The republican ads in NC have been classic, Willie Horton-esque, fear mongering. They really dug deep into their gutter playbook this year. c'est magnifique!
post
Thanks, I'll add this to the mountain of reasons I already hate her for being the fascist-supporting cancerous sellout scum she is.
On one hand, it's like fox news doing the same, and it's a private news org, and they can. On the other hand, it's further proof that the 4th estate has collapsed and eroded peoples trust in mainstream news outlets
Why give nonmainstream a pass? They are as bad, or even worse many times.
On the other hand, rich people buying a respected media company primarily to change its journalistic slant is immensely destructive to democracy and there should be a means of preventing it
We already had overly corporate and conservative friendly media, back in the 80s.
But that wasn't enough for the cons; they had to make hate radio (thanks Ronnie Raygun! When you look around at how fucked this country is, so many things tie back to that grinning idiot) and Faux.
Having Faux, hate radio, and sites like Breitbart and a billion hateful douchebros on the manosphere was not enough either, they had to cancel Colbert and take over CBS.
Same for CNN, Paramount, Warner Brothers...
Why, it's almost like the conservatives hate free speech and the actual marketplace of ideas and all the accusations of them being fascist were true....
This is the Nazi strategy. The Nazis had full control of all media in Germany including doing cutting edge stuff like television even.
Republicans would kill for someone half as talented as Leni Riefenstahl
Doesn't she claim to be a centrist democrat?
Well Tim Pool also claims to be a centrist and Kim Jong Un also claims to be the leader of a Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The Nazis claimed to be socialists so the farmers and working class supported them, and when they took power the actual socialists were among the first to be slaughtered. Crazy how it just keeps happening that fascists act like they’re inclusive, progressive but in fact align with the bigots, corporate class and wealthy.
When a white person claims to be a centrist, the safest assumption is that they are EXTREMELY right wing.
UK-based Palestinian-Lebanese researcher Elia Ayoub has defined the term [reactionary centrists] as "centrists who often validate perceived concerns of the right and far right while blaming the left for the failures of centrist politics... those who are convinced that the way to do politics is to effectively treat the far right as ‘the people’, the default, the silent majority. They don’t view themselves as right wingers, but act as though right wing politics are always more popular with ‘the people.’"
100%. This explains why the Overton window of political thought in the West has moved so much to the right. In the UK, far right, black shirted masked agitators are referred to by the centrist Labour Party as people with ‘legitimate concerns’
That's just another way of saying they're right wingers who lie about it.
See also: Chuck Schumer
She says she supports neither party but is a “left of center liberal.” However she doesn’t seem to know what those words mean, and spends most of her time complaining about “wokeness” and how people are mean to Israel. If you’ve got 30 minutes, John Oliver did a thing last year when she took over, predicting this headline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieTx_P6INQ
Yeah and if I was disingenuously trying to get my controversial right wing beliefs normalized in the party I'd call myself that too. Her main issues are zionism and transphobia, but she's generally extremely anti woke so you can assume there's plenty of other bigotry in there too.
Anybody that calls themselves centrist or independent immediately has my skepticism. Article below has a quote from an independent vote in TN that made me laugh out loud. A maga independent.
https://wpln.org/post/nashville-voter-turnout-15-times-higher-than-last-midterm-so-far/
Independent voter … wasn’t excited about any of the candidates.
“But being a believer in Christ, I’m going to vote … for representatives that represent my beliefs,” Allen said. “I’ve got to vote for people that are going to uphold our security … We have an administration in D.C. right now that’s actually looking after those interests.”
Don't even get me started on the whole "independent" voter bullshit.
Here in Washington state, "Independent" has always been code for "Republican but that's not as popular in this state so covering it with Independent"
Their policies are somehow almost always lockstep with the Republican party.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/03/14/political-independents-who-they-are-what-they-think/
I mean yeah, it's just the whole independents aren't really independents thing.
Doesn’t she claim to be a centrist democrat?
So do male trump voters that are single after they keep getting rejected romantically when they reveal they're MAGA.
Many women don't want to involve themselves with men who reject the idea of their bodily autonomy, possibly even the right to vote, or have a bank account or a credit card or equal pay, or a no-fault divorce.
The amount of ink spilled on that, even to the point of a moral panic ("women don't even want to date Republicans any more, how is that even fair?"), was and is just so crazy to me.
The idea of Popper's Paradox of tolerance seems to have been so thoroughly rejected by the reactionary centrists gnashing their teeth and rending their garments over this that they seem to believe women should honor the Tone Police on their "civility" nonsense that they should literally sleep with their enemies.
The article frames her as an "anti woke crusader" but if you look at her actual life history its 5x5 straight down the middle zionism from an early age. Anti-woke is just the current most optimal mechanism for that, but she used to call herself a centrist too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss
Not anti woke-- pro zionist. Misdirection around her motivations is bad journalism and a betrayal. Get it right, TNR. Grow some effing balls to call out pro israel bias or get out of the media business.
Fuck her and Jan Crawford
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/18/cbs-reporter-apologizes-abdul-el-sayed-post
This is bullshit, a right wing punk "Tommy" goes on and asks Abdul to renounce the Muslim Brotherhood. Abdul does but goes deeper into the racism in that question and the constitution and standing up for it. Crawford deleted her post claiming that Abdul quietly denounced them and that you could barely hear it over his other stuff. Which if you WATCHED it was ALL about this point, fuck her "spinning".
I entered CBS and related companies into uBlock Origin so I don't accidentally click on them and give them click income.
The viewership should essentially drop to 0. Its the only message they will understand.
top 50 comments