Tea at Trianon: Media vs the Russians

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Thursday, January 3, 2019

Media vs the Russians

From Life Site:

The Washington Post is lamenting the evil Russians again. Don't get me wrong. I'm no fan of a nation that has had one of the most brutal dictatorial regimes in human history. But sometimes evil is a lot closer than you think. The Washington Post is invoking a report from a foreign source, Oxford University and Graphika (whose name looks a little Russiany but is, in fact, NYC-based), claiming Russia's Internet Research Agency's use of social media from 2012-2018 was nefarious. Their "goal was to manipulate identity politics to tear America apart."

Wait. Isn't that what the Democrat Party and liberal journalists do every single day? You want to talk about bad actors meddling in U.S. elections, look no further than our inarguably leftist news media. They thrive on identity politics, hyper-partisan opinions masquerading as "news", and target every community (not just African-Americans like me) with #fakenews. Overall, look at how they report on abortion, illegal immigration, homosexuality, ~~global warming~~ ~~global cooling~~ climate change, and terrorism. Are they honest? Nope. Are they partisan? Absolutely. Propaganda is daily spread to the public by a #fakenews establishment that doesn't even try to be objective. (Read more.)