Wednesday, July 12, 2017

BloggeRhythms

Today’s another where real-world happenings debunk the irrational ramblings of the mainstream media. 

Keith J. Kelly writes @nypost.com: “While buyout talks continue, it currently looks like the number of editors who will be given pink slips at the New York Times will be around 60, sources tell Media Ink."

Seven two-person teams of editors now being referred to by insiders as “death panels,” are “breaking the news to those who are staying and to those who are going.” 

While the Times has not disclosed how many jobs are involved in total, “the News Guild of New York puts that number at around 110 people.”

This is the second downsizing and reorganization to hit the paper’s editorial ranks in less than a year.

“If that doesn’t amount to an obvious management debacle, I don’t know what does,” said Kelly's source.

The event serves as a further confirmation that aside from the hard-core left the Times now caters to, the general public is attaining its news input elsewhere.

Rush put the overall media situation into perspective on his show yesterday, saying: “Man, oh, man. I watch this corrupting obsession that the anti-Trump forces all over this country, highlighted, of course, by the Drive-By Media, have. And it’s everything I can do to avoid laughing and feeling snarky and so forth. I feel like I’m watching people — and I do watch this in the daytime. I don’t watch cable news at night, as you know, but I watch this and I actually think I’m watching people lose their minds. This is what it looks like.

“None of it is being linked, none of this Trump Jr. stuff is being linked to anything that’s happened in the past. Michael Flynn’s name does not appear in this story. Michael Flynn, which was the focus of the original bout of these stories, is long gone by now. The proof is wide open here, that they’ve got nothing. After a year they are going bananas over this. And they’re going bananas because after a year of nothing, they think this is it.”

Summarizing the current media quandary regarding their continually coming up empty, Rush said: “This is the story that’s gonna get Trump thrown out of office. This is the story that’s gonna cause an uprising among the American people. Except they have done that practically every day for the last year, and certainly for the last six months. Every day for the last six months we have been treated to a version of what we have gotten the past two days. And in every instance prior, it has led to what? Absolutely zilch, zero, nada. And the proof that it is zilch, zero, nada is how much they have invested in this latest.

“They’ve got nothing. They never have had anything, on this collusion business, on the Russians working with Trump to steal the election from Hillary. They’re not taking this story and adding it to all these previous stories and trying to sell a cumulative pile of evidence. This is a standalone. Some stories I’ve seen have featured the terminology, “Finally we have the evidence we’ve been looking for,” admitting that they haven’t had any evidence they’ve been looking for prior to this iteration of the story.”

However, while the “Drive-By’s” keep hoping to uncover the non-existent story that’s "gonna get Trump thrown out of office," hard-core evidence of illegalities continues mounting against his presidential rival instead.    

According to Pamela K. Browne @FoxNews.com yesterday: “Some 42 pages of highly redacted documents from the FBI’s criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's mishandling of highly classified materials paint a picture of a serious, but flawed investigation hindered by a lack of cooperation, according to a key watchdog group.

“The materials, all part of the probe dubbed "Midyear Exam,” included several documents designated as “grand jury material,” indicating the potential seriousness of the investigation that would ultimately be ended by FBI director James Comey in July, then restarted for a brief period in October before being shut down for good.”

During that period, “neither smartphone received from the law firm contain SIM cards or Secure Digital (SD) cards, and a total of 13 mobile devices identified by the FBI as potentially using clintonemail.com email addresses were never located by Williams & Connelly.”

Addressing the missing evidence, Judicial Watch President, Tom Fitton, told Fox News: “We are presuming there are still 13 devices at issue. The new records show how badly the Obama Justice Department and FBI mishandled the Clinton email investigation. They get the equivalent of wiped phones from the Clinton lawyers and do nothing?"

Fitton also notes that “nearly a year has passed since Comey's then-boss, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, held her infamous tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton in Phoenix, Arizona. Eight days later, Comey announced on July 5, 2016, that "regarding the handling of classified information, our judgement is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case."

But now, 64 days after James Comey was fired by Trump as the director of the FBI, “Christopher Wray is scheduled to sit down before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the start his confirmation process.

“Two former agents with the FBI told Fox News they hope that “the atmosphere is changed with a new director.”

At the same time that new directorship at the FBI may finally begin investigating what really happened regarding Clinton’s mishandling of highly classified materials, another of Trump’s ally’s stood up for him versus the media. Last night, “on CNN’s “New Day,” Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, and co-host Alisyn Camerota had a heated exchange about the meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian attorney,” according to Pam Key @breitbart.com.

After some harsh back-and-forth, Gorka said, “You heard Don Jr.’s statements that told you everything you need to know. He’s not even a member of the administration. This is the shocking thing, again the amount of time you spend in desperation on a topic that has plummeted you to 13th place in viewership ranking across America — more people watch Nick at Nite cartoons than CNN today.”

Camerota shot back, “Our ratings are doing just fine. If you want to go there, our ratings are doing just fine.”

Gorka replied, “You are 13. Nick at Nite is 11. More people are interested in cartoons!”

As Camerota kept pushing, Gorka said, “What about individuals who got half a million dollars to give speeches when their wife was running for president?”

Gorka added, “No. We’d like you to actually do your job. You aren’t in the news business anymore. You used to be. You are in the attacking President Trump business. And it’s sad. It’s really sad.”

And as illustrated at the outset here today, the continual dissembling of the New York Times exemplifies that the general public certainly seems to agree with Gorka’s opinion on the subject.

That’s it for today folks.

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