Posted on 06/02/2018 5:46:39 AM PDT by Twotone
“I’d be careful about reporting that Obama said there was no wiretapping,” Jon Favreau, one of Obama’s speechwriters, tweeted out in 2017. Members of the media, loath to let anything complicate their anti-Trump propaganda, chided him for this unhelpful slip and he quickly withdrew it, saying that he deferred to James Clapper’s denial of any wiretaps. But Favreau had already given himself away. In retrospect, the tweet is even more telling and confirms that knowledge of the spying was widespread at Obama’s White House. If a White House speechwriter far from the action knew about warrants on Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn, who didn’t?
From the beginning of this farce, the Obama administration has shifted back and forth between taking pride in the spying and denying its existence. We are back in the denial phase. But at the height of the hysteria after Trump’s election and inauguration, members of the Obama administration wanted everyone to know they had been spying on Trump and feared that he would destroy their “intelligence.” They leaked to the New York Times in March 2017 that they had “scrambled” to preserve the supposed damning results of their spying, in order to leave a “clear trail of intelligence for government investigators.”
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
The stupid party is now the knee-deep and up to the eyeballs party.
Shouldn’t that headline be, “...not the BRAKES...”?
The Stupid Party- or is it the Republican wing of the Democrat Party?- has, for half a century at least, been zealous to cover up any hint of Democrat Scandal, at times more so than the Democrats themselves, while wringing their hands and accepting the Democrats’ manufacture of Republican “scandals.”
Headline writers are not required to be proficient in English.
Brakes not breaks. The original article has the correct spelling.
Neither are some posters.
I get the Spectator wrap-up via email & the title has Breaks in the email version. I didn’t notice that they’d corrected it on the website when I started posting. It was easier to copy from the email than the website.
copy then paste
advice from someone who is occasionally dyslexic and spelling challenged. :)
If the speech-writer knew, it was official policy and not rouge agents in Cinci...
Of course.
But Hillary was going to win and any witnesses not wholly owned would have quickly assumed room temperature.
Breaks, brakes.
Rouge, rogue.
Its erly
It happens to all of us. I got called out for a typo a couple days ago.
I DID copy & paste. I was looking at the email version, which was incorrect. There’s so much bad grammar & spelling on the interwebs these days that I just tend to ignore such things.
Hey... I understand.
Now, think about the contents of the files being stored at the Obama Presidential (Digital) Library.
There will be endless opportunities for editors and digital shredders at that place. /humor
Obama could not have usurped the office without the assistance of the GOP.
BOTH parties colluded to violate the Constitution.
The other word nobody can spell is “Gauge”
Excellent piece - even made me laugh and succinctly demonstrates the ridiculousness and damage of the whole mess. He even skewered the GOPe correctly!
Adding the author to my must read list. Well done and bravo to him!
May be the best summary yet.
Doesn’t matter to modern journalists. If it auto corrects all is well.
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