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That’s how I knew that the Hunter Biden Laptop story was true, way back in 2019. When the New York Times only found out this year. Because I also read the New York Post. And I knew that 51 ex intelligence official lied when they said it was “Russian disinformation”. And that so did Joe Biden in the 2020 debate. Anyone with two brain cells would know that the Laptop was genuine, because all you had to do was to check the addressees of a couple of emails from the Hunter laptop, to see if they had received them. Simple. But you wouldn’t have known that if you only looked at CNN or MSNBC, or the New York Times.
That’s how I knew that the Trump Russia collusion story was a hoax, way back in 2016, when the rest of the liberal media has only acknowledged with the publication of the Mueller Report, and sometimes not even then (so deep is the hoax virus). Because I also followed right-of-centre blogs.
That’s how I knew that Trump did not say that Nazis and White Supremacists are “fine people”. Not only because I saw the actual speech, but because I saw subsequent debunking, all on conservative media. And that’s why liberals on the Left only knew that June this year, when the left-leaning fact-checking outfit Snopes, acknowledged it last month. But only last month. (Remember how important this was: Joe Biden said it was the main reason that he entered the 2020 race. IOW, on the back of a false story. Which, btw, he retailed yet again during last week’s presidential debate).
That’s how I know that the criminal cases brought against Trump are bogus “Lawfare” cases: as is (belatedly) acknowledged even on the Left, by such luminaries as ex-Democratic Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo, CNN senior editor Fareed Zakaria and legal scholar, and lifetime Democrat voter Alan Dershowitz. And yet Left leaning super-pods like “Pod Save America” demand should have been a focus of last week’s debate. WTF?).
So, in short, you have to read both sides of the aisle, both Left and Right. Sometimes it’s tough to do, because you don’t like to hear what “the other side” says. But you have to.
And that’s the case with Steve Bannon in the talk with Megyn Kelly above. I don’t like Bannon one little bit. But I know that he’s a smart cookie and has some good insights. He’s a smart tactician. Like his equivalent on the Dem’s side James Carville, who I also follow. And that’s why I’m watching the video above.
In the immediate aftermath of the now-(in)famous presidential debate last week, Dems were saying that “Joe has to go”. The whole nine-member squad of commenters on the CNN panel after the show, with major Dem luminaries, were all united in how awful Joe Biden’s performance was, how it was “panic stations”, and how he had to be ditched.
Since then -- and things are moving fast in the post-debate Democratic world -- the Dems seem to be coalescing behind not ditching Biden, but giving him another chance. A major factor here being his wife Jill Biden. And some of the Left -- like the “Pod Save America” podcast -- are saying that the Debate was “unfair". Because it wasn’t biased enough towards Biden (!). Whereas all of us who watched it thought it was a pretty good new format, which worked well and was fair to both sides. Just that Joe stumbled and fell.
Let’s see. I think it’s better for Trump if Biden remains the Dem candidate. And better for Trump if they have another debate. I don’t like Trump's chances against the likes of Michele Obama or even of Gavin Newsome.
And that’s what Megyn Kelly and Steve Bannon, two super-smart political pundits, discuss above. Well worth the time to listen, if you’re into this sort of stuff. Which we rather are, here in this family.
Where else is there such interest in an election? Answer: nowhere. There’s a British election in a few days time. Who cares? No-one. It’s a given Leftward tilt to Labour. Yawn. There were European elections a month ago. Who cared? No-one, except for noting the right-ward tilt. There’s an election in Australia early next year; who cares? No-one. Save we who care about Nuclear. Point it: the United States presidential elections are an on-going fascination-fest. They are just so interesting. And the latest is just the latest in tilts and turns and surprises.
