{"id":55382,"date":"2020-10-19T07:23:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T12:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55382"},"modified":"2020-10-19T07:23:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T12:23:10","slug":"the-emails-are-russian-will-be-the-narrative-regardless-of-facts-or-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55382","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Emails Are Russian\u2019 Will Be The Narrative, Regardless Of Facts Or Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/10\/18\/the-emails-are-russian-will-be-the-narrative-regardless-of-facts-or-evidence\/\">\u2018The Emails Are Russian\u2019 Will Be The Narrative, Regardless Of Facts Or Evidence<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-9012\" class=\"post-9012 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-biden tag-emails tag-media tag-msm tag-politics tag-russia\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medium-1-3.jpg?fit=1200%2C672&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medium-1-3.jpg?w=1438&amp;ssl=1 1438w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medium-1-3.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medium-1-3.jpg?resize=768%2C430&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medium-1-3.jpg?resize=1024%2C573&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medium-1-3.jpg?resize=1200%2C672&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"672\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>Fight it all you want, but there\u2019s nothing you can do. \u201cThe emails are Russian\u201d is going to be the official dominant narrative in mainstream political discourse, and there\u2019s nothing you can do to stop it. Resistance is futile.<\/p>\n<p>Like the Russian hacking narrative, the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, the Russian bounties in Afghanistan narrative, and any other evidence-free framing of events that simultaneously advances pre-planned cold war agendas, is politically convenient for the Democratic party and generates clicks and ratings, the narrative that the\u00a0<em>New York Post<\/em>\u00a0publication of Hunter Biden\u2019s emails is a Russian operation is going to be hammered and hammered and hammered until it becomes the mainstream consensus. This will happen regardless of facts and evidence, up to and including rock solid evidence that Hunter Biden\u2019s emails were not published as a result of a Russian operation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1317449896333611009&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2020%2F10%2F18%2Fthe-emails-are-russian-will-be-the-narrative-regardless-of-facts-or-evidence%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1317449896333611009\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This is happening. It\u2019s following the same formula all the other fact-free Russia hysteria narratives have followed. The same media tour by pundits and political operatives saying with no evidence but very assertive voices that Russia is most certainly behind this occurrence and we should all be very upset about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, this is just classic textbook Soviet Russian tradecraft at work,\u201d Russiagate founder and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is heard\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/status\/1317307227963678721\">assuring CNN\u2019s audience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden \u2013 and all of us \u2013 SHOULD be furious that media outlets are spreading what is very likely Russian propaganda,\u201d begins and eight-part\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisMurphyCT\/status\/1317449896333611009\">thread<\/a>\u00a0by Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, who claims the emails are \u201cKremlin constructed anti-Biden propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not really surprising at all, this was always the play, but still kind of head-spinning to watch all the players from 2016 run exactly the same hack-leak-smear op in 2020. Even with everyone knowing exactly what\u2019s happening this time,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrislhayes\/status\/1317458706020356096\">tweets<\/a>\u00a0MSNBC\u2019s Chris Hayes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The Emails Are Russian\u2019 Will Be The Narrative, Regardless Of Facts Or Evidence Fight it all you want, but there\u2019s nothing you can do. \u201cThe emails are Russian\u201d is going to be the official dominant narrative in mainstream political discourse, and there\u2019s nothing you can do to stop it. Resistance is futile. 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