The meme will always be true. You simply can't hate them as much as they deserve. And then you're occasionally reminded that you still don't hate them enough.
Something occurred to me today, after Charlie Kirk's assassination, and the clips circling from predominantly MSNBC, but also CNN and such.
I can't speak for others, but I often think of "radical leftists" and more sort of "habitual leftists." The former skewing more young, and usually online, and the latter skewing older, sort of hippyish boomers, into Empathy™ and the like.
Well, seeing the absolutely insane and hateful shit MSNBC was pushing the day of a young man's murder, I was once again struck by how I don't hate journalists enough, despite my best efforts. MSNBC is mainstream, and appeals to the aforementioned sort of normie boomers and the like. Just like the radical left are being taught online, the boomers are being taught by MSNBC...they all think Charlie Kirk deserved to die.
That's the mainstream, corporate legacy media approved messaging: Charlie Kirk was a bad dude, brought this on himself, and probably deserved to get killed.
You think you hate journalists enough, but you don't. Because such a level of hatred is - probably for the best - physically fucking impossible.
The mainstream messaging for one of the most influential but milquetoast people on the right being gunned down in broad daylight, his life snuffed out...has been a muted, wink wink, nudge nudge...cheering.
I can't fully voice my disgust. This is insane, even for the media goblins. This shit puts "fiery but mostly peaceful" to shame in all but meme value. They're disgusting monsters.
Michael Malice is right about corporate journalists.
When I say corporate journalists are literal demons, only human in a biological sense, some people still think I am being hyperbolic or metaphorical
"Challenge accep-"
CHALLENGE FAILED
You and me both, brother.
And Jews but I repeat myself
Michael Malice is absolutely right about corporate journalists. So was William Techumseh Sherman
The best any journalist could ever be is a for-profit intelligence agent, and almost none of them are ethical enough do do that.
Right now, the corporate media are basically trying to groom the Neo-Lib Useful Idiots into thinking that there's nothing wrong with the narrative, and trying to keep them calm; while completely ignoring the murderousness of their radicals (of which many of them also are).
Their patting the TV slaves on the head and telling them to go back to sleep while their own hands are covered in blood.
I only hate journalists a tenth as much as they hate me.
I have long insisted it is quite fitting they name their award for journalism after Pulitzer. After all, he was a lying snake who printed blatant lies because it made him more money. And was worse than Hearst because at least Hearst was honest about the fact he was lying for money, instead of pretending he was a noble provider of "Truth" like Pulitzer.
EDIT: Also, based Sherman and is why he remains one of my favorite historical generals. Not that I would bring that up on many parts of the internet because a bunch of Leftist goons think he was some genocidal psychopath who wanted to kill all Southerners instead of a man who understood what war looked like and wanted it to end so he could reintegrate them.
Pulitzer was also head of the New York State Democratic party, one of the most powerful Democratic Party organizations in the US at the time. He started the Spanish American War
I thought Hearst egged on for war with Spain
As I recall they both did.
They both did, but like I said: Hearst was pretty up front of "Is it true? I dont know. I made good money though, and isnt that what matters?"
Pulitzer on the other hand was insistent that he was reporting true facts, only to have it come out later that he was also lying behind the scenes. Also, interestingly, unlike Hearst he was underpaying his paperboys to the point they started protesting and unionizing.
Zero surprise.
I had that sort of encounter with someone here on KiA2 just the other day. He insisted Sherman was a war criminal, while lecturing me on how you CANNOT apply the Geneva Convention to past wars...
Sherman hated war, his whole life he was consistent. He did fully understand that the best way to end a war is to end it fast.
I was mistaken in thinking they wanted him to run for president shortly after the war (They did ask him in 1871) but it was actually many years later when he "pulled a Sherman" with his "If nominated I will not run..." quote. He remained that popular for all those years.
Yeah. A lot of people talk about the March to the Sea as if he was doing it just out of spite. The reality is, the Deep South like Georgia, which had been away from the frontline and had never seen war while being the ones who pushed for it the hardest, he wanted to send a message. "You want a war so bad? Wish granted, let me show you what it looks like." And after the fact, he wanted to rebuild the South by industrializing it and improving its infrastructure to make it more like the North so that they wouldnt be left behind, just like Grant was.
On a side note, as much as the Far Left types glaze him, they forget that he took those same "You wanted a war, you got it" attitudes out West and used it against the Native Americans. IIRC, the tactic of hunting the buffalo to near extinction was his idea.
These people aren't journalists anyway. They are paid DNC shills wearing a title they don't deserve.
Journalists are just mercenaries of the corporation they work for.
That's offensive to mercs since they are usually doing it to get paid :p
Many journos these days are far more inclined in creating and supporting the narrative even if it means doing it for
hot pocketsfree.Even now, I am being shown that my hatred of journalists is not enough:
I saw the fact that TMZ journalists sounded like their were openly cheering and celebrating his dead moments before their producer confirmed it live on air.
https://xcancel.com/Peoples_Pundit/status/1965940601247129952#m
It's possible that they were all celebrating someone's birthday less than 10 seconds before they told their producer that Trump confirmed Charlie Kirk's death, but it is impossible for me to believe.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals. -Spiro Agnew