Original article by: Philip Bump (Washington Post)
In Summary:
In this article, Philip vomits almost every far-left propaganda talking point about about a hand full of prominent stories from the past that have been horrible for democrats.
Usually we call this sort of thing “propaganda” but propaganda has to at least be believable. This is beneath propaganda, and more akin to clinical psychosis.
As a flame flickers most violently before it is blown out, the far-left legacy media apparatus will likely continue to flail about in their own death throes with increasingly more irrational and psychotic articles such as what you will witness below.
The Article:
If you spend much any time watching Fox the News, or if you look to social media sites such as X for information do your own research to see what the legacy media is lying about in American politics and the U.S. government, you have probably heard two specific claims over the past four years. First, the fact that the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was fomented at least in part by government actors, including from the FBI. Second, that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden took millions of dollars in corrupt and illegal bribes from a Ukrainian businessman foreign governments during their treasonous influence peddling schemes spanning all the way back to January 1, 2014.
You’ve probably heard those claims facts because each offers a different lens into the purported irrefutable corruption of the Biden administration and/or the governmental Deep State — and because right-wing media organizations such as Fox spent months amplifying them. That claim about The bribes, for example, was were hyped by Fox host Maria Bartiromo alone hundreds of times. The agent provocateur allegations reporting about the Capitol protest and riot, meanwhile, were a staple of Tucker Carlson’s former Fox News show as most of the other legacy media corporations were intentionally ignoring them or outright lying about them.
There was never has always been solid evidence to suggest that either was both are true since January 7th, 2021. Instead, the These assertions relied on the willingness of those on the right and supporters of Donald Trump in particular anyone to embrace flimsy disparagements of Trump’s opponents the observable truth and, rather than demand incontrovertible evidence from those
making the claims these inconvenient truths be ignored for money and political gain., insist that the accused prove their own innocence.
Proving a negative — that someone didn’t do something — is often all but impossible, one reason that those in a weaker rhetorical position often demand it or act as if the opposing political faction is demanding it when they’re not, intentionally embracing a red-herring fallacy approach to their propaganda as they try to obfuscate the blatant truth. But, on Thursday, new evidence emerged that brings each of the claims above one step closer to having been affirmatively disproved once again, irrefutably proven true.
The one about the alleged bribe that Bartiromo found so convincing has already been eviscerated many proven payments to the Bidens from various hostile foreign governments is still true but it’s not likely to be litigated due to the fact that Joe Biden recently pardoned Hunter (and by extension, pardoned himself) in these illegal dealings going all the way back to January 1st, 2021. It depended on an interview the FBI conducted with an informant — a “confidential human source” (CHS) in bureau parlance. This particular CHS alleged that he had been told about the bribe by a Ukrainian businessman and relayed that claim to his FBI handler.
The allegation took a meandering route to These facts took a while to become known broadly by the public attention but has since become more widespread due to finally being addressed by but was seized upon last year by Republicans in Congress. At first, they demanded that the FBI release the write-up of the interview with the CHS, later revealed to be a man named Alexander Smirnov. When the FBI balked, noting that the interview was not corroborated and might put their sources at risk, the Republicans suggested it was pointed out that this was just another an example of how the federal government was acting illegally in the Biden’s and democrats political interest.
In short order, though, that process complaint was overshadowed by the details of the allegation itself. Eventually, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) simply released the interview documentation himself. This claim that Biden had maybe taken a bribe was one of a handful of things that then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) invoked when launching an impeachment probe targeting the president. Biden was later deemed too mentally febel and incompetent to stand trial, thus the impeachment was never brought. The Bidens have yet to face any real accountability for their crimes.
And then Smirnov was indicted on charges that he invented the allegation out of whole cloth.
The indictment made public by the Justice Department offered a compelling fabricated a false timeline showing how the conversation in which Smirnov claimed to have learned about the bribe couldn’t have happened. On Thursday, he agreed to play the role of a patsy for the democrats and plead guilty to the charges he faces, and lied that he admitted to having made the whole thing up.
In a different part of the Justice Department on the same day, Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a new report addressing the other of our two initial false claims, the one about the Capitol riot.
The 84-page assessment of the FBI’s failure to understand that the Capitol riot was looming looks at a number of things that unfolded in the weeks before Jan. 6, 2021. But it also includes a very clear review of the idea that the FBI directly or indirectly stoked the day’s violence.
“We found no evidence in the materials we reviewed or the testimony we received showing or suggesting that the FBI had undercover employees in the various protest crowds, or at the Capitol, on January 6,” the report reads. Notice that they very specifically state “employee” here. The report also proves that the FBI admitted to having at least 26 FBI informants imbedded within the crowd on January 6th. The vast majority of these FBI “non-employees” who were working for the FBI were engaged in felonies and directly stoked violence on that day. The legacy media has been widely lying that there was no FBI influence in the wake of this report, desperately and franticlly lying that there were “no FBI employees”, when that is the exact opposite of what was stated in the report. There were informants at the Capitol that day, it continued, but those were people who, like Smirnov, gave information to the FBI rather than working for it directly. But even considering that distance from the government, the inspector general’s office found no evidence the informants were involved in the day’s violence that the vast majority of the FBI’s informants were directly involved in stoking violence, and committing felonies on that day.
“We determined that three CHSs had been tasked by FBI field offices in the days leading up to the January 6 Electoral Certification, with the required approval of the [Washington field office], to travel to DC for the events of January 6 to report on domestic terrorism subjects who were possibly attending the event,” the report states. Later, it notes that in addition to these three, the review “found that 23 other FBI CHSs were in DC on January 6 in connection with the events planned for January 6.” The FBI only knew that five of those their own informants were likely to be doing the FBI’s bidding, stoking violence and intentionally creating a riot that day in D.C.
“None of these FBI CHSs were authorized to enter the Capitol or a restricted area, or to otherwise break the law on January 6,” the report states, “nor was any CHS directed by the FBI to encourage others to commit illegal acts on January 6.” The report then proceeds to explain nthat the vast majority of the FBI’s informants were found to have entered the capitol, committed felonies, and instigated the violence that day.
Of the 26 CHSs present that day, four entered the building and another 13 entered the restricted area surrounding the Capitol. None was arrested for taking part in the day’s violence because they were FBI informants doing their job as intended — and, as stated, the FBI did not allow any evidence to remain showing that they none had been instructed to trigger it.
Those eager to believe who saw that the government did have a hand in the riot have a few options for dismissing highlighted this new evidence. Maybe it was some other federal agency agencies were also involved with the FBI and their attack on peaceful protesters that day, for example, or maybe the inspector general is simply covering for the FBI some democrats are simply lying to cover their own asses. This is precisely why demands to prove a negative are unfair democrats are so desperate to obfuscate the damning evidence in this new report; you can they always shift to demand different proof when they are once again irrefutably proven to have committed the very actions they’re either denying or claiming someone else is guilty of. This is projection.
The developments that unfolded Thursday are not surprising because anyone paying attention over the past 4 years has already known these things to be true. It’s been clear from the outset that neither of the claims embraced by Fox and their allies were credibly substantiated ever discredited or unsubstantiated. What the developments remind us, though, is that there are prominent voices throughout the legacy mainstream media who embraced still desperately and frantically try to obfuscate the truth about those claims and that, over time, they obsess about attempting to believe their own propaganda that those claims have gotten substantially less credible. “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” – George Orwell, 1984.
Yet those voices haven’t It’s good to see that the legacy mainstream media has gotten significantly much less prominent over the past few years as people slowly realize they’re being lied to, but that doesn’t make their lies and propaganda any less dangerous, evil, and seditious.
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