Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Media Bias for Fun and Profit.

Yahoo - CNBC - Secret Service pays $1.6 million to Trump to protect him: Politico.  Read the article and experience the bias. Hillary Clinton rents the plane she travels on and the federal government pays for the Secret Service to be on that plane. So far the federal government has spent $2.6 million for the Secret Service to protect her. Trump owns his plane and the Secret Service has only spent $1.6 million to protect him. Yet, the one who is attacked is Trump.

YouTube - Primetime Live - Hillary Clinton Jan. 30 1992 Primetime live Bill Clinton and Gennifer Flowers infidelity.  This is Hillary in her own words back in 1992. She refers to one of the women who it turns out did have a 12 year affair as a liar and dishonest. She should be asked what she thinks of Bill Cosby. I bet she would vilify him; but, Bill Clinton is held to a different level as is she. Heck, she called Bill Clinton's mistresses bimbos and now complains that Trump called Rosie O'Donnell names.

The Washington Post - Dear readers: Please stop calling us ‘the media.’ There is no such thing.  Here is a quote from the article, "As I understand your use of this term, “the media” is essentially shorthand for anything you read, saw or heard today that you disagreed with or didn’t like. At any given moment, “the media” is biased against your candidate, your issue, your very way of life." Lets start with the obvious, "The media" refers to mass publication of any type. You have the written media, visual media and audio media. The fact that all of the news media is owned by six companies means we should probably refer to it as the corporate owned, oligarchic media.

MSN - Investor Place - Why would Disney even want Twitter?  Yes, Disney (one of the six corporations that owns 90% of the media in America) wants to buy Twitter and investors cannot figure out why. The answer is simple, to control what you read and hear.

Washington Post - U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism,’ says U.N. panel.  Hey, maybe they will make England pay the Irish for starving 25% of us to death or This is just silly and everybody knows it, it is meant to create racial problems and separate people. Divide and conquer is still the approach, always has been and always will be.

Independent - World’s first baby born with controversial new ‘three-parent’ technique.  Actually I wrote a few years ago about how there were over 150 babies with three parents using a very similar technique. The new technique is not controversial, the fact that it is done at all is what is controversial.

The Washington Post - Enabler or family defender? How Hillary Clinton responded to husband’s accusers.  The question is not about how Hillary may have tried to work things out with Bill, it is about how she treated and what she said about the women. Personally, I blame my wife for her adultery, she owed me better and took an oath. The men she slept with were just slime; but, broke no promises to me, same goes for the Clintons.




Monday, September 26, 2016

The First Presidential Debate: Trump vs Clinton.

Meh.  The immediate online polls gave it to Trump; but, the polls are still going on. As for me, I saw nothing that will change anyone's vote. There was nothing in the debate that is going to make Hillary voters now vote for Trump or Trump voters now vote for Hillary. Yes the media is going to drown on about who said what; but, the reality is that tens of millions of people watched it and the people who did watch it are the most likely to vote. I personally do not know of one person who is really undecided, the only thing they are undecided about is whether or not to vote at all.

For my part, I am disappointed that more did not happen. I was watching for the amusement factor and found too little amusement and only predictability. If you ask me my opinion of how the two acted, my answer is also boring. Hillary continued her personal attacks and Trump responded in kind; but, made an attempt to stay on track more than she. In politics you are taught to ignore the question and answer the one you want. They actually teach people in government to do that same as they teach people in private industry.

If this debate actually changed anyone's vote comment and tell me who you were going to vote for, why and what changed your mind in this debate. I don't see too many comments coming in answering that because the debate changed nothing in my humble opinion.

UPDATE:

It is now the day after the debate. News organizations that like Trump scored it a win and those that like Hillary scored it a win for her. Meaningless. The media likes to focus on what it calls momentum. The reality is that momentum means more in the early primaries where electability is an issue. At this point in the game both Clinton and Trump have shown that they can get votes as tens of millions have voted for one of the two.

The media analysis of the debates has focused on "who won"; but, the real question that is not being reported is still the same. Did the debate make you change who you are going to vote for and the answer is no.

Sunday, September 25, 2016

False Arguments From Hypocritical Idiots

Not very long ago many conservatives lost their minds because the courts said businesses could not discriminate against gays when making cakes. Certain religious fundamentalists flipped out. They said that people should not be forced to make things that violated their religious beliefs. Todd Starnes is one of the people who felt that way.

Right Wing Watch - Todd Starnes: Colorado Cake Case An Assault On Religious Freedom.

Todd Starnes - Walmart Workers Refuse to Make Cop’s Retirement Cake.  Apparently, Mr. Starnes fails the consistency or honesty test. Here is a line from his article on his website, "The three cake decorators need to be told: either decorate the cake or be fired. Just because Walmart is the home of low prices, doesn’t mean they have to hire a bunch of low class, anti-cop bigots."

How is it okay to penalize people for not engaging wanting to make a cake they see as bigoted and promoting those who don't want to make cakes for gays when both are just businesses? I see the same hypocricy when it comes to school prayer, people are okay with prayer in school, or so they say; but, would flip out if a Satanist was conducting the prayer. The rights you give or deny others eventually work against you too, that is called fairness.

Saturday, September 24, 2016

9/24/16 Where We Are Headed

The Washington Post - The GOP has become a pity party for white males.  The wealthy have always considered the working class to be reprehensible and dirty, the unwashed masses is how they used to refer to them. Now the establishment and corporate media have a new way of saying it. If you are working class then you are hateful, scared, stupid and just don't understand that you have to be in high tech to be successful. The vilification of Trump supporters is very much akin to how the French monarchy dealt with their citizens until the whole system was taken down. Democracy means being concerned about all citizens and not just your betters. Many Republicans did not vote for Romney because he disregarded half of our citizens. Hillary's mistake and the corporate media is in thinking that working class Democratic voters do not know that she considers them deplorables and useless too.

The Washington Post - At U.N., Obama offers a defense of a liberal world order under siege.  Obama will be gone soon; but, you should remember that Obama did not create multinational corporations or globalization, he is just another proponent of it.

Bloomberg - Get Ready for Freeways That Ban Human Drivers.  Here is one of the most important paragraphs from the post. "This week, technology industry veterans proposed a ban on human drivers on a 150-mile (241-kilometer) stretch of Interstate 5 from Seattle to Vancouver. Within five years, human driving could be outlawed in congested city centers like London, on college campuses and at airports, said Kristin Schondorf, executive director of automotive transportation at consultant EY." This is the second most important paragraph in the post, "To speed the transition, governments may give drivers financial incentives to replace their cars with autonomous vehicles, similar to the Cash for Clunkers program offered in 2009 to get gas guzzlers off the road, Google’s Medford said. Insurance companies also could nudge people out of the driver’s seat by charging a higher premium to operate a car manually, Schondorf said."

Yahoo - How the government plans to make your self-driving car safer.  Yes, the Federal government will get involved in making rules regarding self-driving cars. In the end it will be done with a carrot more than a stick. States will only be given money from the Federal Transportation Fund if they follow the same rules for self driving vehicles.

Federal Department of Transportation - Federal Automated Vehicle Policy. If nothing else, go to page 37 and read how the Federal government views the relationship between the fed and states when regulating driving. About 3 or 4 years ago I pointed out that City streets were now being considered as part of the national highway system. That was an unusual step historically; but, as I pointed out at the time was part of a longer term plan.  

Where are we headed? We are being led to a place where only the entranced win and where being born means not having a chance, no medical care, no real education and being born into a world where you agree that someone else already owns everything. If you are born today you cannot just go into the wilderness and take unused land and work it, you have to buy that land from someone else. You start out with less and have to pay to even compete whereas they start with the advantage. That is what we are leaving our children, the illusion that you can inherit by right more than the other guy, that you can inherit advantage.


Wednesday, September 21, 2016

How Hillary Clinton Could Win and Why She Won't Do It.

The media and Hillary seem confused that working class people don't like or trust her. She says she will strengthen unions; but, they are already dead and we all know it. Closing the barn after the horse has fled is merely a hollow action. She looks down on the working class and calls them white racist men who are too stupid for their vote to count because they don't feel she will work for their interests too.

If Hillary were a real Democrat she would start by saying she is eliminating tax cuts for companies that outsource jobs. If she cared about American workers she would refuse to sign anymore trade agreements or promise that the agreements were for two years and that if they resulted in American job losses than the agreement would be voided. If she truly was a progressive then she would do what was done in the early 1900s and break up the monopolies (like Teddy Roosevelt did) and regulate business; but, it is hard to take that position when her husband deregulated and allowed the monopolies to come about while outsourcing jobs.

As much as the media, big business and Hillary want to avoid discussing jobs in America it is always what elections are about. It is the economy stupid. Instead of attacking people who are concerned about job losses and anti-immigrants and xenophobes tell them how you are going to motivate companies to create jobs in the United States for Americans.

She won't be doing those things because the multinational companies that are her donors don't want those jobs here, they want those jobs in countries where they don't have to follow environmental laws or pay taxes. The reason Hillary and the media have chosen to focus on social issues is because they will not get votes if they focus on the economic issues that affect us all. Sanders supporters focus was on economic issues and they know the difference.

Monday, September 19, 2016

Why Trust the Media Anymore?

The Economist - A giant problem.  The article goes into how we are seeing a consolidation of companies to the disadvantage of small businesses. In the early 1900s we determined that monopolies were anti-capitalistic and began limiting their power. Today we seem to promote it at out own expense.

MSN - USA Today - Ford CEO fires back at Donald Trump on jobs to Mexico.  Ford comes out and says it is moving all it's jobs making small cars to Mexico. Trump has said that if he is elected they will have tariffs put on them when sold here because they are shipping jobs overseas. The CEO of Ford's response is to say it won't hurt American jobs as they will produce more trucks in America. Does anyone really believe that sending manufacturing jobs to Mexico helps Americans or that Ford will pay taxes on their profits, Apple doesn't.

MSN - Market Watch - Hello, self-driving cars; goodbye, 4.1 million jobs?  Maybe those 4.1 million people can all become waiters or doctors or computer programmers. Nope, we don't need that many.

USA Today - Is 70 the new retirement age?  Here is a quote from the article, "More and more Americans are embracing the new reality that is retiring at 70 -- or later." No people are NOT embracing working till their 70 and it does not have to be the new reality. USA, like the others, is just one more shill for the corporations and banks.

Paste - Not So Fast: The Media is Biased FOR Hillary, As Coverage of the Clinton Foundation Proves.  The media is trying to say that it is wrong for being Pro-Trump and anti-Hillary. Huh? Have you read or seen one positive report about Trump? Me neither.

Fox - Trump, Clinton quickly refer to New York blast as bomb; Trump takes brunt of media criticism.  Both called what happened in New York a bomb; but, Trump was criticized for it. More interestingly, CNN (which attacked Trump for saying it was a bomb), edited out Clinton's use of the exact same word. NewsMax - Clinton's First Response to 'Bombings' Edited Out by CNN.  Here is the actual video of what Clinton said that was later edited out by CNN.


Politico - Clinton tweaks Trump over Manhattan blast response. Her comment was that he should not have jumped to the same conclusion she did; but, even that is not right as BOTH were briefed and told what had happened prior to their statements.

The Federalist - Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump is a Traitor, and These Attacks Are His Fault.  Two points. Firstly, how does she know what led the bomber to this attack. Isn't she the person who doesn't jump to conclusions. What if it turns out that it was her actions that led to the wars in the middle east that set this guy off, what will the media say then? Nothing. Secondly, isn't this the same woman who blamed the Benghazi attacks on a YouTube video even though she knew it had nothing to do with what happened. She failed to protect the Ambassador to Libya and blamed some idiot who made a bad YouTube video to deflect people examining her actions, she is if anything consistent.

AP - Exec: Most Lyft rides will be in autonomous cars in 5 years. He does say not to worry as they will still have some human drivers.

MSN -  White, Working-Class Voters Vex Clinton.  Funny how the party that was supposed to be for the working class now considers them deplorables.

The Emmys was last night and ended up being all about making fun of Donald Trump. Last week Jimmy Fallon had Trump and Clinton on and he was attacked by the media for not attacking Trump. Fallon has never done harsh interview nor been very political and he doesn't have to. The mistake the media is making is that they are being universally partisan and misleading. Getting caught in the act as they were regarding the recent New York bombing means that even those who like their position will know that they are liars and cannot be trusted.

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Why No Allergy Medicine for Hillary and Other Lies

I have allergies and I assume some of my readers have allergies. My doctor has prescribed nasal mists and pills to deal with them. My sister has allergies and uses medication for it which works very well according to her. I don't take mine, it is a choice that I have made. Apparently, Hillary has made the same choice or her doctor is an idiot. Allergy medicine is nothing new why wasn't it prescribed for Hillary?

Let me try this again. If you were running for President and had to speak at conventions and knew that you coughed a lot when you had allergies, wouldn't you take the medicine? That was the first story we were given. The story did change and it became a claim about Pneumonia. Allergies do not cause pneumonia. Pneumonia is either bacterial or viral. Why didn't her doctor know that? Why is the media saying that her allergies contributed to the pneumonia?

I will get back to Hillary and the media in a minute. I will hit 90,000 hits this month or next. I am already at over 89,000. In all that time, the Pimpernel has never made a single penny from this blog. I have never "monetized" this blog or allowed any advertisement. I cannot think of more than two occasions where I even promoted something and I received nothing for those moments. In fact the restaurants that I mentioned don't even know I had been there and that I had a blog. This blog is mostly about exposing lies and garbage. I regret that I do not spend as much time talking about technology as I had; but, this is an election cycle and that is where the media manipulation is the most obvious.

I want my readers to be the best informed about how we are manipulated. It turns out not monetizing was the way to go. The United States is planning turning over ICANN (the brain of the internet) to the United Nations. This is not a joke. I have been writing about ICANN for years on this very blog. ICANN is a group based in Marina Del Rey that sets the internet protocols so that you can find websites by name. Google would not work if it was not for ICANN and links would not work either. Well, the conversation that is being held is about having ICANN be turned over to the U.N. and at the same time prohibiting sites from making money if they direct readers to other sites to read the news or watch videos or whatever. I don't monetize this site so it will not effect me; but, it would effect news conglomerate sits like Drudge or Huffington Post.

My point is simple, if they do change the law it will not change this blog, I will continue to reference people to other sources keeping in line with the history of attributing your sources as is required in scholastic writings and journalism. Now back to Hillary.

Bill Clinton was the one who signed the law that allowed the media to consolidate into the hands of six companies and they appreciated it. Now, they are attempting to do the same with internet news resources and Hillary supports that. Bill and her were never in favor of an open and diverse press that might question them or the establishment. The corporate controlled media owes them and are paying them back by spinning every news story in their favor.

The Washington Post - The man who discovered CTE thinks Hillary Clinton may have been poisoned.  The doctor presumes that she was poisoned by either Trump or Putin. Really, nice trial balloon.

Hillary did not cough because of an allergic reaction. None of the videos showed her sneezing from "seasonal" allergies. Seasonal allergies are due to pollen, that is what makes them seasonal. I have seasonal allergies and am allergic to many perfumes. I know which is effecting me when it is effecting me. Seasonal allergies can cause coughing; but, it also causes sneezing. In either case they have medicine for it; but, they gave up on those stories days ago and instead have turned to bacterial pneumonia. Go to Web MD and look up what the treatment for allergies is and what the treatment for bacterial pneumonia is. Guess what, there are some serious questions to be asked of her doctor.

I don't know for sure what is wrong with Hillary; but, I know we are still being told stories. The media has even said that it is sexist to ask what is wrong with Hillary. That is the media of today. It is more concerned with spin than the real news. The biggest challenges facing us are not even discussed in any real detail by the media, the media is used to placate us. Bread and Circus, just like in Roman times.

I will show again just how theatrical the news is and how scripted and staged it is. Watch the video below:


Now I want you to put on your thinking cap. Hillary faints and it is blamed on the heat (a whopping 78 degrees or so), she goes to her daughters house, drinks water and leaves after 90 minutes or so where she is met by a little girl who is allowed to run to her for a photo op and the Secret Service doesn't stop the child or even get close to Clinton. That is not Secret Service protocol for a presidential candidate. Do you see any Secret Service people around her...why not? Did they take a break? She fainted and was surrounded by Secret Service agents; but, 90 minutes later is allowed to walk through New York with no Secret Service agents near her and a child is allowed to approach her with nobody responding.

Don't accept what you see, question whether or not it makes sense. You question when you watch movies, the media is movies. The media is a story telling device and this story is not real. Here is a simple question, why hasn't the media said who this young girl was, how she ended up there or why she was allowed to approach Hillary who supposedly had pneumonia. Which parent or parents was she with and why did they allow her to run to a presidential candidate without accompanying her? This is called a photo op and she claimed she was fine and it was a "great" day in New York, she didn't complain about the weather, it was later that she returned to her home for a few days to rest. That means she lied when she said she was fine. She only lies, that is the problem.