Is it time to stop listening to the talking heads?

One of the reasons I stopped listening to talking heads of either side is the last thing I need is to be told what to think.

Back in 2016, I remember all the talking heads telling us Trump was going to get flattened in the election against Hillary.

99% of the talking heads were wrong about that.

Months before the election, I had concluded Trump would win.

So, on election night, I'm sitting there, watching TV coverage as they were proven wrong and I asked myself: why do I listen to any of these people since I obviously knew more than any of them?

I don't care what The View thinks. I don't care what Sean Hannity thinks. I don't care what CNN says. I don't care what FOXNews says. I don't watch any of them.

And I certainly don't care what Tucker Carlson says.

Maybe.... just maybe... it's time to throw off the yoke of programming... being told what to think, when and how to think it, and what to do about it.

Stop being lazy. Do the heavy lifting.

Think for yourselves.

Try it sometimes. I know it can be hard. I know, particularly in this AI era that you don't know what to believe, that even your own eyes can betray you.

But being told what to think/believe by others who are only concerned about their own agenda has led to the most divided country since 1865.

It is time to stop the insanity. And for those who understandably claim some version of dislike for politics, let me leave you with this somewhat modified axiom:

"You may not be interested in politics.... But politics is most definitely interested in you."

OK, CNN, can you explain why this clown still has a job?

A few days ago, on another propaganda effort designed to keep people on the leftist plantation (King-Charles on your network) they were discussing a snippet of a comment made by Mr. Trump who had indicated that at least part of the black voter reaction to his legal issues included seeing blacks wearing t-shirts with his mug shot on them, Charles Barkley, a long retired former NBA jock who at one point, back in his "I'm not paid to be a role model," days, indicated he'd play for the Klan if the money was right:

“I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I’d work for the Klan.”

Said this:

“First of all, I’m just gonna say this: if I see a Black person walking around with a Trump mug shot, I’m gonna punch him in the face.”

When King responded the way you'd expect a normal cohost to respond: “Charles, you can’t say that because you don’t mean that.”

Barkley replied: “I mean that sincerely,”

“And then you will be arrested for assault and then what?” King asked.

“I’m gonna go bail myself out and go celebrate,” Barkley said.

For my part, I also would have asked: "and how much can you afford with the lawsuits that follow," since this guy's major motivation is clearly money.

But that's neither here nor there.

In 2024, Mr. "I'm not paid to be a role model" ripped the scab off the unpleasant reality of leftist hatred and bigotry in the current campaign.

Does anyone reading this remotely believe that if a WHITE talk show cohost on CNN said that they'd be employed on that network (or any other) today... or ever?

Of course not. And I get that it's OK in the minds of some for blacks to threaten each other much like they shoot each other these days and no one does anything about it.

But this is the kind of remark where Mr. Trump is blamed for the non-existent insurrection the left keeps lying about.

Leftists demand that Trump be imprisoned because in their hate-filled minds, they've already convicted him for something he has never even been charged for.

Barkley is, in fact, guilty of stirring up race-based hatred because Trump, of course, is white... and how dare any black anywhere support someone white who is to the right of Mao?

How can this guy still be on TV? How can anyone be threatening violence, who said, of his own volition, that he "meant it sincerely?"

Barkley, who is his own biggest fan by far, needs to be held accountable.

But he won't be.

And we all know why.

Meanwhile, a few very large black men, including Mike Tyson, have shown up on social media wearing the shirts in question suggesting that they "understand Charles Barkley is looking for" them.

Barkley, for his part, is now on the apology tour and even speaks to certain political realities: mainly, that democrats have done nothing for blacks and that the only time they care about them is every 4 years around election time.

He knows that. He clearly understands that. But he insists on continuing the insanity of devotion to a political party that has not gone beyond taking black voters completely for granted... while seemingly expecting a different outcome as a reward for black voter devotion to leftist racism.

This video from The Black Conservative channel on YouTube explains it:

Nah.... THERE'S no leftist bias in the media!

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Greg Gutfeld is something of a cynic.

Kinda like me, in that regard, except he's got a TV show, he's much more articulate and about 8 inches shorter.

That an allegedly serious (using the term advisedly) news channel would engage in this pompous nonsense speaks for itself. That the legs tingling over at CNN, who's in-kinds for the empty suit's campaign would account to millions of dollars if they had charged for them suddenly felt a sharp cramp; a "disturbance in the leftist force," as it were, is obvious.

Greg takes it from here. And DVR or check out Red Eye on FOX every week day at midnight, and at 9 p.m. most Saturdays and Sundays.

TUESDAY'S GREGALOGUE: WOLF'S CONFUSION, FRED'S MISERY

It amounted to breaking news for CNN`s Wolf Blitzer: Saturday Night Live doing a skit, in which they skewer Barack Obama. It was a concept so profoundly distasteful, that it left Wolf incredulous – worse than when he was humiliated on Jeopardy.

At any rate, this first ever comprehensive fact-check of an SNL skit might be the strangest piece of media analysis I've ever seen.

Check it out, check-it-outers.

(ROLL TAPE)

Now, wouldn`t you know, according to CNN`s analysis, the skit "missed the mark." This is a not a fair portrayal, they whine - which is not surprising, coming from a network blinded by the President`s pocket lint. But forgive me for being both flabbered and gasted, but have you ever seen a news network review a comedy sketch for fairness? Did CNN ever do this when SNL went after Bush, Palin, or any other Republican?

But look, I don`t expect that. Reviewing an SNL skit for accuracy is like reviewing McDonalds for their wine list. So what`s the explanation? My guess is this segment was manufactured immediately after being asked for by someone living in a big house with a huge ego and now, bruised feelings.

It reminds me of a pal receiving shabby service at a restaurant, then imploring friends to write withering reviews on the joint`s website (okay, that was me).

But the funniest part in all this? That CNN missed the big story, completely overlooking Fred Armison`s skit sabatoge[sic]. In the history of television, I don`t think you could find another actor more offended by his own job, which was playing Obama
negatively. You could find more sincerity from a hostage reading a ransom note complimenting his captors. Seriously, I half-expected him to blink in Morse code, pleading for help.

In the end, it makes me wonder if CNN's analysis of SNL was a skit in itself -a brilliant Onion evisceration designed to poke fun of a network so in the tank for Obama that a skit on the Messiah short circuits their powers of reason. But if CNN has truly decided this is a worthy exercise – why stop with skits? I saw a recent "Animals Gone Wild" video where it was clear a cocky matador was way too harsh on a bull.

And if you disagree with me, then you're probably a racist.

Just so.

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