Mark Steyn, the only man qualified to replace Rush Limbaugh, has announced his departure from GBNews after the British media company requested a contract making Steyn legally accountable for any speech or wrong-think as identified by British regulators within the Office of Communication (OfComm). {Direct Rumble Link}
Within Britain, all media speech is monitored by the Office of Communications (OfComm), where official government censors track commentary according to regulatory and compliance rules established by the government. Previously, Mark Steyn ran afoul of the OfComm investigators when he began questioning the efficacy and safety of the COVID-19 vaccinations. There are two investigations ongoing with possible fines pending for violating rules on government approved speech.
Into this mix comes the now capitulating GBNews organization, where Mark Steyn and Neil Oliver have both pushed the boundaries of acceptable thought. While Mark Steyn was offline, recovering from two heart attacks, I noticed something was shifting in the past several weeks at GBNews; from the presentation of Oliver to the way the content was being shared (no uploads and missing transcripts). It seemed like something tenuous and opaque was happening in the background. Steyn confirms. WATCH:
As noted by Steyn in the contract he rejected: “To the extent that the presenter and/or the US producers do not incorporate Ofcom regulatory input into an edition of the program, this shall be considered a material breach of this agreement, and the Mark Steyn Company shall indemnify GB News for any and all direct loss, liability, costs, including reasonable legal costs, damages, or expenses that it suffers as a result of any regulatory breach.”
GBNews is acquiescing to the thought police, and Mark Steyn is rightly leaving. Good for him. Enough with this controlled corporate speech nonsense. The voices of the resistance should not cower to the regime. CTH stands with Steyn, AGAIN!
Stupid, effete Brit elites are panicking now. They will lose control soon enough.
GBN just cut their own throats.
That’s Mark for you. Principled and more intelligent than the rest stacked one on top of another…and persecuted for it.
It will cost him dearly, but what price for character?
My gosh how I admire this man! I wish for him God’s mighty protection and fair winds to come. He could certainly use some.
He can make as much money as he wants working within American conservative media.
So he’s off Fox. Murdoch spent $millions in Britain trying to defeat him on GB News. Oops!
He had a nasty legal fight with CRTV/Blaze whatever they’re called this week.
Salem Radio has many hosts – all have agreed never to mention the 2020 election hoax.
Where is this conservative media you speak of?
Salem Hosts include Eric Metaxas who talks about the 2020 election all the time!
I’m sure Mark Steyn will be on the air shortly!
It is much like America already in that immigrants, even illegals, are held in higher regard by the government than law abiding citizens.
Revving your engine at a red light while there may be an immigrant, is a 5 year jail offense in the UK.
The people of the UK who did nothing, deserve everything that is coming.
Mass immigration there has built nations within the nation. They are truly finished. No need for Trojan Horses anymore, you just get on a plane.
Or use the dinghy provided by those who wish to destroy the UK (a long term project for Soros).
Add in false pronouncements from “Conservative” ministers about how awful this is, plus the boilerplate statement “Something MUST be done!!”, and intergovernment cooperation between Britain and France.
Then, as is said, ” Bob’s your uncle!”
Sovereignty destroyed and down she goes, swirling down the plug hole.
Done.
Sad thing is, is if people actually stepped back and observed how countries are run, its all of us who are running them. All we have to do is take a month off. No one has the balls to sit down for a month, what does that tell you? They aren’t worth saving!
My father in law used to say if, as one, everyone stopped paying taxes, this would change everything.
True. But the idea that that could happen was a fantasy. Nevertheless, it gave me hours of enjoyment imagining the effects of such a move.
and that is exactly why Our Border is now WIDE Open!
Funnily enough not 30 minutes ago I finished reading 1984 (again).
Poor old George Orwell would be demanding an increase in royalties if he could see the state of Insoc which is now in complete control of our media over here.
The only other one who will get the chop soon is Nigel Farrage, then Neil Oliver.
We truly are in cookoo land over here.
Cookoo land is pretty much all the West, save Russia.
Who would have thought?
Any control was lost years ago…hard to say whether it was Neville Chamberlain (‘peace in our time’) or Clement Atlee (Natl Health system). The Brits misplaced their intestinal fortitude a long time ago.
Goes back to Henry VIII and his hissy-fit against the Church for not annulling his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
Or, Martin Luther, rebellious son that he was.
Looks like we Americans have as well. At least a large portion of us, if not all.
Imagine being a poster on here and being held responsible for your comments that our government disagrees with.
give it some time.
thats coming.
#whatever
Our government can suck eggs for all I care, if they can find an egg to suck on.
That’s why they have certain organ trafficking organizations…
I thought of that when I started posting. But if I censor myself, they have already won. Being able to speak truth is worth dying for. And as other posters have noted, this works both ways. Those on the other side committing atrocities have their own records out there.
Maybe, I believe the self censorship of cold anger is a different story than that what is driven by fear of punishment
So absolutely true.
Fortunately, none of my comments are understood by the Government…
No one there has a sense of humor! 🙂
And they go right over the heads of those at whom they are aimed.
Scott Adams the cartoonist (Dilbert) says that a third of people cannot detect a joke.
Not that they don’t think it’s funny, they don’t even see it’s supposed to be funny.
Trump made his infamous joke, in 2016, that maybe the Russians could find Hillary’s stolen emails. John Brennan of the CIA found this to be definitive proof of Russian collusion.
How would you rate Brennan’s sense of humor?
A laugh riot or not, Brennan scared the people (Chuck Schumer) who really knew the evil of the deep state, the fourth branch.
Learning:
I get to read, a hundred times a day on this web site, that liberals are stupid, that Democrats are stupid..
I won’t die for that.
Good point.. We’re reading one of the few holdouts!
Imagine the bureaucrats putting out mis-dis-mal information and fearing we will hold them accountable. The original Miss Dismal had to resign.
Love that Miss Dismal! Too funny. I’ll have to borrow that.
I would have been dead years ago.
That’s what the recently discredited Office of Disinformation (led by that twit who likes to sing show tunes) was supposed to do.
But I’m sure they will find a back way to do it. The left is relentless and they never give up, give in or retreat.
There is only one way they can be stopped.
True dat!
Absurdly, the Left in America has embraced anarchism.
Since socialism never works when tried under the present, what, zeitgeist?, they have moved on to nihilism. Tear it all down and start over.
Mark Steyn reported seeing anarchists marching in a parade protesting cuts to welfare. Who exactly is supposed to provide the welfare checks after anarchism triumphs?
Malatrope is endorsing, of course, some idealistic vision of revolution. So do anarchists. So do anarchists.
I’m not endorsing anything. I’m saying I believe they cannot be stopped without stronger measures. I am not saying “go ye and shoot communists”. I’m saying I think we’ve lost, but I refuse to admit it.
At least, for awhile. Like many nihilist revolutions in history, eventually they will do themselves in. In the Soviet Union, it took 73 years. I won’t live that long, so I hope my grandkids see sanity again, sometime.
You know, I hear — prob lots of us have — that the office is still around, just under a different name and with a less…um...extroverted…leader.
Don’t think they aren’t watching. Lol, they are the most paranoid group on the planet
They can go to Hades where they spawn.
To keep the freedoms we take for granted takes constant vigilance and any attempt to curtail them must be challenged.
Or imagine going to a Trump rally and being thrown in jail for 2 years!
Cannot imagine that (sarc)
That will no doubt be called a “conspiracy theory” soon. They’ll figure it’s been long enough that most of us have forgotten — or never knew — the real story and just buy the propaganda version. Watch for the first trolls in comment sections — or heck, in the corporate press –writing that “Trump, at his rally Saturday night, was still spreading the conspiracy theory that hundreds of MAGA protestors are being held in Washington, D.C. jails…”
There are only a few sites in my opinion that you can post without worry. This is one.
The radio and TV hosts that are on the air now have mastered the art of dodging political correctness.
Very few posters on this web site could do the dance Tucker does every night.
They are not paid for having opinions, they are paid for having acceptably anodyne opinions.
Creeping fascism. Fascist creeps. The state knows better – – – whether you like it or not.
These are cultural Marxists, much more dangerous and evil than fascism.
If it were not for the fascist corporations applying all this censorship the government would be unable to be successful. It is the tech corporations working with gov that have created this fascist state of censorship.
One of the key characteristics of fascism is a fierce nationalism and love of country and culture. See why I say these commies are NOT fascists?
It has evolved or devolved with the times — now it is a fierce globalism and love of the technocratic elite driving this modern-day form of fascism. We have the cooperation of government and corporate power working together to control the masses, fascism according to its father… but as always, evil, whatever form it comes in, wears whatever costume is both suitable for the era and will work to fool the people.
It is not fascism. In fascism government controls the corporations. Do you think Larry Fink, Mark Zuckerberg, and the rats running Disney require government control to push their agendas? They more likely control the government.
So wrong.
Government control of the corporations is Marxism/communism.
Under fascism, intended to be a better form of socialism, the State and the corporations work in tandem, along with the big unions. A federation of the big. And the end goal is to advance the betterment of the State.
State socialism always fails(where have you been the last century?)
Even Biden doesn’t think he should be running the corporations.
Under communism there would no corporations. Fascism is nationalistic. What we are seeing today is a form of global totalitarianism that not only is not nationalistic, it is actually destroying the sovereignty of Western nations including America. It is anti-country. These people are trying to destroy Western civilization and culture. They are not fascists.
Nazi is short for Nationalist/ Socialist.
You win the argument that our current fascists are not Nazis.
So the many billionaires who support the corporatist/fascist regime that now plagues us are Marxists? Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos.. please name the Marxist?
Cultural Marxists. See Herbert Marcuse. Not the same as economic Marxists although there is some overlap.
Marcuse died in 1979, while I was still in college, and the Soviet Union still thrived (?).
They made us read Marcuse: Marcuse envisioned a union between the college students and the workers overthrowing the government. How’s that coming?
So who stole the 2020 election from the people? The college students or the workers?
You obviously know little about Marcuse and others from the Frankfurt School. That’s cool and most conservatives don’t. They are the fathers of Critical Theory, wokeism, political correctness, multiculturalim, etc. Their influence created the mess we have today in America.
I made an enormous post last night on the open site about political correctness/post-modernism.
Sundance objects to such long posts.
So why are you back talking all this obsolete Marxist dogma?
Why do the moderators only pick on me when I discuss this sh*t?
New century, butch.
Nice to know AOC is worse than Hitler.
More dangerous to us than Hitler.
eventually someone with a voice and a following MUST emerge as a voice of resistance to this tyranny.
it is my sincere hope that Steyn not only refuses to cooperate further with the “investigations” that are ongoing – but that if he is found “guilty” he steadfastly refuses to pay the fines or comply whatsoever. and that thousands of us come to defend him from any attempt to coerce such.
it has to start somewhere.
How gone is GB??
Even unto the tiniest every day actions..
In Kent, which is in the south of England, some officious Nazi jobsworth council official handed out an on the spot £100 fine to a woman feeding bread to the ducks. A common and enjoyable pasttime.
He wrote on her ticket that she was “littering”.
The Council (local government functionaries) admitted “their error”. I assume the penalty was withdrawn.
Fascist?? It’s not a big enough word for the people in high positions and low who have reduced Britain to what it is now.
You’ll notice I eliminated the word “Great”…for it is many things, but “Great” it is no more.
Well Betsy,
It gets more surreal each day.
Just today our little Indian Prime minister did a cabinet reshuffle.
The most rediculous appointment is a new cabinet post called minister for Energy Security and Nett Zero.
You could not make this stuff up.
Oh geeeeeeeeeee…
Let me know when the WEF PM fills the position for The Minister of Silly Walks.
Saying Great Britain is like saying United States.
Yes it most definitely is, HT77.
“Old Blighty”
In the truest sense, Jeff. There was a good show there, which you may remember…Blot on the Landscape.
Now the land of many blots with more coming. Those wretched nature destroying wind farms.
No more a Green and Pleasant Land. All to “Save the Earth”.
A joke so funny I could weep.
Rotherham was the beginning of the rot… appropriately named.
I treasure my memories of my time there, but my last stay I was struck by the profusion of CCTV cameras everywhere, and even chased away from a storefront window on a Sunday morning by a voice of authority over a loudspeaker somewhere.
Tony Blair’s fawning opening ceremony to the ghastly atrocious ‘Human Body’ exhibit at the Millenium Dome was the final nail in the coffin for me…
Peace and Love, Sister!
That I remember as well. Blair was himself Dr Destructo. Aided and abetted by his dreadful wife.
I can only imagine the Queen seeing his name in her diary for their meetings. How she must have dreaded those.
And yes, the wretched CCTV cameras in every corner and crevice of that once wonderful nation where I left my heart.
Ah, Britain…we hardly knew ye…
I return your kind greetings, my dear friend. Thank you so much.
And yes…Rotherham shamed the entire police force. Appalling and beyond my understanding.
Not about Steyn, but this story IS about the above comment…and rather horrifying:
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/2/3/hms-climate-curriculum/
Yes, med schools aren’t satisfied with just putting race into the curriculum. Now they are introducing “climate change,” as well. The story I heard on the radio mentioned that treating cancer is damaging to the climate (“as much as driving 470 miles”!) and that doctors need to start using LESS ANESTHESIA because what they use is too much, and the gasses are damaging to the climate, as well.
Yes. They really said that. The left elite really will happily see the serfs living as the original serfs did, windmills and all…anesthesia? What’s that?
vladdy, the hospitals have already morphed into murder factories. This is monstrous.
I truly have tried to (trite phrase) to ” wrap my head around” each succeeding piece of insanity which is vomited forth daily. Every night I go to bed thinking it can’t get any worse. The next day, as I have so often said, I wake up to discover how very wrong I was.
For this? Who are these acolytes of satan?
We used to say don’t worry…in a hundred years? All new people.
Now? In 50 years, if these terrible and terrifying proposals are enacted, no people at all…
Thank you for this link.
Dr Sowell said it best and most clearly…
Whenever there is a disaster, you can be certain that a man from Harvard will be in the middle of it.
‘Nuff said.
The point of all totalitarian States is that you’re never safe, you’re literally always breaking some law.
You never get to simply relax and be happy.
The welfare State means you no longer exist as a free person.
Take their money and they own you.
America of the Revolution ceased to exist when FDR brought in his New Deal.
When the welfare State goes broke, a new revolution will be feasible.
Nazi don’t creep, they stomp.
When the FBI raids their political enemies, like Roger Stone, they send overwhelming force.
No creeping.
After the litigation Steyn’s been mired in for so many years with Michael Mann, (IIRC Steyn won, but is still trying to collect damages from Mann) it’s no surprise he has no desire to get back on the lawsuit merry-go-round, which is a very expensive ride.
Also explains Neil Oliver’s apparent agitation in the last video we saw.
It was from Mark I first heard the apt phrase “the process is the punishment.”
He would know.
He had a devil of a time collecting from Mark Levin’s concern a while back when he, Steyn, sued them a while back…and won.
And to think that I used to listen to Mark Levin!!
I am, likewise, A former listener. I was appalled.
I have never listened to that BlOwhard
About the 50th time he spent a segment reading aloud from one of his academese-style books, that was it. Somebody should send him a copy of Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language.”
He thinks he’s educating you.
I haven’t listened or watched Levin for years.
Anyone who has to scream to make a point is not worth listening to.
I never liked Levin. Too full of himself. No humility at all. His strident tone of voice drowned out whatever wisdom was in his words.
OTOH, his interviews were often above average as he kept his own opinions (and mouth) in check and let the interviewee speak at length.
Agree on all counts, GB.
Dismissive and rude. A shameless self promoter. That finishes anyone for me.
It was callers in whom he belittled. Unconscionable.
Levin admired Bob Grant, a legend of the radio airwaves floating above NYC for many decades. Grant would dispatch an annoying caller with a hearty “Get off of my phone!”. Levin uses that device at times but it doesn’t have the same punch. I listened to Levin’s podcasts for quite some time for insights on the Constitution but in any other subject I found him to be lacking, especially with foreign policy. He moved out of northern Virginia to Florida within the past 6 to 8 months so that he could suck up to TPP Ron. Marky is nothing more than a rank opportunist nowadays.
Michael Mann will, some far-off day, lose to Steyn and never pay.
Mann already proudly refused to pay Dr Tim Ball, the Canadian climatologist, when his frivolous law suit failed.
Dr Ball died young due (partly?) to the stress.
Did he? I am very very sad to hear that, raptors.
Mark has had two heart attacks, which you no doubt know…
I believe Mann has lost all his frivolous cases…except so far Mark’s, going on now over a decade. A real life Jarndyce vs Jarndyce.
What a wicked man he is.
Mann is a true leftist.
The point of all is to bring down the prevailing social order.
Leftists must lie, cheat or steal, but their heaven awaits when revolution comes.
I despair at all the so-called conservatives, the self-declared conservatives, who do not see the existential struggle we are in.
There is that…knowing that while they may believe they are home safe, we all…ALL…are only passing through. A stop off before we reach the eternal Home they believe does not exist.
Payment will be expected then.
Labels are simply political clothing one wears as suits individual purposes, easily changeable. Self is always the prime concern of those who wear those clothes. Always.
Leftism is their religion.
Most American conservatives are Christians.
I was raised Christian, but I cannot honestly call myself Christian.
The weird directions the Protestant churches have gone in has left me behind.
I feel so sorry for the elderly women who mostly comprise the congregations of the last Protestant churches. They are stuck with leftist ministers with barely discernible Christian beliefs.
Almighty God our Father will find us wherever we are, raptors. We can worship him anywhere.
But I understand your sympathy for those ladies for whom the camaraderie and fellowship of church is so comforting and essential.
That any churches bowed down to the State and its life destroying orders both shocked and horrified me.
You mention apt phrases from Mark–Here’s one that he made in reference to his lawsuit in Canada–“Our opponents were not disputing our position. They were disputing our right to have a position.” (2017) He has an awesome way with words!
why get on that merry go round at all? why not come out and simply say “i do not acknowledge the right or legitimacy of this BS” and i call on others to refuse to allow their enforcement.
This will not end well.
why not? because we have lots of tweets lined up?
every moment we allow it to continue without repercussions the fascists grow stronger.
Nothing to do with tweets Mord. Just a simple observation that an increasing number of people are growing aware of the tyranny being displayed.
Mark Steyn walks his talk. At each fork in the road Mark has chosen the path that allows him to speak his mind with integrity. I have faith he will find his way to an even better platform for his voice to be heard. I too stand with Mark Steyn.
Well said.
Mark used to be a widely-syndicated newspaper columnist.
One of the terms was he could not be edited.
As papers removed sentences, paragraphs (words?) they didn’t like, he dropped them from his list of customers.
The American newspaper has steadily lost readers over the last few years and decades, but the liberal editors will not relent and permit conservative voices (like Steyn?) to be heard.
Considering the constabulary arrested a woman for silently praying near an abortion center, it seems the Thought Police are gaining power in the UK. A sad state of affairs.
The good news is that the crown declined to prosecute that woman 🙂
From what I read it is not over though, as she is pushing to get it to court as she said this would certainly happen again in the future as she refused to stop praying.
On that subject our little Fish Wife leader Nicola Sturgeon here in Scotland is trying to force through a law to prevent any one protesting within 150 meters of an abortion mill. Not sure if silent prayer will be prosecuted.
Oh bet on it, Patrick. Especially with her. She’s so past her sell by date. Robert Burns is surely weeping somewhere.
https://www.google.com/search?q=baby+in+womb+video&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:66fdba57,vid:WH9ZJu4wRUE
-Olivia in the womb
3 (three) weeks in uterus
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VktZZEeGdSs
9 months in 4 minutes
Babies in womb react to smells and sounds
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/hqkiR8fJt10
Should be required viewing, Patience, for any woman considering the ending of her child’s life. Which involves the murder of a part of herself, if she only knew.
And with most, I suspect one day those who choose this will know.
Yes indeed, Betsy!
And the question,
“Would you like to hear the heart beat?”
should be asked
of every female
seeking to terminate
the life developing
and growing inside.
I always think these some bare incapable of seeing further than tomorrow. I suppose they believe they’ll never grow older or old. You simply cannot tell them.
these women, not “some bare”… my Kindle is starting to annoy me.
Thank you Patience for sharing. Very beautiful video and music!.
God bless you.
I’d tune to Rush’s old timeslot again if Mark Steyn took it over. Don’t listen now.
Best wishes and good health to Mr. Steyn.
Amen. My full agreement
I would be a 24/7 member again.
Early on Clay Travis was among friends in Tennessee at a RINO fund raiser and opened his remarks with “we need to move on from the 2020 election”. I booed him. And never listened to him again.
TY for that info.
One of the two who replaced Rush at EIB is a former(???!!!!) CIA employee.
Buck Sexton, a former CIA analyst (think desk jockey not a field agent) from the Glenn Beck/Blaze stable.
Roger that Farmer I am with you it would be fitting of Mark took over that time slot . Have a great day
R.D.
How I do miss Rush. Morning radio is such a desert these days without his three hours of common sense and perspicacity.
If I recall, Steyn was the overwhelming choice of Rush’s audience to replace Rush.
There was much chagrin and disappointment when the two second-rate pundits were announced as being selected by the network over Steyn. Do those two losers ever make headlines? Of course not.
Rush’s entire life was the show.
Same
Same here.
I think I may have tuned in to them once and thought they sounded like jokey AM morning jocks, and that was it. You can get a wide variety of good shows, any time slot on sites like Talkstreamlive (I’m sure there are plenty of others; I’m just used to that. Plus, it’s interesting hearing local news on the half hour for places like D.C….)
Nobody listens to Bongino? I listen to him online, not in our area—have no idea if he’s broadcast here, as everything goes through the laptops, but…thought he was carried pretty widely…hope so, as he’s doing a good job…getting better as time goes on, important guests, vital topics, inside information…(heh, nope, not on his payroll, either…. just seems like I’m in a parallel talk radio universe.)
Lucifers Children dont want you to speak in defiance of them. Tell them to go pound sand up their arse’s.
Was reading again a congressional record from 1916 (thanks to another treeper out there) in regard to the Treaty of Verona.
There was a reference to how the ‘elite’ had previously installed their choice of a government head, just as we find ourselves now.
Note that they have been at this a lot longer than a few decades (in 1822) and well worth the read.
Killing free speech was paramount as a danger to the ‘princes’.
“This Holy Alliance, having put a Bourbon prince upon the throne of France by force, then used France to suppress…”
https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1916/04/25/senate-section
This reminds me of the book I am currently reading…One Nation Under Blackmail ~ The sordid union between Intelligence and Organized Crime that gave rise to Jeffrey Epstein by Whitney Webb (with all her sources listed).
I’m only thru the first chapter and I’m basically feeling we can’t fix this (I had stronger language🤦♀️) . This history starts back into the 1800’s so the building blocks are there and cemented into place. The only thing I can think of when reading this, is that God is the only one that can fix this…it’s that deeply imbedded into all society!
I strongly suggest this book for required reading!
…which informs my position that democratic principles are a humanistic approach to governing by leaning on the whims of unserious voters. As a few of the US founders knew, an amoral and unspiritual population will drive the nation over the cliff, given enough time. I.e. voting our way to hell.
As a republic, we are responsible for our plight… we have been ok with unscrupulous, unspiritual representatives, Luciferian schools, compromised churches and evil media industries. We’re living out the inevitable consequences of that compromise. So yeah, welcome to the new age.
I totally agree…which is why I don’t think that ‘one man’, ‘one group’, ‘one state’ can fix this! 🤷♀️
(From The Building of a Ship)
“Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
We know what Master laid thy keel,
What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,
Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,
What anvils rang, what hammers beat,
In what forge and what a heat
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Fear not each sudden sound and shock,
‘Tis of the wave and not the rock;
‘Tis but the flapping of the sail,
And not a rent made by gale!
In spite of rock and tempest’s roar,
In spite of false lights on the shore,
Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea!
Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant o’er our fears,
Are all with thee,- -are all with thee!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
With Almighty God’s mercies and His grace, may it be so.
Amen! 🙏
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
People used to look, for many centuries, to the poets for wisdom.
Walt Whitman spent his life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass.
Poetry probably reached its peak of relevance in the late 19th and early 20th century when the western world was crashing and burning.
Where do we go, today, to find a wise man? Political correctness strictly forbids wisdom.
There are some wise men and women. I grieve, for example, Professor Sir Roger Scruton, who at his end was pilloried and censored, by fools in his profession of academia. How I would have loved tutorials with him. I wouldn’t have contributed a word. Just sat, listened and marveled.
But no more poets, nor composers worth the name…alas.
Betsy:
This is why I disdain the liberal trope that progress is somehow automatic.
Progress is not our birthright!
How stupid can you get.
Progress is the glorious product of the Enlightenment.
The Enlightenment produced America.
The Left is the endless attempt to reverse America.
The handful of actual conservatives who post here understand that.
Or the idea of “change.” As if it were a good thing in itself, or a good thing at all.
Nothing is static, of course. But Obama used that word to begin his reign of terror. Some say “error”.
It was anything but that. All deliberate. Promoted it as a positive. But change can equally mean something worse, which he and his Marxist manifesto most assuredly were…and still are.
I agree, raptors. Our civilization’s high point was reached long ago. It has been all downhill since.
Well Betsy we are not all dead yet!
Whilst I would not dare to call myself a poet, I have hundreds of doggerel offerings, like these.
How about an oxymoron?
AN OXYMORON
The Global Warming numpties
Just get more surrral each day,
As scientists here in Scotland
Try to wean our cows off hay;
They’ll stop them belching methane
Flatulating Co2,
Remove their Carbon Hoof Prints
‘Till we have the Greenest Coo.
Our bovine friends contented
As they lie to chew their cud,
Not asked to save the planet
Its a Moot point if the could;
With farmers heavy burdens
Of legislation on their backs,
We all pay through our nostrils
For this Ecowlogic tax.
As I sit and Huminate
About real scientists who demur,
They say that Cow Made Climate Change
Is a load of old manure;
No honest politician#
Will stand up – and from the floor
Will call Man Made Global Warming
A wet dream of Albert Gore.
A disturbance in the Force.
Best wishes to both Mark Steyn and Neil Oliver.
I hope someone will be able to answer this question.
How does a media organization maintain viability when the EU blatantly demands the business subvert free speech?
That is problem social media organizations encounter. They must acquiesce or be fined into oblivion by the unelected Fascist at the EU. Or can they pirate their content offshore and give the EU the finger? Doesn’t that requires a subscription-based model?
Media is no longer an independent business it seems. Recall that in twitter the gov/biz partnership? Arab spring?
gov takes over the backend financing by funneling taxpayer $ to achieve narratives.
Canada already bought their media as I understand. My Canadian friends let us know, it not behind the scenes there.
It NEVER has been independent.
The government finances them. See, Twitter.
Or big Pharma, a.k.a., Pfizer, see the SOTU and the Grammy Awards
SD, Thank you very much for linking to Mark Steyn’s wonderful tribute to Rush. I bawled like a baby when I learned that Rush died as it felt as if a beloved family member had passed.
And best wishes for Mark’s return to good health. I love his humor & his voice reminds me of the guy who played Bentley on “The Jeffersons”.
Mark Steyn is another true treasure whom all of us should appreciate. I am just floored at how the political humor just spills from him easily & effortlessly. His Tuesdays on Bo’s show (before his COVID jab project & heart attacks were appointment radio.
I love you Mark!!
He’s due back today on Bo’s show, he mentioned it on his blog today 😊
Only in the USA is freedom of speech guaranteed because of the 1st Amendment in The Bill of Rights, but even here The Powers That Be try throttle it and you can still be punished for speaking your mind/telling the truth.
British SUBJECTS don’t have a 1st amendment and our Congress is work to remove ours.
It was my dream for many years to one day visit England, but now, it’s about as appealing as visiting North Korea, China, or the Middle East.
Heh. Same here.
Wow. Britain has gone to the dogs and we’re not far behind.
Notice how the Left’s massive 2020 attacks on Western democracies (Covid1984, BLM Summer of Love, Crime of the Century) began directly after Rush’s death.
One imagines Rush’s “Time to Panic” would’ve begun in earnest right after the demented puppet’s fake inauguration, January 2021 …
Definitely would have been the best replacement for Rush. I’d listen again.
Right on Mark!
So true , but who controls that franchise now?- do not listen since Rush gone / do not watch Fox since Nov3, 2020 _ Don’t think missed much – BTw how is Ron doing, any updates from Fox (s//) ? …
Same here. I don’t miss FOX I miss Rush.
Big ol’ hole 12-3 est.
What about the First Amendment … oh wait …. (S//).. Magna Carta ??
Mark is great and I knew something was up with GBnews when Sundance noticed a subtle change in Neil.
Mark Steyn is the only person who could take over the Golden EIB Microphone and maintain the Rush audience.
I have enjoyed GBN and wondered how long before the government came after the organization and presenters. So now we know. England had a very large Fascist Party presence right before WWII and it never was extinguished. I re-watched a documentary about the Medford Sisters the other night.
Mover over to RAV TV……………….
Get in your way-back machine remember in the late 60’s they had “pirate radio” ships off the UK broadcasting music that was banned in the UK. This to get around the BBC/OFComm.
The more things change.
So, they want a leash and a muzzle do they? Why are viewers tuning in exactly?
To… maybe hear the truth?
Absolutely love Mark Steyn – he is trualy a smart conservative warrior. I was very sorry to hear of his medical issues and wish him well.
As for GB News – glad he walked from them – they will be as vanilla, boring, and deceitful as the rest of the mainstream British & American media in very short order. Way better to get out now!
God bless Mark Steyn🙏🏻🔥🙏🏻
I really enjoy the British accent but when they sing they sound like democrats
Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech coming true right before our eyes…
He was a man steeped in history and the classics. A prophet based on his knowledge of both.
As western civilization continues to collapse, the truly learned will continue to provide the tent poles.
Why free speech, why democracy, why gun rights, why any rights?
The collapse is so predictable.
I turned the radio off when Steyn was filling in for Rush.
Heh, other way around, here.
I assume that Mark Steyns show is an opinion show and not a news show so there can be no pretense of “disinformation” or “misinformation” which are the now usual canards for obstructing freedom of speech.
That is exactly what the world needs: transparent honesty. 👻
Call the ba$turd$ out!
-take out the tra$h.
God, Bless Mark Steyn❣️
✝️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
“The only man qualified to replace Rush Limbaugh” – truer words were never spoken!
Word is that Fox News limits what their anchors can say as well. Tucker Carlson has a huge audience, but I wonder if Carlson, Oliver, and Steyn should start something together.
England says hello to Fascism.
Maybe they think that “this time around” they can make it work. Give or take a couple of million dead.
Theory: maybe the Nazi ideology of the 2nd world war was not defeated, it just fled to the UK and elsewhere.
Nazis went underground and have surfaced again. This tyme the Nazis need curb stomped.
Steyn should certainly be admired and supported.
Boy, am I happy that would not happen in the U.S. right?….right? …😕……uh……I just saw a pig fly by……uh……hhmmm.
He’s a great guest but cannot handle a three hour show.
Who needs a 3 hour show anyway , split it up , only Rush (PDJT) could do 3 hours – All others a waste of oxygen – Hannnnnnity ugh
IMHO Steyn could handle three 1-hour segments, each of which is broken up by a total of 22 minutes of commercials and local news/weather breaks. Cut his required monologue time further by taking a few calls (vetted by Bo Snerdley of course) from listeners every day, and insert some 15 minute or longer interviews once or more times each week.
Bo’s show on Sat morning is good except for the music. Why do most of these “talk” host ‘s want to be DJ’s
I think being a DJ was their first goal. But after finding that market filled up, they then went to talk shows as second choice. Rush said many times that was his primary dream job – DJ.
Rush was a DJ in the early to mid 70s at a station in suburban Pittsburgh, he went by the monicker “Jeff Christie”.
Yep. He mentioned a few times that, as a child, he once received a toy radio station transmitter complete with microphone and he loved it, often pretending to be a DJ.
Go to Real America’s Voice, Mark!
I agree, he should have been the one to take Rush’s time slot.
May his courage be a little starch for more demonstrations of courage and refusals to kowtow to the globalist empire.
I notice his mention of Crowder. These voices MUST remain free to be heard.
Only the most base and wicked of people would try to control the speech of others under penalty of law… Anyone who is on the right side of a debate enjoys the challenge of dismembering their opponents arguments…. That is why free speech is so central to political Liberty not to mention essential to discerning truth and protecting the individuals within any society.
Only those on the wrong side of a debate would prefer to have their opponents silenced… Opposition to free speech is full admission that the ideas and policies one is clinging to and promoting are NOT good and are NOT popular.
Well if Tucker can get away with some of the things he’s been saying on Fox, surely there’s a place for Mark either there or at Newsmax.
For that matter, Mark was a regular on Tucker’s show- anyone know what happened?
Really, I can’t imagine that Mark has come up with anything more incendiary than Tucker’s remarks.
Tucker has one of the biggest money making shows on cable. If Fox is smart they will grab Mark while they can.
I loved listening to Steyn. Hope he gets a podcast going. I would be happy subscribe.
You can always join https://www.steynonline.com/
I highly recommend it.
Follow (and support) Mark Steyn at http://www.steynonline.com
Looks like the CCP has already won to me..
GB News has US producers????
I suspect that perhaps this will be the end of Neil Oliver’s videos on GB News. Hopefully both he and Mark Steyn will land somewhere and get the following that they deserve.
By the way, defibrillators are being installed even in elementary schools. It raises the question as to whether Steyn had to succumb to a certain medical procedure in order to continue at GB……
Neil’s most recent editorial was even more pointed than usual – this piece of news must be why he was especially perturbed.
His eyes get more piercing with each monologue.