There is nothing normal about the Fusion GPS dossier

The Hill ^ | 11/5/17 | Ned Ryun

[Ann Archy]

SHOW ME THIER BANK ACCOUNTS!!!

[SkyPilot]

Guess who sent an aide to Europe to pick up a physical copy of this "dossier", leaked it the press,gave a copy to the FBI and pressured them to go after Trump, and worked behind the scenes with members of Congress to warn them against supporting Trump?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

We want a free press in America. But we also need an honest press that is accountable and that can be trusted and we need one now more than ever based on what we’ve seen over the last year. Until we get to the truth about Fusion GPS and its dossier, the jury is still out on that one.

Close, but no cigar. We want, we need, we must have free and independent presses.

What we have now is a single “associated” press consisting of multiple outlets all coming from a common input pool, the AP newswire.

And when we speak of “presses” we do not restrict our attention to the particular popular topical nonfiction genre known as journalism.

The trouble with journalism is that by its openly proclaimed commercially motivated rules journalism, while claiming to be objective, is (knowingly) negative toward society. And yet if “The conceit that negativity is objectivity” were a Jeopardy answer, the corresponding Jeopardy question would be, “What is the definition of cynicism?”

Cynicism toward society implies faith in - or at least naiveté toward - government. And this combination is the defining characteristic of leftism. Thus we require a different sort of discourse to put journalism into context. What we need is philosophy. Philosophy is “the love of wisdom,” and philosophers reject tendentious argumentation - sophistry - and demand that argumentation restrict itself to facts and logic. But anyone who functions as a philosopher - who listens respectfully to facts and logic which oppose his own perspective, and respectfully offers rebuttals without resorting to ad hominem attacks or other tendentious argumentation - will be condemned by journalists and other leftists. Who function as sophists in evading the facts and logic espoused by the philosopher.

Journalists and other leftists attack the philosopher as a “right wing talk show host."

[little jeremiah]

Placemark.

[prophetic]

Every time I see his evil mug and I remember his treason it makes me think of how NKOREA fat boy executes his enemies by putting them in front of an anti-aircraft cannon.

How many American patriots did he flush down the drain as they were left behind to die IN ADDITION to the many who died when he gave the enemy our secrets?

[lepton]

Some more pieces

[jacknhoo]

Good article. A very poorly edited article, though.

[mewzilla]

Not if more is about to break.

If so, this reads like a modified limited hangout to me.