If one were to go by the way news stories are presented, over [let us say] the last 50 years, one could be forgiven for thinking that we already live in a "Skynet" world. It is amazing how many "things" do things. "Cars" run into buildings. "Guns" go off. knives cut people. All sorts of inanimate objects just up and decide to do stupid and/or harmful things.
Where is the individual human agency in all of this? In order to find responsible and/or culpable individuals, these arbitrators of truth need only find a way to be able to shift the blame to a conservative and/or Republican [or group there of] who in many cases take the blame for things that they were not even directly involved in.
Take for example the NRA. According to liberal/Democrat pundits and news media, the NRA is responsible for all mass shootings. In the case of the recent school shooting in Florida, apparently everyone from the FBI on down to the local school resource officer, all knew of this individual. Had been repeatedly warned by citizens of this individual and of his ill intent. Yet they all did NOTHING. The shooter committed his ugly act of violence and then every news person, liberal, and Democrat, quickly blamed the NRA and those evil gun owners for the disgusting acts of this individual.
Never mind that every level of Government knew of this "troubled" youth. Never mind that some [like the school resource officer] worked to shield this individual from accountability for prior bad acts. Never mind that those that have taken an oath to uphold the law and protect the populous [and are given arms with which to do so] chose to hid outside the building while unarmed adults and children attempted to protect and save the lives of others by acting as human shields and/or trying to stop the gunman. Nope. None of that matters. It is all the fault of those evil gun nuts and the NRA.
It is unimportant to these folks that the NRA is the oldest and [one of if not the] largest civil rights organization in the country. It is unimportant that the NRA worked/works to enable people of color to posses arms for self defense while the Democrats were working and continue to work to ensure they stay unarmed. Nor that as a group, members of the NRA are far more law abiding then the population at large (and CCW holders even more so). None of that matters.
We are told by these very same folks that only the police should have guns. That the average citizen can not be trusted with guns. Though if you listen to BLM, liberals, and Democrats, your average policeman is simply biding his time until he can gun down innocent person of color (but I digress).
So, where are the individual "people" and their agency in all of this?
On a related note, England (that once great country) has been held up by the American left as a model for America. A country that has seen the light on guns and [for all intent] has disarmed the population. Recently a retired couple was asleep in their home. The husband (of 78 years) heard a disturbance down stairs and went to investigate. He encountered two intruders burgling his home. He was accosted by one and taken into the kitchen where he continued to be threatened with a screw-driver, while his wife continued to sleep up stairs. When the other thief continued to ransack the home, the man got into a scuffle with the other [38 year old] thief. The elder managed to defend him self and stab the thief once with a kitchen knife. The two thieves fled. The injured man collapsed in the street, was taken to the hospital, and later died of his injury. The 78 year old was taken into custody and charged with murder. He may likely get off but he may not. THAT is what liberals want for America. They want you to cower in your home while thieves ransack the place and take what they will. They DON'T care if lose your property, your virtue (if you get raped), or your life. They want you defenseless and helpless. Do you?
Monday, May 7, 2018
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Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Instead of being a "reporter"...
Instead of being a "reporter", she apparently chose to be a unpaid intern for the Clinton campaign while at the same time drawing a salary from the New York Times. At least that is the impression one gets from reading this excerpt of Amy Chozick's book "Chasing Hillary" published in Vanity Fair.
Either Amy did not go to "Journalism" school, journalism degrees are not what they once were, or both (never underestimate the power of AND). This sample reads like a teen-age girl's diary of a week-end sleep over at the house of the girl the other girls don't really like but feel obligated to go to cause she is the head cheer leader.
I am curious as to why (as an example) the revelations in this chapter were not submitted by her to her employer for publishing while she was on the campaign trail with Hillary. Was it because Amy did not think it was the "truth" her paper wanted? Was it because despite all she saw, she NEEDED Hillary to win cause it was time for a woman Democrat? Was it something else or all of the above? Did she and her associates think that if they just kept putting more lipstick on this pig that they could help drag her over the finish line? To a degree I can get that. I get wanting "your" candidate to win so badly that pushing the fantasy you have in your head over the reality you see and experience makes some sort of strange sense, to a 6 year old but not to an adult who is supposed to be a professional.
You wonder why the media is held in such disregard? Why the label "fake news" has stuck (and stings you all so much)? Read your own book with "new eyes". Compare that book with what was actually published for the "deplorables" to read as the campaign was on-going. This would be submitted as exhibit A.
As a grown up, you are expected to not be so blinded by your hopes that you can't see reality. If you had spent more time actually looking at your candidate, her actions, reactions, and history, you maybe would have been able to realize that she was not and is not anything like what you wanted (a similar thing can be said about all of Obama's fans as well).
Look at it from my perspective for a moment if you could. The media did everything in their power to put a clean coat of glittery paint on Hillary and also did all they could to strip Donald to the bare wood. You showed Hillary in the best light you could even if it meant covering for and lying about her actions and misdeeds. You did all you could to show Donald in the worst light possible even if it meant lying and making up stories about him and/or not even doing the minimal amount of investigating expected of a "journalist". By election day, America was aware of every single Trump flaw real and imagined. America STILL preferred and picked him. Enough of us saw through your candidate and saw through you. If you and everyone else in your "profession" had bothered to actually do your jobs instead of acting like Clinton campaign interns, we all might have had a better choice. Don't forget, you all worked hand in hand with Clinton to make Trump the news until he won the primary because you all thought she could beat him easily. Just like your profession helped Clinton cheat to win the primary.
I was not a Trump fan during the primary season. Like many that voted for him, he was my second to last pick. There were any number of other candidates I would have been happier to pull the lever for but "you all" ensured that he was my only option. In hind-sight, thank you for that. I do not think the country would be where it is today (economy on the way up, employment on the way up, illegal immigration on the way down, conservative on the court, gov regulations on the way down, now this Korea stuff, wow) had any other Republican been elected (not that Donald is a Republican, but one takes what one can get).
As it seems that you in the media and your associates on the left can't seem to learn anything and are continuing to #resist, it looks like we are well on our way to 8 years of Trump. I suppose I owe you thanks for that too.
Either Amy did not go to "Journalism" school, journalism degrees are not what they once were, or both (never underestimate the power of AND). This sample reads like a teen-age girl's diary of a week-end sleep over at the house of the girl the other girls don't really like but feel obligated to go to cause she is the head cheer leader.
I am curious as to why (as an example) the revelations in this chapter were not submitted by her to her employer for publishing while she was on the campaign trail with Hillary. Was it because Amy did not think it was the "truth" her paper wanted? Was it because despite all she saw, she NEEDED Hillary to win cause it was time for a woman Democrat? Was it something else or all of the above? Did she and her associates think that if they just kept putting more lipstick on this pig that they could help drag her over the finish line? To a degree I can get that. I get wanting "your" candidate to win so badly that pushing the fantasy you have in your head over the reality you see and experience makes some sort of strange sense, to a 6 year old but not to an adult who is supposed to be a professional.
You wonder why the media is held in such disregard? Why the label "fake news" has stuck (and stings you all so much)? Read your own book with "new eyes". Compare that book with what was actually published for the "deplorables" to read as the campaign was on-going. This would be submitted as exhibit A.
As a grown up, you are expected to not be so blinded by your hopes that you can't see reality. If you had spent more time actually looking at your candidate, her actions, reactions, and history, you maybe would have been able to realize that she was not and is not anything like what you wanted (a similar thing can be said about all of Obama's fans as well).
Look at it from my perspective for a moment if you could. The media did everything in their power to put a clean coat of glittery paint on Hillary and also did all they could to strip Donald to the bare wood. You showed Hillary in the best light you could even if it meant covering for and lying about her actions and misdeeds. You did all you could to show Donald in the worst light possible even if it meant lying and making up stories about him and/or not even doing the minimal amount of investigating expected of a "journalist". By election day, America was aware of every single Trump flaw real and imagined. America STILL preferred and picked him. Enough of us saw through your candidate and saw through you. If you and everyone else in your "profession" had bothered to actually do your jobs instead of acting like Clinton campaign interns, we all might have had a better choice. Don't forget, you all worked hand in hand with Clinton to make Trump the news until he won the primary because you all thought she could beat him easily. Just like your profession helped Clinton cheat to win the primary.
I was not a Trump fan during the primary season. Like many that voted for him, he was my second to last pick. There were any number of other candidates I would have been happier to pull the lever for but "you all" ensured that he was my only option. In hind-sight, thank you for that. I do not think the country would be where it is today (economy on the way up, employment on the way up, illegal immigration on the way down, conservative on the court, gov regulations on the way down, now this Korea stuff, wow) had any other Republican been elected (not that Donald is a Republican, but one takes what one can get).
As it seems that you in the media and your associates on the left can't seem to learn anything and are continuing to #resist, it looks like we are well on our way to 8 years of Trump. I suppose I owe you thanks for that too.
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