Media woke hypocrisy, arrogance and ignorance

May 1, 2021. I admit it. Listening to old Dateline podcast episodes is one way to fill 43 minutes of a walk around the neighborhood. Although the episodes tend to follow a simple, repetitive pattern, there is always enough newness to each podcast to keep you guessing -- at least a little -- to the end.

At the same time, Dateline is a guilty please of white privilege. Ive seen enough episodes on television to note that most of the victims are white, often rich, and the murderers also tend to be white and rich. Just as the Wall Street Journal Friday real estate section is what our family calls 'real estate porn,' the Dateline episodes seems glamorize the subject of murder and -- at times -- the murderer as well.

This is a theme with today's 'woke' media. They virtue signal, with diverse sitcoms casts, e.g., isn't the new sitcom, Home Economics, almost a copy of 'Modern Family'? They seem to now run adds that feature almost every household or family unit other than a 'traditional' one, i.e., heterosexual, one working parent, stay at home mom, two or more well-behaved kids. After a few very woke episodes of "The Unicorn," (another concept steeped in white privilege), I could stomach it no longer. Shows like "Summer House" and "Southern Charm" ooze with woke, white, privileged Millennials, living like the one percent and doing lip service to the rest.

In class, I used to age that the real complaints about the infamous 1% (i.e., those in the top one percent of incomes in the United States), tend to come mostly from the top 5% who don't also qualify for the top one percent. It is envy and jealously of the worst kind, with multimillionaires lamenting the presence of billionaires, all the time living extravagant lifestyles, while also claiming they are 'green' as they jet around the world. Like the Bravo show, 'Below Deck,' where once of the most inefficient, grossly luxurious and profligate forms of transportation takes center stage for a bunch of superficially woke people, broadcast by a network that revels in its wokeness, while never recognizing its readily apparent disingenuous hypocritical, oxymoronic stances.

The media stars are just as bad. Media doyen and University of Pennsylvania English Literature major Andrea Mitchell, was too ignorant and arrogant to even detect Shakespeare when she reads it, and too quick to reveal her ignorance by incorrectly trying to 'correct' Ted Cruz. Her apology -- that she did not read enough English literature as an English literature major -- was a real doubling down on both stupid and arrogance.

Or take muscle boy and political hack Chris Cuomo, asking "Where does it say that protests are supposed to be peaceful?" only to have it pointed out that it says quite clearly -- in the United States Constitution.

Or Nancy Pelosi, trying to cite St Augustine as a defense of her pro-abortion stance. Or John Kerry, Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio spewing even more carbon emissions than they spew in word criticizing others for the same behavior. Or California governor Gavin Newsom, demanding no public gatherings, having a very expensive meal with a lobbyist who lobbies for -- and wins -- waivers to Newsom's edicts. So small business owners go bankrupt, while large, corporate interests get waivers.

This week, New York state authorized payments in excess of $15,000 to go to undocumented workers who lost wages during the pandemic lockdowns. How can an undocumented worker document his or her losses, or employment?

I saw a video today, of a Trump lawyer taking a whole disingenuous talking head to task for her leading and misleading questions about the lies from the house managers of the Trump impeachment hearing before the Senate. These are the same 'journalists' who turn a blind eye to the politicians violating their own lockdown strictures, who ignore Hunter Biden's mountain of corruption that has severely tainted the president, his father, or who pass on criticizing the blackface antics of the Virginia governor, or who ignore the Canadian court findings against Michael Mann, who will not share his admittedly fudged data used to create his hockey stick.

The less I pay attention to these fools, the happier I am. Nonetheless, they find a way into ruining my day often enough.