Posted on 05/22/2020 7:56:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
President Donald Trump has tweeted feverishly about "Obamagate," which is loosely defined as everything the Obama-Biden team did using their executive branch powers to ruin Trump's candidacy (and then presidency). The Trump-loathing press has responded with an unusual tactic. The self-appointed guardians of democracy who have auditioned themselves as America's great explainers are playing dumb.
Yahoo News hosted a virtual town hall with Joe Biden on May 19. Dylan Stableford reported: "Biden was also asked about ... the so-called Obamagate conspiracy, which revolves around a vague allegation that the former president illegally tried to sabotage the Trump campaign, or was involved in an effort to entrap Trump's adviser Michael Flynn into lying to the FBI. Trump has referred to the invented scandal numerous times in recent weeks, although when a reporter asked him to specify what it was about he declined."
Liberals call the Obama scandals "invented," but the invention here is the entire Russian-collusion narrative. Newly released documents show Obama aides screamed "collusion" on cable TV but admitted to Congress they had no evidence. No wonder journalists who energetically pushed a false narrative are playing dumb now.
Biden said of Trump: "This is his pattern: diversion, diversion, diversion, diversion, diversion! Don't speak to whatever the issues before us are." Biden and his media enablers want the dominant story to be Trump's allegedly horrible coronavirus response. Don't look into the origins of the Russia probe.
These ersatz historians who love comparing every Republican scandal to Watergate can't seem to grasp with their brains how Obama might have been getting intelligence on former national security adviser Michael Flynn's contact with the Russians during the Trump transition, and supervising FBI attempts to entrap Flynn. This effort didn't sound "vague" when it was discovered that FBI "professionals" said bluntly that they went to the White House "to get him to lie" so they could "prosecute him or get him fired."
The May 15 episode of "Washington Week" on PBS displayed a cavalcade of confusion. CBS News White House reporter Weijia Jiang, who's attempting to rival Jim Acosta in needling the president with gotcha questions, complained: "(E)ven the president himself was not able to offer clarity about what crime was committed. I mean he's talking about people should go to jail. He has coined yet another phrase, Obamagate, to talk about this. And he hasn't talked about what he's talking about, and that doesn't matter sometimes."
Associated Press White House reporter Jonathan Lemire made it sound like the Obama years are back again, since he couldn't find an Obama scandal anywhere. "There's no real sense of a scandal here among most observers," he said. "Most observers" can be defined as the press pool that voted overwhelmingly for Obama -- twice. "Obamagate ... it's a nickname for a scandal that doesn't seem to have a there there," he said. "He hasn't elaborated on what it's about."
Then "Washington Week" host Robert Costa asked Abby Phillip of The Washington Post how the Biden campaign is responding to these Obamagate messages. Phillip said the campaign has studied what went wrong with Hillary Clinton in 2016 and been "very aggressive" in undermining Trump's attempts to "rebrand" all the Trump investigations as an Obama-Biden scandal. "So they're really trying to put pressure on media organizations to not cover this incredulously and to really take a skeptical look at all of this," she said.
Programs like these suggest that Team Biden either is incredibly effective at pressuring reporters to be scandal deniers or never had to pressure them in the first place.
Overtures from another government may seem friendly but there is always a price. George Washington told us to avoid foreign entanglements. The pages of history are written with the tragedies of not heeding that advice.
“Brainy reporters” - oxymoron, with the emphasis on “moron”
Unusual? Hardly. The MSM long ago realized they have an incredible power - the power to ignore, and it's very effective. In general, nothing is a scandal until the NYT and WP say it's a scandal. Sad, but true.
I think you posted to the wrong thread.
ANALYSIS Keep in mind, fellow Americans, Rice’s email to herself on Trump's Inauguration Day, stupidly documented the Kenyan's Third World mentality.
Rice fingered Obama discussing the investigation into Gen Flynn ......and other facets of Obama’s vindictiveness played out in his anti-Trump effort that is shocking in its revelations WRT the "scandal-free" sainted Obama........indicative of Obama’s Third World mentality.
WE NOW HAVE PROOF-POSITIVE OF OBAMA'S duplicity....and that there must have been earlier discussions.
Three times, in Rice’s infamous email to herself, Rice insisted that her master, Obama, used the phrase “by the book.”
Rice was calculatingly creating the aura that the sainted Obama did nothing wrong, to make sure the world knew Obama was being “upfront and presidential” (when he was actually the exact opposite). Its funny how criminal types like Rice start remembering stuff when faced with the possibility of spending years in the Graybar Hotel.
Now in a belated statement Wednesday, Rice says she wrote the memo at the suggestion of Obama’s White House counsel, Neil Eggleston, who was paid bigbuck tax dollars to (cough) “protect the president”.....a govt job he ultimately failed at.
One can only imagine the consternation in the Oval Office as Trump prepared to takeover-———the Obamanoids committed so many crimes to make little Hillary a shoo-in. THE SALIENT POINT keep in mind, fellow Americans, Rice’s email is the one and only time where Obama is documented.
Rice fingered Obama discussing the investigation into Flynn ......and/or other parts of Obama’s vindictiveness played out in a shocking anti-Trump effort that is indicative of Obama’s Third World mentality.
WE NOW HAVE PROOF-POSITIVE ABOUT WHAT OBAMA KNEW....and that there must have been earlier discussions.
Yoo hoo, Susan.......got anymore memos?
They can’t hide from Obamagate or cover it up they are stunned at what to do next.
Obamagate makes watergate look like a parking ticket cell time for their kings and queens to ensue.
Freedom rings
” The self-appointed guardians of democracy who have auditioned themselves as America’s great explainers are playing dumb.”
I’m not so sure they’re playing.
Reporters are dumb as rocks, but they know all about Obastardgate.
The problem with playing dumb is that, even if it works, all you have done is convince everyone that you are dumb. The media wants to know why no one trusts them? Well, because at best they are too dumb to actually carry out their function as finders-of-fact, and at worst they are corrupt and co-conspirators. So why would I need them...?
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