Hypocrisy Watch category archive
News You Could Lose 0
At AL.com, Kyle Whitmire notes that some government officials and agencies, including the Trump maladministration, are suddenly interested in freedom of repress. He gives several examples of government threats against reporter for, well, reporting.
Here’s a tiny excerpt, in which he talks about Trump’s threatening to sue news agencies for reporting that his bombing of Iran may not have been the glorious shattering victory that he claimed it to be (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the rest.
All the News that Fits 0
A caller calls out Jake Tapper for his recent book about Joe Bidden and Tapper tries to weasel-word himself out her criticism. David Shuster dissects the dissumulation.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, Daniel Ruth finds a slight whiff of a double standard in the current who-shot-john stirred up by Jake Tapper’s recent book alleging that Joe Biden is getting old. A snippet:
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Vanessa LoBue takes a look at how dis- and misinformation spread on the disinformation superhighway. She notes that researchers have determined the following:
She goes on to offer some techniques to avoid falling for fabrications.
I commend her article as a timely read in this disinformation age.
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*Citations at the link.
Emoluments 0
The editorial board of The Philadelphia Inquirer follows the money. They suggest that
While Trump feeds the masses bread and circuses, he is laughing all the way to the bank.
Follow the link for an inventory of the illicit income.
Republican Family Values 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Mike Murphy makes a compelling case that a particular Idaho legislator is, well, just plain nutz.
Establishmentarians 0
At Al.com, John Archibald notes that an Alabama legislator has offered a bill requiring public schools to start their day with a Christian prayer or risk losing a portion of their funding.
Archibald goes on to offer a prayer for said legislators, one which methinks is spot on.
I commend it to your attention.
The Moneychangers in the Temple 0
Mrs. Betty Bowers fulminates against the false prophets.
The Art of the Con 0
PoliticalProf perceives a pattern.
The Tales They Tell 0
To answer Curtis’s question, darn straight they do.
I went to all-white school under Jim Crow.*
They told us a lot of lies and even more half-truths about life in the old South.
And the lies live on.
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*At least, it was all-white until I think it was the tenth grade when one I’m sure very carefully chosen black girl joined the senior class; the next year, a few more black students joined the junior and senior classes, and so on.
All the News that Fits 0
Cliff Schecter talks with Brian Karam about why today’s news media focuses on all the news that fits.
This New Gilded Age 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Todd R. Nelson argues that Walt Whitman’s words from a century and a half ago ring true today in this new Gilded Age.
Here’s a bit of his article:
It gets worse. “The depravity of the business classes of our country is not less than has been supposed, but infinitely greater,” Whitman writes. “The official services of America, national, state, and municipal, in all their branches and departments, except the judiciary, are saturated in corruption, bribery, falsehood, maladministration.”
Aside:
In these days of our Supreme Supremacist Court, he might rethink that bit about the judiciary.
This New Gilded Age 0
SFgate’s Drew Magary minces few words about our new robber barons.
All the News that Fits 0
Dick Polman deciphers the duplicity. Here’s how he states the problem:
But last week she did something historically bold that checked all three boxes…and guess what: Barely anyone paid attention.
You gotta wonder why. But read on, because I know why.
Follow the link for the whys.