Posted on 12/13/2016 6:28:55 AM PST by Enlightened1
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features one of many media efforts to question the legitimacy of President-elect Trump's victory by highlighting concerns that the Russians influenced the election on his behalf.
On CBS Face the Nation, for example, Slate's chief political correspondent, Jamelle Bouie, raised the specter that the "election was In some sense illegitimate."
Host John Dickerson: Jamelle, as Michael [Duffy of Time magazine] points out, that the distinction here on the CIA and what they seem to have found, what's new here. We heard about Russian involvement potentially while the election was going on, but what seems to be new is that it was targeted to help Donald Trump. That seems to be the new development – that in order to just update people on where things are.
Slate's Jamelle Bouie: Right, exactly. We've sort of had to acknowledge and suspicion that the Russian government has been involved in, you know, helping leak documents like and engaging in election interference that way, but that's different. That's materially different than the suggestion that, hey, they were doing this specifically to help Donald Trump.
I'm sort of in this place right now where I'm not entirely sure, beyond investigations, beyond sort of serious scrutiny of this, what we do about this, because it really is unprecedented. And if — if it is true, if we have further verification of this, then what it suggests potentially is that the election was in some sense illegitimate. And I don't know where you go from there.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Any interviews this week? Interested to hear your take on this attempted election coup, next moves, etc.
The medias record for the last nine years isn’t something to brag about.
The bubble world people are a twisted lot.
MSM is DEAD.
None of them are straight out saying Russia hacked voting machines, but the way they say Russia interfered along with Stein asking for recounts because of possible hacking they are purposefully giving their kool aid drinkers the idea that Russia hacked voting machines.
Idiots are all over social media claiming Russia hacked in and gave Trump the win, when asked for proof they cite the “news” articles that do not say that. This is very deliberate on their part, that is why they muddy the waters in their reporting.
The thing is more and more people are not trusting the MSM because thinking people are paying more attention. I have had many people tell me recently that you can’t believe anything in our news any more. People used to think you needed a tin foil hat for saying that, now it is becoming widespread to distrust them.
Yep. That’s my new nickname for them too. Mainscream Media.
I never know if I’ll be on AJ until an hour or two before.
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