up on SSRI drugs, and use a shot gun and a small caliber hand gun, one is not news.

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I just want to go back to the dust bowl days that I grew up in. Everyone had guns, but did not shot people, just game meat. Everyone helped their neighbor. Yet people were dying because of shortages of food and no place to work. It was bad then but not because of black and white people, just black and white days as the dust was blowing harder some days. And I lived through it.

Blessings to you Erick for covering all you do each day.

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And there was no AR

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1984 anyone?

The questions that the media never asks are

Do you wear women’s clothing because it is a fetish or do you relate to being more female than male?

Which gender/sex/whatever do you want to have sex with?

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