Media Mallard

Armchair media critic; occasional copy editor; lover of the practice of journalism.

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@Howlingmutant0 And it demonstrates journalists’ longtime crutch to show a clip of left-leaning entertainment as a proxy for their own views and then promote that clip as something everyone should be able to enjoy.

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@ABC If this story was about Trump, the ABC team would gratuitously add “without evidence.”

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When Abby Phillip goes from moderator to panelist, she reminds that she has poor temperament for both. As a moderator, she has an unearned smugness that she has the superior argument. As a panelist, the hollowness of her substantive comments is more apparent.

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Abby Phillip questions if non-citizens voting in NJ is really fraud, because they may not have known they weren't supposed to vote.

This is the actual argument they've been reduced to:

Phillip: They might have cast a ballot because they just weren't aware that they were incorrectly put on the voter rolls.

Jennings: They weren't aware that they weren't a citizen of the United States?

Phillip: Is this is this accurately described as fraud when none of these people tried to register to vote?

Jennings: They cast ballots!

Phillip: Some people who are ineligible to vote are not aware that they are ineligible to vote.

So they're now going with the 'some non-citizens are too stupid to know they're not supposed to vote so if they vote it's not really fraud' defense. Incredible.

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There are brilliant people who challenge conventional wisdom. They normally persuade by mastering an understanding of conventional wisdom and then showing it to be wrong. Toure is not that person.

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Liberal sensibilities indulge a Toure to speak ungrounded nonsense. As far back as Emory, Toure could say absurd things, but few dared to tell him how wrong he was. They allowed him to speak his truth, regardless of its ill-thought foundation.

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She is too politically invested to realize how the hatefulness in her position.

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What is Couric’s goal here? She casts aspersions on a murder victim. Her only potential angle for new information is a left-originating view that Charlie Cook was bad and therefore honoring him was bad. So, she demands answers about honoring Kirk.

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She is a ghoul

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Catherine Rampell lacks the commanding presence of a host. She might succeed with charm but needs work there, too.

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MSNOW has now moved to the “running a guy with a Nazi tattoo was denigrating to working class people” stage of the narrative journey

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@WesternLensman There is no good reason for Jong-Fast to appear on any network.

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Jonathan Martin presents an excellent veneer atop bland indistinguishable Democrat analysis.

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@VigilantFox Although not universal, there’s a fat man archetype who initially becomes lazy with his fitness and soon becomes lazy with thinking and everything else.

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ABC News is covering a local news story in the Knicks victory parade as though it’s a national story.

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AP offering a liberal fantasy tale.

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Scott Pelley may have lost his job after publicly blasting CBS management. But for many workers, he lived out a fantasy. https://t.co/Qch15n0CfX

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@BenMullin Does anyone believe that the man who acted as he did in the staff meeting participated in the later meeting exactly as he describes here?

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I was right.

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This level of pouting by insiders will lead to a soft cleaning house among them over the next 6-9 months.

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“Defied” is an odd, active verb choice for a legislature that did not have the votes to proceed.

NYT is better served when it lets the facts speak for themselves.

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Breaking News: South Carolina state senators defied pressure from President Trump to adopt a new House map, adjourning without taking it up. https://t.co/HrrJM9mlLY

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Reporters do a disservice to us all when they let politicians spout ungrounded statements and fail to challenge the truth of those statements.

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When Warnock next appears on Meet the Press, Kirsten Welker should use Warnock’s remarks and tie those statements with the actual SCOTUS ruling. She also should ask why he believes that race should be used to discriminate in drawing district lines https://t.co/Jb2ElQT4Xx

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The likely reality is that Warnock will not be held accountable for his misstatements and racially charged remarks. He will be greeted as a pastor on Sunday morning with opportunity to repeat the same falsities, unchallenged.

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It’s uncanny how the camera seems optimally positioned to avoid embarrassing Katie Porter.

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Holy hell, I am SICK and TIRED of this garbage!

Katie Porter just unloaded a masterclass in why so many of us regular, hard-working Americans are fed up to our eyeballs with these out-of-touch politicians and their nonstop fake, race-baiting bullshit!!

The damn question was dead simple: Should truck drivers actually have to know English to drive 80,000-pound rigs on our highways? You know — for basic safety, reading signs, talking to dispatch, not killing people?

But nope. This woman goes full unhinged meltdown instead:

She completely ignored the question like it was radioactive. Not one word about trucks, English, safety, or enforcement. Zero. Zilch.

She just blurts out “I will absolutely fight the Trump administration!” and protecting Californians from Trump.

What in the actual fluck does Trump have to do with truck drivers speaking English?! Pure, brain-dead word salad.

Immediate pivot to the same exhausted victimhood playbook. Any mention of basic standards gets twisted into “terrorizing Black and Brown Californians and immigrants” and “racial profiling.”

These clowns turn common sense into racism every single time. It’s dishonest, manipulative, and frankly insulting as hell to everyone’s intelligence.

She flat-out fabricated what Bianco said. He was talking about not letting race poison every damn conversation and treating people as Americans first.

Porter spins it into him supposedly telling minorities to “get over racism.” Then she acts all shocked and virtuous. What a lying, grandstanding hack. Classic smear job.

That insane line — “Racism isn’t something you get over, it’s something you fight.” There’s the real sickness. They want racism as a permanent industry.

Never solve it, never move past it — just keep fighting, dividing, and milking it for votes forever.

Screw that. Most of us are done with this poison. We want color-blind sanity, not endless grievance theater.

The over-the-top hysterics in under a minute. “Terrorized.” “Racially profiled.” “Fight Trump.”

All triggered by a basic licensing question. This isn’t governance — it’s deranged performance art for her Twitter followers.

Pathetic. I’m beyond irritated.

Porter didn’t even pretend to give a damn about road safety, commerce, or fixing California’s collapsing mess.

She hijacked a straightforward policy question to bash Trump and racially smear her opponent.

This empty, divisive, race-obsessed nonsense is why so many normal people — including cops, truckers, and working folks of every background — are absolutely DONE.

The clip nails exactly why her style comes off as completely unhinged and totally disconnected from real life. Enough already!