Why does a "2.5" create a new forum topic about "Media Lies" without singling out even one specific "media lie" for discussion? Why does a "Wichita" indulge himself in apocalyptic screeds about "Red Pill" and "Blue Pill"... empty diatribes that are about everything in general and nothing in particular? Why does a "Raydar" enter this thread twice like some cantankerous "oldster", grousing about the weather on a spring-like day that is seeing a mid-afternoon high of 68 degrees, under partly sunny skies and the mildest of breezes?

There are answers for these questions. For the third time in this thread, I am here to extoll the seminal excellence of this recent magazine-length essay:

"How America Fractured Into Four Parts"
George Packer for The Atlantic; July/August 2021.
https://www.theatlantic.com...our-americas/619012/

Scroll back through this thread, if you wish, to review what I've said about this article.

"The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the Wind ..."


This is the biggest current "Media Lies" story that's on my radar screen—the biggest by far. Nothing else even comes close. In just four minutes of an hour-long Friday (March 10) broadcast, MSNBC anchor Alex Wagner highlights one of the most startling episodes to emerge from the $1.6 billion damages lawsuit that Dominion Voting Systems has brought against the Fox Corporation, over Fox News reporting that was broadcast in the wake of the 2020 national elections that made Joe Biden the 46th President of the United States.


Or get it here:
https://www.msnbc.com/alex-...e-claim-164922437814

I don't think it's out of place to provide a link to a thread about this that I posted just the other day, in the Politics & Religion section, but if you take the four minutes for this online video segment, you get a proverbial "peer through the keyhole" into the vast, richly furnished evidentiary storeroom at the heart of the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit. But here's that other thread:

"'The full force of the email's lunacy...' filing in Dominion's lawsuit vs Fox News"
https://www.fiero.nl/forum/...m12/HTML/000626.html

To paraphrase the late (but memorable) Lee Iacocca... "If you can find a better Media Lies story, buy (into) it."

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Biden_Joe, one card short of a full house.
' See ?
Look ! A full house beats a straight ! '
' Mr. Pretendadent Sir !
You've become rank, spoiled, rotten, and an all around scoundrel !
Pistols at dawn Sir !
You deluded and demented old fool, you have lost the hand ! '


The Chain Bridge on the Potomac
As it stands today
On the south bank of the Potomac, north of the bridge, the incompetent imbecile left the mortal realm, struck by the 70 caliber above the sternum.
' That puts paid to the corrupt old fool, a scurrilous grifter, he has endangered the nation and so we may be at war tomorrow with Russia ! '
' Perfect shot General, Sir. May I congratulate you Sir, on the happy resolution for your honor. '
' Drinks are on me at the bar, I feel relieved to be present, so close was the ball, I heard it on my left. '
Thus ends the tribulation.

A card cheat ends his days.
No more than a card cheat, liar, pederast.

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"Federal spending as [a pecentage] of GDP remains remarkably stable at [just under 21 percent]"
Lorimer Wilson for Munknee; May 28, 2022.
https://munknee.com/federal...arkably-stable-20-8/

quote Although one often hear assertions about how federal spending or federal taxes have been climbing out of control for years or decades, the actual spending and taxing totals for the federal government have been remarkably stable for a half-century according to the latest Congressional Budget Office of the “The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2022 to 2032” (May 2022).

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