The Morning Rant

UNIMPEACHABLE

So any time the MSM does this, we need to mentally add an appropriately adjective that would better describe the actual situation. So, for example, when you hear 'sources say...', you should immediately translate that as 'biased sources say...' for greater accuracy. Or, if the story relies on testimony from 'experts', you should add the descriptor 'corrupt', which is closer to reality.

And sometimes the media will double down. Like a bad parent warning their child '...and THIS time, I mean it!', they will say something like 'according to independent fact checkers...' or 'non-partisan sources say...' It's like they're trying to add more 'oomph' to their magic spells to get them to work better.

When they double double down, we should also double down.

So when they insist that 'reliable sources tell us...', instead of 'corrupt', you should replace it with the phrase 'lying shitweasels'. Wait, isn't Tater's show on CNN called 'Reliable Sources'? That's just great, it should be renamed 'Lying Shitweasels'. "Hi, I'm lying shitweasel Brian 'Tater' Stelter and I'm here with three or four other lying shitweasels, and for the next hour, we'll be lying our asses off to get you to believe our lies and also that we're somehow above it all, and you can believe us without having to ask any of pesky or annoying questions. Because we're super credible. Also, we'll be giving you the opportunity to buy the Brooklyn Bridge from us later on in the show. Orange Man Bad. Death to Donald Trump. Hallelujiah."

And then when you don't believe them, and call them lying shitweasels, or as Donald Trump did, the enemy of the people, they get all pissy. As if they were deserving of respect. They actually think they're *entitled* to respect. That's the funny part.

They think they have credibility. And perhaps they did, years ago. But in 1968, when Walter Cronkite got on national TV and proclaimed that the Tet Offensive was a North Vietnamese victory (the reality was that it was a crushing defeat for the NVA), that's when the deposits into the media's credibility account stopped. But that hasn't stopped them from writing checks, and as time went on, the account became more and more depleted. I'd say that it was Dan Rather who emptied it out completely in 2004 with his craptacular "Rathergate" reporting that torpedoed his career and CBS News in they bargain. They're now the Clown Broadcasting System, not a serious new organization.

And ever since then, they've been writing bad checks. The credibility account is completely empty, only they're pretending it isn't. If this was the banking industry, federal regulators would have shut down CBS and all of the rest of the national media outlets by now as being complicit in multiple check kiting scheme.

Most people, when faced with insolvency, conclude that they should stop writing bad checks. Journalists, though, are a different breed. They just write larger checks.

Ladies And Gentlemen, The Leader Of The Free World:

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Wednesday Who Dis: Supremely endowed Hammer horror hottie Valerie Leon was also a bit of eye candy in not one but two Bond films, The Spy Who Loved Me and also Never Say Never Again. Also appearing in NSNA was British actor Edward Fox whom I first saw as the assassin hired to kill Charles DeGaulle in The Day of the Jackal, and he was stone cold perfect for the part. Two thumbs up.

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