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The Entertainer

Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0

Note the structure: the insults arrive first, the evidence never arrives at all, and the whole thing is sealed with a signature as though a name at the bottom converts a mood into a finding. Calling a broadcast fiction and lies while offering not one specific claim is not criticism, it is weather. And the tell is the closing flourish — an attack on the free press that hard-pivots into an event promo, because the grievance and the marketing have long since become the same organ.