The Girl Who Cried "Wolf" (and couldn't stop)

There is Truth (with a capital T, representing actual facts substantiated by evidence) and then there is narrative.  Truth exists, but must be sought.  Narrative, by its very nature, is wholly vulnerable to manipulation by the agenda-driven and is perhaps the most dangerous tool employed by every single network, media outlet, journalist and pundit as a means to an end.  And their collective use of narrative is truly, utterly brilliant.  The ability to manipulate, to utilize psychology and science, to affect desired patterns of thought and behavior in an almost wholly imperceptible way is the unquestionable Holy Grail of those who understand the tremendous power inherent in the possession of such an ability.

In reaction to the Michelle Fields / Corey Lewandowski assault allegation debacle that blew up all over Twitter, ensnared journalists and people with opinions far and wide.  Of note is Ben Shapiro - he rode this story like his life depended on it and the Terris guy (who, I think, is FIelds’ boyfriend and was the other “eye witness” to the “assault”.

The alleged incident happened days ago and now, with multiple videos and stills surfacing and disseminated ubiquitously, the variety of tangible evidence - if not completely debunking the allegations, has, at very least cast a broad shadow of doubt on the veracity of Fields’ account of the “incident”.  Now, some 24 hours after it really blew up across SocMed, the White Knighters, feminists and agenda-pushers have fallen strangely silent.  Barely a blip on the radar at this point.

One wonders what will become of the (alleged) charges filed in Jupiter, FL against Lewandowski.  I personally wonder if I’m the only fucking person on earth with the rudimentary skills to review multiple videos frame by frame to determine just who it was that so “violently assaulted” Fields.
A review of the many videos circulating, and analysis of the "incident" frame by frame:

In one of the vids, in the seconds just before the alleged incident btw Corey ("CL") and MF [a scene not shown in the vid linked to this post], CL's body language has the appearance of him indicating something to the Secret Service guy, and the SecSvc agent ("SSA") then moving ahead of CL towards MF.

In viewing vids and stills from many other angles of perspective of the seconds of activity in question, including the moment where MF REACHES FOR TRUMP'S ARM (or sleeve or whatever), it can clearly be seen that the SSA man is alert to something and moves to take action.
In one vid in particular, a brief gap is seen between CL's torso and that of the person to his left; CL's left arm is outstretched in a "crowd control / directing" stance, and the light beige fabric of MF's garment is seen. In that nanosecond, with the SSA forward of CL, and (from a distance / depth of field perspective) closest to MF, with CL's left arm still in the aforementioned raised position, a hand enters the frame, making contact with the beige-colored garment MF is wearing. It appears to be her arm. The video linked here captures literal nanoseconds AFTER that, and this is where CL is seen ushering MF aside.

Assessing CL's body language throughout this entire thing (again, a span of time in the neighborhood of 3 seconds in total), the scenario has the appearance of CL alerting the SSA to something, ostensibly MF's interaction w/Trump, the SSA taking an active interest and forward motion in MF's direction, and CL reaffirming the action with the goal of control of the flow of "traffic" as Trump is attempting to depart the location unhindered.

The question of whether CL made contact with MF may still be up for debate, but the allegations of assault, "being violently jerked" and "nearly thrown to the floor", however, are NOT.
Forensic analysis of vids and stills where an allegation of assault is made is not agenda-driven, but rather a prudent and necessary tool for discerning the veracity of claims made. An analysis like this is a far more dependable piece of evidence on which to rely than notoriously unreliable "eyewitness" accounts. The reliability of eyewitness testimony has long been found to be faulty at best.--

Update, Sunday 3-13-16 6:14pm - Ann Coulter just tweeted “it’s beginning to look like Michelle Fields assaulted Trump”.  Funny how everything I said a day or two ago is popping up across Twitter.  I’m OK with not getting the credit for this shit though - what an absolute shit-show the whole CL/MF thing has been.  Amongst the crowd joining us in the Coliseum are (predictably), the rabid Social Justice Warriors, whose sole and sworn duty is to work themselves into a lather at the slightest hint or allegation of ANYTHING that even remotely triggers them.

A woman claimed to be assaulted by someone at a public event? “Oh my GOD, crucify that loathsome he-man woman-hater misogynist IMMEDIATELY!!  If you question her story or even hesitate for a moment because you’re wondering if there is anything, in addition to her story, to substantiate her very serious allegations, you are LITERALLY a monster and you should die, slowly and painfully!!”.  It doesn’t matter to a certain ilk of people that this incident took place in front of hundreds of onlookers, arguably all of whom were holding cameras, recorders, cell phones, and all means of capturing audio and video moments.

The moments in time of interest were captured by multiple people.  Numerous videos, stills and photographs have circulated across the ether.  Powerpoint slide-like JPGs, GIFs, and forensic analysis of a sort rivaled only by the Wyckoff analysis of the fucking Zapruder film in it’s level of scrutiny have been done by numerous people.  And yet?  That’s STILL not good enough for some people.  The most rabid of pro-Fields folks are strikingly similar to the sort of Tumblr-ific folks who might psychologically shatter if their tightly-held world view is compromised by an iota of infiltration of their echo-chamber hug-box psyche. Fields is a WOMAN, and you are a dirty, orphan-raping monster if you doubt anything a woman says, especially when it men!!

There seem to be quite a few questionable vignettes around Fields out there, but honestly, I don’t know the woman, I have no horse in this race other than the pursuit of truth and because I have an almost perverse addiction to forensic analysis.  I offer no statement either way as to Ms. Fields character, integrity, etc., and I absolutely don’t condone the pitchfork and torch mob going after her.

That being said, one would hope she and Terris would offer up something, anything to rectify the situation, if that’s even possible.  For the Journos who, using specious and scant evidence available to them at the outset, set upon this story like rabid dogs YOU are the people who need to come clean on this.  Purge yourselves of the stink of having jumped the gun, because the initial story elicited a hand-brain response of sorts and you absolutely ran with it.  A greater clarification has been determined since this story first broke.  Your continued adherence to the “that terrible man assaulted that poor, helpless woman!!” trope really just casts serious doubt on your credibility and on your use of “journalist” to describe your profession.  Edward R. Murrow is spinning in his grave so fast, he is just about to create his own electromagnetic field.

Guess who’s back / Back again…

Yep, Michelle Field, Ben Shapiro and some new partners in crime, Liz Mair and Betsy Woodruff.  All literally foaming at the mouth over Field’s trumped-up assault charges on Corey Lewandowski.  This has (of course) blown up all over Twitter and, strangely enough, was immediately shoved into rotation on FoxNews, in stark contrast to virtually no coverage of the Cruz sex scandals.  The strategy REEKS of Liz Mair - who continues to disgust me more with each passing day.  Her M.O. is to play the dirtiest pool she can - street thug style.  I expect to see her hired on at Shapiro’s rag, The Daily (Dumpster) Fire, an online “publication” that has become the absolute benchmark for everything crass and wrong and fucking unholy in modern journalism.  They can’t even call themselves journalists, not with a straight face; they are bought and paid for political hacks, shilling unabashedly for their corporate overlords and violating every single ethical standard of journalism.  Click bait titles that make Daily Best, Breitbart, WND, etc. look like fucking Pulitzer Prize poster children; stories assembled relying on absolutely nothing but “a source said”, or recycling some other publication’s prior shoddy, unsourced, biased heresay garbage.

I hate everything their brand of “journalism” is: predatory, disconnected from reality, purposefully misleading, willfully obtuse, painfully exploitive.

And then a wild Betsy Woodruff appears.  Just sent Cernovich a pic of her I found via Fields’ Instagram (these fucking kids today and their entire lives publicly available…), appears to be wearing something VERY VERY similar to the girl in the pic, most notable is her very prominent chin, and of course, that she’s yet another “journalist” in the fucking tank for Cruz.  He’s such an intensely unattractive, creepy guy.  I can’t for the life of me fathom, even taking into account the Senator thing, power, status, etc. why on earth ANY young, attractive woman would ever want to sleep with him. UGH.  He’s so gross, and he’s like, a first time Senator! WTF? It’s not like he’s Paul Ryan or anything!  (Shhhh! Don’t tell anyone I think P-Ry is a-dorrrbs!  It’s probably the dreamy blue eyes and the whole Wisconsin thing.  I used to fucking LOATHE him, when he was running with Romney in 2012.  Maybe that’s the reason - Romney.  That smarmy fucking putz.  “Elder Gent” of the GOP, my ass. Ha ha ha.  BTFO, more like it.

It’s all a carnival ride.  The media runs with every single shred of everything, and the consumers of their output.

The absolute worst thing about all of this, in a macro sense, is that once you see beyond the veil, you can never un-see what you’ve seen.  Once you learn a truth, you’re unlikely to un-learn it, unless of course, it ceases to be true; though if it were a True(™) truth to begin with (in accordance with my standards for Truth(™)) it most likely wouldn’t be up for debate.  Whatever, more on Truth(™) later.  I was trying to articulate that if you’re someone who just happens to have nothing but free time - maybe you’re in a minimum security prison and you’ve earned internet access with all your good behavior and whatnot - and can sit around all day, every day on Twitter (the information junkies’ Valhalla crack den), you start to see patterns appear.  You start to see deeper into the layers of the media, social media, psychology, hive-mind, how stories break, where they break from, with what speed they replicate across the internet.

How do we bring about a drastic change in the media? How do we separate legitimate journalists from the plethora of absolute hacks out there; hacks who spend every waking moment posting nothing but heresay, rumor, allegation and presenting it, unsourced, as actual news?

The ability of any idiot who knows how to type and use the internet to call themselves a “journalist” and to slap up a blog and call it a “news source” has led to an influx of truly awful click-bait mills.  It is alarming how seldomly one is able to find an article that presents facts without filling the rest of the space with opinion and biased reimagining of reality.

I always thought the profession of journalism carried with it a certain standard of ethics around truth, impartiality and equity in how any given story is parsed and presented.  I was clearly very wrong, and it has never been more apparent to me than it is now in this election cycle.

Since early March, the long-since-debunked “Grab Gate” [Gates of Our Lives] has monopolized the Twitterverse almost daily.  Despite the availability of videos from every angle, eye-witness accounts, a litany of past bogus accusations on Fields’ part, and analysis more thorough than that of the Zapbruder film, there yet remain people steadfast in their conviction that that poor, young reporter was manhandled by that terrible, awful Trump “henchman” and as such, said henchman should be executed by firing squad!

Absolutely nothing sways their firm belief in their own correctness.  Not facts, not actual video, not a track record littered with false accusations, nothing.  Worse still, these same people (typically, Cruz supporters - a group I am at once truly beginning to both despise and pity) add this incident to their collection of seething, bitter, unfounded abject hatred for Trump and everyone who supports him in any way.  I’m particularly fond of the latest dreck to bubble up through the fucking ooze of the Cruz Camp, the accusation that Trump supporters idolize and worship him; that we are nothing but uneducated, violent, Nazi sympathizers who realistically shouldn’t be able to dress ourselves in the morning, let alone form a cohesive, intelligent thought.

The irony in that accusation is palpable; the reality is that despite really quite compelling evidence that something just isn’t right with Ted Cruz and that he is wholly unsuitable for POTUS, the Cruz Crew clings to him as if he were their Canadian born, rat-faced, DC-insider Lord Jesus.  The cognitive dissonance necessary to still believe the “uber-Christian, wholesome family-man, man of god” bullshit is immeasurable.  At least most Trump supporters can articulate something reasonably factual, reasonably coherent as to why they have chosen Trump.  This is not the case with the Cruz Crew, by and large. Their responses to anyone questioning their high priest are comprised of ad hominem attacks, strawmen arguments, personal attacks and childish insults. They seem wholly incapable of engaging in anything remotely resembling civil discourse.  Even when approached civilly, their rebuttals typically involve “NO U!” And “Ur guy SUCKS!”.  Or, they employ the “regurgitate lies the media has told me, present them as fact and then claim victory in the skirmish”.

I’ve had more productive and civil interactions with pro-lifers and THAT is saying a lot.
There is a component of willful ignorance at play here as well.  Someone perceived as being pro-Trump in any way could be reading off a recipe, and people of the Cruz Crew ilk will dismiss the facts out of hand, and vilify the messenger.  Theirs is a visceral, involuntary reaction to anything Trump related.  They, like SJWs do when faced with anything that goes against their narrow ideology, completely shut down all areas of the brain responsible for critical thought, civil discourse, unbiased investigation and review of facts and the ability to discern concrete fact from everything else.  They suck in heresay and rumor like black holes of stupid, and reject anything at all that deviates from their hug-box echo chamber.