{"id":23562,"date":"2017-04-14T12:39:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T17:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23562"},"modified":"2017-04-14T12:39:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T17:39:28","slug":"to-russia-with-more-russia-bashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23562","title":{"rendered":"To Russia with More Russia-Bashing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To Russia with More Russia-Bashing<\/a><\/h3>\n
Now that President Trump is bashing Russia, not resetting relations, the mainstream U.S. media has gone from pushing \u201cRussia-gate\u201d conspiracies to decrying doubts about U.S. government anti-Russia claims, notes Nat Parry.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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After several months of pushing the \u201cRussia-gate\u201d conspiracy theory \u2013 a wild-eyed, all-encompassing but somewhat nebulous narrative involving U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, WikiLeaks, the Russian mob<\/a>, assassinations and certain indiscretions with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel \u2013 the U.S. mainstream media is now reverting to its traditional role of downplaying conspiracy theories, particularly those raising questions about the intelligence surrounding the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria last week.<\/p>\n

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New York Times building in New York City. (Photo from Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

On Monday, the New York Times published<\/a> an article titled \u201cSyria Conspiracy Theories Flourish, at Both Ends of the Spectrum,\u201d which lamented the fact that websites on the left and the right have raised doubts about the casus belli for U.S. military action against Syria.<\/p>\n

Noting that some alternative news sites have called the chemical attack a \u201cfalse flag\u201d operation and others have raised the question of whether Trump\u2019s military action was a \u201cwag the dog\u201d diversion tactic, the Times pointedly attempts to \u201cdebunk\u201d the internet memes that have been raising doubts about the chemical attack or calling into question the justification for the U.S. military action.<\/p>\n

With an aggressiveness not seen at all when it comes to the unsubstantiated \u201cRussian election-hacking\u201d allegations, the Times fires back forcefully on matters such as whether President Bashar al-Assad had reason to use chemical weapons in the first place or whether anti-Assad forces may have had advance knowledge of the sarin attack. The Times article uses curt, all-caps responses to rebut these claims, such as flatly stating, \u201cFALSE,\u201d \u201cNO EVIDENCE,\u201d or \u201cMISLEADING.\u201d<\/p>\n

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To Russia with More Russia-Bashing Now that President Trump is bashing Russia, not resetting relations, the mainstream U.S. media has gone from pushing \u201cRussia-gate\u201d conspiracies to decrying doubts about U.S. government anti-Russia claims, notes Nat Parry. After several months of pushing the \u201cRussia-gate\u201d conspiracy theory \u2013 a wild-eyed, all-encompassing but somewhat nebulous narrative involving U.S. […]<\/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":[5],"tags":[6963,7844,8976,1921,15104,857],"class_list":["post-23562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-consortium-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-nat-parry","tag-new-york-times","tag-russia-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23562","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=23562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23563,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23562\/revisions\/23563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}