Posted on 02/04/2018 4:13:08 AM PST by Kaslin
This week we saw a perfect example of how corrupt journalism has become. There was an opportunity to report the news and journalists and their fellow travelers in the pundit class balked. While that wasn’t unusual, what was is how they did it in the lead up to the news, not bothering to wait until they’d seen what they were attempting to discredit. There was an unprecedented attempt to make the release of the FISA memo NOT NEWS before anyone knew what was in it.
Over the past two weeks, Democrats scrambled to “warn” the public that the release of the FISA memo would “damage national security” were it released. Journalists picked up the mantra and ran with it, unquestioningly parroting it in badgering Republicans about why they would support its release considering this charge. There was virtually no discussion as to whether or not this allegation was true or an attempted partisan distraction, it was simply accepted and repeated as if it had been carved into stone tablets by a burning bush and sent directly to the teleprompter in their TV studios.
The memo, of course, was nothing of the sort. There was nothing that was a threat in any way to national security, no remote mention of sources or methods. It was all a Democratic Party lie immediately adopted by journalists. As with past false stories that needed to be retracted or corrected, there was no comeuppance for those who spread the lie to the media, nor the media figures who regurgitated it. It happened, and when it was proven to be a lie, it was memory-holed. (This story on the subject to not even mention it.)
The lying by Democrats in the lead up to the memo’s release wasn’t surprising, nor was the complicity of journalists in spreading that lie. What was is how there was virtually no curiosity or interest in the memo and its contents in the days leading to its release from the people whose job it is supposed to be to convey information to the public. All journalists did was attempt to taint it’s release so as to foster disinterest in it in their audience when they could finally see it.
Once it was released to the public, the discussion shifted to anything but its contents or the fact that unverified Clinton campaign opposition research was used as justification to spy on an American citizen without disclosing that’s what it was.
Now, I don’t know anything about Carter Page, the subject of that spying, beyond the fact that he’s an American citizen. He could be a Russian robot, for all I know. But he’s apparently been the subject of constant government surveillance since 2013 and hasn’t been arrested. That means he’s either the world’s greatest spy who doesn’t leave a fingerprint anywhere, or he’s just some weird guy who, once the government started watching him, they couldn’t stop. I suspect it the latter since the Clinton oppo file had to be used, at least in part, to justify the continued spying.
No one in the media bothered to ask or seemed to care. (There are two very interesting threads on the FISA warrants here from a Member of Congress and especially here from an attorney. I recommend reading them.)
“Journalists” close to Fusion GPS, the Democratic Party front group that helped keep Clinton’s fingerprints off the oppo research, declared the memo a nothingburger. Liberal journalists who routinely report leaks from the left went so far as to complain that conservative outlets got a small head start. (This is a story that will never be written about NBC News or the New York Times. It’s also wild speculation, which is the exact opposite of what journalism is supposed to be.)
Democrats began leaking their claim there is evidence refuting the memo, but didn’t give any and didn’t have to in order for that claim to be reported.
Before its release, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell wasn’t interested, only “concerned” the American people finding out what our government does will “risk 40 years of congressional oversight of the agencies.” How? No need to explain, just declare it and move on. It’s not clear how the FBI and Department of Justice could cooperate less with congressional oversight than they have been, but if they did, according to Mitchell, this burning of the Constitution would be justified because we got a quick peek behind the curtain.
The media clowns came piling out of their car, too. Evan McMullin declared any potential violation of an American’s civil liberties by the government to be just fine because it involved Donald Trump. Liberal CNN conservative Matt Lewis declared the whole thing a “dud,” much to the delight of other desperate Green Room dwellers. In reading these and other poorly written pieces, it’s fairly clear these conclusions were planned before the allegations were heard. Anything for more airtime.
CNN and MSNBC had panels exclusively of liberals denouncing the memo without discussing its implications or content. If the government can award itself the power to spy on Americans simply because someone got drunk and talked themselves up in front of others (George Papadopoulos) and someone else made allegations about that person (Page), there is virtually no one in the country who couldn’t be subjected to government spying.
Journalists weren’t interested in that, or anything else associated with the memo. They, like McMullin, couldn’t care less about government abusing its power as long as it does it against people they don’t like. We saw this play out with the IRS scandal during the Obama administration – the media ignored it as long as they could, talked about it for a quick minute, then returned to repeating the lie that Obama’s tenure was “scandal-free.”
Were Trump not President, were the Oval Office occupied by any of the other candidates who ran in 2016, the story would be nearly the same. There might not be the personal ferocity or sense of urgency, but the simmering contempt would still be there and it would still dominate the actions of these people.
They don’t care. Journalism is dead. It didn’t die of natural causes, it was murdered by its practitioners in the name of attacking Republicans, in particular Donald Trump.
The way the media circled the wagons when Dan Rather was busted for airing a forged memo as bombshell “fact” in the closing months of the 2004 presidential election shows journalism has been dead for some time.
The MSM never did air the overlay gif.
They continued to assert “fake BUT accurate”. Time-Lies-Warner-HBO even created a propadrama teleplay to sell this lie.
The collusion of Journolist reporters to coordinate on press talking points was never publicly aired on the MSM.
The coverup of video of Obama toasting an Islamic terrorist, meeting with Nation of Islam’s black separatist antisemitic leader, photos of him smoking pot, were ALL suppressed until after he was safely in (or even out) of office.
It’s clear now the Watergate reporting was not journalism but rather a partisan attack on Nixon.
There is still journalism. But, elsewhere.
THEY have distinguished themselves as
seditionists and terrorists and traitors
and Americans will now make them may the price.
MSM journalism is part and parcel of the liberal fascist crime family now attempting to destroy America.They are part of the racketeering network. Look ast the Is-a-cough Yahoo News article, organized by Steele, used in a FISA court warrant application to legitimize the bogus Steele Dossier, to get wire taps of the Trump campaign for Obama’s personal political use.
The magic negro was and is a racist of the first water. Representative King is right. Obama’s fingerprints are all over the conduct of the dirty FBI and DOJ. This is racketeering of the highest order. They all must be prosecuted under RICO just like an organized crime “family” would be.
Oh my, Obama weaponized the DOJ, FBI and the IRS against his political opponents? Yes he effing well did by appointing non patriot minions loyal to Obama personally rather than to the Constitution. The magic negro did not walk on water, he was a liberal fascist racketeering crook of the first water who walked on the backs of downtrodden American patriots who he castigated as “privileged,” including white folk, Asians and any minority and ethnic person who had made themselves economically successful who failed to support him.
For those who are “SO SURPRISED” that the magic negro conducted himself like a tin pot banana republic dictator, you must have been asleep? Look what he did t9o Kenya in 2006/2007. Talk about violations of the Logan Act? His advice to Odinga to protest his electoral loss liberal fascist Chicago style caused inter tribal warfare and the deaths of over 4000 people in 2007, many of them innocent non participants. It was genocide sponsored by Obama and his Chicago political machine. And then this so called “magic” became president. May Obama rot in hell for his nefarious
sins , which were cheered on by the quintessential racist, Black Supremacist Rev. Ralph Wright, whose Chicago congregation Obama was a member for over 20 years.That’s not a “racist” statement. its a fact!
Representative King is exactly right. Obama tried to “revolutionize” America by turning our nation from melting pot cohesiveness to the cultural mosaic of disparate communities of anti-white racial and ethnic minorities. The sanctuary cities defying Federal Law now as if independent confederacies leaving the union are the magic negro’s legacy, which must be destroyed utterly.
President Trump is doing his best to bring our nation back from the brink of minority and ethnic nationalism, and the control by a dirty , compromised judiciary, police state FBI, police state DOJ and a police state IRS.
So who will America pick in November of 2018? Lets hope that Republicans gain at least 12 seats in the Senate and another 40 in the House.
Patriots must campaign vigorously to save our nation from these Saul Alinsky inspired bastards and their magic negro running dogs. Roll up their networks within the government using the RICO statute which is designed for the purpose of destroying racketeers.This includes some of the MSM who have been broadcasting liberal fascists jingoism and propaganda for years.
And if you wonder how we have liberal fascists destroying our nation, here is a great read about how that happened:
The Quintessential Liberal Fascist:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
“Journalist” = Communist propagandist.
It’s turned into urinalism..
Before Dan there was CNN’s Eason Jordan admitting that all the news coming out of Baghdad prior to the war was just Hussein’s propaganda......
CNN covered up torture abuse and murder under Saddam Hussein to maintain their Baghdad bureau.
There has to be a way to stop them; like take away their credentials, licenses to broadcast, etc. but they just don’t see that they are doing wrong!
The Left wanted Nixon impeached in his first term, long before Watergate ever occurred.
The Left wanted Reagan impeached in his first year, long before Iran-Contra.
The Left wanted Bush 43 impeached long before Abu Ghraib.
The peaceful transition of power ended over 55 years ago.
There has to be a way to stop them
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Don’t take their product in any form.
There’s no will to even halt the Leftist propaganda on government radio and TV. There’s certainly no chance of reining in private propagandists.
Katherine Herrige......journalist
Back in the 50’s I remember a high ranking soviet being interviewed by a journalist and he made a comment that holds true today, “these are useful idiots” once in power they will be the first to go
Yes she is a journalist, and a good one too.
The media, like the Democrats, is fine with the spying, because Trump. So to them this really is a nothingburger. It’s like when the IRS was targeting conservative groups. The media kinda liked the IRS doing that. Therefore it wasn’t a scandal.
Yup...she is one of a handful.
I wonder how the Journ"O"list sleep at night knowing they sold their integrity and credibility for an political ideology.
The left’s been quite successful in reigning in the ability to voice not only opinions, but facts too.
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