The American Mind

The mainstream media

William Hillman

(8/2018) The media is back to Russia, Russia, Russia. And if the pattern flows, next month will be crazy, crazy, crazy, followed by racist, racist, racist.

Once again, the mainstream media is back to fake outrage over Russians using social media to attempt to change the outcome of the 2016 election. It is becoming clear that our own intelligence community is what we should be worried about.

For years, the US has meddled in elections and tried to affect regime change in foreign governments, from Central America to Afghanistan. The great irony is, Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, spent most of her tenure meddling in the internal politics of foreign countries, going so far as using the military in Libya to take out a stable government in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood. "We came, we saw, he died", she joked when told of news reports of Qaddafi's death by an aide. "I'm sure it did", she replied when asked if her recent trip to Libya had anything to do with Qaddafi’s death.

In a recently released tape of then Sen. Hillary Clinton discussing the Palestinian elections with a member of the Israeli press, Clinton stated "I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake," said Sen. Clinton. "And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win."

Why the Media is pissed.

"Controlling what people think is our job." - MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski.

Very few of what we consider news outlets report unbiased news. The days of Walter Cronkite and Chet Hutley reporting Who, What, When, Where, and How are long over. We now have a plethora of opinion networks and tabloids.

I read at least 5 newspapers every morning. I find very little news in any of them. The days of in-depth, thoughtful journalism are no more. The pages are filled with opinion pieces and what news there is repeats almost verbatim in each paper. In fact, the opinion pieces also repeat themselves, just with different authors.

The media, believes that framing arguments and debates, telling you what to think is their monopoly. How dare Russia cut into their scam. The media is in a state of shock that the American people do not worship the ground it walks on. Outlets like CNN, ABC, NBC, NYT and many others, told the American people that Trump was a joke and his run for president "would be the shortest in history". The American people are not fooled by the media, and have turned their collective back on it. In a recent Gallup poll, close to 60% of Americans cannot name a media outlet they believe is honest and unbiased.

The mainstream media is doubling down on their failed attempt to control issues and frame conversations. Russia is their scapegoat and the CIA and FBI are their allies. Their narrative is, Russia’s fake social media confused voters and interfered with "real media". The problem is not Russia but the mainstream media and our own intelligence community, which have become politically weaponized and partisan. This will not end well for either.

Take for example CNN’s connection to the John Brennan. The 77-year-old former CIA Director leaked information to CNN before currently ending up at the network as a contributor.

Lead by Brennan, the mainstream media’s latest charge against Trump is his skepticism of the intelligence community. But why should Trump trust anything said by Brennan and his co-conspirators? The intelligence community took a big bet that Hillary would win and backed her to the point of interjecting itself into the election.

The mainstream media has ignored and aided the political weaponizing of the intelligence community and is quick to overlook and dismiss their criminal actions.

With the approval of President Obama, the intelligence community "wiretapped" Trump Tower just before the election.

From the Hill, September 2017 – "U.S. intelligence agencies secretly surveilled at least a half dozen Trump associates. And those are just the ones we know about. – Last week, we discovered multiple Trump transition officials were ‘incidentally’ captured during government surveillance of a foreign official. We know this because former Obama adviser Susan Rice reportedly admitted "unmasking," or asking to know the identities of, the officials. Spying on U.S. citizens is considered so sensitive, their names are supposed to be hidden or masked, even inside the government, to protect their privacy.

In May, former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, and former Acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, acknowledged they, too, reviewed communications of political figures, secretly collected under President Obama."- "Nobody wants our intel agencies to be used like the Stasi in East Germany; the secret police spying on its own citizens for political purposes. The prospect of our own NSA, CIA and FBI becoming politically weaponized has been shrouded by untruths, accusations and justifications."

Remember that Clapper falsely assured Congress in 2013 that the NSA was not collecting "any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans." He then secretly monitored conversations of members of Congress while the Obama administration negotiated the Iran nuclear deal.

In 2014, the CIA got caught spying on Senate Intelligence Committee staffers, though CIA Director John Brennan had explicitly denied that they had done it.

As I write this, President Trump is considering revoking the security clearances of John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Susan Rice, Michael Hayden, and Andrew McCabe.

It’s a big swamp and Trump is the only one with the guts to drain it.