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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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."
Just received an email from "VineSight," which claims to be a leading company targeting "disinformation and toxic narratives on social media." They have bragged previously they play a major role in suppressing free speech around environmental and election integrity debates ...
The free speech they're targeting in the "election" section is terrifying. They highlight for their suppression efforts, for example, a @TulsiGabbard TikTok that says of the coordinated Dem strategy to remove Trump from the ballot: "Biden is trying to get Trump off the ballot."
@TulsiGabbard They highlight for speech suppression multiple examples of Americans complaining on Facebook about the coordinated Democrat campaign strategy to politically prosecute Republicans that "Trump's indictment is election interference."
A friend sent the front page of Gannett's Knoxville News Sentinel. Setting aside the anti-gun rights lead story, look at how it runs propaganda for one of the most brazen grifts in modern politics -- the Democrat-run and operated dark money operation "Republicans for Ukraine."
Activists Sarah Longwell and Bill Kristol -- who support Democrat policies and candidates every day -- set up a dark money operation to make money by falsely claiming to be "conservative" and "Republican." The paper uncritically regurgitates their lies and propaganda.
For example, the activists falsely claim most Republicans want to continue funding Ukraine. In fact, not only do most Republicans NOT want that, most AMERICANS don't want that. To take a left-wing media company's example: cnn.com/2023/08/04/pol…