Vincent J. Curtis
8 Jan 2017
According to a report yesterday on the Clinton News Network
(CNN), the most damning findings of the report on Russian “election
interference” assembled by various Intelligence Agencies consisted in it being Putin’s
goal ‘to undermine US faith in the democratic process,’ because of his grudge
against Hillary Clinton. Allegedly, the
Russians paid social media trolls to, well, troll on social media – just like
Media Matters did. Damningly, Putin denied Russian involvement in the
WikiLeaks revelations, calling accusations of Russian involvement “a
distraction” from the content of the revelations!
Old habits die hard, and, like the RCA dog hearing the sound
of his master’s voice, the Democratic Party did its utmost to do the alleged
bidding of the Russian President. What
happened in the aftermath of Hillary’s defeat?
Democrat party operatives did exactly as Putin allegedly would have
wanted – attempted to undermine US faith in democratic processes.
What did the bitter-enders in the Democrat party do? It was the DNC that put the shaft to the
candidacy of Bernie Sanders. It was
operatives of the DNC who hired professional hooligans to start riots at Trump
gatherings, and in fact shut down one of his rallies on account of the
violence. After the unthinkable
happened, Democrat operatives constantly pointed out that Hillary won the
popular vote, when the election is decided by votes in the Electoral College,
which she decisively lost. Then, they
supported recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Elijah
Cummings called upon the Comptroller-General to investigate the transition
because it was in “disarray.” Then, they
called upon Electors to be faithless and to vote for someone other than Trump. Then, House Democrats challenged the results
of the elections of states during the official tallying of Electoral College
votes last week. Chief Senate Democrat
Clown, Chuck Schumer, pledged a scorched-earth resistance campaign against
Trump’s appointments and legislation on the basis of his illegitimacy. Lastly, Democrats have tried to undermine the
legitimacy of Trump’s win by calling attention to this alleged Russian
interference, of which this report by the intelligence agencies is a piece.
To give the Russian strongman credit where credit is due, it
is a distraction from the content of
the DNC and Podesta emails, all of which were genuine, to make noise about how
they came into the public domain. If the
emails had proved to be faked, then a Russian disinformation campaign perhaps becomes
a legitimate issue; but what need is there for a campaign of disinformation when the genuine information is so damning? Hillary and the Democrats made Putin’s job
too easy for him; he didn’t have to fake anything! It’s not disinformation when the information
is true.
This whole Russian interference angle is reminiscent of the
Benghazi distraction. The Benghazi
distraction worked by waving a shiny object in front of the media and other
investigators. To distract attention
away from the fact of the American ambassador and three other Americans being
killed by al Qaeda in Benghazi, the “it was caused by a video” shiny object was
concocted by Ben Rhodes, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama at a 10:00 p.m.
phone call the night of the attack, while the attack was still ongoing. Whenever the ugly fact of Benghazi was
presented, the entirely bogus shiny “cause” was waved around. The shiny lie was so transparent that it
enraged those who sensed it was disinformation; people rose like trout to the
shining spinner, a lot of time and effort was wasted debunking the video lie,
and the disinformation campaign founded on the video canard served its purpose. People never fastened onto the tragic
failures of Obama’s and Hillary’s policy in Libya.
“Russian hacking” became the shiny object that was waved
around after the DNC emails were released by WikiLeaks and again after the
Podesta emails became public. Democrats
were scrupulous about not discussing the content of the emails, only darkly
insinuating Russian involvement in their becoming public. Russian involvement is a bad thing of course,
and we all know the long record of love that Russian ex-Communists have for the
party of Ronald Reagan and for plutocrats like Donald Trump. The Democrat party has long been the opponent
of Russian aggression, since the days of Teddy (Nuclear Freeze) Kennedy, and
John (Genghis Khan) Kerry, in fact.
Now, try raising the matter of Hillary’s secret server being
hacked, and what do you get from Democrats?
“Oh, there’s no proof of that.”
“Trump asked Russia to hack an American citizen!” and “James Comey!!” Shiny objects of distraction everywhere.
Like nearly everyone else in the world, Putin no doubt had
his cheering interest in the American election, and he perhaps had cause better
than most to dislike Hillary Clinton. These in themselves are hardly damning,
or even surprising. Putin didn’t need to
deploy a disinformation campaign to change the outcome of the American
election. The genuine information was
damning all by itself.
There is a
disinformation campaign going on to undermine US faith in its elections – the
one being run by Democrats.
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