The Mainstream Media (MSM) has joined the Crooked Dems to
harass President Trump and his Administration with FAKE NEWS. DAVID STEINBERG reporting PJ
Media points out this Fake News travesty and compares it to how Obama
secretly had Iranians come to the White House to plan how to spin the behind
closed doors negotiations of idiotic Iran Nuke Deal. The very deal that no one
but Obama believes Iran will honor AND regardless of honoring it sets the stage
for a future nuclear armed Iran military.
JRH 1/25/16
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Media Covers Fake Mike
Flynn Story, Ignores Bombshell on Secret Obama/Iran Meetings
By David Steinberg
January 25, 2017
Originally PJ Media
If mainstream media truly
wishes to repair its image with the general public, these outlets must
recognize they do not merely suffer from a “bubble” reinforced by
overwhelmingly liberal staffing, or from supposedly insufficient outreach to
working class communities.
The mainstream’s issues are
apparent in their content choices, suggesting an
intractable problem. Following decades of allowing the Democratic Party to
select the day’s narrative, they possess no measure of professional
competence for objectively judging the importance of information.
The media’s
remarkably different responses to the following two stories offer a
definitive example:
1. Retired Lt. General Michael Flynn, President
Trump’s national security adviser, made a series of phone calls and texts to
Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak on December 29, 2016. On
that day, then-President Barack Obama had revealed that he was issuing sanctions
against Russia for its supposed hacking of the Democratic National Committee.
2. Per the Washington Free Beacon:
“Two high-level Iranian government backers, including a former Islamic Republic
official and another accused of lobbying on Tehran’s behalf, were hosted at the
Obama White House for more than 30 meetings with top officials at key junctures
in the former administration’s contested diplomacy with Iran
…
“Sources
familiar with the nature of the meetings told the Washington Free Beacon that both Parsi and
Mousavian helped the White House craft its pro-Iran messaging and talking
points that helped lead to the nuclear agreement with Iran. These efforts were
part of a larger pro-Iran deal ‘echo chamber’ led by senior Obama
administration officials who were tasked with misleading Congress about the
nature of the deal …”
Just about every mainstream
outlet has covered the Michael Flynn story with multiple articles: Newsweek, CNN, Daily Beast, CBS News, Washington
Post, Los Angeles
Times, and others — a thorough search
returns dozens of high-profile sources that published highly
trafficked pieces.
Several pundits demanded
answers, pointing to the calls as further evidence of Donald Trump having
aligned himself with Vladimir Putin’s dictatorial regime, and having allowed
Putin to direct elements of his campaign and his coming presidency. Later,
these same outlets announced that an “FBI investigation” into
Flynn’s calls and texts had commenced.
But this week, we learn the
hysteria about Flynn and the FBI appears to have been unwarranted. The outlets
which had previously inflated the story have since backed down.
As you read their follow-up
stories below, note the cause of their initial hysteria: you
know of the Mike Flynn story simply due to journalistic ineptitude —
specifically, the journalists’ ignorance of diplomatic practices — combined
with their predetermined acceptance of the Trump/Russia narrative.
Yesterday, per NBC News:
The
FBI eavesdropped on telephone calls between President Donald Trump’s national
security adviser and the Russian ambassador but found nothing improper, a U.S.
intelligence official said.
The
official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized
to speak to the media, said late Monday that there was never a formal
“investigation” of the calls in December between retired Army Lt. Gen.
Mike Flynn and Sergei Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador in Washington.
According
to the source, who was confirming a Washington
Post report earlier Monday, intelligence officials merely
listened inas part of routine eavesdropping on Kislyak.
The
former official, who requested anonymity to speak about sensitive information,
said it was not uncommon for diplomats or other U.S. officials
to garner such attention to if they are recorded talking to foreign
counterparts. Rarely anything comes of this, however, because U.S. officials
have wide latitude in how they communicate as part of their jobs.
The
FBI’s counterintelligence agents listen to calls all the time that do
not pertain to any open investigation, current and former law enforcement
officials said. Often, said one former official, “they’re just monitoring the
other [foreign official] side of the call.”
Both
Flynn, a former head of the Pentagon’s intelligence agency, and Kislyak, a
seasoned diplomat, are probably aware that Kislyak’s phone calls and texts are
being monitored, current and
former officials said. That would make it highly unlikely, the
individuals said, that the men would allow their calls to be conduits
of illegal coordination.
Has the damage been done,
however? When you hear “Mike Flynn,” do you immediately consider him through
the lens of this story?
Objectively, you should not,
and further, you should not trust anything you have heard regarding Mike Flynn
that traces to those outlets. They have shown both incompetence on the
subject and vulnerability to a cynical Democratic Party narrative intended
to damage Donald Trump’s presidency.
Re-watch the Clinton-Trump
debates: Clinton pulls focus towards Russia to minimize coverage of the
scandalous content of John Podesta’s emails. Further, following Trump’s
victory, President Obama announced the aforementioned sanctions against Russia,
knowing such sanctions brought no tangible punishment to Putin — then-President
Elect Trump could rescind them within a month’s time. Obama’s motivations bear
no rational explanation beyond continuing the narrative of Trump as an
illegitimate president and pawn of Vladimir Putin.
Obama was successful — these outlets proved to have been primed
to run with later information, such as the Mike Flynn story, to further the
Trump/Russia narrative.
Seyed Mousavian, a former Iranian diplomat and head of its
national security council, was hosted at the White House at least three times,
while Trita Parsi, a pro-Iran advocate long accused of hiding his ties
to the Iranian government, met with Obama administration officials some 33 times, according to recently
updated visitor logs.
The implications of this
story, considering Obama adviser Ben Rhodes later
opened up about the extent of the Obama administration’s duplicity with the
public on the Iranian nuclear deal, are objectively relevant to anything else
an America voter may read or believe regarding our national security. The Obama
administration was surreptitiously welcoming counsel from two enemies of
the state while crafting a treaty supposedly intended to prevent that enemy — a
genocidal regime with a messianic bent — from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Here’s how that Ben Rhodes
article described how Obama misled America (link
is to David Reaboi of The Federalist):
In
the spring of last year, legions of arms-control experts began popping up at
think tanks and on social media, and then became key sources for hundreds of
often-clueless reporters. ‘ We created an echo chamber,’ [Rhodes]
admitted, when I asked him to explain the onslaught of freshly minted
experts cheerleading for the deal. ‘ They were saying things that
validated what we had given them to say.’
…
Rhodes
has become adept at ventriloquizing many people at once. Ned
Price, Rhodes’s assistant, gave me a primer on how it’s done. The easiest way
for the White House to shape the news, he explained, is from the briefing
podiums … “But then there are sort of these force
multipliers,” he said, adding, “We have our compadres, I will
reach out to a couple people, and you know I wouldn’t want to name them—”
“I
can name them,” I said, ticking off a few names of prominent Washington
reporters and columnists who often tweet in sync with White House messaging.
Price
laughed. ‘I’ll say, “Hey, look, some people are spinning this narrative that
this is a sign of American weakness,”’ he continued, “but—”
“In
fact it’s a sign of strength!” I said, chuckling.
These same “often-clueless”
reporters the Obama administration was “ventriloquizing” were just
utilized as gleeful political pawns yet again. Mike
Flynn’s brief calls and texts with the Russian ambassador should have
immediately been dismissed as common diplomatic activity; they weren’t, in
service of a cynical political end sought by not just the Democratic Party, but
by the media outlets themselves.
However, the Obama White
House meetings with Mousavian and Parsi — dozens of meetings — can
not rationally be attributed as common diplomatic contact. Even after Ben
Rhodes spilled his secrets — and not due to the weight of guilt, but due to
pride in his work — we still do not know the extent of the Obama
administration’s deceitful behavior during the passage of a bill that holds
ramifications for global stability.
To summarize, the information
uncovered by Adam Kredo is real news.
The Flynn story has been exposed
as nothing notable beyond its potential as a political club; it was fake
news.
As of this moment, not
a single mainstream outlet has picked up the Adam Kredo story.
PJ Media and other “new
media” outlets have, though.
As the mainstream continues
to humiliate itself in an attempt to maintain a monopoly on information
exiting Washington, D.C., the general public — and certainly, the voters — has
developed an awareness that the mainstream’s status as gatekeeper has
always been artificial. It certainly never had anything to do with
competence.
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@BrookeBCNN @Acosta Have
you noticed every other outlet has offered excellent questions? US is learning
MSM isn't uniquely qualified.
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