I can’t stand her. I think every word she writes is false, including ‘and’ and ‘but.' — Mary McCarthy
(Yes, I'm posting again. Short rationale after the diary.)
Right-wing shill publishes wagonload of bullshit about Rosenstein.
Sharyl Attkisson is a lying shitbag. Period. She was allowed to resign from CBS News after trying to turn the network into an endless spew of faux Obama scandals (Fast and Furious!!!! Solyndra!!!! Tune in tomorrow for more spew!). Lately she's been spending her time giving Trump tongue baths on Sinclair and lying about Peter Strzok as a pundit for The Hill.
Now she's ginning up the hate-bloated mob with more lies and innuendo about Rod Rosenstein, Why? It ain't rocket science. Atkisson wants to continue stoking the fires of resistance and disbelief among Trump's brownshirts so that no matter what Robert Mueller finds to be criminal acts, the entire schema will be discredited because Rosenstein once bought cigars from a known Democrat, or whatever. Remember, it doesn't matter how vapid or disprovable the lies are. As long as the lies exist, the crazed right will wrap themselves in those lies and scream the rafters down about "conflicts of interest!" and "unfounded allegations!" and whatever they can spew to push back against the fact — FACT — that their Maximum Leader is a traitorous, grifting fucksplat of a diminished human being.
Here we go. Atkisson starts with laying the groundwork for a truly stellar hatchet job by pretending to be objective. She leads with a exploratory jab before swinging full force.
He’s in a difficult position and his conduct may indeed be above board. And, under normal circumstances, Congress and the public might be comforted by his guarantee. But that’s the rub: These circumstances are far from normal.
Really. Damn right the circumstances aren't "normal." The traitors, con artists and criminals infesting the White House ("infesting," see what I did there?) have made sure the circumstances are anything but normal. It's also worth noting that the far-right loons and traitors spent the entire eight years of the Obama administration trying to "abnormalize" everything about his tenure. But what's your point, Atkisson?
We’re in the midst of one of the most important scandals in memory: Our intel agencies and some public officials within them are suspected of abusing power and misusing sensitive tools under their control as political weapons. The allegations reach far beyond the 2016 campaign and transcend party politics, which makes them all the more insidious in nature.
Wow, she didn't spend much time on the preliminaries before turning the firehose of bullshit up to maximum and spraying away. Who exactly is saying that "[o]ur intel agencies and some public officials within them are suspected of abusing power and misusing sensitive tools under their control as political weapons," Atkisson? Only the nutjobs and traitors that festoon the right. When Sean Hannity, Alex Jones and Jim Hoft are considered reliable sources for leveling ugly accusations against the entire intelligence and law enforcement apparati of the United States by any pundit, that pundit should be gently escorted away from the sphere of public discussion, locked in a padded room somewhere, and given crayons with which to scrawl on the walls.
Combine that with the probes into Trump-Russia “collusion” and Hillary Clinton’s classified email practices, and the result may well be the most tangled web of overlapping investigations and competing conflicts of interest we’ve ever seen.
Sorry, Atkisson. The "collusion" is very real, and the probes into But Her Emailz are long over except in your fever dreams. And what's this shit about conflicts of interest?
For his part, Rosenstein has several potential conflicts of interest -- at least in perception.
Her perception. Not in reality. Yes, yes, Rosenstein appointed Mueller after, she claims, he "recommended" that Trump fire Comey. It didn't exactly shake down that way, and no, I won't "let that slide." Our problem since fucking Joe McCarthy has been letting their shit slide. No longer. Rosenstein didn't recommend that Comey be fired. He did write a memo that Trump used to publicly justify Comey's firing, before he dropped his pants and waved his ass at the entire notion on NBC. Atkisson is, as always, a gibbering liar.
She cites Rosenstein's approval of wiretaps against Carter Page, and gins up the Innuendo Machine to infer that Page is a guiltless choirboy who should have never been surveilled. Bullshit. The FBI knew he was Putin's lapdog as far back as 2013, and had him under surveillance off and on since 2015.
The wiretaps Rosenstein signed had relied, in part, on anti-Trump political opposition research known as the “Steele dossier.” The FBI reportedly had not strictly verified the research as required under the FBI’s Woods Procedures. If that’s the case, Rosenstein (or those who work under him) could be implicated in possible violations of those procedures.
Wow. This is a full-on Gish gallop of squealing platypus shit. The Steele dossier has been validated enough for our Not Criminal intel agencies to consider it far more reliable than anything Gowdy, Nunes, Sessions, and the yowling mob of right-wing pundits have been able to gin up. She uses a link to another of her own opinion pieces to demonstrate that "[t]he FBI reportedly had not strictly verified the research as required under the FBI’s Woods Procedures." How Cheney-esque. Sorry, Atkisson. No one is implicated in anything, except you for crimes against journalism.
She implies that Rosenstein shouldn't be allowed to certify any criminal charges Mueller may level against, well, anyone, because she and her hate-maddened colleagues don't like Steele, don't like Mueller, and don't want the law to be enforced against anyone they like.
Atkisson piles on the manure, falsely accusing the FBI of "withholding" texts from Strzok and his colleague Lisa Page and implying that the two agents have irreparably corrupted the entire Mueller probe because they said mean things about Fearless Leader.
She fizzles out with the ending of her screed; she should know by now that she should end with a full-throated demand for everyone's heads to be mounted on poles on the White House lawn. Instead, she just tries to be sarcastic. You can read it for yourself, if you want to waste thirty seconds of your time.
What does this have to do with anything, except that if it's a day that ends in Y, the right-wing scream machine is flinging metric tons of bullshit in a 365-degree spray?
Civility.
Yo, right-wingers. Want me to be civil to you? Start telling the goddamn truth. Stop building castles of lies out of rotten cowshit and expecting us to move into them because you insist that they are edifices of truth. Stop. Fucking. Lying.
Of course, you won't. You've been lying 24/7 since Tailgunner Joe tried to incarcerate half of Washington for being "Commies." All of your criminals -- Richard Nixon, Roy Cohn, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, Lee Atwater, Oliver North, GHWBush, Robert McFarlane, Dick Cheney, everyone involved in the Arkansas Project, George W. Bush, Robert Novak, Alberto Gonzales, Harriet Miers, Kyle Sampson, Monica Goodling, Karl Rove, Michael Cohen, George Papadopoulos, Michael Flynn, Jeff Sessions, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Donald "Nazis Rule, Americans Drool" Trump, and so many others besides -- are, in your telling, the victims of vast, impropable conspiracies. Evidence doesn't matter to you. Truth doesn't matter to you. For damn sure, democracy and the Constitution don't matter.
And why? Because you think, and rightly so, that your cult leaders want to punish women, gays, and minorities for daring to exist in equality with your sorry privileged asses.
And you want us to be civil? Fuck off. No civility for you until you transform yourselves into decent human beings. And since YOU won't, WE won't.
Resist.
(Sidebar: I posted several times that I wasn't going to participate in this community any longer. I won't go into the whys of it on the public threads. Suffice it to say that I have decided that I won't voluntarily silence myself on DK or anywhere else, regardless of whose feelings get bruised. That's all I need to say on the subject.)