{"id":31091,"date":"2018-02-16T14:01:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T19:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31091"},"modified":"2018-02-16T14:01:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T19:01:49","slug":"agitprop-is-not-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31091","title":{"rendered":"Agitprop Is Not News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Agitprop Is Not News<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Forget about sharks. In their Valentine\u2019s Day editorial: Why Does Trump Ignore Top Officials\u2019 Warnings on Russia?<\/a>, <\/em><\/strong>The New York Times<\/em> jumped several blue whales (all the ones left on earth), a cruise ship, a subtropical archipelago, a giant vortex of plastic bottles, and the Sport\u2019s Illustrated<\/em>swimsuit shoot. The lede said:<\/p>\n

The phalanx of intelligence chiefs who testified on Capitol Hill delivered a chilling message: Not only did Russia interfere in the 2016 election, it is already meddling in the 2018 election by using a digital strategy to exacerbate the country\u2019s political and social divisions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hmmm\u2026. After almost two years of relentless public paranoia about Russia and US elections, don\u2019t you suppose these Ruskie gremlins would find some other way to make mischief in our world \u2014 maybe meddle in the NHL playoffs, or hack WalMart\u2019s bookkeeping department, or covertly switch out the real Dwayne Johnson with a robot? I kind of completely and absolutely doubt that they\u2019ll bother with our elections.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s face it, the United States is doing a stellar job of destroying itself with bad ideas, foolish ideologies, and pervasive self-deceit. If I was running the Russian intel services, I\u2019d just pay to send a few Nebraska county commissioners to Disneyland \u2014 that would keep our seventeen US intel agencies busy until kingdom come trying to figure out the angle. And it would cheaper than spending a hundred grand to fuck with Facebook.<\/p>\n

Actually the Times\u2019s editorial seems to have CIA \/ NSA fingerprints all over it, or at least Deep State paw prints. By stating that the Russians are already \u201cmeddling\u201d in 2018 elections that haven\u2019t happened yet, aren\u2019t our own security agencies setting up the public to lose faith in the electoral process and fight over election results? Oh, by the way, the Times<\/em> presented no evidence whatsoever that this alleged \u201cmeddling\u201d is taking place. They just assert it, as if it were already adjudicated.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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