- FBI Obama Justice Department coverup facilitated by media
- Democrat operatives/dominate liberal media first accuse Trump of dark foreboding Russia connection, then, when newsworthy facts about Democrat collusion appear, (which they tried to coverup) they ignore or emphasize emotional stories as a diversion
- Pot lying about the kettle being black
- What are typical totalitarian (Russian, Chinese, Marxists in general) propaganda techniques?
Obsessive deliverers of fake news regarding the “Russia connection to Trump” the dominant liberal media largely and purposefully ignores the Russia connection to the Clintons. The facts and implications of the Russia/Hillary payola is perhaps the most scandalous corruption and coverup in American history as it involves the FBI and the Justice Department and the media. What have we seen on NBC/CBS/ABC on the latest developments. Anything like the breathless reporting of unsubstantiated rumor and innuendo cast by Democrat operatives about Trump?
Excerpt from Katie Pavlich writing at Town Hall:
With Bribery, Russian Nuclear Officials Made Bill and Hillary Clinton Richer
In 2009 Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted more control over U.S. nuclear capability and the Clintons helped him get there.
According to a bombshell report published today in TheHill the corruption surrounding the sale of Uranium One when President Obama was in the White House, which overwhelmingly and personally benefited former President Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation, was far worse than we first knew and the FBI documented all of it. Bolding is mine: . . .
Under her watch at the State Department, Secretary Hillary Clinton benefited from the Russian government increasing its power inside the U.S. nuclear program and allowed it to happen. She then denied knowing anything about it on the campaign trial and resented allegations she used her position at the State Department for personal gain. Russian nuclear officials were paying her husband millions through shady back channels and by default, they were paying her too.
A New York Post masthead editorial: (excerpt)
Team Obama’s stunning cover-up of Russian crimes
It turns out the Obama administration knew the Russians were engaged in bribery, kickbacks and extortion in order to gain control of US atomic resources — yet still OK’d that 2010 deal to give Moscow control of one-fifth of America’s uranium. This reeks.
Peter Schweizer got onto part of the scandal in his 2015 book, “Clinton Cash”: the gifts of $145 million to the Clinton Foundation, and the $500,000 fee to Bill for a single speech, by individuals involved in a deal that required Hillary Clinton’s approval.
The New York Times confirmed and followed up on Schweizer’s reporting — all of it denounced by Hillary as a partisan hit job.
But now The Hill reports that the FBI in 2009 had collected substantial evidence — eyewitnesses backed by documents — of money-laundering, blackmail and bribery by Russian nuclear officials, all aimed at growing “Vladimir Putin’s atomic-energy business inside the United States” in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
The bureau even flagged the routing of millions from Russian nuclear officials to cutouts and on to Clinton, Inc. . . .
And Democrats accuse Trump of propagandizing like the Russians!
How about this incredibly obtuse analysis from Mother Jones: excerpt quoting a Rand Corporation “study” (And the devil quotes the Bible)
Pot lying about the kettle being black
A Chilling Theory on Trump’s Nonstop Lies
His duplicity bears a disturbing resemblance to Putin-style propaganda
RAND: “Russian propaganda is produced in incredibly large volumes and is broadcast or otherwise distributed via a large number of channels.”
1. High-volume and multichannel
2. Rapid, continuous, and repetitive
3 Lacks commitment to objective reality
4 lacks commitment to consistency
RAND: “Don’t expect to counter the firehose of falsehood with the squirt gun of truth.”
The Washington Post has called Trump “the most fact-checked politician.” Yet, the RAND research found that pointing out specific falsehoods was an ineffective tool against the propaganda techniques they studied in Russia because “people will have trouble recalling which information they have received is the disinformation and which is the truth.” The researchers acknowledged the challenges that other governments and organizations like NATO have in countering Russian propaganda, and advised against taking on the propaganda messages directly.
Some responses proposed by the researchers may also hold clues for media struggling to contend with Trump’s unprecedented behavior in the Oval Office. The researchers suggest making the first impression on an issue by priming audiences with accurate information, to get in front of a potentially misleading message. And they advise exposing the method: “Highlight the ways propagandists attempt to manipulate audiences,” they say, “rather than fighting the specific manipulations.”
For the American media, it may well be a matter of doing both, and often.
What is unprecedented is a Republican calling the real leftist propagandists out. America’s leftist intellectuals learned Soviet propaganda techniques at their knee and passed it on to their acolytes in the current propaganda ministry — the dominant liberal media establishment.
Related reading:
15-point checklist of Putin’s regimes propaganda techniques
See any resemblance to the left? R Mall
