SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2022
Also, who chooses the Washington Post? We never cease to be amazed by the other-worldly, dimwit drift of the online Washington Post.
As we type at 11 a.m., the online Post is offering six reports under banner headlines at the top of its endless front page.
Believe it or drop, these are the headlines on those reports. No, we aren't making this up:
Fierce claims to Crimea highlight slim chance of Russia-Ukraine peace deal
U.S. veterans take desperate road trip to remind America about its Afghan allies
To the people who willingly chose the middle seat: We have questions
Menopause transition ushers in memory problems for many women
Bored on a winter weekend? Try one of these cold-weather DIY projects.
The members of Fox’s NFL pregame show have bonds deeper than football
In case you're wondering, the third of those featured reports is really as dumb as it seems. Here's the full way that report is presented, including its silly sub-headline:
To the people who willingly chose the middle seat: We have questions
A viral tweet about a rebuffed seat-swap on a recent flight made people wonder: Who actually chooses to sit in the middle?
That report sits at the top of the Post's front page. This is the business they've chosen!
"Also, who chooses the Washington Post?"
ReplyDeleteMay we suggest, dear Bob, that no one reads this liberal-neocon shit. Ever.
The dembot establishment needs it to supplement/enhance its lies and bullshit narratives.
Here's their standard M.O.: leak some lie to WaPo (or any other major dembot publication), and then cite it as a proof of the abovementioned lie. Plus, replicate and amplify it via all the rest of the dembot media.
That's all. Simple, effective, efficient.
You can always tell the dolts that we’re
Deletebrought up on the real low level, bottom feeder right wing stuff. One tick is the insistence that “no one” reads a different viewpoint or ever could.
That’s how the came to start losing
the Presidential Election every time,
so often they had to start lying about it.
“who chooses the Washington Post?”
ReplyDeleteThey are still making money off of one Bob Somerby, subscriber.
Me, not so much.
Every time Somerby posts to his blog or anyone comments here, Google, one of the giant tech corporations, gathers all of our data for its enrichment.
ReplyDelete“ That report sits at the top of the Post's front page. ”
ReplyDeleteNo, it does not.
Who chooses the middle seat?
ReplyDeleteI do when I fly with my sig other.
Also, parents put their kids there to trap them. Three people traveling together will take it, happily.
But here is Somerby’s sense of entitlement. A man assumes he will get the window or aisle, depending on his preferences, leaving a woman to sit in the middle if she wants to talk to him, share food or not pretend she is traveling alone. No question of him sitting in the middle except in a late booking on a crowded flight. Hence Somerby’s question.
Somerby wonders why the question was news. Wouldn’t anyone involved in a business that seats people be interested? Why knock such social behavior questions? People in an enclosed space, such as a waiting room or classroom also separate themselves and don’t want to sit adjacent in the open seats close to others.
DeleteIt's not news. Maybe the complaint is that they should be posting news stories. But the Post is just reacting to the algorithm and presenting articles that they hope will get the most clicks. People prefer to read about non issues like this over reports from the front lines of our savage capitalist class war.
DeleteNotice that Bob mentions that these non-hard news pieces are featured all in the same banner headlines, right up at the top of the front page.
DeleteMiddle seat preference over memory loss in menopause?
Bob: “As we type at 11 a.m., the online Post is offering six reports under banner headlines at the top of its endless front page.”
“To the people who willingly chose the middle seat: We have questions
A viral tweet about a rebuffed seat-swap on a recent flight made people wonder: Who actually chooses to sit in the middle?
That report sits at the top of the Post's front page. This is the business they've chosen!”
The paper has plenty of hard news if you click the link to it at the top of the front page. It isn’t hard to find.
DeleteWhy should the paper change the font on its headlines to suit Somerby’s notions?
DeleteAnonymices, read up on stuff having to do with hard and soft news and placement and emphasis as to that.
DeleteAnonymouse 7:54pm, the only people out of adolescence that apparently aren’t aware of this are anonymices.
DeleteDon’t forget, Somerby doesn’t know it either.
DeleteAnonymouse 9:59pm, you’re projecting.
DeleteYou don't know what "projecting" means.
DeleteYou don’t know what “means” means.
DeleteYou don’t know what “know” means.
DeleteMore interesting question is who gets the armrest. The person in the middle should automatically get it, right?
ReplyDeleteOn both sides!
DeleteCould anyone top the dimwit drift in
ReplyDeleteBob’s work? He can’t even write
about his subject anymore.
ReplyDeleteWhat about the nuclear energy secretary (a good decent person, without a doubt) stealing luggage at airports?
Is this crazy or what, dear Bob?
...in the good-decent sort of way, obviously. Nowhere near as crazy as disagreeing with your liberal cult's brain-dead dogmas, like wimmin trapped inside men's bodies...
Kathryn Huff, not Sam Brinton, is the “nuclear energy secretary”. Brinton is in charge of nuclear waste disposal, an underling. Is your intent to diminish Huff (who is accused of nothing) or to exaggerate Brinton’s job’s importance, to make it appear the nation’s nuclear waste is in grave danger?
DeleteJeez, so it's even worse: the nuclear energy secretary hired that creature to take care of the nuclear waste?
DeleteWe wonder what dear Bob -- and the anthropologists living in caves inside his head -- have to say about it...
Brinton apparently stole a suitcase — it has nothing to do with his job performance.
DeleteThanks for the laughs, dear government scientist.
Delete...incidentally, isn't it their job performance? Tsk-tsk-tsk...
DeleteBrinton stole two suitcases.
DeleteTwo separate incidents.
Brinton is hot.
DeleteRight. Brinton works merely works in the nuclear area of the Energy Dept, manages the disposal of nuclear wastes, and steals stuff on the side.
DeleteWho could have guessed that this token might literally have more baggage than Delta.
Anonymouse6:19pm, so is his luggage.
DeleteHe hasn’t been convicted of stealing anything yet. Somerby would point that out.
DeleteCecelia has forgotten this isn’t a conservative blog, calling someone token without knowing anything about qualifications or performance. That is pure bigotry.
DeleteIn the old days, people would have said that a man who goes around wearing women's dresses was a little nuts. Stealing other peoples' suitcases, on at least two separate occasions, shows that this individual is indeed a little nuts. Shows that we were right about this, in the old days
DeleteDavid, are you sure you're not committing some sort of logical fallacy? An epiphenomenon or whatever?
DeleteAnonymouse9:58pm, I thought he was just an underling
DeleteIs this Brinton a descendent of George Brinton McClellan?
DeleteIt doesn't matter what type of job you are talking about -- calling someone token means you don't think they are qualified but were appointed for non-job-related reasons. It is a nasty term. But you are an ugly person, so that is about your speed.
DeleteMao mistakenly called him the energy secretary when he does not hold that position. You are the one calling him an "underling," which again is derogatory.
As Somerby has pointed out, there are two sides to a story and this person has not explained what happened much less been tried or convicted. convicted. There may be an explanation or there may not. Regardless, your attacks are premature and your evident glee that this has happened to a nonbinary person working for the govt is pure partisan malice.
You don't belong here. Your conservative friends will no doubt appreciate your jibes, but they just reveal what a despicable person you are. Years ago, the wife of the black mayor of Los Angeles was repeatedly arrested for shoplifting. Republicans tried to make hay out of that, which was cruel given that her crimes were the result of kleptomania, a mental illness. But that is what Republicans do. It didn't hurt Bradley politically, but it did make clear the endemic lack of empathy that afflicts too many Republicans, and is why they do not enact policies to help people in need, not just the reason for their heartless cruelty. I don't know this person's situation, but I do know that stealing suitcases has nothing to do with being non-binary, any more than it is related to being a govt employee with expertise in nuclear waste disposal.
And you show yourself to be an incredibly stupid person every time you open your constantly flapping mouth.
They are not a him. You, by calling them a him shows your hatred towards transgenders and gays and reveals the despicable hatred you have in your heart and a vile superiority complex you have over anyone who is not exactly like you are.
DeleteBOOYA!!!!!!!
DeleteAnonymouse11:12pm, it doesnt matter if Mr. Brinton is brilliant and highly qualified. Why wouldn’t he be?
DeleteThe people who chose this man and you have the judgment of a gnat.
He is utterly a token. He is the gold standard of token. Take him to an arcade and he’ll be worth twenty-five lesser tokens.
DeleteMeh. They would've been brilliant if they could repeatedly steal luggage without getting caught.
As it stands now, they're merely a garden variety good decent tribespeople of dear Bob's tribe.
David in Cal,
DeleteI've en calling Republicans "bigots" for decades. The actions of the Republican Party this millennia, has totally shown that I've been correct all along.
I would say that MTG reminds me of Cecelia, but actually it is Lauren Boebert who most resembles her -- too stupid to graduate from high school and so bad at her job that she nearly lost in a solid red rural district.
ReplyDelete“I want to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, we would’ve been armed.”
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), quoted by the New York Post, on the January 6 Capitol riots.
Does she not understand that the 1/6 Committee is about to make some criminal referrals to the DOJ? If anyone was in "the room where it happened," it was her.
Thank you for your interesting thoughts mh.
DeleteAnonymouse 11:24pm, you got the armed part correct.
DeleteAs the front woman and lead singer of the band Big Fanny and the Bumper Rumps, I must say that we all could get along much better if we all just realized the significance and wonder of the human fanny.
ReplyDeleteLet us all take a step back and find some time to express gratitude for all that our fannies do for us on a daily basis.
Even if you break wind at an inopportune time, show love and appreciation for your fanny.
Big Fanny
In Yankspeak fanny means butt. In Britspeak fanny means vagina.
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