That the Kremlin had taken over American political institutions through its blackmail control of former President Donald Trump was a media conspiracy theory as pervasive as it was deranged. This once-exciting script was excavated from the CIA’s Cold War basement, dusted off by their operatives, and then kicked off by the intelligence community’s purposeful dissemination of the now-debunked Steele Dossier. And once this fairy tale was launched, there were seemingly no limits on the depths to which media figures would sink to promote it.
Journalists published best-selling books and column after column hyping this melodrama of international intrigue. In what was just one of many low points, MSNBC’s host Chris Hayes earnestly interviewed New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait about the latter’s 2018 cover story speculating that Trump may have been groomed as a Russian intelligence asset since 1987. “Unlikely but possible” declared the on-screen cable graphic as Hayes spoke, summarizing the media’s Trump-era renunciation of all standards of rationality and evidence for disseminating unhinged conspiracies to their audience, at great profit for themselves but great harm to everything and everyone else.
[…]Just imagine what would be happening right now if it were Trump, rather than Biden, who just handed Putin his underwater natural gas pipeline just days after Russian hackers allegedly caused serious gas shortages in the U.S. Jingoistic op-eds would fill the pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post warning of Kremlin control of the U.S.; CNN and MSNBC would convene panel after panel of their former FBI and CIA operatives to accuse Trump of treason for subordinating U.S. interests to Russian interests; Rachel Maddow would be on the verge of righteous and indignant tears as she devoted her 20-minute monologue to decrying the tragedy that we were all living under Putin’s rule; and Nancy Pelosi would be holding a press conference to spread more innuendo about Putin’s blackmail control over Trump while demanding a DOJ investigation.
Biden: Russia Can Have a New Pipeline, but America Can’t
Funny to watch the so-called right turn into a bunch of anti-pipeline zealots, because Russia Russia Russia!
Russia is actually far less Marxist than the west now.
Russia is actually far less Marxist than the west now.
Reason why Frum and the rest of the Trotskyite neocons hate Russia.
My sister and I visited St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) while on a Baltic Cruise in 2012. We did a one day tour of the city (and the Hermitage!) with an Izvetia guide (22 years old university student, female). We were amazed at how capitalistic the city was, lots of BMW’s on the streets, lots of high priced western clothing. Mind you, the handicapped accessibility was “less than special” and the toilet situation at the ballet in the evening, again “less than special”. (I am a former restaurant and hotel designer and had to follow A2 Public Assembly rules in the Ontario Building Code and the Hotel Fire and Safety Act during my 25 year career – so am always aware of these issues or lack thereof.) The energy of St. Petersburg was exciting – I would love to visit the rest of Russia – perhaps it is just St. Pete’s and Moscow where the capitalism thrives.
Funny that while Germany demands American blood and treasure to defend it from Russia, Germany wants to enrich Russia.
NATO should have been dismantled when the Berlin wall fell and the USSR disintegrated. NATO is now just another globalist Islamo-leftist enabler.
And people still sling around the term “McCarthyism” as a pejorative. The reason they had to turn his name into an insult, is because what he was doing was effective. The reason people go around using their language they way they have been instructed? I will leave that as an exercise to the reader.
If McCarthy’s policies were effective, Biden would not be “president.” Sadly, McCarthy failed miserably. Contrast to Putin, who arrests and disappears Globohomo activists, and methodically dismantles their activist networks, like he did with Soros asset Navalny, despite all his western deep state support.
yeahbutt…Globohomoactivists…..are you strapon ghost re-incarnate?
yer credibility just took another hit!
You’re the one advocating strap-on/hockey-ball gag/gimp mask parades, just like your man Navalny, comrade. Luckily for the Russians, they have a leadership that won’t tolerate that kind of crap. Gotta love the craven Albertan leadership: “We’re such cowards that we cower before the feds and shut down our own pipelines at the drop of a hint from the Turd, so whenever anyone else has a pipeline, it should be shut down too! Waaaaa!” Now off to your pride parade, they miss you.
yeahbutt, thanks for the verification of yer STUPIDITY!
Answer: “Unlikely but possible”
Question: “Do you care about what the MSM reports on anything?”
The gutting of the media that will be coming soon will be delicious.
For a couple generations now, Americans have been carefully taught WHAT to think, and no longer HOW to think. So shiny objects, dragged like giant spoon lures flashing bright light in the murky waters … get the dull witted public to bite on artificial bait.
That is the simple explanation for belief in muh Russia … and the FEAR PORN of COVID-19.
How else would 80M (sic) Americans vote (sic) for Biden (sic).
“Biden: Russia Can Have a New Pipeline, but America Can’t”
Only a globalist hack would argue that America should have jurisdiction over foreign pipelines an ocean away. Only a commie would argue that politicians should have jurisdiction over energy production, or health care, or education, or firearms, or transportation, or farming, or marriage, or drugs, or…
+++Y W
Greenwald misses the awful truth that the Russia canard was a poorly disguised anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, in which Jews (“Russians”) thrust Trump into office.
The objective, naturally, was to cover up the real conspiracy by the Chinese communists to neutralize America as a threat to Chinese dominion, a project with which western globalists openly sympathized.
Mind you, it played well in the ghetto and barrio, where the natives are sickeningly anti-Semitic. But Americans who believe in the God of Israel saw through it at once.
Big deal.
We have known for years now;”Whatever evil a Progressive accuses others of,is their true intention”.
As poor wee Jason of Alberta says”We need a new base”.
And his fellow parasites are all working in lock step to produce just that.
Old stock worn out and infertile after 60 years of theft?
Bring in new stock,put them on welfare and encourage them to breed..
As long as the OPM flows they will vote for the scum that brought them..
Strange how Gang Green has no objection to creating a population increase by this method..Yet they shriek mightilly about “reducing family size,to save the environment”.
So now that Comrade Joe has been installed the Democrats can get back to business as usual..
Remember that “Reset Button”?
The obvious question that never was asked by anyone in the media was:
“Why would Putin want Trump to win when every one of Trump’s policies was bad for Putin and all of Hillary’s policies were good for Putin?”
A friend complained that he can’t tell what to believe or disbelieve in the media these days.
I suggested that he can, that he just has to use his ability to think.