{"id":22214,"date":"2016-11-30T18:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T23:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22214"},"modified":"2016-11-30T18:30:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T23:30:56","slug":"the-washington-post-useful-idiot-shills-for-a-failed-frantic-status-quo-that-has-lost-control-of-the-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22214","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Post: Useful-Idiot Shills for a Failed, Frantic Status Quo That Has Lost Control of the Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post: Useful-Idiot Shills for a Failed, Frantic Status Quo That Has Lost Control of the Narrative\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n

Don’t you think it fair and reasonable that anyone accusing me of being a shill for Russian propaganda ought to read my ten books in their entirety and identify the sections that support their slanderous accusation?<\/i><\/p>\n

I was amused to find my site listed on the now-infamous list of purportedly Russian-controlled propaganda sites cited by\u00a0The Washington Post<\/i>.<\/b>\u00a0I find it amusing because I invite anyone to search my 3,600-page archive of published material over the past decade (which includes some guest posts and poems) and identify a single pro-Russia or pro-Russian foreign policy entry.<\/p>\n

If anything, my perspective is pro-US dollar, pro-liberty, pro-open markets, pro-local control, pro-free-press, pro-innovation, and pro-opportunities to rebuild America’s abandoned, decaying localized economies:\u00a0in other words, the exact opposite of Russian propaganda.<\/b><\/p>\n

My “crime” is a simple one: challenging the ruling elite’s narrative.<\/b>\u00a0Labeling all dissent “enemy propaganda” is of course\u00a0the classic first phase of state-sponsored propaganda<\/b>\u00a0and the favorite tool of well-paid illiberal apologists for an illiberal regime.<\/p>\n

Labeling everyone who dissents or questions the ruling elite’s narrative as tools of an enemy power is classic McCarthy-era witch-hunting,<\/b>\u00a0i.e. a broad-brush way of marginalizing and silencing critics with an accusation that is easy to fabricate but difficult to prove.<\/p>\n

Such unsupported slander is a classic propaganda technique.<\/b>\u00a0It has more in common with Nazi propaganda than with real journalism.<\/p>\n

The real useful-idiot shills are the editors and hacks paid by the Washington Post, who are busy penning articles such as “Why the electoral college should choose Hillary Clinton”.<\/b>\u00a0Isn’t this fundamentally a call to over-ride the Constitutional framework of the republic’s democracy?<\/p>\n

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The Washington Post: Useful-Idiot Shills for a Failed, Frantic Status Quo That Has Lost Control of the Narrative\u00a0 Don’t you think it fair and reasonable that anyone accusing me of being a shill for Russian propaganda ought to read my ten books in their entirety and identify the sections that support their slanderous accusation? I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[127,4924,655,14568,1302,5228],"class_list":["post-22214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-charles-hugh-smith","tag-oftwominds","tag-propaganda","tag-russian-propaganda","tag-status-quo","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22215,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22214\/revisions\/22215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}