I really wish the media would at least try to appear unbiased, except in clearly identified opinion pieces - I don’t think it does any of us any good to have such slanted words in reporting.
All that being said, I agree with the overall take. People lost their shit when Hilary called Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables,” but look at how they behave and what they push for. Why would you want to vote for someone more because there’s credible evidence that he committed serious crimes? Not just that you’re looking the other way, but it’s a desirable attribute? That’s just crap.
There’s reporting that the guy who shot the shopkeeper over the pride flag was very outspoken against abortion. “Every life is sacred, but I’m going to murder this woman because she supports LGBTQ rights.” So much of their anger is against things that have zero affect on them personally. It’s crazy.
I guess it says “commentary” at the top, so maybe I should retract that part. I’m old, and I grew up in a time when opinion pieces one the news were very overtly identified as such, with disclaimers about the publication not endorsing any opinion given. The reason being that everything else was intended to be taken factually. I see so many things now where we blur the lines, with newscasters using a lot of subjective adjectives to tell us how we should feel about things they’re reporting on. It really bugs me.
I feel like I'm also increasingly seeing this coming from the left, which I find particularly troubling. We have the facts on our side, we don't need to make bombastic clickbait and masquerade opinion pieces as reporting. It's just distracting from the actual stories and undermining our position.
I’m sure I’ve read salon articles that people have linked, but not enough to get a feel for them as a publication in general. When I read news, I generally try to avoid sources that lean hard in either direction, except sometimes to see what their take on a subject is.
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“So much for Objective Journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here–not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Before driving to the sorority house, Rodger uploaded a video to YouTube titled “Elliot Rodger’s Retribution”, in which he outlined his planned attack and his motives. He explained that he wanted to punish women for rejecting him, and sexually active men because he envied them.
The author is comparing the judge’s reasoning to Elliot Rodger’s. Clearly in his mind, women have no automony of their own. They exist only to entertain men with sex and childbirth.
That is a general conservative Christian sentiment not out of line with the far right and republican values. It’s a shitty position but one that many Americans hold on to.
Why was Elliot Rodger specifically mentioned in relation to Judge Ho?
You know, at first I was like, "Ehh this highly editorialized writing is a bit much," but then I read:
"Unborn babies are a source of profound joy for those who view them," he wrote in his Wednesday opinion. "Expectant parents eagerly share ultrasound photos with loved ones. Friends and family cheer at the sight of an unborn child. Doctors delight in working with their unborn patients—and experience an aesthetic injury when they are aborted."
Every bit of snark in this article is fully warranted.
This is so fucked up. And how does he even “know” this? How many “injured doctors” has he spoken to?
I’m a woman, I have had several OBGYN’s, men and women. I’ve asked many about their stance on abortion because I live in a southern state, and this is of particular concern to me. They have all answered with professional and medical responses.
I have to think that OBGYNs have to always be prepared to be faced with tragedy. So many preganancies end badly, most often for no reason whatsoever. In that kind of circumstance, I cannot imagine being able to tell a woman that no, this will not end with your having a happy, healthy baby, and you're not going to be allowed to make your choice about what happens, or start the healing process. Just wait for your body to reject the fetus, and hope you don't go septic.
@spaceghoti 's been posting about GOP bullshit like a machine. I think they deserve the room to rant on this one. It's at the carton villainy level of stupid, and they've gotta be suffering PTSD at this point after slogging through all that idiocy.
Besides, now I'm curious as to who ElliotRodgerFan48 is and whether or not they're trollable on the Fediverse.
Was sworn in by Thomas at the home of Harlan Crowe.
How is that ok? How did this Crowe stuff just come out if they were using his house to swear in judges. Maybe I’m wrong but, that just seems really off.
They don’t give a shit because they’re not arguing in good faith. You’re not going to convince them of anything with “Hey Republicans!”
They know exactly what they are doing.
It’s like two brothers who know they committed a crime, but no one witnessed it, so as long as they both keep up the lie, no one else can ever say the truth and know it to be true. Every single one of them holds the truth in their chest, believing they can change the truth of reality as long as they reject reality and substitute their own “truth” and never, ever admit the reality.
It’s all a purposeful charade to take power and avoid responsibility. Period. That’s all it has ever been.
Rats and sinking ships have never gone well together. I sure hope this rat gets what he deserves by enabling such an incompetent and completely unqualified president and administration. I also hope his turning on trump is instrumental in his downfall.
No shit. He's corrupt af. Between the bone saw incident and him potentially selling out our secrets from trumps trove of classified documents he should be under the jail. If I can see it it should be painfully obvious to anyone who can actually do anything.
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