Media/Journalism Cringe Megathread - Hot off the Presses

[Zachowon]

...except to the press

that rumor came from somewhere and I'd bet $10 it was someone who glowed in the dark

We get a lot of rumors we have to go through and figure out if true...
It isn't as easy to tell the diffrencr as people think

 

[Rocinante]

I definitely did not want Trump to lose.
But the point is, the president didn't even know about the rumor because the military IC doesn't release rumors

THEY LITERALLY RELEASED A FUCKING RUMOR AND YOU'RE DEFENDING IT!

 

[Doomsought]

Remember, the pentagon also performed a silent mutiny under trump and ignored his orders regarding troop movement.

 

[LindyAF]

tbh @Zachowon you should think about what your line is. What's your threshold for something the institutions you value and are loyal to (military, spooks, cops, etc.) could do, that you would at least not defend *that specific action* and a threshold past which you would not defend them generally. Because you ought to have a line, and I imagine in your head you have to think that you have a line.

 

[Zachowon]

I am in the military to defend the constitution. The mikitary has yet to betrsy it.

THEY LITERALLY RELEASED A FUCKING RUMOR AND YOU'RE DEFENDING IT!

...
I literally said they released a statement saying unverified rumor of it happening.
Before they even let the president know.
I am saying it was literally just a rumor and they even said it was.
I am only defending the wording they fucking used

 

[Rocinante]

I am in the military to defend the constitution. The mikitary has yet to betrsy it.


...
I literally said they released a statement saying unverified rumor of it happening.
Before they even let the president know.
I am saying it was literally just a rumor and they even said it was.
I am only defending the wording they fucking used

So now you're saying it's a rumor, but in your last post you JUST SAID

president didn't even know about the rumor because the military IC doesn't release rumors

So which is it? They released a rumor to the media, or they don't release rumors? These are mutually exclusive claims.

 

[PsihoKekec]

I am in the military to defend the constitution. The mikitary has yet to betrsy it.

Through your motardation you wouldn't be able to recognize betrayal of constitution unless the revelation came through your chain of command. Military took part in concentrated effort to remove the President of the USA, which is clear violation of Constitution, but you refuse to accept that due to your blind belief in your higher ups.

 

[Clanner Moment]

The GOP is stuck in a losing battle against immigration

While playing hardball may put points on the board in the short term, the GOP’s broadly anti-immigration platform is a losing strategy in the long term

thehill.com

"Loving" these cover-your-ass articles from former Republican congressman booted out by Trumper types in primaries. There was another one by John Boehner over in politico that was basically an ad for his book about being house speaker.
Denver Riggleman was defeated by a guy who wanted to cut legal immigration, no wonder he's still pissed.

 

[DarthOne]

Modernity is ending, this is actually par for the course when a modern period ends everything ends up being taken to parody levels of extreme, then you get a series of civil wars and from the ashes of those civil wars some one rises and says no. The time for experimentation is over every one is sick of this shit we are going back to the old ways fuck this.

This has all happened before and it will happen again.

Good. It can’t happen soon enough for me. Though I wish there was a way to avoid the bloodshed and destruction. But sadly, the world doesn’t work that way.

 

[f1onagher]

The GOP is stuck in a losing battle against immigration

While playing hardball may put points on the board in the short term, the GOP’s broadly anti-immigration platform is a losing strategy in the long term

thehill.com

"Loving" these cover-your-ass articles from former Republican congressman booted out by Trumper types in primaries. There was another one by John Boehner over in politico that was basically an ad for his book about being house speaker.
Denver Riggleman was defeated by a guy who wanted to cut legal immigration, no wonder he's still pissed.

The question is if he really believes his own BS or is trying to suck up to his new Democratic friends now that the right kicked him out for snake oil and spinelessness. I can have respect for a person that tries honestly, gets it wrong, and then takes the loss when he loses, but so many of these neocons don't bother even taking a break before they slither over to the Democrats for headpats and money.

 

[Husky_Khan]

David Ignatius, respected Washinton Insider, novelist, Professor, filmmaker, reporter and columnist whose one of the few journalists out there who might actually have some sort of instant name recognition. The Federalist penned a column pointing out his many, many, many silly claims he's made that were almost always based off of anonymous 'intelligence' sources and turned out wrong and yet treated as pure gospel when released.

Deep State Mouthpiece Retaliates Against Staffer Who Uncovered Russia Collusion Hoax

Kash Patel Exposed the Russia Collusion Hoax. Now, the intel and media figures behind the hoax are trying to get their revenge.

thefederalist.com

Such as on the Iraq War:

after the anonymously sourced claims he helped peddle to launch the Iraq War were found to be false, he said, “Personally I don’t much care if the U.S. reports about weapons of mass destruction prove to be imaginary.”

Or the Russian Bounty Story:

In the last year alone, he pushed the fake news about Russia paying bounties for American soldiers in Afghanistan.

Or how Trump supposedly snubbed visiting the Aisne-Marne Memorial because he hated the military:

He pushed the anonymously sourced Atlantic claim — disputed by more than a dozen on-the-record and first-hand sources, contemporary weather reports, government documents, and other sourced information — that Trump avoided paying respects at Aisne-Marne cemetery in France because he hated soldiers.

Or how General Michael Flynn, Trumps 1st National Security Advisor supposedly violated the 1799 Logan Act:

Most notably, when intelligence operatives couldn’t get even otherwise credulous Washington Post reporters to run with their absurd suggestion that Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn may have violated an obscure and never-used 1799 law called the Logan Act by doing the expected and prudent thing of talking to a Russian ambassador as President Trump’s incoming National Security Advisor, they had no trouble getting the columnist Ignatius to regurgitate their spin on the criminal leak of classified information about those phone calls. Ignatius’ complicity was a key component driving the continued investigation of Flynn by his political opponents and launching the hysterical belief among many on the left that Donald Trump had won in 2016 by being a traitor who had colluded with Russia to steal the election. It and follow-up regurgitations from the intelligence community also helped secure the expensive and cumbersome Special Counsel probe that caused the Trump administration so much pain. It turned out that not a single American was found to have colluded with Russia to steal the election. Nevertheless, Ignatius clings bitterly to the conspiracy theory.

What is this highly respected New York Times and Washington Post reporter currently working on?

He's trying to retaliate against a random White House staffer named Kash Petal, who committed the crime of investigating and debunking many of the claims made by the Left Wing media based on the criminal leaks made by anonymous sources within the government (or Deep State) if you prefer.

The Daily Beast had a source, anonymous of course, calling him Devin Nunes’ “Torquemada,” in the early days of his work. The New York Times also singled him out for abuse for his work exposing the Russia collusion hoax that they had pushed. The attacks always use anonymous sources. (Incidentally, the best thing about the Times attack was when it strongly suggested Patel’s hockey team “The Dons” — named for legendary Canadian hockey announcer Don Cherry — was actually named in honor of Donald Trump.)

Now, Ignatius’ anonymous sources claim that it is Patel who is “facing” an investigation by Department of Justice officials for “possible improper disclosure of classified information.” It’s impossible to know if such a potential investigation is real or just another one of the made-up claims that Ignatius is always eager to peddle.

He doesn’t say that Patel is “under” investigation, but “facing” one. He claims this potential investigation would be something that arose out of a complaint from an “intelligence agency,” but it’s impossible to know if that’s true or just something being said for the purpose of another Russia collusion hoax-style operation. One intelligence official said that while anyone can start an investigation, if Patel’s enemies had a legitimate claim against him, some evidence would have been provided. Ignatius provides no substantiation for the claim. But at least he didn’t accuse him of violating the Logan Act!

To take just one example, Ignatius claims that Patel was “a senior adviser to acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell and his successor, John Ratcliffe, helping lead their efforts to remove senior career intelligence officers.” In fact, Patel was never an adviser, senior or otherwise, to Ratcliffe. And Ratcliffe never removed any senior career intelligence officials when he was Director of National Intelligence.

The article continues to go on to explain how David Ignatius has been oxymoronically brushing off the fears of some sort of "Deep State Conspiracy" against Trump and the Public while also praising the said Deep State for engaging in efforts to work against Trump and having their operations exposed to the aforementioned Public or as David Ignatius actually concludes:

The third takeaway is the most perplexing and, in an odd way, reassuring. The truth is that for all the roadblocks these aides put in Trump’s way, he had the authority as commander in chief to do what he wanted in national security: declassify and release documents, hire and fire people, direct agencies to take actions he wanted. Facing resistance from courageous officials who sought to protect the government, Trump in many cases simply backed down.

As bad as this story was, in other words, it could have been much worse.

God, imagine what damage to the mythical Deep State could've been done if the Deep State actually had to face the accountability of being hired or fired, following the direction of the Commander-in-Chief or being asked to declassify and release documents. But thankfully these courageous mythical Deep State operators sought to protect the government from Commander in Chief.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Keith Olbermann is apparently still alive and as irrelevant as ever. He apparently blocked Rose McGowan, the #Me Too activist and Weinstein Rape Victim for having the audacity to appear on Fox News and say Democrats (as well as Republicans) are part of a Cult.



She's clearly distressed by this.

 

[gral]

Who is Keith Olbermann? I ask this non-ironically.

 

[Bear Ribs]

Who is Keith Olbermann? I ask this non-ironically.

CNN Sports commentator who decided his history of talking about fouls made him qualified to discuss politics. Notable for being so extreme (among other things he's made death threats against people for disagreeing with him) NBC fired him for being too far-left for their left-leaning commentary show.

You can get a decent idea of his thinking from this tweet:


Yeah, he thinks calling a golf tournament "The Masters" is an endorsement of slavery.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Who is Keith Olbermann? I ask this non-ironically.

Yeah he was a sports Commentator for ESPN who decided he had opinions that were politically relevant and during the Bush-era was one of the biggest Cable News Commentators railing against Fox News and had a famously one sided rivalry with Bill O'Reilly of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor. Not that there was much competition, I think Keith Olbermann had like... a quarter or a third of the viewership of the O'Reilly Factor for their entire time they competed against each other in Prime Time.

He was also known for his "Worst Person in the World" Segment where about half of the time, the worst person in the world was the guy who was constantly beating him in the ratings, the aforementioned Bill O'Reilly.

Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World!"

MRC researchers tabulated every person or group designated by MSNBC Countdown host Keith Olbermann as either the "Worse," "Worser," or "Worst Person in the World!" from the time he began the segment on June 30, 2005 through June 23, 2006, nearly one full year. To be classified as...

www.mrc.org

This rivalry (which O'Reilly neglected to acknowledge the existence of Olbermann by name) grew more and more pathetic to the point Olbermann once donned a Bill O'Reilly mask and made the Nazi Salute on Primetime Television.

This is peak Olbermann...

He also cribbed off of famous journalists/writers like Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and George Orwell and often took their famous statements or phrases and quotations and used them as his own signatures on his news show. Eventually numerous scandals ended his eight year career on MSNBC.

So he moved to the even more progressive channel, Current TV which has like ten viewers. Sadly Keith Olbermann was just as much an asshole there, refusing to co-promote with other hosts and personalities on that show or even mention or interact with the previous shows host or introduce the following shows host (ie toss) among other things and was fired from there for a few years.

He practically fell from the public view for four years until 2016 when he thought Trump would make him relevant and in 2016 he decided to lead #TheResistance by doing a YouTube show hosted by GQ from their buildings literal basement. It was basically him ranting against Trump to ever smaller audiences until about a year later when that show was cancelled... I mean Keith Olbermann ended the show because he totally thought the Trump Presidency would be over prematurely.



Yes this video was made in November of 2017...

What a Prophet!

EDIT:

Oh also this is a nice SNL skit of him:

 

[gral]

So he's a well-connected loon, or at the very least plays the role of one.

 

[Clanner Moment]

Doesn't get more blatant than this.

On another note:



Finally:

How ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Is The ‘Fallout: New Vegas’ Of This Generation

For all its faults, ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ is far from a bad experience; it may well be one of the most addictive games of its type in years.

www.forbes.com

 

[Husky_Khan]

Doesn't get more blatant than this.

On another note:

I don't even know what White Boy Summer is (looks like White Guy Rap) but I can tell the article is Bullshit solely because it's still April.

Also the White Rapper guy (again assuming his identity) probably bangs more lesbians then the New Yorker writer does.

Though that picture of her in front of the washing machines is kinda appealing though. Some Men like a Woman who know their way around a Laundry room. Being a journalist with the New Yorker you know she all about digging through your dirty laundry.

 

[Clanner Moment]

Questions about why one would ever venture into the breitbart comments pages aside, I have to say that if this is the worst possible snapshot of the comments this guy could find, it paints the community in a better light than he thinks.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Questions about why one would ever venture into the breitbart comments pages aside, I have to say that if this is the worst possible snapshot of the comments this guy could find, it paints the community in a better light than he thinks.

The only thing more heinous then some of those comments was how Twitter had to block #UncleTim trending on Twitter.