Because it's Monday, that's why

Scraped from the Patriot Post.

Best comment (so far) on the WHCD assassin wannabe

comes from the Babylon Bee, fake news you can trust. (Surprised?) It's headlined

Liberals Applaud Improving Diversity Of Would-Be Trump Assassins 

Following the harrowing incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner over the weekend, progressives across the United States applauded the steadily improving diversity of would-be Trump assassins.

With many liberals concerned over the lack of minority representation among people trying to assassinate Trump, Democrats breathed a sigh of relief after learning that the latest failed assassin was black.

"For too long, the would-be Trump killer space has been dominated by white men," said local liberal Jamie Gallagher. 

"Today was a long-overdue step forward in assassin representation. It's really encouraging to see people from different ethnic backgrounds engage in political violence. I just hope it helps little kids know that their skin color and sexual orientation do not have to hold them back from trying to kill Donald Trump." 

While stating there was still more work to be done, DEI advocacy groups hailed the news of a minority assassin as a landmark victory. "When you see people of all different skin tones and socioeconomic classes trying to murder political figures, you know you've done your job," said DEI consultant Mary Harding. 

"To be clear, we are not there yet. There are still so many underrepresented groups who face significant barriers in trying to assassinate world leaders. We will continue the hard work of ensuring real equity among people shooting guns at President Trump."

At publishing time, progressives admitted that they had been crossing their fingers in hopes that the failed assassin would also turn out to be gay.

VIDEO: "TACO? Seriously?!" Victor David Hanson explains why the media are wrong to diss POTUS over Iran war

Walt is still trying to figure out how the American-Israeli war against Iran and Lebanon is going to end. But will end... somehow... and likely on terms more favourable to our interests than those of our Islamist enemies. Objectively you'd have to call that a "win" than anything else.

You wouldn't know it, though, to listen to the liberal lickspittle media, who are doing their damnedest to paint the current impasse as a loss for President Trump. They can't explain what's actually unfolding in Iran, let alone the behind-closed-doors talks in Pakistsan, so they swing wildly between calling POTUS a "warmonger" and "weak", trotting out the ridiculous "TACO" jape.

The reality points to an Iranian regime that's been militarily and strategically crippled. Adversaries like Russia and China are feeling the ripple effects, and NATO’s cracks are on full display. Victor Davis Hanson takes the long... and more positive view.

"Trump is not my President!" -- a rational analysis

Even if you're one of the 1000s of non-citizen illegal aliens who were ineligible to vote in the 2024 election, but voted anyway, Donald J. Trump is still your President! 

We are nearing the end of a natural political cycle

Walt spent a large part of the weekend watching the parade. Vas you dere, Charlie? 

I don't think you need me to tell you what the event was about really, and why it was inevitable. Words like "fascist" and "nazi" and (of course) "dictatorship" were being shouted at us repeatedly by the the lickspittle media all weekend... before, during and after the parade itself. Like this.

"Tanks, flypasts, missiles: what to expect at Trump’s ‘dictator chic’ military parade Washington will host a celebration of US army’s 250th anniversary, which also coincides with president’s birthday" The Grauniad [Readers of Private Eye will understand this. Ed.] 13/5/25. 

"America Is Finally Getting A Fascist Dictator Parade, Courtesy Of Donald Trump Trump has long admired autocrats like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping, and now he is getting an autocrat's parade" Huffpost (surprised?) 14/5/25. 

"Trump presides over army parade: Celebration or ‘dictator behaviour’? Tanks roll through US capital to mark army’s 250th anniversary, prompting cheers and condemnation" Al-Jazeera, 15/6/25

I didn't bother to read any of these very predictable anti-Trump tirades. Reading what follows such loony left headlines is like following a lit fuse in search of an explosion; you won't have long to wait.

Nor was I suprised by the anti-ICE and "No kings!" mostly peaceful demonstrations (TM), fomented by TDS-afflicted Dimocrats and agitators paid by the usual suspects.

I'm not worried by what's happening in and to the United States of America these days. I care, but I'm not worried. Why not? Let me quote from Left Luggage by C. Northcote Parkinson (referred to on Saturday and highly recommended), at page 114: The common though not invariable pattern [of political development] has been for democracy to turn into socialism, for socialism to end in chaos, and for a dictatorship to restore some sort of order.

The cleansing of America will be painful, but it has to happen before America can be made great again. Those who do not believe this had best get out of the way!

Further reading: "MSNBC Shocked Army’s 250th Birthday Lacked 'Tense' or 'Dark, Malevolent Energy'", Townhall, 15/6/25.

Canadian election: What hath Trump wrought?!

Ed. here. Walt has been texting one- and two-liners by phone from the Great No-longer-white North. If I wait until I put them into a coherent narrative you won't see anything until Wednesday, so I'll just copy his notes voets stoets.

- TDS drives "progressive: voters from the fringes to the less-loony Liberals. 

- Pinko socialist vote collapses. NDP leader Jugmeat Singh loses  his seat, resigns as leader of the Few Democrats..

- Standings as of this writing (see timestamp): Liberals elected or leading in 168 ridings, Conservatives 144, Bloc Québécois 23, NDP 7, Greens 1 ("May? Party of one?")

- Counting of ballots halted in wee hours, just like Philadelphia. Will resume at 0930 EDT.

- Assuming no change, it's a Liberal minority government. Separatist Blocheads hold the balance of power.

- Widespread fraud alleged in Sikh majority ridings in Brampton ON and suburban Vancouver BC. 1000s of Sikhs allowed to vote; citizenship not questioned.

- "Indo-Canadians" win dozens of seats in BC, ON, and Alberta.

- Cuckservative leader Pierre Poilievre declared defeated in his own riding at 0443 EDT. 91 candidates on the ballot there in chaos orchestrated by advocates of proportional representation.

- Most incumbent cabinet ministers re-elected. Carnage cabinet will be same as Trudeau's, as they rearrange the deck chairs.

- Demented Joe Biden (or someone typing for him) goes on social media to congratulate Carnage on win for "liberal values".

- Southwestern Ontario, where they make all the cars Trump wants to tariffs, goes solidly Conservative in spite of union endorsements of NDP. Workers ignore union leadership.

- In victory speech, Carney sez, "Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. That will never, that will never ever happen. But…we also must recognize the reality that our world has fundamentally changed." Well, duh!

That's all we have for you as dawn comes up like thunder over our cabin in the pines. Maybe there'll be more after Walt wakes up.

VIDEO: Best "Buy Canadian" TV ad so far this year

President Trump has managed to do something which Canadian politicians can only yap about and dream of. With his repeated public statements about turning the Great No-longer-white North into the 51st of the Disunited States of America, he has united Canadians of every region, every province, every language, every [Get on with it. Ed.] etc. 

You'd be hard-pressed indeed to find a single Canuck, who wants to share in the benefits of being part of the US of A, such as unaffordable health care, unrestricted gun ownership, incomprehensible politics, and the joys of DEI and other constructs of America's liberal democracy.

The odd thing is that the chief practitioner and beneficiary of the Politics of TDS is Mark Carnage, Canuckistan's Prime Minister and the archtype of a globalist One-Worlder. On the strength of one polite phone conversation with President Trump -- in which he now admits the Donald did talk about the 51st state things -- Mr Carnage has wrapped himself in the maple leaf flag for his role as Captain Canada, proclaiming that he is the only one who can save the GNN from the invasion of the Merkans.

The effects of TTDS -- Trump Tariff Derangement Syndrome -- are already noticeable in the form of many and various "Buy Canadian" campaigns. Retailers are busy labelling any Canadian products they can find (most things are made in China or the USA) with little maple leaves and "Product of Canada/Produit du Canada" stickers. 

Canadian marketers are all in -- elbows up! -- on this, flooding the media with ads proclaiming their Canuckiness. Some of the commercials are pretty clever. This is one of them, which we hereby enter into the competition for the 2025 Wally Award for Creativity in Advertising (Canadian Division).    . 

Pretty funny, eh! Dear American readers, see if you can figure out the brand of American soup which Aylmer says you shouldn't buy because there's is... errr... more Canadian. Hint: once upon a time the American soup used to feature a pic of smiling and obese (therefore American?) kids on the label. The company name sounds as if it should be Scottish, but it ain't!

Mark Carney, in a nutshell (geddit?)

After reading yesterday's lengthy post of Dr Jordan Peterson's thoughts about the "new, improved, even woker" Prime Minister of Canuckistan, Agent 6 thought we should run a recommendation for further (and easier) reading. So we commend you to "Mark Carney is wrong about everything", by Fraser Myers, Deputy Editor of Sp!ked, 11/3/25. Subheadline: "Canada’s new unelected prime minister is living, breathing proof that technocrats can’t be trusted."

Key excerpt: "The new Canadian PM’s CV reads like a parody of an archetypal Davos man. He has been governor of the Bank of Canada, governor of the Bank of England and a United Nations special envoy on climate action and finance. Before he entered the public eye, he worked for Goldman Sachs – in London, Tokyo, New York and Toronto. He has degrees from Harvard and Oxford. Yet he has never once held any form of elected political office. He does not even currently hold a seat in Canada’s House of Commons."

 

Walt's advice to long-suffering Canucks: Don't let TDS delude you into voting for this puppet of George Soros, Klaus Schwab and the WEF elites. He didn't come back to Canada for you!

"I'm moving to Canada if Trump wins! I really mean it! I swear!"

See "Advice for never-Trumpers on moving to Canada - DON'T!" (video by Gavin McInnes), WWW 7/11/24.

"You want cries with that?" + latest from the Babylon Bee

Ed. here, just filling space while Walt rests. Meme from The Patriot Post.

And, for your delectation... "The Nation Is Healing: 9 Miraculous Events Since Trump Won The Election", Babylon Bee, 8/11/24.

VIDEO: Advice for never-Trumpers on moving to Canada - DON'T!

In the aftermath of President Trump's landslide victory, the website of the Canuckistan immigration department crashed yesterday under the weight of enquiries from TDS sufferers about how to immigrate to Canada legally. (The hordes of illegals just walk across the border, of course.)

There is actually a border between the USA and Canada. [No wall though... yet! Ed.] You need a passport to enter Canada as a visitor. Well, not to enter Canada, actually, but to get back into the Excited States. And if it looks like your country won't let you back in, the Canadians won't admit you. If you are honest enough to tell them you want to stay, they make you apply to immigrate, just like everyone else [except Muslim refugees. Ed.] 

Why would you liberal pussies want to move to the Great No-longer-white North anyway? What do you think you're going to do when you get there? In this video, Gavin McInnes, founder (but no longer leader) of the Proud Boys explains in detail why there isn't one single part of Canada that you would want to move to, even if you could. We post this as a public service... to Canadians. You're welcome.

Attention, visa-shoppers! There is an alternative! Bette Midler said on Tuesday night that she was going to drink Drano. If you're that afraid of living in a new, healthier, more prosperous America, Walt sez: go for it!

Footnote from Poor Len Canayen, WWW's National Sports (i.e. Hockey) Editor: That's a great toque, eh! Go Habs go!

Trump Derangement Syndrome personified

Agent 9 sent a message to Ed. wondering if something had happened to Walt, because after a flurry of activity at the beginning of the month, there's been almost nothing for a week now.

The truth is that Walt has been shocked and appalled by recent developments in the persecution of President Trump, as the weaponized Democrat judges pull out all the stops to throw a spanner [wut? Ed.] into the Donald's re-election campaign. 

I'm lost for words, so this will have to do.

Further comment seems unnecessary. However...

Noted this morning: A survey of New York Jews reports that 61% of those polled plan on voting for President Trump. That probably includes some bankers, businesspersons and others who have yet to succumb to TDS.

I'll be talking at ya on Sunday, after the South Carolina results are in.

Waiting for the 8th - Epidemic of TDS sweeps the media

Earlier today I wrote that the Dumbocrats are pulling out all the stops... stopping at nothing... because they are shit-scared that the Republicans will regain control of Congress, paving the way for a return of President Trump in 2024. Their scare-mongering is being aided and abetted by the lickspittle media, in which term I include CNN and NBC. The following story is republished, in full, from today's Daily Wire. The emphasis is mine.

NBC historian Michael Beschloss, who is known for making hyper-partisan and fanatical claims, claimed without evidence during a segment this week that if Republicans win the midterm elections next week that children could be arrested and killed. 

Beschloss’ remarks on MSNBC’s "All In With Chris Hayes" comes after President Joe Biden urged the country to unite and repeatedly demonized Republicans as a threat to American democracy during a speech this week.

"Six nights from now, we could all be discussing violence all over this country," Beschloss claimed. "There are signs that may happen, may God forbid, that losers will be declared winners by fraudulent election officers, or secretary of state candidates, or governors, or state legislatures."

"We could be six days away from losing our rule of law and losing a situation where we have elections that we all can rely on," he continued. "You know, those are the foundation stones of a democracy. So, if Biden had gone on the air tonight and said, the biggest thing we have to worry about is marginal tax rates, or something like that, well, it is important. But what significant presidents do, I think you’ll agree, we both write history, you and I. In 1860, Lincoln didn’t say the biggest issue was — colleges, although he felt strongly. He said the country can’t survive half slave or half free."

"1940, Franklin Roosevelt didn’t say, you know, the biggest thing I’m worried about is farm policy," he added. "Farm policy was important to him, but what he did say was, never before, since Jamestown and Plymouth Rock has America been in such danger."

"Joe Biden is saying the same thing tonight, and a historian 50 years from now, if historians are allowed to write in this country, and if there are still free publishing houses and a free press, which I'm not certain of," he concluded on the matter. 

"But if that is true, a historian will say what was at stake tonight and this week was the fact whether we will be a democracy in the future, whether our children will be arrested and conceivably killed — we’re on the edge of a brutal authoritarian system, and it could be a week away."

I have only one comment. If there is violence all over the country, four nights after tonight, it won't be caused by supporters of the Republican Party and President Trump. Since America has a two-party system, that leaves only... errr....

Biden tries to rewrite four years of American history

Earlier today, Walt wrote that Sleepy Joe Biden now snoozes in the Oval Office, waking every now and then to undo some of the good things done by his predecessor. Indeed, everything he does -- or is made to do by the puppeteer who pulls his strings -- seems calculated to erase from the history of the Disunited States President Trump, and all his works, no matter the consequences.

This past Wednesday, Mr Biden revoked seven Executive Orders issued by President Trump between 2017 and 2021. The White House offered no explanation for the revocations, so let's take a look at them to see if we can discern any rationale other than that argued above.

Among the Executive Orders was one of the first signed by President Trump, titled "Core Principles for Regulating the United States Financial System". It set out the Trump administration's policy on financial regulation, with the first listed goal to "empower Americans to make independent financial decisions and informed choices in the marketplace, save for retirement, and build individual wealth." What's wrong with that?

The policy also sought to "prevent taxpayer-funded bailouts" and "enable American companies to be competitive with foreign firms in domestic and foreign markets." Not bad ideas, surely!

China Joe also countermanded an April 2018 EO titled "Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting Opportunity and Economic Mobility." It directed the federal government to reform the welfare system around a set of core principles, including improving economic independence, targeting benefits for people with low incomes, and reducing "wasteful spending by consolidating or eliminating federal programs that are duplicative or ineffective." Is it that the Dumbocrats are in favour of wasteful spending and inefficient welfare programs?

Another casualty of the New Order was a memo that unshackled the Department of Defense from collective bargaining constraints in order to give the military maximum flexibility "to cultivate a lethal, agile force adaptive to new technologies and posture changes." Will Americans be better protected by a military constrained by policies and spending limits devised during the Obama years?

Also included in the list of revocations is a COVID-19 Executive Order that directed federal agencies to address the economic repercussions of the Dempanic by "rescinding, modifying, waiving, or providing exemptions from regulations" which could imperil economic recovery. Do the Dems really not want the country to get on its feet again as quickly as possible?

One of the later EOs issued by President Trump directed the federal government to review funding for localities like Seattle, which took a lax stance on the Antifa anarchy and BLM riots of last summer and fall. Why should the administrations of Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis and other Democratic strongholds be held to account for failing to protect their residents and public and private property? Let the federal funds flow again!

Another Executive Order revoked was one titled "Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture", which directed a sweeping stylistic overhaul of federal architecture with a focus on a return to classical and traditional forms. Also undone was one of the last EOs, which forbade unelected bureaucrats from initiating or signing off on federal rules.

What do you make of all this, dear reader? I can't see in the cancelled orders any link or anything in common which would move a sane and sensible President to revoke them. I can only conclude that Mr Biden simply intends to undo everything the Trump administration accomplished over the last four years. No other explanation makes sense. It's anti-Trumpism, Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) writ large. That's all. 

Let me give you one more example. The Biden administration recently cancelled Operation Talon, a Trump administration programme aimed at removing convicted sex offenders living in the United States illegally. [You can't say "illegal", only that they're "undocumented". Ed.] Dismantling Operation Talon effectively allows sex offenders, who by any measure of commons sense should be deported, to remain in the US of A.

Operation Talon would seem to be something that everyone should support, but the loony lefties who run the Dumbocratic Party (and now the federal government) don't like it. Why? Perhaps because President Trump put the programme in place.

A letter sent by the Attorneys General of 18 states to Mr Biden, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and the Acting Director of ICE, pointed out the problems with the cancellation. "The United States' population of illegal immigrants includes disturbingly large numbers of criminals with prior convictions for sexual crimes. ...during the period from October 2014 to May 2018 ICE arrested 19,572 illegal aliens with criminal convictions for whom the most serious prior conviction was a conviction for a sex-related offense.

"Meanwhile, [the letter continues] an increasing number of illegal aliens are entering the United States after having been previously convicted of sexual offenses. The cancellation of [Operation Talon] effectively broadcasts to the world that the United States is now a sanctuary jurisdiction for sexual predators. 

"This message creates a perverse incentive for foreign sexual predators to seek to enter the United States illegally and assault more victims, both in the process of unlawful migration and after they arrive. It will also broadcast the message to other criminal aliens who have committed other offenses that any kind of robust enforcement against them is unlikely."

The letter begs perhaps the most important question: "If the United States will not remove even convicted sex offenders, whom will it remove?" The White House has so far not answered.

Further reading: "Wait...These Are the Top Three Concerns for Democratic Voters? Yes, It's Insane", by Matt Vespa, on Townhall, 25/2/21.

Are you suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome? Take this test

Ed. here. Walt has not fully recovered from the Dumpster Fire Debate, and is saving his strength for tomorrow's faceoff between Vice-President Pence and the well-known Indo-Jamaican-American Kamala Harris. 

To fill this space, we repost, from good folks at The People's Cube, a diagnostic test to help you deteremine whether or not you are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). 

Before you take this test, the authors stress that having a mental illness should not make you feel ashamed. Seek professional help if you experience any of the following symptoms during the assessment: 

You start seeing Russians everywhere around you.

You feel the need to burn buildings.

You start convulsing uncontrollably.

Question 1

Imagine one of your friends or family members saying the following: "I'm not talking about the neo-nazis and white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally." 

Which of the following statements is true:

a. your friend condems neo-nazis and white nationalists totally

b. your friend supports neo-nazis and white nationalists 

Question 2

Donald Trump is on record saying the following words: "I'm not talking about the neo-nazis and white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally." 

Which of the following statements is true:

a. Donald Trump condemns neo-nazis and white nationalists totally

b. Donald Trump supports neo-nazis and white nationalists 

Question 3

Please read the following lines out loud three times (from the President's response to the Charlottesville violence): "So you know what, it’s fine. You’re changing history. You’re changing culture. And you had people -- and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists -- because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. Okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly."

While reading these lines, did you experience any of the following symptoms:

- A complete form of amnesia: you do not remember reading the lines above

- Feelings of anger towards Trump supporters, Christians or law-abiding citizens in general

- A profound feeling of despair, as if your entire world is crumbling down around you 

TDS scoring:

If you answered a to question 1 and b to question 2: 4 points

For any of the symptoms in question 3: add 1 point. 

Results: 

1-3 points: inconclusive test 

4 points: possible TDS

5-6 points: probable TDS

7 points: certain TDS

Advice:

If you score 4 points or higher, we recommend you to contact a health professional to talk about these (and probably many other) issues. Stay healthy and safe, and, once more, do not feel ashamed about mental conditions (like media brainwashing) but talk about them openly.

Media bias? What media bias?

In case you didn't guess, this is another gem from the Babylon Bee. If you're not checking "your trusted source for Christian satire" regularly, you're missing something. They have videos and podcasts too. Highly recommended by Walt!

VIDEO: Rex Murphy tells why he won't be silenced by the cancel culture

Ed. here. I've told Walt that I am coming to grips with the new Blogger GUI and that, for the time being, we can still use the "legacy interface". I've also passed along messages from a number of readers [How many? Walt] saying they will be disappointed if we give up now, so close to what may be a pivotal moment in American (and therefore world) history.

Walt has suggested that we put up some videos until he feels like writing again. Fortunately, the premiere episode of Season Two of the True North Speaker Series went live yesterday. In this hour-and-a-quarter video, TN founder Candice Malcolm sits down with the legendary Rex Murphy, whose videos and writings have been featured on WWW several times over the years.

Mr Murphy can be counted on to provide a much needed dose of common sense in a world where good sense is anything but common. In this exclusive interview, he discusses with Ms Malcolm a wide range of issues including the COVID-19 pandemic, the changes in the media landscape over the past several decades and the totalitarian impulses on the left. This is primarily for Canadians, but our American friends should find it even more relevant.



Walt here. This interview has been a great inspiration to me. If Rex Murphy won't be silenced, neither will I!

From the inside: Matt Taibbi explains why the media want to keep Americans perpetually at war...

...with each other!

In fact, "Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another" is the subtitle of Matt Taibbi's latest book, Hate Inc. (OR Books, 2019), which I have just finished reading and recommend highly. Mr Taibbi's political views are quite different from mine, but I always enjoy reading his accounts of what's really happening in American politics. He is a worthy successor to Dr Hunter S. Thompson.

Hate Inc. is something of a confession, a mea culpa for the part Mr Taibbi played in creating and feeding Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), both before and after the revolution of November 2016. See Walt's review of Insane Clown President, WWW 10/8/17.

The author now admits having been deceived by both the Trump and Clinton campaigns, and having deceived himself into being part of the "groupthink", the "conventional wisdom" purveyed by the lamestream media, which held that someone as worthy as Hellery Clinton couldn't possibly lose to such a patent phony as the Donald. To his credit, Mr Taibbi gives numerous examples of where he went wrong, while at the same time pointing out that he wasn't the only one.

But Hate Inc. is not an apologia for the honest mistakes of the media, because very little of the "news" they fed us was "honest". Mr Taibbi argues that what they gave us, and are still giving us, is a twisted and highly hyped form of the kind of entertainment epitomized by a WWE wrestling match! It wasn't an election, he says, but the grand finale of Wrestlemania, complete with a "babyface" (Mrs Bill) and a "heel" (Mr Trump) straight out of a reality TV show.

The "face" was supposed to win, but somehow managed to defeat herself, and that's a story already told by Mr Taibbi and countless others. The real story of Hate Inc. is why the media did it, and how they are still doing it. The answer is simple. Anger and hatred attract more viewers/readers than sweetness and light. More viewers/readers means more advertising revenue. More advertising revenue means more profit! Especially when you don't have to pay for the content! In fact, election advertising is a hyuge revenue stream for the meeja. The more elections, the more hotly contested, the more money they make.

And you, fellow "news consumers", are swallowing every drop of vitriol, every morsel of loathing, and begging for second and third helpings. In Hate Inc. you will find countless examples of the media's most egregious manipulation of your ignorance, prejudices, and fears. They whipped you into a frenzy, gentle reader, and want to keep you there so you won't log off their websites or turn off your TV, even though "some viewers may find this disturbing!"

I would like to post some excerpts, but Ed. tells me I have gone on long enough and must find just one for the conclusion of this review. Here `tis:

News consumers on both sides today behave like cultists; self-isolating intellectually, kept that way with a steady diet of terrifying stories about fellow citizens. Red-staters are told liberals are terror-sympathizers, desperate, out of white guilt, to eviscerate American cultrure from within.

Blue-staters are peppered daily with stories of fellow travelers and traitors in their midst, an incredible example being NBC's effort to paint presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard as a tool of the Kremlin.... 

This deeply paranoid view of the human experience, telling all America it lives on a violent invisible influence battlefield, is the opposite of what the news used to be.... We are trying to keep your brain locked in conflict, not just for the grubby commerical reason that it keeps people tuned in, but because it prevents them from thinking about other things.

What other things? Read the book! If doing so causes you to stop reading WWW, I won't be offended, as long as you also stop watching The View and Rachel Maddow and [That's enough biased "news" sources! Ed.]

Footnotes:
Hate Inc. doesn't have an index (tsk, tsk) but it does have an appendix entitled "Why Rachel Maddow is on the cover of this book". Enough said?

A second appendix is an interview with Noam Chomsky, co-author (with Edward S. Herman) of Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988). Walt recommends reading this appendix first, before the book itself, to understand where Matt Taibbi is coming from. In the interview, he says to Prof. Chomsky: The main idea of Manufacturing Consent is...that it looks like we have a vigorous system of independent journalists, but the debate has been artificially narrowed. Why that is so is what Hate Inc. is all about.

Tiger Woods "an unworthy recipient of a great honour?"

Speaking of liberal bias (see previous post), let us ask ourselves: What would it take to get the lamestream media to denounce the giving of a medal to an outstanding black athlete? You know the answer, right? If the medal is given by still-President Trump, then it's just so wrong on so many levels!

That's been the response of many in the (((controlled media))) to Monday's awarding by President Trump to Tiger Woods of America's highest civilian honour -- the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Mr Trump describing the 43-year-old black golfer as a "true legend" who transformed golf and then fought through years of injury to return to the sport's summit. Mr Woods is the fourth golfer to earn that distinction, and the youngest. He is one of the greatest to ever play his sport. To recover from multiple back surgeries and rehabs and knee surgeries and win as he did in Augusta is one of the truly amazing stories of this year. What could be wrong with that?

Well, lots, if you listen to or read the usual suspects in the lamestream media. One blogger writes that receiving a nation's highest civilian honour is supposed to be about the totality of a person. That goes to behaviour and contribution and impact outside of a sport. It goes to high moral character and comporting oneself with dignity and grace all the time. In his opinion, Mr Woods doesn't qualify because #MeToo, besides which he's just not a nice person. Nothing to do with being black of course.

If that's so, why did President Trump honour him? Isn't that obvious? It's just an example of Mr Trump's crass desire to take care of his friends! And for that reason, the award "diminishes what should be a grand, grand honour for others." Nothing to do with Mr Woods, really. It's all about Donald Trump.

Elsewhere, NBC Nightly News broadcast a clip of WaPo columnist Eugene Robinson suggesting that the award was diminished. (Apparently a memo has been circulated suggesting the use of that D-word.) "He gives this award, which was a hallow award, maybe someday it will be one again, to people he wants to associate himself with. And so, he likes golf," said Mr Robinson.

Over at the Clinton News Network, Jim Acosta told Wolf Blitzer, "The president’s company, the Trump Organization, hired Tiger Woods to design a golf course at the president's company's golf course in Dubai. That obviously shows that there are some business ties between these two men. And I suppose a critic could argue after watching all of this that there might be somewhat of an advertisement going on here, a TV ad going on here in handing out this Presidential Medal of Freedom to Tiger Woods. It is, in effect, publicizing one of the Trump golf courses there in Dubai that Tiger Woods had a hand in. Although we should point out that particular course has not opened yet." Oh. Yes. Only fair to point that out.

I'm running out of space here, and have room for only two more examples of Trump Derangement Syndrome. CBS News gave airtime to Armen Keteyian, who co-authored a biography about Woods, to say that, yes, Mr Woods deserved the award, but "there's no question there is a branding and a marketing opportunity through the eyes of the President."

And here's my favourite, from an editorial in the Baltimore Sun which managed to sideswipe both the President and Tiger Woods. "Mr Woods has made his choice," the Sun thundered, "and part of his legacy will be embracing a man who incited bigotry and racism," adding that the President "regularly demonizes minorities and emboldens those who hate."

Walt says... Tiger Woods is a great golfer and is still going strong. Donald Trump is still President and will still be President 18 months from now. (Lifetime pct .991.) Get over it!