OH goody wisdom from Johnny Kaisich’s digital weenie
About as useful as a turd in a punch bowl
The author of this article tries to make it about Kasich, but it is not about Kasich. It is about the vast anti-American internet presence that got turned into pro-Trump.
Even FreeRepublic was full of popular posts from communist The Nation and Red Morning Star trashing America, but these were interpreted as anti-Establishment and thus pro-Trump.
I must disclose that I found Kasich the best of the bunch.
In short, Russia did not “hack” our election. Russians may have attempted to influence our election, some of them opposed to Hillary even though it was her turn.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/07/12/ngo-connected-to-obamas-2008-campaign-used-u-s-tax-dollars-trying-to-oust-netanyahu/?utm_term=.f30ed0984817
This is the Washington Post, the official propaganda outlet for the Democrat Party, admitting that the leader of their party used our tax dollars to manipulate elections in Israel, one of our strongest allies.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/22/barack-obama-brexit-uk-back-of-queue-for-trade-talks
This is the ultra-liberal Guardian reporting that Obama was threatening the UK, trying to influence an election in another country that is a strong ally.
I could go on, but clearly influencing foreign elections is standard operating procedure for the government of the United States. It’s hypocritical (a leftist specialty) to clutch their pearls over the possibility that instead of influencing exclusively in favor of Democrat/socialists, as Russia and the USSR have done for generations, some Russians in 2016 may have attempted to block a far left tyrant who would have destroyed western civilization.
Has anyone seen specific citations of this supposedly “Russian fake news”? In all of the articles I have seen, nobody cites specific examples.
So the whole Russian influence thing boils down to $100,000 in FaceBook ads? $1.98 is a lot by Kasich standard, but Hillary spent a billion dollars directly, and who knows how much through surrogates.
I am fed up with this hypocrisy of looking at only ostensibly pro-Trump election interference. What about foreign governments and pacs playing the same game for Hillary? Anyone think Soros directly or indirectly bought anti-Trump ads?
Just guessing here.
Kaisch spiked the $100,000 for Facebook ads in favor of $100,000 direct mail cards delivered by postmen