Good grief this man is an imbecile and a joke. At first I thought all those tweets and mentions of Brian Stelter complaining about the lack of Fox News vaccine selfies was just a spoof. Eventually I had to go look. Alas…
The 35-year-old CNN pundit actually did an entire segment on his television program complaining about Fox News hosts not posting selfies while they were getting COVID-19 vaccinations. This new generation of media pundits are psychologically troubled, and their emotional growth has been apparently stunted by their ideology.
https://youtu.be/j98ETGApHpU
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I am developing a theory on the mass disappearance of intellectual matriculation amid an entire generation of people.
My hypothesis starts by tracking the ages of people in 2007 when the psychological narrative engineers created the Potemkin village (complete with Greek columns) of Barack Obama… “planet healing”, “tides begin to fall” etc. etc.
In 2007 Brian Stelter was 21 years old. My theory gains another affirmative data-point.
I am developing a theory on the mass disappearance of intellectual matriculation amid an entire generation of people-SD
I must respectfully disagree. I’m more inclined to believe it’s demonic possession for the crew at CNN.
You’re both pretty darn funny.
May the funniest theory win.
I substitute taught during that time…and you are correct in your observation..to have 8th graders…8th graders….not know that in multiplication that two negatives make a positive…and to have 7th and 8th graders unable to write a complete sentence, let alone comprehend a paragraph of writing, is not only disgraceful and abhorrent on the teaching side…it is saddening beyond words on the child’s side….
My limited experience during that time left me bitter toward lazy teachers, ignorant principals and politicized administrators…
Just had this same discussion with my 30 yr old daughter and fiance…as they plan for children…..
Bottom line…get the grifter, his marxist vp and OzObama out of office asap…as well as the pos congressional leaders…both r and d who tacitly or outwardly support this ‘administrations’s’ agenda
I stopped teaching at the University level during that time period. The students, IN COLLEGE MIND YOU, couldn’t write, couldn’t speak without using slang, were disrespectful, and the Administration was all about the money. Teachers made close to nothing, you had to pass students NO MATTER WHAT, etc etc etc. Yes, there were a few faithful students who desperately wanted to learn and get that degree, but the majority were there on student loans and expected A’s and B’s no matter how bad their efforts were. It was too much stress and a lot of disappointment. I decided to focus my energies elsewhere. Formal education has become a huge disappointment. I encourage my grandchildren to read books and skip college. If you can read, you can learn anything. Get on the job training, go to a trade school, be fiscally responsible, and work hard.
Bravo. You hit the nail on the head.
Last week, I was so disappointed to here about a problem with Grove City College. Administration is allowing a young lady to persist and reside on campus although she almost never attends lectures and is failing all of her courses. Rumor has it that administration has not expelled her because her parents are paying the full nickel. Apparently the ill effects of her influence on her fellow students must not be a matter of concern to the “leadership” who are supposed to set and uphold standards of behavior and scholarship.
It’s Grove City College. For those of us who live in the area, nothing Grove City does is a surprise.
To quote a well-respected, particularly erudite member of Congress – It’s all about the Benjamins.
I call BS on you as well as Sherri Young. I know the school very well as my daughter graduated from there. My wife and I both graduated from Slippery Rock University which is a stone’s throw down the road from there. And as to your absurd “Benjamins,” Grove City College is one of the most affordable private colleges anyone can find. It’s also rated as being “very selective” in regards to gaining admittance. I suspect sour grapes from the both of you – maybe you applied and were rejected. Maybe it’s because you don’t like their strong Christian orientation. Good grief!
There is no call for personal attacks because you do not agree with the post.
We are not communists here.
I don’t believe your claim for one minute. Both my daughter and son-in-law went to Grove City. It was an excellent and very rigorous college. And everyone pays their own way there as no federal student loans are accepted. So, you were disappointed to hear about a problem – where did you hear this? And “Rumor has it.” It sounds to me like all you have are rumors, and I don’t believe them in the least. You must have some kind of ax to grind to be smearing this very fine school. Grove City and Hillsdale are among the very few schools where the students will receive an excellent and very demanding education instead of left-wing indoctrination.
Advice I gave our three and all took it, all doing quite well now in mid-life, and I do not mean financially only.
I have been saying for about a decade and a half now that the education system will implode, they this is not sustainable. And we are really seeing that happen now w the Covid lockdowns.
For the first time people have seen how little their kids are taught during the day and how little is expected of them. Then you’ve got the lazy teachers here refusing to go back to work. The implosion is upon us.
Kathryn, as you report from your own experience, America’s government schools no longer educate their students to be productive members of society, but to be obedient comrades of the great state.
Chanting BLM, believing the religion of Climate Change and we are all going to die from it within 9 years and counting, that Voter ID is Racist, etc. etc. etc.
In this light, getting Demented Joe, HeelsUp, and all the rest of the corrupt Democrats out of office is a step, but it is not the most important step.
American Patriots must destroy the stranglehold of the Public Teacher Unions and the Democrats on America’s Public Schools (or else bypass the Public Schools by universal School Choice Voucher Programs).
We also need to attack and bring down other infiltrated and corrupted institutions, such as the Mainstream Media, Universities, Hollywood, Big Tech, Corporate America, and Federal, State, and Local Government Bureaucracies (and I am certain I am leaving out other institutions which need to be reformed or destroyed).
Merely changing the occupant of the White House will not be enough to change the downward plunge of the USA.
The public school system is broken beyond repair. I believe I even said that here long before Covid, but this has made this obvious to all – there is no way to fix this. By all means try to take the public schools back locally but do your kids a favor and homeschool them or find a private school. And fight for vouchers.
The best way to put the final nail in the coffin of the public schools is to pull kids out of school en masse by the tens of millions across the country – this cuts their funding since it is based on enrollment. Conservatives would do well to fight Alinksy strategy w Alinksy strategy and never let a crisis go to waste.
Remember diagramming a sentence? Memorizing multiplication/division tables? Oh, I know that is not “practical”. Well knowing how to think is better than practical. Disgusting
Yup, you really understood that a sentence is comprised of a subject/predicate. All the other words are window dressing, but adjectives and adverbs are what make for interesting sentences. Also: do you remember conjugating verbs in all the tenses?? “I go, you go, she-he-it goes, we go, you go, they go . . . I went, I will go, I have gone” Worst one that gave me and my classmates fits was “lie and lay.” Today I am appalled at the misuse of I and me: example, in pastor’s sermon he said, “Heaven is for you and I.” ????? For some reason, they think they sound all hoity-toity by not using me. You wouldn’t say ‘heaven is for me’ so why do you use it when adding another pronoun????
Oops, meant to type “heaven is for I”. Heaven is for me is correct.
Me sometimes gets those mixed up two.
The rule is if the verb comes first, then it’s ‘me/him/her’. If the pronoun comes first it will be ‘I/he/she’.
Thank you Marc, for this clarification.
And just how did adding an apostrophe to any plural noun become a thing? It drives me nuts.
Nuke it from space…It’s the only way to be sure, right? ?..R ipley.
Lazy, apathetic parents and conservative voters turning a blind eye played no role in this educational fiasco?
Like an episode of Seinfeld with George Costanza and Jerry Seinfeld. Idiots surrounded by more idiots.
Haha. But they also did a good job making fun of social norms, and peer pressure. Like the episode with Kramer and the AIDS walk ribbon. Which is what Stelter is trying.
Who cares what that fat a$$ opinion is.
My husband is in his mid-thirties. I’m in my mid-twenties. Y’all gonna write us off too because we’re part of the Millennial generation?
Nope! Y’all are the ages of my adult children and they are FABULOUS!!!! SUCCESSFUL!! And the sweetest people I know. Keep the faith and keep on going!
Mine too! There is hope…
I’m in the same boat as you, TreeClimber. I’m a 39-year-old MAGA conservative. There are plenty of people like us in the Millennial Generation.
Sundance’s argument might hold true for the liberals in the Millennial Generation, but definitely not for the conservatives who rejected that sort of liberal ideology.
If anything, the MAGA conservatives in our age cohort should be more steadfast in our conservatism because we came of age in a culture dominated by Obama style liberalism and Bush style neoconservatism. We made a conscious decision to reject that mentality in a culture where it would have been easier to just go along.
Another 39-year-old MAGA conservative here as well (raising a family and working hard). Agreed on all points. I believe the generational finger pointing isn’t going to help our cause and I think the current generation in charge (Boomers) really need to ask where things went wrong.
If we look at the makeup of the government as it stands presently, it’s entirely led by the Boomer generation — on down to the Deep State and the Lawfare group that we Treepers are so familiar with. Xers, Millennials and younger were incubated in a society run by the Boomers, so I think it’s really unfair to saddle the kids with the blame when they were literally programmed — from Hollywood, to marketing and on down to Academia — by a Boomer framework. I don’t think history will be too kind to the Boomer generation in the long run. This is a generation that inherited a tremendously wealthy postwar country/civilization from the Greatest Generation and rebelled against the moral foundation that made it successful with the drugs, sex and rock n’roll culture that ushered in third-wave feminism, gender dysphoria and many other postmodern ills. Of the four Boomer presidents (Clinton, Bush, Obama), Donald Trump is really the distinction here — so I have tremendous respect for him.
I’d like to say that I respect older generations, having been really close to my grandparents (depression-era survivors and WWII vets) and also close to my own parents and many relatives who are Boomers.
There is hope and many in my generation and younger are gravitating to the likes of Jordan Peterson, who has a sort of old-world common-sense morality (and is a Boomer, BTW). Plus, let us not cast aside Xers, Millennials (and younger) with the likes of Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Michael Knowles, Dave Rubin, Tim Pool, and more who are really defying the framework that we younger generations are expected to fit in. I guarantee they are pulling in far more YouTube viewers per channel than the creepy, rotund Stelter on the Crappy News Network (CNN) and his two gender confused fans, one of which is probably a Twatter bot.
Again, I have nothing but respect for all the generations, but if we are going to make an honest assessment, there are some deep problems that start springing up in the 1960s on forward. We’ve got to address those fundamental moral issues and work from there if we are going to give our children and grandchildren a future.
I agree with you that it is foolish to cast aspersions on entire generations as if they were all members of some monolithic group who all thought and behaved the same way. You are guilty of it yourself with your characterization of “Boomers.”
We were all individuals as well with different responses to the challenges we were confronted with. I wasn’t even in high school when Johnson’s “Great Society” programs or Medicare were enacted. I wasn’t through high school before all of the racial turmoil of the late 1960s. While I was of a liberal bent in my early college years, I wasn’t a progressive or leftist. I was married at 25 years of age, worked a blue collar job for three years before being promoted into management, bought a new house at age 26, and had two children by the age of 30.
Ronald Reagan was a major factor in my realizing that I was a conservative. An old mentor of mine on the railroad used to say, “You’re not worth a damn to yourself or anyone else until you turn 30.” I think there’s a lot of truth in that. But many of my friends and associates, especially those who became teachers, did progress to the leftist side of things.
But there was also that diversity of thought in previous generations, including that called “the Greatest generation.” My Mom was an intellectual who was greatly captivated in the late 1930s by people we would now call communists. Their “worker’s movement” thinking was very widespread at that time. My Dad, a conservative at that time and not yet her husband, would still dutifully drive my Mom to her “progressive” meetings, but would sit in the car outside and wait for her when the meeting ended. She fortunately had the scales fall from her eyes and realized how corrupt those people actually were.
But my point is that every generation has a mix of people who think quite differently from one another. The seeds of progressivism have been among us from at least the start of the 20th Century. Where I find fault with my generation is that we allowed our American value of rooting for the underdog, and “live and let live” toleration be exploited by the Left, granting them the ability to incrementally advance their idiocy step-by-step, until now we are being consumed by it.
Another 39 year old conservative here, with a BA Pol Sci and Masters in Public Admin from a state school. I didn’t have a lot of maturity back then, and I wandered through my education, but it strongly influenced me to take the red pill. Maybe I got lucky and had some professors that said things like “Green parties are like watermelons, green on the outside and red on the inside”. My parents were mostly lazy libs, they resented the values my grandparents had, and have gone all climate weirdo in their older years. I grew up in a fairly conservative but Democrat area, and my older sister is an outside the Beltway lib yuppie. What I take from contrasting my grandparents to my parents is that when you don’t hold to anything, you’ll accept everything. My in-laws, ten years older than my parents, are conservative. My wife, a year younger than me, is center-right.
Well-said!
There is such a thing is using your resources wisely.
That there are just two of you is noble but not very encouraging.
Besides Don Lemon, Brian Stelter is perhaps one of the larger known idiots. I don’t know how anyone could tune in to listen to him! They wreak of “moral superiority” while at the same time displaying their ignorance. I don’t think we can fairly compare anyone in today’s media to “normal” Americans of any age bracket. They live in a bubble far removed. Their arrogance is a huge turn off.
These silly people (ask Putin) really are lost without President Trump, aren’t they?
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I’ll be glad to pose for a pic next Sunday when I take my weekly HCQ dose.
No plans for Dr. Fauci’s favorite approach for the Fauci Flu.
Taters got to Tater.
Anonymous sources say there are no pictures of Stelter at his high school prom because he went with his sister, and yet it happened.
We have all suffered a loss in IQ from reading that header.
35?
Good God, you mean 53?
78?
He’s on t.v. And nobody wants to MeToo this. I want to know who in the Anderson Vanderbilt Cuomo THIS one is related to?
Bad genetics at work.
The lowering of IQ’s dates farther back than 2007. In fact, and I remember reading about this way back when, it started in the 70’s. Who was the genius who thought not teaching children to write their names was a good thing; that no longer having to memorize the multiplication and division tables was a good thing; that learning how to spell was stupid; was doing all of this in your head was useless.
I have read many here who think all of this was stupid and a waste of time; not practical is it to be able to multiply and divide in your head? Well…practical or not is not the issue…all of the above is a way of using the brain, exercising the brain, actually thinking.
Think about it; once the old school way of teaching went down the drain, stupidity became common. When a cashier cannot make change on their own, when a Congressman signs their name and it looks like a five year old did it; when everyone needs a computer /phone/calculator to add and subtract…stupidity follows.
We have a whole generation, maybe two, who are incapable of thinking…at the age of 20.
Another debacle, in California, was the whole language concept of teaching reading in primary school. Phonics? Nah. Sure, it worked but let’s abandon an extremely successful beginner reading program for an unproven theory. It was introduced in the 90s.
It started in the schools, namely with the US Department of Education. Carter turned it into a Cabinet-level position and they nationalized schools.
Anybody who was attending schools in both the 70’s and 80’s would notice the difference (I graduated in 89).
Before states controlled curriculum, then eventually the federal government took over. It’s why it was ok to fly a certain flag in Dixie and is almost outlawed now.
Common core ruined a generation of children.
You’re absolutely right.
The federal Department of Education should be abolished. That was one of Cruz’s campaign pledges and was his most important one IMO. I’d hoped Trump would have taken that as his own initiative.
Don’t forget the Adderall, marijuana, alcohol, and cocaine. Often I wonder why these are not mentioned in aetiologies of so-called elites’ CVs.
Why is anything corporate media minions say or do worth a sane person’s attention? What is in a garbage dump besides garbage? Who drinks from a toilet expecting it to yield up orange juice?
Lil Brian Stelter wants literal struggle sessions for FNC hosts. This clown needs a good ass kicking.
35? I thought he was in his mid 50s. He looks horrible. Stupidity must really age people.
Dinesh D’Souza often makes fun of Brian Stelter, as do Mark Dice and Conservative Resurgence (on YouTube). Dinesh has said Stelter looks old enough to be his (Dinesh’s) father.
Agree Sundance!
I guess by talking/gossiping about what another network is doing/not doing keeps people like him from talking about all the great things Biden is doing for our country!!! Ha-ha
Treepers who are getting vaxxed – please don’t be part of this vax selfie trend. It sets a terrible precedent that is a gross invasion of people’s health information and privacy. These selfies make it easier to single out and target those who are not taking the vaccine for whatever reason they choose to avoid it for.
My hypothesis is much simpler than yours, Sundance.
It is premised upon the kinds of people who are inclined to take “selfies” and post them online.
Probably because they know exactly what is in the experimental biological agents. Unlike you, they actually do research.
I can’t believe Brian Stelter is 35. He looks 60.
I think we can count on a Bongino “the doughboy is the dumbest person in the media” riff today.
“…mass disappearance of intellectual matriculation amid an entire generation of people.”
Not only do some of these people never, ever mature, most were given blue ribbons and gold stars their entire life, causing them to think highly of themselves, while all along their opinions have been steeped in blue ribbon and gold star lies.
Hard to believe anyone is actually watching this trash. I’m bewildered why I even read this piece much less commenting on it.
I support your theory. As I explained to my 10 year old, pathological thought patterns now pervade education and media. I teach my child to think reasonably, rationally and logically which is the opposite of pathological thinking. Understanding and controlling one’s emotions as well as being aware that we have free will to chose how we feel about external events is the opposite of what is now envouge. It is more common for young folks to be encouraged to focus on their feelings of hurt and wallow in that pain and attack or cancel the source of what has offended them. The secret is it is OK to have you feelings hurt in a free society. You learn how to regulate and dissipate those negative emotions. I see many young people unable to cope with their emotions, stress and anxiety and this seems to be by design. I also suspect there is an electronic component to this victim mentality reinforced by negative images on television and streaming video. Needless to say we homeschool and sold our television years ago. Thank you.
Zoom selfies matter
Bam bam!
Almost 50% of adult population is vaccinated.
We are almost at herd immunity when you include those who have already had Covid.
Basic math seems to elude the brightest journalists, no?
Ascribing to the demands of children grown or otherwise does nothing to pacify their unreasonable and petty behavior, rather it only encourages it.
Stelter the eunuch! Gutless whinner!