Did you catch Max Foster's excellent video segment about the Sussexes on CNN?
As @Royal Reporter Richard Palmer of the Daily Express wrote, "It's a break with much US television reporting on the subject."
It certainly was.
It used clips from the notorious Oprah interview beside basic fact-checking on Meghan's statements that she didn't know much about the Royal Family before her marriage, comparing them with quotes from her childhood friends about how she was fascinated by Princess Diana.
It paralleled Meg's complaint that she wasn't allowed to use her "voice" with video showing her speaking out about a number of issues during her time with the family..
It fact-checked her assertion that she married Prince Harry three days before their televised wedding, by showing the actual marriage certificate.
Did you see it?
Max Foster showed the actual 1917 letters patent from King George V to explain why Archie, a great-grandson of the monarch, was not automatically named a prince - something Meghan had attributed to racism.
Finally, he contradicted Meghan's assertion that she wasn't given much training assistance on arrival by showing several of the palace team members who had been involved with helping her, including the Queen's confidante and dresser, Angela Kelly.
The piece quoted a previous palace staffer as saying, "We bent over backwards for her."
Really, it was a great piece. Did you see it?
Because CNN took it down within 12 hours of its initial broadcast, at least in Europe.
EDIT: Miggy found a way to access the video, which is "unlisted" on the CNN YouTube site and unavailable via the CNN homepage. Here is is.
You can't handle the truth
It was probably no more than a coincidence that the video was removed within a few hours of the time US President Biden stumbled through his first live press conference.
Whatever you think of his politics, the poor man appeared to be overwhelmed and even frightened. He was given a "cheat sheet" of potential answers and even photos of the journalists he was supposed to call on.
And yet the reviews of his performance from establishment journalists such as CNN were rhapsodic.
"Americans who want a competent, coherent, focused President should feel reassured," wrote CNN analyst Frida Ghitis.
Both the delusional Biden reviews and the sudden disappearance of the Max Foster video suggest that someone at CNN doesn't think ordinary viewers can handle the truth - or even distinguish the truth from obvious falsehoods.
Comments
Did you see the blinds about MM's attempts to get Feinstein's position as senator?
I am also registered as an Independent and lean right on some issues and left others. I'm not sure what Nutty's political views are, but I thought she said she either voted for or favored Hilary Clinton when she ran against Trump.
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This!
I always thought Nutty's politics lay somewhere in the center.
You keep saying you are leaving and yet you are still here, insulting the moderators.
You are out of order. Please honor your own word and go, or if you were actually just kidding and plan to stick around harassing those of us whose politics you find objectionable, I'd appreciate it if you'd be a big enough person to apologize to Nutty and the moderators.
You're acting like Markle now and that's not a good look on anyone.
This is Nutty's space--her intellectual property, and she is actually within her rights to have posted here discussion of any political slant she chooses. This is a hobby blog, not a major metro daily, and most of the time it works really well, except when periodically some individuals insist on taking umbrage out of all proportion to the perceived injury. By insulting posters, including the creator of this blog and the moderators, you are doing exactly the same thing which Markle and Harry are doing--attempting to silence dissent of their narrative via heavy handed tactics. Is that really what you want to do?
I've never hidden my politics here, so now you think that you're brilliant to have figured that out?
You are not in charge here, same as me, so your "escorting me out of the room" is a bit ridiculous. You can say anything that you want, but I have to leave when I write my views? SMDH.
Stay and contribute please. There is so much information to share (possibly on a new thread later).
No need for anyone to lob personal attacks and name calling at anyone, we are adults Hopefully.
Your post is just ludicrous. I am asking for the exact opposite of the Harkles. I want everybody to be able to voice their own opinion, but then we get posts such as yours. You just don't like an opinion that is not the same as yours.
"You are out of order."
It sounds like you think that you run this blog. Well, sweetie, you don't. Yes, You are correct that Nutty owns the blog, but she's never here. She can barely make regular posts, and relies on getting people to do the work for her. If they're foolish enough to do it, then let them take their time and energy to do it, but it will not be done well, as we can see.
So, Hikari, you have no authority here and you don't own me. I can say what I want, just as you can. Just because you don't like it, is your problem, not mine.
Do you have an ETD on your leaving this blog forever? When you posted what feels like several pages ago that you were leaving on the grounds that it had become intolerable here, did you mean, by the close of business today? In what time zone? Because that seems like it was an empty threat and what you are doing now is being an agitator.
You and I have exchanged some good chat back and forth on several occasions and I have found you a valuable contributor here. Which is why it startles me every time you launch into a tirade against Nutty and her moderators and start calling this blog a right wing conspiracy. That takes me by surprise almost as much as your extended character assassinations of Catherine as a lazy, eating disordered cow. And yes, certain of your comments toward her have been just that caustic.
Your attacks on Nutty and her helpers, who she chose specifically to try to keep the blog fair-handed are really beneath you and I hope you will reconsider certain of your remarks today. They really were not, to use Meg's favorite word that has been devalued of late, but used to mean something--kind.
Your entire last post to me sounds like something straight out of Meghan's playbook. She does what she likes and trods all over people trying to point out certain things to her as well.
I'm not trying to run the blog or 'own' you. I was actually asking, as someone who has enjoyed your contributions in the past, if this line of rhetoric is one which you want to continue. I am not enjoying your contributions today and will observe from someone who doesn't know you, only from what you write here that you appear to be having some sort of crisis today. I won't insult you by suggesting that your medication might be out of whack.
Instead of making grandiose threats to leave forever, why don't you try taking a week off and see if a future post on another topic doesn't trigger you so much?
I am not trying to condescend to you on purpose. If I were your therapist, I'd say the same. I still think Nutty and abbyh deserve apologies after you've had a think, but it's a testimony to their evenhandedness that they let you continue to post here after you consistently verbally abuse them, I'd say.
This weekend marked the start of Passover and I have been dealing with some family obligations that made me more hands-off than I typically am. So while I am off from work, I'm busier than normal.
I am going to have to take the heat for what has happened to this blog post not Nutty. Nutty doesn't moderate, I do. Finding the right balance has always been challenging if not impossible. I agree that often times I don't meet the challenges of this blog well enough. This post was particularly difficult to draw boundaries. So I apologize to all Nutties who have felt alienated and uncomfortable with the political comments.
I want to make clear that this blog is not monetized but is Nutty's hobby so she posts what interests her. I consider the spirit of this blog more intellectual curiosity than anything else.
As for the slant of the blog, I can assure you that I am on the opposite end of the American political "right." In fact, comments regularly criticize a lot of the boxes I check because I supposedly embody the 'ingredients' of a Meghan sugar: American, millennial, blue state, NYC, Democrat, etc... I don't necessarily agree with everything that is opined but as moderator, I want to avoid censoring posters as much as possible. I want to promote respectfulness and civility.
What I wish to ask Nutties is to draw on your ability to respectfully disagree. Please feel free to stay, leave, lurk, or post your unfiltered opinions. I just want everyone to keep in mind that if you choose to engage with the blog through reading and posting then you open yourself to potential dissent, criticism, and being unpopular which may not be what you are looking for.
Thanks everyone for your patience with me.
Since you have opened up a new topic I'm hoping I could ask a question of you and any other Nutties who lean left here on the tail end of this thread.
As someone who is not very political, I have a hard time dealing with cancel-culture and the extremism of identity/woke politics...especially considering how Markle is using the current climate to continue climbing to her goals.
It seems to me that the original goal of teaching and spreading tolerance has failed and the current woke/cancel narrative has gotten so extreme it has thrown fuel on the fire of racial tension, is being used to control the media and certain agendas, punish individuals, and has allowed for someone like Markle to achieve many of her goals.
I had thought that dislike of cancel-culture was something that united us all here but I realize that most of the Nutties who have spoken against it are those who consider themselves ring-wing/right-leaning.
I'm wondering if you and any other left-leaning Nutty can share their feelings on the extremism that has arisen with woke politics and cancel-culture. Is this something that all democrats are behind or has it gotten out of control?
TIA for any opinions from the Nutty "left".😁😁😁
Harry Markle would benefit if I may say so from some of Nutty's clarity, professional expertise and calm.
employment. That was completely beneath you, @JoycesBellinis.
When I get tired of, or angry with, a blog/message board/site, I leave. I don't hair flip, I just leave.
But mostly I just scroll past the posts I don't like.
If I started finding the blog as annoying and upsetting as some seem to, and if I was good at this sort of investigative thing as people like JennS, JoycesBellinis and so many others are, I'd start my own blog, where I'd make my own rules.
We are all presumably adults here, surely able to ignore what we don't like?!
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I’ve often mused that Nutty could post what she likes without fear of being deluged with irate comments and personal insults if she disallowed comments. Her peace of mind would certainly be greater. Over on Yahoo, which was infamous for its vile commentators even before the events of 2020, they have removed the comment feature from their entire platform. I would certainly understand and support Nutty if she opted for this. Life is too short and too precious to constantly be worried about appeasing people and putting out brushfires 24/7 on a personal blog started for fun. I commend her for not doing that, and having the courage to allow public comments. That displays to me that despite allocations to the contrary, she is open minded to many views.
If she weren’t, I still say that would be her right in her personal blog to slant her pieces however she wants. I think of it as I would a book that was in dynamic process. Wouldn’t she have the right to publish a book with a conservative slant if she wanted? Too right she would. As readers we always have the choice in what we choose to consume, comment upon, and also get angry about. It takes a well balanced mind to welcome disparate views. Welcoming discussion doesn’t mean agreeing with every view—just allowing them to exist without feeling threatened. Nutty’s background as a international journalist gives her a unique perspective, and I hope she sees us through to the end of this extraordinary Harkle saga, however that plays out. I hope we are all still on this mortal coil til that happens but who can say? We could be in for a very long haul. Alternatively, it could be over in a few months. The suspense is killing me!
Thank you for your post at 8:52 pm blog time. I have been wondering the same thing and then wondering if it was my imagination.
I agree with all of your observations. I usually love this blog. But many of the posts in this thread have veered FAR off the narrow political topic of Meghan Markle and whether she might run and are gratuitous, yet at this point the only people being pushed back against appear to be people who aren't right leaning.
I for one thank the universe every day that Trump lost the election. I hate to think where would we be regarding COVID if he were still president. I feel far far safer with anyone but Trump in power.
Since you asked, I'm a very left leaning independent American, and am horrified by the "cancel culture" that has toxically emerged as a control mechanism. Beyond this blog, I encounter the strange phenomenon you describe .... that I sometimes have more in common with "the right" these days, when it comes to concerns about free speech & other constitutional issues.
I very much appreciate your contributions to this Harkle saga, and wish there was a forum to discuss the political aspects of this story without offending others. Just as the psychological, historical and parliamentary aspects of the tale are explored.
Sadly, the "truthiness" of the media, whether it's about Meghan's "suffering" or Biden's diminished mental capacity are not allowed as topics. Or, as the pariah Woody Allen once mused, "reality is not what the people want."
So far as this blog is concerned we have a vainglorious woman who ultimately seeks fame fortune and power and at the expence of anyone who stands in her way and a weak embittered son who has fallen in with the said woman for the purpose of shafting his own family and country. If not approving of such makes anyone of the extreme right (as it will be called and in which I do not believe) then I say, guilty as charged.
In one of his books Malcolm Muggeridge retold a story which he said was the first story and as a child that he had written. The essence of the story was that there was train full of people keen to reach their destination. The train rushed through the first station on the line to the delight of the majority of the travellers. Likewise the second and so on. Instead of stopping however at the majority of the passengers desired station the train to their annoyance kept hurtling on. Muggeridge explained his childhood story this way: the passengers so keen to pass earlier stations were left wing people who when things went further than they were comfortable with cried out in protest. That is the problem with being of the left, it has no teleology other than the guillotine. As Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug) put it: If you had a desk in a room and on one side was David Cameron and on the other Jeremy Corbin and the window in the background was somewhat behind Cameron then Thomas Carlyle the radical Victorian firebrand (were he present) would not be on Corbyn's side of the table but on Cameron's and not merely on Cameron's side but somewhere on the other side of the window, outside, in the yard. The left (ie the French Revolution) may one day stop but presently it is showing no signs of doing so.
Regarding your question here: "I had thought that dislike of cancel-culture was something that united us all here but I realize that most of the Nutties who have spoken against it are those who consider themselves ring-wing/right-leaning.
I'm wondering if you and any other left-leaning Nutty can share their feelings on the extremism that has arisen with woke politics and cancel-culture. Is this something that all democrats are behind or has it gotten out of control?"
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I will say that I am a liberal Democrat, definitely left-leaning, and I hate overly politically correct, "woke" politics and cancel culture. All of my friends and family are also liberal Democrats. None of us are part of this new "woke" politics (not sure exactly what that means). We roll our eyes at a lot of the new "woke" movements and terminology.
I have noticed that since this blog is right-leaning, all Democrats (US) or liberals are painted with a broad brush here, and most posters assume we are all part of this new movement. I hope this helps!
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I also want to say that I greatly appreciate everything you do here, with sharing SO MUCH information. You are such a valuable contributor.
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About all of the politics--it is definitely hard on this blog sometimes to shrug it off. I try to have a conversation with myself, such as "I love SwampWoman's stories about her life and her grandchildren. She is clearly funny and smart and has tons of valuable knowledge. I just don't agree with her politics but I'm not here to discuss politics so just move on."
Usually it works! I love this place as it pertains to the hated duo!
A request, as I don't care to use Twitter ...
Can someone contact Valentine Low of the Times or @remisagoodboy via DMs on Twitter to let them know that the misspelling of Archwell.org also redirects to Meghan's Mirror.
I don't want the irregularity to disappear if it's too public, and I find it hard to believe that H&M's web team don't know how to squat on or redirect domain typos.
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In this particular case, I was trying to make a point about how the media seems to be afraid to challenge either the Sussexes or the new president.
However, I realize that we have differing political viewpoints - which is a good thing! - and will try to keep my focus on the Sussexes.
Thank you for your unbiased but honest observation of the horrible establishment media. If we would demand that our media properly do their jobs, fix our public school system, and stop giving people like Harry and Meghan a stage to air their non existent grievances, we would be much better off as a society.