Friday's Parade of Absurdities: Operation Mockingbird Wins, and Who Killed Bob Saget?

You just could never make these Democrats up, folks:

Joe Borelli @JoeBorelliNYC

Government employees must be masked in #NYC, unless they are at the New York State Democratic Party convention. 🎉

Masks for thee but not for them.

But hey, if you think America’s Dems are bad, well, Canada’s Liberal party is way ahead of them on that scale:

Ottawa By-law @OttawaBylaw

Attention animal owners at demonstration If you are unable to care for your animal as a result of enforcement actions, your animal will placed into protective care for 8 days, at your cost. After 8 days, if arrangements are not made, your animal will be considered relinquished.

That’s right: They aren’t just arresting participants in and supporters of the truckers’ protests, stealing their money and holding them indefinitely without arraignment or trial, now they’re stealing their pets, too. Somewhere, Papa Fidel is smiling at all that his progeny has wrought.

Hey, maybe that’s why Elon Musk compared Justin Trudeau to Hitler yesterday:

New York Post @nypost

Elon Musk tweet compares Justin Trudeau to Hitler trib.al/OUPj3G6

He took a lot of heat for doing it, but he is manifestly not wrong.

Back in America, Joy Behar promised yesterday to improve the décor of any public space that she enters by hiding her face into perpetuity:

The Hill @thehill

Joy Behar "might" wear a mask in public "indefinitely," she says hill.cm/ec8ShGk

If only she and her fellow shrews on “The View” would invoke the same policy on their show.

While that merriment was taking place, the Sock Puppet-in-Chief traveled to Delaware, where he has spent more than 80 days “on vacation” in the last year:

Chad Gilmartin @ChadGilmartinCA

“Every time I get a chance I go home to Delaware. You think I’m joking, I’m not.” –Biden in Ohio

Yeah, nobody thinks you’re joking, Joe. Why don’t you just stay there, and give the rest of us a break?

Journalist and Substack writer Glenn Greenwald detailed the propaganda campaign being coordinated between the government and its willing media toadies related to the Russia/Ukraine situation:

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

They're not even hiding it this time. The vast, vast majority of "reporting" from corporate media outlets on Russia/Ukraine consists of nothing other than "anonymous intelligence officials tell us..." No verification, questioning or doubt. They just go and prosthelytize as told.

Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst

MI6 and the CIA feed major outlets a bunch of fake intel, which they turn around and report as fact. Idk if you can call that journalism, but nothing has changed in how these outlets operate on Ukraine vs how they spoke about Iraq.

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

In these two tweets, @juliaioffe -- long one of the most fanatical and deranged Russiagaters -- comes out and explicitly says *not only* that the US media is being used to spread propaganda by the US Govt about Ukraine but that it's noble that they're being used this way.

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

If the corporate media had any minimal standards of ethics or even dignity, this would cause an immediate expulsion of Ioffe from any venues of credibility, but most of them not only know that it's true but also see it as virtuous. As with Trump, all is justified to stop Putin.

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Genuinely interested in hearing from a defender of corporate media: what's the difference - in journalistic mentality and/or methods -- between what they did in the run-up to the Iraq War (from which they supposedly learned so many lessons) and what they're doing now on Ukraine?

Needless to say, he, like Musk, is manifestly not wrong about the corrupt corporate media, and he did not hear from any defender of it. What we see happening in our utterly corrupt news media today is the ultimate culmination of “Operation Mockingbird,” a covert CIA plan started under then-Director Allen Dulles in the 1950s to plant operatives and co-opt journalists at the country’s major media outlets, as well as many media outlets abroad.

If you aren’t familiar with it, you should read about it sometime. Once you know the history of this program, everything you see on CNN, MSNBC, the major networks, and on the pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post makes perfect sense.

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley tells an inconvenient truth about Hillary Clinton and her 2016 campaign:

Abigail Marone 🇺🇸 @abigailmarone

"It turns out that the Clinton Campaign was really just a criminal enterprise," says @HawleyMO following the latest revelations from the Durham probe. "Someone should go to jail for this and I hope the Special Counsel is... going to be talking to Hillary Clinton."

Some of us have known that and written about it for 5 years now, but hey, glad to see Republicans in the DC Swamp catching up.

Finally, perhaps the most shameful absurdity of all for today:

Daily Wire @realDailyWire

New Police Theory Says Bob Saget Died After Hitting Head On Bed’s Headboard: Report dlvr.it/SK8jqC

The coroner’s report tells us that Saget died from skull fractures sustained in three separate spots around his head, injuries that one expert has compared to being attacked with a tire iron.

He did not sustain such injuries on the headboard in a damn hotel room. This “police theory” is a despicable lie, and we now must wonder why they are so desperate to cover up the truth about the killing of a stand-up comedian?

By the way, just a few weeks before his killing, Saget said this during an interview:

🤍Thought💭Criminal🤍 @BipolarMe81

Bob Saget knew how he was going to be “found dead…” WIERD AF👺

“I don’t have long to live…I’m going to be found dead in bed.”

Probably just a coincidence - a comedian making a joke. But what a weird, off-topic joke it was.

Plus, I don’t really believe in coincidences, especially when they’re connected to such a blatant cover-up of an obvious murder. Again, no idea why the cover-up exists, but an obvious cover-up it certainly is. What a mystery.

That is all.