David Brooks et al: Can They Ever Be Honest?

So David Brooks wrote an editorial is the ever-sleazy NYT. The headline looks good. Beatle O'Rourke and Gus Hall Brennan should apologize for accusing DJT of treason. Then, we are treated to David Brooks being David Brooks.

Republicans and the Sean Hannity-style Trumpians might also approach this moment with an attitude of humility and honest self-examination. For two years they’ve been calling the Mueller investigation a witch hunt. For two years they’ve been spreading the libel that there are no honest brokers in Washington. It’s all a deep-state conspiracy, a swamp. They should apologize for peddling the sort of deep cynicism that undermines our country’s institutions.


It most certainly was a witch hunt. It was ignited by Obama political appointees who knew tere was zero criminal predicate. All the while, they willfully overlooked the Dems and their assistance from hostile foreign actors including but not limited to George Soros, Carlos Slim, Christopher Steele and even Russian oligarchs.

Yes, we did peddle the obvious: that honest Washingtonians are few and far betwwen. Inconvenient truth: It was a deep-state conspiracy. If you want to talk about undermining our nation's institutions, start with with James Comey and Barack Obama.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/opinion/mueller-trump-no-collusion.html

The nation’s underlying divides are still ideological, but we rarely fight them honestly as philosophical differences. We just accuse the other side of corruption. Politics is no longer a debate; it’s an attempt to destroy lives through accusation.

More horseshit. We are opposed by a mob of idiots whose components are unable to express ideology, philosophy or values. Thus, the need to silence us as we can advance our viewpoints with logic and reason. The Dems' only values are loyalty to the Democrat Party and blind fealty to its leaders.

The political media, especially on TV, now has a template it can apply whenever a scandal looms into view, to hook viewers into the speculative story line. According to the Tyndall Report, the three main broadcast networks made the Russia collusion investigation the second-most-covered news event of 2018, trailing only the Kavanaugh hearings, another scandal.

A truthful tidbit but watch how Brooks follows up. 

All the players slip into their assigned roles. Straight reporters are doing good, hard work. But the flow of information is not fast enough to keep up with 24/7 programming, so you get this toxic deluge of raw speculation.

More inconvenient truth. The MSM continuously advanced a narrative that they either knew to be false.  If they did not know the Russian narrative was created by political operatives and parroted by other political operatives, they should have known. The Russian Collusion was a less credible, less believable conspiracy theory than the Queen Mother Peddles Heroin or the ongoing Loch Ness coverup. If integrity was not available, could they not used a little common sense? Rhetorical question.

The Democrats won the 2018 midterms by focusing on the issues, not collusion. For most voters, politics is about their lives, not a self-righteous TV show.

LIE! The Dems won the mid-terms not by talking about issues but by piling on even more character assassinations. What is worse, it seems that Mueller and company could have completed their report prior to the midterms but they sat on it to help their Democrat allies.

People like David Brooks just cannot be honest for very long.

More falsity.

Hard Left "The Nation" Denounces "Russia Hacked The Election" Fable

The following is not lifted from Breitbart or American Thinker. This is the print/web equivalent of MSNBC, The Nation. Yes, even the Left is calling The Left out for its ridiculous lies.

The president’s ability to conduct foreign policy, notably but not only with regard to Russia, is now crippled. Forced into a corner and having no choice, Trump just signed legislation imposing severe new sanctions on Russia and European companies working with it on pipeline projects vital to Russia’s energy sector. Striking this close to the core of another nation’s economy is customarily considered an act of war, we must not forget. In retaliation, Moscow has announced that the United States must cut its embassy staff by roughly two-thirds. All sides agree that relations between the United States and Russia are now as fragile as they were during some of the Cold War’s worst moments. To suggest that military conflict between two nuclear powers inches ever closer can no longer be dismissed as hyperbole.

All this was set in motion when the DNC’s mail server was first violated in the spring of 2016 and by subsequent assertions that Russians were behind that “hack” and another such operation, also described as a Russian hack, on July 5. These are the foundation stones of the edifice just outlined. The evolution of public discourse in the year since is worthy of scholarly study: Possibilities became allegations, and these became probabilities. Then the probabilities turned into certainties, and these evolved into what are now taken to be established truths. By my reckoning, it required a few days to a few weeks to advance from each of these stages to the next. This was accomplished via the indefensibly corrupt manipulations of language repeated incessantly in our leading media.

Full Article Ar The Nation

Russiagate Is Now Officially The World's Stupidest Conspiracy

It's Official! The sanctioning body of Stupid Conspiracy Theories in conjunction with the Post Obotomy Syndrome Board Of Directors in accordance with Akashic Broken Records has decreed that the "PUTIN STOLE THE ELECTION FROM HILLARY BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP HAS COOTIES" narrative is the stupidest conspiracy theory in the history of Planet Earth.

The incoherent Russian Hacking jibberish surpasses Flat Earthism, Fake Moon Landing and the unsinkable 9/11 Inside Job as the silliest pile of nothingness ever assembled. Unlike the other spaghetti logic memes, Russian Hacking has been promoted by most media outlets, as well as the US Senate and the US Department of Justice. Never before have we seen the inventing, the embracing and the promotion of unfounded claims by institutions once held in high regard by most of the public.

Never has America witnessed the widespread promotion of deliberate stupidity by the highest echelons of society. NEVER!!! The fringe has grown respectable and the respectable proudly display their dunce caps. Overt idiocy is now a badge of social status.

Some of my best friends are 9/11 Truthers and I disagree with their viewpoint but I have respect for them. On the other hand, none of us should ever respect the "No fire but lots of smoke" morons who obstruct government and pollute our airways. I agree with Lionel. The Truthers are owed an apology.

Can We Finally Put The Russian Hacking Fairy Tale To Rest?

It only appropriate that the most duplicitous, least honest, most fraudulent, most bogus public official in the history of the United States would conclude his presidency with one of the least-credible lies to ever be promoted. If you like your doctor...no foreign attacks on US soil...a riot caused by a video that no one watched or even heard of...ad infinitum.

At Zero Hedge:

In keeping with the theme of providing no proof to the general public, the officials declined to describe the intelligence obtained about the involvement of a third-party in passing on leaked material to WikiLeaks, saying they did not want to reveal how the U.S. government had obtained the information. So just trust them, please.

The shift in the narrative is curious because as a reminder, officials had concluded "months earlier" that Russian intelligence agencies had directed the hacking, but had been less certain that they could prove Russia also had controlled the release of information damaging to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. It now appears that along with lack of evidence, the attention has shifted to an "intermediary" as being the responsible party .

In an interview with Fox News, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he did not receive emails stolen from the DNC and top Hillary Clinton aide John Podesta from "a state party." Assange did not rule out the possibility that he got the material from a third party.  

Full Zero Hedge Article