vxbush 3/11/2022 6:11:29 AM

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How much slanted press does $1 billion dollars get you?

The Biden administration made direct payments to nearly all major corporate media outlets to deploy a $1 billion taxpayer-funded outreach campaigndesigned to push only positive coverage about COVID-19 vaccines and to censor any negative coverage.

Media outlets across the nation failed to disclose the federal government as the source of ads in news reports promoting the shots to their audiences.

According to a Freedom of Information Request filed by The Blaze, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) purchased advertising from major news outlets including ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, CNN and MSNBC.

HHS also ran media blitzes in major media publications including The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, BuzzFeed News, Newsmax and hundreds of local TV stations and newspapers across the nation.

buzzsawmonkey 3/11/2022 6:27:35 AM

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If I asked this before, I forget the answer:  why the hell is everyone, particularly the media and even more particularly NPR, dumping on the Sacklers for "having caused the opioid epidemic"? 

The Sackler-owned company manufactured and distributed an FDA-approved drug.  They did not prescribe it.  They did not sell it to street dealers and junkies.  They are not responsible for the opioids being cooked up domestically in illegal labs or being smuggled across the border.

Why are they being made the scapegoats for all this?  Surely the federal government---not only the FDA, but the DEA---deserves much of the opprobrium.  Surely the Sacklers are not responsible for the street-addict situation.  

One suspects they are being made the scapegoats to cover federal malfeasance.  One also suspects, albeit most unwillingly, that this may be another instance in the long historical cavalcade of governments finding Jewish scapegoats to distract an easily-stampeded populace.

vxbush 3/11/2022 6:29:07 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

FYI: I tried to properly quote the portion I took out of the article, but for some reason the iPad wasn't letting me do it. Phooey. 

lucius septimius 3/11/2022 6:31:19 AM

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In #2 buzzsawmonkey said: One also suspects, albeit most unwillingly, that this may be another instance in the long historical cavalcade of governments finding Jewish scapegoats to distract an easily-stampeded populace.

As BabbaZee always says, the crazies always meet up at JewHate Junction.

lucius septimius 3/11/2022 6:31:49 AM

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In #3 vxbush said: for some reason the iPad wasn't letting me do it.

It's a plot!  A scheme!  A conspiracy!!!!!

vxbush 3/11/2022 6:34:42 AM

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In #2 buzzsawmonkey said: One suspects they are being made the scapegoats to cover federal malfeasance. 

That seems reasonable. My other thought is that anyone who holds conservative views of any kind must be demonized by the government and media. See the Koch brothers, who weren't even that conservative but were often the targets of many campaigns against them. 

Kosh's Shadow 3/11/2022 6:35:48 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 2:

There is some evidence that the company paid for "research" showing that oxycontin was not addictive, even though it was, and they gave doctors free meals and other stuff to push their product, and overprescribe. It was actually safe when used for only a few days, but was prescribed longer.

However, I have from indirect information that junkies don't find oxycontin to be the problem, but fentanyl and other street drugs, which now largely come from China.

Personally, I think they went after the company because they could get money from it. 

There has been a push for a while now to deny strong painkillers to those who need them, and sometimes I wonder if this is to push people onto street drugs so the government can claim an epidemic, and get more power. 

Kosh's Shadow 3/11/2022 6:37:37 AM

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In #6 vxbush said: See the Koch brothers, who weren't even that conservative but were often the targets of many campaigns against them. 

Yes, but Soros gets away with spending more lobbying money, and the leftists scream antisemitism when he is criticized - even though he does not identify as a Jew, and supports antisemitic causes.

vxbush 3/11/2022 6:51:05 AM

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In #8 Kosh's Shadow said: Yes, but Soros gets away with spending more lobbying money, and the leftists scream antisemitism when he is criticized - even though he does not identify as a Jew, and supports antisemitic causes.

Just asking for clarification: Are you disagreeing with me, or citing Soros as another example? 

Occasional Reader 3/11/2022 7:10:18 AM

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In #7 Kosh's Shadow said: and they gave doctors free meals and other stuff to push their product,

... which, if I'm not mistaken, is what pharma companies do with pretty much all their products.  Which is to be expected.

Occasional Reader 3/11/2022 7:16:04 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 3/11/2022 7:18:07 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 10:

Yes.

Kosh's Shadow 3/11/2022 7:25:22 AM

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In #9 vxbush said: Just asking for clarification: Are you disagreeing with me, or citing Soros as another example? 

I am citing Soros to show how conservatives are treated differently from leftists, so yes, I am agreeing with you..

Occasional Reader 3/11/2022 7:36:36 AM

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Nancy Pelosi threatens to deploy Billie Jean King in Ukraine crisis.

JCM 3/11/2022 7:50:02 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 14:

She trying to get Putin to nuke us?

Occasional Reader 3/11/2022 8:07:18 AM

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Reply to JCM in 15:

look, the dutch have a tradition of strategically using dikes to repel invaders; why shouldn't Ukraine be able to do the same?

buzzsawmonkey 3/11/2022 8:28:52 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 3/11/2022 8:34:12 AM

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Ukraine Museums Desperately Working To Preserve Priceless Hunter Biden Paintings

"We were lucky to get our hands on Hooked By Hookers, it's quite a popular piece," said curator Viktor Dankevych as he took the piece down for safe storage in a bomb shelter. "But more importantly, we know it means that President Biden will take care of Ukraine in our time of need. I hear the planes overhead, the air raid sirens, I do not panic. I know the United States will come to help."

Kosh's Shadow 3/11/2022 9:16:07 AM

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WCRB (Boston Classical station) is playing a symphonic version of Rhapsody in Blue, by the Baltimore Symphony.

I have to admit the music stands up to the treatment, but it isn't as good as jazzier versions

vxbush 3/11/2022 9:34:17 AM

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In #14 Occasional Reader said: Nancy Pelosi threatens to deploy Billie Jean King in Ukraine crisis.

I could swear that was a Babylon Bee article until I read it. 

Kosh's Shadow 3/11/2022 9:56:13 AM

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In #20 vxbush said: I could swear that was a Babylon Bee article until I read it. 

There have been some Bee articles more believable than the real news.

Kosh's Shadow 3/11/2022 10:56:07 AM

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Iran Nuclear Talks Near Collapse as Russia Demands Protection From Sanctions

    The Iran nuclear talks are on the precipice of collapse over last-minute Russian demands for sanctions protection, according to two diplomats.

    Negotiations have reached an impasse over the Russian requests, diplomats said, imperiling the revival of a 2015 landmark deal under which Iran limited its nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief.

    Russia is requesting that any return to the agreement include guarantees that any future Russian business with Iran be exempt from EU and U.S. sanctions — a late curveball from Moscow in response to the crippling penalties the country is facing over its invasion of Ukraine.

Talks with the modern-day spiritual descendants of Haman on building their gallows for the Jewish people are reaching some form of conclusion very close to Purim.

JCM 3/11/2022 11:05:05 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 22:

Let's see Biden asks Russia and China to broker talks with Iran .....

What could go wrong?

Kosh's Shadow 3/11/2022 11:16:07 AM

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In #23 JCM said: Let's see Biden asks Russia and China to broker talks with Iran ..... What could go wrong?

I can see Russia and China helping Iran to eliminate the Great Saran first, except they're just letting Biden do it.

Occasional Reader 3/11/2022 12:18:22 PM

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In #24 Kosh's Shadow said: the Great Saran

I'm Glad we can Wrap up the serious talk, and get to a pun thread... 

JCM 3/11/2022 12:19:30 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 25:

Clearly you are stretching the point.

Occasional Reader 3/11/2022 12:29:31 PM

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Reply to JCM in 26:

Just Zip it, and Loc that stuff up!

Kosh's Shadow 3/11/2022 2:42:19 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 27:

I guess that's a wrap for the pun thread

Alice in Dairyland 3/11/2022 3:37:16 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 28:

Curses, foiled again!

lucius septimius 3/11/2022 3:52:06 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 3/11/2022 4:26:18 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 30:

So what were you going to make and what did you make?

@PBJ3 3/11/2022 10:52:09 PM

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