COVID-19 Media Performance: CBS Hates You

I don't know how many examples I need to show you, but here's another.

The corporate media, CBS in this case, used days old footage from Italy to explain to viewers that New York City was the epicenter of the Novel Coronavirus.  They used 3 day old footage from Italy via Sky News to paint a bleak and scary portrait of NYC as the center of the pandemic.

In other words, they lied to you.

For some reason they get angry when Trump calls them 'fake news'.  As I write this, an NPR station in the Pacific Northwest is censoring Trump's daily press updates because of 'misinformation'.  And yet, many consider CBS legit, and outside sources unreliable.

CBS and the rest of the corporate media are always keeping a Narrative.  They don't care about telling you the truth, or getting you dispassionate news, or helping you stay informed.  

I've been onto these people for 15 years.  And no, it wasn't some 'mistake'.  It went through layers of reporters and editors before it got released.  Don't be naive.

If their information causes people to get scared or panic and someone gets hurt or killed.  Oh well.  They'll continue to howl at Tangerine Man and his fake news comments, oblivious to the carnage in their wake.  

I'm tired of "Orange Man Bad" from outfits like CBS.  Are you?

Again, perhaps it's time you stopped looking at Corporate Media as anything other than a place to watch pathetic levels of propaganda.

Campus Craziness: Evergreen State Edition

Because I have 2 sections of 12th graders, I feel compelled to let them know what's happening on campus.  The ethos of 'woke' has gotten completely out of control, and this incident at Evergreen State College in 2017 encapsulates much of what is going within the Liberal Arts on campus.  Weinstein was a Biology professor at Evergreen.  He was threatened physically, and eventually pushed to resign after this fiasco was over.

This assignment is geared to not only analyze the rhetoric of both sides, but also help students avoid  massive, permanent student debt.  Why would anyone spend money simply to get exposed to this idiocy?  This took place in 2017, and these types of 'woke' events have shown no signs of subsiding.  This bizarre campus journey has been documented here.

This is the assignment I gave to the Seniors today:
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For years, Evergreen State college practiced a ‘Day of Absence’, where the ‘people of color’ would voluntary leave campus to bring attention to their importance and role on campus. In 2017, the organizers of the ‘Day of Absence’ changed it and told the white people they had to leave. A biology professor, Brett Weinstein, objected to this change in a private email to faculty.

In March 2017 Professor Weinstein wrote a letter to Evergreen faculty, objecting to a change in the college's decades-old tradition of observing a "Day of Absence" during which students and faculty of a minority race would voluntarily stay home from campus to highlight their contributions to the college.  The announced change would flip the traditional event, asking white participants to attend an off-campus program while the on-campus program was designated for participating people of color.  Weinstein said this established a dangerous precedent:

“There is a huge difference between a group or coalition deciding to voluntarily absent themselves from a shared space in order to highlight their vital and underappreciated roles....and a group encouraging another group to go away. The first is a forceful call to consciousness, which is, of course, crippling to the logic of oppression. The second is a show of force, and an act of oppression in and of itself.”

— Bret Weinstein, in a message to a campus email list

Please answer the questions after watching the video presentation below:
1) After watching the video, what were your initial impressions of what you observed?

2) Analyze the rhetoric of both the students and Prof. Weinstein. Explain what you heard, and if the rhetoric and word choices helped or hurt their arguments. Please be detailed and explain your thoughts clearly.

The COVID-19 Mask Slips: Richard Branson Edition

I saw this on Vox Day's site, and it's exactly what I've been telling students for the past 15 years:

The multimillionaires who constantly scream at you "how dare you!" are always clowning on you - laughing at your gullibility and herd-like behavior.

Richard Branson, the Virgin Airways guy, is one of these people.

How do we know this?  Apparently, during this Novel Coronavirus time, people's true colors have come out:

Branson is one of these guys who is always howling about "climate change" and how you need to do more, give up more of your money via a carbon tax, be more afraid, and feel more despair.  This from a guy who sends jet airplanes around the world, the most carbon dumping / polluting machines in the industry.

Here's the best part. Nassim Nicholas Taleb is loudly and very publicly calling him out on his rank hypocrisy:

"However, the author reserved his most scathing analysis for Branson, whom he dubbed a “tax refugee” who “walks around virtue-faking with [the] TED [and] Davos crowd.”

“He lives in the British Virgin Islands and since the UK has no worldwide taxation, [he] pays no taxes. Yet wants the UK taxpayer's backstop,” Taleb said, in a blistering tweet.

Let him go bust. Planes will fly with new owners!"

Taleb is right.  Here's a guy, multimillionaire Branson, who lives where he won't get taxed, wants to raise taxes on you because the earth is getting hotter, and he isn't paying his employees because COVID-19 has decimated his airline business.

He cares so deeply about the planet .... about the climate .... about people.  Yeah right.  Maybe from this day forward, when one of these people berates you and wants you to pay more for everything because the earth's temperature might rise a degree and a half in the next 100 years, you will ignore him.

COVID-19 and Trump Derangement Syndrome

I wonder sometimes if our Rulers, the beautiful Cloud People, realize that the internet is available to us, the Proles.

Let's look at this right now.

This article is from Mid February, and not only is the U. of Minnesota professor mentioned in the article angry at the 'emotional or political' reaction by Trump, the World Health Organization was explaining to the world that anything speaking badly about the Chinese Flu or limiting travel (Trump) was 'racist'.  Then, an Italian Mayor, on the advice of the WHO, thought that this would be a good idea, because woke:

Lastly, the NY Times, on the front page, the other day, continued the pretense of being a newspaper.  Look at the headline of the lower left:

So do you see how this works?  Limiting travel and pinning the Novel Coronavirus on the Chinese is racist and bad.  Then, 5 weeks later, when the news is different, then the 'unfilled posts' within the Trump administration are 'bad' and we learn the common denominator for the "news" by these repellent organizations is what it has always been:

Orange Man Bad.

G. E. D. Report #47 - What's Going on Under the Coronavirus Hood

We are at the stage of the Novel Coronavirus where the Federal Government has produced and aid package. You're getting $1200 if you qualify. Is there anything else going on? Why are the politicians, particularly the ones here in NYC saying weird, irrational things? What happens if you follow the money and the power? The Corporate Media, always faithfully performing its usual role of Keeper of the Narrative, is on overdrive on this one.

Let's take a look at a few things going on 'under the hood' during this unique time we're in right now.

COVID-19 - Tucker: Why are media pundits trying to discredit hydroxychloroquine?

I have a mature group of 12th graders this year.  I can't tell them this too often as it goes to their heads.  You know how 18 year olds are.

These High School seniors are in a Public Speaking class.  This means we explore the many ways that people try to manipulate, cajole, fool, and snooker the masses of people who are listening.

Because we are in the time of the Novel Coronavirus, the Corporate Media has proverbially put the gas pedal to the floor because Orange Man Bad.  Tucker Carlson has pointed this out clearly in this video.  Unbelievably, anything suggested by Trump is automatically derided and seen as 'bad'.

I gave the 12th graders whose job it is to critique (and eventually create) presentations this assignment.  I'll keep you posted as to what they said.

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Current Events: Tucker: Why are media pundits trying to discredit hydroxychloroquine?
Tucker Carlson argues that the Corporate Media is willing to lie to you, put your lives at risk, and perhaps kill Americans, just to get back at Pres. Trump. Whatever Pres. Trump says, they're against, however risky to public health it may be.

1. In your own words, what is his argument?
2. Analyze his mannerisms, phraseology, and images chosen. Did he choose well?
3. Does Carlson prove his point?
4. If we were in class, I would have chosen this video as an example of the deceitful nature of the lying, repellent, abysmally awful media outlets like CNN. Would this video help or hurt my case? Please explain.

Blackpilled on Nostalgia

Devon Stack of Blackpilled is one of my regular go-to sources for current affairs.  His pillstreams are some of the few well thought out streams out there.  He comments on the things going on now, and he's skilled at mapping out the media campaigns that crushed Real America.  In case you think there weren't Hollywood and other Media Corporations who directed themselves to rid a once proud and free nation of the good, the beautiful and the true, a small perusal of Blackpilled will cure you of your mistaken belief.

In case you think I'm coming out of nowhere with this kind of thing, all you need to do is look at this abomination of a judicial decision on Free Speech.