Posted on 02/10/2018 4:49:48 AM PST by Rumierules
It’s too bad that an excellent article like this gets 40 posts and a Qanon thread gets 500-600 comments.
......”It’s too bad that an excellent article like this gets 40 posts and a Qanon thread gets 500-600 comments”......
Kids like to play guessing games and follow the dots in the play room . We seem to have a lot of them here anymore....that’s why we so so many one liner posts without any real substance.
Oh how I miss the days when debates were passionate and informative.
That kind of dialogue doesn’t fit in well in the world of social media.
Unfortunately, it is exactly what we need.
What is the most effective way to destroy a narrative that has been composed of artfully crafted sound bites?
Great article by McCarthy, but he could have made it better by noting Byron York’s great point from a few days ago.
Byron York made the point that the FBI’s explanation to the FISA court about Steele going to the press because he was upset about Comey reopening the Hillary email investigation because of Anthony Weiner’s laptop, was a lie because Steele went to the press, especially Yahoo News, before Comey reopened the investigation. -ajf
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-what-explains-the-fbis-deep-faith-in-trump-dossier-author-christopher-steele/article/2648488
Excerpt from York:
In January 2017, when the FBI went back to the FISA court to ask permission to extend the surveillance of Page, the bureau conceded it had ended its relationship with Steele because of his “unauthorized disclosure of information to the press.” The FBI explained that Steele was upset about the re-opening of the Clinton email investigation, and in his anger at the FBI took his information to reporters. “[Steele] independently and against the prior admonishment from the FBI to speak only with the FBI on this matter, released the reporting discussed herein [that is, the dossier] to an identified news organization,” the FBI wrote in the application to extend surveillance.
But the anger story wasn’t true. No matter how angry Steele might have been about the re-opening of the Clinton investigation, the fact is, Steele talked to the press — Post, Times, New Yorker, CNN, Yahoo — before the Clinton investigation was re-opened. It was part of his work for Fusion GPS.
The point of the Chris-was-angry-so-he-talked-to-the-press story was to allow the FBI to claim that Steele’s pre-anger work — the dossier — was entirely credible. “The FBI continued to cite to Mr. Steele’s past work as evidence of his reliability,” Grassley and Graham wrote, “and stated that ‘the incident that led to the FBI suspending its relationship with [Mr. Steele] occurred after [Mr. Steele] provided’ the FBI with the dossier information described in the application. The FBI further asserted…that it did not believe that Steele directly gave information to Yahoo News that ‘published the September 23 news article.’” The FBI used the same argument in all its requests to renew the Page surveillance.
But of course, Steele had given the information to Yahoo. And it wasn’t because he was mad about the Clinton investigation.
......”What is the most effective way to destroy a narrative that has been composed of artfully crafted sound bites?”.....
I guess it’s like telling what a counterfeit dollar is from a real one. Learn really well what a new one is.
Oh how I miss the days when debates were passionate and informative.
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True. Conservatives complain about the state of the media, but then jump to the prediction/conspiracy articles and stories instead of solid journalism.
Generation brain fluffs seem to be the current trend.
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