InstaPunk Returns

 Dinosaurs > Pamosaurs The Newsmax Op-Ed seers from Paleo-Conservatives to merely obsolete ones.  I’m  just surprised they haven’t invited Jonah Goldberg and Bill Kristol to contribute. Okay. I’ve been challenging everyone who still looks in here (all 10 of you) for weeks. You all know I tend to do highbrow intellectual-type stuff. I even did my own highbrow news blog in 2019 (@ InstapunkReturns.blogspot.com, see Archive), where I routinely linked sites like American Greatness, American Spectator, American Thinker, Business Insider, PJ Media, the Federalist, Zero Hedge, Front Page, Power Line, etc. Not doing that here no more. I’m not even hunting down VDH to link him. What gives? Why?  Doesn’t matter anymore. Why don’t I write about the things you all write about on my Newsfeed? Because you don’t write about anything on my Newsfeed. You’re all in denial, just masturbating with trivia. I don’t care what some eminent medical ethicist has to say about euthanasia. I...

Today’s Hot Headlines American Greatness: The Real ‘Bombshells’ Are About to Hit Their Targets Washington Times: William Barr Confirms Expanded DOJ Probe of Russia-Clinton Links CNN: Dems Mock Barr No-Show with Empty Chair and Chicken in Escalating War of DOJ v. House Hat Ring for The Hill :             — Clinton Mocks: ‘China, If You’re Listening, Why Don’t You Get Trump’s Tax Returns?’            — Dershowitz: Barr Is Right, Mueller Is Wrong            — Poll: 72 Percent Say Traditional Outlets Report News They Know to Be Fake, False The Federalist:  It’s Getting Difficult to Tell the Difference Between the NYT and Al Jazeera The Jewish Press:  Having Apologized For One Anti-Semitic Cartoon, the NYT Publishes Another Breitbart: New York City Babies Aborted After 21 Weeks Outnumber Homicides in NYC American Thinker: Biden’s First Campaign Rally Raises D...

  Remember this guy? Don’t worry. I’ll remember him for you. Where this starts… This morning I checked Citizen Free Press the way I always do,  to make sure the President is still alive and nukes aren’t raining down on Ukraine, and I found this: The blue teasers are all about the same guy. I took the link to the NYT feature, which was uncharacteristically out from behind the pay wall, meaning they want us to see it, even us irredeemables. CFP was right to spotlight the first seven paragraphs. Here they are: FTA: <<Not too long ago, I felt a civic duty to be rude to my wife’s younger brother. I met Matt Kappler in 2012, and it was immediately clear we had nothing in common. He lifted weights to death metal; I jogged to Sondheim. I was one of President Barack Obama’s speechwriters and had an Ivy League degree; he was a huge Joe Rogan fan and went on to get his electrician’s license. My early memories of Matt are hazy — I was mostly trying to impress his parents. Still we g...

Lights on, nobody home. Strangest thing happened yesterday. I don’t usually get much help from other nosey people in finding material to write about. Usually, I just make it up for myself. But UPS made a surprise delivery here yesterday with a fat envelope containing a bunch of photographs and a small breast pocket notepad containing hand-scrawled sentence fragments keyed to the photos. So I’m sharing what I have, although there’s not much I can confirm in the way you’re supposed to do it. My source seems to be claiming that the New York Times as we have known it is gone, purchased by a third party, repurposed, and moved from its current location to another headquarters building. Still in New York City but no longer in the high-rent district. Until a few weeks ago, the derelict brownstone had been vacant for years. The  new owners have done a high-speed rehab just sufficient to resume publishing. I can hear all the questions now. Who bought them? Why does the NYT give every appeara...

  Kaitlan Collins and David Muir There may have been a day when the news broadcasters in television were reporters who found a lucrative niche in a new medium. People like Murrow and Cronkite and Brinkley didn’t become icons based on their looks. They were more like talking incarnations of Time and Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly , news and culture journalists with a certain distinctive style and manner of speech. Since CBS veteran Bernard Goldberg first blew the whistle on bias in mainstream network news organizations in 2001, millions (and millions) of words have been lavished on this controversial subject of how television journalism has become a partisan powerhouse in national politics rather than the ‘just the facts, ma’am’ diggers of truth they purport to be. Funny how in all those millions of words, hardly any are devoted to the great divide between the mediums of print and television, which is much larger than the seeming uniformity of their political propaganda. NYT,...