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Phisto Sobanii's avatar

That’s the kind of answer you get from someone who believes they have plausible deniability.

Mietzsche's avatar

...and the moral right to lie.

Bobby's avatar

Exactly!! Mietzsche

Danno's avatar

LOL the Mafia doesn't exist, either, Rosa.

KHP's avatar

I think it's safe to acknowledge that she could be telling the truth about herself, that she's not part of any such group.

But especially if she isn't, how could she possibly know that no such group was in operation?

Taras's avatar

Phisto, evidently your faith in NBC News’ conspiracy theories is greater than mine …

Phisto Sobanii's avatar

What? Exactly the opposite. They’re obviously all full of shit.

Taras's avatar

Phisto, your comment about “plausible deniability” implies that you believe the story.

Which I (and Matt, I think) see as just another poorly sourced, grasping at straws attack on Orange Hitler …

HeathN's avatar

Was thinking the same thing.

Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

Sounds like gaslighting. Georgetown hired Fauci as well, what a cesspool. Can you ask the new CEO of NPR how much she coordinates with her “stakeholders” at WEF, CFR, and State Department?

https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/commissar-npr-ceo-katherine-maher-she-her

working rich's avatar

Georgetown also removed crosses from classrooms

Drew's avatar

Isn't Georgetown Jesuit?

Patrick's avatar

Ok, JINO's as a subset as well

Drew's avatar

Jesuits are all kinda weird and maybe even loosey-goosey, but I think they're still Xians.

Besides, the crosses were all put up due to a Clinton-era rise in persecution complex. There is no longstanding tradition of having crosses in all of the Georgetown classrooms. And apparently Bill Clinton is less threatening today.

Stxbuck's avatar

Vivek Ramaswamy and I are alums of the same Jesuit HS. I don’t know about Georgetown, but St. Xavier HS taught us both that God didn’t give you a brain to be an idiot with.

Tardigrade's avatar

'Brooks not only said she was not part of the group reported on by NBC (“Nope”), but added, “I am not sure there even is a ‘group,’ as such — just various people and organizations that occasionally coordinate or at least touch base, but often don’t do either.”'

And how is that not a "loose group"?

BradK (Afuera!)'s avatar

"The greatest trick the Devil ever played was convincing people that he didn't exist"

-- Keizer Söze.

Drew's avatar

Keyser Söze does not exist.

BradK (Afuera!)'s avatar

Precisely. (and thanks for the umlaut!)

HeathN's avatar

This and Keyser Söze (movie script author standin) simply requoted this line from somebody who did exist.

Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Precisely.....some attribute this to Frenchaman Charles Baudelaire and it was featured in the Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis.

HeathN's avatar

Thanks! I knew the phrase existed, but didn't know the origin exactly.

Patrick's avatar

"She's my little loose group, you don't know what they got....."

Eric Gordon's avatar

Oh yeah! The Beach Boys! You gotta flesh that one out and write the whole song. Then turn it over to The Babylon Bee to record and post it! 😂

Patrick's avatar

needs an edit or two - The Bee can have at it - ;)

Drew's avatar

It's the Clinton sex defense all over again. Define "group."

Dazed and Confused's avatar

What was the phrase the Clinton's used to avoid transparency into her health care working group? I think the term was "amorphous crowd". You know, just a group that spontaneously gets together without any planning just to shoot the shit. It was bullshit then and it's bullshit now.

Kudos Matt for mentioning Mary McCord. As the conservative tree house site repeatedly warns she is a key player (if not THE key player) in this intrigue.

Timothy Andrew Staples/pop122's avatar

Plan? We don't need no stinkin' plan.

We're from the government, and we're here to save you!

¡Andrew the Great!'s avatar

"but often don't do either" means "but sometimes they do one or the other, or both".

Mike Eyre's avatar

That answer sounds more like, "Nope. Well sort of, yes."

Dick WB Tracy's avatar

Thanks Matt - and I can't wait until you find the trove of emails that blows Ms. Brooks' response to hell!

Someone From Texas's avatar

That was one of your best pieces in my opinion. Been thinking about it since you penned it. Impressive work.

Spax RaCer's avatar

Yes! I’m so glad Matt took this topic and went in depth on n his reporting on it. TIP was the start of a the 2020 election shenanigans and a guide map for everything the Dems have done the last three years in their quest for forever power.

Robert's avatar

I'm glad you follow up like this. More than anything, I value your standards as a reporter first.

Pacificus's avatar

In terms of his professional practices and standards, Matt is the most legit journalist at work in America today.

Timothy Andrew Staples/pop122's avatar

Good one, feldspar. Kinda low hanging, but still...

feldspar's avatar

In times of scarcity and austerity, low-hanging...

Savi_heretic33's avatar

When people repeat this absurd fear mongering tactic of, "Trump will be dictator" please ask then what rights they lost under Trump? I lost no rights, but under Democratic rule I lost my women's rights, that were fought for and won. Safety used to be my right in my public bathrooms, changing rooms, prisons, rape centers, spa, saunas, locker rooms etc. Fairness in spots was achieved with Title 1X where male bodies were taken off the field. Joe Biden put them back on, in the name of equality. What is this equal to? How is male body different from the male body of a male sexed person who "feels" like a woman? I lost freedom of speech. In other counties you can be jailed or killed for standing up for your rights. Now, in America you can lose your livelihood, which is a type of death, all for exercising your first amendment right. And women who dare to speak out can be bullied, threatened or terrorized by an angry mob of lunatics with too much free time on their hands. I fear the Democrats way more than Donald Trump.

Forheremenaremen's avatar

What? Issuing a correction? Sharing someone's quote?

Matt, you're really making today's MSM look bad.

Drew's avatar

Maybe Matt's more careful about that now for some reason.

Robert Wold's avatar

Thanks, Matt. We can always count on NBC for surefire truths. I've been in New Orleans since Katrina and recall when their Nightly News anchorman Bryan Williams reported that, just after the storm, he saw bodies floating in the floodwaters that washed into the French Quarter, a location spared from any flooding. He was eventually fired after being outed in another incident of lying in which a U.S. Army officer denied that his claim of being aboard a helicopter during an exercise in Iraq. NBC is Rockerfeller's propaganda outfit and always has been.

Giraffe's avatar

I remember a lot of outrage at his embellishments. Imagine if people got that angry about the lies of politicians.

TeeJae's avatar

Or even today's legacy media.

Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

What was the AOC-speak for this: it's just some people doing things?

JBoOptimist's avatar

(I think that was Ilhan Omar..?)

Patrick's avatar

same difference, but maybe Kamala can explain, like collective bargaining.

Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

Right you are. Thanks. For an old guy like me, one vacuous young Congress-critter sounds like another.

Timothy Andrew Staples/pop122's avatar

Your curmudgeon is admirably restrained.

I've Got A Special Purpose's avatar

Right. We just exchange Slack messages from time to time, you know, chat about grandchildren. Kind of like Bill Clinton on the plane with Loretta Lynch.

StikeDC's avatar

a loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires and babies 📯 🎶

Mike R.'s avatar

"...it was a slow day..the sun was beating on the soldiers by the side of the road..."

Giant asteroid for 24's avatar

Holy shit. "Staccato signals of constant information" could very well be the name of their "unofficial" handbook...

And, there are definitely lasers in the jungle somewhere.

Giant asteroid for 24's avatar

Staccato- performed with each note sharply detached or separated from the others.

Plausible deniability out the ass.

F'ing A-holes.

Bush Crunch's avatar

I’ve some really nice mountain property in Florida to sell as well a a few beachfront lots left in both North Dakota and Kansas. Sorry, the Nebraska beachfront lots are already sold.

Citizen Deux's avatar

Wait, what? She didn’t found the group? Someone is not being truthful. Was what she said on NPR untrue? I am confused.

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/30/897345056/experts-game-out-what-might-happen-if-the-election-goes-off-the-rails

Citizen Deux's avatar

I mean this was her exact quote;

SHAPIRO: Rosa Brooks is a professor of law at Georgetown. She worked in the Defense Department during the Obama administration, and she is co-organizer of the Transition Integrity Project.

Thank you for talking with us about your work.

BROOKS: Thank you so much.

Rick Merlotti's avatar

Slight clarification. MSM is CIA.

Hegesias Cyrene's avatar

NBC specifically is the place where the CIA leaks for TV. CBS is more MIC, and ABC is the voice of oligarchs and Hollywood. Just my observation.

Rick Merlotti's avatar

Yeah I can agree with that. They are all employees of the Empire, with various areas of specialities. Add in Fox, CNN, NPR, ad. Nauseum.