Just nice.
According to Tubby and his mob, if you’re anti-fascist you’re a terrorist. Having declared antifa (obligatory mouse type: not a real organization) a “domestic terrorist” organization, he’s now also calling it a “foreign terrorist” organization -- which, even if it were a real organization, and domestic-terroristic, wouldn’t make any sense. Tubby apparently thinks “foreign” makes it sound worse -- maybe next week he’ll sign an Executive Order declaring it a Satanic terrorist organization.
I draw your attention, folks, to how few news outlets, in reporting this lunacy, actually tell their readers and viewers that there is no formal organization called antifa, that the word just means anti-fascist, and Tubby (along with the Prestige Press) is indulging a particularly bizarre fantasy (and a dangerous one for decent people because, if they can make up a terrorist group that must be wiped out and say it’s composed of people who oppose their policies, well, sky’s the limit as far as the next dictatorial phase goes).
One good thing about totalitarian nightmares, though -- it’s fuel for my muse. So here’s the first of this week’s free-to-nonsubscribers ROY EDROSO BREAKS IT DOWN episode, in which decompensating Tubby freestyles on the theme.
The other freebie is about Bari Weiss of conservative gripesite The Free Press taking over CBS News. This is very obviously a rightwing fever dream come true, as may be seen by the celebrations among Trumpkins like Caitlin Flanagan. Though everyone actually in the business knows Weiss was dropped like a depth charge by Larry Ellison to destroy what's left of the prestigious news organization, Flanagan tells us in “Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss”:
That she will somehow denigrate the storied CBS News… is a complete misreading of her and her vision, which is to bring the traditional methods of American journalism back to the news, and also to build a culture of ideas.
And what does Flanagan mean by that?
This is exactly what she’s done at The Free Press, which covers a variety of stories, the most popular of which -- Uri Berliner’s explanation of NPR’s decline, for example --are those that hold powerful institutions to account.
It seems by "the traditional methods of American journalism" and "a culture of ideas" Flanagan means the same bitching about Liberal Media Bias that conservatives like Weiss have been doling out in lieu of journalism for decades -- except, thanks to the billionaires’ takeover of American journalism, there's almost nothing even resembling a liberal media left for her to oppose, especially now that CBS News has been mummified and locked away in Bari’s mansion like Homer in "A Rose For Emily."
Anyway, ROY EDROSO BREAKS IT DOWN has one for you on Weiss getting to know her staff. Oh, and I shouldn’t leave Trump’s failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize unmentioned. Some folks think he should be pleased that the awardee -- who seems like kind of a nightmare herself -- thanked Trump in her moment of victory. But you know what the old narcissist is like. I’m sure he’s taking it like a disappointed, jealous Oscar nominee hearing his name mentioned in the winner’s speech -- not as a gracious gesture, but as a way to rub it in that he lost. Take some comfort from the fact that, powerful as they may be, they can never be truly happy.
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