Ladies and gentlemen: your GOP candidate.
This is not funny. It is terrifying. The Russians engage in a sloppy disinformation effort and, before the day is out, the Republican nominee for president is standing on a stage reciting the manufactured story as truth. How did this happen? Who in the Trump campaign was feeding him falsehoods straight from the Kremlin? (The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment).
The Russians have been obtaining American emails and now are presenting complete misrepresentations of them—falsifying them—in hopes of setting off a cascade of events that might change the outcome of the presidential election.
Not perfect.
Politicians always claim theirs will be “The most transparent administration evahhh….”. We pass laws protecting whistleblowers from retribution for revealing secrets. Transparency was trumpeted (no pun intended) as the grail because they want to project an honest persona.
Now, when transparency is inconvenient to their favored candidate, the Brian Williams media wants to focus solely on the messenger and ignore the message. Possible foreign influence is certainly an important issue, but the leaked facts are also important.
So, where is Newsweek, Time and the NYT on these revelations?
All I hear is crickets.
take it somewhere else.
Newsweek published the fucking revelation. Other words fail me.
“So, where is Newsweek, Time and the NYT on these revelations?”
Yes, it would certainly improve the public’s already low opinion of our media if they transferred what’s left of those investigative news-gathering chops and put them to better use by hiring a bunch of criminal computer hackers to play havoc with the country’s already parlous computer networks and communication platforms.
We’re all hiding something. Let it all hang out. You go first.