FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2024
First the toad-smoking expert, now this: The kind of programming being offered by the Fox News Channel is truly hard to believe.
As we noted yesterday, Jesse Watters' latest book was finally published this week. We saw "finally" because Watters has been promoting the book, day after day and night after night, for the past several months on the aforementioned "news channel."
As you may recall from yesterday's lesson, the Watters tome carries this title:
Get It Together: Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe
As you may recall, the remarkably unembarrassed publisher describes the project as follows:
Watters set out to interview a few dozen radical activists to find out where their wild ideas came from. When he did, he discovered that most of these figures from the liberal fringe actually need a therapist.
Their liberal causes have been generated by people who are illogical, emotional, and ill-informed. Watters uncovered some common threads among the personal stories of these liberals—childhood traumas, broken relationships, and a lack of introspection.
We know! This sounds like some sort of badly underfed parody project. In fact, the undertaking actually seems to be dumber and more pathetic than that.
As you may recall: To celebrate publication week, Watters is interviewing some of these figures from the liberal fringe on his prime time "cable news" program.
Yesterday, we linked you to Wednesday's night interview with "toad-smoking expert Hector Gonzalez." Last night, Watters' "Get It Together" segment started off like this:
WATTERS (3/21/24): It's a new edition of the Get It Together series, where some of the people I interviewed for the book come back and talk to us on Primetime.
Today, we're skipping to Chapter 16 to talk to "the decriminalizing drug guru."
Meet Doc Gunn, a drug guru who wants to legalize everything. He started getting high at 12, He doesn't believe people caught with drugs should be arrested, and he joins us now.
What's up, Doc?
What's up, Doc? Yes, that's what he said!
At this point, up popped Gunn himself, seeming to present as a badly underdeveloped performance artist of some undefined type. A short, inane interview followed, ending with a mercifully short bit of Gunn's musical artistry.
It's very, very hard to believe that Fox is presenting this sort of dreck as part of its "cable news" programming. It's hard to know what the typical Fox News viewer is supposed to think as he or she, sitting at home, watches this manifest idiocy.
(In truth, the propaganda message is clear. Liberal activists are all nutty. Please don't speak to liberals at any point in your life!)
To watch the mercifully brief segment with Gunn, you can start by clicking here. When Gunn comes on, you'll be watching "cable news" inanity at its most fully accomplished.
It's very, very hard to believe that such manifest nonsense is actually put on the air. It's also hard to believe that Fox can be producing such undisguised idiocy with no one else saying a word!
To watch Wednesday's interview with the toad-smoking expert, you can start by clicking this. Full disclosure:
Two hours later, at 10 p.m., things don't get a lot better when the Gutfeld! program comes on.
ReplyDelete"This sounds like some sort of badly underfed parody project."
It sounds exactly like Corby, the resident troll of your comment threads here.
At parody? Albeit unintentional.
DeleteIt’s also different from Corby because Watters finds his guests nutty, but likable.
DeleteFrom members of Trump’s family to a senior in high school whose first pulling of the lever will be for Trump, Corby would do fifteen paragraphs on their perfidy.
I am not Corby.
Delete@Cecelia 7:44 PM
DeleteThat makes sense. I'm sure you know the truism that conservatives think that liberals are stupid, and liberals that conservatives are evil.
There's a reason for that: the liberal creed is, as you know, breathtakingly dumb.
not nearly as dumb as thinking the 2020 was stolen and that Putin is leveling Ukrainian cities because of neo-Nazis
DeleteCorby never argued in favor of drug legalization.
ReplyDeleteTotal legalization has been tried in Europe with good results. Medicalizing addictions works better than punishment. But the main benefit would be undercutting the cartels and organized crime that thrives on the drug black market.
An analogy is to prohibition of alcohol, which fed organized crime (Al Capone for example). When it became legal it could be regulated. With uncontrolled quality of narcotics and especially fentanyl, people buying street drugs don't know what they are getting, which contributes to overdose deaths.
Treating this as an outlandish idea doesn't help our society deal with a serious problem.
11/23
DeleteSeventy percent of U.S. adults say that the use of marijuana should be legal, up slightly from 68% recorded from 2020 to 2022
DeleteDoesn't the same logic apply to pro-gun advocacy?
Are you for legal gun ownership?
I don't have a strong position on gun ownership and aren't familiar with the statistics or laws etc.
DeleteJust intended to point out that it's not an outlandish idea due to the huge support. And it's a good idea for the reasons you stipulated and many other reasons as well.
DeleteAn assorted sampler of anti-oxidant teas and vegetables offset most of the health effects of cannabis intoxication on the brain.
DeleteAny drug that gets really hard on people should be at safe-injection clinics that help people quit better than jail cells that only break people down to frail husks of their past selves.
There's no comparison to guns. A bag of drugs will not accidentally explode in your pocket and get someone else so high they die. These are not the same things.
Most people can handle guns reasonably well, as long as society isn't overloaded with too many of them. But cops don't like being trained on non-lethal skills and that creates fear. Business lobbies keep wages down and that creates uncertainty. Rents go up, groceries go up, mistrust goes up. You have to have stability in society to fix crime. Just changing drugs to be more or less legal isn't going to fix all crime either, there's still going to be white collar crime. It's just going to make some of that corruption happen with lobbyists getting dispensary contracts, basically the deals will still favor certain monopolies it will just be taxed.
Actually, in the spring of 2017 Corby did argue in favor of drug legalization. Strenuously.
DeleteI’m for mandatory gun ownership.
DeleteAnd forced daily heroin injections?
DeleteThat’s better than forced vaccinations.
DeleteAmerican white people are the easiest group to panic and that's why Republicans do it every day.
DeleteActually, Corby did not do that. Maybe you’re thinkng of Gumby?
DeleteI’m for decriminalizing marijuana and for ownership of legally registered firearms.
DeleteMarijuana is already on its way to being decriminalized in all states. The other drugs are the concern now. Are you for decriminalizing fentanyl and heroin Cecelia?
DeleteAnd talking about firearms without talking about assault weapons is not any kind of discussion either.
Guns, race and to some degree even Israel are not really brought up to be talked about. They're just red meat for people.
DeleteThat doesn't mean people aren't getting shot, poisoned by racist city planners sticking highways through their neighborhoods, and it doesn't mean the genocide isn't happening.
It just means those are emotional trip wires that the elite know how to use to play the American people like a fiddle.
Corby has moved to Vidalia. I mean Vandalia.
ReplyDeleteGlobal warming is impossible, because there is no globe. The Earth is flat.
ReplyDelete"(In truth, the propaganda message is clear. Liberal activists are all nutty. Please don't speak to liberals at any point in your life!)"
ReplyDeleteOur Host has put his finger directly and correctly on the pertinent dynamic in play here. The point here--like the point of the awful Libs Of TikTok site--is to pick some random nut and paint them as typical of all those who aren't proper members in good standing of the current iteration of the Red Tribe.
What baffles me is why Our Host can't quite seem to come to the same conclusion when Katie Britt goes on the air to wail about the dangers of immigration and trafficking by "the cartels." The evidence is just as phony, but the intent is the same.
It's not really that hard to understand why.
DeleteBob is shining a light on anti-immigrant paranoia because it happens to work very effectively.
DeleteTrump leads in every swing state. That's how tired of Biden people are.
ReplyDeleteThat's how clueless the average American is. FIFY
DeleteAfter 8 years of Hillary Clinton as President, for leading the 2016 Presidential election polls, its time for her to pass the torch to another Democratic Party Presidential candidate.
DeleteAre 6:29 and I, the only people who know how to read the polls correctly?
Trump wants to be president to fire the people who could arrest him.
ReplyDeleteBiden is about to sign a "don't say genocide" bill that immediately cuts did to Palestine if they say the word.
They're both huge crooks.
Trump makes deals with the middle class. Biden makes deals with progressive economists.
On the economy Biden is better but he really should be on trial for war crimes.
The devils are blackballing the Palestinians out of suing their colonizers with HR4665
Delete"A) None of the funds appropriated under the heading “Economic Support Fund” in this Act may be made available for assistance for the Palestinian Authority, if after the date of enactment of this Act—
(i) the Palestinians obtain the same standing as member states or full membership as a state in the United Nations or any specialized agency thereof outside an agreement negotiated between Israel and the Palestinians; or
(ii) the Palestinians initiate an International Criminal Court (ICC) judicially authorized investigation, or actively support such an investigation, that subjects Israeli nationals to an investigation for alleged crimes against Palestinians."
Do you mean blackmailing instead of blackballing (which is something different)?
DeleteEnglish idioms are hard for you troll farm workers in Eastern Europe.
"Trump makes deals with the middle class."
DeleteHe sure does. In exchange for a vote for him for President, Trump will give rich and the corporations a huge tax break.
What middle class American voter wouldn't take that deal?
The American middle class is benefitting from Biden and Trump kissing Saudi ass for low oil prices. Biden has kept in place some Trump protectionist policies on trade.
DeleteTrump is a shameful grifter, but let's not pretend he didn't try to butter a few people up on the way either. If you really want to know your enemy, you should admit that about him.
I'm not here to make liberals or conservatives feel comfortable, just to tell the truth.
DeleteMy great grandparents were chased out of Eastern Europe by the German military, put into camps and exterminated to prove a pseudo-scientific argument that a failed art student believed in.
Why not try to stand up to your own government for a change like you ask every other people on the planet to do? You have more freedom of speech than anyone. Unless you work for Boeing.
To blackball someone means to withhold support or endorsement, you huge American nerd.
DeleteMeanwhile, crickets from the Howler's sprawling campus as NBC hires Ronna (2020 election saboteur) Romney to provide her "incisive" views on the upcoming election.
ReplyDeleteWho's next? ABC hires Nick Fuentes for his cultural takes?
In the traditional “liberal media” a hand on the scale for the Right was always in evidence. To be fair, the Republicans don’t have a lot of voices that can even pretend to be honest people anymore.
DeleteCecelia Hall, an alumna of DePaul University, is a mezzo soprano.
ReplyDeletehttps://ceceliahall.com/
Anyone tell her that her name is misspelled?
DeleteThe legendary Bobby Hull, who left us last year, spelled it correctly.
DeleteJoe Biden is getting tired of Bibi Netanyahu.
ReplyDeletehttps://jabberwocking.com/israel-just-cant-stop-insulting-americans/
Chuck Schumer stood up to Netanyahu and then Biden undercut his authority by reaassuring him on a private phone call he has his back. Chuck got cucked.
DeleteThe ultimate problem is that Palestinians won't stop attacking Israelis.
DeleteGod bless Jewish people.
DeleteAlso, fuck Israel.
If you stop stealing from people they do tend to calm down.
DeleteScott Lemieux is cheerful:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/03/green-shoots-2
M Emmet Walsh has died.
ReplyDelete"Trump Creates Conditions for Post-Election Eruption
ReplyDeleteMarch 23, 2024 at 8:51 am EDT By Taegan Goddard (Political Wire)
David Smith: “A bloodbath. The end of democracy. Riots in the streets. Bedlam in the country. Donald Trump has made apocalyptic imagery a defining feature of his presidential election campaign, warning supporters that if he does not win – and avoid criminal prosecution – America will enter its death throes.”
“The prophecies of doom, repeated ad nauseam at rallies and on social media, have raised fears that the former president is making an electoral tinderbox that could explode in November. While there has been much commentary assessing the implications of a Trump win, some experts warn that a Trump defeat could provide an equally severe stress test of American democracy.”
Crazy people should not have guns. To that end, Biden has done the following:
ReplyDelete"The vice president will announce the launch of the first-ever National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center, which will aim to help states effectively implement red-flag laws through training and technical assistance. The center will be funded through a Department of Justice grant stemming from the bipartisan gun control bill that President Biden signed into law in 2022.
Harris also will announce an official call to action for states to pass red-flag laws and to use the resources from the bipartisan gun control bill to implement them.
Red-flag laws allow a judge to take away a firearm from someone based on the suspicion that the owner could use it to harm themselves or others.
Under legislation signed by Biden in 2022, six of 21 states eligible for funding have accessed dollars through the program for states that have approved red-flag laws. Fifteen other states have red flag laws and are eligible for funding have not used money from the program so far. Twenty-nine other states have not approved red-flag laws and cannot access the money.
Biden announced in February, on the five-year anniversary of Parkland shooting, that the Department of Justice will give more than $231 million to states for crisis intervention projects, such as red-flag programs."
If Republicans were persuadable, their minds would be changed by this:
ReplyDeletehttps://digbysblog.net/2024/03/22/viral-excellence/
Watch the video.
Why would their minds be changed by that?
DeleteSpeaking of people who need therapy, Waters should look at the right. People who threaten public officials, believe things that are not factually true, are sexist and have all sorts of psychological disorders.
ReplyDeleteThis impulse to say everyone you disagree with is crazy is just blaming mentally ill people for political actions of the media system. Regular people go along with media hysteria for perfectly natural reasons, like wanting to get along with their neighbors who consume and identify with the same brand loyalty.
DeleteBiden is a self-declared Zionist my guy
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