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JD Free's avatar

They are left-wing. Left-wing people believe that words are power constructs. They advocate the telling of noble lies. The idea that they should be condemned for lying is ridiculous to them.

As for the idea that “Russian influence” is bad, people forget that in the 1996 cycle the Clintons got a half million dollar donation from China and the media response was “there’s nothing wrong with that.” They don’t actually dislike foreign influence. They just dislike losing.

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kgasmart's avatar

Noble lies - that's it, right there. Lying in the service of a greater good. Or so they think.

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Kelly Green's avatar

Like the public health officials.

Their process:

1) decide how they want people to act

2) determine what they can say to make people act that way

3) tell them that whether it is true or not

"The people didn't trust public health officials because public health officials didn't trust the people"

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Bagehot's avatar

This is so true. I remember reading that Obama's campaign donation site did not require entry of the credit card security code for payments to be processed, making it much easier for foreign and other fraudulent contributions to be made. I mentioned this to my leftwing friends; they shrugged it off. The New York Times would still be bringing this up if Romney's site had been configured this way.

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trembo slice's avatar

Being reminded of Mitt Romney… true conservatives in the Republican Party deserve the condemnation you hold for mainstream Democrats on account of The Progressives.

We could have had 8 years of Dr. Ron Paul, but mainstream republicans weren’t ready.

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Bagehot's avatar

I don't see how true conservatives in the Republican Party deserve condemnation. Perhaps I have misunderstood your comment.

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BookWench's avatar

And Bill Clinton received $500,000 for giving a speech to Russian bankers in 2010, but that didn't arouse any suspicion in any of the "journalists" who were positive that Trump had somehow stolen the 2016 election.

https://www.newsweek.com/clinton-russia-uranium-deal-689321

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DancingInAshes's avatar

And then his wife signed off on the part of the Russian uranium deal she had to approve.

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Jim McCubbin's avatar

Tacky taqiyya from the too good to be tendentious.

‘Truth’ is anything that furthers the cause.

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Kent Clizbe's avatar

Interesting that you call these schlomos practioners of "taqiyya."

Smith and Klein are both Jews.

“NEW YORK — The Forward celebrated its 120th anniversary with a gala that honored BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith and longtime television journalist Andrea Mitchell.

"More than 350 people attended the Monday night gala for the Forward, formerly known as the Jewish Daily Forward, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on Monday night in New York City. The event raised slightly over $1 million in ticket sales and sponsorships.I first caught the bug for journalism at the Forward,” said Smith, who worked there before going on to other publications such as Politico."

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