Said Without Evidence

[Colonel Obyezyana]

An "editorial needle" or "editorial spike," occurs wherever a hooligan journalist inserts an unnecessary phrase into reportage that serves only to disparage or cast doubt on the integrity of a person. It's a vicious practice that strays far from concise and objective reporting and spills into the realm of partisan propaganda by tainting the story.

A perfect example:
 

"________ said, without evidence, that..." 

This phrase is poisonous enough, but when it's applied repeatedly by jackal journalists  and immediately echoed by other jackal journalists, it's a clear sign that those journalists share an agenda: to sow distrust.

The phrase has been used a lot lately but it's not new and—this may come as a surprise to some—left-wing Fox News Radio division is guilty of using the device for years to delegitimize Trump claims. Evening Fox opinion shows may lean conservative but Fox News division does not.

The flaw in the phrase is that it assumes you—the listener—have no memory of past events and will not notice that plenty of evidence may have been produced. The phrase often walks right by a mountain of evidence to deliver the gratuitous cheap shot, because taking the time to justify its use would reveal it as false, unjustifiable, and irrelevant to the story in question.

Here at The Cube, we create satire and parody, which gives us great liberty to be critical through humor. Hopefully, the shots we take are grounded in truth rather than partisan hatred. Sadly, the same cannot be said for the leftist legacy media complex.

A more appropriate use of the phrase, but we'll never see it.

[Red Salmon]

Most Equally Esteemed Comrade,

It is so cute when "journalists" learn a new use for a word.  Apparently some "journalist" has discovered that all persons, both passengers and crew, onboard an aircraft are reported as "souls".  Back in the day it was even on Flight Plan forms.  "Souls" referred to live persons on board.  Human remains transported did not count as a "soul".  They were accounted for on a cargo manifest.  This way all the bodies could be accounted for in the event of a mishap.  This is a carry over from sailing ships.  Well now every Talking Head has to tell us how many "souls" were on board the aircraft.  It is trendy.  And pointless.  And kind of grating.

Do Democrats on board airliners count as "souls"?  Asking for a friend.

Red Salmon

 

[Komissar al-Blogunov]

I don't even bother with network news. There are several informed sources with specialized knowledge available on YouTube that make teleprompter readers irrelevant.

Also, putting some distance between myself and the latest, "EXPLODING NUCLEAR BOMBSHELL!!!! TRUMP IS THROUGH!!!!" rhetoric is good for my blood pressure.

[Colonel Obyezyana]

I don't even bother with network news. There are several informed sources with specialized knowledge available on YouTube that make teleprompter readers irrelevant.

How do they bypass YouTube's notorious censorship regime?

(Bear in mind, however, that the topic is a dishonest practice in liberal corporate media, not about source choices).
 

[jackalopelipsky]

To restate the originating quote from Memory Hole File— Because there is no evidence, is why MSMDNC must keep talking about it.

[Colonel Obyezyana]

To restate the originating quote from Memory Hole File— Because there is no evidence, is why MSMDNC must keep talking about it.

Ipse dixit.
 

[jackalopelipsky]

To restate the originating quote from Memory Hole File— Because there is no evidence, is why MSMDNC must keep talking about it.

Ipse dixit.
 

Making your point about jackal journalist statements with no evidence.

https://x.com/i/grok/share/fUdMStv4U8Jwj6ZupLarLlm4r

[Colonel Obyezyana]

Making your point about jackal journalist statements with no evidence.
https://x.com/i/grok/share/fUdMStv4U8Jwj6ZupLarLlm4r

Not the same thing. 

My point is about spiking a quote by inserting "___ said, without evidence."

Their point is that a claim of lack of evidence begs an investigation.
 

[jackalopelipsky]

Making your point about jackal journalist statements with no evidence.
https://x.com/i/grok/share/fUdMStv4U8Jwj6ZupLarLlm4r

Not the same thing. 

My point is about spiking a quote by inserting "___ said, without evidence."

Their point is that a claim of lack of evidence begs an investigation.
 

Gotcha, Colonel. We’re in serious misinformation territory, now…the jackalope said without evidence. Sorry to be wandering in past disinformation acreage. Kick it, Colonel!

[Colonel Obyezyana]

Most Equally Esteemed Comrade,

It is so cute when "journalists" learn a new use for a word.  Apparently some "journalist" has discovered that all persons, both passengers and crew, onboard an aircraft are reported as "souls".  Back in the day it was even on Flight Plan forms.  "Souls" referred to live persons on board.  Human remains transported did not count as a "soul".  They were accounted for on a cargo manifest.  This way all the bodies could be accounted for in the event of a mishap.  This is a carry over from sailing ships.  Well now every Talking Head has to tell us how many "souls" were on board the aircraft.  It is trendy.  And pointless.  And kind of grating.

Do Democrats on board airliners count as "souls"?  Asking for a friend.

Red Salmon

Jackal journalism seeks to defame, which is often done in lockstep. What you describe is Lockstep Parroting, wherein journalists pick up an a word or term and misuse/overuse it to the point that the language itself is altered.

Example: to "center around" instead of to "center on," which is a careless mashup of the terms "revolve around" and "center on." You can revolve around something with a center but you can't "center" around anything. 
It's been used so much that few understand the error anymore.

Another is "hone in on" instead of "home in on." To hone is to sharpen a blade. To home in is to detect the location of a homing device. Journalists and editors have emplyed this mangled language for so long that some dictionaries now include both phrases.

This also explains the now-iconic misuse/overuse of the word, "iconic," to the point that so many trivial things are now described as "iconic" that the word has been diluted to the point of a gratuitous tag. 
 
Anyway, to get back to souls: Democrats despise (Western) religion and only use the word when pandering because they are willingly soulless. 

[Red Salmon]

Most Equally Esteemed Comrade Colonel,

You have Honed In On the Iconic which has been Centered Around.  The choir will now sing.  

I do have one question?  When describing those on board, should both “souls” and Democrats be listed?

Sorry, there is a knock at the door.  Funny, I’m not expecting anyone…

Me and my shovel in the Current Truth™ again,

Red Salmon

[Colonel Obyezyana]

I do have one question?  When describing those on board, should both “souls” and Democrats be listed?

That's a most equal question, Comrade.

At first I was tempted to say "casualties" is the best general term, but then I realized that "casualties" could include those merely wounded (and that many voters wouldn't consider loss of any Democrat as a casualty).

Use of the word "souls" sounds reverent and antiquated and isn't truly necessary when one can use "passengers and/or crew" or both. Cadavers don't include either.

Personally, I prefer to dispense with euphemisms that dance around the plain truth. Instead, "dead" works best, as in "three dead after disaster" and "among the dead are..."

If it's absolutely essential to specify Democrat victims—often regarded as a small blessing—one may refer to them as "the morally and ethically dead." 

 
 

[Panem Et Circenses]

https://apnews.com/article/trump-black- ... 516b6837c2

I try to style my journalism on AP - here is an example of their objective facts-based reporting. Note paragraph 6 "On Thursday, hours after a midair collision between a military helicopter and an American Airlines plane killed 67 people just miles from the White House, Trump baselessly blamed diversity initiatives for undermining air safety, despite no evidence of that."

"... no evidence of that."



"... no evidence of that."

https://nypost.com/2025/01/31/us-news/f ... d-on-race/
 

[Colonel Obyezyana]

I try to style my journalism on AP - here is an example of their objective facts-based reporting. Note paragraph 6 "On Thursday, hours after a midair collision between a military helicopter and an American Airlines plane killed 67 people just miles from the White House, Trump baselessly blamed diversity initiatives for undermining air safety, despite no evidence of that."

"... no evidence of that."

This one is a double-whammy: if you assert "baselessly blamed," that's enough—it's redundant to include "despite no evidence."

Comrade, don't even get me started on Associated Progs or it's über-woke AP Stylebook, which changes every year to accommodate ever more DEI vocabulary and usage in its crusade to bend journalists' speech to the far, far left.   

[Panem Et Circenses]

Yeah, it's baseless and there's no evidence for it. And it's baseless. In case you missed it: no evidence of this exists. Really.

[Panem Et Circenses]

Not giving away all our journalistic secrets, but an editorial needle is just one of our many techniques to keep a low information reader thinking the way we want them to.

The last thing we want is to provide people with objective facts and both sides of an issue or argument.

[jackalopelipsky]

The last thing we want is to provide people with objective facts and both sides of an issue or argument.

When the jackalope is looking for evidence hiding in objective facts, Al Jazerra never fails. The objective facts are presented, but the side issues keeps them hidden.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/3 ... source=rss

Evidently, Khalife duped some Iranian Officials into believing he could provide them with a list of names of active service members they might be interested in. This duplicity was aided by Khalife’s Iranian heritage which enabled him to make the Iranians believe he was really supporting Iran while serving in Iran’s enemy military forces. The American Fort Hood assignment is a fact of no particular interest, so just set that aside, so interest stays there.

Would a real spy act this way? Al Jazerra says such thinking is absurd.

Just a different kind of jackal journalism method to hide the evidence.

[Colonel Obyezyana]

Not giving away all our journalistic secrets, but an editorial needle is just one of our many techniques to keep a low information reader thinking the way we want them to.

The last thing we want is to provide people with objective facts and both sides of an issue or argument.

Comrade, nothing dies faster than a fresh thought in a stagnant mind so there's little to worry about; the mainstream press is a collective of stagnant minds that only echo the needle du jour given them as if playing Simon Says.
 

[jackalopelipsky]

I try to style my journalism on AP - here is an example of their objective facts-based reporting. Note paragraph 6 "On Thursday, hours after a midair collision between a military helicopter and an American Airlines plane killed 67 people just miles from the White House, Trump baselessly blamed diversity initiatives for undermining air safety, despite no evidence of that."

"... no evidence of that."

This one is a double-whammy: if you assert "baselessly blamed," that's enough—it's redundant to include "despite no evidence."

Comrade, don't even get me started on Associated Progs or it's über-woke AP Stylebook, which changes every year to accommodate ever more DEI vocabulary and usage in its crusade to bend journalists' speech to the far, far left.   

Oooops…Associated Presses halted.

[Colonel Obyezyana]

I try to style my journalism on AP - here is an example of their objective facts-based reporting. Note paragraph 6 "On Thursday, hours after a midair collision between a military helicopter and an American Airlines plane killed 67 people just miles from the White House, Trump baselessly blamed diversity initiatives for undermining air safety, despite no evidence of that."

"... no evidence of that."

This one is a double-whammy: if you assert "baselessly blamed," that's enough—it's redundant to include "despite no evidence."

Comrade, don't even get me started on Associated Progs or it's über-woke AP Stylebook, which changes every year to accommodate ever more DEI vocabulary and usage in its crusade to bend journalists' speech to the far, far left.   

Oooops…Associated Presses halted.

Nice catch!
 

[Colonel Obyezyana]

I try to style my journalism on AP - here is an example of their objective facts-based reporting.

Worth the read:
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-gr ... government

 

[Panem Et Circenses]

Ha! That never ceases to amuse me when they call wasting taxpayer dollars on something an "investment."