▪️Last week saw the press hype these “record ocean temperatures” without doing any basic research. Turns out this was taken from a gauge in Manatee Bay, which is only 5 ft deep in a closed-off cove with dark seagrass on the bottom. Calling it an “ocean temp” is beyond misleading.
▪️And it wasn’t a record. The record for this gauge is actually 102 degrees, taken back in Aug 2017. Shortly after the hyped 101 degree reading, the water temp plummeted to the mid 80s after it rained. It’s a volatile shallow lagoon, not “ocean temperature.”
https://www.news-press.com/story/weather/2023/07/26/record-water-temperatures-in-florida-not-unprecedented-manatee-bay-climate-center-keys-everglades/70468485007/
▪️There is a clear agenda this summer by the press to hype any abnormally warm weather patterns as imminent doom (while ignoring any abnormally cold patterns). Multiple outlets reported this because it fit an agenda. If the opposite pattern happened it would be ignored or researched to see if it could be debunked.
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
This is almost laughingly misleading, as it leaves out everything before the letter.
▪️After being repeatedly lampooned by the Smothers Brothers over Vietnam, Johnson finally had enough. One night at 3 am he called the head of CBS William Paley, demanding that he “get those bastards off my back.”
▪️Paley then asked the heads of CBS entertainment to get them to back off of LBJ. However, instead of backing off the Smothers Brothers doubled down, booking a folk musician performing “Waist Deep,” an anti-war song about a soldier being stuck in the mud while “the big fool says to push on,” clearly a dig at LBJ.
▪️At the last minute, CBS cut the song from the pre-taped show to the outrage of the Smothers. They continued to push the boundaries off and on for the rest of his presidency, with CBS sometimes cutting segments that they thought went too far. Basically, it was a soft form of censorship.
▪️It wasn’t until Johnson made his surprise announcement not to run in 1968 ...
