Bad Bob wrote:
What is your trusted news source?
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I have no single source that I fully trust. Even those that are usually trustworthy sometimes get it wrong. It is up to me to decide the good or the bad!
I watch Fox News Sunday, CBS and NBC on Sunday morning. Fox would would be the better, CBS second and NBC (Stepinandfloponit, being a Rhodes Scholar would be the most Communist oriented, although Raddatz would be a close second to him; basically in the class of Hanoi Jane Fonda and her Vietnam cohort John Kerry, IMO) third. I also watch Face the Nation and Washington Week sometimes. I watch "Off The Air," and do not have Satellite or CATV because I simply don't need 225+ channels of nothing worth watching, and they won't allow me to choose precisely which channels I want to pay for and view. I also record everything I watch so I can fast-forward through the commercials and whatever else I am not interested in. The catharsis of verbiage these "talking heads" can espouse about something they know so little about is absolutely astounding, and I think they all must have gone to the same class when it comes to trying to push their conservative victims, when they rarely have one, to say what they want them to say; fortunately some of these conservative guests are pretty damned good at standing on their principals and can hold their own against these "conversation pushers" and their hard driving ways; I really admire these guests for that ability and their guts, because they probably won't be asked to appear on that show ever again, and risk being radically misquoted and harassed by the Progressive toadies. The news programs are just a show, just entertainment, and they use this as a license to stretch the truth, twist the truth, confuse the issues, or flat out lie, whatever promotes their Progressive agenda; many times, IMHO, they are the intelligence arm of our enemies, domestic or foreign, trying valiantly to broadcast our military strategies to them by digging hard to get someone to slip and leak something that shouldn't be leaked, which is why these so-called news-anchors are so frustrated by President Trump playing his cards so close to his chest, as he should. They, and the public, do not have a "Need To Know" some things, particularly those things related to our Military operations! LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS!
During the week I usually watch PBS Evening News because they have fewer commercial interruptions, although they are mostly liberal extremists, but one should observe the wrong point of view as well as the right point of view so you get some idea of how they think. If you don't know your enemies, you will have a lot more trouble stopping them. Some so-called news programs look like a string of commercials occasionally interrupted by a few news sound bites (unless it's BROKEN NEWS,where they go on forever telling you everything they don't know and what they might tell you when, and if, they ever find out, stay tuned!), the weather guesser, and the last half the program ends up being sports crap that I'm not interested in, but someone must be. I can usually get through a 30-minute local news program, usually Fox, in about 10 minutes.
I read from a number of political sites on the internet as well. I listen to Talk Radio when I can. I like Hillsdale College Imprimis news as well as their love for the Constitution and their lack of funding with its consequent influence from the government. They are a REAL education, and they also have a lot of free on-line educational courses covering the Constitution and how the government should work rather than how it has been screwing things up for decades, starting about the time of Woodrow Wilson, our first, but not only, Communist President. This is good, mentally healthful, free education folks, and not the "submissive subterfuge to create a socialist utopian fiasco that the Progressives are teaching in our left tilted public schools, K to 12 and UP nowadays! Most Universities and the DoEd, being nearly pure socialism, make me absolutely ill! Hopefully, President Trump will get some of this farce straightened out relatively soon, if he can survive the Progressive Communist onslaught and their agitprop against him and the country in general. I don't frequent Social Media, but here's a TOAST to the POTUS! If you want to tweet go right ahead, but be careful, and don't let the bastards wear you down!
I watch local news for local happenings, although they are usually extremely liberal and I have to take most of them with a CUP of salt, and I listen to Michael Savage when I can find him, but I usually have to read him on the internet since my local AM radio station became more liberal, and Mark Levin when I can. They both tell it like it is, and they've written some excellent books.
Of course, I filter all the so-called "news programs," which are sometimes not very new, through my own mental BS filter that has been forged through my formal education of two degrees, many other educational courses, and the school of hard knocks. What finally pops out of my BS filter is what I tend to believe, but at my advanced age, I also reserve the right to believe it or not, and to change my mind if I think someone else has a better idea. One better idea is a Photographic Voting ID to help curb fraudulent voting, which has been with us for a long time but is getting Progressively worse (pardon the pun), even if it takes a little more effort and money to register. Only about four percent of those who would be eligible to vote, if they were otherwise truly legally eligible to register, will have any real trouble registering, and that percentage is statistically irrelevant. If your country isn't worth that little effort, and the Democratic imposed taxes it takes to properly and legally register, and then to actually get out and vote, you're in the wrong country. Most any US citizen that I know is ready and willing to give someone with an honest need a "hand UP" to relieve their situation or get them out of a bind if they are trying to help themselves and can't, but it is certainly not my goal to give a "hand OUT" to every lazy bastard who could work and pay their taxes but elects to vote for a Progressive living and collect benefits from the government without putting forth any effort on their own, especially if that bastard is an illegal alien and a felon that should be either deported or incarcerated, because they are robbing this country and the taxpayers that support it!
I am a Conservative "Anti-Socialist/Anti-Progressive/Anti-Communist" Patriot of the United States of America, and an Independent Voter. I am not a "hyphenated American," I'm a US citizen! One should support the country in which they live, or go to another country that they can support! I SUPPORT my country (but just my USA rather than all of the other 33 "Americas" on the two American continents), my USA Flag, my USA National Anthem, the USA's borders, language, and culture, I speak and read English (thanks to my fellow Veterans), and although he should have said 'Make The USA Great Again!,' President Trump! Hell, I even stand up and salute the flag when they play the National Anthem, and the playing of Taps usually brings a tear to my eye for those who gave their all to protect our Freedom and Constitution! I cannot stand commercial sports and haven't watched any for over 50 years in person or on TV, not because I'm boycotting it, not because some ignorant super-pooper prick of a so-called "professional" athlete and his cohorts disrespected the flag of my country to promote some petty political grievance, I'm just plain not interested in their Progressive distractions and cartoon shows or even their movies Hollyweed puts out trying to brainwash the sheeple to their Communist ways. I also know the difference between "Made in USA" and "Made in America," and try valiantly to "Buy USA" if at all possible; and I know the difference between "Immigrant" and "Migrant," as well as the minute difference between an "Illegal Immigrant" and an "Illegal Alien!" There is only one group of Immigrants that I can think of that is illegal, and those Immigrants are the ones that have to lie when they take the Oath of Allegiance to the USA due to their religious beliefs that are not compatible with culture of the United States of America, but unlike the Illegal Aliens, they did at least pass through our immigration procedures and have documents to prove it, even though they lied to get them! Neither should be in this country! All US citizens should know this, but they apparently don't, likely because of the "Rules for Radicals" disruptive confusion tactics of the Progressives, along with their idiotology of Political Correctness, which is truly a Communist mental disorder and a tactic used to control the thoughts and speech of the masses that are contrary to the idiotology of the tyrant in power.
Well, you asked, so I thought I would give you some of my reasons as well. Have a nice day.