Throwaway05
1d ago
Wes Moore: A Study in Media Bias.
Those who have been following the upcoming election cycle may have noted that Wes Moore (current governor of Maryland) has quietly been dropped from top ten lists and is starting to be listed as someone who might not run.
This raises some questions – he’s popular, charismatic, ethnically preferable, a Clooney favorite. What happened if he was so ascendent?
The answer is… unbiased investigative reporting, that for now is mostly swept under the rug but would certainly pop up in the primary and beyond.
The Washington Free Beacon has done two reports on Moore in recent months that are probably best considered bombshells and exclusionary.
- His academic credentials appear to have been heavily fabricated.
- A widely told anecdote about his ancestor fleeing from the KKK appears entirely fictious.
The reporting on this reasoned, clear, pretty close to air tight and with lots of room for fire that was held back (Mark Halperin notes that if he was the editor he would have tossed in a lot more).
Moore’s camp just says that it’s all Republican BS hit pieces, which is about as close to admission of guilt as you can get. Seeing this story, which hasn’t gotten much airtime, concerns me.
Our big media outlets just aren’t investigating (unless of course, it’s the Right). We saw this with Biden’s trivially obvious cognitive decline that now all Washington insiders admit was obvious and clear.
I’m not sure that Western society can function without bilateral media scrutiny, but you see things ignored, swept under the rug until convenient, and just discounted with “well that’s the NY Post” with no engagement of the facts.
What can we do about this, anything?
Bari Weiss taking over CBS was supposed to help, but that tree has yet to bear fruit.
Perhaps more concerningly – what else are we missing. Biden became eventually obvious, Moore got scrutiny in a presidential election. Most politically involved people know about Jay Jones’s comments.
What else is out there, well known, and not addressed because it’s on the right team?
Throwaway05
1d ago
Plenty of people disagree on that description of Jan 6, but the fact of the matter is that the issue at hand is about something entirely different, and I think it's concerning and embarrassing how many otherwise wise people think he would go this direction.
Throwaway05
2d ago
That's a completely different thing though.
Throwaway05
2d ago
Copy that.
Throwaway05
2d ago
Nothing about Trump running again is credible. He has none of the institutional support required to take such a big step, he's already old as hell and would be considerably older by the time it is relevant.
Such a sweeping thing for the most widely criticized president of all time would require things like the military being on board and they simply are not and there is no credible path for them to become so.
It makes no sense.
Thinking it is likely (regardless of his interest or lack) is a sign that he's broken your brain and you need to take a step back and think about actual motivations, priors, and so on.
Throwaway05
2d ago
This is a problem entirely of the lefts making.
You want to have a good argument for why they shouldn't have masks? Don't be evil.
Harassment, stalking, doxxing, and violence are the tools of evil - and the left feels that way when it happens to those they support.
The need and desire for masks are caused by the actions of the same bad actors demanding that they don't have masks.
You don't like it? Fair - but fix the actual problem first.
Throwaway05
2d ago
He's literally just trolling. One time he was meeting with Dem congressional leadership and offered them the hats.
Throwaway05
2d ago
- No Masks – Prohibit ICE and immigration enforcement agents from wearing face coverings.
This is what suggests to me that the situation is pure power politics. The reason for the face coverings is targeted harassment, doxing, stalking, and even violence.
Demands on this front aren't credible given the environment.
It's complaining about a problem that they caused.
Would love to see someone (with awareness of the circumstances!!) steel man the request.
Throwaway05
5d ago
Really? Do you have a link that's crazy it got (more or less) confirmed.
Throwaway05
5d ago
hat I don't understand is why people with this personality -- which is often skeptical, critical, capable of immense analysis of technological and engineering tradeoffs
As someone who is old enough to remember how tech people used to be (and is more or less one of them), this change makes zero sense to me.
Throwaway05
5d ago
I would seriously guess not anymore.
A lot of Blue's had their brain break in the last few weeks - it's even being reported by mainstream media (Mark Halperin)
Throwaway05
6d ago
can hardly name another two (Mother of Learning, and Reverend Insanity).
Have you read The Perfect Run?
Much more humor focused, but still pretty great.
Throwaway05
6d ago
It was completely and disappointingly unhinged, every stereotype of disgruntled leftists, 0-100, etc.
Throwaway05
6d ago
left causes a small but significant fraction of their institutionally embedded partisans to lose control and let their masks slip.
Just as an example, Technology Connections (calm, nice, midwest technology YouTuber) just went absolutely brain numbingly ballistic after an incredible video on renewables, nullifying all the work.
I can totally imagine a pro fossil fuel person watching the video, changing their mind, watching the coda about politics, and then doubling down...
I wish supposedly objective people would stop doing this.
Throwaway05
7d ago
Proving your point, it's "pore" not "pour" (blame autocorrect?)
My grammar is ass. Any time it is not ass, know that I spent far too much time on writing it.
Am I capable of correct grammar? Possibly.
Do I want to? No.
Is this the perk of seniority (at least at work)? Yes.
Does this hopefully further my point given that I ideally have established myself as a reasonably educated and intelligent person in ten years posting here and at our predecessors? Dunno.
Throwaway05
7d ago
15 years ago this would have triggered me, now on the other side? bhahaahahaha
Throwaway05
7d ago
Absolutely common in medicine, finance, tech. Less so government but for some people, well look at Trump posting.
When you are at the top of the heap you don't need to angst about making sure you used good grammar and avoided typos, you just vomit out something for everyone else to translate.
Good managers understand their impact on the staff but most people aren't good managers, casual(ish) communication is a thing, and the absolute apex types aren't really interested in being good managers most of the time even if they can be.
It's a meme in medicine because of attendings vomiting out word salad instruction (especially for research) that students pour over like they need the Rosetta Stone.
I do this at work all the time. We have an hour marked for teaching? I'll slowly, calmly, and didactically teach you the pathophys associated with what we got up to today.
Send me an email at 11pm saying you won't be at the hospital tomorrow because of a curricular responsibility? I'm responding with "Sur" at 5am.
Throwaway05
7d ago
We've done at least one since then, the anti-Trump media industrial complex has other things to focus on at this moment so they are doing that.
Throwaway05
8d ago
Related: I had an intensely black pilling moment during Trump's loss. I have family members in politics who (before and after) would be willing to admit that they would do things, including illegal things, to prevent Trump from getting reelected. Including tampering with the election.
No engagement with how anti-democratic that is, how concerning. Everything was justified to oppose Trump. Everything.
Throwaway05
8d ago
I can tell you I've seen a bunch of testimonials, public statements, and mainstream media coverage all acknowledge this effect.
You don't need to experience it but many, many people did.
No value judgement on that.
Throwaway05
8d ago
Late to this conversation but I want to reinforce that a large part of what Charlie Kirk was, was a person who put voice and face to the disenfranchised and oppressed group on college campuses.
The mistreatment of the right in blue environments is severe and real and he was giving people a safe space to not feel that way.
For that reason his death is radicalizing in multiple ways.
Throwaway05
8d ago
low level of charity in this thread,
Ugh, sorry about that. :(
Throwaway05
8d ago
You know I've never had any issue with treating patients who are rapists, murderers, and pedophiles (and rarely even worse).
But my now my friends and colleagues are starting to remind me of those people...
Throwaway05
9d ago
we are a nation of civilized people governed by rules and laws.
One of the growing conclusions that the anti-woke are coming to is that the left doesn't believe in rules and laws and is tired of having that used against them.
Noem calls this guy a domestic terrorist and everyone loses their mind. Everyone on their mother on the left call it an assassination or an execution? Silence.
If you play pure power politics don't be surprised if the other side starts doing that to.
I don't like it but you can't cooperative with defect bot.
Thanks for the links!
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