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CNN Proves Their Unparalleled Reporting Abilities Again.

In what's become more and more frequent for them online, CNN was forced to issue an embarrassing correction to a story Thursday that falsely claimed Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu of California valiantly “grabbed a crowbar” and took up a heroic defense position leading readers to believe that the congressman was bravely waiting to ward off those who breached the Capitol building.

Going as always for the coveted Pulitzer prize, the CNN reporters Jeremy Herb, Phil Mattingly, Lauren Fox and Manu Raju pieced together quite a timeline of the events of the incursion and Lieu’s role during the chaos.

Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Cal) & Constituent

The CNN correction clarified that Lieu was apparently never in any danger at all. It appears that while he never held a blunt defensive object, Lieu was never in any danger of starving.

"CORRECTION: A previous version of this story misstated that Rep. Ted Lieu grabbed a crowbar before leaving his office. He grabbed a ProBar energy bar."

In reality Lieu was no Charles Bronson after all. He and his chief of staff hunkered down in House Rep. Cicilline’s office in the Rayburn House Office Building, the CNN report said after the correction.  Apparently it was after grabbing the protein bar that Lieu, joined by Cicilline, promised Democrats would again impeach President Donald Trump.

The network was obliterated online by people who didn't give CNN's amateurish reporting any slack for apparently, on purpose or not, portraying Lieu as a heroic symbol of defiance to those who eventually breached the House chamber. Even some at the NYT took a shot:

.@CNN again proves their unparalleled journalistic abilities. At the end of this piece they let us know-
"CORRECTION: A previous version of this story misstated that Rep Ted Lieu grabbed a crowbar before leaving his office. He grabbed a ProBar energy bar."https://t.co/eLM0bAVnku

— Lee Camp [Redacted] (@LeeCamp) January 14, 2021

😆😆😆

Did someone dictate that story down the phone like in old movies? "Hold the front page! Now, take this down... Chewing nonchalantly on his pro-bar as he strolled- what? No that's PRO, P, R, O."

— Ruth Ware (@RuthWareWriter) January 14, 2021

And here I thought @tedlieu was going the way of John Wick over there https://t.co/CglX059vE8

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) January 14, 2021

In regard to the ProBar Energy Bar the Democrat was apparently wielding, the company states its products are "delicious, on-the-go, plant-based food that is essential for a healthy and balanced life. "

[CNN]

[Western Journal]

H/T Sweeney Toad

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Deplatforming Reaches New Heights of Absurdity

Summit - Conservative commentator and former baseball star Curt Schilling says that AIG canceled his insurance policy over his "social media profile," a new level of deplatforming not yet seen. "The agent told us it was a decision made by and with their PR department in conjunction with management."

We will be just fine, but wanted to let Americans know that @AIGinsurance canceled our insurance due to my "Social Media profile"

— President Elect Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) January 13, 2021 

While innumerable Trump supporters have lost their Twitter and Facebook accounts due to social media censorship and cancel culture, cases of individuals being cut off by banks and other financial services are now growing too. The purge has gone beyond the realm of simply silencing people on major platforms for their opinions, but punishing them for expressing them by trying to make their lives unlivable.

Numerous respondents to his tweet pointed out the obvious – that without insurance it’s impossible to mortgage a home or register a vehicle. Other leftists applauded the move and said that Schilling deserved it for his support of Trump. "You’ve definitely earned it," remarked one.

What happened to Schilling is yet another chilling example of how Chinese Communist social credit score system is being implemented in America.

 

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If For Nothing Else, We Owe Him A Debt of Gratitude For Driving Them Crazy.

Earlier this year, ground zero for crazy, better know as Salon, interrupted its regularly scheduled programming of repeatedly announcing how terrible white people are to bring us this: "Trump’s assault on the country’s mental health is part of a much larger pattern: the Republican Party and the conservative movement have, for decades, advanced an agenda which has hurt the overall health and well-being of most Americans....."

It’s quite odd how the people who imagine themselves our political betters, the ones to whom we should defer, are very often neurotic monomaniacs whose minds seem bizarrely fragile and forever on the verge of coming undone..... Alyssa Milano quickly comes to mind. But she's just one of legion. 

Mr. Tiedrich plays guitar and tweets about Donald Trump many times, incessantly, everyday.  Ms Vee meditates and eats vegetables.

I suppose if your peer group is one that requires endless, competitive signalling via breathless claims of how monstrous and fascistic the current resident of the White House is, and how mentally debilitating even thinking about him is which you nonetheless do day in and day out,  then the prospect of losing that object of hate and status, must be a cause of….. mixed feelings.

But, that most of them are just acting seems quite possible also. Pretension and role-play are major signatures of the woke, and of leftism more generally.  If, as Ms.Vee and others claim, the thought of DJT induces panic attacks, psychological crises, and difficulties breathing for years, then clearly there’s something wrong with you.

And if you feel a need to repeatedly and very publicly pretend that the thought of DJT induces panic attacks, psychological crises and difficulties breathing for years …... well, there’s definitely something wrong with you.

Either way, they’re going to miss DJT. The left always needs an Emmanuel Goldstein.  

Has Parler Peed in the Leftist' Punch Bowl??

Social media company Parler, which has been under attack from the far-left for their egregious sins of allowing views opposed to their own, may have have secured a new home after Amazon pulled the plug on hosting the company. The Washington Examiner reported Monday evening Parler is in the process of meeting requirements for securing hosting of their site by Epik, an internet webhosting company that also hosts Gab.

Predictively, the nasty left-wing media activist at VICE weren't happy about the news as were commies at The Southern Poverty Law Center, who has criticized Epik for hosting other social media sites associated with the over used word "far-right." The company, which is based in Seattle, argues that it hosts these sites due to its commitment to the idea of free speech.

The company also defended Parler, arguing that it was not being treated fairly by Big Tech companies like Twitter and Facebook. It said these entities operate by an “undeniable double standard” when it comes to their enforcement of their rules.

Still, anyone who has been paying attention knows that the far-left and its adherents in the activist media have been laying in wait to shut Parler down. Progressives have railed against the company, complaining that it became an echo chamber for conservatives who were fed up at the biased censorship at Twitter and Facebook.  Of course, it never crossed their minds to consider the fact that their politically-motivated silencing of conservative accounts made platforms like Gab and Parler necessary in the first place.

The left did not try to destroy Parler because they had anything to do with political violence from the right.  They are not as concerned over conspiracy theories as they might want us to think.  Their motivation should be clear to everyone by now: They do not want conservatives to express their views on platforms they do not control.

For the time being, it seems that they have failed in their attempt to wipe Parler off the internet permanently. But they have already openly discussed going after email providers and financial institutions that do business with platforms they don’t like.

Power To The Correct People!!

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