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Something a bit lighter for today – Leo Moracchioli does some excellent metal covers of various popular songs. He has a better ear for what works in his chosen genre than Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (who have some fun punk covers but really overdo it), as well as a better feel for what makes the song tick, and how to adapt them to metal. So, not quite #throwbackthursday – Take on me.…
I’m usually not inclined to do simple “look at this idiocy” posts – if a lesson can’t be learned, a principle displayed, it’s usually pointless. That said, this deserves some analysis, if nothing else, as an example of pure-grade bullshit. Why? It’s an article that basically undermines its own headline and premise within itself. I, teeth gritted, at least have to give Business Insider props for reporting the facts – before completely ignoring them [http://www.businessinsider.com/infowars-come…
Didact’s comment on my last post [https://thelastredoubt.com/2017/01/alternative-facts-more-fakenews.html] freed up a little bit of memory, and reminded me of this bit of industrial from Ministry’s “A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste”: You talking heads in most of the MSM, even most of the “conservative” media? This is how we view you. As Tom Kratman noted in his article on Rosie’s “lets declare martial law” comment – we hate you. You are dishonest, poisonous, Wormtongue hacks.Enjoy.…
Frankly, it’s a rhetorical miss and is already being lambasted. Of course, one reason for that is it’s the easiest handle for the media to grasp to do anything, anything at all to shield themselves from claims of bias. For context, Sean Spicer gave a very short press conference on the 21st. I it he lambasted the media for it’s reporting, specifically on two points. The first, a reporter claiming that the statue of Martin Luther King had been removed, and later retracting it, and the second rela…