An Unauthorized Journalist

In explaining the ban, Pritzker said Jacobson had forfeited her status as a reporter by “taking an extreme position,” adding: “It’s not the way you act, it’s not the way your colleagues in the media act who are reporters. That is not a reporter. She represents a talk show that has a particular point of view. We allowed her to ask questions because once upon a time she was a reporter. But she proved that she is no longer a reporter.” [More]

And naturally, the guy with the political power gets to be the one to decide which viewpoints are acceptable and which journalists are authorized, just like the Founding Fathers intended.

[Via Mack H]

When 'Authorized Journalists' and 'Only Ones' Collide

“I am deeply disturbed by how some sheriffs have handled a routine request for public information from a respected and established news outlet. As a result, they have put our journalists in personal danger for their own political gain. “It is a journalist’s job to investigate trends, and we do not intend on publishing personal information of private citizens. Unfortunately, the sheriffs sought to play up distrust in media when it became clear that they cannot deny access to public information.” [More]

How does that "endanger" anyone, Audrey? Like gun owners who try to obey "the law" are the problem? Belief in which, of course, is part of the plan...

The real outrage here isn't even that "permits" are so selectively "authorized"-- although if her paper wants to do something useful, they could demonstrate the bias.

The real outrage here is that "permits" to exercise a right exist at all.

Those Who Presume to Inform

Now watch Vice journalist Brian Anderson break all four rules while pointing a Tommy gun at his cameraman [More]

"Authorized Journalists" and Vice: Is it any wonder that I love them so?

[Via Michael G]

Up to His -- and Their -- Old Tricks

Report on F.B.I. Russia Inquiry Finds Serious Errors but Debunks Anti-Trump Plot ...He also exonerated former F.B.I. leaders, broadly rejecting Mr. Trump’s accusations that they engaged in a politicized conspiracy to sabotage him. [More]

Did it really "debunk"?  Did he really "exonerate"?

We did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced” officials’ decision to open the investigation, the report said.

That they did not find something is not the same as proving it does not exist.

Horowitz -- you gotta understand who the guy is and where he's coming from.

You gotta understand he pulled the same crap on his "Gunwalker" report:

Case in point, Chapter One of the report identifies key individuals who declined to be interviewed ... Simlarly of significance, and hardly surprising to those following this story, the report notes “The White House did not produce to us any internal White House communications, noting that “’the White House is beyond the purview of the Inspector General’s Office, which has jurisdiction over Department of Justice programs and personnel.’”

The result?

That has not stopped the search term “clears Holder” from already becoming the meme du jour on the “Authorized Journalist” Google News feed, meaning it will soon become “common knowledge’ among those who are not long-term and in-depth observers. 

It's all a continuing con job that most are oblivious to. Of the remainder, most will excuse and even champion it, and of the ones who don't, most will do nothing about it.

Right Back Atcha, Genius!

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A 19-year-old man is behind bars after being accused of robbing a woman in Hickory Hill with a rifle pointed to her head.

Kobe Westbrooks is charged with aggravated assault, robbery, theft and unlawful possession of a handgun. Not only did he allegedly point that weapon at the woman's head, police reports said he told her words no one wants to hear: "I'm going to kill you." [More]

Somehow I think young Kobe is going to modulate that attitude in present company. And naturally, his victim was coming home from work.

So, "Authorized Journalist" Quametra Wilborn and the crack team at WREG News Channel 3 Memphis: What's the deal with "rifle" and "handgun"?  Ah well, it doesn't matter, I'm sure you'd like to ban all of them.

We're the Only Ones Tight-Lipped Enough

In re yesterday's post:

Anybody see a name yet? I've been shared a reply from an "Authorized Journalist" claiming police have not released it nor filed charges.

What a cheesy excuse. Any real reporter worth his salt would not just lie down and accept that -- they'd press for answers and publicize the pressing.

Seeing as how that doesn't appear to be a priority...

[Via CDT]

UPDATE: 

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I note every one of these reports came out hours after this post. I'd like to believe and hope that those of us making noise also made an impact.

Do the (Alt-) Right Thing

Jason Kessler is a hateful person who is having a substance fueled meltdown! [More]

I wonder why Authorized Journalist Matt Pearce did not see fit to mention he's also historically been a creature of the "alt-left"? Or is his epiphany to embrace the "conservative" side the one thing Kessler claims that we're supposed to believe?

A Cold Day in Hell

On Tuesday and Wednesday, more than 1,000 law enforcement officers fanned out across San Francisco and San Mateo counties to serve warrants and conduct probation searches as part of Operation Cold Day ... Authorities declined to say if certain gangs were targeted, citing the ongoing nature of the investigation. [More]

Yeah, none of the reports seem to want to give out any identifying information. I guess if a threat is still out there, they want us to be surprised.

Y'know, 90 guns out of 75 arrests does not a "pipeline" make, not that I want to cast any clouds over their moment in the sun. Still, that's a hell of a lot of resources for such a pissant historic haul, not that any "Authorized Journalist" would broach such an impolite observation during the media victory event.

[Via Dave Licht]

Moron? Liar? Why Not Both?

Teen charged in friend's death didn't think gun would discharge [More]

There's that racist "Authorized Journalist" code word again.

But there's always the "progressive"  mandated "solution"-- at least until they can ban guns altogether:

In their lawsuit, backed by CPHV, Dix's parents maintained, among other charges, that the chamber indicator was inadequate because the gun was not inscribed with a warning as well. Presumably, were Beretta to do so, they would still be deemed negligent for not including such warnings in Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese and Tagalog.

No loaded chamber indicator here, either...

[Via bondmen]

The Wisdom of Solomon

The Wall Street Journal fired reporter Jay Solomon on Wednesday after evidence emerged about his involvement in prospective business deals, including one involving arms sales to foreign governments, with an international businessman who was one of his key sources.  [More]

If personal interests can cause conflicts of interest with the ability to report objectively, I'm wondering if there's an "Authorized Journalist" alive who could make the cut.

[Via bondmen]

Mirren Gidda, 'Authorized Journalist'

A member of the Oath Keepers militia ... members of Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters—which the Anti-Defamation League describes as “anti-government extremist movement[s]”... [More]

I don't suppose it would do any good repeating what should be common knowledge to any "real reporter" interested in doing two minutes worth of actual seeing for themselves instead of just parroting leftist smears...

Nah. Consider the source.

If Newsweek were interested in the truth, they'd have been in the running for a shot at reporting it.

Bloomberg Author’s Group Continues Established Pattern of Manipulation & Deception

We’ve seen that before, during the Obama administration, when top adviser Valerie Jarrett recruited Hollywood writers and decision makers to tailor TV show scripts to plug Obamacare. And we’ve seen it more recently with the Brady Campaign bragging about its influence in getting gun owner control messages inserted in Designated Survivor, and Everytown partnering with House of Cards. [More]

As an added bonus, "real reporter" Claire Kirch objects in comments to being called a "flack," and asserts she's a superior-to-me "Authorized Journalist."

So It IS About Duck Hunting!

“I’m a hunter,” Newsom told the union crowd when a man in the audience grumbled about his support for gun control. Newsom, who in his younger days shot lizards with a rifle on visits to his father’s place in the Sierra foothills, said he has hunted ducks and enjoys skeet shooting, but nonetheless supports background checks for gun owners. The hunting might surprise some of Newsom’s fans on Twitter, where he skewers the National Rifle Assn... [More]

What kind of Fudd would buy that, and not know in his heart he was doing wrong?

Yeah, he "nonetheless suppports background checks."  That and a bit more, right, "Contact Reporter" Michael Finnegan? Why minimize it that way?

That "Our Dishonest President" pop-up for The Times' six-part "editorial" series is almost funny. While arguably true, you would never see such an effort had Hillary won.

Hey, here's  an "Authorized Journalist" challenge: He told the hammer and sick... uh ... arm and hammer crowd he's a hunter, present tense. He said he "might go ... for the first time this year" in November, 2015. Did he? When's the last time he pulled a license from Fish and Wildlife?

Think they'd tell me...? (I've written a PRA request and am waiting for legal feedback to see it it's feasible).

UPDATE-- And now I wait some more:

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The Thing That Would Not Leave

Jessica Chastain relays powerful and devastating story as a strong argument for gun control [More]

"Exclusive"? Really?

Nothing like digging up yesterday's failures for propaganda today, eh, "Authorized Journalist" Rebecca Lewis?

Hopefully, Jessica will realize she's out of her depth and get back to that which she's good at.

[Via Matt F]

Doing What They Do Best?

Macron Stretches Lead As French Presidential Campaign Enters Final Day [More]

They had a choice and it looks like they're rejecting it. We can hope the polls are wrong, and the establishment has been fooled before (!!!), but unless the lead is completely fabricated, it does not look good.

As an aside, I've been seeing people pointing to One America News Network as a potential alternative once the Murdokinders trash Faux News. But adopting "Authorized Journalist" conventions like "far right" to describe someone who believes in sane border and immigration policies, and "centrist" to describe an Obama endorsee makes me wonder.

And profiling Miley Cyrus getting over her nipple pastie phase hardly fills me with confidence.

At least I get no hits there searching for "botched gun sting."

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UPDATE: Won't this be interesting if it pans out...?

Eunuch Gonna Believe This Story

With a bullet-riddled crotch he had coming when he decided to live the thug life, the attacking teen ran back to the truck he jumped out of and tried to make a getaway... [More]

Lest you think that account appears too celebratory, let's check instead with the "Authorized Journalist" version, where they use such terminology as "emptied the clip" and "that gun that he used isn't registered."

[Via Florida Guy] 

Good for the Goose?

"Speaking at a party in what I thought was a personal conversation... " [More]

Oh, you mean kind of like the "pussy" remark?  Funny, instead of "racing to distance themselves" from you, it looks like one "my bad" non-excuse and you're back in "progressive" good graces.

I guess it pays to be "Authorized Journalist" royalty.

What's in a Logo?

Nothing to see here, right? [More]

You'd think a professional "Authorized Journalist" like Ben Swann would know his function is to parrot talking points, not investigate and ask unwanted questions of the elites. It looks like he's about to be smeared and then Attkissoned.

Hey, it's way past lunch time -- anybody up for pizza?

'Authorized Journalist' Malpractice Takes Its Toll

Uber driver fired in ‘self defense,’ police say, as Stand Your Ground takes toll [More]

So evidently Chalres Rabin has a huge problem with self-defense. Huge enough to repeat the lie that the Zimmerman case was about SYG. And to introduce hand-wringing judgmental hysterics like "a nation besieged by guns" in what he's representing as a straight news piece.

And his Miami Herald editors not only let hm get away with it, they encourage it.

Like the zealots they are, they'll be damned it they change their ways -- no matter the cost. They're convinced it's our fault we don't trust them.

Uber would also rather its driver had been killed. I expect to see him canned soon.

[Via Steve T] 

“Lügenpresse!”

I ran across this October entry from our good friends the commie bed wetters at "Raw Story" designed to suppress calling the media what it is by threatening to tar their ideological opposition as Nazis. [More]

They took their lead from CNN's man in in Washington and "Authorized Journalist Extraordinaire" Jake Tapper, who knows a thing or two about the lying press:

True -- some Nazis adopted it (not to say "journalists" of the period were unimpeachable fonts of truth).

But they weren't around in  the Vormärz period, or when Catholics used it in 1848, or in the Franco-German War, or when "intellectuals and journalists used the term" in  WWI, or when it was used by German Marxist Jews after the war, all before the Nazis ever touched the term.

And speaking of Nazis, don't believe the Lügenpresse Newspeak equating them with "conservatives":

Hitler ... was, at heart, a left-winger.

Just like all the liars in the press calling us Nazis to try and intimidate and shame any ideological opposition. But don't tell Jake.

He'll just call you a psychopath.

We all know where that leads for dissenters when collectivists are in charge. And what it allows the lying press to get away with...