ADDRESSING THE POINDEXTERS

Ok, time to take a break from the news to address the Poindexters among us…

What am I even talking about?

Allow me to explain…

Yesterday, I published this article:

UGLY: Dan Bongino Fued With Matt Gaetz EXPLODES!

Today, the Comments Section to that article and my Inbox have been flooded by people thinking they're so smart and they love the smell of their own farts so much that they had to correct me on how to spell "feud".

Like sweet old Marilyn C. who emailed me to say: "It's Feud, dingbats!"

Ouch!

Or Susan who took time out of her day to tell me to "Learn to spell!"

Show me on the doll where this hurt you, Susan...

Barbara L was nicer, so I won't point out that even in her attempt to correct me, she face-planted and wrote "Feed" instead:

Israel honk Mark W., from his iPhone 15 ProMax (so cool Mark!) went with the passive-aggressive "what is a fued?"

Apparently Mark is also way too cool or too busy to capitalize the first word of a sentence, although I've always found that hilarious because your iPhone 15 ProMax will automatically capitalize the first letter of a sentence, so to get it lower-case so you look super cool and trendy you actually have to hit a button to cancel out that auto-capitalization, which means you're a total loser tying to look cool and trendy:

And then there was Syracuse Lana who told me to "Try using a spell checker!"

Although, it seems as though Syracuse Lana doesn't know that "spellchecker" (one word) is the proper spelling for the noun, and "spell check" (two words) is more proper when using it as a verb:

There were more, but you get the idea....

So why am I even talking about this?

Is it because I'm so defensive and my world is crumbling because I spelled a word wrong?

Ummm, no.

As you can see, I haven't even changed it.

Don't really care.

In fact, I'm thinking about misspelling words intentionally from time-to-time going forward because the amount of views, clicks and revenue I'm earning from one misspelling is off the charts!

So thank you all for that.

But the real reason I am writing this is to address the people who commented from way up high on their high horses...

Maybe you're new here, and if so I'm glad you're here.

But if you've been here for a while, have you honestly learned nothing over the last 10 years?

That's why I wanted to write this article, to ask that question.

How have you been around here and still feel the need to leave comments like that?

Do you honestly have no comprehension of the intentional trade-off I made 10+ years ago when I started this site?

I saw a major problem in the world, which is the fact that the TRUTH was not getting out to the people.  There was massive censorship and the so-called "Mainstream Media" were never going to get the job done.

Oh sure, they could put out extremely arrogant, condescending articles edited by the New York Times Editorial Board, that could be perfectly edited with a lot of high-end grammar and syntax and words that no one has ever used in real life plucked from a Thesaurus with the sole goal of loving the smell of their own farts and trying to impress their fellow writers at the New York Times or Washington Post with how elite they have become!

I wanted to jump in and get the news out to the people without censorship.  Get it out quickly.  No NYT Editorial Board censoring what I could print.

So joining any existing "Legacy Media" was out of the question.

I had to start my own site, which I did back in 2015.

I started with zero.

Zero tech experience to know how to even build a website...

Zero journalism experience.

Just a Mission and a passion to print the truth.

So I started.

I didn't have a big budget.  In fact, I had no budget.  Everything I did came out of my pocket.

For years I operated this website at a loss, personally funding all operations by myself.

I don't have an Editorial Board editing every article I post.  No one checking all the commas and spellings.  No office.  No staff.

It's just me.

And so I knew 10-years ago I had to make a trade.  I had to trade the PERFECT for the "good enough".  

I could obsess about getting every article exactly perfect and only publish 1-2 articles a day, and then less truth would get out.

Or I could do my best (that's one of our core beliefs around here, to do everything with as much passion and excellence as possible), but move fast and get a lot of news out, knowing there might be a typo or misspelling here or there.

I consciously made that trade because I knew that's where the greater good would be found.

And I also knew that most people (far over 99%) don't care about a small typo here and there -- only the Poindexters care. Only the dorks.  Only the people who are more boring than watching paint dry.

Everyone else loves simply getting the story quickly and without censorship!

Not from someone at the NY Time editorial board who sits around all day smelling their own farts and looking up words in a Thesaurus so they can try and be 5% more pretentious today than they were yesterday....

No!  No one likes that.

People actually like the scrappy guy who is doing his best and might make a typo along the way from time to time.  You know, a regular guy like all of you!  Turns out, most people like that.

Because flash-forward 10+ years and I have currently published 49,941 articles and we have 5+ million readers each month.

And do you know what?

I bet there have been multiple typos and multiple misspellings along the way!

In fact, I bet this very article has at least one typo in it that I won't catch!

And if you're a Poindexter, I hope you comment all about it!  Let the world know about your extreme dork-ism!

Meanwhile, I'm busy reaching people, we're getting the truth out, and we're making an impact.

In fact, at 5+ million monthly readers, I believe we've become big enough that we probably had an impact on the 2024 election.  I'm not at all claiming we had the only impact or even the deciding impact, but reaching 5+ million people with the news each month could only have helped President Trump win his third election.

And I'm incredibly proud of that.

That's a trade I would make every single time.

But what I really want to ask the Poindexters who felt they had to correct me with comments like "dingbat!" is this: Have you truly learned nothing over the last 10 years?

My situation with this website is EXACTLY the same as Donald Trump and Joe Biden/Hillary Clinton.

Don't you see it?

Donald Trump can sometimes be rough around the edges, you might even get a few naughty words from time to time (sorry Franklin!) and he may not always be "perfectly Presidential", like when he just told us yesterday that Melania doesn't like when he does his trademark dancing....

In contrast, you have someone like Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden (before he started slurring his words).  They would always look perfectly polished!  Never a foul word!  They would smile to your face and stab you and America in the back when you're not looking!

For anyone who remembers the SAT, Donald Trump is to Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden as Noah and the WLT Report is to the "Mainstream" Media!

How can you not see it?

You will go far out of your way to call me a dingbat for having a typo in a word, and yet you don't see that I've had to make this trade-off to get the news out at a significant volume over the last 10 years to make a difference!

Donald Trump is extremely intelligent (and so am I, by the way), but he intentionally limits his vocabulary to use short, small words.

Why?

To reach the masses and make his points really easy to understand!

Did you know I purposely do the same thing here?

We have an internal policy that says I don't want anything at written at higher than a 6th grade reading level.

Why?

Is it because I don't think our readers are smart?

Of course not!

We've got some of the smartest readers around.

I do it because when trying to have successful mass communication, you need to reach everyone and even smart people don't like to always feel like they need to get a dictionary out to understand something they just read.  It's annoying!

Did you notice I also write extremely short sentences and paragraphs?  I do that for the same reason....to make it easy and quick to read!

I could spend all day long substituting big words you've never heard of in my articles (like the arrogant and condescending New York Times) but that would entirely defeat the point of what I'm trying to do here.

So to everyone who felt the need to criticize me, I just have to ask: Are you new here?  Or have you really not been paying attention the last 10+ years?

It scares me for the future of this country that people could so quickly turn on me and send such rude comments after seeing my body of work for 10+ years here.  You really think it's productive to turn on each other like that?  You offer NO grace for one typo?  You think infighting and insults are what you should default to?  Really?

Folks, the only thing the Democrats ever get right is they stick together.

But Republicans and MAGA are constantly fighting and turning on each other and I really hate to see it.

It's ironic that the article that started all of this was covering that very topic!  And then this proved it again.

As someone who has served all of you for 10+ years with a FREE service, that is really the thanks you want to send me?  "Dingbat"?  Really Marilyn?

And can you really not see that in order to reach 5+ million people each month and pump out 10-30 articles per day with no funding of any kind, no big budgets, no editorial team, just me -- that you have to make some tradeoffs?

Do you really have such short-sighted view and such lack of wisdom that you really can't see any of that?

Oh how sad for you!

How small and petty your lives must be to turn on the guy who's literally leading the charge for TRUTH because putting me on blast with a comment will make you feel better about your life for a second or two?  Really?

And you don't see all the sacrifices I have made to take on the "MSM" head-to-head over this last decade....and win?

Really?

THAT is the guy you want to turn on?

I suppose though, and I will end with this, that the reality may be much better than this.  These may just be the sad, squeaky wheels....and that's actually probably true if I run the math.

Because even if I assume 50 people wanted to call me out like sweet old Marilyn (Dingbat!), that's only 50/5,000,000 and the math on that is actually 0.00001% of our readers.

So perhaps things are not as bleak as I had thought.

Oh they're bleak for the 50 Poindexters, but not for everyone else.

In fact, I guess the math is telling us you are all 99.9999% awesome!

Just 50 losers.

God bless the rest of you and thanks for being here with us!

How does that sound?