We're More Thoughtful Than the Biased Democrats on Television!
"Republicans Set on Hurting Their Own Constituents With Draconian Budget Cuts" is an actual Forbes headline. (The magazine went downhill after Steve Forbes stopped running things.)
What were the "draconian" cuts? Instead of increasing spending by 7.8% last spring, politicians "cut" the increase to 3.9%. How is that a "draconian" cut? Sometimes the media label anyone who doesn't agree with them "right-wing." Or "Donald Trump like."
Stephen Colbert calls Milei the "Donald Trump of Argentina." Yes, Milei has big hair, and he's good on TV. He's not a traditional politician. But that doesn't make him a "Donald Trump of Argentina."
Milei is for free trade. He opposes protectionist interventions like tariffs. Unlike Trump, he's an economist who's smart about economics.
He's serious about shrinking the state. Trump, by contrast, grew our national debt by $7.8 trillion.
I've worked as a reporter for 50 years -- for NBC, then CBS, then ABC, then FOX. But now I've come to hate most of the media. They scare people to death about minor threats, and spin left while pretending to be neutral. They routinely smear libertarians.
The Guardian headlines, "Libertarian ideology is the natural enemy of science." But there is some good news. More people now ignore leftist media. CNN's prime-time viewership recently fell behind the History Channel's, and even behind an obscure channel that just plays old Western movies.
Today, more people get their news from independent journalists who publish in places like Substack and YouTube. Like Stossel TV.
That's a good trend, because we're more thoughtful than the biased people on TV.
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