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How the MSM and Russian Trolls Are Destroying the Democratic Party
PJMedia ^ | 20 February 2018 | Roger L. Simon

Posted on 02/21/2018 2:30:43 AM PST by lowbuck

In what feels like the 27th year of the Trump-Russia-Collusion Investigation, what we have most recently learned is that a lawyer no one ever heard of may have made a false statement to the FBI and even erased a few emails concerning events that happened years before the election and have something to do with the Ukraine. We have further learned that a group of Russians in St. Petersburg have been trolling us since at least 2014 (what took them so long?), playing both sides against the middle and even going so far as to organize a post-election demonstration in front of Trump Tower featuring Michael Moore assuring us that "he's not my president!" while being cheered on by some extraordinarily credulous women with microphones from CNN.

Forget going from the sublime to the ridiculous. This has gone from the ludicrous to the harebrained. The fact that anyone could be taking this nonsense seriously anymore boggles the proverbial mind, but they do -- especially at that antediluvian relic known as the mainstream media.

And therein lies the treachery -- not for Donald Trump, who spends far too much time paying attention to it himself, but for the Democratic Party because, seemingly entranced (even hypnotized) by the non-stop (even now) coverage by CNN and other so-called serious outlets, they have completely forgotten who they are, i. e. a political party with policies, goals, etc.

Lost in a Russia-induced haze, the Democratic Party virtually no longer exists. They have no ideas, no proposals, nada. There's nothing but Nancy Pelosi whining about "crumbs" while genuine tax reform is appearing live in people's paychecks. The Democrats can dream about a "wave election," but the only wave that seems to be coming their way is a surfer's wipeout.

Nevertheless, CNN et al. bleat on about Russia, Russia, Russia. I have news for Zucker, Tapper, Acosta and company. No one's interested. This is the boy who cried wolf times twenty. The public has been on to the game for months now. It's even beginning to show in the polls.

In the process, Adam Schiff may have become the most visible Democrat on the planet, but his face is the image of slimy prevarication. He's Nixon with less hair. Everyone sees it -- except for that same loyal media claque. It's hard to understand how they could have been so clueless.

They also didn't get that Devin Nunes is a natural born Mr. Smith, an honest guy from the heartland (Fresno), while Schiff is a natural born hustler representing the Hollywood Hills and Burbank. It's basic casting. The media is supposed to know something about this, but they miss it by a mile -- and have been unwittingly destroying the Democrats in the process.

Howard Dean: Devin Nunes 'Belongs in Jail' As one who has been more than once to Russia and, yes, even knew people in the KGB back in the day (please don't surveil me, Mr. Mueller. I'm a loyal American), I am certain that Donald Trump is correct in at least one of his tweets. The Russians are laughing their asses off about this. And they deserve to. We are the biggest doofuses of all time.

Something has gone very wrong here. The question is how to correct it. Harvard's esteemed Alan Dershowitz has been everywhere insisting that the special counsel investigation should never have occurred. Without a specific crime cited, it had no basis and should have been an internal national security matter and conducted as such.

That's undoubtedly true, but leaves outstanding the question of what to do about some real specific crimes that do seem to exist -- actions taken by the FBI itself, the suborning of the FISA court, etc. This opens a giant can of worms that leads back to the Clinton campaign and foundation, all the unfortunate detritus that has been filling an hour of the Hannity show for over a year.

Dershowitz suggests we forget that too. For whatever reasons -- I could speculate, but I won't -- he's a "let bygones be bygones" guy. He says it's all political in the end and should be decided at the ballot box.

I disagree. But maybe I'm too sentimental about the rule of law. It's a brave new world out there, after all, where we live by the rule of trolls. Who knows what they're cooking up now for their willing stooges in our media?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fakenews; fisagate; msn
A very good and on the mark article. It is also worth your time to follow the link and check out the comments.

Lots of common sense in here (not fake news takeaways). I really like this one:

"They also didn't get that Devin Nunes is a natural born Mr. Smith, an honest guy from the heartland (Fresno), while Schiff is a natural born hustler representing the Hollywood Hills and Burbank. It's basic casting. The media is supposed to know something about this, but they miss it by a mile -- and have been unwittingly destroying the Democrats in the process."

Enjoy

1 posted on 02/21/2018 2:30:43 AM PST by lowbuck
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To: lowbuck

....this has the prints of Odungo and Hilda all over it.... Odungo wants the title of “last Dem President”...and Hilda as a revenge action...to show the party that they didn’t work hard enough to “insure” her coronation.


2 posted on 02/21/2018 2:39:43 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: lowbuck

How Zyuganov ruined the Communist Party: a humiliating ending.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3616254/posts

The left is getting hit on both ends of geography.


3 posted on 02/21/2018 2:45:19 AM PST by NorseViking
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To: lowbuck

I think that this is a major reason why they are trying to play up the Parkland shooting the way they have, with celebrity money and paid actors and Soros/Bloomberg anti gun activists. That will also sink the more and more the truth about all of that comes out.


4 posted on 02/21/2018 2:47:09 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: lowbuck

NOTHING about the dems is a party.


5 posted on 02/21/2018 2:48:47 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know saying Syrian rebels in anost back in Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: lowbuck
In the process, Adam Schiff may have become the most visible Democrat on the planet, but his face is the image of slimy prevarication. He's Nixon with less hair.

Good stuff.

Don't forget pedophile and $7.8M bribe taker.





6 posted on 02/21/2018 2:50:19 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: OttawaFreeper

The Deep State wants the “news” full of garbage Piled Higher and Deeper—same as it has been since Project Mockingbird was launched more than sixty years ago.


7 posted on 02/21/2018 3:08:35 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: cgbg

They’re screaming at Trump and accusing of being a liar - and people are tuning out.

Russia is a nothingburger - they have no proof of collusion, no proof Trump cheated to win and they have no proof the election results where changed in any material way.

They just cannot bring themselves to accept the fact Trump won fair and square. As they continue to obsess themselves with Russia, the country has moved on.

The fake news media and the Democrats are remote from the concern of average Americans. Disparaging the President won’t change the fact they’re in the process of destroying themselves.


8 posted on 02/21/2018 3:19:59 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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To: All
The congenital stupidity of these people just never ends. This means you, Mueller. Read on.

Did Russia's Social Media Campaign To Discourage Black Voters Cost Clinton The Election?
Buzzfeed ^ | February 20, 2018 / FRPosted 2/21/2018 by SMGFan

Russia’s effort to discourage minorities from voting for Hillary Clinton — described in a federal indictment released Friday — revives the mystery of why turnout among black voters declined so substantially from 2012 to 2016.

The indictment of 13 Russian trolls lays out a surprisingly sophisticated social media campaign to turn minorities, and black people in particular, against Clinton. Details of the campaign show that Russians understood both the significance of those voters in the election and the language of black social media. “Russians understood how important minority voters were to Hillary Clinton’s chances in this election. They were able to read the situation and say, 'If we demobilize this community, it could have enough of an impact,'” said Bernard Fraga, an Indiana University election expert who studied black turnout in 2016. (Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...

9 posted on 02/21/2018 3:47:17 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz

I wondered when the media whores would “go there”.

It would be fun to watch them interview blacks in Detroit, Flint, and Milwaukee and try to pound the square peg into the MSM narrative round hole. :-)

“She’s a whitey, Jim—dead to me.”

:-)


10 posted on 02/21/2018 4:32:14 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: lowbuck

Russia Russia Russia and the MSM?

I think the democrats are play a far bigger role.


11 posted on 02/21/2018 5:25:53 AM PST by null and void ("If you see something say something." "If we say something *DO* something!!!")
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To: lowbuck

“In the process, Adam Schiff may have become the most visible Democrat on the planet, but his face is the image of slimy prevarication. He’s Nixon with less hair.”

I think Schiff looks just like “Charles Logan,” the fictional corrupt VP in the tv series 24. Striking behavioral characteristic similarities also...


12 posted on 02/21/2018 6:00:11 AM PST by OldCountryBoy (You can't make this stuff up!)
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To: lowbuck

Joy Reid a progressive rock star of a TV host is making 20 Rubles an hour leading the #resistance.

YOU CAN TOO


13 posted on 02/21/2018 6:47:21 AM PST by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: lowbuck

Let’s just back up and watch!


14 posted on 02/21/2018 9:11:33 AM PST by jch10 (Media: prostitutes for the Democrat Party.)
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