Tag: media

Apparently Bleeding Cool releases its Top 100 Power List for the comics industry every year. While I tend to doubt they would dare to put me on it even if I bought Marvel Comics from Disney and personally authored the top-selling comic of the year, at least we have been provided an objective measure of just how big 2VS is in the comics industry.

Although you’d think I’d get at least a modicum of credit for getting their Editor-in-Chief fired for the mere crime of daring to speak with me.

97. Mark Waid
A major comic book writer, editor and publisher, he is currently the ongoing writer on Doctor Strange. Being sued by Richard Meyer over his involvement, or not, in the decision of Antarctic Press to cancel the Jawbreakers graphic novella, whatever the merits of that suit, demonstrates that some, certainly, see his actions as impactful. Reducing his social media interactions, no longer co-owing a comic store and the mothballing of his Thrillbent digital publisher has seen his listing number drop, but he was able to wrangle a significant portion of the comics industry to back his legal defence.

74. Ethan Van Sciver
Leaving DC Comics after prominent creators refused to work with him anymore, he used the usual mixture of Comicsgate virtue signalling, identity politics and mocking hater videos to raise over half a million dollars on Indiegogo, for his still-upcoming Cyberfrog comic revival. The highest amount raised on crowdfunding by any comic creator in the year, it helps that he can actually draw. This helped him take the position as leading Comicsgate figure as Richard Meyer stepped back, due to his legal case with Mark Waid, and not wanting to give the defence further ammunition.

It’s the metahumor here that is the funniest aspect of this story:

He had launched his new website on Facebook during the 2016 presidential campaign as a practical joke among friends — a political satire site started by Blair and a few other liberal bloggers who wanted to make fun of what they considered to be extremist ideas spreading throughout the far right. In the last two years on his page, America’s Last Line of Defense, Blair had made up stories about California instituting sharia, former president Bill Clinton becoming a serial killer, undocumented immigrants defacing Mount Rushmore, and former president Barack Obama dodging the Vietnam draft when he was 9. “Share if you’re outraged!” his posts often read, and thousands of people on Facebook had clicked “like” and then “share,” most of whom did not recognize his posts as satire. Instead, Blair’s page had become one of the most popular on Facebook among Trump-supporting conservatives over 55.

“Nothing on this page is real,” read one of the 14 disclaimers on Blair’s site, and yet in the America of 2018 his stories had become real, reinforcing people’s biases, spreading onto Macedonian and Russian fake news sites, amassing an audience of as many 6 million visitors each month who thought his posts were factual. What Blair had first conceived of as an elaborate joke was beginning to reveal something darker. “No matter how racist, how bigoted, how offensive, how obviously fake we get, people keep coming back,” Blair once wrote, on his own personal Facebook page. “Where is the edge? Is there ever a point where people realize they’re being fed garbage and decide to return to reality?”

The amusing thing is the way that the guy doesn’t realize that he’s merely replicated the situation that has existed on the Left for decades. They believe literally everything the mainstream media reports, despite the fact that what is generally known as “the news” is a false narrative that has little more than an incidental relationship with the objective truth of what actually happened.

One should also keep in mind that as Owen Benjamin notes, humor is often predictive. The very humor produced by the overstatement tends to come from the discomfort created by the extrapolation of the current trend, which is why his Gay Town is now at least partly real.

Translation: don’t bet on undocumented immigrants not defacing Mount Rushmore in the next ten years or California not recognizing sharia.

I’ll be discussing the caravan and the response to it with Alex Jones at 2 PM EST. You can watch the stream here.

I’m just wondering, why on Earth should anyone give a fragment of a quantum of a damn for the fact that the poor moderate media whores are now being treated in public the way that many of us have been treated online for the last five years?

Kat Timpf@KatTimpf
 I was just ran out of an establishment because of where I work. Chewed out, abused. But I guess that’s the norm now.

And let’s be honest, Kat Timpf is really pretty moderate in the grand scheme of things so to attack her of all people at Fox? That’s just someone who doesn’t really pay attention. At this point, we are not sure where Kat was but we’re hoping she’ll post it soon so we can share …

Because those who are really pretty moderate don’t deserve to be attacked, unlike those awful right-wing extremists, right? These people now looking for our sympathy and support are the very people who didn’t lift a finger when hundreds of people, up to and including Alex Jones, were driven off Facebook, Twitter, GoDaddy, IndieGoGo, Paypal, and other platforms for their badthink, who didn’t bother to denounce the culprits, let alone stop utilizing their services.

Now they’re being driven out of restaurants. So my response is, sowhat? Especially given the fact that the likes of Kat Timpf are still far too moderate to so much as name the place where they were victimized, for fear that someone will actually do something besides cringe and cower.

Given that they are the enemy of the American people, CNN is fortunate that the God-Emperor has merely denied the media a press pass or two rather than ordering drone strikes:

CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta accused the Trump administration Wednesday evening of trying to shut down critical press coverage by revoking his credentials.

In an interview with CNN colleague Anderson Cooper, Mr. Acosta denied assaulting a White House intern earlier in the day — the stated reason — saying he was merely “trying to hang onto the microphone” after President Trump had instructed the young woman to take the microphone to give it to another reporter.

“It’s unfortunate that the White House is saying this,” Mr. Acosta said, going on to accuse the White House of trying to intimidate the rest of the press corps.

“I do think this is a test for all of us,” he said after Mr. Cooper had shown several supportive tweets from other White House reporters.

“I think they’re trying to shut us down … send a message to our colleagues,” Mr. Acosta said.

When their coverage is 98 percent critical, why give them any access at all? What is the benefit to either the Trump administration or the American people in doing so?

A gaffe is when someone mistakenly says something they believe to be true. The media really is the enemy of the people and has been for a long time. A reminder from February 2017:

The hosts of MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ commented on President Trump’s efforts to “undermine the media.” Co-host Mika Brzezinski commented Wednesday morning that she is upset to see President Trump has moved in on the media’s turf when it comes to the area of mind control.

“He is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts,” she said about Trump. “And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think.”

“And that, that is our job,” she noted, referring to the media.

The entire purpose of the media is to control what people think. That’s why they are so enraged by the God-Emperor correctly describing them as Fake News. Everything they say is a lie. Everything they say is meant to establish a false narrative. Everything they report is intended to spin things in a manner to influence people’s behavior.

Look at the NPR hit piece on Chuck Dixon and me. Even though Amanda Robb obtained nothing effective that she could use against me in the three hours she spent interrogating me, she and her co-conspirator still successfully planted the false narrative of dark money in the minds of people like Jason Yungbluth and IndieGoGo.

Al Letson: So Vox Day claims to have gotten money to produce these comic books through a crowdfunding website. I’m on that site and it says he started off trying to raise $25000, but he raised close to $236000. That just amazes me.

Amanda Robb: It’s actually pretty unbelievable.

Al Letson: Where is that money coming from?

Amanda Robb: Well that’s the $236000 question. It’s very hard to tell. Most of it’s from a anonymous donors and a lot of it comes in very large increments, some up to $5000 each which is weird because the average donation to a crowdfunding project is about $66.

Al Letson: But we don’t know if he actually raised that money. It looks like it, but we don’t know that for a fact.

Amanda Robb: I think that’s a really good point because Alt-Hero was raising money on a crowdfunding site called, and apparently Vox Day helped create it. It’s a private site. It’s totally black box. There’s no way to find out who made most of the donations, where the money came from, where it went, if it actually existed. I did find out that the company that processed the credit card payments decided to stop working with FreeStarter a few months back, and I tried to get in touch with the company to find out why and they wouldn’t talk to me. Then Alt-Hero had already way surpassed its fundraising goal and is publishing now a series of comic books.

First, I didn’t help create Freestartr. Fake news. Second, notice what Robb conveniently failed to report. She claims that the average crowdfunding backing – not a donation, also fake news – is  $66. But while she mentions a) the total, and b) the largest backing amount of the Alt-Hero campaign, she completely fails to note that since there were 2,190 backers, the average backing for Alt-Hero was only $107. That’s certainly higher than the average but it is not even remotely remarkable; the leading boardgame now being crowdfunded on Kickstarter has an average backing of $101 and a retro sports watch that is trending with 20 days left has an average backing of $248.

Again, fake news, false narrative. Mika Brzezinski inadvertently admitted the truth about the media. They actually are trying to control exactly what people think and they are ferociously opposed to anyone who stands in their way and prevents them from doing that.

The amusing thing is how she belatedly tried to backtrack and control what people think about what she actually said about controlling what people think.

Mika Brzezinski@morningmika
Today I said it’s the media’s job to keep President Trump from making up his own facts, NOT that it’s our job to control what people think.

Mika Brzezinski@morningmika
 Of course, that is obvious from the transcript but some people want to make up their own facts. SAD!

Again, fake news. She quite literally said it was the media’s job to “actually control exactly what people think.” There is no possible grammatical construction or interpretation that allows any objective reading of her statement to conclude that she actually said it was the media’s job to prevent President Trump from making up his own facts.

But instead of claiming that she misspoke, which at least would have been a credible lie, she chose to try to create an observably false narrative about her own words. Meta fake news!

They first set against the God-Emperor:

Megyn Kelly is OUT at NBC just 48 hours after defending blackface as she and the network fight over whether she will be paid out her $69M contract in full.

It’s not as if literally everyone didn’t know that wasn’t going to end well. I’m only surprised that it ended so quickly. The Token Conservative gig just isn’t viable these days; the SJWs won’t tolerate the tokens. Kelly was doomed from the moment Trump didn’t show up for the Republican debate on Fox.

We wouldn’t hire her in a million years. She’s toxic and her personal brand is finished.
– ABC

Or so you’d think if you watched television:

Broadcast television is enlisting a record percentage of LGBTQ characters and featuring more LGBTQ characters of color than those that are white for the first time in the 2018-19 television season, a report published Thursday found.

GLAAD’s annual “Where We Are On TV” report, released Thursday, found that LGBTQ characters comprise 8.8 percent of all regular characters this season, up 2.4 percent from the 2017-18 season. (Last season had previously held the record for largest percentage in the report’s 23-year history.)

But we can do better!

Characters with disabilities are still significantly underrepresented compared to their presence in the actual U.S. population: Only 2.1 percent of characters on broadcast are disabled this season compared with 13.3 percent in the U.S. population.

If they do the same for the underrepresented demographics what they’ve done for the LGBTQP crowd, 58.5 percent of all television characters will be disabled and 132 percent will be obese. And in British advertisements, 86 percent of all blonde women are married to the same bearded black guy. Although I actually saw him married to a black woman the other day, so apparently he’s branching out.

Roosh explains why Dr. Jordan Peterson has sold whatever shattered fragments remain of his tortured soul:

Why has Jordan Peterson betrayed his red pilled audience? Peterson signed with the LA-based media agency CAA and had an informal screen test with Dr. Oz and Oz’s producers. This coincided with the planned  Kavanaugh tweet to give him a patina of moderation and separate him from the alt-right, ultimately making him more palatable to TV advertisers. The end goal is to voluntarily neuter him by giving him a massive paycheck and daily show talking about diet, relationships, and family like Dr. Phil.

I suspect the Weinstein brothers were heavily involved in making the initial contacts meetings, but the CAA media agency in LA is pushing this hard as well. They have a comprehensive plan to accomplish it. No idea if Jordan Peterson is enthusiastic about participating but I fear he has already made up his mind. Just look at the social responsibility page of CAA; it’s just absolutely littered with all the specific woke SJW nonsense Peterson specifically said never to associate with. He’s destroying, I mean destroying his brand. This was the cornerstone of his brand, now he’s about to cash in with CAA.

The only problem with this theory is that it assumes Peterson didn’t gladly sell his soul already. And he did; he is content manufactured by a Canadian television impresario who was on the lookout for someone he could market. CAA is just the call-up to the big leagues, nothing more. The goal is to create an Oprah for men, less because a male Oprah will further weaken a generation of spineless American men and render them more compliant, but because a male Oprah will make a lot of money for an industry that is literally under siege from every side.