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Apr. 20th, 2021
It’s sickly ironic that this climbdown from a confrontation with Putin occurred about the same time that one part of the administration discretely acknowledged that the “Russian bounties on American soldiers in Afghanistan” story was a complete crock. That story was flogged incessantly over the summer to reinforce the narrative that Trump cowered before Putin, and was running away from Afghanistan as a result. Well, the story was bullshit, so there was no cowering. It is the Biden administration that is demonstrably cowering. (Even while the Pentagon was backing off the bounties story, others in the Biden administration were continuing to assert it.)
That story was another flagrant example of media mendacity. The NYT journalists who wrote it should be consigned to oblivion – but they won’t be. If they were lied to by their anonymous sources, they should call them out – but they won’t. So there is NO accountability for lying, or for trading in lies (as the NYT journalists and so many other journalists do). They used to say never trust anyone over 30. That was always a dubious statement. It is anything but dubious to say never trust any journalist, regardless of age.
https://streetwiseprofessor.com/putin-calls-bidens-bluff-xi-no-doubt-watches-with-amusement
That story was another flagrant example of media mendacity. The NYT journalists who wrote it should be consigned to oblivion – but they won’t be. If they were lied to by their anonymous sources, they should call them out – but they won’t. So there is NO accountability for lying, or for trading in lies (as the NYT journalists and so many other journalists do). They used to say never trust anyone over 30. That was always a dubious statement. It is anything but dubious to say never trust any journalist, regardless of age.
https://streetwiseprofessor.com/putin-calls-bidens-bluff-xi-no-doubt-watches-with-amusement