I'm sure I'm not the only person who has noticed how the word "baseless" crops up incessantly in the MSM to describe various claims about the election that is just behind us.  It keeps coming back like a bad penny, or like Groucho Marx's "say the secret word" on You Bet Your Life, where the duck comes down from above bearing a small cash amount.  Surely, TPTB want to drum this into everyone's head, gaslighting on a very large scale, so that those who exercise their right of free speech (as enshrined in the Constitution) will even come to doubt themselves, and "get their minds right".

We could make a drinking game out of this!  Anytime you hear the word "baseless" in the MSM, or even read it in print, you take a drink.  In that I am a 99.5% teetotaler, my poison of choice would be something like club soda or tomato juice with salt, pepper, and Worcestershire sauce, but for those who choose to ingest beverages with C₂H₅OH, well, designate a driver, because you're going to be pretty excrement-faced after you've watched Chicken Noodle News for awhile.  Ditto for NBDNC.

And in a similar vein, I saw newly elected Republican congressman Madison Cawthorn being grilled... er, I mean interviewed, on Chicken last night by one of Don Henley's "bubble-headed bleach blondes", and our little princess was trying to wheedle out of him an admission that the November elections were legitimate.  She would not let up until she got her auto-da-fe, which, shamefully, she finally got.  One wishes Mr Cawthorn would have said something like "I'd prefer to defer judgment or comment on that matter, in that the courts refused to hear arguments that should have been brought before them and considered in their entirety, looking only at the evidence, and disclosed in full to the American people through a free press and other means of public record".  But he didn't.  I expected better of him.

Here's the link.  They trotted this out on their main page.  Don't know what that boy was thinking.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/24/politics/madison-cawthorn-president-joe-biden-election/index.html

I counted two B-words today, one in the NYT, one in the WaPo.  One of them, I was drinking unsweet tea from KFC, the other one, I don't recall what, if anything, I was drinking.  Incidentally, tonight's dinner beverage (hamburger steak, macaroni and cheese, canned corn) was a delicious bottle of Hoegaarden. 

I will not say the B-word unless I have had a chance to look at all charges, and either become convinced in my mind they are true, become convinced they are B-word, or become convinced that I can't come to a conclusion.  True "news" presents the facts and the arguments from all sides, and allows the reader to make up their own mind.  There's not much true "news" out there these days.

Whenever I read the MSM these days, I'm reminded of a tourist book (in Russian, Ukrainian, and English) with pictures of the city of Lviv in Ukraine, that my mother-in-law gave me, after I coveted it during a visit with her.  The English version has CPSU propaganda so thick you could cut it with a knife, all kinds of spucatum tauri about Lviv having found her happiness in the brotherhood of friendly socialist peoples, and so on.  We will guide you and lead you into the new age.  Trust us.