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The Newsman Dan Award Confirms Honorable Journalism Is Pretty Much Dead

The University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication announced Wednesday the Dan Rather “Medals for News and Guts” awards.  Considering the 2004 “fake but accurate” scandal involving former CBS News anchor’s fake news “reporting” on George W. Bush’s National Guard service, you’d think no journalism school worth its salt would have the gall to actually create awards in his honor. But they did.

"The medals, to be awarded annually, further Rather’s goal of supporting and defending excellence in journalism by recognizing those journalists who defy overwhelming odds to report on important stories — no matter the size of their newsrooms."

I'll wait while you laugh.

Next up: The Brian Williams Award for Journalistic Integrity https://t.co/LgpXFC3NSn

— PragerU (@prageru) December 16, 2020

Of course this is not the first award in honor of Newsman Dan. Diogenes'Middle Finger created way back when "The Dan Rather Award for “Excellence in Media" as part of our weighty, semi-renowned  Infrequently Annual Golden Turd Awards.

The Real Threat To Democracy is a Prevaricating & Dishonest Media. And there is nothing honorable about it these days. But I have sometime found it entertaining to listen to hypocritical, lying shit-bags pretend to take the high ground and argue from position of morality and goodness. I think we all know someone like that. Rather’s career came to an embarrassing end when he relentlessly pushed lies and the fake news story about George W. Bush that he still claims is true.

Since being booted from the anchor chair at CBS for propagating the fake news, Rather has been slowly circling the media drain, bouncing around various liberal cable news network outlets including a multiple-year stint with Mark Cuban’s HDNet that no one has heard of either.

What's the Frequency Kenneth??

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About That Unity and Healing Thing.....

President-Elect 46* Unsniffable Chief of Staff, Jen O’Malley Dillon

RS - Ever since Election Day, the calls for unity and healing from Democratic leaders, the Biden campaign, and the mainstream media (but I repeat myself) have been rolling in fast and furious. Joe Biden, in particular, has made frequent statements to this effect, claiming he’s ready to start building bridges and forging ahead in an effort to get things done, yada yada.

Considering Biden and his surrogates have spent the last year and a half demonizing President Trump and his supporters as racists and “chumps”, it’s not too terribly surprising that not many Republicans have found the calls sincere enough to step up to the plate and oblige him beyond mouthing off platitudes about how we must respect the Electoral College.

So with all of that in mind, it should come as a shock to absolutely no one who has been on to the media’s/left’s phony “unity” games from the start that Jen O’Malley Dillon, the person Biden has picked as his Deputy Chief of Staff, decided she was going to do her part to bring unity and healing to the nation.

The spouting off of feel-good catchphrases about uniting together and all that jazz coming from Democrats rings more hollow now than they ever have, and for good reason. Not just because of the last four years of “racism!” accusations, but also because every time – and I do mean every time – they call for differences to be put aside, for a “new tone” in politics, etc., what they’re really wanting is for Republicans to sit back and shut up while Democrats pull the country further to the left without impediment.

So if anything, a thanks of sorts is owed to O’Malley Dillon for in so many words saying the quiet part out loud. We “Republican f**kers” knew it all along, but it’s still nice when Democrats make our jobs easier by just coming right out and admitting it.

Pete Buttigieg Picked to Fill the Nation's Potholes

Reuters has reported President-elect 46* has been informed he picked former primary opponent and staunch surrogate Mayor Pete Buttigieg to be his Transportation Secretary, with the important task of insuring a good ride and filling nation's potholes.  How Buttigieg serving two terms as mayor of small town South Bend Indiana qualifies as valuable knowledge on transportation issues is only our guess.

Mayor Pete beat out several others with extensive experience including Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, butt Pete has some serious chips to cash in with Biden after his crucial endorsement ahead of the Super Tuesday primary elections in March.  Mayor Pete has been recently touting his foreign policy knowledge and his allies have been lobbying for a foreign policy post, with some openly suggesting he’d be a great ambassador to the United Nations. (it's rumored he knows where Uzbekistan is located)  

Okay Class - Pop Quiz: Name one previous Transportation Secretary 

This might not be the right place for Mayor Pete, though. Unless that's the whole idea.....

Pete Buttigieg was so bad at transportation issues as mayor that a pizza company had to fix the city's potholes for him.https://t.co/MvbYGmvxXW

— Chris Martin (@chrisjdmartin) December 15, 2020

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China Expert: The CCP are ‘Licking Their Chops’ at the Thought of a Biden Presidency

In a video that surfaced Monday showing the Chinese academic, Professor Di Dongsheng, associate dean at Remnin University in Beijing bragging about his country’s deep seated influence over the United States government might have come as a shock. But for Gordon Chang, who specializes in U.S.-China relations it was simply a grim warning of what might lie ahead.

Chang appeared on Tucker Carlson where the topic was the threat of China on a potential Biden presidency. Carlson called the video proof that Americans had been misled for years by a liberal political establishment and mainstream media that did everything in their power to convince the country of the “Russia collusion” hoax, while hiding the biggest foreign danger of all — the communist dictatorship in Beijing.  In the video the professor discussed his country’s relationship with “the traditional elites, political elites, the establishment” in the United States.

"That relationship had empowered the Middle Kingdom for decades in its dealing with the U.S., but was severed during the Trump years. With former Vice President Joe Biden potentially being sworn into the presidency in January that influence could return....."

Chang told Carlson that the Beijing leadership’s belief it can treat a potential Biden administration like a puppet and could take both countries in a dangerous direction.

"This is what Chinese leaders think. And because they think that way, they’re going to push a President Biden around. They’re going to do things which are dangerous. Under President Trump, the Chinese didn’t try this, because they were afraid of him. So, what I’m concerned about is the state of mind of China. We see this from Xi Jinping, the Chinese ruler, all the way down to this guy, Di Dongsheng. 

This is dangerous."

It shouldn’t be a surprise, really. National security concerns about illicit Chinese influence in the Democratic Party stem back at least as far as the Clinton administration a quarter-century ago. But since the political sympathies of the mainstream media were just as liberal then as they are today, it didn’t generate anywhere near the breathless coverage of the “collusion” hoax that plagued the first three years of the Trump presidency.

In terms of the most important points that Di makes, that’s absolutely true, that China does have that relationship into what he calls the ‘core circle of America’s real power. And they used that during the Obama administration, and prior administrations, and they couldn’t do it during the Trump administration.

“That much we know. And I know that they are, in anticipation, licking their chops at what’s going to happen from January 20 on.”

[Western Journal]

[Cain Gang]

Buttigieg Actively Seeks the Bend Over for Beijing Position

Mayor Pete lost out for consideration to be the new UN Ambassador for being in the wrong category of Political Correctness, butt he is now actively seeking another high level Ambassadorship, hoping for our biggest economic competitor, China. If appointed by the handlers that are choosing positions for Joe Biden, Buttigieg would be highly qualified for the Biden 'forward into the past' philosophy and perfect fit for the job, as he is experienced at taking it up the wazoo like America did under Obama/Biden.

Buttigieg has made it clear his main interest lies in foreign policy or national security, and a stint as ambassador in Beijing could help set up for his return as a presidential candidate, something the Democrat Party are expecting after he was a resounding success in the Iowa caucuses. The role would give the Chinese an opportunity to cast their spell on a potential future president and for China to work on undoing the advantages between US and China that have swung heavily in America's favor because of DJT's forcefully standing up for America to the Communist nation.

We're confident Mayor Pete will continue the Dems traditional bending over for the Commies and selling out America like Clinton, Bush and Obama have done so well in the past. Biden has likened Buttigieg to his late son Beau saying that "it's the highest compliment I can give any man or woman."

[Axios]

[DailyMail]

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