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New York Times Weeps: No One Cares About Russia in the World Breitbart Made
nytimes.com ^ | JULY 15, 2017 | JOSHUA GREEN

Posted on 07/15/2017 9:44:01 PM PDT by Helicondelta

The revelation that Donald Trump’s son, son-in-law and campaign manager met with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer promising information that would “incriminate” Hillary Clinton was a true bombshell in an era when we have become almost inured to them. Here was proof that members of Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign had, at the very least, been eager to collude with Russia to influence the 2016 election.

No one could gainsay the facts: Mr. Trump’s own son published them on Twitter.

As recently as five or 10 years ago, every major news outlet would have treated this set of facts as front-page news and a dire threat to Mr. Trump’s presidency.

Not anymore. Look to the right now and you’re apt to find an alternative reality in which the same set of facts is rearranged to compose an entirely different narrative. On Fox News, host Lou Dobbs offered a representative example on Thursday night, when he described the Donald Trump Jr. email story, with wild-eyed fervor, like this: “This is about a full-on assault by the left, the Democratic Party, to absolutely carry out a coup d’état against President Trump aided by the left-wing media.”

Mr. Dobbs isn’t some wacky outlier, but rather an example of how over the last several years the conservative underworld has swallowed up and subsumed more established right-leaning outlets such as Fox News.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: media; msm; nyt; projection; russia; trumprussia; yawn
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To: Helicondelta

[ Lou Dobbs: “This is about a full-on assault by the left, the Democratic Party, to absolutely carry out a coup d’état against President Trump aided by the left-wing media.” ]

That is the ABSOLUTE TRUTH, New York Slimes. Keep lying.


101 posted on 07/16/2017 4:48:32 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

The media are doing more damage to America than Russia.


102 posted on 07/16/2017 6:21:23 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Why didn't the FBI examine DNC servers?)
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