1/ John Podesta, like 100% of everyone who has ever had a email account, received a password phishing email. He fell for it.
2/ According to some accounts, the phishing email had Russian fingerprints/ characteristics in its metadata.
3/ whatever the case, the password purloiners downloaded his emails, which eventually got into the hands of Wikileaks, who made them public.
4/ The emails were mildly embarrassing, revealing frequent circle jerking between the DNC and journalists. Mostly embarrassing to media.
5/ At the time of their release (Oct) they were hardly covered by any media, and largely dismissed as a big fat nothingburger.
6/ Not one of the people whose emails were revealed has ever disputed their authenticity or provenance.
7/ Fast forward to December. The October nothingburger has now magically transformed into "vote hacking" and "election hacking."
8/ new narrative: treasonous Trump operatives conspired with Putin to hypnotically mesmerize Clinton voters into pulling the wrong lever.
9/ This is not Alex Jones or angry conspiracy kook Facebook uncles, it's the NYTs, the WaPo, our beloved State Radio.
10/ how effective has this been? If polls are to be believed, 50%+ of Democrats believe the Russians literally modified vote tallies.
11/ none of this is a defense of Trump, or his garbage kleptocrat pal Putin. It's an indictment of our garbage narrative-driven media.
12/ it shouldn't have to take a drunk internet nobody to point any of this out, but hey, here we are."
"And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how its done."
"And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how it’s done."