Dean Baquet says that after the NY Times was caught "flat-footed" by the dramatic implosion of the Russia collusion hoax they peddled, the team must do a better job with their new narrative: that their political opponents, including Trump, are racist. slate.com/news-and-polit…
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I sort of assumed they weren't so stupid as to actually believe the Russia collusion hoax as much as running a journalistic resistance operation pretending they did. But saying they were caught "flat-footed" by implosion of Russia collusion story intrigues me ...
They were chief peddlers of a dangerously false Russia collusion narrative for years. It blew up in their faces. It was a humiliating failure. Baquet's introspection: "We won two Pulitzer Prizes covering that story. And I think we covered that story better than anybody else."
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In April 2021, I pointed out the absurdity of a hit piece against Kash Patel written by David Ignatius, essentially the CIA's in-house columnist at the Washington Post. Today, CNN Russia collusion hoaxers Natasha Bertrand and Evan Perez closed the loop on a part of that (🧵)
Here's my piece ... in which I noted the curious language Ignatius used to defame Kash. He was "facing" investigation for ... something. thefederalist.com/2021/04/22/dee…
Today, Natasha "I spread Russian disinfo" Bertrand and Evan "OG Russia collusion liar" Perez reveal that it was David Ignatius's own CIA that planted this meritless investigation and that it ended up being so weak that even the Biden DOJ couldn't squeeze anything out of it.
The "Society for the Rule of Law" attacks rule of law -- They use dangerous and destabilizing lawfare to fight Trump and other political opponents. Anywho, they had a conference last week and I watched two sessions and hoo boy was it sad ...
One featured Liz Cheney's BFF Barbara Comstock and George Conway (along with a sad and broken Michael Luttig and moderator Gregg Nunziata). Several of the panelists were absolutely SEETHING with hatred for Trump and repeating the most far-fetched conspiracy theories about him...
This was generally encouraged even though it came off as absolutely bat guano insane. Then there was a session with former White House counsels Don McGahn, Bob Bauer, and Alberto Gonzales, moderated by Peter Keisler. This was better ...
I keep thinking about this McConnell pledge to fight elected Republicans more than Democrats after the election. It's far more insidious and dangerous than it even seems at first blush.
The refusal to accept the legitimacy of the 2016 election is a cause of massive ongoing problems. From 2016-2020, McConnell either aided or impotently fought the Russia collusion hoax, costly investigations, the (1st) bogus impeachment, a well-organized and funded resistance 2/x
For the country to truly heal from this trauma, it is not sufficient to just elect Trump, thereby rejecting these dangerous and damaging information operations perpetrated against Trump and the Republican Party specifically, but against the Constitutional order generally.
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Democrat propaganda outlet CNN is now running wild with stories about Biden needing to step down to help the Democrat Party win in November. But what were they saying about media outlets who reported the facts of Biden's problems days before the debate? Let's look!
CNN anti-speech activist and censorship promoter Oliver Darcy said that noticing problems at the big Hollywood George Clooney fundraiser meant you were "misleading" readers, for example:
Yes. CNN literally had Oliver Darcy call the New York Post to complain on behalf of Joe Biden that they covered POTUS as mentally incapicitated. CNN has in no way apologized for calling such accurate coverage "misleading" as part of their censorship and anti-speech efforts.
Sam Feist, a beloved CNN institutional figure (who ran CNN's Washington Bureau while it ran the false and damaging Russia collusion lie, among other hoaxes,) has been named the new CEO of C-SPAN. Congrats!
This does remind me also of one of the media's most impressive moments in 2020, when C-SPAN political editor Steve Scully was caught conspiring with anti-Trumpist figures ahead of the debate he was supposed to "moderate" and claimed his account was hacked.
And that reminds me of how the Presidential Debate Commission was led entirely by anti-Trumpist Democrats and anti-Trumpist Republicans and they simply canceled the foreign policy debate in 2020 for reasons that have become painfully obvious.
"Defendant spent this money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature, in short, everything but his taxes."
I like that "women" and "adult entertainment" are SEPARATE expenses and that one is $683,212 and the other is $188,960. For a total of $872,172.
"Notably, in 2020, well after he had regained his sobriety, and when he finally filed his outstanding 2016, 2017, and 2018 Forms 1040, the Defendant did not direct any payments toward his tax liabilities for each of those years."