re: #249 Targetpractice

On cue…

The liberal Twitter hate for @maggieNYT and @kenvogel right now is 10,000 kinds of dumb.

— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) October 25, 2017

Calling out hypocrisy and media failing and media types circle the wagons.

It’s entirely predictable.

Maggie has history of refusing to call Trump lies lies, using all manner of euphemism.

But when Clinton’s involved, she has no problem to call something a lie even if that statement is unsupported by the evidence at the time made.

Maggie’s a hack who has access to Trump in some fashion, so she gets juicy scoops, which isn’t so much reporting as hagiography or stenography. Others are using her to settle scores.

That’s not journalism or reporting.

Journalism would be identifying that the Steele dossier was initially created by the GOP as oppo research, and Democrats ultimately picked up that as part of their own oppo research. Further, oppo research doesn’t mean it’s not any less truthful.

More to the point, the dossier isn’t even the totality of circumstances that shows Trump and his cronies thoroughly compromised and colluding with Russia. There’s so much more than the dossier - from emails, meetings, undisclosed meetings, lies and perjury, security clearance forms that were incomplete, lies, obstruction of justice, Emoluments, conflicts of interest, nepotism, etc.

Mueller doesn’t need the dossier to do his job. That’s what bank records, subpoenas, testimony, and other actual evidence gathering is for. The dossier is best known for the urination claims, but that isn’t an impeachable offense.

This is just flak being spun up by the right wing agitprop outlets to deflect attention from what the GOP and Trump are doing.