Turley: Russiagategate: Buried, but Not Dead

Russiagategate, the Democrat conspiracy to convince Americans that Russiagate, Trump's fictional conspiracy with the Rooskies, was true, has never been fully investigated and aired. As Turley notes, it's got the wrong political valence. The Democrat hoax about Trump was total hogwash...but the press and all the other right people wanted it to be true. It was false--but politically correct... So it not only dragged on long beyond the point at which it had become obvious bullshit--which, to my mind, was late 2017--it still lives today in the minds of many on the blue team, trapped in that echo chamber.

   And don't forget: the MSM gave itself more than one Pulitzer Prize for its participation in Russiagategate. Not just propagandistic regurgitation of blue-team talking-points...but it's actual participation in the hoax...

   As Turley notes, this may well be the biggest political dirty trick in American History.

   But it has exactly the wrong political valence...so.,.. The media blared Russiagate from the rooftops (well...it owns transmitters and printing presses and websites...it doesn't have to resort to mere rooftops...), relentlessly amplifying the meager, near-non-existent evidence for the hoax. but it dismisses the copious evidence for Russiagategate when it bothers to mention it at all. One of its greatest powers is its control over the volume dial on public discussion--stories it likes: crank it up to 11. Stories it doesn't: all the way down.

   Anyway, Russiagate was one of the main things that slapped some sense into me about mainstream American politics as 2017 wore on. I've always been an inveterate enemy of political correctness--before it even came to be known as woketarianism--but I was still a Democrat, still on the blue team, still blind to the deceptions of the MSM... So, hey, at least Russiagate helped redpill me...