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西蒙：美国媒体在“通俄门”调查中的自我毁灭
本文选自PJ Media（3月22日） 英文标题：The American Media Destroyed Themselves over the MuellerInvestigation 作者Roger L. Simon — co-founder and CEO emeritus of PJ Media — is a prize-winning novelist and anAcademy Award-nominated screenwriter. 文章篇幅不大，附在下方。也可点击文末的“阅读原文” 作为背景资料，推荐总检察长William Barr写给参众两院司法委员会的信，这代表了官方的结论，下载链接：https://zh.scribd.com/document/402973432/AG-March-24-2019-Letter-to-House-and-Senate-Judiciary-Committees#from_embed
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Withonly a few exceptions — Fox News, the editorial pages (not the front pages) ofthe Wall Street Journal, and a handful of websites — the better part of theAmerican media has spent the last two years fulminating about Trump-Russiacollusion we now know never existed.
Actually,we always knew that, but finally, it's official. It was always a bunch of —excuse the expression — trumped up baloney that made no sense except to thosewho wished so deeply to believe it was true.
Whichmakes the people who were doing that fulminating — media, politicians and(usually retired) intelligence figures, who were, as is becoming increasinglyclear, betraying the American Constitutional system with impunity — sick andevil.
That maysound extreme, but it's the all-too-obvious truth. What they did isunforgivable, particularly since few, if any of them, will have the honesty orbasic morals to apologize. Some,however, may go to jail.
Theprovenance of what happened also couldn't be more obvious. People whoconsidered themselves elite guardians of our country were so appalled by thepossible election, and then the actual election, of the "barbarian"Donald Trump, they thought nothing of breaking the law and then exploiting itto bring Trump down. In so doing, consciously or unconsciously, they expressedtheir utter contempt for roughly half of their fellow citizens, not to mentiontheir disdain for the electoral process and the law many of them swore touphold.
It was aconspiracy and, worse yet, a conspiracy ignited and carried out from within theFBI and the Department of Justice. Nothing could be more dangerous to ademocratic society than that. How high this conspiracy went is still somewhatunclear. I say "somewhat" because the likelihood of it having reachedinto the White House of the previous administration is great. It's hard toimagine how it could have happened otherwise.
Theseconspirators all worked in tandem, through leaks or directly, with theaforementioned media that has disgraced itself beyond words. The reputation ofthis media, never terrific, is in tatters and being washed, deservedly, downthe drain. Anyone who believes a word they say from here on in should havehis/her or zhe's head examined.
Whichbrings us to the new man of the hour. Good-bye, Robert Mueller. Hello, MichaelHorowitz.
Morethan ever, it is up to the inspector general to put Humpty Dumpty togetheragain. He tiptoed up to the door in his investigation of the Hillary Clintonemail scandal and then fled timorously away. This time it will not be so easyto participate in the coverup. We all know too much and the documents —especially the ones concerning the FISA courts and the Steele dossier — aresitting there waiting for the world to read them. Horowitz must know that noinvestigation will be complete without exposing all of this. Otherwise, he willbe trashed by history.
Andspeaking of history, let's a have a brief review of what we've really learnedso far from the multi-million dollar Mueller investigation: who actually gotindicted. The worst miscreant is clearly Paul Manafort, who, before he workedfor Trump, did some dirty dealing with nasty characters in the Ukraine and elsewhere.Nothing good can be said about Manafort except he has a distinct similarity toClinton friend Tony Podesta (with whom he worked, but who has not yet beenindicted) and a whole host of other Beltway creeps that infest our nation'scapital, sucking off the body politic, foreign and domestic.
And thenthere's Michael Flynn. He may or may not (it's unclear) have been scared intolying about something minor, but his real crime, the reason they were reallyout to get him, was his strong opposition to the Iran deal. In any case, someinvestigators didn't even think he did or said anything wrong. Mueller tried tomuscle him. And so far Flynn hasn't even been sentenced to anything. It keepsgetting postponed for some reason. Will he be? Who knows? But Trump willdoubtless pardon him anyway and should.
Thenthere's the nefarious Papadopoulos character who also got caught making a"false statement" and did minimal time.
Nextthere's Roger Stone who, it turns out, is something of a braggart and a liar.(We needed a million-dollar investigation for that?) Of course, the idea thatStone would do anything in any way meaningful is ludicrous.
And thenthere's Jerome Corsi. He was supposed to be indicted unless he turned evidenceagainst someone. But he refused and wasn't indicted. Conclusion: Corsi was perfectlyinnocent. They were just trying to muscle him. Pretty creepy, wouldn't you say?
Andfinally, there's Michael Cohen, the fixer. He's a pathetic character, but noneof his multiple lies or glancing truths (there must be some) come within milesof Russia collusion. In fact, he's the guy who didn't go to Prague.
And, Ialmost forgot, the indictment of twenty Russian hackers in St. Petersburg whowill never be arrested. We're supposed to be shocked that Russkies are spewingdisinformation at us when they've been doing it since the tzars. Of course,we're probably doing similar things to them too, but don't tell anybody. (Atleast I hope we are. We're paying the CIA for something.)
So thereyou have it, folks. Two years worth of investigation and millions of taxpayerdollars for that, not to mention hamstringing the president of the UnitedStates in his activities almost everywhere he went during the same period.
Proud ofyourselves, David Corn, CNN, John Brennan, MSNBC, Adam Schiff, Washington Post,Don Lemon, Eric Swalwell, New York Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc., etc., adnauseam? Think you saved the republic? Actually, you owe Donald Trump billions.You made out like bandits lying through your teeth about him for two years.
SPECIALTO ADAM SCHIFF: You represent Los Angeles, where people are defecating in thestreets and living in tents. Why don't you try to do something about thatinstead of lying every day about Donald Trump?
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