By Peter Kirsanow
Monday, May 11, 2020
A review of weekend news coverage and commentary shows
that mainstream media have gone into full “Protect Obama” mode.
Evidence released last week — including, but not limited
to, House Intelligence Committee transcripts showing that multiple top-level
Obama administration officials were lying to the public for three years about
Russian collusion — indicates that former president Barack Obama wasn’t merely
aware of what was going on; he was hip-deep in what increasingly appears to be
one of the greatest political scandals in American history.
For other than the most sycophantic and credulous media
personalities, Obama’s involvement isn’t much of a surprise. The August 5, 2016
email from Peter Strzok to Lisa Page stating, “the White House is running
this,” followed by the September 2016 Page text to Strzok stating, “POTUS wants
to know everything we’re doing” suggested the obvious: An operation targeting a
presidential campaign and then an incoming presidential administration
isn’t a mere freelance effort cooked up by a few rogue FBI personnel in their
spare time. An operation of that magnitude and import must be blessed from the
very top.
Indeed, the January 5, 2017 White House meeting with
President Obama, vice president Joe Biden, FBI director James Comey, deputy
attorney general Sally Yates, director of national intelligence James Clapper,
CIA director John Brennan, and national security adviser Susan Rice (which
meeting was the subject of Rice’s mother-of-all C.Y.A. emails to herself on
Inauguration Day) suggests that Obama wasn’t merely kept informed of the Russia
collusion fraud, he was providing direction.
Notwithstanding the IRS targeting of politically
disfavored citizens, Fast and Furious gunrunning, the VA debacle, Benghazi,
surveillance of reporters, and other scandals, an adoring mainstream press
consistently parrots Obama’s risible claim that his administration was
scandal-free. But the Russia-collusion hoax dwarfs all the other Obama scandals
and malfeasance combined.
Obama knows this. So do the media. They also know most of
Obama’s “achievements” haven’t even survived Trump’s first term. The media-enabled
fiction of a scandal-free administration is nearly all that remains of the
Obama legacy. So it must be maintained. After all, he’s progressives’
Lightworker. He validates their pieties, conceits, and presumptions.
That’s why we’re about to experience media prevarication,
deflection, omission, and misrepresentation on a scale never before witnessed
in political news coverage — even eclipsing that of the last three years. Obama
must be protected, facts be damned. And if they spin furiously enough, they might
even be rewarded with a Pulitzer.
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