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  • Affordability Crisis? Perspective and Propaganda

    By Selwyn Duke Some politics wonks may remember 2010’s JournoList scandal. It was revealed that hundreds of left-wing journalists, academics, and political activists had been colluding via a private online gathering place and coordinating strategies and talking points. In other words, the “independent” media people certainly weren’t independent of each other; they were operating as…

  • White “Ghetto Girl” Reflects Why MAGA Won’t be Easy

    By Selwyn Duke If politics is downstream from culture, and it is, we have a lot to worry about. This is frankly because American culture has long been rotting like a 10-day-old avocado in the sun. A good example, appearing in my X notifications yesterday, is a video of a white girl sporting corn-woven hair…

  • Manipulation: Media’s Illegal-alien Sob Stories Are Meant to Deceive

    By Selwyn Duke There’s a certain technique often used by journalists, one designed to get you not thinking, but feeling. It involves opening an article with a human-interest story, and it’s figuring prominently right now in the illegal-migration controversy. It may go something like this: Heart Over Head Of course, the idea is to engage…

  • Has Trump Broken the Left’s Propaganda Machine?

    By Selwyn Duke Image created with Grok AI. “There’s no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary,” quipped Irish writer and activist Brendan Behan. Yet the no-bad-publicity notion certainly isn’t true for politicians, who must win not only fame but elections. Hence an old pattern: Republicans would be condemned by a monolithic mainstream…

  • Minneapolis Shooting: Has Violent Left-wing Rhetoric Claimed More Lives?

    By Selwyn Duke With possibly 99 percent of the political violence originating with the “Left,” some are asking a question. To wit: Is violent left-wing rhetoric responsible for yet another criminal incident, this time the recent Catholic Mass shooting?

  • The (Once) Mainstream Media’s War on Blacks

    By Selwyn Duke During a 2012 radio discussion, black economics professors Walter E. Williams and Thomas Sowell warned that the KKK couldn’t do as much to sabotage blacks as their “friends” could. Of course, the term “friends” was being used very loosely. At issue, in reality, were the wolves in sheep’s clothing who purport to be blacks’…

  • Fake News: USA Today Claims People Are Smoking More. Actually, It’s a Liberal Thing

    By Selwyn Duke With the alphabet networks’ viewership down to 19 percent of the market — they controlled more than 90 percent in the mid-’70s — it’s safe saying the once-mainstream media aren’t exactly smokin’. The same is true of mainstream newspapers, and a recent USA Today article about smoking may illustrate why. The headline, above a…

  • “Racism”: Want to Cancel Hulk Hogan? Fine, Then Muhammad Ali’s Got to Go, Too

    Image created using Grok AI. By Selwyn Duke It wasn’t long after legendary wrestler Hulk Hogan’s passing that we heard the condemnations. Don’t honor him, the nattering ne’er-do-wells insisted—he was a stone cold “racist.” When evaluating this, too, I want you to consider the following quite telling and damning line: “A black man should be…

  • Will Media Matters Shatter? Left-wing Smear Group May Collapse Over Lawsuits and Investigations

    Image: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons By Selwyn Duke Some people may call it the chickens coming home to roost. Media Matters for America (MMfA), a George Soros-funded left-wing censorship group, reportedly may be on the verge of collapse. The organization is reeling after a series of lawsuits and government investigations, which are straining its already frazzled…

  • Old Media Dying: Waning CBS Cancels Colbert. Is Kimmel Next?

    By Selwyn Duke “So, for the first time in history, Americans have stopped watching NBC, CBS TV, and ABC,” reported commentator Bill O’Reilly Thursday. “Their viewing level has fallen below 20 percent — unheard of.” “And it’s because they’re boring and they’re far left,” O’Reilly elaborated. “That’s the two reasons.” The latest casualty of this legacy-media…