Will national mea culpas from Uri Berliner and Nellie Bowles be followed by anyone at, say, VTDigger?
by Rob Roper
A recent op-ed by then (now former) twenty-five-year veteran editor at National Public Radio, Uri Berliner, “How NPR lost America’s Trust,” citing systemic bias in the taxpayer funded media organization caused something of a firestorm. This was followed by a book by former New York Times reporter, Nellie Bowles, Morning After the Revolution, similarly exposing the far-left cult that has taken over the paper whose motto should be changed to “None of the News that makes the Left look bad.”
Of course, left-wing bias in “mainstream,” “legacy,” “whatever you want to call it” reporting outfits is no surprise to anyone paying even modest attention to the news, but this breach in the circled wagons of denial from those outfits is worth noting. It is critical in our constitutional republic that voters be informed and it is a free press’ job to do that informing honestly. Instead, what we’re getting is misinformation and, equally as alarming, no information on critical stories.
Berliner described the problem at NPR as a “the absence of viewpoint diversity,” going on to say, “Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.” That’s a polite way of saying all NPR does now is push left-wing propaganda.
He cites examples of stories botched by bias – the Hunter Biden laptop story, the origins of Covid-19, the Trump Russian collusion hoax. What’s worse than getting those stories wrong, says Berliner, is the fact that NPR never admitted they got the stories wrong or issued any kind of correction. They are not interested in reporting facts, just maintaining the left-wing narrative.
Bowles describes the cult-like culture at the times with its “narrative enforcers” and cancel culture approach to dealing with anyone who dared question what was really happening in the progressive movement.
“If some of the new rules felt bizarre or maybe oppressive, that was okay…. If you want to be part of the movement for universal healthcare, which I did and do, then you cannot report critically on #defundthepolice. If you want to be part of a movement that supports gay marriage, and I did and do, then you can’t question whatever disinformation is spread that week…. If anything going on in the movement looked anything but perfect, the good reporter knew not to look.”
Bowles ended up leaving the paper in 2021 after refusing to cancel a colleague – she wouldn’t post a tweet that everyone was instructed to send out – calling for this person to be fired for a slightly off-progressive-message in an op-ed. Her book chronicles the stories that the Times refused to cover because of the disastrous outcomes of progressive policies and corruption in movement organizations such as Black Lives Matter, DEI, drugs violence and chaos in Autonomous Zones, the negative impacts of the “gender affirming care”, and the utter failure of “defund the police” movement.
Bowles is by no measure a conservative. She’s a gay liberal from San Francisco, but she wanted to cover stories – important, relevant, interesting stories – that raised questions. And that was verboten.
Into this explosion of news about the news, I came across this twitter post by Paul Heintz, editor in chief (Uh-oh, he didn’t get the memo that “chief” is now considered racist!) at Vermont Digger, “Dropping back in on this cursed platform [Twitter] to say that @vtdigger is on the hunt for a managing editor….”
This should raise some questions. Does Digger have an “absence of viewpoint diversity” on its staff like the one Berliner described at NPR? Does it avoid stories that make the progressive left look bad, or even raise questions about whether or not their policies work as promised? Does it give equal – or any – weight opposing points of view to the left-wing narrative?
I think we know the answer to this, and it’s not good for Vermont to have its largest news outlet lose all credibility because it has become a mere propaganda outfit run by activists, not reporters. So, I don’t know who will step up to take this managing editor position, but let’s hope against hope that it’s someone with a serious desire to actually report the news – dig into the stories about things like the Clean Heat Standard, which is supposed to, you know, totally remake our economy. Why is our education system delivering lower test scores at higher costs with fewer students? Are progressive law enforcement policies to blame for rising violent crime and drug-related deaths in our state? There’s quite a list of topics Vermonters would like to understand better.
And if such a person does emerge to take this job, for goodness sake don’t cancel them.
Rob Roper is a freelance writer who has been involved with Vermont politics and policy for over 20 years. This article reprinted with permission from Behind the Lines: Rob Roper on Vermont Politics, robertroper.substack.com
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National Progressive Radio is so biased that I can not stand to listen to the crapulosity which they spew . They have totally, and I mean TOTALLY bought into the undeniably progressive agenda that it is not jurnalism, it is political propaganda. This crap should not be funded by tax money. They, in my opinion, are even less fair and balanced then CNN, or MSNBC. NPR should either be reorganized to be non political, more centrist, or be defunded . Period !
Can you cite examples of inaccurate reports, Patrick?
Brian, in case you didn’t click on the link to his article in the post, here are some examples cited by the 25 year editor for VPR…
Persistent rumors that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia over the election became the catnip that drove reporting. At NPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump’s most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff.
Schiff, who was the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, became NPR’s guiding hand, its ever-present muse. By my count, NPR hosts interviewed Schiff 25 times about Trump and Russia. During many of those conversations, Schiff alluded to purported evidence of collusion. The Schiff talking points became the drumbeat of NPR news reports.
But when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion, NPR’s coverage was notably sparse. Russiagate quietly faded from our programming.
It is one thing to swing and miss on a major story. Unfortunately, it happens. You follow the wrong leads, you get misled by sources you trusted, you’re emotionally invested in a narrative, and bits of circumstantial evidence never add up. It’s bad to blow a big story.
What’s worse is to pretend it never happened, to move on with no mea culpas, no self-reflection. Especially when you expect high standards of transparency from public figures and institutions, but don’t practice those standards yourself. That’s what shatters trust and engenders cynicism about the media.
Russiagate was not NPR’s only miscue.
In October 2020, the New York Post published the explosive report about the laptop Hunter Biden abandoned at a Delaware computer shop containing emails about his sordid business dealings. With the election only weeks away, NPR turned a blind eye. Here’s how NPR’s managing editor for news at the time explained the thinking: “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”
But it wasn’t a pure distraction, or a product of Russian disinformation, as dozens of former and current intelligence officials suggested. The laptop did belong to Hunter Biden. Its contents revealed his connection to the corrupt world of multimillion-dollar influence peddling and its possible implications for his father.
The laptop was newsworthy. But the timeless journalistic instinct of following a hot story lead was being squelched. During a meeting with colleagues, I listened as one of NPR’s best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren’t following the laptop story because it could help Trump.
When the essential facts of the Post’s reporting were confirmed and the emails verified independently about a year and a half later, we could have fessed up to our misjudgment. But, like Russia collusion, we didn’t make the hard choice of transparency.
Politics also intruded into NPR’s Covid coverage, most notably in reporting on the origin of the pandemic. One of the most dismal aspects of Covid journalism is how quickly it defaulted to ideological story lines. For example, there was Team Natural Origin—supporting the hypothesis that the virus came from a wild animal market in Wuhan, China. And on the other side, Team Lab Leak, leaning into the idea that the virus escaped from a Wuhan lab.
The lab leak theory came in for rough treatment almost immediately, dismissed as racist or a right-wing conspiracy theory. Anthony Fauci and former NIH head Francis Collins, representing the public health establishment, were its most notable critics. And that was enough for NPR. We became fervent members of Team Natural Origin, even declaring that the lab leak had been debunked by scientists.
But that wasn’t the case.
When word first broke of a mysterious virus in Wuhan, a number of leading virologists immediately suspected it could have leaked from a lab there conducting experiments on bat coronaviruses. This was in January 2020, during calmer moments before a global pandemic had been declared, and before fear spread and politics intruded.
Reporting on a possible lab leak soon became radioactive. Fauci and Collins apparently encouraged the March publication of an influential scientific paper known as “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.” Its authors wrote they didn’t believe “any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”
But the lab leak hypothesis wouldn’t die. And understandably so. In private, even some of the scientists who penned the article dismissing it sounded a different tune. One of the authors, Andrew Rambaut, an evolutionary biologist from Edinburgh University, wrote to his colleagues, “I literally swivel day by day thinking it is a lab escape or natural.”
Over the course of the pandemic, a number of investigative journalists made compelling, if not conclusive, cases for the lab leak. But at NPR, we weren’t about to swivel or even tiptoe away from the insistence with which we backed the natural origin story. We didn’t budge when the Energy Department—the federal agency with the most expertise about laboratories and biological research—concluded, albeit with low confidence, that a lab leak was the most likely explanation for the emergence of the virus.
Instead, we introduced our coverage of that development on February 28, 2023, by asserting confidently that “the scientific evidence overwhelmingly points to a natural origin for the virus.”
When a colleague on our science desk was asked why they were so dismissive of the lab leak theory, the response was odd. The colleague compared it to the Bush administration’s unfounded argument that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, apparently meaning we won’t get fooled again. But these two events were not even remotely related. Again, politics were blotting out the curiosity and independence that ought to have been driving our work.
All media sources have their place on the spectrum. Technically speaking, even a source smack in the center has a ‘bias’. NPR is left of center, VDC is somewhere between far right wing and extreme right wing. Both just report on current events and politics as accurately as they can. What’s important is accuracy in reporting, not whether or not that source is in line with one’s own ‘bias’. In the 50 years that I’ve been listening to NPR, I can’t recall any inaccurate reporting.
Here is an example. I was driving through New Hampshire. The only radio station that was available was NPR. Two propagandists (so called journalists) discussed for the full one hour program the senecio of the then President Trump having the access codes to launch a nuclear attack, and how he would start WWIII. If NPR really cared so much about the threat of another world war, I would think they would be having this conversation today, given the geo political upheaval that has occurred since the Biden regime and its supporting unelected technocratics took power.
Brian,
Oh yes, I love their comment section! That was until they took it down. They didn’t want their readers seeing any other sides to their slanted stories and look at who they hire for reporters. They are mostly young from other liberal publications or just out of the indoctrination centers known as liberal colleges. And here you are commenting over here at VDC trying to rationalize that NPR is a independent news organization. After 50 years of listening perhaps you have been brainwashed. Everyone knows NPR is liberal. If they are so great, why can’t they survive without taxpayers’ money?
New NPR CEO Katherine Maher is connected to the Council on Foreign Relations, World Bank, and did a stint at UBS in 2006 when it was doing very naughty things. She is on video describing the First Amendment as “inconvenient”.
She took over from John Lansing, former CEO of Voice of America Radio, who brought the art of fomenting color revolution to the domestic audience.
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And with NPR/VPR, once you hear it, you can’t un-hear it. I write this as a former “sustaining member” of VPR.
“In the 50 years that I’ve been listening to NPR, I can’t recall any inaccurate reporting.” Did you read anything that Rob Roper wrote, either the article or the comment? Would that have caused you too much cognitive dissonance?
The best propaganda is always true, but it doesn’t tell an accurate story. There is the true art of deception.
I can tell you NPR screened all the phone calls when they had a call in for Keith Stern and Phil Scott. They would not allow any calls that were not in line with the narrative they were pushing.
So in this local example, did they lie? No….but the story was skewed.
The content quality is very high.
A great book to read is The Smear by Sheryl Atkisson, a NYT reporter, you might find it very interesting.
A classic piece I listened to while at the Costco parking lot, it was about the officer who shot a man in back seat, while his wife was in the front seat. They had the mother, the wife, the leader of NYC BLM on the radio explaining how the man was innocent, the officer killed an innocent man. It was extremely well done and very moving, how could the police be so evil?
They were shocked at how the Jury in the trial could come up with the “wrong answer”, how could this happen in America?
Here is what they left out.
The cop pulled them over. They each had a license to carry a firearm. They stated they both were carrying a firearm.
The office asked for the gentleman to put his hands on the back seat of the car. The gentle man said, I’m getting my license. The officer said no keep your hands on the seat do not move them. The gentle man would not comply and was reaching for something the officer could not see.
Now cops pull over thieves, criminals all the time and they fire onto the police. Was the man innocent? Perhaps. Was there any way for the officer to know he wasn’t going for his gun, which he stated was on his person? No….he was noncompliant in a situation that was heightened by the presence of firearms.
This basic understanding of what to do and not to do when carrying a firearm. What was astounding is there was NOBODY speaking up.
Had he done what was asked he’d probably be alive.
NPR could probably have saved hundreds of lives if they only did a psa on how to reply to police if you are carrying.
See they told the truth, but not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. This is next level propaganda, this NPR does with excellence. This goes on with epic proportions in our little green mountain state, it’s not a brave little state, it’s propaganda heaven.
You admit NPR is left of center. A huge understatement in my opinion. Name a further left news source. The difference is NPR has huge amounts of funding that come from EVERYONE’S tax dollars whether blue, red, left or right via the corporation for public broadcasting. NPR is state run media and its bias is huge. They seek to manipulate thought, rather than inform listeners.
This is the problem with today’s Democrat, they refuse to admit fault and error in their approach to anything. I see it daily . It’d be more difficult to find examples of dems admitting wrong than the countless, obvious errors in left wing media outlets of which NPR is definitely a big one.
The replies to your post should be enough but I will add a couple. When the hearing on Justice Kavanagh was going on, VPR ran a “round table” discussion on the accusations against him.
The interviewer began by asking each contributor in turn if they believed his accuser. The effect was to make them all agree that she was not lying before any discussion could begin.
Another example is when Trump was accused of calling countries sending illegals into the US “sh**tholes”. The interviewer spoke to some dude who elaborated on just how racist and wrong that was. But the interviewer messed up when she asked him why Trump was wrong in saying we should invest to make their home country’s better. He answered “because those countries are ….. ehhhhmm… not capable of allowing their people to reach their full potential. The interviewer moved on quickly.
Accurate reporting: “We selectively report that this person/organization told this lie and we are going to tell you about the lie we are accurately reporting about, as well as all the reasons you should believe it, and how you should think about it. We will make you think you are really smart for listening to us. Anyone that disagrees with our accurate reporting of known liars who lie are just not sophisticated enough, because they don’t talk sophisticated like us. Let’s wear a turtleneck sweater together and talk like we are really smart”
Meanwhile: “Lets blab on about race and gay stuff 24/7 because that is the most important thing about the existence of humanity, and there is nothing else in the world that has any importance if its not about gay or race.”
Meanwhile more: George Floyd gets choked out for attempting to spend a $20 fake bill, but no politicians get choked out for counterfeiting dollars to pay for a radio program that makes people stupid, and society sick.
I’m fine with radio doing what they want, but I’m not fine with someone illegally stealing our wealth to do it, and without strict punishment that you or I would get if we stole and cheated people the way politicians do.
Your contention of NPR’s exclusive accuracy is laughable and laughably delusional. I was going to say nice try, but really it’s just silly disinformation.
We are wasting our time with Brian. You can face these people with a mountain of logic and evidence and they will still make choices based on fewlings. Can’t wait for the adults to be back in charge and start making decisions for the greater good of AMERICA.
The fact that the Vermont Digger editor said he needed to “drop back in on this cursed platform,” referring to Twitter, answers your question as to Digger’s bias.
The editor could have simply advertised in a nonpartisan fashion without his cute little sarcastic remark about Twitter.
Case closed.
VIP 1 nailed it above. “They don’t want readers seeing (or hearing) any other sides”. This is also why they run from debates. They just do not want the other side presented where they just can’t cover their ears and yell: racist, homophobe, Islamophobe and misogynist.
One day I turned on the radio and had the misfortune of hearing NPR go on at nauseum about how unrealistic marriage is and that couples should be liberated from their marrital shackles to go seek other sexual partners. I wish I was making this crap up, but I am not.
To John and Christine,
I travel in NH, NY and VT for work. NPR and/or VPR can be found almost everywhere while commercial stations have limited range. I prefer to listen to my tires turn on the road or fingernails scraping down a blackboard. This is especially true when the radio voice has an English accent for their elitist listeners or a woman who practices the valley girl talk pattern of raising her voice at the end of a sentence for the drama effect. As horrible as the modern music on FM stations has gotten and the elitist snobs at NPR/VPR, being without a radio wouldn’t be a bad idea.
These stations should not be receiving federal money because they will never change, and the real news is not opinion, censored by omission or slanted to the left. The free press is supposed to educate the masses, not indoctrinate them with our own money.
Regarding VIP1’s comment. I stopped listening to the radio years ago myself. I switched to Podcasts and audio books.
NPR is deep state communist style agitprop, utilizing race & gender “critical theory,” as the primary divisive fulcrum, but also absolute lies & emotionally charged slander against anyone who threatens their chokehold on power, AKA Orange Man Bad.
VT Digger is written by the people who actually believe it.
comment from my wife/// three hours of tel/// lie//// vision/// two hours of commercials played over and over, one half hour of weather played over and over, one half hour of programed news/// every night from four to seven by
your vermont news media/// the mute button is pushed for two hours///
NPR – made me a Republican. One day when driving to CVU, I heard the two NPR commentators talking about how we need to delete the Constitution and rewrite it. Well, that made me wake up so quickly! I asked myself , “What AM I listening to on this radio station?”!!!!!!! It made me question EVERTHING and at that moment I realized the huge LIE and these LIARS behind it.
Vermont Digger is NOT a news organization, they are political operatives hiding behind a non-profit, funded by NGO’s that support all things NWO…..
All the funding, shell corporations and ways to hide the money trail are epic. Book advances are a new way to pay for shills. Just like paying for Hunter’s artwork gets you special privileges, most artists can’t supply.
This grifting is so massive, so epic, it really is hard to believe. Look at this story about similar grift and waste of taxpayer funding to the tune of a trillion dollars…..
Lot’s of smoke and mirrors…
It’s not so much what VT Public reports but what it doesn’t report. Try as some of us might, to caution VT Public about its bias, VT Public politely passes on the input. For example, consider this email thread with Ty Robertson, Audience Experience Associate, Vermont Public.
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2024 8:15 PM
To: Vermont Public
Subject: Unfounded claims the 2020 election was stolen
To whom it may concern:
I listen regularly to VT Public and NPR and am continually impressed with the reporting on the former president, Donald Trump’s, false claim that the 2020 election was stolen and that there is no proof to substantiate his allegation. And I understand that Trump’s claim can’t, definitively, be proven, if for no other reason than that the election and vote counting process is arguably flawed. For example, here in Vermont, signatures on mail-in ballot envelopes are not verified. There is no way to ‘prove’ who submitted a mail-in ballot.
Apparently, however, the claim of a stolen election is nothing new. And while VT Public and NPR continue to promote the so-called ‘insurrection’ narrative on the January 6, 2021, riot at the U. S. Capitol, and Trump’s role in provoking the uprising, VT Public and NPR never address the narratives and activities surrounding the 2016 election.
Please consider the documentary recently recommended by former Rolling Stone reporter, Matt Taibbi, in his Jan 26, 2024, article published on Racket News. It is my sincere hope that at least one of you, Jenn Jarecki perhaps (who I find to be VT Public’s most welcome and refreshing morning show host in ages) will watch this video. It provides a perspective that is absent in VT Public and NPR reporting.
If you choose not to watch the documentary, or to dismiss it, I understand. Really, I do. The forces supporting VT Public and NPR are nothing short of awesome and intimidating. Your livelihoods are at stake. I get it. But I’m compelled to accept my social responsibility to at least be able to say that I did my best to give you what Paul Harvey, journalist extraordinaire, would characterize as ‘the rest of the story’.
Without further ado then, here is the link to the Taibbi article documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoMfIkz7v6s
Sincerely, Jay Eshelman, Putney, VT
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 4:24 PM Ty Robertson wrote:
Hello Jay,
Thank you for sharing your comments and suggestion. I’m going to forward this to the SVP of Content, Angela Evancie, for her consideration. We very much appreciate your taking the time to connect with us. You raise a thought provoking question.
And thank you for the kind words about Jenn. She is indeed a gem!
All best,
Ty
Thank you, Ty, for acknowledging receipt of my email. The rest is up to you and VT Public. Keep your eyes and ears open for the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) mentioned in Taibbi’s racket news article. Psychological projection, when an individual unconsciously projects their thoughts, feelings, or behaviors onto someone else, occurs on both sides of the aisle.
https://www.racket.news/p/is-the-electoral-fix-already-in
Jay Eshelman
I guess VT Public is still provoking its thoughts.
Hey Jay, if you’re so concerned about integrity of the courts surrounding Jan 6th, why don’t you call VPR and ask them why its okay for Samuel Alito to hang the “Appeal to Heaven” flag on his property and then decide the fate of the TRAITORS that he sympathizes with?
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-flag-stop-steal-alito-trump-1842c40b833637c981c59c3f39bc4669
OMG: Three years ago, Justice Alito’s wife flew the stars and stripes upside down for a couple of days at their house in VA. Three years ago. And you’re just now making the connection? And then, God forbid, a year ago, the Alitos are seen to fly the “Pine Tree” flag, that dates back to the Revolutionary War, at their beach house.
I get it. Russian Collusion! Get a FISA warrant to surveil the Alitos too. Impeach Alito for trying to start an ‘insurrection’. Surely, the money they paid for the Pine Tree flag must be an illegal contribution of some kind. Just ask Stormy Daniels and the felon, Mike Cohen. The Alitos should pay at least a $450 Million fine. I wouldn’t be surprised if Jean Carroll doesn’t call her friends to say ‘you won’t believe what just happened to me. Justice Alito raped me’. It’s got to be election interference too. And, oh, don’t forget to send a SWAT team to Alito’s house to remove the flag – and make sure he doesn’t have any top-secret documents. You know, the documents that show how Obama and Biden manipulated Ukraine back when Russia annexed Crimea. Alito must have stashed those away too. Maybe Alito has been drinking bleach.
What about Black Lives Matter flags? What about Antifa flags? How about you fly Hamas flags… and burn the Israeli flag while you’re at it. Ever hear of the 1st Amendment?
Never mind New York County Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan’s daughter raising at least $93 million in campaign donations — while using the ‘hush money’ case her father presides over in her solicitation emails. I wonder which flag the judge’s daughter flies.
Never mind that the FBI tampered with evidence in the Jack Smith documents case. Never mind that Fani Willis paid her lover $700,000 in legal fees to help her go after Trump in Fulton County, GA – and then used the money to go on vacations. Never mind that the Hunter Laptop wasn’t Russian disinformation or that 51 former intelligence officials, including five former heads of the CIA, lied about the laptop too.
Never mind Obama’s AG, Eric Holder, not having to serve jail time for contempt. And we don’t even have to get into the Biden money laundering, tax evasion, and illegal gun application fiascos… yet.
Never mind that it’s okay for AG Merrick Garland to be held in contempt of Congress while Peter Navarro goes to jail for the same offense. No wonder the left thinks Garland should have been on the Supreme Court.
Hey, Chris whoever-you-are, the progressive sky is surely falling – and flags are the least of your worries.
That’s some Grade A whataboutism there Jay, it would have been nice if any of it made sense. What does Antifa flags have to do with a rigged Supreme Court? Your bias is showing as usual
My bias is showing? Ya think?
Here’s a question for you…
Every radio station in the US, even the conglomerate-owned ones, continue to exist largely because of revenue from ad sales. And if they start losing money? They’re sold, re-branded, or re-formatted.
So why is NPR funded by our tax dollars, along with their ever-annoying “fund drives”?
I propose cancelling all federal funding for NPR. Let them sink, swim, or adapt on their own. Fair competition is the American way, not government monopolization.
As to VTDigger? It’s a leftist, elitist, censoring cesspool. And as with all things named by leftists, they do just the opposite of what their name implies. There is absolutely zero *digging* into anything of substance at VTDigger.
Did anyone catch Amy Robach (former ABC News anchor) discussing she had all the information about Jeffrey Epstein connected to Prince Andrew? The producers squashed the story and later she was squashed. Did any catch NBC Chuck Todd reporting live in 2015 about allegations on the Clinton Foundation human trafficking and sexual misconduct investigation going on at the State Department? What happened to Hunter’s laptop? Ashley Biden’s diary? Who owns the media from the national press down to your local newspaper? What are 4am drops? Did Matt Tiabbi blow the lid off the “Twitter” files and investigated by the IRS and the FBI for doing so? C’mon man! Don’t fool yourself for one minute that all information broadcast to the masses is not controlled, propagandized, and censored. Why do you think they want to ban Tik-Tok? They don’t own it or control it!
Once again VDC shows the importance, the civility of free speech and debate about issues in Vermont and the nation. If Vermont had freedom of the press, or should I just say press, our problems could get solved within a year or two.
All of our problems are manmade, so they are easy to correct.
Those who struggle to keep power, control and money, don’t want any open discussion or light shown on activities or possible answers. There’s an agenda written out and if it’s followed, they get, power, money and control, doesn’t fix and problems, quite the contrary, it creates more.
But then that spirit is about Deception, Division and Destruction….all led by pride and envy, same as it’s always been.
The communists’ weak spots are ridicule and acceleration. We saw that in the years leading up to the fall of the Soviet Union.
The communists here are beginning to see ridicule from, believe it or not, middle school boys. Mostly centered around the rainbow agenda. The race agenda also gets some hilarious push back too. That will continue.
One campaign I have seen is to ask the teachers about their own sex habits in excruciating detail. If it’s nothing to be ashamed of, then there is no problem sharing how many time you did X, right? Of course the ones who will do that are 14 year old boys.
Acceleration is another tactic. We should perhaps insist that if we are going to teach 6 year old the wonders of sexuality we must also teach the consequences. Cite the incidence of venereal diseases among same sex men and the incidence of domestic violence among lesbian couples. If a six year old has the capacity to “learn” about sex, surely they have the capacity to “learn” about the consequences.
I don’t believe either should be taught, obviously. I just think the tactic of shaking our head and saying this is wrong without articulating that six year olds are not capable of processing feelings they don’t experience is inefficient. It doesn’t work.
“ Bowles ended up leaving the paper in 2021 after refusing to cancel a colleague – she wouldn’t post a tweet that everyone was instructed to send out – calling for this person to be fired for a slightly off-progressive-message in an op-ed. ”
So in addition to everyone being registered Dems/Progressives who are employed there, the lemmings are also instructed exactly when, why and how to condemn others for slight transgressions? That is textbook cult behavior.
Front Porch Forum denied Felker a voice because he is “transphobic”. For that they should have lost their non-profit status. At least.