First, a word please — Fox News has settled the case with Dominion for $787.5 million. The truth sets one free. The lie costs so much. What I find interesting is the reaction from many who are angry at Dominion for settling. Many wanted to see the courtroom sketches of Fox personalities. Others argued that justice was denied.
Thank you for reporting on this. One reason I follow is that you get stuff out I never see elsewhere. I asked several newswatchers I know if they had read or heard about the AL shooting. No, and not even the one in NY, but they knew all about the one in KC. And these are conservatives!
We keep talking about the hypocrisy of the media coverage on shootings and other events like if we keep repeating it someone will eventually listen and fix the problem. I see this as the common approach for everyone that makes their living in the media... I use the analogy of wanting to swim in the deep end of the pool while holding onto the shallow end for fear of drowning. The deep-end criticism is that the news media is no longer the news media, it is a well-coordinated hive of left activism. This feels like an extreme position if you are part of the media.
But the Twitter Files and other clear evidence paints a much more sinister picture of our democratic system being hopelessly corrupted by a collusion between the mainstream corporate media, our Wall Street backed corporate oligarchs and the American Uniparty that is 90% Democrat-controlled.
The media is actively working to influence and shape a national shift on gun rights. It is working. Meanwhile Republicans point out media hypocrisy and cry how unfair the reporting is. That is not going to help.
We are in the middle of a giant culture war and the media is the enemy. We need legislative action to defeat the enemy. We need to win elections to get to the legislative action.
My wife mentioned the Missouri shooting in a back-handed comment as we were discussing something else. I mentioned the Hebron shooting as having similar circumstances with a deadly outcome. She had not even heard of it because she only watches the National MSM news. She quickly turned it on the guns and not the individuals themselves. Something is very wrong when the first choice of action is to shoot someone for just ringing a doorbell or turning around in a driveway. Or, getting dissed at a party.
Complaining about the mainstream press' racial bias in comparing these two shootings (KC and Hebron) is a non-starter for me. Let's look at what they have in common.: perceived home invasion of a person's residence where the home owners are seniors and the trespassers are young and both trespassed because they had made a mistake. This is taking one's right to self-defense and standing one's ground to such an extreme that it cost two people their lives because the home-owners were wielding potential violence in their hands and only had to pull a trigger to kill.
When you wrote about what you studied in 1963, it reminded me of my study with several others about 1978 showing that Rockefeller started the Council of Foreign Relations in the US, then with one like that in the Asian countries that met in Tokyo, and one in the European counties that met in Paris he put together the Trilateral Commission about 60 years ago. It is now called the WEF. So the Rockefeller Family always wanted, and now getting a ONE WORLD GOV. They are the ones that are controlling this nation and many others today. We will have it soon and will not have another election after this one in 2024.
But now the good news for all Christians. Jesus is coming and He is coming soon. The Bible is very clear that the world will be under a ONE WORLD GOV. before the start of the end times. Are you ready? Are your family members ready? Are your friends ready? I Pray all of them are as the time is coming soon.
Honestly I was shocked when I saw the Hebron shooting mentioned on the national news last night. I wonder if Joe Biden is going to start calling all victims of gun crimes or only when a black person is shot by a white person? You’d think the Dadeville shooting would be fairly easy to solve; maybe law enforcement knows more than they’re telling or maybe no one is telling law enforcement (which seems predominantly white) anything as happens so often with black-on-black crimes.
If anyone thinks the 2020 election was kosher, they’re deluding themselves. From election interference - see Hunter’s hard drive and the phony “51” now being tied to the Biden campaign - to state legislatures being neutered as it relates to jurisdictional election law, the fix was in. Not kosher and not at all cool. It’s why we’re in the shape we are now. Mix in a dishonest media and tell me with a straight face 2020 wasn’t fixed.
No suspect or motive in Alabama. The press just lets that go. No justice for those victims. It's sad.
Also, yes, where's the manifesto from Nashville? By the time we see it, it'll be watered down like the Las Vegas manifesto. "He didn't think he was being treated well by the casinos." Oh okay then, that makes sense.
If any parts of Audrey Hale’s manifesto are ever released, they will be heavily redacted and only be those parts that can be used to paint her as a victim suffering from “Christian bigotry”, and explain how she was “driven to do what she did due to the suffering she endured from transphobes”. If they can, they’ll find a way to blame JK Rowling. Or Trump.
It is incredible to me that no one in the media can seem to see that the entire “transgender” issue only rose to prominence after the Obergefell decision. Allowing same sex marriage was their “cause”, and once that cause was achieved, once gays and lesbians no longer had a reason to claim discrimination…the groups and organizations that had fought for it, were rendered moot.
So they had to move on to the “TQIAP+” and demand that society embrace transgenders and…coming soon…pedophilia. The UN has already begun demanding pedophilia be “decriminalized”, our own government is pushing for the medicalization of “trans kids” and once they’ve firmly established that children can consent to “sex change”, it’s just a short hop skip and a jump to demanding that they can consent to sex with adults.
I had sincerely hoped that the abandonment of women’s rights to privacy from males would be a “bridge too far”…but sadly, women who screamed “my body my choice” when it came to abortion, seem to have no problem with allowing any male who merely says “I identify as a woman” to have unfettered access to women’s spaces.
An Illinois (or Indiana, can’t remember which) judge who recently ruled that teenage girls have no right to “visual privacy” of their nude or semi-nude bodies in changing rooms claimed that if “cisgender” girls were allowed to see them, then a desire to shield them from “transgender” girls (males) was merely transphobia and bigotry…and the so-called feminists and the ACLU cheered that decision.
I know God is in charge, but the plight of young girls in this country is making me despair for their future.
RE Audrey Hale, I'm sure you're right...they'll pin it on bigotry and her resultant suffering, making her the REAL victim. This has happened way too often, and my response has been that you could likely make the same case for Adolf Hitler or Geoffrey Dahmer...but so what? They were still monsters, and that fact doesn't negate their crimes.
Regarding the shooting in Kansas City, today’s article in the AJC points out the young man got help from another home in the area after banging on the door yelling he’d been shot. The people who helped him and maybe saved him are white like the shooter.
Good point. And, while I am a hardcore Second Amendment man, I cannot stress enough that if people own firearms, they should understand the laws surrounding the use of Lethal Force. You cannot shoot someone who is simply on your porch; you cannot shoot someone in a car in your driveway. You *must* be able to articulate why the person(s) you shoot at present you with, “Ability, Opportunity and Jeopardy.”
On trump. How can you say he has faced. No consequences? He hasn’t won an election since 2016 based on his reaction to the 2020 election. He is also constantly faced with threats negative media coverage and daily attacks from a willing media.
Had the results gone the other way in the same manner dominion would be unerring every aspect of its business investigated down to every line of code.
How many lies have the mainstream media espoused about trump and trumps business interests. No lawsuits or settlements.
Or how about the Russia collusion nonsense. Also no long term consequences for anyone.
Yet one network, fox, decides to question the integrity of this software company and they get the hammer.
It doesn’t look good when a company that’s responsible for voting integrity when questioned to provide information immediately sued and shouted down the opposition.
You would think they would open the books well and confident which would preserve some credibility to the election.
No I don’t think the election was stolen. Cheated maybe but not stolen in the sense of the word.
But this is a clear message. The game has changed and if republicans don’t get in on it they will continue to lose.
Fox should have at least touched on the subject. Maybe they can't for legal reasons. But the other news organizations, which do fib again and again, can now get away with it because they can just continue to point fingers at Fox. And the joke is that Fox still has a bigger audience!
That last question though. Curious minds want to know. Manifesto….what manifesto? At this point I don’t trust any elected official with a position higher than my HOA board.
So where do we go from here? The media for the most part sucks, the youth of today apparently has nothing else to do besides destroying things or killing each other, and justice is only served by the left. Our country has become a country of hate and the left is doing nothing but fanning the flames.
Why isn't some media outlet suing to get the manifesto from the Tennessee killer? While I don't quite get the Fox/Dominion lawsuit, I also don't have a great deal of interest in focusing on an election or its coverage since it is over and all that is being done is rehashing the opinions of everyone. And we all know that certain media outlets wouldn't cover a story if it was a million black people killed if they were killed by other black people, or a million white people killed by black people, but would do 24/7 coverage of one black person killed by a white person.
Thank you for reporting on this. One reason I follow is that you get stuff out I never see elsewhere. I asked several newswatchers I know if they had read or heard about the AL shooting. No, and not even the one in NY, but they knew all about the one in KC. And these are conservatives!
Penny G. just took all my words. Ditto! Thank you, Erick, for saying what needs to be said.
May God continue to bless you. David
We keep talking about the hypocrisy of the media coverage on shootings and other events like if we keep repeating it someone will eventually listen and fix the problem. I see this as the common approach for everyone that makes their living in the media... I use the analogy of wanting to swim in the deep end of the pool while holding onto the shallow end for fear of drowning. The deep-end criticism is that the news media is no longer the news media, it is a well-coordinated hive of left activism. This feels like an extreme position if you are part of the media.
But the Twitter Files and other clear evidence paints a much more sinister picture of our democratic system being hopelessly corrupted by a collusion between the mainstream corporate media, our Wall Street backed corporate oligarchs and the American Uniparty that is 90% Democrat-controlled.
The media is actively working to influence and shape a national shift on gun rights. It is working. Meanwhile Republicans point out media hypocrisy and cry how unfair the reporting is. That is not going to help.
We are in the middle of a giant culture war and the media is the enemy. We need legislative action to defeat the enemy. We need to win elections to get to the legislative action.
And Chicago does this every weekend it’s just so ho hum what else is new
My wife mentioned the Missouri shooting in a back-handed comment as we were discussing something else. I mentioned the Hebron shooting as having similar circumstances with a deadly outcome. She had not even heard of it because she only watches the National MSM news. She quickly turned it on the guns and not the individuals themselves. Something is very wrong when the first choice of action is to shoot someone for just ringing a doorbell or turning around in a driveway. Or, getting dissed at a party.
Complaining about the mainstream press' racial bias in comparing these two shootings (KC and Hebron) is a non-starter for me. Let's look at what they have in common.: perceived home invasion of a person's residence where the home owners are seniors and the trespassers are young and both trespassed because they had made a mistake. This is taking one's right to self-defense and standing one's ground to such an extreme that it cost two people their lives because the home-owners were wielding potential violence in their hands and only had to pull a trigger to kill.
Commentary from one of America's few remaining clear thinkers, offered for this audience's perusal:
https://victorhanson.com/can-we-do-anything-about-americas-decline/#
When you wrote about what you studied in 1963, it reminded me of my study with several others about 1978 showing that Rockefeller started the Council of Foreign Relations in the US, then with one like that in the Asian countries that met in Tokyo, and one in the European counties that met in Paris he put together the Trilateral Commission about 60 years ago. It is now called the WEF. So the Rockefeller Family always wanted, and now getting a ONE WORLD GOV. They are the ones that are controlling this nation and many others today. We will have it soon and will not have another election after this one in 2024.
But now the good news for all Christians. Jesus is coming and He is coming soon. The Bible is very clear that the world will be under a ONE WORLD GOV. before the start of the end times. Are you ready? Are your family members ready? Are your friends ready? I Pray all of them are as the time is coming soon.
Honestly I was shocked when I saw the Hebron shooting mentioned on the national news last night. I wonder if Joe Biden is going to start calling all victims of gun crimes or only when a black person is shot by a white person? You’d think the Dadeville shooting would be fairly easy to solve; maybe law enforcement knows more than they’re telling or maybe no one is telling law enforcement (which seems predominantly white) anything as happens so often with black-on-black crimes.
If anyone thinks the 2020 election was kosher, they’re deluding themselves. From election interference - see Hunter’s hard drive and the phony “51” now being tied to the Biden campaign - to state legislatures being neutered as it relates to jurisdictional election law, the fix was in. Not kosher and not at all cool. It’s why we’re in the shape we are now. Mix in a dishonest media and tell me with a straight face 2020 wasn’t fixed.
No suspect or motive in Alabama. The press just lets that go. No justice for those victims. It's sad.
Also, yes, where's the manifesto from Nashville? By the time we see it, it'll be watered down like the Las Vegas manifesto. "He didn't think he was being treated well by the casinos." Oh okay then, that makes sense.
If any parts of Audrey Hale’s manifesto are ever released, they will be heavily redacted and only be those parts that can be used to paint her as a victim suffering from “Christian bigotry”, and explain how she was “driven to do what she did due to the suffering she endured from transphobes”. If they can, they’ll find a way to blame JK Rowling. Or Trump.
It is incredible to me that no one in the media can seem to see that the entire “transgender” issue only rose to prominence after the Obergefell decision. Allowing same sex marriage was their “cause”, and once that cause was achieved, once gays and lesbians no longer had a reason to claim discrimination…the groups and organizations that had fought for it, were rendered moot.
So they had to move on to the “TQIAP+” and demand that society embrace transgenders and…coming soon…pedophilia. The UN has already begun demanding pedophilia be “decriminalized”, our own government is pushing for the medicalization of “trans kids” and once they’ve firmly established that children can consent to “sex change”, it’s just a short hop skip and a jump to demanding that they can consent to sex with adults.
I had sincerely hoped that the abandonment of women’s rights to privacy from males would be a “bridge too far”…but sadly, women who screamed “my body my choice” when it came to abortion, seem to have no problem with allowing any male who merely says “I identify as a woman” to have unfettered access to women’s spaces.
An Illinois (or Indiana, can’t remember which) judge who recently ruled that teenage girls have no right to “visual privacy” of their nude or semi-nude bodies in changing rooms claimed that if “cisgender” girls were allowed to see them, then a desire to shield them from “transgender” girls (males) was merely transphobia and bigotry…and the so-called feminists and the ACLU cheered that decision.
I know God is in charge, but the plight of young girls in this country is making me despair for their future.
RE Audrey Hale, I'm sure you're right...they'll pin it on bigotry and her resultant suffering, making her the REAL victim. This has happened way too often, and my response has been that you could likely make the same case for Adolf Hitler or Geoffrey Dahmer...but so what? They were still monsters, and that fact doesn't negate their crimes.
The plight of young Americans, period, makes me despair.
Regarding the shooting in Kansas City, today’s article in the AJC points out the young man got help from another home in the area after banging on the door yelling he’d been shot. The people who helped him and maybe saved him are white like the shooter.
Good point. And, while I am a hardcore Second Amendment man, I cannot stress enough that if people own firearms, they should understand the laws surrounding the use of Lethal Force. You cannot shoot someone who is simply on your porch; you cannot shoot someone in a car in your driveway. You *must* be able to articulate why the person(s) you shoot at present you with, “Ability, Opportunity and Jeopardy.”
On trump. How can you say he has faced. No consequences? He hasn’t won an election since 2016 based on his reaction to the 2020 election. He is also constantly faced with threats negative media coverage and daily attacks from a willing media.
My only comment on dominion.
Had the results gone the other way in the same manner dominion would be unerring every aspect of its business investigated down to every line of code.
How many lies have the mainstream media espoused about trump and trumps business interests. No lawsuits or settlements.
Or how about the Russia collusion nonsense. Also no long term consequences for anyone.
Yet one network, fox, decides to question the integrity of this software company and they get the hammer.
It doesn’t look good when a company that’s responsible for voting integrity when questioned to provide information immediately sued and shouted down the opposition.
You would think they would open the books well and confident which would preserve some credibility to the election.
No I don’t think the election was stolen. Cheated maybe but not stolen in the sense of the word.
But this is a clear message. The game has changed and if republicans don’t get in on it they will continue to lose.
Fox should have at least touched on the subject. Maybe they can't for legal reasons. But the other news organizations, which do fib again and again, can now get away with it because they can just continue to point fingers at Fox. And the joke is that Fox still has a bigger audience!
That last question though. Curious minds want to know. Manifesto….what manifesto? At this point I don’t trust any elected official with a position higher than my HOA board.
So where do we go from here? The media for the most part sucks, the youth of today apparently has nothing else to do besides destroying things or killing each other, and justice is only served by the left. Our country has become a country of hate and the left is doing nothing but fanning the flames.
Why isn't some media outlet suing to get the manifesto from the Tennessee killer? While I don't quite get the Fox/Dominion lawsuit, I also don't have a great deal of interest in focusing on an election or its coverage since it is over and all that is being done is rehashing the opinions of everyone. And we all know that certain media outlets wouldn't cover a story if it was a million black people killed if they were killed by other black people, or a million white people killed by black people, but would do 24/7 coverage of one black person killed by a white person.