Many Americans suspected, based on incessant media reports, that Trump colluded with Russia. When the evidence showed otherwise, Trump asked the intelligence chiefs to go public with this revelation. Trump felt it was important Americans didn’t think their President was a Russian spy. Somehow CNN twisted this into something sinister. Their allegation is Trump ordered the intelligence chiefs to do something illegal or moral.
And when the intelligence chiefs testified they didn’t feel “ordered to intervene,” CNN analysts overrode what the witnesses said with their own opinions. Opinions based on… well nothing.
Another low for CNN occurred this past week. Many of the critics of CNN caught Jim Acosta in a big screw up. He tweeted that Trump, who went to visit Rep. Scalise in the hospital, never got to see him in his hospital room. This was later corrected by Acosta and he admitted Trump did get to see him. But the lie is not the worst part:
Is Jim Acosta sick in da head?
How sick is Jim Acosta? Did he try to make the President look bad by pointing out that Trump did not get in to Scalise’s hospital room? Scalise was fighting for his life after being shot, Trump went to see him and somehow Acosta finds a negative angle to a hospital visit. Who reports this as news? The fact that it was later shown as untrue overshadows how diseased CNN has become?
Newt Gingrich, the former Trump advisor and former speaker of the house, has been taking flak from CNN. His crime was two (see picture above) seemingly contradictory tweets. Mr Gingrich went from calling Robert Mueller, the man investigating Trump, a “superb choice” to labeling him unfair based on who he is bringing on his team. The punishment for this crime- repeated lambasting by every CNN anchor for a twenty-four hour period.
However, not one journalist bothered to research what Newt was talking about to see if there was a reason for his turnaround. If they did look into the hires Newt mentioned, they would have seen that Newt had a rationale for his new position. CNN never even mentioned one of these hires in their snarky reporting. Had they bothered to look into it, they would have noticed Mueller hiring a series of Clinton faithful as explained by Zerohedge here. This is not to say these people are inherently biased but it’s a valid discussion point.
Maybe twitter needs to lower the character limit of tweets from 140 so CNN can keep up.
UPDATE: Chris Cuomo did bring up the reasoning for Gingrich complaint. He did more than only pointing out the face-value inconsistency.
Most democrats, of even limited intellect, are confronting the reality that there was no collusion between President Trump and the evil Russian government. The allegation that Putin conspired with a bunch of Americans, that included a sitting US senator, to concoct an unholy alliance to manipulate an election, is looking more and more like a fiction. Although Putin does revel in making a mockery of democracy, he could not risk getting caught. Making alliances with Americans is a tad too risky. This beckons the question: What will CNN do when they are left standing naked with their false accusations?
CNN and the democrats have limited options:
(1) They can pretend the stories they’ve been pushing for the past six months were about Russia interfering in the election and not about Trump colluding with the Kremlin.
(2) They can say there wasn’t evidence of collusion but steadfastly imply that the Trump campaign was an ally of Russia.
(3) They can move on to new conspiracies involving conflicts of interest or discuss Trump’s tax returns.
A more in-depth look into the three options:
(1) Option one: There has been a litany of stories lasting one news cycle then dying, centered on the Trump-Russia narrative: The Trump computer server, Trump golf courses and Russian money, Kushner meetings with Russians, the secret dossier, the unknown derogatory information, Flynn taking money from RT, Carter Page, Jeff Sessions’ undisclosed meetings, possible back channel communications, and so on, and so on. One Russia story after the other has surfaced without any follow-up. The media devoted thousands of hours to possible Trump wrongdoings, but the entire narrative will be swept under he rug as they announce: see we told you the Russians tried to interfere in the election and pretend the Trump angle never existed.
(2) The second option is a more difficult magicians trick to pull off. At its core, it is simply double talk. The cable news networks will basically blather on about innocuous nothings, and banal coincidences as they simultaneously imply collusion. In the video below you can see how a typical CNN pundit demonstrates the maneuver.
Even Hillary Clinton knows how to feed this drivel to a salivating public.
“So within one hour, one hour of the Access Hollywood tapes being leaked, within one hour, the Russians — let’s say WikiLeaks, something — dumped the John Podesta emails”
Above she implies that after the infamous Trump video emerged, Donald called on Russia to create a distraction. No evidence needed when you own the minds of the media.
Let It Go!
(3) The third and final option is the scenario I consider most likely. This option requires a belief that the vast public consists of morons. A belief widely adhered to by the brass and anchors at CNN. These people feel no obligation to back up or apologize for endless time wasted on the Trump-Russia shenanigans and will instead move on to new nonsense. Trump is a rich man with global business associates and international ties. The Trump empire is three degrees of separation away from everyone. It is the business version of Kevin Bacon. Conflict of Interest stories require no investigation to manufacture daily, and they can all culminate with the democrats rallying cry; “we want your tax returns.”
Let us examine the game CNN plays with the minds of their audience.
SOURCES: RUSSIANS DISCUSSED POTENTIALLY “DEROGATORY” INFORMATION ABOUT TRUMP & ASSOCIATES DURING CAMPAIGN
CNN’s hope is that people in the doctor’s office look up from their magazines at the TV and see “Russia” and “Trump” in the same headline. This reinforces the Trump-Russia tale they’ve been peddling uninterrupted for months. For those at home, who actually watch the network, the anchors will jabber on for hours adding no other information outside the purposefully vague headline.
My theory, like the Deceleration of Independence, is self-evident. The entirety of the story derives from one (confirmed) source who cherry picked a factoid in which key points are intentionally withheld by the source, so as not to diminish the Trump-Russia narrative. But CNN is adept at laundering any anti-trump dribble into A-block news. Question time:
Was this type of spy chatter common in the past as well? The fact that this is an actual story implies that this is a new phenomenon for Donald J. Trump. Isn’t this what Russian spies have always done?
What is this “derogatory information?” What would motivate a source to leave out this key fact which is the crux of the issue?
“Russians” Can you be more specific? American spies intercept boatloads of Russian spy communications. Is this from some low-level nobody on Facebook or a (i.e.) senior FSB official, they must know.
“Discussed?” If they intercepted the conversation, tell us what they were saying. Was it a plan? Why do we get 1/10th of a story?
“Potentially” This is a qualifier denoting the whole story is quite possibly bogus. The most crucial word in the headline.
Regardless, this story is smoke not fire and will dissipate as such. No one will follow it up because no one cares, it’s as impactful as the golf channel to an eight year old on the way to his cartoons.
The practice of maintaining back channel communications with adversarial nations goes back a long way, and a short way. These bridges serve as important and necessary tools of our nations diplomacy. The United States and the U.S.S.R. were on the brink of a nuclear holocaust in 1962 until cooler heads prevailed via back channels. (See photo above) If that crisis took place today with Trump as president, our media would have preferred a few hundred thousand crispy corpses.
Can I get that in twenties?
President Obama’s administration negotiated the timing of a four hundred million dollar cash payment to Iran, in exchange for American prisoners. The deal was entirely concocted via a back channel. Iran does not have diplomatic relations with the U.S. and like most adversaries requires these alternate means of communiqué.
The generic response to this rebuttal of the back-channel-scandal, entails acquiescence to the need for communications such as these but an unwillingness to stretch that need to cover an incumbent President. This is not the original thesis of the critique but it is a more credible criticism. Unfortunately, it’s based on speculation. All agree there can only be one President at a time and only one policy. However, nothing indicates that Kushner violated this doctrine. No evidence exists to suggest he engaged in any direct negotiations or policy discussion with the Russians. It is plausible that the Trump team was establishing a relationship to deal with Syria and other pressing matters in preparation for when they took office.
Headlines of Lies
The tragedy once again lies within our press corp that is oozing Trump-hate from their pores. Their continuing mission is to fool the public, on a daily basis, into believing something unprecedented is happening under this President. The reporters wrote these headlines with full knowledge of how back channels work. In fact, buried many paragraphs into the propaganda, the authors of the fairy tale inspired articles admit the truth about how communications with adversaries are conducted. But the goal is to hoodwink the public, and a headline is clearly enough to get the fake narrative across.
