Posted on 05/19/2018 7:49:58 PM PDT by MtnClimber
One of the more notable differences between Watergate and the metastasizing scandals involving the FBI, our intelligence agencies, and the Obama administration -- subjects of the soon-to-be-released inspector general's report -- is that the media exposed Watergate. They aided and abetted the current transgressions.
By providing a willing and virtually unquestioned repository for every anonymous leaker (as long as he or she was on the "right" side) in Washington and beyond, the press has evolved from being part of the solution to being a major part of the problem. Gone are the days of the true "whistle-blower." Here are the days of the special interest provocateur, shaping public opinion by passing on half-truths and outright lies to their favorite reporter. One might then even call the media, in Orwell's words, "objectively pro-fascist," functioning much in the manner of Pravda and Izvestia during that famous author's time, covertly or overtly pushing the party line in the most slavish and orthodox manner while feigning "objectivity."
CNN, NBC, the Washington Post and The New York Times -- misinforming the public as it hasn't since the days of their great Stalin-excuser Walter Duranty (still pictured on their Pulitzer wall of honor) -- are particularly egregious in this regard. But there are many others. And the current scandal is far, far worse than Watergate, which, bad as it was, was the coverup of a completely unnecessary buffoon-like break-in during an election that was already won in a landslide. What is being exposed now is an attempt by our highest law enforcement agency working in concert with our intelligence agencies and, evidently, the blessing of the former administration itself to block the candidate of the opposing party, even to defraud and spy on him, that is to, as others have said, "set him up." And then, if they were unsuccessful, make it impossible for him to govern. In addition, in all probability, the same players conspired to make certain Hillary Clinton was not indicted for a crime for which virtually any other American would have done jail time.
The Ministry of Propaganda has been the major problem for decades.
Ya, what ever. The only thing it will expose is the next delay tactic.
I hope Collusion, Not News gets the Zucking they so well deserve.
It is a coup attempt and the socialist/communist deep state and the media that unquestionably supported then
m should face trial and a punishment of execution. Coups are serious and the communist kind cannot be tolerated in a free society.
Been hearing for years about the next scandal that will expose the rats. Whether real or not it always seems to peter out, no matter how serious.
Boy didn’t see this coming. DUH!!!
I’ve been hearing about this impending IG Report for a very long time. Maybe it’s significance has been vastly overstated.
We’ll see, I suppose. When is it finally due for general release?
The MEDIA is the DEEP STATE.
There is a desperate and obvious reason our right to keep and bear arms is being attacked from all sides at this time unlike ever before.
Yes they are. And they are opposed to our freedom and should n]be lined up with the deep state in front of a ditch. That is the way they have done to us so many times. It is time they got what they deserve.
Preparing for another disappointment.
This is just the first report, dealing with the Hillary emails and FBI cover-up of her crimes. A susequent report will be addressing the FISA scandal.
Far more than enablers, the media were co-conspirators. We may be approaching a Constitutional crisis that is far from what anyone expected: at what point do the media celebrities who deliberately posted leaked classified information in order to wage war on a political figure cease to enjoy their First Amendment protection? At what point does the abuse become criminal? That isn't where anyone really wants to go, because this thing is troubling enough all by itself, and normally one used to be able to depend on some vestige of loyalty to the country, the voters, and the Constitution on the part of the media who have been nurtured by them. But they're not elected, they're not in charge, they do not have the right to usurp power, and their accountability has never really been tested. I don't like where this is going if addressed, but it will be worse if it isn't.
If these people disappear for a while and then show up on youtube videos confessing to everything because someone has them in water approaching boiling then Everything will be right in the world.
Democrats are Democrats first.
Being an American is way down on their list.
Government employees working against American citizens.
Government employees who are paid by American citizens.
It’s a backstabbing to beat all backstabbings.
In two weeks. Expect panic to intensify within the Deep State and media as the release nears.
I’m just stunned that we have to resort to an IG to get any semblance of an uncorrupted act of justice in the general interest to happen
The press is guilty of sedition.
This isn’t a friendly contest to win government jobs.
These are people paid to destroy the US.
Only because there was an 'evil' Republican in the White House.
They haven't changed their stripes one bit.
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