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THE MEDIA GUIDE TO SHOOTING JOGGERS

May 30, 2024/4 Comments/in Africans and African Americans, Featured Articles, Media Bias/by Ann Coulter
THE MEDIA GUIDE TO SHOOTING JOGGERS

I did not think I could hate The New York Times more.

But thanks to Gregory Mantell’s amazing new book, “Special Victim Status, The Era of Woke Journalism,” I do! Mantell’s carefully researched book provides hundreds of new facts about the press’s fanatical propaganda on race.

Coincidentally, this week is the four-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death, and I think the traditional gift is paper. You know what would make a great anniversary gift?  This book.

Nothing shocked me more than Chapter 3 on the Ahmaud Arbery case.

If you follow the news, you know that Arbery was the innocent Black jogger chased down by three racist rednecks in Georgia and shot dead merely for “jogging while black.”

Arbery’s killers, Travis and Gregory McMichael, were convicted in about six minutes and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. Plus 20 years, just to be safe. Eight months later, they got bonus life sentences in separate federal hate crimes prosecutions. A neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan Jr., who happened to be there, got 35 years (state) plus life (federal).

Quite a turnabout for a case that three prosecutors refused to take after concluding there was no crime. But our media can perform miracles!

Mantell contrasts the media’s treatment of Arbery’s killing with their take on the murder of Christopher Lane, a White jogger shot and killed by a Black man in Oklahoma.

Arbery: RACIST HATE CRIME, COMMITTED BY HATEFUL RACISTS!

Lane:

— “the simplest of motives — boredom.” — The Washington Post

— “a tale about teenagers from broken families, lives complicated by drugs and poverty, who seemed idle.” — The New York Times

The facts of the Lane shooting are pretty simple:

Lane, a 22-year-old Australian studying at East Central University in Oklahoma on a baseball scholarship, went for an afternoon run on Aug. 16, 2013, in a town that’s 2.5% black, and was shot in the back by a black teen, Chancey Luna, driving by in a car with two other boys. Lane died, blood gushing from his mouth, before the ambulance arrived.

Days earlier, one of the teens charged with Lane’s murder tweeted, “With my n*ggas when it’s time to start taken life’s.”

The facts of Arbery’s shooting are also simple, only made complicated by the media’s lies.

Mantell writes:

“The McMichaels said they attempted to make a citizen’s arrest to take Arbery into custody [after catching him again trespassing in neighbor Larry English’s house late at night]. Bryan, who followed behind the McMichaels in his own truck, caught part of the incident on his cellphone camera. In the video, Arbery punched Travis, and they fought over the gun; during the struggle, Travis shot and killed Arbery.”

But “from the start, both the Times and the Post pushed the false narrative by Arbery’s family and attorney (who were not present during the incident) that Arbery had simply been out jogging through the neighborhood …”

Indeed, a Times reporter wrote that “even if Arbery had been trespassing in the house, it doesn’t justify his shooting.” (Say, can we get Malachy Browne to write an article on Officer Michael Byrd’s deadly shooting of Ashli Babbitt for trespassing at the Capitol on Jan. 6?)

Mantell notes a few omissions from the Times’ and Washington Post’s “jogging while black” accounts:

— “Convenience store employees reported Arbery was known as ‘the jogger’ because he would stretch and pretend to warm up outside the store and then run in and out quickly, stealing stuff. … The employees said they tried to have police give the man a criminal trespass warning, but he always ran off before they could.”

— “On August 21, 2018, according to Burke County witness reports and Burke County Sheriff bodycam video, a Black woman who was married to a sheriff deputy called for help after seeing Arbery in her backyard and looking in her car windows. Sheriff deputies also later mentioned he was trying to steal a dog from the same house … When officers arrived to give Arbery a warning about criminal trespassing, Arbery claimed he had been out jogging and threatened to ‘whoop the officer’s ass.’”

— “On October 23, 2018, a Black woman called Burke County Sheriff deputies when she saw Arbery go into a vacant mobile home across from her house … When the sheriff arrived, Arbery ran away from deputies and falsely claimed he had been out jogging.”

— “Arbery was arrested and charged with ‘misdemeanor obstruction for running when given lawful commands to stop.’”

Following his pattern, before “jogging” the night he was shot, Arbery had apparently been burgling English’s house.

But “both the Times and the Post (and other media) continued to falsely report claims that nothing had ever been taken from English’s house in which Arbery had been caught on video trespassing on multiple occasions.”

In fact, Mantell says, “the Post and the Times knew about several 911 calls made in October and November 2019 which directly contradicted those claims … In one [of several calls] English told the dispatcher, ‘we had some stuff stolen from there’ in the last incident … The first time they stole everything out of the boat ‘that wasn’t tied down.’ The next night, November 18, 2019, English called 911 again, reporting that the same black guy who was there about a week or a week and a half ago was back.”

The media simply treated as gospel English’s post-hoc, not-under-oath, scared-stiff statement that nothing had been stolen. More likely, English noticed what had happened to the Atlanta Wendy’s where police had shot a black man in the parking lot in June 2020.  (Reuters: “Protesters burn down Wendy’s in Atlanta after police shooting.”)

Tellingly, English “admitted in court he had been greatly troubled by death threats he received.”

No matter. The only relevant fact to the media was this:

“[T]he neighbor Bryan accused Travis McMichael of calling Arbery a ‘fucking n*gger’ after killing him — and when racist messages were found on Travis’ cellphone — both papers devoted breathless headlines and stories to the news. This was reported as absolute proof that the killing of Arbery was racially motivated.”

But, oddly, the media had zero interest in the racist tweets posted by James Edwards, one of the Black teens involved in Lane’s shooting, such as:

“90% of white ppl are nasty. #HATE THEM.”

“Ayeee I knocced out 5 woods since Zimmerman court!:) lol sh*t ima keep sleepin sh*t!#ayeeee.” (“Wood” is a racial epithet for a white person.)

Another discrepancy noted by Mantell:

“[W]hile the Times pointed out that Lane’s killer had white friends, it didn’t worry about whether the McMichaels or Bryan had any black friends, though Travis McMichael had risked his own life years earlier to save a black man from drowning (according to a later “48 Hours” report).”

Yeah, “later” — after the media’s propaganda campaign had successfully led to multiple life sentences.

There’s much, much more in this chapter alone, but I’ll end with one more proof of what Mantell means by “special victim status”:

“As of January 15, 2023, Arbery was mentioned in 773 articles in the Post and 955 in the Times. … [O]n May 8, 2020 … the Times ran 14 articles and the Post ran 13 articles about Arbery on that single day. That was more coverage than the Times and the Post gave to Lane’s killing in two years — from his murder to the sentencing of his killers.”

[NOTE: THE AUTHOR, GREG MANTELL WILL BE INTERVIEWED ON MY SUBSTACK ON JUNE 1!]

COPYRIGHT 2024 ANN COULTER

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Predators and Propaganda: Minority Worship from Low Crime to High Politics

January 6, 2020/29 Comments/in Featured Articles, Media Bias/by Tobias Langdon

A noble Black lawyer prosecutes an evil White sex-beast, who receives 33 life-sentences for his cowardly and despicable crimes against eleven innocent women and children. What a potent and effective way to smash the vile racist stereotype that Blacks are prone to violence and rape! And what a heart-warming symbol of Brave New Britain, where non-Whites are using their higher intelligence and morality to topple millennia of White supremacist barbarism.

Noble Black vs White Barbarian: Tetteh Turkson and Joseph McCann

Yes, Tetteh Turkson, the noble Black lawyer, is the future. Joseph McCann, the evil White sex-beast, is the past. Or at least that’s what the neo-Bolshevik Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) wanted to proclaim when it chose Turkson, “a senior crown prosecutor at the London North office” of the CPS, to prosecute McCann. But in fact the story of the evil White sex-beast isn’t what the CPS and other anti-White leftists would like it to be. The genuinely horrific crimes of Joseph McCann are further proof that pro-White racism is right and anti-White leftism is wrong.

A newspaper that censors reality

So are the genuinely horrific crimes of the White serial killers Fred West and Levi Bellfield. This is because McCann, West and Bellfield aren’t actually “White” in the sense used by the Occidental Observer. These three men don’t belong to the White race whose interests and achievements the Occidental Observer seeks to defend and explain. They’re genetically distinct and are the products of a different evolutionary history. Not that you get any hint of this when you read about McCann’s crimes in leftist propaganda-outlets like the BBC and Guardian:

Joseph McCann, who has been convicted of a horrific series of rapes and kidnappings against 11 women and children, was freed in error to commit his crimes after authorities failed to realise he should have been in jail for a previous violent offence. …

He raped eight victims, including an 11-year-old boy and a 71-year-old woman, during a fortnight-long rampage earlier this year that stretched from London to Cheshire. The boy aged 11 and his sister were attacked in front of each other in their own home. …

The trial produced some of the most harrowing evidence heard in a British court in recent times. Jurors and members of the court were frequently upset by the distressing nature of the evidence, with the judge ending one day’s hearing early after a tape was played of a 999 call by a 17-year-old girl who was attacked in front of her brother. …

McCann had an extensive criminal history. In 2008, he was convicted of aggravated burglary after breaking into the house of an 85-year-old man and threatening him with a knife, demanding money. He received an IPP sentence with a minimum tariff of two and a half years. The Parole Board decided he was safe to release in March 2017, on a 10-year licence. In August 2017, he was arrested for burglary and theft, and sentenced to three and a half years in prison. The halfway point of his sentence was reached in February 2019, and he was released automatically. (Joseph McCann guilty of horrific rapes after being freed by mistake, The Guardian, 6th December 2019)

There are some very interesting things missing from the Guardian’s reports about McCann’s crimes. To find them, you’ll have to go downmarket to bigoted and racist newspapers despised by the highly intelligent and educated rationalists who read the Guardian. The despicable Daily Mail reported that McCann “abducted a 21-year-old at knifepoint as she walked home from a nightclub and raped the mother of one on her own bed. Afterwards McCann told her rape is ‘what we do in the traveller community’.” And the despicable Sun reported that “Sick Joseph McCann, 34, wore wigs, told victims he loved them and claimed they were part of a ‘gypsy initiation ritual’ as he carried out a horrific rape spree across the UK.”

The narcissism and self-regard of leftists

Fancy that! The Guardian claims to be passionately committed to giving oppressed minority communities like Travellers and Gypsies “a voice,” but it failed to give a voice to Joseph McCann when he spoke on behalf of these fascinating communities and explained their vibrant culture to bigoted outsiders. In other words, the Guardian censored the story and concealed highly relevant facts about McCann from its readers. And by the Guardian’s own standards, they are certainly facts, not merely allegations, because McCann’s words were reported by his female victims and the Guardian is passionately committed to “believing women” and fighting “rape culture.”

In fact, of course, the Guardian is passionately committed to feeding the narcissism and self-regard of its reporters and readers. And that means not just censorship and concealment of the truth, but actually assisting the growth of rape culture and the immunity of rapists. When the Labour MP Ann Cryer was trying to fight the “large-scale paedophile abuse” being committed by non-White Muslims in her Yorkshire constituency, she naturally sought the help of the Guardian, Britain’s foremost progressive and feminist newspaper. But given a choice between admitting the truth and maintaining their narcissist fantasies, leftists never hesitate. Cryer says: “I couldn’t get The Guardian interested. Its reporters seemed paralysed by political correctness.”

Minority predators

In other words, the Guardian allowed rape culture to flourish and girls to suffer at the hands of brutal misogynists. And the Guardian is still helping rape culture, because it’s still censoring the truth about predatory minorities like Travellers and Gypsies. These two minorities appear to be distinct (but sometimes allied and inter-breeding) genetic groups that have evolved a strategy of preying on outsiders. Travellers and Gypsies are notorious for violence and aggression, both of which are, of course, under strong genetic influence. And it is very interesting that three of the worst sex-criminals in British history were drawn from these groups. You’ve already read about Joseph McCann. Now read about the serial killers Fred West and Levi Bellfield:

Minority Predators: Fred West and Levi Bellfield

Frederick Walter Stephen “Fred” West (29 September 1941 — 1 January 1995), was an English serial killer. Between 1967 and 1987, he and his wife Rosemary tortured, raped and murdered at least 12 young women and girls, many at the couple’s homes. … Fred West came from a long line of Herefordshire farm laborers. He was born in 1941 in the village of Much Marcle, approximately 120 miles west of London, to Walter and Daisy West. Fred began life as a beautiful baby with huge piercing blue eyes and blond hair. … The beautiful baby grew up into a scruffy-looking boy. His blond hair turned to a dark brown and became curly and unkempt. He had inherited some of his mother’s less attractive facial features: an overly large mouth and a gap between his large teeth. He looked distinctly like a Gypsy.

West would later claim that his father had incestuous relationships with his daughters. It has been suggested that incest was an accepted part of the household, and that his father taught him bestiality from an early age. West recalled, in police interviews, that his father had said on many occasions “Do what you want, just don’t get caught doing it.” It is also alleged that his mother Daisy began sexually abusing him from the age of 12. (Frederick Walter Stephen West, Serial Killer Calendar)

[Levi] Bellfield, a 20-stone Romany Gypsy who was the father of at least 11 children, would single out lone, blonde females, walking home late at night or waiting at bus stops and, when they rejected his uncouth advances, he would attack them violently. He casually told one girlfriend that he would wait in alleyways wanting to “hurt, kill, stab or rape women.”

Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton said this of Bellfield: “He has a massive ego to feed, he thinks he’s God’s gift to everyone. He drives around in his car … and sees some young blonde girl. Young blonde girl says ‘Go away!’ and he thinks ‘You dare to turn down Levi Bellfield, you’re worth nothing!’ and then she gets a whack over the head…”

On 20 August 2004, 22-year-old French student Amelie Delagrange missed her stop, after taking a bus home from an evening out with friends. She was crossing Twickenham Green when Bellfield struck. … Within minutes he had battered her to death in a fit of anger after she had rejected his advances. Detective Chief Inspector Sutton added: “We are looking at other murders which have not been solved… We looked at a dozen crimes in west London and we have not been able to eliminate Levi from any of them. I fear we may have only scratched the surface.”

On 27 February 2008, The Sun informed us thus: “Johanna Collings believes the fiend attacked at least 100, sometimes claiming two victims in one evening. He even bragged of laughing as he raped a disabled girl on a car bonnet in a nightclub car park — after lifting her from her wheelchair… (Levi Bellfield: Gypsy Beast, Rogues Gallery blog, 21st December 2008)

Remember what the Daily Mail reported about one of McCann’s victims: “McCann told her rape is ‘what we do in the traveller community’.” If McCann is right, the Guardian has a genuine example of “rape culture” to investigate and expose. If McCann is wrong, he committed a monstrous libel against the Traveller community and the Guardian should expose the libel.

Violence, aggression and ethnocentrism

Apparently the Guardian believes that McCann was speaking the truth, because it censored what he said. That is not honest or rational behaviour. Here at the Occidental Observer we try to honour the scientific tradition and conform our ideology to reality. At the Guardian, they honour the leftist tradition and conform reality to their ideology. But reality won’t conform, so the Guardian censors reality. That’s why the Guardian won’t discuss the true predatory nature of Travellers and Gypsies. In my article “Destroy the Goy: The Metaphysics of Anti-White Hatred,” I described a Traveller family in Lincolnshire that had enslaved non-Travellers, “forcing at least 18 victims — including homeless people and some with learning disabilities — to work for little or no pay and live in squalid conditions for up to 26 years.”

The Travellers in question obviously saw their non-Traveller slaves as worthless. In other words, the Travellers were ethnocentric, regarding themselves and their genetic kin as superior to non-Travellers and entitled to prey on those outsiders. Ethnocentrism, of course, is also under strong genetic influence. And you can see all three of these traits — violence, aggression and ethnocentrism — in the sordid story of Joseph McCann. At least, you can if you’re prepared to look. The Guardian and its readers aren’t, because they want to retain their narcissistic fantasies rather than understand the world:

Sadistic serial rapist Joseph McCann was one of Britain’s first ASBO [Anti-Social Behaviour Order] yobs [young male thugs] after terrorising locals [in Manchester] by setting cars alight and shoplifting. McCann, 34, was just 14 when he was slapped with the Anti-Social Behaviour Order alongside his brothers Michael and Sean. The teen tearaways rampaged through the poverty-stricken Manchester estate they lived on — robbing terrified locals and setting cars alight. …

Their campaign of terror on the gritty Beswick estate finally came to an end when they were banned from the area. … One resident told MailOnline: “They were a horrible family, absolutely vile — scum of the earth.” … Undeterred, the feckless brood then moved to Aylesbury, Buck[inghamshire], and Middlesex where they linked up with their traveller relatives. McCann, who began dabbling in crime in 1998 when he was convicted of shoplifting, continued his yobbish behaviour in his new home.

The family “brought havoc” to Middlesex — with McCann and one of his brothers repeatedly stealing cars and setting them ablaze. They soon became notorious on the estate — with locals too petrified to challenge the thug brothers. One said: “There used to be a brick wall outside their house. But they took all the bricks out to throw them at people. If you said anything to them they would threaten to beat you up. There were two older boys and one little one. They were really horrible. They were part of a gang. Their house was like their headquarters.” … (Serial rapist Joseph McCann was one of UK’s first ASBO yobs who terrorised neighbours, set cars ablaze and shoplifted, The Sun, 6th December 2019)

Note these words in the article: “They were part of a gang.” That is, they were part of a violent collectivist minority preying on an atomized, individualist majority. The McCanns and their “traveller relatives” have not been genetically pacified like the White majority across much of Europe, where powerful centralized states have been executing criminals for many centuries. Joseph McCann and his brothers descend from a long line of men who have enjoyed sexual success precisely because of their violence and aggression. But the victims of the McCanns descend from people who have relied on the state to maintain order and protect them from criminal violence.

Leftism is crypto-religious

Nowadays, however, the state has been subverted by another genetically distinct group that is hostile to the law-abiding White majority. The legal system in Brave New Britain no longer acts on behalf of the law-abiding, but on behalf of the lawless. In “Whites as Witches,” I described how the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), headed by the ethnocentric Jews Rebecca Hilsenrath and David Isaacs, had backed “successful legal action … against a pub which refused entry to Irish Travellers.” The pub undoubtedly had very good reason for “refus[ing] entry,” having experienced the violence and theft that Travellers and Gypsies are notorious for. These nomadic groups have evolved to prey on the settled, law-abiding majority, but the idea that minorities can be harmful to the majority is blasphemous in the modern West.

And “blasphemous” is the mot juste. Leftism is a crypto-religious ideology that seems to exploit the same brain-circuits as those involved in overt religions. That’s why I also use the term “minority worship” to describe the attitude of leftists towards minorities like Blacks, Gypsies and Muslims. In leftist propaganda, the saintly and virtuous lives of these minorities are under continual assault from the evil forces of White racism and White supremacism. In its full modern form, minority worship is a Jewish creation designed to serve Jewish interests, because Jews see themselves as the archetypal virtuous and victimized minority. In reality, they are a predatory and particularist minority whose contemptuous term for non-Jews, goyim, is echoed by gorja, the contemptuous term used by Gypsies for non-Gypsies. Indeed, you could describe Jews as Gypsies with high IQs, or Gypsies as Jews with low IQs. Both groups are predatory minorities who regard the majority with hostility and contempt, while justifying their predation with lachrymose self-histories in which they have been unjustly persecuted by the very majority that, in reality, they have preyed on.

Kosher Kabinet: Jewish Dominic Raab, Jewish-Turkish Boris Johnson, Pakistani Muslim Sajid Javid, Indian Hindu Priti Patel

But it’s precisely because Jews have high IQs that historical and biological realism about Jews, Gypsies and other predatory minorities is impossible in the mainstream. Jewish intelligence and verbal facility have enabled them to create the vast web of laws, academic studies, media propaganda, and censorship that sustains the cult of minority worship and ensures that Western nations remain firmly under Jewish control. That’s why the Guardian censored the truth about Joseph McCann and why the Crown Prosecution Service appointed a noble Black lawyer to prosecute this evil White sex-beast.

The war between reality and lies

It’s also why Brave New Britain is now ruled by a Kosher Kabinet consisting of a Jewish-Turkish Prime Minister, a Jewish Foreign Secretary, a Pakistani Muslim Chancellor, and an Indian Hindu Home Secretary. And while one minority — the Jews — keep control at the top, other minorities commit horrific crimes at the bottom. High politics and low sex-crime might appear to exist in completely separate realms, but they can both be explained by human biology and the evolutionary forces identified in the nineteenth century by the great White scientist Charles Darwin.

But while Darwin worked to describe and explain reality, the great Jewish ideologue Karl Marx worked to distort and exploit reality. And that’s the war we’re now living through: between Darwin and Marx, between those who believe in reality and those who believe in lies. The crimes of Joseph McCann were one part of that war. The government of Boris Johnson is another. Jewish ideology and Jewish control can be seen at work in both the low crimes and the high politics. But you’ll only read that at ADL-certified hate-sites like the Occidental Observer. After all, “Truth is hate to those who hate the truth.”

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Marketing Miscegenation

February 17, 2018/83 Comments/in Featured Articles, Media Bias/by Taylor McClain

Since “cutting the cable” several years ago, I have felt secure behind my own personal immigration wall, free of the barrage of marketing demands and political poltroons upon my time and money. During the Christmas holidays, however, I ventured onto the major networks (NBC, ABC, and CBS) with an external antenna affixed to the TV to satisfy my curiosity of what had been happening in the “real” world since my self-imposed exile.

My attention was immediately attracted to a commercial featuring the Paddington Bear. In the commercial a non-traditional looking Santa is aided by Paddington Brown in sorting Christmas presents for one particular family. At the end, all is well as Santa and Paddington peer through the window at the family enjoying opening presents under the tree in their living room.

The family was composed of the mother, who was an auburn-haired White woman, the father, who was Black, and their mixed-race children, a boy and a girl.

I was not shocked or even surprised at this portrayal of miscegenated merriment, as I naively assumed it was an isolated attempt by the commercial’s creator to appeal to two different segments of the consuming public with one commercial.

I was wrong.

As I continued to watch TV that day, it didn’t take long for the intrusive appeal of the commercials to outweigh that of the programs. There were simply so many of these commercials featuring mixed-race families and couples that I suspected something else was being presented. Read more

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“Moneybull”: An Inquiry Into Media Manipulation

December 1, 2017/79 Comments/in Featured Articles, Media Bias/by Robert S. Griffin, Ph.D.

The film Moneyball was well-received by both audiences and critics and an Academy Award contender for best film at the 2012 Oscars.   It was based on Michael Lewis’ 2003 nonfiction book by the same name and directed by Bennett Miller from a screenplay written by Aaron Sorkin (who I understand was the guiding force behind the film) and Steven Zaillian.  Moneyball recounts the story of the 2002 season of the Oakland A’s major league baseball team.  The film centers on A’s general manager Billy Beane’s efforts to put together a winning team that year despite a limited budget.  The thesis of this writing is that Moneyball is a good illustration of how the media distort reality and transmit negative perceptions of white people and their ways.

The dramatic conflict in Moneyball revolves around Beane, portrayed by Brad Pitt in a superb performance, trying to interject new ways of assessing players and thinking about game strategy amid strong opposition from the tradition-bound A’s player personnel people and field manager.  Beane is advised in this effort by his young, mid-twenties, assistant, Peter Brand — short, pudgy, non-athletic, baseball outsider.  Brand is portrayed by Jonah Hill in an impressive performance — both Pitt and Hill were nominated for Academy Awards.  The Brand character, the only one who doesn’t go by his real-life name, is based on Paul dePodesta, an assistant to Beane at that time.

Brand makes the case to Beane that statistics should guide player selection and game decisions rather than the experience and judgment of the team’s baseball-lifer scouts and field manager.   Beane, in his early forties, is himself a long-time baseball man as a player and front office executive.

Brand underscores the importance of OBP (the percentage of times at bat a hitter gets on base by any means — hits, walks, and being hit by a pitch) as a key indicator of a player’s productivity.  The numbers reveal, says Brand, that the more times on base the more runs, and the more runs the more wins.  Brand points out to Beane that, contrary to accepted thinking in the game, bunts, stolen bases, and fielding count for little in producing victories.  He also makes the case that productive players have been overlooked when putting together the team in the past because they didn’t look or act like ballplayers by the conventional standards of the A’s scouting department.  Outcomes, Brand insists, which statistics measure objectively, are what matter in winning games, not antiquated notions about the physique or face a player needs to possess, or requisite personality traits or personal habits. Read more

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How the Media Preys upon our Values

February 3, 2017/29 Comments/in Featured Articles, Media Bias/by M. Jaggers

The Cultural Marxist media adorns their arguments with “holy relics” which cannot be criticized. This diabolical strategy is deployed to persuade normal Americans to act contrary to their own self-interest.   It entails playing upon our inherent respect for certain institutions and principles, which are held in uniquely high esteem by Western/Anglo-Saxon peoples.  This unique foible of ours is actually a good thing while it stays within a basically White society—but it becomes a huge liability when it is exploited by those who hate us. Unfortunately for them, they have tried to tap this emotional reservoir too many times, and so their strategy is currently yielding diminishing returns.

First of all, our media elites do not even believe their own pieties, though perhaps some credulous liberals lower down on the food chain are in fact foolish enough to believe them.  For example, we saw via WikiLeaks that John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign manager, is perfectly aware of the disaster that the refugees in Europe have created.  He received intel that “Muslim immigration and Multicultural Madness have left a trail of mayhem across Germany—with far worse to come because of demographics.”  He was almost sociopathic, however, in his enthusiasm to wreak this same havoc on the US, should Clinton have won.  Woe to the liberal dumb enough to actually believe in the benefits of bringing in Middle Eastern and African refugees.

What should we consider more deplorable: the sociopathic cynicism of Podesta and Clinton, or the naïve stupidity of liberals who actually believe in their own professed values?  The elites are certainly counting on the American public’s naiveite.  And all too often, the American public has obliged.  As such, every time they try to play on our emotions, I ask myself, “Are people actually going to buy this?” I have some trepidation in answering that question.

Surely Blacks are a holy object in leftism; John Derbyshire has long expounded upon this droll metaphor.  But there is an ever-shifting array of entities which our media seeks to exploit for their perceived symbolic significance among the American public.  This process is based on a subtle psychology of what the media divines to be held as sacred by your average White person.  Hence this is an insidious psy-ops campaign, meant to pull at our heart-strings and enlist us in causes we would otherwise have nothing to do with. Read more

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NPI Washington, 2016: Anti-Fa brutality, police indifference, and the inevitable media assault

November 24, 2016/28 Comments/in Featured Articles, Media Bias/by Sam Dickson

The National Policy Institute (“NPI”) held a Conference in Washington, D.C., from Friday, November 18 through Saturday, November 19.  The subject matter of the Conference was “The Alt Right and Trump.” 300 people attended the Conference.

Conference registration was done on line.  The attendees were not scrutinized or “approved.”

At the Conference numerous well-credentialed speakers presented well prepared and thoughtful remarks to a well behaved and orderly audience.

The restrained and orderly behavior of the attendees was especially noteworthy because of repeated criminal attacks upon NPI supporters both Friday night and Saturday from so-called “civil rights protesters” as they have been called in the media.  They call themselves the “Anti-Fa” or “anti-fascists,” a term used by extreme Marxists against their enemies.

The “protests” went far beyond peaceful picketing.  The Anti-Fa were able to bully two restaurants in succession into cancelling the reservations for the Friday dinner.

When NPI was able to secure yet a third venue, the “protesters” were able to track attendees and proceeded to crowd around the entrance where they harassed patrons having their meals in the restaurant and those seeking to enter and to leave.  They became more and more excited and emboldened.

Many of them were wearing masks to hide their identities. Read more

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The Duke Campaign, Mike Pence, and the “Stoning of the Devil”

September 15, 2016/55 Comments/in AltRight, Featured Articles, Media Bias/by Andrew Joyce, Ph.D.

duke1It is customary during the annual Hajj pilgrimage that Muslim devouts throw pebbles at three walls (formerly pillars), called jamarāt, in the city of Mina just east of Mecca. One of a series of ritual acts that must be performed in the Hajj, it is a symbolic re-enactment of Abraham’s hajj, where he stoned three pillars representing the temptation to disobey God and preserve Ishmael. The ceremony is commonly known as “the stoning of the Devil,” and may be regarded as a practice designed to reinforce socio-religious conformity and obedience.

I’ve been reminded of this practice by the constant re-appearance in our own society of a primitive, ritualistic “stoning of the Devil” — the now mandatory condemnation of David Duke by aspiring politicians on the Right. A society, of course, reveals much about itself by its choice of devils. In this case, the “devil” is not necessarily the person of David Duke, but rather his career, and the struggle for White interests, heritage, and ultimately survival that this career has entailed. In terms of our visible political landscape, Duke has come to represent the personification of the “folk devil” of White identity.

Those on the edges of “acceptable” political discourse must be seen to “stone” this folk devil, and dissent is tantamount to complicity. Indeed, the further to the Right that the candidate may appear, the more essential it is deemed by the shapers of political culture that the candidate should prove his mainstream credentials by refuting, condemning, and distancing themselves from the non-conforming “Other.” Read more

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