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The Steele Dossier indicted the media
American Thinker ^ | 17 Nov, 2021 | David Zukerman

Posted on 11/17/2021 3:59:31 AM PST by MtnClimber

Donald Trump was accurate all along when he called them the enemy of the truth.

This guest essay on "The Steele Dossier," by Columbia Journalism School professor Bill Grueskin, constitutes, arguably, a new development in ostensible expressions of regret: the attack apology. Although Prof. Grueskin acknowledges that the Steele Dossier was largely "fictitious," the pain this admission causes him seems palpable. And due to his obvious discomfort, the words "false claim," "baseless allegations," "outright fraud" do not emerge from his computer.

Here is one of the professor's acknowledgments: "Many of the dossier's allegation have turned out to be fictitious or, at best, unprovable." Many? Which of the dossier's allegations is fact, and which is provable? And by what theory? The professor is silent. Still, he wonders how so many journalists "were taken in so easily because the dossier seemed to confirm what they already suspected." That Donald J. Trump was a Russian asset? Grueskin, give us a break. What the anti-Trump campaign, beginning with false allegations of DNC hacking and the Steele Dossier, prevented, as the late Professor Stephen F. Cohen noted many times on the John Batchelor radio show (now a podcast), was normal relations with Russia.

In mid-essay, this question from the journalism school professor: "So where did much of the press go wrong?" (Much of the press? Pretty damn well all the media.) His immediate answer: Donald Trump. Here is one of Grueskin's two paragraphs answering where he thinks the press went wrong:

First, Mr, Trump had long curried Mr. Putin's favor. Moreover, Mr. Mueller showed, and filed indictments that explained, how the Russians interfered in the 2016 campaign, hacking into Democrats' emails and taking advantage of Facebook and other social media companies to foment chaos and dissent.

(The jargon in The Mueller Report is "sow chaos.")

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism

1 posted on 11/17/2021 3:59:31 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Communism means the only wrong is opposing communism. These reporters don’t think they did anything wrong.


2 posted on 11/17/2021 3:59:43 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Who among them will accept any responsibility? Hundreds, I’m sure.
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3 posted on 11/17/2021 4:24:57 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: MtnClimber

“ First, Mr, Trump had long curried Mr. Putin’s favor. Moreover, Mr. Mueller showed, and filed indictments that explained, how the Russians interfered in the 2016 campaign, hacking into Democrats’ emails and taking advantage of Facebook and other social media companies to foment chaos and dissent.”

More lies.


4 posted on 11/17/2021 5:17:43 AM PST by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: MtnClimber

And this news is BUT A WHIMPER!

The hoax perpetrated on PDJT, this Country, and ever individual of it, illustrates the cabal we call American politics!!!!!


5 posted on 11/17/2021 6:18:02 AM PST by bantam
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