Posted on 01/01/2020 5:32:45 AM PST by Kaslin
The Washington Post recently published a surprising indictment of MSNBC host, Stanford graduate and Rhodes scholar Rachel Maddow.
Post media critic Erik Wemple wrote that Maddow deliberately misled her audience by claiming the now-discredited Steele dossier was largely verifiable -- even at a time when there was plenty of evidence that it was mostly bogus.
At the very time Maddow was reassuring viewers that Christopher Steele was believable, populist talk radio and the much-criticized Fox News Channel were insisting that most of Steele's allegations simply could not be true. Maddow was wrong. Her less degreed critics proved to be right.
In 2018, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), and the committee's then-ranking minority member, Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), each issued contrasting reports of the committee's investigation into allegations of collusion between Russia and Donald Trump's campaign team and the misbehavior of federal agencies.
Schiff's memo was widely praised by the media. Nunes' report was condemned as rank and partisan.
Many in the media went further. They contrasted Harvard Law graduate Schiff with rural central Californian Nunes to help explain why the clever Schiff got to the bottom of collusion and the "former dairy farmer" Nunes was "way over his head" and had "no idea what's going on."
Recently, the nonpartisan inspector general of the Department of Justice, Michael Horowitz, found widespread wrongdoing at the DOJ and FBI. He confirmed the key findings in the Nunes memo about the Steele dossier and its pernicious role in the FISA application seeking a warrant against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
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Elite Groupthink
You mean PROPAGANDA!!!
groupthink?
it is —and has been—
a conspiracy to lie and to spread false
propaganda KNOWINGLY to enable criminal behavior
and obstruction of justice.
And deranged, and bitter.
Tucker Carlson’s Eric Wemple. Stunning rebuke.
Our culture and institutions are awash with IYI’s Most normal people have stopped paying attention to them. Yet the IYI crowd just keep the media cash cow spinning along.
That's part of it.
Here -
Irving Janis was a Psych professor at Yale (ring a bell). He researched groupthink and developed eight groupthink behaviors. I recast them a little below as commandments of the progressive left.
I Thou shalt create an illusion of invulnerability shared by most members to foster excessive optimism and encourage extreme risks taking
II Thou shall not allow any member to question the group’s inherent morality, instead members shall be encouraged to ignore the ethical or moral consequences of their decisions
III Thou shalt promote collective efforts to rationalize in order to discount warnings, or other information that might lead members to reconsider their assumptions before they recommit themselves to their assumptions
IV Thou shalt reinforce stereotyped views of enemy leaders as too evil to warrant genuine attempts to negotiate, or as too weak and stupid to counter whatever risky attempts are made to defeat their purpose
V Thou shalt self-censor any deviation from the apparent group consensus, inclining each member to minimize the importance of their doubts and counterarguments
VI Thou shalt create and maintain a shared illusion of unanimity concerning judgement conforming to the majority view
VII Thou shalt apply direct pressure on any member who expresses strong arguments against any of the group’s stereotypes, illusions, or commitments, making clear that this type of dissent is contrary to what is expected of all loyal members
VIII Thou shalt appoint mindguards to protect the group from adverse information that might shatter their shared complacency about the effectiveness and morality of their decisions
REF:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Janis
There was probably a time 40 years ago when an Ivy League degree meant something, but based on the folks I have personally known to have graduated from Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth... from my Gen X and later generations, I am truly unimpressed.
"Nice indoctrination you've got there. Oh, and I see that you studied Medieval French Literature. Can you code? I'm hiring someone who can code."
I have yet to hear anyone say what was not bogus in the Steele Dossier. It is always referred to as “mostly bogus”, but the only relevant facts was that Donald Trump was a Presidential Candidate.
when is she not wrong?
Intellectual Yet Idiot or International Youth Initiative? Some people assume that everyone knows what their acronyms mean...
Sorry I meant - Intellectual Yet Idiot
Well, I hate to disagree with the great Victor Hanson but something polluted is in the water of Harvard & Yale, Princeton et al. Elsewise, why are we having bad ethical problems with their graduates? As he makes clear, Nunes went no where near an elite institution and yet he has proven himself to be an ethical character!
It takes breathtaking chutzpah for the Washington Post to publish such a remark.
The entire US mainstream news media is this untruthful and untrustworthy every day, as a matter of course, in fulfillment of its mission, and its mission is NOT truth for its own sake. Its entire mission is propaganda! This is why they have no credibility.
Long ago they chose propaganda over truth. In fact, the agents of the mainstream news media hold truth--truth for its own sake--in contempt. It interferes with the propaganda narrative which they intend to convince the public is truth.
They consider it their mission to shape public opinion (which means propaganda), and truth has nothing to do with it.
"MOSTLY" bogus??? The entire Steele dossier was a fake! manufactured for the purposes of propaganda! And the entire mainstream news media gave it "creditility"!
The Washington Post! INDEED!
The tiniest minority on the planet, the INDIVIDUAL v. the COLLECTIVE. It’s been going on since the beginning.
The book is 33 years old but does a great job of exposing how college campuses were turned in leftist indoctrination institutions. Written by a gay liberal.
https://www.amazon.com/Allan-Bloom-CLOSING-AMERICAN-MIND/dp/B006T77PH4
I’ve read most of Talebs stuff. Love his honestly and arrogance. Should be required reading for anyone interested in liberty from the self anointed rent seekers.
Taxing a brain that might not even be present is a challenge. So group think allows someone else to set the narrative and the rest to shake their heads in approval. LAZY
The principles of what is necessary for a strong economy and economic progress (rationality, private property, natural rights, capital accumulation, technological advances/progress, low taxes, few regulations, no government interventionism, no egalitarianism) are not a secret or a mystery. They are known to free market economists.
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