Bonus Derp! Chuck Todd's An Asshole!

OMG, Hitler is literally Hitler. Literally.

“It’s not up to the US administration to define the status of Palestinian refugees,” Zomlot said. “The only status the US can define is, its own role in peacemaking in the region. By endorsing the most extreme Israeli narrative on all issues including the rights of more than 5 million Palestinian refugees, the US administration has lost its status as peacemaker and is damaging not only an already volatile situation but the prospects for future peace in the Middle East.”

Shorter: It's your fault if all things go bad. Give us money or we’ll riot and kill our children. We can make things very bad as you've already seen. We won't actually, you know, work for peace because as you understand the Jews have to be thrown into the sea. So why don't you just play nice, keep the charade going and pay up. Why make trouble?

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Let's do compare and contrast kiddos. Get your scissors out. If you're left-handed I'm sorry, we don't have left-handed scissors.

Narrative: NBC News:

OMG OMG CLIMATE CHANGE IS MAKING BUGS EAT ALL THE CROPS AND WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE ESPECIALLY THE CHILDREN WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING BUT LITERALLY HITLER IS IN POWER!!!!

Fact: USDA: Record high crops.

Science!

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And finally, this infuriating gem from Ryan Gosling starring in a biopic of Neil Armstrong.

Gosling, a Canadian, attempted to explain away the ridiculous decision to omit the planting of the American flag on the moon.

It was a mixture of Armstrong being a 'citizen of the world' and that it was a human achievement that transcended flags.

"I think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement [and] that's how we chose to view it," Gosling said during a press conference for the movie in Venice, according to The Telegraph. 

"I also think Neil was extremely humble, as were many of these astronauts, and time and time again he deferred the focus from himself to the 400,000 people who made the mission possible."

Gosling added: "So I don't think that Neil viewed himself as an American hero. From my interviews with his family and people that knew him, it was quite the opposite. And we wanted the film to reflect Neil."

So what? His personal feelings have nothing to do with the facts. Using it as an excuse to nix this reality is precisely what we call 'playing with the facts'. Or revisionism.

In the end, the American flag was used. It wasn't a UN initiative. It was an American one.

It was American engineering and tax dollars that made it happen. Sure it was a human achievement and the man on the moon does transcend national borders but the Americans did it and you don't disrespect this.

The breathtaking arrogance to take something a country did and declare it belongs to the world is nauseating. People are fully capable of accepting this achievement was uniquely American but that it was a positive for humankind.

It was a weak explanation. It rings hollow.

To ignore this fact of history is wrong and absurd and has become a regressive pass time of the modern progressive left who just rework it to fit their lousy narratives.

Why not just have Denzel Washington or Sandra Bullock or Caitlin Jenner play the role of Armstrong and have him plant the Rainbow flag at this point since facts don't matter.

Hey, why not have a film about WWII and not have any American flags anywhere including Pearl Harbour and Iwo Jima because Hollywood finds some of the soldiers who fought really weren't fighting for America but for the world army! 

Why not? It's all unicorns and sophistry now anyway.

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This is why you need Stossel in the classroom:



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Couldn't agree more. It's been my understanding of Canada since I was in my 20s. It doesn't take genius to grasp this fact but it does take a lot of honesty.

Heck, I don't even consider Canada a true G7 country.

The United States is the mightiest and most diversified economy in world history. It doesn't need Canada as much as you think.

As I've increasingly come to realize, the Americans humour us. They have been more than gracious with Canada. We have nurtured a special relationship over te years and we should once and for all understand our place in it.



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Ah....but they won't listen. 

See Chuck Todd's latest at The Atlantic linked in my recent CBC post. I didn't save the link for this post and too lazy to pull it up. Plus, it's not worth it.

Todd goes off blathering on about how he and his colleagues are purveyors of the truth and 'gosh darn it are doing the best they could' (like his joke of an interview with Cortez-Ocasio) pretending the reader doesn't notice he works for a network that rehired Brian Williams and one in which has been repeatedly caught lying. A network that buried the Weinstein story and edited evidence in the Zimmerman-Martin case.

Oh. Neve you fucking mind the NYT (as if it's already not a rag) going the route of anonymous op-eds and hiring third-rate racist hacks.

Did I mention Dan Rather?

And then there's fucking CNN.

He babbles about 'talking points' in the right-wing media and how he wishes he can be 'tougher' on it never mentioning MSNBC's Maddow is driving rates up with probably the biggest fraud-talking  point in my lifetime with the Russia story.

Go fuck yourself Todd.

Literally. Here's a dildo and shove it up your ass.

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Just as a point of reference. How fact checkers aren't infallible. It's always worth keeping a 'healthy skepticism'.