Where's the nuance?

Ironically, "fake news" is itself a fake epithet, because it is not a binary concept. Despite the black and white origins of mainstream media, the world we live in has always been revealed to us in a spectrum of colors. In reportage, such a spectrum should be provided by nuance. Hence, "fake news" is not entirely fake, in that there is usually (though not always) a smattering of truth to it, although whatever truth factor exists is often slathered by hyperbole.

Unfortunately, nuance in global "news" reportage is rapidly vanishing. It is being subsumed by hyperbole. There are no longer any comparatives; everything is superlative: all/none; best/worst; black/white; biggest/smallest; darkest/brightest. Where's the nuance?

Just a few examples from recent headlines:

• Chaos in the White House: 'There's never been anything like this': Reporting on Michael Flynn's resignation.
• John McCain just systematically dismantled Donald Trump’s entire worldview: Without mentioning Trump by name, McCain extended an established dislike between the two men.
• Donald Trump Will Leave You Numb: He probably leaves the Leftists numb, but certainly not me and the half of our population which elected him President of the United States.

Apparently, according to today's news reportage, we don't need no stinkin' nuance. I beg to differ. Without nuance, it's not news. It's just propaganda.

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You want proof?

[h/t More Cartoons From Sidney Harris]

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The blue-chip index’s march to the psychologically significant level has captivated Wall Street since Trump’s surprise election in November. After blowing past the 19000 mark just 14 trading days after Election Day, and coming within a fraction of a point of 20K, the index stalled as investors awaited more concrete evidence the president would follow through on the issues he championed on the campaign trail.”
— By Victoria Craig, January 25, 2017 (foxnews.com)

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D'you want more proof? Stay tuned, mofo.

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Schwarzenegger Channels Lincoln

“We are not enemies, but friends.”

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“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
— Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1861)

h/t Kevin Kim

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The Great Washed Generations: Brainwashed and Incurious

Seal of the United States
Department of Education
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Once upon a time, American children went to school to learn how to live in the real world as adult citizens. Not anymore. Today, the Leftists who conquered American education have replaced schooling's traditional role with their own agenda: brainwash the little people to be incurious useful idiots. Curiosity may have killed the cat, but its absence kills the human spirit.

The results are appalling. The high-school "graduates" don't know how: to read; to write; to make change from a dollar; to be civil; to be accountable for their actions; and, to think for themselves. The Leftist brainwashing in public schools has moulded their pliant little minds to mock anything that was once deemed necessary and proper for a member of civilized society. You see, it is mandatory for these new-age cadres to serve the Leftist elites, by voting, as they have been trained, for the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. They must not learn how to think for themselves. Their innate curiosity, AKA "poetry and shit", must be stamped out before they leave school.

But it doesn't end there. Not only do they end up engrossed by "reality" TV, Hollywood gossip, and sensationalist garbage at the check-out counter, their incuriosity breeds a dismissive attitude toward anything that dares surface above low-level information. As long as they can learn how to manipulate their latest electronic gadget, they are praised by grandma as little geniuses. They can even program a VCR, dontcha know?

Furthermore, if they want to get a great job, such as a counter-clerk at the local rent-a-car, they'll need a college education. Want some sort of professional career? Got the time and borrowing power for a few more years of graduate school? Got a semblance of curiosity left in you? No? Well then, have a nice life living the American dream, which, BTW, ain't what it used to be. Because political correctness.

Despite all this doom and gloom, however, there is still some hope in humor:

Nancy Pelosi: "We have to pass it, to find out what's in it."
A physician: "That's the definition of a stool sample."

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The Staggering Reality of the American Left

Lord have mercy, though, truth be told, we don't deserve it.

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Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia.

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“[Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton] have something else in common. They attract the votes of those people who vote for demographic symbolism -- "the first black president" to be followed by "the first woman president" -- and neither to be criticized, lest you be denounced for racism or sexism.

It is staggering that there are sane adults who can vote for someone to be President of the United States as if they are in school, just voting for "most popular boy" or "most popular girl" -- or, worse yet, voting for someone who will give them free stuff.

Whoever holds that office makes decisions involving the life and death of Americans and -- especially if Iran gets a nuclear arsenal -- the life and death of this nation. It took just two nuclear bombs -- neither of them as powerful as those available today -- to get a very tough nation like Japan to surrender.”
— Thomas Sowell | Mar 24, 2015 (townhall.com)

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Ever since the Presidential campaign of 2008, my faith in the traditional congeniality of the American people has been eroding. For a complexity of reasons, besides a regression to the meanness of human nature itself, Abraham Lincoln's last best hope for the world has, willingly it seems, relinquished its relative benevelence toward its fellows. The "me; me; me" mentality has steadily gained traction, in real time, as has the self-destructive and concomitant ignorance that continues to pulverise what once comprised the greatness of our unique nation.

In the wake of my faith's erosion, anger at the small–mindedness of our "low-information" voters filled the void, where "low-information" is clearly a euphemism for "ignorant". Recall the short-sightedness of biblical Esau, who sold his birthright to his twin brother Jacob, giving it up for a meal because he was hungry (Genesis 25:29–35:29). In our own time, what good deeds and accomplishments might have followed if not for that miserable little "free meal" — the Obama phone?

Now we are fast approaching another watershed — the 2016 Presidential campaign. Are we going to discard whatever greatness survives the Obama pandemic? Are we going to throw away our American birthright and naturalization for some measly sexist symbolism like "the first woman president"? Will our principal criterion for the Presidency continue to be the absence of male genitalia?

Have we, finally, no gratitude nor decency left as a once-great nation?

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Idealism needs much salt of the earth; reality demands but a grain

Bernard d'Agesci, La justice
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“Hateful speech against Israel, America and Western values must be responded to in the marketplace of ideas. It cannot be defeated by the censor. It must win the battle for the minds and hearts of open-minded students and faculty.”
— Alan M. Dershowitz, January 12, 2015 (gatestoneinstitute.org)

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As is his wont, Mr. Dershowitz looks good on paper, as a renowned legal scholar should. But I suspect he is not being entirely ingenuous here. As most knowledgeable people are aware, American academia today is woefully deficient in open-mindedness.

I think that the biggest fly ("the size of a Buick" to quote Woody Allen) in the ointment of idealistic prescriptions is that our very flawed earthly circumstances are ill suited for idealism. And a principal contributor to our world's incongruity with idealism is the imperfectibility of human nature. Read my lips: Evil. Is. Ubiquitous.

Of course, the Golden Rule is one of the finest concepts on record. But in order to survive, let alone fluorish in the real world, you would be well advised to avoid any action that is a threat to your own well being.

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Antidotes for the Madness of Our World

The Civilized Homes of Abrahamic Monotheism

Shalom [Peace] in Hebrew  (Image via Wikipedia)

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“Like Israel, Kurdistan is more democratic than any of its neighbors. Like Israel, Kurdistan is surrounded by enemies that wish it did not exist. Like Israel, Kurdistan looks West. And like Israel, Kurdistan has maintained an internal equilibrium though all the world betrays it.”
— Lawrence A. Franklin • December 25, 2014 (gatestoneinstitute.org)

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Peace • Shalom • שָׁלוֹם

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It had to be d'you

It sucks to be Jew

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"We don't need no stinkin' Juice. We
just want their money and expertise."
— World leader of the Jew-hating
choomband, "Chickenshit Herpes"

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“The fact is that the president of the United States is a morally bereft man. It's the only way to put it. […] To equate the people who were hacked to death in a synagogue while praying to their God to the people who did the hacking is astonishing … This is an administration that is Jew-hating.”
— 19 Nov 2014 (newsmax.com)

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I'm just a senior man; senior and Jew. I once was PaulAnka — with something to do.

It was the worst of times, it was the best of times … The cycle is now closing. Again.

I was born in Nazi-occupied Poland; I survived. I came to America; I flourished. And now, "all the way" suddenly (gradually, but at an accelerated pace), insanity à gauche re-emerges, as this stinkin' world turns, and comes around, again.

I have seen this movie before. The scumbag Jew-haters fade away. Alas, they never actually die. They're like herpes.

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Hitler Thinks Gruber Is an Ivy League Economist

But MIT is not in the Ivy League.

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“Those Ivy League douchebags are all alike! They always have to prove they're the smartest guy in the room!”
— Hitler (in the guise of Obama)

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“What's the Matter with Kansas?”

Nothing of Weight

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Tornado and Rainbow Over Kansas

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Spiteful Jew-hating POTUS

Haters Gonna Hate

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Image via Theo

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— by THOMAS ROSE, 11 Nov 2014 (breitbart.com)

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Gruber: “The stupidity of the American voter”

Duh …

Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber

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— PATRICK HOWLEY, 11/09/2014 (dailycaller.com)

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Roger L Simon: Obama is “an unmitigated liar and sociopath.”

Disgusted yet, bitch?

(Photo credit: Wikipedia)      (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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“I admit I didn’t much care for Barack Obama before the revelation that he had secretly written Khamenei to induce the Iranian supreme leader to sign a nuclear deal in return for U.S. help battling ISIS. Now I despise our president. He is contemptible.

Ayatollah Khamenei is a man who has been leading the massive chants of “Death to Israel” (and the Jews) literally every day since 1979. Only a true anti-Semite could attempt to make a secret deal with such a person. Indeed, someone who would want to make a deal with Khamenei has about as much respect for human rights in general as Torquemada. That person would have to be an unmitigated liar and sociopath.

And such a person is our president, […]

It’s hard to know what motivates this man, our president, but it’s not so hard to know what motivates the gaggle of Jewish Democratic politicians — you know who you are […] Chuck Schumer, Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Richard Blumenthal, Al Franken, Jerrold Nadler, Adam Schiff, etc., etc., who let him get away with that behavior and make a deal with a country that wants to eradicate Israel and then move on from there to whatever else is in sight (Yemen, these days). They are pathetic lackeys and careerists of the most slimey sort who would fit in well, as I said elsewhere, in Berlin, 1937.”
— Roger L Simon, November 6th, 2014 (pjmedia.com)

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To my fellow co-religionists who continue to support Obama: Disgusted yet, bitch?

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Maybe God will forgive you …

… But I won't.

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“It is the Ten Days of Repentance between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, a time for the Jewish people to repent for their sins and ask others for forgiveness for any wrongdoing.

In that spirit, please accept my open apology to my fellow Jews. I have truly put you all in danger.

On November 6, 2012 I took part in a historic event in of which I am very ashamed. In fact, I am quite embarrassed. I helped put into the White House an imposter and a fervent enemy of the Jewish people. Barack Hussein Obama.

Maybe my wrongdoing is more forgivable because I am not alone, I am part of the 70 percent of Jews who put an enemy of the Jewish people into the highest office in the world. Was I just a follower? Was I misled?

It seems that Jews on a whole tend to vote for people who don't like them, to side with their enemy. Maybe it's some weird Stockholm syndrome. […] ”

— Lisa Surany-Cyrulnik, October 02, 2014 (israelnationalnews.com)

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Yeah. Maybe it's some sort of self-loathing, Lisa Surany-Cyrulnik. Or maybe it's plain old stupidity. Who cares?

Maybe God will forgive you. But you won't get any forgiveness from me, you moron.

I used to be a typical-liberal of Jewish ancestry, too. But when Obama came along, I smelled a Jew-hating rat from the get-go. You don't have to be an Ashkenazi genius to see through that empty suit.

I did my best to vent my misgivings. Alas, none of the 70% of Jews who support Obama were swayed.

Well, f*ck 'em if they can't take a joke.

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Continuation of politics …

… by other means.

Clausewitz

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“Here are two points that need to be made again and again in opposition to the willful moral and intellectual obtuseness of liberals and leftists:

1. Dissent is not hate. To dissent from a person's ideas and policies is not to hate the person.

2. As a corollary to #1, to dissent from the ideas and policies of a black man is not to hate the man. A fortiori, it is not to hate the man because he is black.”

— Bill Vallicella, October 07, 2014 (maverickphilosopher.typepad.com)

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I agree with Vallicella that that need exists. But I no longer feel compelled to take an active role in its support. It's a cost/benefit analysis, wherein the currency is one's energy of exertion.

I have learned the hard way that it takes an order of magnitude more energy to oppose "the willful moral and intellectual obtuseness of liberals and leftists" than it takes for them to be obtuse. And they will never give in, because to give in is to lose what little self respect they had to begin with.

I am slowly coming to the conclusion that one's energy would be exerted most efficiently in "continuation of politics by other means".

Post 2,419 “Continuation of politics …”

Other than that …

English: Barack Obama delivers a speech at the University of Southern California (Video of the speech) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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“Al-Qaeda is resurging, Iraq is disintegrating, and now we may look to Iran to help us stop it. Iran. A terrorist regime responsible for thousands of deaths of Americans. What could possibly go wrong?”
—  JUSTIN KOSKI — JUNE 24, 2014 (westernjournalism.com)

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Help. Will sombody please explain to me why any American citizen would support this anti-American President? Please. I really, really need to know.

WTF is it that they like about this POS?

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People Ask Me Why

People ask, "TheBigHenry, why does the Left disgust you so?"

The following excerpt from the Maverick Philosopher is as good an answer as any:

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“I would add that to understand the Left you must understand that lefties typically leap to the defense of the perceived underdog regardless of what the underdog has done to deserve the treatment he receives.  Right and wrong don't come into it.  The relative weakness of the underdog is taken to justify his criminality while the decent people who defend themselves are urged, quite absurdly, to show restraint. The terrorist entity, Hamas, whose charter calls for the destruction of the state of Israel, understands this, a fact that lends a bit of sanity to their otherwise insanely self-destructive attack on Israel.  They seek the sympathy of the morally obtuse Left. This morally disgusting characteristic of leftists is also illustrated by the recent furor over so-called 'botched executions.'  They take the side of the scum of the earth while not even mentioning the suffering of the innocent victims.”
— Maverick Philosopher, July 28, 2014 (maverickphilosopher.typepad.com)

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David Burge @iowahawkblog
Diff between a right wing [and] left wing anti-Semite? Right winger has cabin in Idaho, left winger has a faculty parking permit in Cambridge.

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Might does not make right …

Neither does weakness!

Weakness of attitude becomes
weakness of character
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“Might does not make right, but neither does impotence or relative weakness. That weakness does not justify strikes me as an important principle, but I have never seen it articulated. The Left tends to assume the opposite. […] The power I have to kill you does not morally justify my killing you. In a slogan: Ability does not imply permissibility. My ability to kill, rape, pillage and plunder does not confer moral justification on my doing these things. But if you attack me with deadly force and I reply with deadly force of greater magnitude, your relative weakness does not supply one iota of moral justification for your attack, nor does it subtract one iota of moral justification from my defensive response. If I am justified in using deadly force against you as aggressor, then the fact that my deadly force is greater than yours does not (a) diminish my justification in employing deadly force, nor does it (b) confer any justification on your aggression.”
— Maverick Philosopher, July 24, 2014, (maverickphilosopher.typepad.com)

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I would have thought it goes without saying that neither might nor relative weakness justify agression morally. Sadly, there is nothing that goes without saying to the sinister Left.

The sinister Left is devoid of any principles that would contradict their worldview. That worldview, of course, is replete with a repugnant attitude for self destruction.

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Your Destiny Predicted Here

Based on your voting record since 2008:

If you voted ...	Your destiny Is ...
For Obama I only	To rue the day forever
For Obama I and II	To panhandle forever
For Obama II only	To be a human shield in Gaza
For Obama I and II, and (intend to vote)  for Obama III (AKA Hitlery)	To be a useful idiot forever
Against all leftists	Incredulity and loathing
Did not vote	Blissful ignorance

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Changing Hope

Still running on empty after all these years …

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“Surprisingly, some six years into the Obama presidency, Joseph has turned against the president, disappointed that he did not deliver on his “hope and change” campaign promises. […] She explained that her comments to a reporter in 2008 were a result of being caught up in the emotion of an Obama campaign rally, and she didn’t think for herself.”
— Moonbattery, July 16, 2014 (moonbattery.com)


What part of "No Free Lunch" do you not understand?

You mean he's not going to make the mortgage payments? What's this world coming to?

It has arrived, you silly fool. It's called the Idiocracy.

BTW, the mortgage check is in the mail.

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