George Stephanopoulos Accidentally Tells the Truth
That's a big no-no
George Stephanopoulos has made a very good living by keeping a straight face while telling the most outrageous lies imaginable. He got his big break in the Clinton administration — the only Clinton administration, thank goodness — and he went on to pretend to be a journalist for ABC.
But his one and only job is to lie for Democrats. That’s it. End of.
Which makes the following all the more remarkable:
“I don’t think he can serve four more years.”
And yes, that is George Stephanopoulos. He just put out a statement apologizing for telling the truth:
“Earlier today I responded to a passerby. I shouldn’t have.”
That’s a big no-no! Admitting the obvious about a Democrat in trouble, that is.
It took TMZ to get the truth out of a lifelong liar like Stephanopoulos. Just like it took the National Enquirer to get to the truth about John Edwards and the secret daughter he had with his nutty campaign aide back in 2008. Sometimes you gotta dig around in the gutter to find a gem.
Now the libs are furious at this tiny little man for expressing his genuine opinion. How can the Democrats stop the Big Orange Liar, if one of their soldiers can ruin the whole thing in a regrettable moment of unintentional honesty?
I have no idea what was behind George’s moment of weakness. Maybe his conscience was acting up that afternoon. Maybe he felt guilty about a lifetime of lies, putting his own comfort and power over the good of the country.
Maybe he resents being used by the Biden administration, who have done nothing but lie about the old man’s condition since he announced his candidacy.
Maybe he figured he was safe admitting the truth to a complete stranger, forgetting that absolutely everybody in 2024 is filming everything at all times.
Whatever the case, I revel in his misery. Serves him right.
No matter what you think about Biden, or Trump, or anything else in the least important election of our lifetime, it’s amazing to watch this facade of fraudulence collapse in real time. Journalists and other Democrats jumped into a bear trap with both feet in 2020, and now they’re desperately trying to gnaw their way free.
Then they look up at us, blood and gristle caking their teeth, and mewl: “Why are you doing this?”
They bet the whole pile on the one Dem who’s even older, crazier, and less honest than their most despised foe. This is their worst nightmare, and they have nobody to blame but themselves.
Tee-hee!
Of course, none of this matters because AI is coming to destroy us all.
The machines keep getting better, day by day, minute by minute. They’re learning faster than we can keep up. They’ve already surpassed us in many ways, and most of us don’t even realize it.
The perfect example is a goofy ad for a fictional pizza chain.
A little over a year ago, a guy(?) called Pizza Later created a bizarre fake commercial using AI. A robot wrote the copy, another robot read it aloud, another one created the images, another one wrote and performed the music, and so on. A human did the editing and chyrons, but otherwise it was 100% machine.
And boy, was it weird!
The fun of that was the glitchiness. The stilted line readings, the bizarrely distorted bodies and faces, etc.
I remember thinking: “Wow, that’s really bad. It nosedives right into the uncanny valley. There’s no way the machines will ever take over!”
Well, about that…
Pizza Later is back, and here’s the exact same ad with the latest tech.
Uh-oh.
Now, the robots still aren’t 100% there yet. It all has an eerie sheen to it, and I don’t know what’s going on with that little girl’s left arm. But it’s pretty damn good. A lot better than it was just 14 months ago.
The line between artifice and reality just got even blurrier.
And it’s already being used for the most unspeakable evil:
I just shuddered so hard, I may have injured my spine.
This stuff is going to put a lot of people out of work. Why spend a bunch of money on humans with skills to made videos and ads and everything else, when you can just type in a few text prompts and let a computer do it?
That includes me. A robot didn’t write any of this, but it could. I am so screwed.
Help!
No AI could replace you, jt. Your epic snark - which I live for - could never be supplanted by anyONE or anyTHING.
For 100,000+ years humans have been very adaptable to new technology. Lets see how we do with AI.
But when reporting turned into "journalism" what we got became more useless than before. Instead of finding/using people who could dig and find interesting stuff and tell us about it (reporting) we began getting people who were good at stringing wors together into pleasant sentences *journalists). The first is way more work, so it was done by essentially blue-colar, roll up your sleeves and do the dirty job types. The second takes less effort, especially when the individuals doing it are roughly interchangeable, like cogs. SO the lazy griftrs moved in.
A couple of decades ago even the NYT fired "journalists" who made up their stories and 'sources'. Now they deliberately hire the same types. Replacing them with AI wold be way cheaper and no difference would be apparent.