Disinformation Is Bad Unless You're a Democrat

If you like your disinfo, you can keep your disinfo

Last week, The Atlantic held a conference on “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy.” That’s not the funny part. The funny part is that they claimed to be against it!

The guests included Brian Stelter, Anne Applebaum, Ben Smith, and other comfortable, well-paid purveyors of disinformation. They lie to you every day, and then they scold you for believing the lies of their enemies.

Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes also showed up, because they’re the newest pet conservatives at CNN or MSNBC or wherever they work now. You see, only certain disinformation is bad. If somebody on Fox News says something that isn’t true, it’s a threat to our very republic. But if a host on a network that employs Goldberg or Hayes blurts out the craziest $#!+ you’ve ever heard, well… whaddaya gonna do, right? A guy’s gotta eat.¹

But here’s the best part: The guest of honor at the disinformation festival was… Barack Obama! That’s right, Captain IYLYDYCKYD (If You Like Your Doctor, You Can Keep Your Doctor) is very concerned about disinformation being spread by people other than himself.

The Atlantic @TheAtlantic

“As somebody who grappled with the incursion into Crimea … I have been encouraged by the European reaction because in 2014 I often had to drag them kicking and screaming to respond in ways we would have wanted to see,” @BarackObama tells @JeffreyGoldberg at #Disinfo2022.

“Russia? Seriously, Governor Romney? Uhhh, the 1980s are calling to ask for their foreign policy back…”

The most effective liar of the 21st Century is pulling up the ladder behind him. He got his Netflix money and his oceanfront mansions and whatnot, and now the rest of us losers can go to hell. Lies are bad unless Obama is the one telling them.

Stephen “Not the Trump Guy” Miller has a lot more about that whole mess. If you trust anybody who reprimands you about disinformation while sniffing Obama’s farts, you’re a rube.

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On a related note: How do you lose money by lying to liberals? How does that happen?

Axios @axios

Dramatic cuts are expected for CNN+ in response to the subscription service's low adoption rate, two sources tell Axios.

trib.alBig cuts coming for CNN+ after slow startThe news giant was initially planning to invest around $1 billion over 4 years.

Remember: Quibi lasted seven months. That’s the time to beat.

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jimtreacher.substack.com @jtLOL

Day 226 of Americans stranded in Afghanistan.

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Oh, Joe Biden is doing just fine. Why do you ask?

Greg Price @greg_price11

BIDEN: "Imagine had the tobacco industry been immune to prostitute..."

If only Hunter had been immune to prostitutes.

And then there was this:

Townhall.com @townhallcom

Biden is now showing the crowd at the White House a "ghost gun."

I’d call this an “Obama throwing a baseball” moment, but Joe gives us at least three of those every day. He was a bumbling oaf even before he lost his mind, and now he’s the leader of the free world. God help us.

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“Don’t Say Gay” is a lie, but it’s a lie that the Democrats believe will help them. So the wealthy and entitled are happy to repeat it:

Tom Elliott @tomselliott

.@abigaildisney on @ReliableSources: “If you were to erase every reference to gayness and gay people from the planet, which is sort of what the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill feels like, will children not become gay? Do they need to be recruited and groomed, or are people just gay?"

This bears about as much relation to reality as a talking mouse.

Abigail Disney is worth over $100 million because her granduncle decided to make cartoons about talking animals. She’s never had to work a day in her life. Why can’t she just enjoy her good fortune? Why humiliate herself like this?

And why aren’t Americans flocking to CNN+ to hear the sound of Brian Stelter’s voice?

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“I once went to an Italian restaurant in San Francisco about 25 years ago with Charlie Sheen because they had square tube pasta and he was very interested in trying square tube pasta and we did and we loved it so much we went back the next day to try it again.” — Nicolas Cage

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I still haven’t seen Batman — sorry, The Batman — because it’s three hours long and I don’t want to miss any of the exciting Bat-action when I get up four times to urinate. (I am 97 years young.) Now I don’t need to worry about it, though, because it’s premiering on HBO Max next Monday. It was only released in theaters six weeks ago!

The pandemic has really changed everything. Way back in the days of Blockbuster Video, you’d wait months or even years for a theatrical release to hit home video. Now, people are used to seeing first-run movies at home. They’ll still shlep to a movie theater to watch three versions of Spider-Man swinging around together, but a Batman movie makes less money than a Joker movie.

I have no idea how the business side of movies works, but as an audience member, one of the benefits of streaming video is that I’m not so disappointed by bad movies. I haven’t made an investment of time and money to plop my fat ass in a theater seat for 2-3 hours. Sure, it can be fun to watch a movie in a theater full of people, but more often it is not fun because people are rude, disgusting slob-monsters.

I’ve only walked out of one movie in my whole life, but that’s because it was National Lampoon’s European Vacation. If streaming home video had existed 30-odd years ago, I would’ve just suffered through 10-20 minutes of that disaster and then clicked over to something worth watching instead. It wouldn’t have ruined my whole day. I wouldn’t still resent it decades later.

Plus, the popcorn is better at home.

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Hope you’re having a safe and productive Tuesday. Or make it lazy and dangerous, if you prefer. I’m not here to tell you how to live your life.

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1. By the way, Jonah, in the unlikely event that you ever read this, here’s how much I trust you when it comes to disinformation. Nobody’s forgetting your attitude about Hunter’s laptop back in October 2020:

David French @DavidAFrench

@rkylesmith It's journalist's job to verify info as much as possible, not dump and then see if the target denies -- especially when the way in which the info was obtained was so unusual and through a highly-unreliable source. Some of it might be real, some might be false.

jimtreacher.substack.com @jtLOL

@DavidAFrench @rkylesmith So... a computer repair shop in Delaware is a front for Putin?

Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch

@jtLOL @DavidAFrench @rkylesmith Wait you believe the computer repair shop story? Like at face value?

No, I did not believe anything about Hunter Biden’s laptop at face value. I just don’t hate Donald Trump so much that I deny the evidence of my own senses.

We were given two possible scenarios:

1. Hunter Biden is a crackhead who forgot a laptop full of incriminating evidence at a repair shop less than five miles from his dad’s house.

2. Vladimir Putin planted an undercover operative in that Delaware repair shop when it opened in 2010, just waiting for the day Hunter Biden would stumble in and endanger the final political campaign of his father’s life.

You believed #2, Jonah. And now you’re full of it.

But enjoy the money!