Nellie Bowles Exposes that Left Wing Media is Always About Agenda, not Curiosity

Nellie Bowles, at TGIF:

Here’s MSNBC contributor Matthew Dowd shortly after Charlie was shot: “I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions.” And: “You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place.” And also: “We don’t know if this was a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration, we have no idea.” That makes more sense, right? A right-wing gun nut pointing a gun directly at the guy talking and pulling the trigger to celebrate him—that is definitely the most likely scenario. Later, facing outrage for its coverage, MSNBC apologized for these comments and ended Dowd’s contract.

Well, that’s MSNBC. But CNN? Within a few hours of Charlie’s slaughter, CNN anchor Abby Phillip was calling for the video to be censored, and did her best to do so from her pulpit. “The degree to which the algorithm on this platform is pushing video of the shooting is incredibly disturbing. There has to be some human that can turn the dial down in a situation like this.” Odd how reporters want much, much less reporting. Funny how she didn’t say that about a situation like, I don’t know, George Floyd’s killing. It’s almost like it’s political. ...

And then came the New York Times obituary. A classic. The headline: “Charlie Kirk, Right-Wing Provocateur and Close Ally of Trump, Dies at 31.” Right-wing provocateur. A person trying to provoke, if you think about it. As though there’s no belief system behind it. Just a provocateur. For the sake of it. In the mainstream media worldview, there are two kinds of people: those fighting for left-wing causes, who are described as people of conviction, activists for justice, deep believers in equality. And then there are those fighting for right-wing causes, who are described as provocateurs, cynics, racists, and shills. Archconservatives. They eventually changed the headline. But here’s the New York Times’ obituary: “He was so vocal in his willingness to spread unsupported claims and outright lies—he said that the drug hydroxychloroquine was ‘100 percent effective’ in treating the virus, which it is not—that Twitter temporarily barred him in early March 2020. But that move only added to his notoriety and seemed to support his claim that he was being muzzled by a liberal elite.” Fascinating. A man is murdered in public, in the middle of the day, while practicing his First Amendment rights, and the paper of record decides this must be the perfect moment to do fact-checking about hydroxychloroquine.

What you need to know from this: If your politics are that of a standard normie conservative man, your New York Times obituary will find the various things you said that weren’t exactly right (he got into hydroxychloroquine in 2020! Can you believe that?) and they’ll paint them in the sky. My politics are lib centrist, and these people would certainly celebrate my death, highlight my many errors, and refer to my defense of the SAT as my “repeated advocacy for a return to slavery” or something. What I’m saying is: Just try to stay alive because when you die, a New York Times reporter gets to juice your corpse for likes on Bluesky. MSNBC will invite talking heads on the air to suggest that the shooter could have been your mom who forgot to turn the safety on, we simply don’t know."

Nellie's TGIF column at The Free Press is one of my favorite parts of every week. I highly recommend it.

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Ubiquitous “News” Based on Classified Leaks

Well stated by Green Lives Matter and Tulsi Gabbard:

Tulsi Gabbard explains how the intelligence community uses leaks from "anonymous sources" to usurp the President of the United States and undermine the will of the people.

Coincidentally, The New York Times just published an article that cites "unidentified sources" from an alleged classified operation in North Korea that could tarnish Trump's relationship with Kim Jong Un and further diminish his image.

It's the same exact playbook every single time. Listen to Tulsi explain:

These people have gotten away with these kinds of activities for so long because they're protected by an entire system that is built to shield their nefarious activities. They do this with the assistance of the deep state and the propaganda media... This happens frequently.

Someone in the intelligence community leaks classified intelligence to their friends in the propaganda media. Those individuals in the media eagerly print this classified intelligence from "unnamed sources" then we see other people in the media talk about this "classified" intelligence. No one has verified it. No one has done any kind of vetting. No one has done any basic journalist work.

And then we see politicians repeating and talking about what was leaked to the media. We've seen how this tried and true playbook that is used over and over again to smear their opponents and, in President Trump's case, to be used as a basis for FBI raids on his home, lawfare, impeachments, endless investigations, and so forth. . . . 

This is what we are talking about when we talk about the deep state. It's not some grand conspiracy theory; it is a conspiracy to undermine the Constitution, but this is the reality we are operating in. It is important to be clear-eyed about it so we can combat it with the truth. This is why exposing the truth is so important to bring about that real transparency and accountability.

People have become well aware of the insidious nature of the mainstream media and the playbooks they use. Far more awake than ever before.

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The Culture Wars Are Not Organic

The culture wars are not organic. They were inflicted on us in a systematic way by powerful monied elites who simultaneously and systematically censored dissent to the official narratives. They did this to distract us and pit us against each other, as Dave Smith explains:

Dave Smith:

Go track how many times the word racism was mentioned. Around 2012 it shoots up. "Social justice" shoots up. Transgenderism shoots up, white privilege shoots up. This was forced on the American people. Why are we having these conversations now? The people did not wake up one day and decide we want to have a national conversation about chicks with dicks. That didn't happen. This wasn't an organic movement.

It was all of the most powerful people decided this is what we're going to talk about. And why was that? Look, when you're failing on policy, you pivot to a culture war. You pit people against each other, so they're fighting each other. We had in this country, we had an Occupy Wall Street movement where leftists were standing outside of big banks, screaming, we are the 99% right wingers had a populist movement called the Tea Party, where they were outraged about the bailouts of big banks, unsustainable debt, government spending. They all like that. That's not what the powers that be like. Look, they like you fighting about issues like abortion. Now, I'm not saying abortion isn't a very important issue. It's a very important issue. But us fighting about that issue doesn't scare anyone at the Federal Reserve. It doesn't scare anyone in the CIA. They don't care if you fight about that issue. They love you fighting over transgender bathrooms.

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Brett Weinstein’s Short Term Concern about AI

We have repeatedly seen that a relatively small number of gate-keepers can create a narrative out of thin air.  We are seeing this vividly in the recent Russiagate disclosures.  I've documented hundreds of incidents of what I call "Narratives in Media" on this website.

It might be about to get a lot worse due to AI video technology, according to Brett Weinstein:

AI is about, within the next year or so, going to be capable of producing compelling video, evidence that will not be detectable. That is going to create, first, a radical increase in the rate of proliferation of cognitive universes that we are forced to keep alive.

And I suspect that the immediate consequence of that is going to be paralysis. That the number of different combinations of possibilities where you cannot resolve--you cannot get closure and say, “I think I live in this world and so I'm going to ignore all of those possibilities over there and go forward as if this is true.”

You're basically going to become agnostic about just about everything. And so in this mental multiverse, you will maybe be able to avoid embarrassment by not putting your weight on any of the ice, but you can't accomplish anything in that state. And that's what I'm concerned about. We are going to be effectively put into a circumstance where everybody will be afraid to assume enough about the world to actually be capable of acting rationally toward it. And that's a very frightening prospect.

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