The IMCT Media Criticism Thread

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Can't help but smile at the crude Orwellian conduct here. That they don't try harder with these shifts is indicative of what they think of their audience.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news- ... redibility
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https://www.universalhub.com/2018/poor- ... ?nocache=1

Post-irony meets douchebag.

Bonus: first post in the comments section. :twitch:

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Rat Patrol wrote:
03 Jul 2018, 11:21am
https://www.universalhub.com/2018/poor- ... ?nocache=1

Post-irony meets douchebag.

Bonus: first post in the comments section. :twitch:
It really is something to see how needy, how status-driven these people are. The material comfort really isn't sufficient for them. If they aren't validated by their peers, they start blubbering like toddlers.
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Everything about this screams porn.
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One of the Right's Deep Thinkers™ thinking deeply.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
21 Aug 2018, 8:53am
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Everything about this screams porn.
Who fucks who?
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BostonBeaneater wrote:
30 Oct 2018, 3:50pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
21 Aug 2018, 8:53am
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Everything about this screams porn.
Who fucks who?
Everyone in Congress fuck all Washington press people. It's even grosser than it sounds.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
30 Oct 2018, 3:47pm
htwitter.com/nytdavidbrooks/status/1057320450487959552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1057320450487959552&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsplinternews.com%2Fajax%2Finset%2Fiframe%3Fid%3Dtwitter-1057320450487959552%26autosize%3D1

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david brooks is like the jack handy of Third Way centrists.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead

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Flex wrote:
30 Oct 2018, 6:04pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
30 Oct 2018, 3:47pm
htwitter.com/nytdavidbrooks/status/1057320450487959552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1057320450487959552&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsplinternews.com%2Fajax%2Finset%2Fiframe%3Fid%3Dtwitter-1057320450487959552%26autosize%3D1

One of the Right's Deep Thinkers™ thinking deeply.
david brooks is like the jack handy of Third Way centrists.
The status of people like Brooks and Friedman make me wonder how the fuck do I fail upward like that. I'm good at blowing it—it should be the primary entry on my cv—but how do I monetize it like those two flashing vcr clocks?
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/opin ... wasps.html

Why stop there, NYT? Just start writing full-on monarchist editorials while you're at it. :rolleyes:

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Rat Patrol wrote:
05 Dec 2018, 1:44pm
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/opin ... wasps.html

Why stop there, NYT? Just start writing full-on monarchist editorials while you're at it. :rolleyes:
It seems like just a few years ago we were missing the old racism!
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BostonBeaneater wrote:
05 Dec 2018, 2:18pm
Rat Patrol wrote:
05 Dec 2018, 1:44pm
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/opin ... wasps.html

Why stop there, NYT? Just start writing full-on monarchist editorials while you're at it. :rolleyes:
It seems like just a few years ago we were missing the old racism!
This is better.

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Still, I'd rather conservatives be more open about their contempt for the hoi polloi and need to exercise power to control them than the phony populism they perform, that they're outsiders just like guys drinking a beer on their riding mower. Follow the douchehat and admit you're an elitist.
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Chris Lehmann of The Baffler on nostalgia for WASP noblesse oblige: https://thebaffler.com/blessed-and-brig ... nd-lehmann
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Michael Gerson tiptoes up to the line of criticizing capitalism but lacks sufficient self-awareness to carry the ball over: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... 2812a06459
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