It should be clear by now that MSNOW, previously MSNBC, exists only to misinform the public and make Americans more ignorant and divided than they already are. When I learn that a friend gets his or her news from this entirely propaganda-obsessed network, I conclude, reluctantly that this friend is now an idiot, and I will have to confine our conversations to, oh, movie trivia or something.
As I peruse three news cable channels during the day, hoping to learn something either about the world or the ongoing deterioration of U.S. journalism ethics, there are certain faces that repel me like opposite pole of a magnet. Brian Stelter on CNN. Hannity on Fox News. Literally everyone on MSNOW, of course, but Jonathan Capehart is particularly prone to saying really stupid things as if they were worth listening to.
On “The Weekend” this week, Capehart set a new low even for him. He was so horrified by the President making the quip about surprise and Pearl Harbor in front of the Japanese Prime Minister—standard fare for Trump, who enjoys doing and saying quiet parts out loud and doesn’t care who is offended—that he railed,
“I sometimes wonder, why are we not having a 25th Amendment conversation about this president?Because a comment like that, if it had come out of the mouth of President Biden, we would have been in rolling coverage about how Republicans on the Hill think that he should be removed from office for talking to an ally like that, and making that comment in response to a question from a Japanese journalist.”
I know I could spend all my time on Ethics Alarms pointing out the astoundingly flagrant bias and Trump Derangement displayed by members of the Axis media, but Capehart’s idiocy in this instance is epic. Let’s see…
Ethics Alarms 
I no longer believe a word of what comes out of the mouth of any of the leftist media at face value and I have good reason for my skepticism…
I’m to the point that when I see someone parroting leftist media propaganda narratives, my immediate thoughts are that the person is a moron. I know that’s biased, I recognize that it’s biased, but when all the pattern based evidence tells you that if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
I’m now willing to openly state in one way or another that…
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
What happens after time three? Four? Eight?
https://youtube.com/shorts/129Z6EefLUQ?si=o3JTcwKEuY0cMckF
My answer:
t = 1, Fool(t) = “Shame on you”
t > 1, Fool(t) = “Shame on me”
Why are boomers like most of the EA commenters and host still following the irrelevant mains stream media? The younger generation finds news and commentary elsewhere, via Internet and social media.
What else is the mains stream media doing nowadays, besides gloomy and depressing reporting about Trump’s impending failure in Iran? Well, they are ignoring the murder of a Loyola University Chicago freshman, Sheridan Gorman, by an illegal immigrant. And when they mention the murder, they hide that the murderer is here illegally.
The press is not reporting the news faithfully; they are only interested in forwarding a narrative.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/rogers-park-man-or-illegal-immigrant-media-mislead-on-suspects-identity-in-chicago-student-shooting/
Well, I have a friend who only gets news from social media, mostly X, and he’s been telling me that Netenyahu is secretly dead for two weeks So there’s that.
And apparently I have been “blocked” by the National review, which is welcome to Bite Me…
I have a paid subscription to National Review since the start of the Iran war, as NR only allows three free articles in a month.
About your friend, people tend to search out information channels that confirm their own biases. Your friend is entirely responsible for the fact that he is so poorly informed that he thinks that Netanyahu has been dead for weeks while he appears at Fox News almost every night.
AI. He also believes the Titanic wasn’t really sunk, and that it was its sister ship deliberately scuttled by J.P. Morgan.
But the question Mr Barleyfield asks (his last name translated into English!) is still a good one.
I just spent a while watching the MSNoW (whatever it is called) and it is true it is all pessimism and doubts. But Fox is like infomercials for American weapons manufacturers.
It is all ridiculous. None of it is really journalism. I find I am whiplashed between one dismal perspective and the other that seems to be almost childishly optimistic.
BTW do you have a personal prediction based on intuition about where this is going? So far I do not believe you have offered one.
My prediction is: Almost no matter what happens the result will not be good for Donald Trump’s presidency; nor for the mid-terms; nor for the economy.
Pointless to predict; too many unknown variables and unintentional outcomes. Based on what we knew and know, it was still the right thing to do, and necessary.
Yes, based on your selected set of factors your choice is coherent. But there is a lot that is excluded from those factors. When included it all becomes less certain.
WWJWD? 😊
I have no prediction at all. There is a saying “We know the enemy, and it is us”. The main stream media and the Democrat Party are cinder blocks tied to the ankles of the Trump administration, for whom defeating Trump is way more important than Iran. Iran knows this, and has the patience to wait out Trump, in the hope that a next Congress or administration reverses course. When this happens, or when Trump for political reasons stops the war for a regime occurs, the Iranian terrorist regime will claim their survival as victory.
“We have met the enemy and he is us”
That is a most predictive non prediction!
I really hope that (somehow) they snatch victory out from the jaws of defeat.
That’s ridiculous! For one thing, Biden would have said it to the German prime minister.
Bravo.
Capehart’s statement, in contrast, is smoking gun proof that he is unfit to be a pundit, to have a national broadcast platform, or to be employed by a news agency.
Au contraire, mon frere. Capehart’s statement evidences his bona fides. Spouting this crazy stuff IS HIS JOB.
As to Cees’ concern about no one worth worrying about is watching the mainstream media, I see Capehart all the time on the video section of Real Clear Politics. I guess reading Real Clear Politics confirms I’m a fuddy duddy. And boy, is Capehart ever reprehensible. What a cocky, know-it-all prig.