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This is so rich, I can can feel a diabetic coma coming on:

"'One traditional journalistic standard that wasn’t always followed in the Trump-Russia coverage is the need to report facts that run counter to the prevailing narrative.'"

"...wasn't always...?" How about just wasn't, period?

I'd LOVE to see some media outlets go Chapter 13 from the sums being paid out.

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Mar 3, 2023Liked by Don Surber

Well, we've seen CNN's audience drop precipitously not long after Trump left office. At least two vile "commentators", Andrew Cuomo and Brian Stelter, were axed. We've also seen personnel terminations at the Washington Post and New York Times. Still, it's not enough. "News" firms, such as NYT, WaPo, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, and the Miami Herald, should be shut down, and their offices torn down and covered with salt.

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CNN < 500K viewers; Sebastian Gorka has > 3M listeners. Nuff said.

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Excellent!

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Oh! And instead of having the former staff of all these media outlets "learn to code", send them to work at warehouses and storage rooms for firms like Menard's, Home Depot, Walmart, and Target. Get them to learn what real work is like.

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Agreed, but not the result non-leftist outrage and anger - the journactivists will not be able to break their habit of lying, so after they've put themselves out of business, raze the buildings, salt the earth, and zone it as uninhabitable.

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Mar 3, 2023·edited Mar 3, 2023Liked by Don Surber

You also can’t spell Pulitzer without P-U-T-Z.

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Or for a more obscure roar from the thesaurus, you can't spell Pulitzer without P-U-L-E.

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Mar 3, 2023Liked by Don Surber

“Make America Florida” !!!!!

Yessss and Amen to that!

Why aren’t the other - is it 26? - Red States copying DeSantis’ War on Woke?!

That is most telling.

Sarah Sanders seems to be getting in on the program, and some states are doing piecemeal efforts, but there should be a united front, a’la United States against Woke. That could do a whole heck of a lot to help turn the tide of the insanity running amok in this country.

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I think the so-called red states are red because of the voters and not so much the politicians who wear a different hat each day of the week.

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If you have a mix of RINOS, Democrats and real Republicans, you get piece meal. It could be much worse here. In Indiana, there are just enough real for the people politicians to keep the excesses of the rest sorta in check. but that is all. And even some who seem like real Republicans or Libertarians (old school ones, the sane ones not socialist Dems calling themselves Libs), a lot of times, they are Rinos. They cant win their districts as Dems but they are hell on wheels as Rinos. A lot of people either dont have time to look deeper and they vote for them. Or more cases are the Rinos are the least worse pick. It really sucks.

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Of course the legislature as I have read it has clipped the public health sector powers and I think is getting ready to pass the Florida no sex ed K-3 bill. so at least that is something.

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Mar 3, 2023Liked by Don Surber

Great column today. Don. I always learn more history from you, too. Real history, not Marxist-progressive history. The survey is unique!

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Ditto. Today is another step in earning a degree from Surber U.

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There is no Santa Claus but there is a Krampus. Just saying,,,

Be nice to see something similar in Texas but with the Texas House controlled by RINOs aligned with democrats, ain't happening.

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No lie.

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It is a factor in Abbott's perceived inability to get anything of consequence done. The governorship of Texas is real weak sauce.

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Abbott receives misplaced attribution for his response to Covid - he was every bit as knee-jerk as any blue-state governor.

I still want him to be held accountable for every small business that failed as a result of his "leadership," as well as for every death that occurred as a result of the lock-downs that were the SOP at the outset.

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I was involved in a rather sensational case some years ago up on Boston I was a media darling for about a week. Then the media turned on me and I didn't know why and I never did find out. I am now of the opinion that you never ever trust the media because it could have gotten me killed. Live and learn. I guess.

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Mar 3, 2023Liked by Don Surber

As a retired lawyer who studied NYT v. Sullivan in the mid 70s, I laughed out loud reading this column. Even back then the NYT case seemed way over-the-top although I never would have predicted that “journalism” would deteriorate to where it is now. But the funniest part of the column is reading the proposed FL law. Of course the purpose of this law is to invite a lawsuit by “journalists” to overturn the law. That will happen before DeSantis leaves the signing ceremony. The proposed law seems well thought out. I just love provision 2 which says in effect reveal your sources or you lose the defamation case. Just remember, this is clearly an invitation for a lawsuit so it will be a long time before anything changes. And if the Democrats win in 2024 you can bet they will work hard to end the conservative majority in the Sup. Ct. and kill this process.

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SCOTUS on NYT vs Sullivan: “Thus, we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.”

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This is an example of how a good idea gets weaponized for political purposes. I agree with everything in that statement, but it gave a bunch of propagandists something to hide behind.

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Absent an unforeseen medical event - and it is more likely to afflict the two dem ladies Obama put on the court than anyone else - I'm guessing the Court in its current configuration will be in place should it ever reach them.

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You’re obviously an optimist Jim. I was thinking about Justice Thomas who is the senior justice. Then too, I’m old enough to recall last year when Dems were calling for “expansion” of the court. However unlikely, corrupt, damaging or evil the scenario, Dems will never let a disaster go to waste. Even if they have to be the disaster themselves.

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True - Thomas is 74. Seems in decent health. He could easily last until 80. I would assume the next republican president and GOP Senate, he would step down and retire.

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I'd rather he didn't but I will support him whatever he decides. We need a couple Justice Thomases on the Supreme Court.

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He and Alito are taking a sledgehammer to the bureaucracy. One case at a time.

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Mar 3, 2023Liked by Don Surber

When we encounter evil like this, there is an urge to tear it down. But unless people return to faith in God, there is no free government that can reign people in from evil. You talk about removing abused privileges, but what will protect honest journalists? Some of those privileges were necessary in the past to protect good people from harm. What checks and balances would you add in their place? If we continue in our reforms without first pursuing faith, you can see how our own actions will doom the next generation: having ripped apart the system to protect ourselves because of its misuse, we will now have a system easier to subvert in different ways.

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You cover a lot of good stuff here, sir. I just finished "Handsome Johnny" (Rosselli) by Lee Server; our government is and always has been fundamentally corrupt as there is no real oversight.

"You do not last that long in DC without being connected to the deep state, a body that like the Cosa Nostra, the FBI does not admit exists."

Truth

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Here’s my poll question for today: how much longer are the deep state creeps going to allow Don to keep writing this stuff? This has become the number one read of the day.

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Mar 3, 2023·edited Mar 3, 2023Liked by Don Surber

Number 4 makes me nervous. The rest of it seems reasonable. However, having said that, every system works toward equilibrium. One side went too far, so now the other reacts, so I'll save my ire for the people who caused this problem in the first place, the "presstitutes" as SimmulationCommander calls them.

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"...the 'presstitutes'..."

OH! Do I ever LOVE that! "Borrowing" (read as, stealing)...

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Like many older people I have blood pressure problems. Not too bad and under control. I am also fortunate to have a beloved wife who listens to the radio and reads the local newspaper online. She brings to my attention local and national news of significance such as our recent cyclone.

I have not read a newspaper nor watched TV news for over ten years.

This has probably saved me from either stroke or a heart attack.

Government sponsored lying presstitutes is an international phenomenon.

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Mar 3, 2023·edited Mar 3, 2023Liked by Don Surber

I forgot to mention that it appears the CIA helped create Google. Why am I not surprised that our media might just be a little.....?

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/british-journalist-shows-how-the-cia-played-a-direct-role-in-the-creation-of-google/

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Mar 3, 2023Liked by Don Surber

Right in the bullseye, Don. Well done.

I think, though, it will take Sullivan being overturned in SCOTUS to force the Lamestream Media to start reporting honestly. I am no lawyer but I am guessing libel suits decided in state courts can be appealed to SCOTUS, especially if the plaintiff and defendant are located in different states, and we may never see a better time for that to happen.

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Mar 3, 2023Liked by Don Surber

Your point-by-point is exactly on target and correct. Thank you!

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Beware of RINOs wearing Trump clothing. As I posted, today, to Laura Loomer's essay about DeSantis,: those "Republicans" who primary against Donald Trump are - by definition - RINOs. Any politicians who actually believe in Trump agenda will SUPPORT Trump, not defy Trump. If they believe, they will get in line behind Trump, maybe as a VP, and they can get a shot next. This is fact. FACT. You don't need a weather vane to know which way the wind blows: Bob Dylan said that.

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While I understand your point, there is a danger in fixating on an individual. Trump is, at least in speech and some action, a populist. There are quite a few Republican populists and I'd be just fine with any of them winning the nomination. (I'd actually be fine with a Democrat populist, like Tulsi Gabbard, but they have an even harder time making it through the party apparatus than the Republican populists, as Gabbard and Sanders both found out.)

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Well, I know that no one can be all things to all people. I know - in any contest - each side strives to taint its competition. In Trump's case, one is faced by democrat resolve to destroy him by whatever means plus RINOS who are both Never Trumpers and/or Wolves in Trump clothing who either damn him with faint praise or emphasize his negative points. That is a game democrats and faux republicans play energetically.

Trump, got results before for THE MOST OF US, even though not everything everyone wanted. I wonder how he would have done in the absence of what we ALL KNOW of the opposition of both parties - plus those outside the USA - who conspired to destroy him. Does anybody else, right now, have the depth of support that Trump has? Are many trying to cancel him?

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I think a lot of Trump supports quit talking. I know I did. Between all the bad press and all, and the cold shoulders and reduced opportunities, it became too much an issue. I dont even talk politics to family who are republicans anymore. I am tired of the lectures.

That being said, there are a few out there I would vote for. We need to get back to making our own stuff, esp steel, and pharmaceuticals. Who hands their enemies, fren-imes their supply chains? There is soo much to be done to fix our country, I can only pray we get someone who continues what Trump started.

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Making our own stuff is going to continue to happen - at least making them in North America - with just some targeted supply beyond that. Not much can stop that now. Even Biden is on board with that. In fact just about everyone in DC is on board with that.

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