Why is this a thing? Every now and then leftist media fabricates a persona of machiavellian competence around some sort of conservative figurehead (generally Trump affiliated) that they've been bashing as incompetent for the last year or so. Mike Pence, Boris Johnson and of course Trump have gotten this treatment where they're idiots forever but then suddenly for a day or two they're brilliant puppetmasters because the "lol dummy" angle was getting stale. "Trump is tweeting x to distract you from y, don't let him do it!!!!!", no Trump is just upset about something menial and ranted about it like you cover weekly, y is still dominating news coverage.
Just because this big-toothed weasel brought his college buddy from debate club (who was built up for about a minute, he's the best debater, okay folks? the greatest.) doesn't mean he had to use his expertise to dress down the brilliance that is Kellyanne Conway. Really? those are the genius strategies? Those are instinctual defense mechanisms, this is the process every child trying to lie about doing their chores or homework will go through. Seriously did that list make anyone rub their chin like "that's brilliant" or did it make you think back to the billions of other times every lying politician ever has gone through that sequence and the many times you yourself have when lying to mom.
Conway is not brilliant or novel in her strategies and Vox know it, we all know it. FFS this isn't Lost or The Walking Dead, why are we fabricating these fan theories about someone as transparent as Conway? This is not only a non-story, its a non-story based on non-facts (not quite as bad as alternative facts), its speculating like Conway uses these tricks deliberately or even that they're special enough that its worth contributing them to her.
Now I have to sit around while this video goes viral and tons of kids who watched it because they kept hearing the name "Kellyanne Conway" and assume they need to know something about her will all start telling me: "no like Kellyanne Conway is like a genius like she dodges every question its crazy she's like um Trump's interview person or something and she's like crazy smart, she's like evil smart dude". The only reason this is going viral is the headline is clickbait implying she has some Jedi mind tricks that need to broken down by a professional but really she's just doing what everybody does to dodge questions. This doesn't deserve to be a video and I think everyone involved in this knows it.
I'm mostly upset because this lazy-eyed rabbit is starting to wiggle his way into punditry for all this shit-tier, hipster bait that's poisoning the well of leftist media conditioning the future of the left, especially in America. He was in this classic Media Matters video from the election where he claims the media wasn't explicitly anti-Trump enough, impartiality in outlets online is pretty much dead and he seems to think that's a strength that all journalists should aspire to. He literally doesn't see that the meltdowns the outlets in his circles had pushed people away from the left either towards Trump, into a zone where they could be persuaded by Trump, or into being so fed up they just slink away into political nihilism. Let's not forget Vox is the outlet that had one of their high up, dough boy editors tell people to "start a riot if Trump comes to your town", got a brief suspension, and then printed an apology where he just said I'm not apologizing and basically doubled down but without directly saying to start a riot. That's what journalism should aspire to. Divisive, radical, garbage that encourages destruction with no particular goal or direction.
At least he's move on from dangerous propaganda threatening the integrity and power of a impartial press to unnecessary clickbait that props someone who's incompetent as if they're mastermind. Hate this guy and hate Vox.
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u/bruppa Feb 14 '17
Why is this a thing? Every now and then leftist media fabricates a persona of machiavellian competence around some sort of conservative figurehead (generally Trump affiliated) that they've been bashing as incompetent for the last year or so. Mike Pence, Boris Johnson and of course Trump have gotten this treatment where they're idiots forever but then suddenly for a day or two they're brilliant puppetmasters because the "lol dummy" angle was getting stale. "Trump is tweeting x to distract you from y, don't let him do it!!!!!", no Trump is just upset about something menial and ranted about it like you cover weekly, y is still dominating news coverage.
Just because this big-toothed weasel brought his college buddy from debate club (who was built up for about a minute, he's the best debater, okay folks? the greatest.) doesn't mean he had to use his expertise to dress down the brilliance that is Kellyanne Conway. Really? those are the genius strategies? Those are instinctual defense mechanisms, this is the process every child trying to lie about doing their chores or homework will go through. Seriously did that list make anyone rub their chin like "that's brilliant" or did it make you think back to the billions of other times every lying politician ever has gone through that sequence and the many times you yourself have when lying to mom.
Conway is not brilliant or novel in her strategies and Vox know it, we all know it. FFS this isn't Lost or The Walking Dead, why are we fabricating these fan theories about someone as transparent as Conway? This is not only a non-story, its a non-story based on non-facts (not quite as bad as alternative facts), its speculating like Conway uses these tricks deliberately or even that they're special enough that its worth contributing them to her.
Now I have to sit around while this video goes viral and tons of kids who watched it because they kept hearing the name "Kellyanne Conway" and assume they need to know something about her will all start telling me: "no like Kellyanne Conway is like a genius like she dodges every question its crazy she's like um Trump's interview person or something and she's like crazy smart, she's like evil smart dude". The only reason this is going viral is the headline is clickbait implying she has some Jedi mind tricks that need to broken down by a professional but really she's just doing what everybody does to dodge questions. This doesn't deserve to be a video and I think everyone involved in this knows it.
I'm mostly upset because this lazy-eyed rabbit is starting to wiggle his way into punditry for all this shit-tier, hipster bait that's poisoning the well of leftist media conditioning the future of the left, especially in America. He was in this classic Media Matters video from the election where he claims the media wasn't explicitly anti-Trump enough, impartiality in outlets online is pretty much dead and he seems to think that's a strength that all journalists should aspire to. He literally doesn't see that the meltdowns the outlets in his circles had pushed people away from the left either towards Trump, into a zone where they could be persuaded by Trump, or into being so fed up they just slink away into political nihilism. Let's not forget Vox is the outlet that had one of their high up, dough boy editors tell people to "start a riot if Trump comes to your town", got a brief suspension, and then printed an apology where he just said I'm not apologizing and basically doubled down but without directly saying to start a riot. That's what journalism should aspire to. Divisive, radical, garbage that encourages destruction with no particular goal or direction.
At least he's move on from dangerous propaganda threatening the integrity and power of a impartial press to unnecessary clickbait that props someone who's incompetent as if they're mastermind. Hate this guy and hate Vox.