Last month, we ran an episode here by one of our amazing reporters, Eli Lake, that took us back to the tumultuous year of 1968 when President Lyndon Johnson dropped out of his own reelection race, and the resulting turmoil at the Democratic convention that followed that summer in Chicago
This was an outstanding piece highlighting the airbrushing of history by the mainstream media. Those of us with ties to Eastern Europe lived with this for 40 years. In the last few years, gaslighting and lying were a subtle art form that made you think "did I hear that right?"Now the outright brazen lies are so obvious that it can no longer be considered an inadvertent error.
Tying our current political scene to Milan Kundera's famous book was a brilliant take and highly appropriate.
The Free Press would be performing a great public service in the service of freedom by allowing widespread free distribution of Eli Lake's remarkable column entitled "Kamala Harris and the Election of Laughter and Forgetting." We live in dangerous times when ballots and words are no match for bullets.
After that, maybe work on rescuing George F. Will from the mostly forgotten and eminently forgettable Washington Post.
One of the more brilliant pieces from the Free Press/Honestly. Keep pointing out the lies being told by the MSM and you will soon own them. Start reinforcing their lying narratives and suffer the same fate. MSM is dead it just know it yet.
This is a much-needed piece to combat the cynicism engendered by the MSM and the extremes of the two parties. They promote the fallacy there is only a binary choice. Unfortunately, legitimate criticism is deemed illegitimate by the opposing side to the detriment of a free society.
A lot of good points in here, rescued from their memory holes. However, the dismissal of Democrats’ claims that democracy itself is at stake in this election does not seem entirely warranted given that Trump tried multiple strategies to subvert the results of the 2020 election and Vance has said he wouldn’t have certified them as VP.
This one is weaker than your standard. The repeated refrain "make of it what you will" is an instant red flag. That's not how strong arguments work. Think of a prosecutor making a case. You want to look at the evidence, draw conclusions, make an argument. This feels more like the conspiratorial "just asking questions" genre. Don't just throw spaghetti at the wall and glory in the thrill of the greasy mess, as fun as that may be. Make a real argument if you have the evidence.
This was an outstanding piece highlighting the airbrushing of history by the mainstream media. Those of us with ties to Eastern Europe lived with this for 40 years. In the last few years, gaslighting and lying were a subtle art form that made you think "did I hear that right?"Now the outright brazen lies are so obvious that it can no longer be considered an inadvertent error.
Tying our current political scene to Milan Kundera's famous book was a brilliant take and highly appropriate.
The Free Press would be performing a great public service in the service of freedom by allowing widespread free distribution of Eli Lake's remarkable column entitled "Kamala Harris and the Election of Laughter and Forgetting." We live in dangerous times when ballots and words are no match for bullets.
After that, maybe work on rescuing George F. Will from the mostly forgotten and eminently forgettable Washington Post.
One of the more brilliant pieces from the Free Press/Honestly. Keep pointing out the lies being told by the MSM and you will soon own them. Start reinforcing their lying narratives and suffer the same fate. MSM is dead it just know it yet.
The memory-holers want you to vote one way. No thank you. Vote the other way.
This is a much-needed piece to combat the cynicism engendered by the MSM and the extremes of the two parties. They promote the fallacy there is only a binary choice. Unfortunately, legitimate criticism is deemed illegitimate by the opposing side to the detriment of a free society.
What an excellent piece!
A lot of good points in here, rescued from their memory holes. However, the dismissal of Democrats’ claims that democracy itself is at stake in this election does not seem entirely warranted given that Trump tried multiple strategies to subvert the results of the 2020 election and Vance has said he wouldn’t have certified them as VP.
This one is weaker than your standard. The repeated refrain "make of it what you will" is an instant red flag. That's not how strong arguments work. Think of a prosecutor making a case. You want to look at the evidence, draw conclusions, make an argument. This feels more like the conspiratorial "just asking questions" genre. Don't just throw spaghetti at the wall and glory in the thrill of the greasy mess, as fun as that may be. Make a real argument if you have the evidence.
I agree. This has been one in a series of sub par episodes.
Oh you’re invoking Orwell? What a fresh take!
The media can do what it likes so long as the majority are willingly ignorant. Still...
The North remembers.
Love this. Just finished re-watching all of GoT with my son and was struck at the many parallels.