Your friend Jim George thinks you'd be a great addition to Ricochet, so we'd like to offer you a special deal: You can become a member for no initial charge for one month!
Ricochet is a community of like-minded people who enjoy writing about and discussing politics (usually of the center-right nature), culture, sports, history, and just about every other topic under the sun in a fully moderated environment. We’re so sure you’ll like Ricochet, we’ll let you join and get your first month for free. Kick the tires: read the always eclectic member feed, write some posts, join discussions, participate in a live chat or two, and listen to a few of our over 50 (free) podcasts on every conceivable topic, hosted by some of the biggest names on the right, for 30 days on us. We’re confident you’re gonna love it.
I imagine this story will continue to be met with the great silence from the local Adam Schiff fluffer crowd. A true shame. As these details come out, I long to hear again about how “The House Managers skillfully weaved their narrative and made a compelling argument with a masterful multi-media presentation” and the slobbering word clouds “Schiff … virtuoso performance … compelling summation … rhetorical crescendo…The facts are clear…That game is up. It is done. …broke through the fourth wall…The facts are clear. …That game is up. It is done. …delivered forcefully…repetition for the purpose of emphasis” and how, as a long time loyal Republican “I am ashamed today to be a Republican. I am ashamed at the conduct of the Senate Republicans.”
There, there. Pitiful stool pigeon. There, there.
I think we must just do what we think is right, rather than worry about the media spin. They will twist anything–anything–to meet their agenda, so what’s the point in being cooperative? I remember one press conference where Trump kept it short out of irritation over stupid questions. It was a beautiful moment.
Julie Kelly at American Greatness wrote something that I’ve been thinking for some time. It’s a good account of a sickening problem. The title:
Useless Senate Republicans No Match for the ‘Bums of Steele’
As near as I can tell, the Republican House members have been pretty scrupulous about respecting the secrecy of closed door hearings.
The Democrats, not so much. But it’s not only that. Sundance writes at Conservative Treehouse,
To summarize: The main media outlets are part of the Democrat Party’s propaganda machine (or, as Rush Limbaugh has said for years, the Democrat Party is the political wing of the media which genertes the platform and provides the propaganda.)
The “intelligence community,” following on the CIA’s Cold War use of intellectuals and journalists as spies and agents of influence (ostensibly only outside of the US) is systematically working with the Democrat Party’s propaganda operation.
Flynn, and then Trump, threatened the intelligence community.
Sundance has been writing for years that the Senate Select Subcommittee on Intelligence is profoundly corrupt. For example:
Good point, though I wonder how hornswoggled he was. It wouldn’t surprise me at all to learn that he had a grudge against somebody and saw McCain-Feingold as a way to harm them.
Oh, as I point out in the linked post, he was enraged to be linked to the Keating Five as a naive freshman Senator by the four old corrupt Democrats. Cranston was a master as making himself appear “Progressive” while as corrupt as any Senator in a generation. McCain was arrogant and treasured his “hero” reputation.
Oh, I remember Cranston, alright. Your characterization is spot on, except that as his nuclear freeze position suggests, he was on the Left. With Cranston in the Senate and Willie Brown as Speaker of the Assembly, the 1980s were a lucrative time to be corrupt and “Progressive” in California.