20 Feb 2022 1:04 pm
Six Things Clarified By The Durham Probe
by The BSC Team
February 20, 2022
In this installment of their weekly Sunday Six conversation, PF Whalen and Parker Beauregard of The Blue State Conservative discuss six conclusions we can draw from the ongoing investigation into the origins of the Russia Hoax by Special Counsel John Durham.
#6: This whole story is intentionally convoluted.
Parker: At this point, there is only one question left to answer: How deep does this go? Unfortunately, there are so many twists, turns, cover-ups, misdirection, and layers to this we might never get to the bottom. There’s also the fact that Durham might not want to or be allowed to ever get there, either. This whole thing is a mess, and the more we learn, the messier it simply gets. All of this means that the lay newsreader can never quite keep up, and even when they do, bits of information are discussed here, obscure and unknown names are dropped over there, and technical aspects are folded in everywhere, ultimately meaning that the Clinton campaign’s operation to lie, cheat, and steal will be given cover by the sheer scope of it all.
Worse yet, pithy summaries don’t do one of the worst scandals in American politics justice. Let me summarize the gist of what happened in one sentence. Hillary Clinton’s campaign, with the help of elected officials, unelected bureaucrats, and paid helpers, both made up and stole information from the Trump campaign (and later Trump administration, it turns out) and leaked it to the press to paint Trump as a Putin lackey.
See the problem here? A short summary doesn’t capture just how much happened (I left a lot out) and going into the required weeds leaves people more confused than when they started. The opposing argument, of course, is that we don’t need to comprehend the full picture to appreciate the scheming and lying by Clinton and her campaign. It should be enough to know that she’s corrupt, a crook, and the evidence against her is almost ironclad. Should be.
#5: The journalistic malpractice and media bias we’ve seen for years is now being dwarfed by the coverage we’re seeing on the Durham Probe.
PF: When Durham submitted his court filing nine days ago, there would have been a media firestorm the likes of which we’ve never seen if the roles had somehow been reversed. Picture it. Imagine if a special counsel had filed court documents alleging that members of the Trump campaign had spied on the Biden campaign, having infiltrated their servers, then fabricated a false narrative which was fed to a gullible and corrupt press, and then they continued that spying even after Biden was inaugurated. The media frenzy would be unparalleled, and rightfully so.
To say that there has been no coverage of this story by the mainstream media would be inaccurate. Most of the outlets have reported on it to some extent, that’s not the issue. It’s the way in which they are trying so hard to downplay the news which is utterly absurd. Their commitment to the magnitude of the story has been tepid, at best.
We’re not talking about reports from anonymous sources, we’re talking about a court filing from a United States Attorney. And we’re not talking about innocuous shenanigans by some low-level campaign staffers, we’re talking about spying with the intent of destroying a candidate/president that was coordinated by some of the top officials in Hillary Clinton’s campaign; a campaign that came very close to victory. If things shake out in the way that it looks like they might, this is indeed a monumental scandal and one which should be on the front page of every paper and the lead story of every newscast.
by The BSC Team
February 20, 2022
In this installment of their weekly Sunday Six conversation, PF Whalen and Parker Beauregard of The Blue State Conservative discuss six conclusions we can draw from the ongoing investigation into the origins of the Russia Hoax by Special Counsel John Durham.
#6: This whole story is intentionally convoluted.
Parker: At this point, there is only one question left to answer: How deep does this go? Unfortunately, there are so many twists, turns, cover-ups, misdirection, and layers to this we might never get to the bottom. There’s also the fact that Durham might not want to or be allowed to ever get there, either. This whole thing is a mess, and the more we learn, the messier it simply gets. All of this means that the lay newsreader can never quite keep up, and even when they do, bits of information are discussed here, obscure and unknown names are dropped over there, and technical aspects are folded in everywhere, ultimately meaning that the Clinton campaign’s operation to lie, cheat, and steal will be given cover by the sheer scope of it all.
Worse yet, pithy summaries don’t do one of the worst scandals in American politics justice. Let me summarize the gist of what happened in one sentence. Hillary Clinton’s campaign, with the help of elected officials, unelected bureaucrats, and paid helpers, both made up and stole information from the Trump campaign (and later Trump administration, it turns out) and leaked it to the press to paint Trump as a Putin lackey.
See the problem here? A short summary doesn’t capture just how much happened (I left a lot out) and going into the required weeds leaves people more confused than when they started. The opposing argument, of course, is that we don’t need to comprehend the full picture to appreciate the scheming and lying by Clinton and her campaign. It should be enough to know that she’s corrupt, a crook, and the evidence against her is almost ironclad. Should be.
#5: The journalistic malpractice and media bias we’ve seen for years is now being dwarfed by the coverage we’re seeing on the Durham Probe.
PF: When Durham submitted his court filing nine days ago, there would have been a media firestorm the likes of which we’ve never seen if the roles had somehow been reversed. Picture it. Imagine if a special counsel had filed court documents alleging that members of the Trump campaign had spied on the Biden campaign, having infiltrated their servers, then fabricated a false narrative which was fed to a gullible and corrupt press, and then they continued that spying even after Biden was inaugurated. The media frenzy would be unparalleled, and rightfully so.
To say that there has been no coverage of this story by the mainstream media would be inaccurate. Most of the outlets have reported on it to some extent, that’s not the issue. It’s the way in which they are trying so hard to downplay the news which is utterly absurd. Their commitment to the magnitude of the story has been tepid, at best.
We’re not talking about reports from anonymous sources, we’re talking about a court filing from a United States Attorney. And we’re not talking about innocuous shenanigans by some low-level campaign staffers, we’re talking about spying with the intent of destroying a candidate/president that was coordinated by some of the top officials in Hillary Clinton’s campaign; a campaign that came very close to victory. If things shake out in the way that it looks like they might, this is indeed a monumental scandal and one which should be on the front page of every paper and the lead story of every newscast.