Sohrab Ahmari: Smearing Pete Hegseth

How dumb I am

and/or

How good the MSM is at this stuff:

Even after all these years of relentless lies, when I first heard about the anti-Hegseth stories, I thought Oh, great...another unforced error...

  Showing that (a) I'd at some level / to some degree accepted the Gaetz accusations and (d) ditto the Hegseth ones.

   I'm still just stupid credulous about the media. I still think that e.g. the NYT is unlikely to just make up outrageous accusations.

   When we know that's exactly what they do.

   Now, I'm willing to believe such accusations.

   I'm in no way a dogmatic Trump partisan.

   I'm already skeptical about a lot of his proposed nominees.

   But I've got to get it through my head that, with respect to Trump and his penumbra: the MSM saying that p is basically no evidence that p is true.

   At most, it might be a reason to look into whether p.

   The rape accusation against Hegseth was a good example. The accusation falls apart with about two minutes of investigation...but that's not the way it was represented in the MSM...

   They are the propaganda arm of the Democrat party.

   I've got to keep that firmly in mind.