…specially regarding so-called “Islamophobia” and the Iran War?
But they aren’t, are they?
Here is Melanie Phillips on Sky News:
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Sky News Australia is conservative leaning. The TDS sufferers wouldn’t be caught dead visiting that site, much less listening to opinions expressed there. They do not trust any conservative source to be accurate, unbiased or free of control by Trump.
It is the message, not the messenger. The facts about Iran and its ongoing attacks on America and Americans are irrefutable. I force myself to watch multiple MSNBC and CNN propagandists in the hope that they may convey some wisdom I would miss if I narrowed my range of sources. My only regular online paper is the New York Times, after all. Iran is an easy call. Our progressive knee-jerk friends won’t admit it it, because they would have to accept that Obama was the failure that he was.
I agree with you about the message.
My point is that the Trump Deranged don’t because, to them, the messenger is the message. My TDS sister will not believe anything shown to her on a government website. Forget about sending her anything from Fox, Newsmax or AmericaOne, she believes anything on our own government’s website has been tampered with by Trump and his cronies.
You force yourself to watch other news sources because you want your range of sources to be broad. They don’t. Whether it’s because they don’t want to throw Obama under the bus or some other reason, a well-reasoned argument on a conservative news site is just biased disinformation to them.
It would be very nice if they were capable of listening to Melanie Phillips with an open mind, but they aren’t because their minds are rammed solidly shut.
Great interview at Sky News Australia.
Melanie Phillips is well known as a guest at podcast as Triggernometry, The Daily Heretic, spiked, The John Anderson Show. These podcasts also trend conservative by the way, and are more popular in the UK than the USA; I highly recommend these podcasts because of the many long form and deep interviews.
I have to admit that I have stopped consuming the left wing media a long time ago. Various forms of derangement have supplanted decent analysis and debate. The MSM is leading with hard-left talking points. Watching CNN has become a total waste of time, and it leaves you misinformed.
The problem is that the left has stopped listening to other voices a long time ago, denouncing then as racist, fascist, Islamophobic, and whatsoever. Depth has been replaced by labels. Objective reporting has been replaced by advocacy journalism. As a result a lot of the media is not worth following anymore. As a result the right is not going to listen to the left either, and they have there own ecosystem of channels as source of news and commentary. The result is that the middle disappears, and that the left and right are drifting further and further apart as during the Weimar Republic.
About the topic of the left working together with radical Muslims (e.g. Mamdani) Melanie Phillips rightly points out that exactly the same happened in Iran in the 1970s with the opposition against the Shah. We know how that worked out, and USA and Israel are now undoing the damage.
There is much longer interview on YouTube on the “Brendan O’Neill Show” where Melanie Phillips expands upon the topics presented in the SkyNews piece.
The willful ignorance of the threat that Islam poses to Western Civilization will not be without consequences. As stated in the piece, many clear-thinking people in the West believe or at least fear that the UK is past the tipping point and headed for oblivion, and that other European countries aren’t far behind.
This whole “imminent threat” thing is ridiculous. Lefties are all spouting “Iran did not pose an imminent threat!” Baloney. Iran has posed an imminent and existential threat to every nation from the inception of the Islamic Republic of Iran forty-seven years ago. What is it about “Death to America” that needs clarification? Soviet Russia told us they would bury us. We fought a cold war against them and won. In my mind, the reason Iran had to be dealt with now is because it’s been proven they have no interest in giving up their quest for nuclear weapons and ICBMs. Wasn’t it Clausewitz or someone who said war is simply an extension of diplomacy? The real, imminent threat was that if Trump didn’t take on the Mullahs, the next president would cave to them the way everyone prior has. Again, you can’t negotiate with a death cult of suicidal lunatics. I’ll give the lefties one thing, Trump’s departure is imminent. That’s a threat. The AUC will make sure the Dems retake the house, and maybe even the senate and the impeachment fest will begin.