{"id":106660,"date":"2016-09-14T09:40:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T17:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=106660"},"modified":"2016-09-14T09:40:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T17:40:12","slug":"the-medias-war-on-noticing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=106660","title":{"rendered":"The Media’s War On Noticing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: It has been a fun week for everybody (except Hillary Clinton) since my last column<\/a> began by asking:<\/p>\n

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If Donald Trump were as bad as she says, shouldn\u2019t Hillary drop out so a better candidate could beat him?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

After noting her two coughing breakdowns on Labor Day, I inquired: <\/p>\n

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If Hillary announced she were withdrawing due to her health, who would replace her?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Since then, of course, Hillary decided to let us know what she thinks of roughly a quarter of American citizens: <\/p>\n

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The \u201cbasket of deplorables\u201d\u2026racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it\u2026offensive, hateful, mean-spirited\u2026irredeemable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Then on Sunday, Mrs. Clinton physically collapsed.<\/p>\n

How did I know this would happen?<\/p>\n

Well, I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

It was, however, obvious from just looking at her that Hillary\u2019s health for quite some time has been deteriorating faster than the normal aging process. I don\u2019t know what her malady or maladies might be, but whatever they are, they certainly seem serious enough that I feel sorry for her. <\/p>\n

By the way, that\u2019s a major reason so few of her supporters will attend her rallies. Hillary can\u2019t round up a healthy crowd to listen to her orate because advancing decrepitude is depressing, and people don\u2019t want to be around it. (That\u2019s one reason you want to have family rather than just friends. No matter how popular you were in your prime, nobody will want to be around you while you are dying; but one or two of your blood relatives might at least show up.)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether Putin is murdering Hillary with ricin administered via a sharpened umbrella tip or with polonium in her tea, Dr. Omalu did not specify.\u201d<\/div>\n

It\u2019s worth keeping in mind, however, that if at the 9\/11 memorial there hadn\u2019t been a lone bystander with a videophone who alertly recorded Hillary\u2019s alarming breakdown, we would still be getting lectured by the respectable press about how concerns over the Democratic nominee\u2019s health are \u201cconspiracy theories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heck, even now we\u2019re being told that the long-mounting concern over Hillary\u2019s physical future is proof of how vulnerable the body politic is to outlandish conspiracy theories. In The New York Times<\/em><\/a> on Monday, for example, a Turkish academic harangued Americans on how their discussing Hillary\u2019s symptoms shows they are becoming as prone as her fellow Turks<\/a> to conspiracy theorizing.<\/p>\n

Okay, but the reason the Establishment media have been so vehemently denouncing all the conspiracy theories about Hillary being in declining health is because Hillary is<\/em> in declining health. The mainstream media didn\u2019t want you to notice that Hillary is falling apart and therefore abstain or vote for Trump.<\/p>\n

Indeed, there have been so many denunciations in the press of the public engaging in conspiracy theorizing about Hillary\u2019s health lately that you might imagine there is a conspiracy among professional journalists.<\/p>\n

Whether or not the punditry has been explicitly conspiring to cover up Hillary\u2019s physical troubles or merely implicitly coordinating amongst themselves could be an interesting question in media anthropology.<\/p>\n

My guess is that 2010-era JournoList<\/a>-style secrecy is hardly necessary anymore. Twitter shows in real time how the hivemind operates, with pundits trying out hot takes for their peers and being shamed if they get off message. Read on<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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