{"id":58920,"date":"2021-08-07T09:54:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T14:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58920"},"modified":"2021-08-07T09:54:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T14:54:14","slug":"after-russiagate-why-wouldnt-people-be-skeptical-about-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58920","title":{"rendered":"After Russiagate, Why WOULDN\u2019T People Be Skeptical About Covid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/08\/04\/after-russiagate-why-wouldnt-people-be-skeptical-about-covid\/\">After Russiagate, Why WOULDN\u2019T People Be Skeptical About Covid?<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10319\" class=\"post-10319 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-trump tag-covid tag-media tag-msm tag-russia tag-russiagate tag-unvaccinated tag-vaccine\">\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:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/medium-1-1200x675.jpeg?ea9430&amp;ea9430\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/medium-1-1200x675.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/medium-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/medium-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/medium-1-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/medium-1.jpeg 1280w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/after-russiagate-why-wouldnt-people-be-skeptical-about-covid\"><em>Listen to a reading of this article:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1099688011&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxwidth=1060&amp;maxheight=1000\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>You hardly ever hear about Russiagate anymore. The last time it made a blip in the radar was when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9Ikf1uZli4g\">disgraced\u00a0<em>Collusion<\/em>\u00a0author<\/a>\u00a0Luke Harding published a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/luke-hardings-continued-employment\">very thinly-sourced story<\/a>\u00a0in The Guardian claiming to have proof that Donald Trump was a Kremlin asset, but other mass media outlets\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1416444071707545603\">barely touched it<\/a>\u00a0and it vanished as quickly as it came.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at mainstream news outlets in 2021, you\u2019d hardly know they\u2019d recently spent years hammering the story into public consciousness that Vladimir Putin had infiltrated the highest levels of the US government, day after day after day after day after day.<\/p>\n<p>But they did. Vast fortunes were raked in off the public interest generated by click-friendly stories about the latest BOMBSHELL revelation involving some peripheral member of Trump\u2019s associates perhaps maybe having some kind of contact with a Russian national at some point. Entire careers were built on this.<\/p>\n<p>Then the Mueller investigation invalidated the entire claim by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/04\/18\/robert-mueller-did-not-merely-reject-the-trumprussia-conspiracy-theories-he-obliterated-them\/\">failing to indict a single American<\/a>\u00a0for conspiring with the Russian government, and the mass media who\u2019d spent the previous few years bashing everyone in the face with that story just kind of slowly sidled away from it.<\/p>\n<p>And now they act like it never happened.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1119021149499867137&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F08%2F04%2Fafter-russiagate-why-wouldnt-people-be-skeptical-about-covid%2F&amp;sessionId=798f2fd9acfe0e6fbd29aad837e0cbceec384432&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1119021149499867137\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Now I\u2019m going to ask you to put yourself in the shoes of someone you might not normally be inclined to.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine you\u2019re someone on the political right watching this whole thing unfold. Imagine that from late 2016 to mid-2019 you were watching the mass media aggressively shove this story down everyone\u2019s throat that a US president, whom you support, is secretly working for a hostile foreign government with the goal of subverting the United States of America. ..<\/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>After Russiagate, Why WOULDN\u2019T People Be Skeptical About Covid? Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 You hardly ever hear about Russiagate anymore. The last time it made a blip in the radar was when\u00a0disgraced\u00a0Collusion\u00a0author\u00a0Luke Harding published a\u00a0very thinly-sourced story\u00a0in The Guardian claiming to have proof that Donald Trump was a Kremlin asset, but [&hellip;]<\/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":[17039,29341,512,15282,5702,815],"class_list":["post-58920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-covid","tag-media","tag-russiagate","tag-skepticism","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58920","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=58920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58921,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58920\/revisions\/58921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}