re: #42 Targetpractice

I suspect that it’s something closer to the middle: What we’re seeing is the “sizzle” that was supposed to sell the “steak” (aka the Phillips “sting”). Use these videos to show that the WaPo has a “hidden agenda,” then cap it off with a WaPo reporter being caught on tape giving assurances that they’d go to press with unverified accusations. He probably was counting on the WaPo sticking to the policy of not publishing “off-the-record” info to sell his hackjob once he got Phillip’s footage and realized she’d been found out. But WaPo did go to press with it, so now he has to go forward with the “sting” but without any substance to it.

Sad reality? There’s plenty of wingnuts out there who will buy it.

The sadder reality is that the likely result is that for the next week or so, there will be constant repetition from FOX and every Republican personality interviewed on every channel about the ‘evidence’ and ‘questions’ surrounding the WaPo and their reporting. CNN and every media source will devote hours of programming to discussing the ‘allegations’. Guest after guest will be brought on to ‘discuss’ the evidence, which will consist only of repeating the same lie loudly. Trump will tweet about it, and that will spark another couple of days of ‘discussion’. Senators and Representatives will be asked about it and say that their constituents are ‘concerned’ about this ‘evidence’.

In the meantime, the Senate will pass a tax bill affecting every American and Republicans will elect a pedophile to the Senate. This will be afforded minutes of coverage at most, while the American mass media talks about lies as if they might be true for hours.

Democracy dies in darkness.