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#3043767 1-Mar-2023 21:35

The Guardian: Elon Musk backs Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams following racist tirade

Elon Musk has deployed his 130 million-follower Twitter bullhorn to come to the rescue of a beleaguered cartoonist dumped by hundreds of newspapers across America for having delivered a virulent racist tirade.

The Twitter and Tesla chief responded with his own controversial thought stream over the weekend after the mass termination of the Dilbert comic strip from US newspaper titles. Its creator, Scott Adams, recently denigrated Black people as a “hate group”, advising white people to “just get the hell away” from them.

“The media is racist,” was Musk’s response to the widespread decision to terminate the Dilbert strip. “For a very long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they’re racist against whites and Asians.”

He went on to compare US media with elite educational institutions in America where he claimed the “same thing happened”.

It was also reported that Musk deleted a tweet in which he responded to a comment from Adams about his comic strip being dropped, saying, “What exactly are they complaining about?”
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#3043772 1-Mar-2023 22:17

Has Musk got any proof of his statement? I mean, from outside of his own head?

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#3043780 1-Mar-2023 23:01

quickymart: Has Musk got any proof of his statement? I mean, from outside of his own head?

The short answer is no. The long answer is a conservative legal activist group has taken legal action against several well known American universities including Harvard. You can read Harvard's side of it here and read an NAACP opinion here.

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#3043970 2-Mar-2023 15:38

The Washington Post - Rupert Murdoch’s big admission about Fox News

28 Feb 2023

The headline from a court filing Monday is that Fox Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch expressed regret for his hosts airing false claims about a stolen election.

“I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it, in hindsight,” Murdoch said in a deposition.

The newly public comments come as a growing volume of evidence shows that Fox News hosts and executives knew the claims by Trump’s team and some of its hosts were bogus, crazy or unfounded and that the people being booked on-air weren’t credible.

But it still afforded them a platform and even rebuked employees who fact-checked or undercut the claims, because it viewed the audience as abhorring such pushback. ...

Your Favorite President has since responded to Murdoch's testimony with a Trump tantrum. 😫😫😫

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#3044147 3-Mar-2023 05:35

The NY Times - Stephen Colbert Has News for Fans of Fox

01 March 2023

“The Dominion lawsuit is a massive story, which is why Fox News isn’t covering it. In fact, if you go to their website and search the past two months for the words ‘Dominion Voting Systems,’ you don’t get an article - not a single article.

You just get a page that says ‘Error 404: Journalism Not Found.’” - STEPHEN COLBERT

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#3044152 3-Mar-2023 07:37

Some more on the whole Fox debacle:

https://www.salon.com/2023/03/02/rupert-murdoch-usually-settles-his-many--so-why-is-he-toughing-out-the-dominion-case/ >> Rupert might actually fight this one out to prove a point

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2023/will-fox-news-win-dominion-voting-systems-lawsuit/ >> what are the odds?

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#3044223 3-Mar-2023 10:57

And a really good analysis on the whole Dilbert debacle:

https://www.thebulwark.com/the-foolishness-of-scott-adams/

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#3044226 3-Mar-2023 11:04

quickymart:

And a really good analysis on the whole Dilbert debacle:

https://www.thebulwark.com/the-foolishness-of-scott-adams/

Scott Adams certainly qualifies as a deplorable but do we have to keep going on and on about him? He is not a person of interest in my universe and I doubt in any other. He is not a politician, an influencer, a billionaire, or a person of significance in any other way. He is just a bloody racist cartoonist! Can we please move on from him?

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#3044241 3-Mar-2023 12:02

Rikkitic:

quickymart:

And a really good analysis on the whole Dilbert debacle:

https://www.thebulwark.com/the-foolishness-of-scott-adams/

Scott Adams certainly qualifies as a deplorable but do we have to keep going on and on about him? He is not a person of interest in my universe and I doubt in any other. He is not a politician, an influencer, a billionaire, or a person of significance in any other way. He is just a bloody racist cartoonist! Can we please move on from him?

Much like the Harry Potter lady...sure she's deplorable, but I don't have a single whit of time for her nonsense or to hear about her.

While we talk about Political Deplorables - let's think about another one closer to home: The CEO of Pharmac, Sarah Fitt.

https://www.todayfm.co.nz/home/opinion/2023/02/rachel-smalley-the-damning-oia-that-pits-pharmac-against-the-government.html

She's all about the optics and not about the patients. She's uber-political, while being in a role that should be apolitical.

Despicable behaviour throughout the Trikafta approval process and announcement.

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#3044342 3-Mar-2023 15:51

An Australian parody, so lots of rough language. Not safe for work

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#3045597 4-Mar-2023 14:40

Well there's always the pay-$500-for-a-rebranded-$130-Chinese Freedom phone

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#3046772 7-Mar-2023 12:05

Bannon`s War Room podcast *

Mike Lindell, left, with Natalie Winters (Miss Information) and Steve Bannon, co-hosts of the War Room

The NY Times - Steve Bannon’s Podcast Is Top Misinformation Spreader, Study Says

09 Feb 2023

A large podcast study found that Mr. Bannon’s “War Room” had more falsehoods and unsubstantiated claims than other political talk shows.

Researchers at the Brookings Institution found that nearly 20 percent of Stephen Bannon’s podcast episodes contained a false, misleading or unsubstantiated statement. ...

* Health warning - if you value your sanity, do not be tempted to visit the War Room.

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#3046780 7-Mar-2023 12:24

How is this moron so popular?

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#3047878 9-Mar-2023 08:34

What's the matter with Ron DeSantis’ Florida? (msnbc.com)

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis likes to call Florida the “citadel of freedom” and the place “where woke goes to die.” The reality is a policy agenda defined largely by pettiness, cruelty and a disturbing disregard for basic democratic norms. If states are the so-called laboratory of American democracy, then Florida is the meth lab of American democracy.

Last year, after Disney exercised its constitutionally guaranteed right to free expression and publicly criticized the GOP’s legislative assault on LGBTQ Floridians, DeSantis, and the Florida Legislature, struck back by revoking the company’s self-governing status. Now the Legislature has granted DeSantis the power to appoint a five-person board to oversee the theme park in an effort that he said would “force Disney to stop ‘trying to inject woke ideology’ on children.” It’s hard to come up with a clearer example of a political leader using the instruments of state power to punish a company for expressing opinions he doesn’t like — and using that power to influence their business decisions.

In recent weeks, DeSantis has widened his war on the First Amendment. He’s spoken of his desire to weaken libel laws, which would make it easier to sue media organizations for defamation. This direct assault on the freedom of the press was picked up by at least one Florida legislator, who introduced legislation last week that would require bloggers who write about the state government and its leaders to register with the state.

When not violating bedrock constitutional principles, DeSantis and his Republican cronies are force-feeding Florida’s students their take on American history. While DeSantis claims that he’s trying to stop “woke indoctrination” in the Sunshine State, he is seeking to warp their minds with his own form of indoctrination.

Last year, DeSantis pushed through a series of bills that banned the teaching of critical race theory and blocked discussions of gender preferences in Florida elementary schools — the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Those moves have led schools across the state to pull hundreds of books off library shelves for fear that teachers and librarians could face potential prosecution. Nothing quite says “citadel of freedom” like empty library shelves and removed books that includes biographies of former baseball player Roberto Clemente, Hank Aaron and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Now DeSantis is expanding his attacks on Florida’s public education system. The governor is backing a voucher program that would devastate the state’s public schools and allow parents to use state money to send their children to a private and religious school or use the vouchers for home-schooling and private tutoring. Bills have been introduced that would ban the use of preferred pronouns at schools and broaden the prohibitions on discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity to all pre-K through eighth grade classrooms. And he’s declaring war on Florida’s once-vaunted public university system. Last month, he unveiled legislation that would ban critical race theory in universities, end diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, give control of university curricula to a board appointed by the governor and effectively end tenure protections for faculty.

DeSantis’ moves are a transparently cynical ploy to win over Republican voters who enjoy nothing more than angering liberals with culture war divisiveness. But that doesn’t make it any less deplorable (and what else can one say of voters who take such pleasure in legislation purposely aimed at enraging, enflaming and endangering their political opponents).

Nor is it any less hypocritical. Here’s the political party that espouses the genius of the free market using the instruments of government to punish a private company and influence its business decisions. Republicans appear to be nonplussed by the fact that a party organized around the idea of a smaller, less intrusive government is pushing book bans, promoting a government-endorsed educational agenda, terrorizing teachers and preventing women from having control of their own bodies. In February, Republicans made a big show of reading the Constitution from the floor of the House of Representatives. Meanwhile, in the nation’s third-largest state, the Republican Party is attacking the free press, punishing free expression and demanding fealty to their governing agenda … or else.

Rather than hurt DeSantis’ odds of winning over GOP votes, every one of these moves has been precisely calibrated to boost his chances. This self-serving demonstration of partisan power, unmoored from ideology and foundational constitutional principles, is not a bug for self-identified conservative Republicans — it’s a feature.

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#3048353 9-Mar-2023 22:00

The Guardian 08 March 2023

Late-night hosts discuss cherrypicked footage of January 6 ‘sightseers’ ...

On Late Night, Seth Meyers mocked Tucker Carlson’s claim on Fox News that footage “does not show an insurrection or a riot in progress”. ...

“Kevin McCarthy gives all the footage to Tucker. Tucker shows only the tame parts, and then Trump claims the rioters were framed."

“It’s like watching a magic show where the magician is wearing sheer sleeves.” ...

“All Tucker Carson proved is that you can make anything better by not showing the bad part.”

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