My contrarian views aren’t for everyone. Indeed, they anger lots of people, and I’ve received considerable encouragement, particularly from family members, to stop writing this blog. Often, I’m close to heeding the counsel, but somehow when that happens, out of the blue I get an encouraging note from a reader saying they appreciate my insights and thank me for sharing them.
That keeps me going.
What I never want to be accused of is spreading false information, particularly if it could cause physical or health harms to someone. Accordingly, I go to great lengths to provide links to the information I’m citing or basing my opinions on, so readers can make their own determinations on the merits of my arguments. Whenever possible, I cite corporate media publications; although I don’t consider the New York Times, Washington Post, or the Atlantic credible and honest sources of information, many people naively still do.
At the height of the pandemic, LinkedIn censored a few of my commentaries relating to the Covid vaccines and the Biden’s FDA approval process. I say the Biden FDA because then Covid czar Jeffrey Zients applied pressure on the agency’s world renowned vaccine experts, Marion Gruber and Phil Krause, to approve Covid vaccine boosters, which the FDA’s own advisory panel overwhelmingly opposed. It’s public record and you can read about it here.
Gruber and Krause admirably resigned rather than be bullied by the Biden White House. I consider them among the unsung heroes of the pandemic. Zients moved on to become President Biden’s influential chief of staff and is well liked by the media. Zients is better known to the public as “anonymous White House source.”
This morning, I saw a post on LinkedIn by Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, another unsung hero during the pandemic (see here, here, and here). Here’s an image of the post with Bowden’s value-added insight.
Readers of this blog know I don’t do well with hypocrisy, which is how I regarded the Harris’s campaign vaccine requirement. I also go out of my way to support Bowden because I admire and I’m inspired by her bravery to challenge the U.S. government and medical establishment at great personal cost.
I reposted Bowden’s commentary with some added insights.
Bowden has a sizeable following of intelligent persons who share my admiration for her bravery, and my post was garnering views at a considerably faster rate than typical for me. Within about 30 minutes, LinkedIn censored and removed my repost from public view.
Kamala Harris, her surrogates, and her corporate media sycophants are promoting the narrative that Harris is the guardian of America’s democracy, while Donald Trump will transform the country into a fascist state. In a true democracy, citizens should be allowed to easily follow the money flowing into the campaign coffers of presidential candidates. Given that Pfizer raked in billions in profits from the Biden/Harris administration’s expedited approval of its vaccine, it’s noteworthy those with ties to the company only support Kamala Harris for president.
It’s also noteworthy that Harris demands that her campaign workers be vaccinated, yet she allowed millions of migrants into the country without making certain they were properly vaccinated. Ohio’s Gov. Mike DeWine issued a news release saying the 20,000 migrants from Haiti living in Springfield had little to no healthcare services prior to arriving in the United States, including vaccinations.
I’m not certain DeWine was referring to just the Covid vaccine, and even if he was, why is Harris demanding her campaign workers be vaccinated but not millions of migrants before entering the country?
Dr. Bowden astutely noted Harris’s cornerstone campaign position is a woman’s absolute right to abortions – “my body, my choice.” But that right doesn’t extend to vaccines with potential side effects.
The New York Times, in its typical Orwellian fashion, in May of this year published this article containing this alarming information buried in the story:
In a recent interview, Dr. Janet Woodcock, a longtime leader of the Food and Drug Administration, who retired in February, said she believed that some recipients had experienced uncommon but “serious” and “life-changing” reactions beyond those described by federal agencies.
“I feel bad for those people,” said Dr. Woodcock, who became the F.D.A.’s acting commissioner in January 2021 as the vaccines were rolling out. “I believe their suffering should be acknowledged, that they have real problems, and they should be taken seriously.”
“I’m disappointed in myself,” she added. “I did a lot of things I feel very good about, but this is one of the few things I feel I just didn’t bring it home.”
Federal officials and independent scientists face a number of challenges in identifying potential vaccine side effects.
I said Orwellian because it was an example of the Times producing new narratives contradicting its previous reporting, a practice Orwell termed “down the memory hole.” In December 2022, New York Times “misinformation” reporter Tiffany Hsu reported this story about “false and misleading claims” relating to the Covid vaccine, suggesting concerns about its safety were “conspiracy theories.”
I posted this commentary explaining the dubious and biased sources Hsu relied on to validate her conspiracy theory allegations. Hsu notably co-authored this New York Times story debunking videos suggesting Biden’s diminished mental acuity. Just a few weeks later, Biden reportedly agreed to drop out of the 2024 presidential race after Democrat party leaders threatened to invoke the 25th Amendment because of his diminished mental acuity.
Never mind that Bezos has sustained about $180 million in losses these past two years allowing the Post to publish its biased coverage with abandon and provide a lucrative home to about a half dozen former Al Jazeera journalist operatives to help manage the publication’s decidedly anti-Israel coverage.
Despite its own biased and often mistaken coverage, the Times has been waging a campaign to censor those whose content it doesn’t like or deems harmful. One of its targets is The Gateway Pundit, which the corporate media routinely describes as an alt right conspiracy site and whose election reporting the Times deems dishonest and damaging.
I wouldn’t trust the Gateway Pundit’s reporting any more than I would that of the New York Times, but I find it a useful aggregator of corporate media and podcast coverage. It’s where I found this story about Nate Silver, one of the most quoted pollsters who previously worked at the Times, accusing polling companies of “putting finger on the scale” to make the election seem closer than it is.
You can listen to the podcast and hear Silver’s comments for yourself, but the X/tweet below posted by the Daily Caller gives a tidy summation. The Daily Caller is another New York Times target.
Silver’s departure from the Times wasn’t amicable. Former Times public editor Margaret Sullivan noted in 2013 how Silver didn’t “really fit into the Times culture” and Silver has accused the paper’s political reporters of being “incredibly hostile and incredibly unhelpful.”
LinkedIn was co-founded founded by billionaire Reid Hoffman, who has donated $7 million to the leading pro-Biden and Harris super PAC. Other Silicon Valley billionaires have bankrolled Harris’s campaign and have made it clear what they expect in return: The firing of FTC chief Lina Khan, who thinks Big Tech has become too powerful and she advocates breaking it up.
Although I’m no fan of Lina Khan, I applaud her efforts to break up Big Tech. Hoffman is on the board of Microsoft, which he joined after selling LinkedIn to the company for more than $26 billion. Microsoft is another company I’m frequently critical of. Hoffman is no longer involved with LinkedIn, but no doubt he’s delighted having critics of his candidate and business enterprises silenced by the company he co-founded.
Kamala Harris proclaims that she’s the true guardian of democracy and the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees free speech. Yet it was under the Biden/Harris administration the U.S. government colluded with the corporate media and Big Tech to censor Americans, including vaccine and pandemic experts far more knowledgeable and better credentialed than me.
For what it’s worth, the New York Times two years ago published this commentary arguing the Constitution was “broken and shouldn’t be reclaimed.”
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