Patterns of Distraction [View all]

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In an earlier thread there was mention of a strange phenomenon to Trump reporting. Mainly, that anytime a Trumpster bad news story is revealed, a corresponding ‘let’s savage Hillary Clinton’ piece pops up.

I might go so far as saying a frigging pattern in coverage of all things Trumpy and Hillary Clinton savaging has emerged and has been increasingly obvious for some time. As in the last two years. Presumably, the redux NYT’s story on Trump’s desire to fire Mueller wasn’t enough to thoroughly distract the public, so a Clinton story was clearly needed.

This morning our good woman Ruth Marcus at WAPO provided a flourish, claiming that the ten-year old story on Hillary Clinton made Ruth's head EXPLODE and by implication should do the same for everyone else. This is in addition to what the cable news shows were pumping yesterday, many of them leading with this 'explosive' story. On MSNBC, btw.

Marcus couches her indictment of Hillary Clinton with this:

"Look, I believe that not every bad act deserves the death penalty, and without more details, it’s hard to judge what the consequences should have been here."

But then, Miss Ruth proceeds with a guillotine treatment of the 2008 campaign's reaction to the man in question and HRC's reaction to the story now. The word dismayed is put through the ringer--so lame, so uninvolved, so clearly guilty of not really, really caring.

Off with Hillary's head!!

Not the head of the man in question for whom we will admit may not deserve the death penalty but the head of Clinton because she should have known better, been better and is required to be better in all things.

Meanwhile, the real story of the day, the week, the month is that the Trumpster, the imposter sitting in the WH, has been completely and utterly compromised by the story about Dutch intelligence hacking into the Russian spy network. The Dutch caught the Russians red-handed, specifically the Cozy Bear operation breaking into our cyber-infrastructure.

The Dutch knew, our allies knew, we knew and yet Trump and his enablers and Russian buddies continue to lie about Russian interference and its consequences in 2016. The Republicans continue to scream about the enemies inside the FBI and intelligence community when in fact they are the enemy. And the 400-pound teenage hacker squatting in his mother's basement? That would be Trump without his hairpiece.

But, but . . . Her emails! But, but . . . her response to a sexual harassment case ten years ago and/or her donor relationship with Harvey Weinstein and . . .

Pattern revealed.

The story that will ultimately sink Trump and his treasonous sycophants has been deliberately short-changed and shunted aside. The question of why should always revert back to:

Who benefits?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/01/27/hillary-clinton-metoo-meet-sowhat/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-c%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.ca681f19b996