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    The Fraudian waves a vague hand at 2 years of lies. Archived Message

    Posted by Raskolnikov on March 28, 2019, 1:50 pm

    I suspect this article is just so they can say they published something critical of the liberal media's role in Russiagate. Perhaps they realise Maddow and the rest have left them looking foolish beyond any kind of spin, so they need to concoct some vague apologetic criticism.

    https://www.dumptheguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/28/trump-russia-investigation-mueller-liberal-media-rachel-maddow

    Not too apologetic apparently:

    “We wrote a lot about Russia, and I have no regrets,” said the New York Times’ executive editor, Dean Baquet, in an interview after the Mueller report came in. “It’s not our job to determine whether or not there was illegality,” he added. Other news executives have also defended their coverage. CNN’s president, Jeff Zucker, said: “We are not investigators. We are journalists, and our role is to report the facts as we know them, which is exactly what we did.”

    Or not at all in their case.

    Still, it’s abundantly clear now that many liberal outlets overdid it in their fervor. And Maddow, MSNBC’s ratings juggernaut of the Trump era, is the embodiment of this overzealousness.

    Such dainty language. It was just pushing lies though, wasn't it? Just plain lying. Not "overdoing it".

    The case of Russian collusion served as soma for the Democratic masses addicted to cable TV and prestige news outlets, where the story could never die. Focus enough on Trump’s “illegitimate” presidency – Russian agents installed him! – and forget the catastrophic failure of the Democratic party to elect Hillary Clinton and stop Trump’s shambolic candidacy.

    It was the viewer's fault now. They demand we regurgitate this shit night after night. Nothing to do with us. Also, the catastrophic failure was trying to push that toxic warmonger as a candidate. If Trump was shambolic, how come you lost to him?

    Forget too America’s structural inequities, its warped version of representative democracy, its original sins of slavery and Native American genocide, and its history, first and foremost, of elevating presidents who routinely flouted the constitution, whether it was Franklin Roosevelt imprisoning Japanese Americans, Abraham Lincoln suspending habeas corpus, or even George W Bush launching the Iraq war, a cataclysmic blunder that will reverberate across the Middle East for decades to come.

    After "structural inequities" and "warped democracy" I thought we were heading for Chris Hedges territory but then genocide and slavery and err Lincoln. And as for Iraq that was "a cataclysmic blunder"; again, not a deliberate lie that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths (at least).

    Maddow surely understands this. There will be no deus ex Russia to save the American republic. Once Mueller’s name fades into history, she will have to find someone else to fill her primetime hours.

    So, in accordance with Betteridge's Law: No, she won't be facing a reckoning.

    Not so much "mea culpa" as "meh culpa".

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