For months, Democrats and their liberal media allies have been pushing the conspiracy theory that Russian President Vladimir Putin stole the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton and made Trump win.
The left refuses to admit that Hillary Clinton was a failed candidate and her numerous flaws caused her to suffer an historic defeat last November, not a false “Russia hacked the election” conspiracy.
Despite the lack of substantive evidence proving that Russia impacted the results of last year’s election, the left won’t let up, and neither will the media.
But one veteran liberal journalist is pushing back.
In an interview with The Intercept, longtime journalist Seymour Hersh – who broke the My Lai Massacre story wide open during the Vietnam War – argues that the media was “hectoring” or harassing the public with claims of Russian interference in our election, not reporting.
Hersh insists that the media wasn’t actually engaging in real journalism, and even blamed the Obama administration for putting out a fake “assessment” in which 17 U.S. intelligence agencies allegedly agreed with the premise that Russia hacked our election.
The veteran journalist stressed that the word “assessment” was ridiculous, because it included no dissenting opinions, which is standard procedure, and instead called the report “outrageous.”
Check out the video of his comments below:
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh blasted news organizations for uncritically promoting the Russian hacking story. https://interc.pt/2jwVN5D
Posted by The Intercept on Wednesday, January 25, 2017
From The Intercept:
Hersh denounced news organizations as “crazy town” for their uncritical promotion of the pronouncements of the director of national intelligence and the CIA, given their track records of lying and misleading the public.
“The way they behaved on the Russia stuff was outrageous,” Hersh said when I sat down with him at his home in Washington, D.C., two days after Trump was inaugurated. “They were just so willing to believe stuff. And when the heads of intelligence give them that summary of the allegations, instead of attacking the CIA for doing that, which is what I would have done,” they reported it as fact. Hersh said most news organizations missed an important component of the story: “the extent to which the White House was going and permitting the agency to go public with the assessment.”
Hersh said many media outlets failed to provide context when reporting on the intelligence assessment made public in the waning days of the Obama administration that was purported to put to rest any doubt that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the hacking of the DNC and Clinton campaign manager John Podesta’s emails.
Hersh first came into the national spotlight in 1969 for exposing that My Lai Massacre and its subsequent cover-up throughout the Vietnam War, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize. In addition, he exposed the U.S. military’s mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
The Obama White House, and the liberal media, have done a disservice to the American public, by continuously peddling this conspiracy theory while offering up no actual evidence that Russia hacked the election.
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