{"id":143574,"date":"2022-05-31T18:16:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T02:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=143574"},"modified":"2022-05-31T18:16:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T02:16:38","slug":"the-media-are-the-lapdogs-of-the-experts-5-31-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=143574","title":{"rendered":"The Media Are The Lapdogs Of The Experts (5-31-22)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i_cSipbwGMQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>00:00 How did Salvador Ramos get the money to buy his guns?<br \/>\n01:40 Why did the police repeatedly lie to us?<br \/>\n12:00 Fact-check: Do &#8216;more people die from hands, fists, feet, than rifles&#8217;?, https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/news\/politics\/politifact\/2022\/05\/30\/fbi-data-deaths-hands-fists-feet-versus-rifles\/9960682002\/<br \/>\n16:30 WSJ: Political Narratives Are the Media\u2019s Default in Times of Tragedy, https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/political-narratives-are-the-medias-default-in-times-of-tragedy-mass-schooting-texas-media-virtue-11653941029?mod=opinion_featst_pos1<br \/>\n20:00 The \u201cFacts\u201d of El Salvador According to Objective and New Journalism, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=140236<br \/>\n23:00 The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=139043<br \/>\n27:20 Collision of Catastrophes, https:\/\/radixjournal.substack.com\/p\/collision-of-catastrophes?s=r#details<br \/>\n30:00 RS says nice guy nationalism is gay<br \/>\n31:00 Red Flag Laws Are As Good as the Data, https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/red-flag-laws-are-as-good-as-the-data-guns-weapons-ban-private-email-mass-shooting-texas-11653685209?mod=opinion_featst_pos3<br \/>\n33:00 Richard Spencer as Kurt Cobain, dysgenic trends<br \/>\n39:50 RS doesn&#8217;t care for low church whites<br \/>\n48:00 RS wants to crush the Amish<br \/>\n52:00 RS: Happy homelands nationalism is not possible nor desirable<br \/>\n54:00 Wheels coming off in White House<br \/>\n55:40 Christopher Caldwell: The War in Ukraine May Be Impossible to Stop. 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