It was a rite of spring — and maybe it still is — that often some April Fool in the media would celebrate today’s occasion by giving a radio or television report, or writing a newspaper story that was untrue, outrageous and sometimes downright scary, then at the very end attempt to negate the impact by proclaiming it all an April Fools’ exercise.
Frequently these Fools found themselves on the unemployment line as a result of bosses and/or a public that didn’t appreciate their lame attempt at humor.
These days the news is full of reports that should be no more than misguided April Fools’ pranks but, unfortunately, are all too true.
Begin with Hunter Biden’s laptop, the device full of revelations and porn. The New York Post broke the story way back when and found itself put in social media jail. Other media outlets were quick to try to knock down the story and a group of 50 or so supposedly intelligence agency alumni branded it all as Russian disinformation.
Fast forward to today, safely post-election in terms of installing Clueless Joe Biden as president, and all of a sudden media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN are reporting that, alas, the Hunter Biden laptop story was and is legitimate.
The cynic in me sees two reasons for this conversion. First, you can only deny truth for so long before even your sycophantic followers begin to have doubts about your sanity.
Second, the idea now is to isolate Joe Biden, AKA The Big Guy, from any blowback, either legal or ethical. Sure, maybe Hunter was dirty, but Joe was clean as a whistle.
It’s the media equivalent of an army retreating and then attempting to reform its line after strategically ceding territory.
Sadly, for the bulk of our brain-dead electorate, it probably will work.
More reality that reads like an April Fools’ Day prank are the plans to combat energy problems.
Prices are high and it’s all been blamed on the Russians. But oil and gas prices were rising before any Russian invasion, that inflation having been stoked by Biden’s anti-fossil fuels agenda.
Now the Biden gang, fearing a mid-term thrashing in this fall’s elections, are looking at ways to buy votes.
How about another of those government handout checks for all, this time to help offset the high gasoline and heating oil prices Biden has brought to us?
Biden also proposes letting the tap open on our strategic petroleum reserve, allowing a trickle of oil onto the market. It’s the equivalent of trying to put out a forest fire with a garden hose.
But Biden and Company are hoping you give them points for trying.
While the Biden regime is at it, it’s about to start issuing passports of X gender, as in no need to limit oneself to male or female status. So much for the usefulness of a passport for ID purposes.
White House mouthpiece DisinJENous Psaki, our distaff version of Iraq’s Baghdad Bob (or maybe she’s an X gender?), reportedly is in talks to take a lot of coin from MSNBC in order for that left-wing cable outlet to secure her propaganda services.
Before we leave, Tony Fauci is back scare-mongering about potential additional COVID-19 outbreaks and more prerequisite draconian measures to be visited on the public to combat them.
One enterprising sort looked up a Fauci interview with C-Span, back before the topic of natural immunity was stricken from the SCIENCE of infectious diseases.
Said Fauci back then: “The most potent vaccine is getting infected yourself.”
No Foolin’!
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