The press is cleverly twisting the Hillary e-mail scandal to her benefit by narrowing their focus on what qualifies as “secret” instead of the fact that she conducted all national security business from her private e-mail server to avoid getting subpoenaed. There is no question whatsoever from a legal perspective that what Hillary did was outright criminal and conducting the business of the Secretary of State from a private server from which she then deleted 31,000 emails was at minimum obstruction of justice if not treason to the United States.
What Hillary did was far more direct treason than what Edward Snowden was accused of. Even Snowden has come out and stated bluntly that others go to jail for what Hillary did. How can Hillary claim privacy when she and the Obama Administration have supported the grabbing of every email by the NSA? Why has the press not demanded the NSA turnover all the emails Hillary erased when they have everything?
Where in mainstream media is our Woodward & Bernstein? Are we totally lacking anyone in the media with the guts to do what they were supposed to do? We seem to be looking at more than just the corruption of politics, it has infected the media and downgraded everything to a biased slant. The repeal of the Fairness Doctrine has steered the press into a political tool for propaganda.
How about the confidential e-mails concerning Hillary’s brother who got a unique gold mining contract from Haiti after Hillary approved billions from the State Department? The press is all over Trump, desperately trying to prevent him from running, while they remain silent on the internal corruption going on in the White House. How about Joe Biden’s son getting the contract from Ukraine? Sure the press has reported such individual stories, but there is nobody putting it together to challenge Hillary or demand her banishment as they did with Richard Nixon. Can you imagine what the press would have done if Nixon said screw you, I erased half the tapes because they were personal in my own judgment?
Even Barnie Frank, who oversaw the investigation into the collapse of real estate and Fannie Mae, was deeply involved in Fannie Mae and has placed the equivalent of his ex-wife Herb Moses high up in the agency. Frank and Moses back in 1992 told the Wall Street Journal that they took pains to avoid any conflicts of interest when Frank oversaw the agency run by his effective wife.
Outside of politics, a conflict of interest is broadly determined and includes one’s family. I could not accept payments from a company funneled to a family member and pretend I receive nothing. I advised on numerous takeovers and could not even have a stock account nor any family member. The real world does not work that way, but politicians exempt themselves from ethics applied to the rest of society.
Where is the press with ANY integrity? This is why people are rallying behind Trump because they also do not trust the press. The more the press focus on trying to stop Trump, the more the people support him. Trump is becoming a huge protest vote and may be the only way to shake up Washington and the Press.
The press’ total failure to report on these issues or family corruption not only disgraces the press, but it undermines their alleged position as a trustworthy independent check and balance. The Clinton Foundation also has their daughter involved. Stop reporting the individual issues and connect the dots.
The MSM is dying. It may dying slowly but none-the-less, it’s dying. The alternative is the web from where an ever-increasing number of people get their news.
THIS is why there’s such an effort being generated by TPTB to control the internet. They know what’s happening, that information they don’t want circulated is seeping into the system. It started with Matt Drudge’s scoop on White Water and has never looked back. It’s a Pandora’s Box for the TPTB. Once unlocked, they can’t put it back. Shut down the internet? In the US? The economy would come to a dead-silent thump faster than a piano dropped from a four-story building
As with TPB, I suspect there’ll be continued attempts at blocking access to websites, and in collusion with Microsoft’s Defender software more embedded “threat messages” to warn the viewer they’re entering a “potentially malicious” website, etc. The Wizard of Oz warning The Lumpen to “Look out! Truth resides in there…enter at you’re own peril!”
It’s all sophomorically predictable and in some sense a badge of honor for a website to be attacked. It many cases it means a site must be doing something right as TPTB view it as a threat.
There are approximately 1,013,013 words on the English language but that’s not enough for the MSM to simply state the obvious: Hillary broke the law. No wonder no one believes their bullshit anymore.
I can’t recall who wrote it but it seems spot-on: “The true genius of Hillary is that she manages to epitomize every failure of our current political life: the obsessive micro-manipulation of image, the obscene money-grubbing, the tired cronyism, the entitlement masquerading as sexual equality.”
Or better yet, Charles Hugh Smith’s observation: “The corrupts-everything-it-touches bribe vacuum known as Hillary Clinton is still disgracing the national stage, 24 years after she first displayed her con-artist colors. Hillary’s most enduring accomplishment is the Clinton Foundation–a glorification of bribery, chicanery, flim-flam and cons so outrageously perfected that it serves up examples of every con known to humanity in one form or another.”
How any human being can’t see through the rote, Machiavellian display Hillary trots out at every public appearance is beyond me, and profoundly demoralizing. A large swath of the American pubic is without any semblance of a bullshit meter. I’ve read in various places that the average IQ in the US is 98…I’m guessing that the half of the population below this number are where the Shillary supporters reside? Except of course for the .01% that want her in for their own crony reasons. Want a truly startling display of liberal lunacy? Go here
Or maybe not – the mendacious crap they post just incenses my delicate constitution all the more.
The MSM is making itself less and less relevant among the thinking part of the public on a daily basis.
Unfortunately, the thinking part is the minority, and possibly a shrinking minority at that.
The mainstream media (tv news , Hollywood , Networks ) is controlled by leftists. These people control the most powerful mind control systems on the planet. There will no taking America back .This mind control is to powerful and hard to break. Most people have no idea they are being deceived. Unless we the people take back control of the tv networks then nothing else will matter until we have our own financial Armageddon.
The current MSM reporting on hitlery is just to get this affair(s) out of the way long before the election starts in earnest. Why try to diffuse a bomb after it has gone off? Just beat the subject to death a year and a half before the election and it will be old news and completely forgotten by the sheeple, if they are aware of it at all.
Nothing will stop hitlery’s election. I don’t care if she if caught on video slicing the throats of babies and drinking their blood, she is the anointed one, which means that the clinton crime family have some god-awful blackmail on very important people.
Watch as the ‘news’ about hitlery’s crimes suddenly disappear from the news cycle, due to some false flag event, or economic collapse (but I repeat myself).
The press does not give blanket absolution for corruption. They reserve that for Democrats. They would be boiling a Republican in oil.
Backtable, good post. To the rest, I would venture a slightly different opinion. Hillary was never meant to win. Jeb! was. Hillary was just the backup. The difficulty she is now facing is fatal. No one in the MSM doesn’t realize that. It’s just that there is no plan B. Holder got out so he could get a piece of the ultra lucrative pardon business that will certainly be active next year
Biggest hurdle is, zero can’t pardon himself, so it limits his options to deal chicago style. The dims are done for a while, especially if trump follows his mandate. There should be a long overdue turnover in the MSM talking heads, they have no value if they can’t sway opinion. Can’t happen quick enough
Guys, like others have already said here, it’s no mistake! It is all deliberate. You’re all committing thought crime for noticing it, so be careful what you say. Maybe the elites have become so cocky now, that they’ve dropped all pretense of a fair society and are shoving their special status in our faces. “You’re all our bitches now”. Before you think this is some conspiracy theory, read it from the horses mouth. Here is Edward Bernays, nephew of Freud, a member of the Frankfurt school, which was a small group of people who radically changed American culture:
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. …In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
That was in written in fucking 1928!! You think they’ve gotten better or worse at it in the past almost hundred years? Do yourself a favor and read it in order to get an idea of the psychology of our handlers. You should be able to find a free copy now that it’s in the public domain. Also check out “Manufacturing Consent”, a documentary from Noam Chomsky. He’s a smart fellow with good realpolitik analysis, but ironically fails to go one step further and question his radical leftist upbringing.