Of Trolls and Truth [Re Diana West and her book, American Betrayal]

The New York Times Magazine has published an in-depth report by Adrian Chen on Russian disinformatzyia in the Internet Age. The piece opens a window on the extremely dark and widespread use of well-paid Internet "trolls" who use social media and online outlets (and even non-virtual art exhibits) to wreak havoc not only on public opinion, but on reality itself, both inside and outside Russia, very much including here in the USA.

One troll-goal in Russia, according to a Russian anti-corruption activist, is to drive bona fide political debate away from "trolled" Internet forums. “The point is to spoil [the Internet], to create the atmosphere of hate, to make it so stinky that normal people won’t want to touch it,”

I confess this observation about the trolls' mission rang a bell with me personally. The cabal against American Betrayal -- "trolls" from here on out -- has so many times attacked American Betrayal by falsifying the contents of the book that they have created a discernible pattern of deception that many have compared to a Soviet-style "disinformation campaign."

The repetitiousness of such disinformation regarding the (verifiable) contents of my book seems designed, in the words of the Russian quoted above, to "make it so stinky that normal people won't want to touch it."

The most recent assault, published by National Review and rebutted at Breitbart News (because National Review, joining the debate-killers at American Thinker and the academic journal National Security and Intelliegence, wouldn't print my rebuttal) is only the latest toxic burst of disinformation.

The good news, of course, is that the trolls never fool anyone who has actually read American Betrayal.

Here is a Letter to the Editor of National Review that makes this point much better than I can.

Subject: Diana West, American Betrayal and your destruction of your credibility and integrity

I value National Review for Andrew McCarthy, Victor Davis Hanson and many other authors. That is why it is so dismaying and disheartening to have followed the consistently dishonest treatment NR has given to Diana West's book, even now, two years later.

Disagreement is one thing. Misrepresentation is quite another. I have been a litigator for 36 years (AV peer rated). I have read the evidence: the book, all the pieces in NR, and Ms. West's replies, including the ones you wouldn't publish or buried.

You have knowingly and repeatedly published as facts demonstrable falsehoods that any fact checking intern would catch.

To see your publication become an exemplar of the Big Lie dishonors William F. Buckley's accomplishments, integrity and memory.

The inescapable question: since you're lying about this, what else are you lying to me about?

I didn’t—he sold his soul and it is “why” he is allowed to hold the reigns of power for the Marxist controlled publication of propaganda (dog and pony show for distraction only) which releases the steam from the pot on occasion, until we are at a rolling boiling-—which is their aim.

He would have been like Brietbart, if he DARE state the Truth and become effective in destroying the Left. Truth will set you Free (not in US for 90 years now—we have NEVER heard the Truth for decades-—unless on alternative news outlets but those are marginalized or destroyed-—Truth today gets you destroyed or killed or bankrupted.

It is the Dialectical Materialism of Marx——Lowery has been a stooge for a long time......Most sold their souls to Satan, Marx-—we will know them by their “fruits”.

Anyone who is “for” homosexual “marriage” is for Satanism or Marxism or paganism and for the NWO of total slavery where “snow is black”—no Truth allowed-—in fact, you will be put in prison soon for stating the Truth even here in the USA.

Vice makes slaves and our “Justice” (virtue) System in America is supposed to be based on the “...Laws of Nature (Reason/Science) and nature’s God (Christian Ethics).

How does the “Right” do this——support the Leftists to move us into a NWO......by polemics——but not with the real hard hitting Truth that needs to be the hammer.

For instance——when they “tsk, tsk” “gay marriage”——they use the language of the Leftists——the oxymoronic terms——”gay marriage” to give it legitimacy and firm up the proper perceptions. Any Marxist (and Lowery) knows that if you control the Words (frame the debate) you can determine the perceived outcome (the perceptions of the dumb masses).

Lowery-—pushes—(part of the dialectic)-—but only when he gets the approval from the Left....he is censored at all times-—exactly like that bribed Roberts on the Supreme Court. The Leftists have total control of both sides-—have for decades. (Internet has set us free-—but the Leftists are working like hell to get complete control over that-—and when they do—Truth will be non-existent (for the children-—happy slavery).

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