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The left is really not letting go of this whole 'fake news/Russians' thing



If you can define something by giving an example, this story from the Washington Post just might serve as your quintessential definition-by-example of irony. In an attempt to convince everyone that "fake news" and the Russians somehow rigged the election in favor of Donald Trump, the Post has served up a story so absurd and unintentionally hilarious, it's almost as if they wrote their own fake news to help us recognize the genre. It's true. The venerable voice of the establishment actually published this (bolded passages by me):
The flood of "fake news" this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, helping Republican Donald Trump and undermining faith in American democracy, say independent researchers who tracked the operation. Russia’s increasingly sophisticated propaganda machinery — including thousands of botnets, teams of paid human "trolls" and networks of websites and social-media accounts — echoed and amplified right-wing sites across the Internet as they portrayed Clinton as a criminal hiding potentially fatal health problems and preparing to hand control of the nation to a shadowy cabal of global financiers. The effort also sought to heighten the appearance of international tensions and promote fear of looming hostilities with nuclear-armed Russia. Two teams of independent researchers found that the Russians exploited American-made technology platforms to attack U.S. democracy at a particularly vulnerable moment, as an insurgent candidate harnessed a wide range of grievances to claim the White House. The sophistication of the Russian tactics may complicate efforts by Facebook and Google to crack down on "fake news" as they have vowed to do after widespread complaints about the problem.

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There is no way to know whether the Russian campaign proved decisive in electing Trump, but researchers portray it as part of a broadly effective strategy of sowing distrust in U.S. democracy and its leaders. The tactics included penetrating the computers of election officials in several states and releasing troves of hacked emails that embarrassed Clinton in the final months of her campaign. "They want to essentially erode faith in the U.S. government or U.S. government interests" said Clint Watts, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute who along with two other researchers has tracked Russian propaganda since 2014. "This was their standard mode during the Cold War. The problem is that this was hard to do before social media."
You couldn't find better clickbait writing on the clickbait sites themselves. Boy oh boy, the left is really not going to let this go, is it? They can't imagine that Hillary lost fair and square, so they have to come up with some sort of rationale for why she and they got cheated out of her rightful birthright of the presidency. Of course, as Rob told you the other day, if you want to talk about "fake news," you have to start with the MSM itself. Consider the chutzpah required for the Washington Post to chastise voters for readings sites that "portrayed Clinton as a criminal," as if we needed to get that from clickbait sites financed by the Russians and not from the publicly available evidence of her wrongdoing and the words of James Comey himself.

The sophisticated propaganda of the Russians convinced you that Hillary Clinton is a criminal! But that's really what this is all about: They can't believe the voters ignored their instructions and formed their opinions from information that didn't comport with the lefty media's conventional wisdom. They didn't do what we said? Who were they listening to? Must have been liars! Must have been the Russians! Can you imagine how the media would have howled with derision of Trump had suggested a week before the election that the election might be stolen from him by a shadowy plot against democracy itself? Yet here we are. The left has completely lost its mind over the results of this election, and the Washington Post continues to carry the water of these lunatics no matter how unhinged they become. The sophisticated propaganda of the Russians convinced you that Hillary Clinton is a criminal! And not your own eyes and ears, which of course have known that very thing for decades.


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