Rolling Stone points out the insanity of the media and much of the Democratic Party about the "Russians own Trump" trash:
The aforementioned Mensch, a noted loon who thinks Putin murdered Andrew Breitbart but has somehow been put front and center by The Times and HBO's Real Time, has denounced an extraordinary list of Kremlin plants.
She's tabbed everyone from Jeff Sessions ("a Russian partisan") to Rudy Giuliani and former Assistant FBI Director James Kallstrom ("agents of influence") to Glenn Greenwald ("Russian shill") to ProPublica and Democracy Now! (also "Russian shills"), to the 15-year-old girl with whom Anthony Weiner sexted (really, she says, a Russian hacker group called "Crackas With Attitudes") to an unnamed number of FBI agents in the New York field office ("moles"). And that's just for starters.
Others are doing the same. Eric Boehlert of Media Matters, upon seeing the strange behavior of Republican Intel Committee chair Devin Nunes, asked "what kind of dossier" the Kremlin has on Nunes.
Dem-friendly pollster Matt McDermott wondered why reporters Michael Tracey and Zaid Jilani aren't on board with the conspiracy stories (they might be "unwitting" agents!) and noted, without irony, that Russian bots mysteriously appear every time he tweets negatively about them. ...
Some 13.2 million people voted for Sanders during the primary season last year. What percentage does any rational person really believe voted that way because of "fake news"?
I would guess the number is infinitesimal at best. The Sanders campaign was driven by a lot of factors, but mainly by long-developing discontent within the Democratic Party and enthusiasm for Sanders himself.
To describe Sanders followers as unwitting dupes who departed the true DNC faith because of evil Russian propaganda is both insulting and ridiculous. It's also a testimony to the remarkable capacity for self-deception within the leadership of the Democratic Party. ...
But when it comes to Trump-Putin collusion, we're still waiting for the confirmation. As Democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters put it, the proof is increasingly understood to be the thing we find later, as in, "If we do the investigations, we will find the connections."Go read it in full. When a progressive publication like Rolling Stone calls this madness, and points out that the establishment just doesn't want to face up to why they lost, it's a bad sign.
I think Maxine Waters and the others who are just convinced that "Well, Trump must have done something, and we'll find it, are still stung by Ken Starr and the investigation that to their amateur minds, at least, seemed to have ranged all over the place, lighting on something other than what he started to look for.
ReplyDeleteThey are apparently not aware of the "in plain sight" rule, that says LEO can take note of contraband and other evidence of a crime, even if they aren't searching for THAT crime when they see it. They don't even need a search warrant for X when they see Y if they are in the location lawfully, as when they might be pursuing a fleeing felon into someone's backyard and house, and they see the Meth lab or whatnot.