Category: Media

You Don’t Hate the Media Nearly Enough

Matt Taibbi illustrates just how incredibly corrupt the media is:

In a Senate hearing Wednesday, Kentucky Republican Rand Paul asked Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), about Covid, and US-funded gain of function experiments. “Can you explain to the committee why you chose to fund this dangerous research in China?”

Fauci answered by invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, for the first of 100 times.

This ought to have marked a dramatic and final end to years of hagiographic worship of the man, and commenced a long overdue decision to investigate science’s role in causing the pandemic.

No luck. The reaction to Wednesday’s hearing makes clear that there is no amount of evidence that will move half of the American population off its religious devotion to this invidious huckster-narcissist whose reckless behavior endangered the world. Nothing gets through. Documentary evidence doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter that the FBI and the Department of Energy point in that direction. Not even a desire for self-preservation — the investigation of Fauci and other scientists is a necessary precursor to learning how an engineered virus killed millions — will shake this segment of the population.

Related: Jeffrey Tucker read the entire Fauci Diary. His summary of them is brutal.

Finally, Trust the Experts.

The Part I Like Best

About pot legalization is the way it diverted Canadian dealers from the dangerous criminal underground to open government regulated dispensaries.

Legally grown cannabis is flooding into Europe from Canada, enriching criminal gangs and helping turn Belgium into a “narco state”.

Farms legalised under Justin Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada, are supplying smugglers with high-strength marijuana to be shipped into some of the Continent’s major ports, a Telegraph investigation has found.

Record quantities of cannabis are flooding into the port of Antwerp in Belgium, with customs seizing 32 tons of cannabis in the last year alone – a 500 per cent increase from 2024.

The gangs smuggle the cannabis into Europe’s ports in 6m-long shipping containers sent from the docks of Vancouver, Montreal, Halifax and St John.

The smuggling operation is being driven by Chinese state-linked mafia networks which have proliferated in Canada’s countryside since Mr Trudeau legalised the drug eight years ago.

Money For Nothing

It’s all well and good to end the requirements for useless ingredients for streaming services, but why turn around and pay streamers directly for stuff no one watches?

The federal government will “eliminate” the financial contribution requirement for streamers set by the CRTC and replace it with government funding, it said in a court document.

Nonetheless, it’s anyone’s guess as to whether this will actually happen or not.

The office of Culture Minister Marc Miller did not immediately respond when asked to clarify the government’s stance or state whether the government plans to eliminate the contribution requirement permanently or temporarily.

 

Background on Today’s Fauci Hearings

Today, at 8:30am EDT / 5:30am PDT, the Senate Hearings on Anthony Fauci will be held. In preparation for that, here is much background:

Much more from Adam Carolla and Elisha Krauss

Emily Jashinsky: Fauci’s Ego Knows No Bounds

Dr. Kelly Victory and Dr. Drew: Dr. Fauci Had Heart Issue After COVID Vaccine But Kept It Secret

Valuetainment: The Real Dr. Fauci

“When my image came up, she GASPED and said that every time she sees me, her THROAT gets DRY and she gets nervous.”

Canadian Exceptionalism

When the Liberal backroom boys start to admit that the rest of the world couldn’t care less about Canada, you just know that your chances of “sticking it” to Trump are somewhere between slim and zero.

Clow said that while the world should have stuck together 18 months ago, it would be the wrong approach for Canada to unilaterally retaliate now.

“The ship has kind of sailed here,” he said. “For Canada to now move on its own and implement a whole bunch of retaliatory tariffs, I think, would leave us even more exposed to further escalation and further pain from the Trump administration.”

Scratch A Leftist

Antisemitism is in their bones and in their blood.

Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, voted to defund aid and defense sales to Israel. He also explained his vote, but he dropped an interesting nugget buried within his criticism of Israel:

To date, my family and I have had our home vandalized, a fire has been set in my driveway, my neighbors’ lives have been disrupted by demonstrations in the middle of the night, town halls meant to be forums for dialogue have been shut down, and a staff member has been physically assaulted. Those who engage in this type of behavior model a dangerous form of corrosive politics that seeks to intimidate those who disagree with them. We must be able to have civil discourse if we want to solve difficult problems, and I remain committed to open, respectful engagement.

Seems it worked.

There Goes The Narrative

Ann Widdecombe had a very eventful death.

First she died from natural causes, then she was bludgeoned to death by a white man – let’s be very clear, a white man, we found a white man everyone – during a “bungled burglary” – then another white man, definitely a white man, was arrested who “wasn’t politically motivated” and had just randomly driven 300 miles from Rotherham to Ann’s house and back with a weapon.

Then it turned out that yes, it’s being investigated by counter terror police and the suspect is a man who was reading communist literature and has learning difficulties. To be honest, if he’s a communist, you don’t need to tell me he’s got learning difficulties, because if he didn’t, he wouldn’t be a communist.

Ace: The Lotus Eaters podcast pointed out the UK cops now routinely hide the race of a suspect — unless he’s white, in which case they repeat it endlessly, as they did here.

Deep Impact

Oh no!

Corus, the parent company of Global TV, is preparing to shut down news production in Calgary and Edmonton and transfer the work to Toronto, the Western Standard has learned.

Western Standard souces say Corus is expected to make the announcement on Thursday.

“There will be a lot of layoffs,” said the source.

One source said the last day of August is when the transfer is set to be completed.

“From that point on, both Calgary and Edmonton newscasts will be produced remotely from Toronto.

Corus has faced severe, ongoing challenges in the broadcasting industry.

The company is facing declining revenues from advertising and higher debt costs.

In late 2025, the company cut 35–46 jobs in the news department.

 

Have You Noticed?

Can elections be free and fair if one political party controls the media?

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