That Time BuzzFeed Stood as the Voice of Reason
[guest post by JVW]
As a follow-up to Patterico’s earlier post, imagine a world in which BuzzFeed provides much-needed perspective on Big Lazy Media’s latest swoon:
Before you decide your favourite new shade queen is a powerful North Korean official, let's talk about why you should probably not stan Kim Yo Jonghttps://t.co/ujv6C7VqAE
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) February 11, 2018
narciso pointed this out in the comments to Patterico’s post, but I wanted to surface it so that we can all collectively marvel that this is happening. Here’s the link to the BuzzFeed article; I wonder if I will ever have occasion to direct us all to that site again.
– JVW
From the Urban Dictionary:
Stan – Based on the central character in the Eminem song of the same name, a “stan” is an overzealous maniacal fan for any celebrity or athlete.
I think in my day we would have accused the media of bobbysoxing Kim Yo Jong.
JVW (42615e) — 2/11/2018 @ 10:00 pmThanks they do involuntarily commit random acts of journalism, among their clickbait and car videos
narciso (d1f714) — 2/11/2018 @ 10:03 pmNote the extraneous “u” in “favorite.” I wonder if these authors were Canadian, Australian, British, or some other non-American types. Their author bios have them both based out of New York City, so maybe they are just Anglophiles who like the Brit spelling.
No, I see that the authors spell “labor” the ‘Merican way later in their post, so my guess is that it’s the BuzzFeed Twitter person who is either a limey or a pretentious Yank.
JVW (42615e) — 2/11/2018 @ 10:06 pmI’m young enough to remember how they sucked up to Gorbachev. Phil Donohue even took his show to Moscow.
nk (dbc370) — 2/11/2018 @ 10:12 pmshe’s literally the deputy director of the “Propaganda and Agitation Department” for one of the world’s most repressive regimes
so she’s sort of the nork equivalent of amazon turdlord jeff bezos then
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/11/2018 @ 10:23 pm– reuters
the gaylympics are perverted and sick anymore
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/11/2018 @ 11:05 pmI’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Regardless of how things progress with the Trump Administration, he will be gone less than seven years from now. What kind of media will be left to keep whoever follows him honest? This pathetic clownshow that the MSM has become wouldn’t be up to keeping a county clerk in line–never mind an actual nationally prominent politician with historically typical wiles and focus.
M Scott Eiland (b16b32) — 2/12/2018 @ 1:11 amShe doesn’t captivate. She literally holds people in captivity.
Pinandpuller (ec52bf) — 2/12/2018 @ 1:31 amThey come from the land of the ice and snow
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/12/2018 @ 3:38 amWhere teh peeps eat bark and teh fuse won’t blow
The Emigrant Song
They come from the land of the ice and snow
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/12/2018 @ 3:56 amWhere teh peeps eat bark and teh fuse won’t blow
The hammer of the state
They’ll starve their peeps to death
Oppress their own, bring misery
Dysentery, it’s coming!
On they sweep, they’ll eat the trees
Their only goal will be the DMZ
Will Brennan finally get his comeuppance?
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/02/11/former_cia_director_john_brennan_investigated_for_perjury.html
Colonel Haiku (1d71cc) — 2/12/2018 @ 5:43 amIf you want to see how a Brennan type operated read Mark greatest back blast
narciso (d1f714) — 2/12/2018 @ 6:40 amGreaney, meanwhile back ar the ranch haskell and mcturtle fully funded molochs minions.
narciso (d1f714) — 2/12/2018 @ 6:41 am
Rev.Hoagie (6bbda7) — 2/12/2018 @ 6:45 amAnd that natural born American commie should have kept it there.
she’s literally the deputy director of the “Propaganda and Agitation Department”
http://www.lifenews.com/2018/02/09/new-trump-official-at-hhs-helped-expose-planned-parenthoods-sale-of-aborted-baby-parts/
narciso (d1f714) — 2/12/2018 @ 6:46 amI had not known that stan was a word either: to be an overzealous or obsessive fan of a particular celebrity.
Does she know that her brother committed fratricide?
AZ Bob (f60c80) — 2/12/2018 @ 6:47 am
Rev.Hoagie (6bbda7) — 2/12/2018 @ 6:54 amMy Magic 8-Ball says she not only knows, but helped in her position as deputy director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department.
Yes. I also enriched my urban dictionary. Not only with “stan”, but also with “shade” and “shade queen” which, according to teh internets, are used primarily by gay men.
nk (dbc370) — 2/12/2018 @ 6:58 amNot that I’m throwing shade at anyone.
nk (dbc370) — 2/12/2018 @ 7:00 amThis all ties together, John Kerry did the Sandinista bidding like Harkin and Hart, the later was the white version of Obama, he hired winer who used the unvettes testimony of criminals in his committee inquests, not surprising winer and shearer would be doing much the same 30 years later.
narciso (d1f714) — 2/12/2018 @ 7:02 amRip vic damone
narciso (d1f714) — 2/12/2018 @ 7:37 amShade Queen: noun – That dude sitting next to Tara Lipenski talking over the music at the figure skating events. [image]
papertiger (c8116c) — 2/12/2018 @ 7:42 amWhat narciso said.
Bang Gunley (5a4596) — 2/12/2018 @ 7:43 amThanks which part though.
narciso (d1f714) — 2/12/2018 @ 7:50 amWhat’s with Tara Lipinski and broadcasting with the sparkly outfit? Are her and that Weir-do guy going bust out a spontaneous routine? NOW I realize the Hope Hicks attraction, she harkens back to the latter 80s of Katarina With, Princess Stephanie, and the Robert Palmer girls.
urbanleftbehind (9adb35) — 2/12/2018 @ 8:03 amThe real leader
Rev.Hoagie (6bbda7) — 2/12/2018 @ 8:05 amhttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_Lp86aMpudI/WoGkoZqcHSI/AAAAAAABr1U/CviqHp2aDkI2Af3rtDaz8BNz2K-rJ8figCHMYCw/kim%2Bjung%2Bun%2Bnuke_thumb%255B1%255D?imgmax=800
I think this part. {Putting the Jonathan Winer/Cody Shearer to video.} https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=24&v=Hbrjwlso8Ng
For my part.
papertiger (c8116c) — 2/12/2018 @ 8:06 amImagine the density it would take to ask.
“Hey why are you wearing fuzzy chaps with no trowsers, Liberace?”
papertiger (c8116c) — 2/12/2018 @ 8:22 amI can see why Democrats and their media cohorts are fawning all over her. She has power that they want so badly.
MacGruber (093fb9) — 2/12/2018 @ 8:30 amhttps://giphy.com/explore/you-can-act-like-a-man
Colonel Haiku (1d71cc) — 2/12/2018 @ 8:31 am25… that hair-don’t is marvy. Appeared to be all the other guy could do to not bust out laughing.
Colonel Haiku (1d71cc) — 2/12/2018 @ 8:34 amThe more US and international media attention is lavished on Kim Jong Un’s little sister, the more likely her big brother will feel slighted by comparison and decide his candle would burn brighter if her’s was extinguished.
ropelight (f4ce4a) — 2/12/2018 @ 8:44 amI suppose the Olympic committee needed a eunoch to squire princess Tara around Korea, given the Nassar situation.
We know you say you are married Lipinski, but we don’t trust you.
papertiger (c8116c) — 2/12/2018 @ 9:02 amThis strange feeling of dejavu:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/joeconason/the-second-dossier-is-another-debunk?utm_term=.ekZYkOKQQ2#.pd6w6nvKKP
narciso (d1f714) — 2/12/2018 @ 9:58 am(Steve Stone voice as he is explaining to Harry Caray) she (Lipinski) is what might be called a spinner which is very different from a spinster. (Harry C. with a big grin and guffaw) well she definitely aint related to that congressman Dan Lipinski, but thats the other side of town…(Stone)…your former employer…
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 2/12/2018 @ 9:58 amhttps://mobile.twitter.com/joshgreenman/status/963116092033060866/photo/1
Pretty much says it all.
harkin (75fedf) — 2/12/2018 @ 11:49 amThe best (worst) part is the Buzzfeed comments. Because the USA has the Electoral College and operates Guantanamo, we are exactly the same as N Korea.
The Left has completely gutted the ability to think for millions of Americans.
harkin (75fedf) — 2/12/2018 @ 12:00 pm“Head held high, Kim’s sister returns to North Korea.”
—-Reuters News
Colonel Haiku (1d71cc) — 2/12/2018 @ 12:36 pm