Misdirection
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Pak emails:
When Bill and Hillary Clinton were under investigation for their part in the Whitewater, Filegate, Travelgate, Paula Jones, and Monica Lewinsky affairs, Hillary Clinton told Matt Laurer that there was nothing to the charges, they were the result of a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy working against her family. She persisted in that lie for years, despite mounting evidence that the Clintons were not being wrongfully persecuted, but justly prosecuted.
When Islamic terrorists attacked the US Consulate in Benghazi, killing our ambassador and dragging his body through the streets, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed the killers were innocent Muslims outraged by an offensive internet video. She persisted in that lie for years, lying to the faces of the victims’ families, despite all evidence to the contrary.
When embarrassing Democrat party e-mails were published by Wikileaks before the election, Hillary Clinton claimed Russian hackers were trying to help Trump get elected. Democrats are still demanding an investigation into her claim and now they’ve gotten a Special Investigator appointed.
But what if the emails weren’t stolen by Russians? What if they were given away by a disgruntled employee of the Democrat National Committee? Specifically, what if a 27-year-old computer programmer sent 40,000 emails to Wikileaks and later was shot in the back while walking down the street in Washington, DC, a murder the police are no longer trying to solve? There’d be nothing for the Special Investigator to investigate.
If that were true, then Hillary’s Russian hacking story would be another misdirection lie, the same pattern of misdirection lying as Hillary repeatedly has used in the past to avoid blame for the damage she’s caused. It fits a decades-long pattern of conduct that she’s used to great success. Why is it so hard for people to believe it’s happening again?
Because if they allow that thought into their heads, they will be forced to admit how stupidly they’ve acted for the last 30 years as they drank the Kool-aide. Nobody wants to admit he was duped, repeatedly, and gladly. So they perish the thought and double-down on the lie. The Russians! The Russians!
As Hillary slinks away. Again.
Joe Doakes
Eventually, lotically, some conspiracy theory is going to turn out not to be a theory at all.
May 28th, 2017 at 12:20 pm
Why do you put the electoral college in quotes, Emery?
It’s not like you would feel any differently if Trump won the popular vote by 70%-30%. Was Hillary trying to win the popular vote? No. She was trying to win the electoral college. The revelations from the Shattered book about Hillary’s campaign are damning. Clueless and arrogant — not just Hillary, but her staff. She kept a spreadsheet to track her staff members loyalty. We dodged a bullet by electing Trump.
Hillary’s greatest foreign policy achievement was turning Libya into a failed state.
May 28th, 2017 at 8:39 pm
Why do you think Trump’s approval rating is so abysmal?
May 28th, 2017 at 8:56 pm
Trump-Hate can make a reasonable intelligent person appear to be a blithering idiot. Can you imagine how bad it makes you look Emery?
May 28th, 2017 at 9:36 pm
“Why do you think Trump’s approval rating is so abysmal?”
Why do you think the MSM’s approval rating is lower than Trump’s approval rating 🙂
Polls are funny. You might want to check this out: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/23/politics/donald-trump-approval-poll/
Trump is more popular than the Dems or the GOP (marginally).
I like to find goofy, counter-narrative info in polls. For example, a few years ago, I read a poll (CNN, I think) that said around a third of Republicans thought Obama was a Muslim. Okay, weird, but I don’t move much in GOP circles, could have been true.
Then I read the fine print and found the same poll said 15% of Democrats thought Obama was a Muslim.
WTF?
May 28th, 2017 at 9:40 pm
This tidbit from the CNN poll interesting:
“Despite Trump’s low approval numbers, the poll showed him retaining support among his base, with 96% of people who said they voted for him saying they would do so again. The poll showed only 85% of those who voted for Hillary Clinton would do so again, with most of those who would not saying they would either go with a third-party candidate or not vote at all.”
May 28th, 2017 at 10:17 pm
This, FWIW, is the best critique of the “Steele Dossier” that I have read: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2017/01/13/the-trump-dossier-is-false-news-and-heres-why/#29cbaa3d6867
The essay was written on January 13, 2017. A few days later it was discovered that the “Michael Cohen” who had been in Prague in August 2016 was a different Michael Cohen with no relationship to Trump.
Comey vouched for the “Steele Dossier.” When people say that all intelligence agree that Russia “meddled” in the 2016 election to help Trump, they are talking about agencies that based their judgment on the “Steele Dossier.”
May 30th, 2017 at 8:49 am
Trump-Hate can make a reasonable intelligent person appear to be a blithering idiot. Can you imagine how bad it makes you look Emery?
Appear? Dude, we are well beyond appearances. This is THE blithering territory.
May 30th, 2017 at 9:58 am
Yawn….
May 30th, 2017 at 10:49 am
JPA: What are your thoughts regarding how the Roberts court will deal with Trump’s
constitutionally dubious (immigration) executive order? I suspect he’ll do his best to rule against Trump. Roberts has shown a disdain for an over-mighty executive, while deferring to Congress whenever he can. I think Roberts rules against not so much because it targets Muslims, but because it’s usurping the role of Congress to pass laws to set immigration policy.
I believe Roberts has an agenda, but it’s not a Republican or Democratic agenda. His agenda is to re-adjust the roles of the three branches of government, forcing Congress to decide more, the Executive to decide less, and avoid political decisions in the Courts.
May 30th, 2017 at 11:03 am
Obama loyalist Brennan drove FBI to begin investigating Trump associates last summer
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/29/john-brennan-obama-loyalist-and-cia-director-drove/
If true, this is a bombshell. Or should be. Brennan is an explicit Trump-hater.
You had an Obama intelligence loyalist using the machinery of the state to compromise the candidate of the opposition political party.
Someone should be in jail, and that someone is not Donald J. Trump.
Imagine it is August of 2020, the Dem presidential candidate is Liz Warren, and Trump turns the FBI and CIA loose to dig up dirt on her. Good God, this is awful.
May 30th, 2017 at 11:50 am
No one can predict what Mueller’s investigation will find. I think Mueller will probably go where the evidence takes him. The major potential benefit of Mueller’s appointment is to dramatically reduce the politicization of these issues until thorough, non-partisan, investigative work is complete.
Mueller is more likely to improve the publics confidence in American institutions than continuing our present course. I wouldn’t count on Mueller to tolerate much in the way of speculation, irresponsible leaks, and public trial in the press based on rumor, innuendo and spin. Trump should support this step in order to establish order in his administration. We’ll see.
May 30th, 2017 at 12:01 pm
Emery the eminent constitutional scholar should be sitting on the 4th or 9th circuit court of appeals.
May 30th, 2017 at 12:40 pm
JPA: What are your thoughts regarding how the Roberts court
I see SFB eTASS is back on topic for a change – Misdirection.
May 30th, 2017 at 12:40 pm
Emery, you are insane on the topic of Trump. You have no ability to judge what is correct and incorrect regarding Trump. You have no reason to expect any person to think that you have anything worthwhile to say on the topic of Trump.
May 30th, 2017 at 12:54 pm
It strikes me that the Brennan revelation (which appears to be well sourced) could be horrific news in that it speaks of an Obama conspiracy against the President (duh, really), but on the other hand, it could be great news indicating that Trump and his supporters are learning how to play the Chicago politics game.
May 30th, 2017 at 12:58 pm
Woolly: no more insane than your crazy Obama/Clinton conspiracy obsessions.
May 30th, 2017 at 2:23 pm
Wow. Just Wow.
May 30th, 2017 at 2:52 pm
JPA: Will the SCOTUS rule for or against Trump ?
May 30th, 2017 at 3:11 pm
“Obama/Clinton conspiracy obsessions.”
I have no Clinton/Obama “obsessions.”
I do not believe in conspiracy theories. Belief in conspiracy theories reflects a disordered mind.
May 31st, 2017 at 1:03 am
SFB, why sudden interest in what I have to say in response to your non-sequitur hijacking of a thread? Plus, I owe you no answers. You never answer any of our questions as you get p0wned, over and over again. Come back when you graduate from kindergarten.
May 31st, 2017 at 8:08 am
Well then, carry on sir.