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Where did the Russians go?
Posted by:
KKKillary KKKlinton
()
Date: March 17, 2017 11:31AM
Why aren't the libtards screaming and being triggered by the Russians anymore?
Re: Where did the Russians go?
Posted by:
Jenga Journalism
()
Date: March 17, 2017 02:26PM
Donald Trump Exposes Media’s Jenga Journalism
by JOEL B. POLLAK 17 Mar 2017
For months, the mainstream media played a game of “Jenga journalism,” building a tower of accusations against Donald Trump, using flimsy, speculative claims of Russian collusion.
None of the different pieces of the conspiracy theory could hold up on their own, but journalists — and the Hillary Clinton campaign — treated the pile of Russia innuendo like a real monument. But then Trump made the move that forced them to tug at the foundations of their own illusion, and it crashed.
@joelpollak comes up with amazing new meme in @chucktodd interview #JengaJournalism https://t.co/xtk2Ka3wYb
— TundraTabloids (@TundraTabloids) March 17, 2017
In the past several days, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Mike Morell have both stated publicly that there is no evidence that the Trump campaign cooperated with Russia. But they held their tongues for months as the false accusations mounted against Trump. It was only after the president tweeted that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped him that they found the courage to tell the truth.
Trump based his claim on the mainstream media’s own reporting — a point made by conservative talk radio host Mark Levin and then later at Breitbart News. The New York Times, the BBC, and others had reported that the Obama administration had carried out surveillance on people close to Trump. Furthermore, the Times reported that the previous administration relaxed the rules of the National Security Agency to disseminate the results of that surveillance, some of which was evidently leaked.
The media latched onto Trump’s claim that Obama had tapped his “phones,” as if that proved Trump was lying. But no one could dispute any of the core elements of Trump’s claims — until this past Thursday, when the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a short bipartisan statement: “Based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016.”
The committee’s statement was interpreted by the media as a definitive conclusion — though the investigation is ongoing. But if true, the only part of the story that has been debunked concerns surveillance of Trump Tower itself, a claim first made by the Heat Street website. It does not mean the warrant that Heat Street reported — and which the BBC reported as well — was never sought. That warrant, reportedly rejected by a FISA court, amended, and then approved, concerned a computer server.
The New York Times also reported in October that the FBI had been investigating that server for “a possible secret channel of email communication from the Trump Organization to a Russian bank.” (The FBI found no evidence of any “conclusive or direct link,” which did not stop Democrats and the media from claiming there was one.) All the Senate committee did this week was confirm what Clapper had already said — that there had been no warrant for surveillance of Trump Tower itself.
So no “phones,” but the basic case still stands: there was surveillance of the Trump campaign, the results were shared widely within the government, and the intelligence made its way — often illegally — to the mainstream media. The people leaking the intelligence are happy to defend what they are doing, through surrogates like former CIA agent and presidential candidate Evan McMullin, who told CNN the leakers were stopping “a security threat coming from the White House.”
Yet the mainstream media are behaving as if Trump’s tweets about having his “wires tapped” are a very serious lie that undermines his entire administration. Having congratulated each other for exposing Trump on an entirely trivial matter, journalists are now using Trump’s tweets to badger other Republicans, like UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. (How many Obama Cabinet members had to face such questions about their “credibility” after he was caught spying on foreign leaders?)
Moreover, in skewering Trump for claims about “wiretapping” and “phones,” the media are holding Trump to a standard of literalism they would never apply to themselves. For example, mainstream media headlines screamed for months about a “love affair” between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin: “The curious Trump-Putin love affair” (CBS); “Trump and Putin: A Love Story” (New Yorker). But it turns out there is no evidence Trump had sexual intercourse with Putin. Liars!
Nervous Republicans like Rick Santorum fret that Trump is “hurting himself” with his tweets. On the contrary: not only has he exposed the media’s double standards, but he is also forcing them to impeach their own evidence. After all, if there was no surveillance of the Trump campaign, then there was no Russian collusion, and the media are simply “fake news” partisans.
By tweeting about Obama, Trump moved the last weak Jenga block. Now the tower is wobbling. Your move, journalists.
by JOEL B. POLLAK 17 Mar 2017
For months, the mainstream media played a game of “Jenga journalism,” building a tower of accusations against Donald Trump, using flimsy, speculative claims of Russian collusion.
None of the different pieces of the conspiracy theory could hold up on their own, but journalists — and the Hillary Clinton campaign — treated the pile of Russia innuendo like a real monument. But then Trump made the move that forced them to tug at the foundations of their own illusion, and it crashed.
@joelpollak comes up with amazing new meme in @chucktodd interview #JengaJournalism https://t.co/xtk2Ka3wYb
— TundraTabloids (@TundraTabloids) March 17, 2017
In the past several days, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Mike Morell have both stated publicly that there is no evidence that the Trump campaign cooperated with Russia. But they held their tongues for months as the false accusations mounted against Trump. It was only after the president tweeted that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped him that they found the courage to tell the truth.
Trump based his claim on the mainstream media’s own reporting — a point made by conservative talk radio host Mark Levin and then later at Breitbart News. The New York Times, the BBC, and others had reported that the Obama administration had carried out surveillance on people close to Trump. Furthermore, the Times reported that the previous administration relaxed the rules of the National Security Agency to disseminate the results of that surveillance, some of which was evidently leaked.
The media latched onto Trump’s claim that Obama had tapped his “phones,” as if that proved Trump was lying. But no one could dispute any of the core elements of Trump’s claims — until this past Thursday, when the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a short bipartisan statement: “Based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016.”
The committee’s statement was interpreted by the media as a definitive conclusion — though the investigation is ongoing. But if true, the only part of the story that has been debunked concerns surveillance of Trump Tower itself, a claim first made by the Heat Street website. It does not mean the warrant that Heat Street reported — and which the BBC reported as well — was never sought. That warrant, reportedly rejected by a FISA court, amended, and then approved, concerned a computer server.
The New York Times also reported in October that the FBI had been investigating that server for “a possible secret channel of email communication from the Trump Organization to a Russian bank.” (The FBI found no evidence of any “conclusive or direct link,” which did not stop Democrats and the media from claiming there was one.) All the Senate committee did this week was confirm what Clapper had already said — that there had been no warrant for surveillance of Trump Tower itself.
So no “phones,” but the basic case still stands: there was surveillance of the Trump campaign, the results were shared widely within the government, and the intelligence made its way — often illegally — to the mainstream media. The people leaking the intelligence are happy to defend what they are doing, through surrogates like former CIA agent and presidential candidate Evan McMullin, who told CNN the leakers were stopping “a security threat coming from the White House.”
Yet the mainstream media are behaving as if Trump’s tweets about having his “wires tapped” are a very serious lie that undermines his entire administration. Having congratulated each other for exposing Trump on an entirely trivial matter, journalists are now using Trump’s tweets to badger other Republicans, like UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. (How many Obama Cabinet members had to face such questions about their “credibility” after he was caught spying on foreign leaders?)
Moreover, in skewering Trump for claims about “wiretapping” and “phones,” the media are holding Trump to a standard of literalism they would never apply to themselves. For example, mainstream media headlines screamed for months about a “love affair” between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin: “The curious Trump-Putin love affair” (CBS); “Trump and Putin: A Love Story” (New Yorker). But it turns out there is no evidence Trump had sexual intercourse with Putin. Liars!
Nervous Republicans like Rick Santorum fret that Trump is “hurting himself” with his tweets. On the contrary: not only has he exposed the media’s double standards, but he is also forcing them to impeach their own evidence. After all, if there was no surveillance of the Trump campaign, then there was no Russian collusion, and the media are simply “fake news” partisans.
By tweeting about Obama, Trump moved the last weak Jenga block. Now the tower is wobbling. Your move, journalists.
Re: Where did the Russians go?
Posted by:
Gerrymanderer2
()
Date: March 17, 2017 02:29PM
Republican congress obstructing justice, there will be investigations and there are still many investigations. Flynn, Stone, Carter and the rest of Trumps traitors will be dragged in some day. Until then you can celebrate the treason.
Re: Where did the Russians go?
Posted by:
Cucks for Clinton
()
Date: March 17, 2017 02:37PM
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Attachments:
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Re: Where did the Russians go?
Posted by:
When you have nothing else...
()
Date: March 17, 2017 02:37PM
Gerrymanderer2 Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Republican congress obstructing justice, there
> will be investigations and there are still many
> investigations. Flynn, Stone, Carter and the rest
> of Trumps traitors will be dragged in some day.
> Until then you can celebrate the treason.
^ Gerrybabble.
-------------------------------------------------------
> Republican congress obstructing justice, there
> will be investigations and there are still many
> investigations. Flynn, Stone, Carter and the rest
> of Trumps traitors will be dragged in some day.
> Until then you can celebrate the treason.
^ Gerrybabble.
Re: Where did the Russians go?
Posted by:
Fake News!
()
Date: March 17, 2017 02:39PM
Jenga Journalism Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Donald Trump Exposes Media’s Jenga Journalism
>
> by JOEL B. POLLAK 17 Mar 2017
>
>
> For months, the mainstream media played a game of
> “Jenga journalism,” building a tower of
> accusations against Donald Trump, using flimsy,
> speculative claims of Russian collusion.
>
> None of the different pieces of the conspiracy
> theory could hold up on their own, but journalists
> — and the Hillary Clinton campaign — treated
> the pile of Russia innuendo like a real monument.
> But then Trump made the move that forced them to
> tug at the foundations of their own illusion, and
> it crashed.
>
> @joelpollak comes up with amazing new meme in
> @chucktodd interview #JengaJournalism
> https://t.co/xtk2Ka3wYb
>
> — TundraTabloids (@TundraTabloids) March 17,
> 2017
>
> In the past several days, former Director of
> National Intelligence James Clapper and former
> Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
> Mike Morell have both stated publicly that there
> is no evidence that the Trump campaign cooperated
> with Russia. But they held their tongues for
> months as the false accusations mounted against
> Trump. It was only after the president tweeted
> that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped
> him that they found the courage to tell the
> truth.
>
> Trump based his claim on the mainstream media’s
> own reporting — a point made by conservative
> talk radio host Mark Levin and then later at
> Breitbart News. The New York Times, the BBC, and
> others had reported that the Obama administration
> had carried out surveillance on people close to
> Trump. Furthermore, the Times reported that the
> previous administration relaxed the rules of the
> National Security Agency to disseminate the
> results of that surveillance, some of which was
> evidently leaked.
>
> The media latched onto Trump’s claim that Obama
> had tapped his “phones,” as if that proved
> Trump was lying. But no one could dispute any of
> the core elements of Trump’s claims — until
> this past Thursday, when the Senate Intelligence
> Committee issued a short bipartisan statement:
> “Based on the information available to us, we
> see no indications that Trump Tower was the
> subject of surveillance by any element of the
> United States government either before or after
> Election Day 2016.”
>
> The committee’s statement was interpreted by the
> media as a definitive conclusion — though the
> investigation is ongoing. But if true, the only
> part of the story that has been debunked concerns
> surveillance of Trump Tower itself, a claim first
> made by the Heat Street website. It does not mean
> the warrant that Heat Street reported — and
> which the BBC reported as well — was never
> sought. That warrant, reportedly rejected by a
> FISA court, amended, and then approved, concerned
> a computer server.
>
> The New York Times also reported in October that
> the FBI had been investigating that server for
> “a possible secret channel of email
> communication from the Trump Organization to a
> Russian bank.” (The FBI found no evidence of any
> “conclusive or direct link,” which did not
> stop Democrats and the media from claiming there
> was one.) All the Senate committee did this week
> was confirm what Clapper had already said — that
> there had been no warrant for surveillance of
> Trump Tower itself.
>
> So no “phones,” but the basic case still
> stands: there was surveillance of the Trump
> campaign, the results were shared widely within
> the government, and the intelligence made its way
> — often illegally — to the mainstream media.
> The people leaking the intelligence are happy to
> defend what they are doing, through surrogates
> like former CIA agent and presidential candidate
> Evan McMullin, who told CNN the leakers were
> stopping “a security threat coming from the
> White House.”
>
> Yet the mainstream media are behaving as if
> Trump’s tweets about having his “wires
> tapped” are a very serious lie that undermines
> his entire administration. Having congratulated
> each other for exposing Trump on an entirely
> trivial matter, journalists are now using
> Trump’s tweets to badger other Republicans, like
> UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. (How many Obama Cabinet
> members had to face such questions about their
> “credibility” after he was caught spying on
> foreign leaders?)
>
> Moreover, in skewering Trump for claims about
> “wiretapping” and “phones,” the media are
> holding Trump to a standard of literalism they
> would never apply to themselves. For example,
> mainstream media headlines screamed for months
> about a “love affair” between Trump and
> Russian President Vladimir Putin: “The curious
> Trump-Putin love affair” (CBS); “Trump and
> Putin: A Love Story” (New Yorker). But it turns
> out there is no evidence Trump had sexual
> intercourse with Putin. Liars!
>
> Nervous Republicans like Rick Santorum fret that
> Trump is “hurting himself” with his tweets. On
> the contrary: not only has he exposed the
> media’s double standards, but he is also forcing
> them to impeach their own evidence. After all, if
> there was no surveillance of the Trump campaign,
> then there was no Russian collusion, and the media
> are simply “fake news” partisans.
>
> By tweeting about Obama, Trump moved the last weak
> Jenga block. Now the tower is wobbling. Your move,
> journalists.
That screed brought to you by Breitbart - President Bannon's mouthpiece. No wonder you didn't source it.
-------------------------------------------------------
> Donald Trump Exposes Media’s Jenga Journalism
>
> by JOEL B. POLLAK 17 Mar 2017
>
>
> For months, the mainstream media played a game of
> “Jenga journalism,” building a tower of
> accusations against Donald Trump, using flimsy,
> speculative claims of Russian collusion.
>
> None of the different pieces of the conspiracy
> theory could hold up on their own, but journalists
> — and the Hillary Clinton campaign — treated
> the pile of Russia innuendo like a real monument.
> But then Trump made the move that forced them to
> tug at the foundations of their own illusion, and
> it crashed.
>
> @joelpollak comes up with amazing new meme in
> @chucktodd interview #JengaJournalism
> https://t.co/xtk2Ka3wYb
>
> — TundraTabloids (@TundraTabloids) March 17,
> 2017
>
> In the past several days, former Director of
> National Intelligence James Clapper and former
> Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
> Mike Morell have both stated publicly that there
> is no evidence that the Trump campaign cooperated
> with Russia. But they held their tongues for
> months as the false accusations mounted against
> Trump. It was only after the president tweeted
> that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped
> him that they found the courage to tell the
> truth.
>
> Trump based his claim on the mainstream media’s
> own reporting — a point made by conservative
> talk radio host Mark Levin and then later at
> Breitbart News. The New York Times, the BBC, and
> others had reported that the Obama administration
> had carried out surveillance on people close to
> Trump. Furthermore, the Times reported that the
> previous administration relaxed the rules of the
> National Security Agency to disseminate the
> results of that surveillance, some of which was
> evidently leaked.
>
> The media latched onto Trump’s claim that Obama
> had tapped his “phones,” as if that proved
> Trump was lying. But no one could dispute any of
> the core elements of Trump’s claims — until
> this past Thursday, when the Senate Intelligence
> Committee issued a short bipartisan statement:
> “Based on the information available to us, we
> see no indications that Trump Tower was the
> subject of surveillance by any element of the
> United States government either before or after
> Election Day 2016.”
>
> The committee’s statement was interpreted by the
> media as a definitive conclusion — though the
> investigation is ongoing. But if true, the only
> part of the story that has been debunked concerns
> surveillance of Trump Tower itself, a claim first
> made by the Heat Street website. It does not mean
> the warrant that Heat Street reported — and
> which the BBC reported as well — was never
> sought. That warrant, reportedly rejected by a
> FISA court, amended, and then approved, concerned
> a computer server.
>
> The New York Times also reported in October that
> the FBI had been investigating that server for
> “a possible secret channel of email
> communication from the Trump Organization to a
> Russian bank.” (The FBI found no evidence of any
> “conclusive or direct link,” which did not
> stop Democrats and the media from claiming there
> was one.) All the Senate committee did this week
> was confirm what Clapper had already said — that
> there had been no warrant for surveillance of
> Trump Tower itself.
>
> So no “phones,” but the basic case still
> stands: there was surveillance of the Trump
> campaign, the results were shared widely within
> the government, and the intelligence made its way
> — often illegally — to the mainstream media.
> The people leaking the intelligence are happy to
> defend what they are doing, through surrogates
> like former CIA agent and presidential candidate
> Evan McMullin, who told CNN the leakers were
> stopping “a security threat coming from the
> White House.”
>
> Yet the mainstream media are behaving as if
> Trump’s tweets about having his “wires
> tapped” are a very serious lie that undermines
> his entire administration. Having congratulated
> each other for exposing Trump on an entirely
> trivial matter, journalists are now using
> Trump’s tweets to badger other Republicans, like
> UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. (How many Obama Cabinet
> members had to face such questions about their
> “credibility” after he was caught spying on
> foreign leaders?)
>
> Moreover, in skewering Trump for claims about
> “wiretapping” and “phones,” the media are
> holding Trump to a standard of literalism they
> would never apply to themselves. For example,
> mainstream media headlines screamed for months
> about a “love affair” between Trump and
> Russian President Vladimir Putin: “The curious
> Trump-Putin love affair” (CBS); “Trump and
> Putin: A Love Story” (New Yorker). But it turns
> out there is no evidence Trump had sexual
> intercourse with Putin. Liars!
>
> Nervous Republicans like Rick Santorum fret that
> Trump is “hurting himself” with his tweets. On
> the contrary: not only has he exposed the
> media’s double standards, but he is also forcing
> them to impeach their own evidence. After all, if
> there was no surveillance of the Trump campaign,
> then there was no Russian collusion, and the media
> are simply “fake news” partisans.
>
> By tweeting about Obama, Trump moved the last weak
> Jenga block. Now the tower is wobbling. Your move,
> journalists.
That screed brought to you by Breitbart - President Bannon's mouthpiece. No wonder you didn't source it.
Re: Where did the Russians go?
Posted by:
#Truth
()
Date: March 17, 2017 02:43PM
Fake News! Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Jenga Journalism Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Donald Trump Exposes Media’s Jenga Journalism
> >
> > by JOEL B. POLLAK 17 Mar 2017
> >
> >
> > For months, the mainstream media played a game
> of
> > “Jenga journalism,” building a tower of
> > accusations against Donald Trump, using flimsy,
> > speculative claims of Russian collusion.
> >
> > None of the different pieces of the conspiracy
> > theory could hold up on their own, but
> journalists
> > — and the Hillary Clinton campaign —
> treated
> > the pile of Russia innuendo like a real
> monument.
> > But then Trump made the move that forced them
> to
> > tug at the foundations of their own illusion,
> and
> > it crashed.
> >
> > @joelpollak comes up with amazing new meme in
> > @chucktodd interview #JengaJournalism
> > https://t.co/xtk2Ka3wYb
> >
> > — TundraTabloids (@TundraTabloids) March 17,
> > 2017
> >
> > In the past several days, former Director of
> > National Intelligence James Clapper and former
> > Acting Director of the Central Intelligence
> Agency
> > Mike Morell have both stated publicly that
> there
> > is no evidence that the Trump campaign
> cooperated
> > with Russia. But they held their tongues for
> > months as the false accusations mounted against
> > Trump. It was only after the president tweeted
> > that former President Barack Obama had
> wiretapped
> > him that they found the courage to tell the
> > truth.
> >
> > Trump based his claim on the mainstream
> media’s
> > own reporting — a point made by conservative
> > talk radio host Mark Levin and then later at
> > Breitbart News. The New York Times, the BBC,
> and
> > others had reported that the Obama
> administration
> > had carried out surveillance on people close to
> > Trump. Furthermore, the Times reported that the
> > previous administration relaxed the rules of
> the
> > National Security Agency to disseminate the
> > results of that surveillance, some of which was
> > evidently leaked.
> >
> > The media latched onto Trump’s claim that
> Obama
> > had tapped his “phones,” as if that proved
> > Trump was lying. But no one could dispute any
> of
> > the core elements of Trump’s claims — until
> > this past Thursday, when the Senate
> Intelligence
> > Committee issued a short bipartisan statement:
> > “Based on the information available to us, we
> > see no indications that Trump Tower was the
> > subject of surveillance by any element of the
> > United States government either before or after
> > Election Day 2016.”
> >
> > The committee’s statement was interpreted by
> the
> > media as a definitive conclusion — though the
> > investigation is ongoing. But if true, the only
> > part of the story that has been debunked
> concerns
> > surveillance of Trump Tower itself, a claim
> first
> > made by the Heat Street website. It does not
> mean
> > the warrant that Heat Street reported — and
> > which the BBC reported as well — was never
> > sought. That warrant, reportedly rejected by a
> > FISA court, amended, and then approved,
> concerned
> > a computer server.
> >
> > The New York Times also reported in October
> that
> > the FBI had been investigating that server for
> > “a possible secret channel of email
> > communication from the Trump Organization to a
> > Russian bank.” (The FBI found no evidence of
> any
> > “conclusive or direct link,” which did not
> > stop Democrats and the media from claiming
> there
> > was one.) All the Senate committee did this
> week
> > was confirm what Clapper had already said —
> that
> > there had been no warrant for surveillance of
> > Trump Tower itself.
> >
> > So no “phones,” but the basic case still
> > stands: there was surveillance of the Trump
> > campaign, the results were shared widely within
> > the government, and the intelligence made its
> way
> > — often illegally — to the mainstream
> media.
> > The people leaking the intelligence are happy
> to
> > defend what they are doing, through surrogates
> > like former CIA agent and presidential
> candidate
> > Evan McMullin, who told CNN the leakers were
> > stopping “a security threat coming from the
> > White House.”
> >
> > Yet the mainstream media are behaving as if
> > Trump’s tweets about having his “wires
> > tapped” are a very serious lie that
> undermines
> > his entire administration. Having congratulated
> > each other for exposing Trump on an entirely
> > trivial matter, journalists are now using
> > Trump’s tweets to badger other Republicans,
> like
> > UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. (How many Obama
> Cabinet
> > members had to face such questions about their
> > “credibility” after he was caught spying on
> > foreign leaders?)
> >
> > Moreover, in skewering Trump for claims about
> > “wiretapping” and “phones,” the media
> are
> > holding Trump to a standard of literalism they
> > would never apply to themselves. For example,
> > mainstream media headlines screamed for months
> > about a “love affair” between Trump and
> > Russian President Vladimir Putin: “The
> curious
> > Trump-Putin love affair” (CBS); “Trump and
> > Putin: A Love Story” (New Yorker). But it
> turns
> > out there is no evidence Trump had sexual
> > intercourse with Putin. Liars!
> >
> > Nervous Republicans like Rick Santorum fret
> that
> > Trump is “hurting himself” with his tweets.
> On
> > the contrary: not only has he exposed the
> > media’s double standards, but he is also
> forcing
> > them to impeach their own evidence. After all,
> if
> > there was no surveillance of the Trump
> campaign,
> > then there was no Russian collusion, and the
> media
> > are simply “fake news” partisans.
> >
> > By tweeting about Obama, Trump moved the last
> weak
> > Jenga block. Now the tower is wobbling. Your
> move,
> > journalists.
>
> That screed brought to you by Breitbart -
> President Bannon's mouthpiece. No wonder you
> didn't source it.
And it's exactly right.
-------------------------------------------------------
> Jenga Journalism Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Donald Trump Exposes Media’s Jenga Journalism
> >
> > by JOEL B. POLLAK 17 Mar 2017
> >
> >
> > For months, the mainstream media played a game
> of
> > “Jenga journalism,” building a tower of
> > accusations against Donald Trump, using flimsy,
> > speculative claims of Russian collusion.
> >
> > None of the different pieces of the conspiracy
> > theory could hold up on their own, but
> journalists
> > — and the Hillary Clinton campaign —
> treated
> > the pile of Russia innuendo like a real
> monument.
> > But then Trump made the move that forced them
> to
> > tug at the foundations of their own illusion,
> and
> > it crashed.
> >
> > @joelpollak comes up with amazing new meme in
> > @chucktodd interview #JengaJournalism
> > https://t.co/xtk2Ka3wYb
> >
> > — TundraTabloids (@TundraTabloids) March 17,
> > 2017
> >
> > In the past several days, former Director of
> > National Intelligence James Clapper and former
> > Acting Director of the Central Intelligence
> Agency
> > Mike Morell have both stated publicly that
> there
> > is no evidence that the Trump campaign
> cooperated
> > with Russia. But they held their tongues for
> > months as the false accusations mounted against
> > Trump. It was only after the president tweeted
> > that former President Barack Obama had
> wiretapped
> > him that they found the courage to tell the
> > truth.
> >
> > Trump based his claim on the mainstream
> media’s
> > own reporting — a point made by conservative
> > talk radio host Mark Levin and then later at
> > Breitbart News. The New York Times, the BBC,
> and
> > others had reported that the Obama
> administration
> > had carried out surveillance on people close to
> > Trump. Furthermore, the Times reported that the
> > previous administration relaxed the rules of
> the
> > National Security Agency to disseminate the
> > results of that surveillance, some of which was
> > evidently leaked.
> >
> > The media latched onto Trump’s claim that
> Obama
> > had tapped his “phones,” as if that proved
> > Trump was lying. But no one could dispute any
> of
> > the core elements of Trump’s claims — until
> > this past Thursday, when the Senate
> Intelligence
> > Committee issued a short bipartisan statement:
> > “Based on the information available to us, we
> > see no indications that Trump Tower was the
> > subject of surveillance by any element of the
> > United States government either before or after
> > Election Day 2016.”
> >
> > The committee’s statement was interpreted by
> the
> > media as a definitive conclusion — though the
> > investigation is ongoing. But if true, the only
> > part of the story that has been debunked
> concerns
> > surveillance of Trump Tower itself, a claim
> first
> > made by the Heat Street website. It does not
> mean
> > the warrant that Heat Street reported — and
> > which the BBC reported as well — was never
> > sought. That warrant, reportedly rejected by a
> > FISA court, amended, and then approved,
> concerned
> > a computer server.
> >
> > The New York Times also reported in October
> that
> > the FBI had been investigating that server for
> > “a possible secret channel of email
> > communication from the Trump Organization to a
> > Russian bank.” (The FBI found no evidence of
> any
> > “conclusive or direct link,” which did not
> > stop Democrats and the media from claiming
> there
> > was one.) All the Senate committee did this
> week
> > was confirm what Clapper had already said —
> that
> > there had been no warrant for surveillance of
> > Trump Tower itself.
> >
> > So no “phones,” but the basic case still
> > stands: there was surveillance of the Trump
> > campaign, the results were shared widely within
> > the government, and the intelligence made its
> way
> > — often illegally — to the mainstream
> media.
> > The people leaking the intelligence are happy
> to
> > defend what they are doing, through surrogates
> > like former CIA agent and presidential
> candidate
> > Evan McMullin, who told CNN the leakers were
> > stopping “a security threat coming from the
> > White House.”
> >
> > Yet the mainstream media are behaving as if
> > Trump’s tweets about having his “wires
> > tapped” are a very serious lie that
> undermines
> > his entire administration. Having congratulated
> > each other for exposing Trump on an entirely
> > trivial matter, journalists are now using
> > Trump’s tweets to badger other Republicans,
> like
> > UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. (How many Obama
> Cabinet
> > members had to face such questions about their
> > “credibility” after he was caught spying on
> > foreign leaders?)
> >
> > Moreover, in skewering Trump for claims about
> > “wiretapping” and “phones,” the media
> are
> > holding Trump to a standard of literalism they
> > would never apply to themselves. For example,
> > mainstream media headlines screamed for months
> > about a “love affair” between Trump and
> > Russian President Vladimir Putin: “The
> curious
> > Trump-Putin love affair” (CBS); “Trump and
> > Putin: A Love Story” (New Yorker). But it
> turns
> > out there is no evidence Trump had sexual
> > intercourse with Putin. Liars!
> >
> > Nervous Republicans like Rick Santorum fret
> that
> > Trump is “hurting himself” with his tweets.
> On
> > the contrary: not only has he exposed the
> > media’s double standards, but he is also
> forcing
> > them to impeach their own evidence. After all,
> if
> > there was no surveillance of the Trump
> campaign,
> > then there was no Russian collusion, and the
> media
> > are simply “fake news” partisans.
> >
> > By tweeting about Obama, Trump moved the last
> weak
> > Jenga block. Now the tower is wobbling. Your
> move,
> > journalists.
>
> That screed brought to you by Breitbart -
> President Bannon's mouthpiece. No wonder you
> didn't source it.
And it's exactly right.
Re: Where did the Russians go?
Posted by:
FuPt3
()
Date: March 17, 2017 11:54PM
"...Trump is “hurting himself” with his tweets. On the contrary: not only has he exposed the media’s double standards, but he is also forcing them to impeach their own evidence. After all, if there was no surveillance of the Trump campaign, then there was no Russian collusion, and the media are simply “fake news” partisans."
So while libs look forward to SNL, others watch the Dems and MSM. Why watch a parody of a parody?
So while libs look forward to SNL, others watch the Dems and MSM. Why watch a parody of a parody?
Re: Where did the Russians go?
Posted by:
Gerrymanderer2
()
Date: March 17, 2017 11:57PM
He sourced a rightard guest on Fox News, not even a report. WTF are you talking about?
Re: Where did the Russians go?
Posted by:
CNTJE
()
Date: March 18, 2017 12:06AM
So the Russian thing was just fake news?
Re: Where did the Russians go?
Posted by:
Gerrymanderer2
()
Date: March 18, 2017 12:12AM
The Russians hacked the election. Where have you been? Flynn was fired and was a traitor on the RT and Erdogan payroll. Trump is a traitor too. He's getting fired next.
Re: Where did the Russians go?
Posted by:
Scarecrowerer2
()
Date: March 18, 2017 12:32AM
Gerrymanderer2 Wrote:
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> The Russians hacked the election. Where have you
> been? Flynn was fired and was a traitor on the RT
> and Erdogan payroll. Trump is a traitor too. He's
> getting fired next.
Nobody with a brain has represented that the Russians hacked the election.
But then I said with a brain so that wouldn't include you.
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> The Russians hacked the election. Where have you
> been? Flynn was fired and was a traitor on the RT
> and Erdogan payroll. Trump is a traitor too. He's
> getting fired next.
Nobody with a brain has represented that the Russians hacked the election.
But then I said with a brain so that wouldn't include you.
Re: Where did the Russians go?
Posted by:
Gerrytardin'
()
Date: March 18, 2017 01:08AM
Gerrymanderer2 Wrote:
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> The Russians hacked the election. Where have you
> been? Flynn was fired and was a traitor on the RT
> and Erdogan payroll. Trump is a traitor too. He's
> getting fired next.
Attachments:
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> The Russians hacked the election. Where have you
> been? Flynn was fired and was a traitor on the RT
> and Erdogan payroll. Trump is a traitor too. He's
> getting fired next.
Attachments:
Re: Where did the Russians go?
Posted by:
sameer the queer
()
Date: March 18, 2017 01:37AM
me and gerry will be servicing all cummers at the AT glory hole on the sabbath
Russians get 30% off
Throw the jews down the well
Russians get 30% off
Throw the jews down the well
Re: Where did the Russians go?
Posted by:
KKKillary KKKlinton.
()
Date: March 18, 2017 08:52AM
Gerrymanderer2 Wrote:
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> The Russians hacked the election. Where have you
> been? Flynn was fired and was a traitor on the RT
> and Erdogan payroll. Trump is a traitor too. He's
> getting fired next.
Obama said they could not. You're calling Obama a liar.
Care to share any evidence? How did they do it? Nobody will tell us but some how you know.
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> The Russians hacked the election. Where have you
> been? Flynn was fired and was a traitor on the RT
> and Erdogan payroll. Trump is a traitor too. He's
> getting fired next.
Obama said they could not. You're calling Obama a liar.
Care to share any evidence? How did they do it? Nobody will tell us but some how you know.