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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJohn Schindler: White House Colludes With Fox News to Embrace Disinformation
http://observer.com/2017/08/donald-trump-fox-news-seth-rich/Unwilling to resist Russian disinformation, the Trump administration instead has enthusiastically embraced such unpleasant espionage techniques, aiming them at fellow Americans for Team Trumps political benefit. Months ago, I explained how Kremlin-made lies had a habit of winding up on Fox Newsthe presidents preferred media outletbefore being parroted by the White House itself. This Moscow-created disinformation chain, replete with lies about Americas deep state and its alleged plots against the administration, has become a staple on Trump-friendly media at Fox News and beyond.
The pupil is clearly learning: The Trump administration has started employing Chekist-style disinformation to protect itself from the increasingly serious KremlinGate investigation. An unpleasantly illustrative case that has just come to light is that of Seth Rich, a 27-year-old Democratic National Committee staffer who was murdered in Washington, D.C. in July 2016. His killing remains unsolved; there has never been any reason to think it was anything more than a tragic, random late-night shooting of the kind that happens in our nations capital more often than it should.
Nevertheless, for nearly a year, pro-Trump mouthpieces have parroted a fact-free conspiracy theory that Richnot Russias intelligence serviceswas the real source of the purloined DNC emails that were disseminated in the summer of 2016 by Wikileaks, to Hillary Clintons detriment. Julian Assange has repeatedly hinted that Rich was his source and that the young man was assassinated by a vengeful Clintonian hit-team, without offering any evidence.
Which he cant, because there isnt any. This is just another absurd lie broadcast by a well-known Kremlin front, albeit a particularly nasty one that has tortured the grieving young mans family. The story doesnt end there, however. Fox News, too, gleefully parroted Assanges lie. Here a preeminent role was played by Sean Hannity, a Fox News star plus a friend of Assanges, who in mid-May broadcast fact-free assertions about Seth Rich and his alleged role in leaking DNC emails.
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The pupil is clearly learning: The Trump administration has started employing Chekist-style disinformation to protect itself from the increasingly serious KremlinGate investigation. An unpleasantly illustrative case that has just come to light is that of Seth Rich, a 27-year-old Democratic National Committee staffer who was murdered in Washington, D.C. in July 2016. His killing remains unsolved; there has never been any reason to think it was anything more than a tragic, random late-night shooting of the kind that happens in our nations capital more often than it should.
Nevertheless, for nearly a year, pro-Trump mouthpieces have parroted a fact-free conspiracy theory that Richnot Russias intelligence serviceswas the real source of the purloined DNC emails that were disseminated in the summer of 2016 by Wikileaks, to Hillary Clintons detriment. Julian Assange has repeatedly hinted that Rich was his source and that the young man was assassinated by a vengeful Clintonian hit-team, without offering any evidence.
Which he cant, because there isnt any. This is just another absurd lie broadcast by a well-known Kremlin front, albeit a particularly nasty one that has tortured the grieving young mans family. The story doesnt end there, however. Fox News, too, gleefully parroted Assanges lie. Here a preeminent role was played by Sean Hannity, a Fox News star plus a friend of Assanges, who in mid-May broadcast fact-free assertions about Seth Rich and his alleged role in leaking DNC emails.
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John Schindler: White House Colludes With Fox News to Embrace Disinformation (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Aug 2017
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CousinIT
(9,268 posts)1. Seth Abramson Twitter thread on same
GeorgeGist
(25,326 posts)2. Wouldn't it be nice ...
if Mueller takes FOX down too.