Well the good news is that the Meadow’s texting releases may eventuate a real logical and proportional sentence of the traitorous trumpians who planned the coup!
I’ve shown a good deal of restraint since news broke that I left Fox News.
I haven’t done any TV about it, and I’ve let a lot of nonsense go by without a response.
A major reason I chose to leave with more than a year left on my contract was that I felt conflicted about speaking freely. Fox understandably doesn’t like to pay people who criticize Fox or its talent, and there is something unseemly about it.
So that was one reason why I left.
Another was that I didn’t want to be complicit in so many lies.
That’s the thing. I know that a huge share of the people you saw on TV praising Trump were being dishonest. I don’t merely suspect it, I know it, because they would say one thing to my face or in my presence and another thing when the cameras and microphones were flipped on.
And even when I didn’t hear it directly, I was often one degree of separation from it. (“Guess what so-and-so said during the commercial break?”) Punditry and politics is a very small world—especially on the right—and if you add-up all the congressmen, senators, columnists, producers, editors, etc. you’ll probably end up with fewer people than the student population of a decent-sized liberal arts college.
Yes, yes, some people started to drink the Kool-Aid and actually came to believe their own lies, but that’s a subject for another time.
Suffice it to say, however: Just because you’ve come to believe a lie that doesn’t make that lie true.
I never deliberately lied on Fox, but over time I felt like I was becoming complicit in a series of lies of omission. I’ll come back around to explain that in a moment. But let’s start with the news of the day.
Weaklings blame others; take responsibility for our own lives, for pete’s sake! Take responsibility for our every action/word. Once we learn to do that, we get more comfortable with ourselves and our lives. Be kind.
Why not? Americans are like little kids refusing to eat their carrots. So, they blame the guy who’s telling it like it is, and will vote (again) for someone who will tell them the lies they want to hear.
Cornelius Noodleman almost 3 years ago
I’m sad and hurt…I stubbed my toe.
B 8671 almost 3 years ago
Status would, he has drank so much republigoon Kool-Aid, he doesn’t know what reality his anymore noe does he know how to think for himself.
Sanspareil almost 3 years ago
Well the good news is that the Meadow’s texting releases may eventuate a real logical and proportional sentence of the traitorous trumpians who planned the coup!
Count Olaf Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Biden blames global warming. Well, that’s what his handlers tell him to blame.
PraiseofFolly almost 3 years ago
The saccharine-sweet Holiday Season PLUS the Omicron variant: A double reason to have SAD — Seasonable Affective Disorder.
Silly Season almost 3 years ago
There may be another cause…
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By Jonah Goldberg
Screw it.
I’ve shown a good deal of restraint since news broke that I left Fox News.
I haven’t done any TV about it, and I’ve let a lot of nonsense go by without a response.
A major reason I chose to leave with more than a year left on my contract was that I felt conflicted about speaking freely. Fox understandably doesn’t like to pay people who criticize Fox or its talent, and there is something unseemly about it.
So that was one reason why I left.
Another was that I didn’t want to be complicit in so many lies.
That’s the thing. I know that a huge share of the people you saw on TV praising Trump were being dishonest. I don’t merely suspect it, I know it, because they would say one thing to my face or in my presence and another thing when the cameras and microphones were flipped on.
And even when I didn’t hear it directly, I was often one degree of separation from it. (“Guess what so-and-so said during the commercial break?”) Punditry and politics is a very small world—especially on the right—and if you add-up all the congressmen, senators, columnists, producers, editors, etc. you’ll probably end up with fewer people than the student population of a decent-sized liberal arts college.
Yes, yes, some people started to drink the Kool-Aid and actually came to believe their own lies, but that’s a subject for another time.
Suffice it to say, however: Just because you’ve come to believe a lie that doesn’t make that lie true.
I never deliberately lied on Fox, but over time I felt like I was becoming complicit in a series of lies of omission. I’ll come back around to explain that in a moment. But let’s start with the news of the day.
The Meadows texts.
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https://gfile.thedispatch.com/p/donald-trumps-megaphone
Dwight Schmiddlapp almost 3 years ago
It seems a lot of Independents are having buyer’s remorse.
rjborgmann65 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Weaklings blame others; take responsibility for our own lives, for pete’s sake! Take responsibility for our every action/word. Once we learn to do that, we get more comfortable with ourselves and our lives. Be kind.
theotherther1 almost 3 years ago
If you can’t think up any ideas for your strip, it’s okay to give up on it, don’t let it get worse. Just look what happened with the Simpsons.
mistercatworks almost 3 years ago
I noticed. You noticed. Everybody noticed. I get it. Won’t be reading the strip further.
sandflea almost 3 years ago
I blame trump and his fellow terrorists who tried to kill democracy.
ferddo almost 3 years ago
Shows how the GQPs have one repeating talking point: blame Biden.
That despite saying that it is unfair to blame a POTUS for anything during the previous administration…
Mario500 almost 3 years ago
“I BLAME BIDEN….”
(wishes to know what “BIDEN” was mentioned in this part of the dialogue of this cartoon)
Rich Douglas almost 3 years ago
Why not? Americans are like little kids refusing to eat their carrots. So, they blame the guy who’s telling it like it is, and will vote (again) for someone who will tell them the lies they want to hear.
What do you get when you add 47 to 45? 2024.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 3 years ago
And it is all wonky from Stantis wibbily-wobbly truth fluid juxtapositions among the characters.
rossevrymn almost 3 years ago
No, Stantis, you keep doing that.