Posted on 03/29/2019 2:58:17 PM PDT by edwinland
So when does the other shoe drop? Whos going to break the story proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the president of the United States is so deeply connected to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the White House has become a Muscovite colony in all but name?
Time to use some common senseits not going to happen, there is no story.
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Barrett had Trump on a whole variety of issues, but check the records yourselfup until the day of his death, the day before Trumps inauguration, theres nothing on Trump and Putin. ...
The Russia story is evidence that top reporters are still feeding from the same troughpolitical operatives, intelligence agencies, etc.because they dont know how to do anything else, and their editors dont dare let the competition get out ahead. Why would the Post, for instance, let the Times carve out a bigger market share of the anti-Trump resistance? And whats the alternative? Report the story honestly? Dont publish questionably sourced innuendo as news?
And still, you ask, how could the Russia story be nonsense? All the major media outlets are on it. Better to cover yourselfmaybe its true, because the press cant really be this inept and corrupt, so theres got to be something to it.
I say this not only out of respect for a late colleague, but in the hope that journalism may once again merit the trust of the American public. Wayne Barrett had this file for 40 years, and if neither he nor the reporters he trained got this story, its not a story.
(Excerpt) Read more at tabletmag.com ...
“Wag The Dog was just a movie. Destroy Trump was a reality based on the same tactics as Wag The Dog. In Wag the Dog the media were useful idiots. In the Destroy Trump action, the media were complicit partners.
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