Media Tracker (4 Viewers)

[SaintForLife]

I figured we needed a thread specifically about the media.

There was a very big correction recently by the Washington Post.


That story was supposedly "independently confirmed" by CNN, NBC News, USA Today, ABC News, & PBS News Hour. How could they all have gotten the quote wrong if they actually independently confirmed the story?






Why do all the errors always go in one political direction and not closer to 50/50?

 

[superchuck500]

It doesn’t make me uncomfortable, but I did laugh at it. I was curious if it seems homoerotic to the guys?

It seems pretty homoerotic - but it doesn't make me uncomfortable. If people want to be homoerotic, go for it. Seems to me that there's a lot of homoeroticism in the modern men's movement.

 

[CoolBrees]

That made the volleyball scene in Top Gun blush.

But uncomfortable? Nah. Now if I had to stand next to Tuckerski Carlsonovich naked with that Junk light I might be a bit on edge.

 

[SaulGoodmanEsq]

I don't really associate Tucker Carlson with alpha male so I'm a bit confused.

 

[MT15]

A serious comment, because I also noticed that all the men seemed pretty, well, Aryan:

 

[MT15]

Remember when Tucker went on a rant about how soft the American military was, and how manly the Russian military was? That was less than a year ago, and as I recall he showed a clip of some purported Russian soldiers that looked a lot like the men in this new clip. Really odd.

 

[MT15]

So Twitter is trying to decipher this Tucker clip. The scene where someone is shooting bottles with yellow liquid is because there is a conspiracy theory that all types of vegetable and/or olive oils are the cause for men losing testosterone. The charging station is a testicle warmer, to raise sperm counts.

Still not sure why someone is reaching to milk a cow without a bucket, and why a Zuckerberg lookalike is submerging in an ice bath.

If someone wrote this as a novel, it would be rejected as too crazy to be believed, lol.

 

[SamAndreas]

So Twitter is trying to decipher this Tucker clip. The scene where someone is shooting bottles with yellow liquid is because there is a conspiracy theory that all types of vegetable and/or olive oils are the cause for men losing testosterone. The charging station is a testicle warmer, to raise sperm counts.

Still not sure why someone is reaching to milk a cow without a bucket, and why a Zuckerberg lookalike is submerging in an ice bath.

If someone wrote this as a novel, it would be rejected as too crazy to be believed, lol.

I can at a glance help you and Twitter with the part about milking a cow without a bucket. That milk cow happens to be in that part of the year when there is no more milk to be had, when her calf has grown older and she is referred to as being dry. A bucket was not needed. Not unless the guy wanted to turn it over and sit on it while he was feeling her tits.

So the guy wasn't trying to milk her. I guess he was just trying to grab a feel, a fetish of some kind. He probably could get away with doing that to a cow, but if he tried to "pull" that stunt with a human woman he'd land in a whole peck of barnyard trouble.

:|

It would be a lot more practical for the manly men to wear clothes to keep their testicles warm. And the thing is all parts of them would be warn not just their testicles. And they wouldn't need batteries.

 

[MT15]

So, the “fitness” guy calls it “red light therapy” and Tucker calls it testicle tanning. You can’t tan yourself with red light - it takes UV light. If the red light is infra red, all it does is warm things up.

Fun fact: warmth in the testes impairs fertility, which is why they are outside the body.

We need a “jumping the shark” emoji.

 

[SamAndreas]

So, the “fitness” guy calls it “red light therapy” and Tucker calls it testicle tanning. You can’t tan yourself with red light - it takes UV light. If the red light is infra red, all it does is warm things up.

Fun fact: warmth in the testes impairs fertility, which is why they are outside the body.

We need a “jumping the shark” emoji.

I think Tucker coined his own new nick name.

I'm going to call him "Testicle Tan" from now on.

 

[SamAndreas]

 

[Optimus Prime]

didn't deserve its own thread

and she's not wrong

and predictable responses both for and against
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was both slammed and defended for a tweet mocking a prayer session on a plane.

A video showing a group of Christians singing songs on an airplane went viral over the weekend, racking up 32 million views. The video included the caption “Worshipping Jesus 30,000 Feet In The Air!” It is unclear when the video was taken, but it was posted on Saturday by an account called “Fifty Shades of Whey.”

Omar, who is Muslim, shared the video on Saturday with the comment: “I think my family and I should have a prayer session next time I am on a plane. How do you think it will end?”.......

MSN

 

[nolaspe]

Okay, this has to be a satirical spoof, right? ….right?

 

[coldseat]

didn't deserve its own thread

and she's not wrong

and predictable responses both for and against
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was both slammed and defended for a tweet mocking a prayer session on a plane.

A video showing a group of Christians singing songs on an airplane went viral over the weekend, racking up 32 million views. The video included the caption “Worshipping Jesus 30,000 Feet In The Air!” It is unclear when the video was taken, but it was posted on Saturday by an account called “Fifty Shades of Whey.”

Omar, who is Muslim, shared the video on Saturday with the comment: “I think my family and I should have a prayer session next time I am on a plane. How do you think it will end?”.......

MSN

If that's a chartered flight, fine. If it's a public flight, that's annoying, irritating and imposing as hell to assume everybody on that flight want's to hear your worship and praise. Given the expression of the bald guy in the green shirt, I'd say it's the latter.

 

[SaulGoodmanEsq]

Trying to wrap my head around the 'charging station'/low sperm count thing. Why would anyone do this on a prophylactic (pun intended) basis? Unless these dudes are having issues with not being able to get their wives/partners pregnant then what's the problem? Or are they espousing some dumb theory that the wives are conceiving but they are concerned that the children won't be 'manly' enough (if in fact they end up being male)? I'm not a biologist but I'm pretty sure sperm count is wholly irrelevant so long as at least one sperm fertilizes the egg.

 

[coldseat]

Trying to wrap my head around the 'charging station'/low sperm count thing. Why would anyone do this on a prophylactic (pun intended) basis? Unless these dudes are having issues with not being able to get their wives/partners pregnant then what's the problem? Or are they espousing some dumb theory that the wives are conceiving but they are concerned that the children won't be 'manly' enough (if in fact they end up being male)? I'm not a biologist but I'm pretty sure sperm count is wholly irrelevant so long as at least one sperm fertilizes the egg.

It has to be something as reductive and simplistic as "low hanging balls are manly."

 

[Optimus Prime]

Okay, this has to be a satirical spoof, right? ….right?

I can't wait until this fries people balls off, shrivels them to raisins, renders them infertile etc. and Fox's/Tucker's defense is "he's just entertainment, not intended to be taken seriously by anyone"

 

[SamAndreas]

 

[Optimus Prime]

A chance for this silent majority of Republican politicians I keep hearing about to say something
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Not one of the five major Sunday talk shows mentioned the revelation that Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) had supported efforts to overturn the 2020 election despite no evidence of fraud, as my colleague James Downie reported. It’s a small example of a larger problem.


Republicans who appear for TV interviews are rarely — if ever — asked basic questions about the ongoing threat to our democracy.

For example, do they believe President Biden was legitimately elected? Do they regret supporting Donald Trump during his impeachment trials? Would they support the defeated former president if he ran again, even though he instigated a violent assault on the Capitol?


Nor are they asked about a spate of laws that Republicans are pursuing at the state level to make voting harder or politicize election administration. Or why they oppose reauthorization of the preclearance provisions in Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.

Old news! Not relevant! Really? Multiple news outlets have dedicated themselves to covering democracy, yet coverage has not changed much.

The GOP is not consistently identified as the party seeking to impair voting or thwart the House select committee’s investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Days can go by without national newspapers or cable TV programming mentioning the coup attempt or voting suppression.


What would improved coverage look like? Media can start with these six changes.


First, they should provide regular updates on efforts to suppress voting, ballot and election chaos created by new laws and candidates running for key state-level offices (e.g., secretary of state, attorney general, governor) who still support the “big lie” that the election was stolen.

The national media should cover efforts such as those in Wisconsin to “decertify” the 2020 election (yes, Trump supporters are still stuck on that!).

And they should continue to cover the negotiations underway to reform the Electoral Count Act.

The media should explain the possibility that a GOP House majority might not allow an elected Democratic president to take office in January 2025. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) should be asked about this at every news conference and in every interview.

Second, the media should ramp up coverage of civil and criminal prosecutions stemming from the attempted coup, including the investigation underway by the district attorney in Fulton County, Ga. The media should also track disbarment claims filed against lawyers who pursued bogus claims.


Third, when Republicans are mentioned in print or introduced on air, their position on challenging electoral votes, the “big lie”, the attempted coup, voting rights legislation and the Jan. 6 commission should be noted. This is relevant information to determining whether these people have credibility and are pro-democracy.

So long as Republicans can easily evade questions about their ongoing support of the “big lie” and its primary proponent, the media effectively enable the GOP’s assault on democracy……

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/19/media-still-dont-know-how-to-cover-republicans-gop-democracy/