Posted on 03/29/2019 5:40:42 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The very few of us who publicly challenged and deplored Russiagate allegations against candidate and then President Donald Trump from the time they first began to appear in mid-2016 should not gloat or rejoice over the US Attorney General’s summary of Robert S. Mueller’s key finding...
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But what about the legions of high-ranking intelligence officials, politicians, editorial writers, television producers, and other opinion-makers, and their eager media outlets that perpetuated, inflated, and prolonged this unprecedented political scandal in American history—those who did not stop short of accusing the president of the United States of being a Kremlin “agent,” “asset,” “puppet,” “Manchurian candidate,” and who characterized his conduct and policies as “treasonous”? ... Will they now apologize, as decency requires, or, more importantly, explain their motives so that we might understand and avoid another such national trauma?
Shortly after Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, in 1985, he released a banned film, Repentance (FULL FILM HERE - click CC for subttitles), that explored the underlying institutional, ideological, and personal dynamics of Stalinism. The film set off a nationwide media trial and condemnation of that murderous era. Though Russiagate has generated in America some Soviet-like practices and ruined a number of lives and reputations, it is, of course, nothing even remotely comparable to the Soviet Stalinist experience. By comparison, therefore, some introspective repentance on the part of Russiagate perpetuators should not be too much to ask. But as I foresaw well before the summary of Mueller’s “Russia investigation” appeared, there is unlikely to be much, if any. Too many personal and organizational interests are too deeply invested in Russiagate. Not surprisingly, leading perpetrators instead immediately met the summary with a torrent of denials, goal-post shifts, obfuscations, and calls for more Russiagate “investigations.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
One positive is that a lot more people see the mockingbird media for what it is now.
One positive is that a lot more people see the mockingbird media for what it is now.
Ummmmmmmmmm, as far as I can see, the left still feels that they were right, Trump is guilty and needs to be impeached for the many crimes he has committed and which Mueller has covered up for him.
These people are shameless. Facts mean nothing to them.
Trump is now saying “my turn.”
When yo shoot for the king, do not miss.
I can’t wait to see what happens in the next few months. I read yesterday there are already criminal indictments waiting (but I don’t want to get like the fools on the left awaiting Mullermas).
I do hope the blowback is extreme and pointed.
Funny you should mention Mockingbird (as in Operation?). I was just now thinking the Mockingbird is about the only bird that sings in the dark.
the Mockingbird is about the only bird that sings in the dark.
There is only "the cause"...and anything done in the name of the cause (communism--let's call it what it is) is "Right."
How does this author think that Stalinist practices came to be used in The Soviet Union? They certainly weren't baked into the Soviet Constitution (Yes, they had one, and according to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, it was a very good one too)
They came to use Stalinist methods because they were allowed to, and nobody stopped them. While their Constitution was paper and nothing more (because it was never intended to be followed, it was intended to be interpreted and defined as the state saw fit to suit its needs) our Constitution is suffering the same fate even if the origins of the document were more honest.
And if we don't stop Leftist judges from twisting the Constitution to suit their needs, and we continue to allow local, state, and federal institutions and politicians to ignore what they want with no penalty, we are going to go down that road too.
How does this author think that Stalinist practices came to be used in The Soviet Union?
I think Cohen means that the commies in American haven't (yet) killed millions of people as was done in Stalinist Russia.
“The Nation”? This was published in “The Nation”?
Is this a stopped clock or are pigs flying?
“Mockingbird media” is spot on.
That is most certainly true.
But they can’t kill tens of millions of people until they have killed their first one!
I actually have which is why I used that word “about”.
I was once on a long-distance bus ride—Phoenix to L.A. and there was this kid practicing guitar—the same song for a couple of hours—but he always would make a mistake and then start over. You knew the mistake was coming, it was only a matter of when. When he got to the mistake, he’d start over.
My first whippoorwill was kind of like that. A seeming endless Whip-poor-Will, until the damn bird would end its call at “poor”. A few seconds of blessed silence, and then the song would recommence.
(I did notice the “about” BTW, but people who haven’t experienced the bird don’t know what they’re missing!)
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