Written by Robert Knight
We’re clearly living in a time of “doublethink.”
That’s when someone believes two mutually contradictory beliefs. The term comes from George Orwell’s novel “1984,” in which the government ruling party issued absurd dictums such as “War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” and “Ignorance is Strength.”
Anyone not going along with this was in for a rough time, including the novel’s protagonist, Winston Smith.
The psychological name for this is cognitive dissonance. One form of it is accepting as reality something that clearly conflicts with reason, sensory perception and common sense.… Continue Reading
Tags: Associated Press, Bill Lee, Centers for Disease Control, Critical Race Theor, Demi Lovato, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, gender confirming, George Orwell, KidsPost, science deniers, The Washington Post
Marriage, Family & Culture, Media Watch | David E. Smith | 
May 24, 2021 6:00 AM | 
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Written by Laura Hirschfeld Hollis
A free country depends upon an honest and vigilant press to demand accountability from the country’s political, economic and cultural leaders.
We are in serious trouble; our press is neither honest nor vigilant.
To the contrary, the national media in the United States is hopelessly biased, selectively incurious and relentlessly deceitful about the most important issues we are facing today. As a result, the health of the nation is at risk.… Continue Reading
Tags: Anthony Fauci, Barack Obam, Bill Clinton, Bowe Bergdahl, Centers for Disease Control, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese virus, COVID–19, Donald J. Trump, Franklin Roosevelt, Hezbollah, hydroxychloroquine, Iran Deal, John F. Kennedy, Josef Stalin, Laura Hirschfeld Hollis, Lyndon Johnson, Nicholas Wade, Obamacare, pandemic, SARS2, The New York Times, Wuhan Institute of Virology
Media Watch | David E. Smith | May 20, 2021 8:00 AM | Comments Off on Press Deceit Is a Pathology
Written by Alex Newman
Federal lawmakers behind a bill to protect babies born alive after botched abortions had reason to believe that it was a relatively uncontroversial policy measure, but Democrats believed otherwise.
Inaccurately calling the legislation an “abortion” bill, the senior Illinois Democrat in the U.S. Senate and forty of his colleagues made clear that even protecting the lives of living children is no longer uncontroversial in America today — at least in Washington, D.C.… Continue Reading
Written by Roger Aronoff
A new ad put out by the left-wing Advocacy Project seeks to link Republican budget cuts with the spread of the Ebola virus, a shameful fear tactic that could take hold among a populace rightfully concerned about this epidemic. While media organizations such as Time Magazine and Real Clear Politics have reported on the existence of the video, all they did was cite the ad, not challenge the veracity of its information.… Continue Reading
Tags: Bobby Jindal, Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Francis Collins, Erica Payne, Glenn Kessler, Hillary Clinton, Joy Reid, National Institutes of Health, New York Times, Sheri Fink, World Health Organization
Illinois Politics, Media Watch | David E. Smith | October 22, 2014 5:00 AM | Comments Off on Left Tries to Blame Ebola Crisis on Republicans
