I don't understand this: a word beginning with "f," ending with "k" and having a couple "squiggles" or asterisks in the middle. Oh, we all understand it: the word is "fuck" or its variant of "fucking," chosen by the former president to express his views in a manner we might expect from a seventh grade boy in the lavatory.
It is grating on me now. I'm just curious: is a preponderance of the U.S. population starting to feel concerned? The headline in "Mediaite" has a two-word Trump quote that was directed at Benjamin Netanyahu. A real flourish of the language here: "F*ck him!" complete with cute little asterisk.
I would like to suggest at this time that we are seeing serious media bias. The media takes it upon itself to judge that certain language is unacceptable to put in front of the public. Who is the media to intercede in this way? Why is it their place to protect us in such a manner? Donald Trump was president of the U.S. for four years. What he says matters.
There are people in our community of Morris who would furiously disagree with me on any skeptical statement I might make about Trump. Their minds are so rigid, so if I were to suggest that "fuck him!" is not an appropriate statement to make about a prominent world figure, they'd have a retort. I would guess: "Oh, you just have to understand about Trump, that's just the way he is."
No argument from me about that. That's how he is. On that basis, I voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. I still have a little "Kamala" decal on the back of my car, from when she was running for president herself. Which prompts me to wonder: Why does the media seem to be so hard on Kamala? Is there really grounds for this? And by the same token, why does the media give a break to Chris Christie?
Is it all gender-related? Like the way the media seemed hostile to Hillary Clinton? To blow Hillary's email thing way out of proportion? Didn't Trump promise in his 2016 campaign to name a special prosecutor on the Hillary email matter? What happened to that?
Didn't Trump say on the Today Show that he had sent investigators to Hawaii to look into Obama's birth certificate? And didn't Trump say in that interview that it's "unbelievable" what the gumshoes were finding? Really? He had to have paid them, right? So why has there never been any disclosure of these "unbelievable" things?
Hope Hicks was pressed on this once, and I recall her quote being "when the time is right."
Why would Trump pay investigators to go to Hawaii - he is notorious for not wanting to pay anyone - and then sit on the sensational revelations, the "unbelievable" stuff? So, Trump was lying? On a matter of substantial import, on the Today Show? And Hope Hicks by extension was lying too? And this doesn't seem to matter at all to a substantial percentage of Americans?
About 40 percent of the populace will support Trump no matter what he says or does. In Stevens County the percentage would appear to be substantially higher. Our area's "conservative" churches are full of people who filled in the box next to Trump's name, twice. They voted for Michelle Fischbach to replace the long-time congressman Collin Peterson. No issue of gender bias there, at least.
So that's heartening? Well, no. Fischbach talked about all the serious issues with voting procedures for the 2020 election. She saw such alleged problems as "too voluminous to ignore," as I recall. Oh, "voluminous." How have all the lawsuits turned out on this?
What did people like Fischbach want? To have the usual procedure of people crowding polling places with the virus being spread so badly and taking lives? Really? No one can seem to prove "voter fraud" now. You should know that it is in the DNA of Republicans to talk about "election fraud," has happened for a long time.
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So Fischbach did not want the 2020 election results to be certified. Even Tom Emmer voted for certification, based on a simple understanding of the law.
What was Fischbach hoping for? For Trump to simply get an extension of his presidency? Indefinitely? And she'd have no problem with that? Would she really want the election to be "federalized?" No knowledge of the inherent dangers with that?
And we went and elected her? Because all the churchgoers in these parts worship the Republican Party along with God and Jesus? What hath God wrought?
Regarding the media's handling of Trump and his affinity with the "f" word, I communicated once again with nationally-known commentator John Ziegler. He writes for "Mediaite" and uses other channels as well. His best-known work has been as the evening (7-10 p.m.) host of a radio talk show called "The John Ziegler Show" on KFI AM 640 in Los Angeles CA. He made a priority out of the Jerry Sandusky matter once. What I wrote to Mr. Ziegler:
Hi John - Regarding the Sandusky matter, I had a memory flashing back of Chris Matthews saying one day "coaches are gossips, they have to know everything." I covered small town sports for the media and the comment made me smile.
To the present: Has any well-known columnist penned a piece suggesting that the media stop "cleansing" Trump's language? Thought dawned on me long ago, that media was actually helping Trump - i.e. "bias" - by using "squiggles" for the letters when Trump uses the F-word, which lately has become real common. He called Milley a (bleeping) idiot and I use "bleeping," but why are we softening the tone by doing this? Maybe the public deserves to know clearly that Trump said "fucking idiot," and that today he's quoted saying of Netanyahu "fuck him." "Mediaite" uses asterisks to cover up the language. Why the alteration? Maybe that's just not real journalism. Oh, to "protect the public?" Is that the media's job? The president of the U.S. for four years allows people to take notes when he speaks like this, so why can't the public just know it?
Matthews was once the pride and joy of MSNBC. How the mighty can fall in that universe. There are certain of his qualities that I miss. I guess his big problem was that he was continuing to discuss politics like it was still civil.
- Regards, Brian R. Williams
How Ziegler responded: "Thanks Brian. I miss Chris, though he is a bit nuts."
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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