Posted on 01/01/2018 2:54:36 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Despite cracks beginning to emerge in the mainstream media such as the CNN legal analyst declaring last week that Trump is right about the FBI, they continue to cling for the most part to their beloved orthodoxy that there was collusion between Russia and the Donald Trump presidential campaign. It is this near religious belief that was mocked in the January 4 London Review of the Books.
That leftist periodical is certainly no fan of Trump as a quick perusal of its pages would confirm but they are honest enough to admit that the MSM is absurd for swallowing the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory hook, line, and sinker as you can see in this article by Jackson Lears, What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Russian Hacking:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
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Saw the limb off!
A degree of collusion between the Trump candidacy and the Russian regime does not make sense on the face of things. Given the greater benefits that would accrue to the Russians were Herself elected President, offering or accepting assistance from the Trump Camp would be self-defeating for the Russians. If the Democrat hierarchy here in the US do not understand 3-D chess, the Russians certainly do. They really WANTED Herself to win the Presidency.
But against all odds, Trump pulled it out on the Electoral College vote, rather convincingly, it would seem. Given that Trump was never competitive in either New York City or the California coastal cities, the popular vote margin that came out of Los Angeles alone clearly was skewed almost off the charts, and accounted for the “majority” of the popular vote.
“Like any orthodoxy worth its salt, the religion of the Russian hack depends not on evidence but on ex cathedra pronouncements on the part of authoritative institutions and their overlords. Its scriptural foundation is a confused and largely fact-free ‘assessment’ produced last January by a small number of ‘hand-picked’ analysts – as James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, described them – from the CIA, the FBI and the NSA.”
Fantastic article——my favorite portion is the following———————————————
“With stunning speed, a new centrist-liberal orthodoxy came into being, enveloping the major media and the bipartisan Washington establishment. This secular religion has attracted hordes of converts in the first year of the Trump presidency. In its capacity to exclude dissent, it is like no other formation of mass opinion in my adult life, though it recalls a few dim childhood memories of anti-communist hysteria during the early 1950s.”
A good description of the Trump/Russia/collusion crowd. They are truly insane.
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Thanks PJ-Comix.
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