"To know that there was an entire media organisation designed to bend reality, to manipulate facts…"
There are many reasons to fall in love with the WSL commentator Strider Wasilewski, still boyish at fifty and whom we can imagine falling gratefully asleep every night, tucked spoon-fashion into beloved wife, one hand babyishly grasping a breast as a child clutches a favourite toy for comfort when he enters the frightening realm of a dream.
His now famous attack dog tits, a surf career that included a sponsorship by Quiksilver and a place in the Pipe hierarchy , as well as his rise from the skate ghetto of Dogtown, and now, in his harvest years, in-water commentary at selected World Surf League events.
But a recent post from the Ellen DeGeneres-lookalike has fans wondering, did he just fire a salvo into the WSL’s patented wall of positive noise?
Wasilewski reposted a clip of the noted far left journalist Jon Stewart unironically describing the concentration of government-friendly media in Hungary and how such a thing could never happen in the USA.
To surf fans, his message has chilling parallels with the WSL’s wall of positive noise, where mass-produced furniture is eco friendly, where queer-hating countries are gifted prized tour events and where criticism of the system is strictly verboten.
“If you have a media machine that purposefully lies to its people,” says Stewart, “then that is the hallmark of an authoritarian system… if we were ever to get something like that in the United States we would be horrified…furious… to know that there was an entire media organisation designed to bend reality, to manipulate facts…it would never happen in the United States.”
Chilling!
Questions: is Strider referencing the WSL’s wall of poz noise, does he agree with Stewart’s posit that America’s media would never blindly push a government’s agenda or is he laughing at Stewart’s naiveté?
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NEGS: please file under Russian Enviro Disasters Featuring Ukrainians & Sharks
which Egyptian resort? crossed over to inertians scrabble board and stopped at the
scripp’sCal State Long Beach co-pubbed study on juvies GW’s In SoCal waters…”THEY”RE ALL OVER OUR ANKLES…”the co[op didn’t name any surf spots?
SamGeorge?
(the only comment? “Name the surf spots!”)
roll over Strider and John…make room for OK softball players at a post game interview. if you listen carefully, one might think that this is what Felipe, Gabe, and Italo should be saying…just sayin…imagine that’s JMD on the far right!
We drive on the right here in America.
There’s further far left than Jon Stewart. It’s a space occupied by many. Y’all a bunch of nut ideologues.
(Printed on Banana leaves…)
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
48:50ish mark…
This clip must be very old
Dave Chappelle is center. Jon Stewart was a liberal in the classic sense, then moved far left like many liberals who seemed to forget the basic tenets of liberalism.
Is “Left” now common sense?
Stewart is just mocking what is happening.
Ignore the monster at your own risk, it’s Right at your door.
Far left behind in class Jon Stewart, more like.
Some of us here remember seeing Strider sexually harrass then victim shame some teenage girls minding there own business on a Cabo beach in an old lost… movie. At one point putting his hands down one scared girls shorts and tugging at her g-string and saying “This is your fault, this is what you came here for”. Dude is a fucking scumbag.
Remember that girl on the dance floor?
Squid Row is trouble, Wardo in tow.
Saint Mapski over here.
Dude some of us remember the hot buttered video with the song “youre such a spunk when im blind drunk” on it, tony ray saying he wished he had a sister to fuck, barton hating on gays in an interview in surfer mag, tracks mag saying “all pooftas should be put in a giant piston and squashed”, kelly saying elkertons contest surfing was gay, etc etc.
Deal with it.
In 1994, I won a competition in Tracks Magazine by writing some homophobic shit about my science teacher.
I hope you’re getting the proper counseling
Nah. Just grew up.
When
Like you were never young and drunk, give me a break
its on youtube
how does strider have a million dollar house in malibu? wheres he get the money?
Wasn’t Viktor Orban a keynote speaker at CPAC the last few years? Pretty sure the final goal is some kind of authoritarian dictatorship with some non woke strongman. Isn’t Fox News already kind of the de facto government propaganda channel? Not sure, but Carlin was right. “You have owners, they OWN you.”
Fox is messaging, not news. They registered as entertainment. Murdoch made his fortune on innuendo, gossip, lies, etc… no way was he going to fuck with a successful template and try his hand at legit news. He’s a businessman more worried about liability than information.
Haha, fuked over by an ausie.
I luv it.
Murdoch made his fortune on nwspapers in Adelaide, of all places.
Thrn he became a US citizen so he could make more money.
Hey Dez is BG a media organisation?
I’d say it’s more disorganized diss media.
The beauty of BG is tied to the intellectual word salad they put out which is designed to engage us(the loyalists) with mental gymnastics to figure out what is real and that which is not real. Similar to a shroom bender at HB during the US Open with a Ronnie G shootout…
Pull up your socks and pour some down on the ground for Ronnie G.
Never forget!
I don’t think so!