From the Gulf of Tonkin incident to Iraq WMDs to Pat Tilman and right up to the present moment, it turns out we have been awash in fake news the whole time. Nobody has been more guilty of it than the legacy media. We are all floating on an ocean of lies.
Every President has them. Nixon was the most publicized, but Obama, and his handling of the IRS scandal, has become a close second.US Dept of Energy balks at providing a list of employees attending global climate talks
Is Trump trying to create a political enemies list?
This seems to remind me of a previous US President
Hey now "do as I say, not as I do" - CIA
Aren't muffins a part of the fascist white supremacy bakery movement of the 1950s? Wouldn't it be more like tofu beancurd fair trade cocoa rainforest raisin organic flour pastries?You are probably correct, but it used to be harder to get on the enemies list.
Back in the day you had to join in a march against the Vietnam War and maybe even get arrested for throwing flowers and holding up peace signs.
Now, all you have to do is attend some climate change conference and scarf down some muffins.
Call me disillusioned.
Yawn. You have any fresher strawmen?Aren't muffins a part of the fascist white supremacy bakery movement of the 1950s? Wouldn't it be more like tofu beancurd fair trade cocoa rainforest raisin organic flour pastries?
No, but I've got this >>>>>
Plenty of irony from CNN and all the other left wing media post election
I had framed it that way because while it was Hillary that had the most to gain, it was unlikely that she created the narrative that it was Russia's fault because the whole situation hinged on Trump's comments that the election was rigged. If anything, the hypocrisy was so strong in Obama in saying that the elections weren't rigged to begin with, that he ordered the CIA investigation into the election. This flies in the face of Federal law in that the CIA can't operate on American soil. So we have a president who ordered an illegal investigation into the election that was "supposed" to elect the first woman president in Hillary, only that it didn't happen by a margin of 306-232.
The working theory among Dems is that Russia hacked the DNC emails and leaked it to Wikileaks.
Obama had a point that it would be incredibly difficult to directly rig the election because the system is so decentralised. Rather than rigging one election, you would effectively have to rig half a dozen separate elections.
It's hypocrisy because he basically said to Trump to accept the election results, but his actions suggests that the president refuses to accept the results. I can't make it any clearer than that.
Or - and stop me if this is a radical idea - he is a President who is genuinely concerned at the potential for foreign powers to manipulate and subvert the election results.
And that is even worse considering the number of country's elections that he personally tried to interfere with, including Israel. It's perfectly fine when the US does it to you, but when someone else does it right back, suddenly it is call out the CIA. Right?
I wouldn't be so quick to condemn him as a hypocrite. You can bet that those other nations would investigate if and when the integrity of their own elections was compromised by a foreign power. We just don't hear about it in the western media. Which American media outlet is going to be interested in running a story about America openly interfering with the democratic process in another country?
