February 24, 2020
MY CORNER by Boyd Cathey
The Russia Hoax
Unravels…Again
Friends,
Once again yesterday and this morning, Russia and its supposed
meddling in American politics was in the news. And it’s frankly quite difficult
to keep up with the latest permutations in this rank amateurish attempt to
breathe more life into what is palpably an immense and fraudulent effort to
advance a particular template while deceiving (as strenuously as possible) the
American public. What I wrote first back
on February
14 in MY CORNER, then picked up by LewRockwell.com on February 17, and finally updated
and rewritten as something new, now appearing on The Unz Review (February 22), can’t do justice to this latest Deep
State maneuver.
Back on Friday, February 21 we were told in solemn
“I-told-you-so” tones by
CNN and The
New York Times—those paragons of
journalistic malfeasance—that “the intelligence community
believes Russia is already taking steps to interfere in the 2020 election with
the goal of helping President Donald Trump win, three sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.” The
Times’ headline—in bold letters—said it all: “Lawmakers Are Warned That
Russia Is Meddling to Re-elect Trump.” With the usual kind of insufferable
assurance—based on nothing but the desire to “get” Donald Trump—CNN
with unconcealed glee declared:
Last week's briefing [before
Adam Schiff’s committee], led by election security official Shelby Pierson and first reported by The New York Times, addressed the overall picture of
Russia's efforts, including hacking, weaponizing social media and attacks on
election infrastructure, one of the sources said. The briefers said Russia does
favor Trump, but that helping Trump wasn't the only thing they were trying to
do as it was also designed to raise questions about the integrity of the
elections process, the source added.
CNN’s story surfaced on Friday,
February 21…Ah! but wait, just two days later, February 23, there appeared an
“update.” And, well, you see CNN’s
new headline alludes to what happened: “US
intelligence briefer appears to have overstated assessment of 2020 Russian
interference.” CNN goes on:
…Shelby
Pierson, told lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee that Russia is
interfering in the 2020 election with the goal of helping President Donald
Trump get reelected. The US intelligence community has assessed that Russia is
interfering in the 2020 election and has separately assessed that Russia views
Trump as a leader they can work with. But
the US does not have evidence that Russia's interference this cycle is aimed at
reelecting Trump, the officials said.
[Italics mine]
Overstated!? What about
using the correct word: lying?
Not only
that but the same Deep State spooks who have foisted off this Russia Hoax,
ideologically-tendentious mythology also have briefed
Bernie Sanders “about Russian
efforts to help his presidential campaign, intensifying concerns about the
Kremlin's role in the US presidential race.”
It remains
unclear how Russia is attempting to help Sanders, according to The Washington
Post, which first reported the effort. The revelation comes a day after it was
reported that the US intelligence community believes Moscow is taking steps to
help President Donald Trump win and at a time when Sanders is emerging as the Democratic
front-runner.
This was too good to pass
up for spokesmen of the “conservative movement inc.” and the neoconservative
shills on Fox and on radio. Former Governor John Sununu, former Chief of Staff
for President George W. Bush—demonstrating the fact that God did in fact create
some humans without brains at all—lept into the fetid defecation Monday morning
(February 24) with both feet: of course, he opined, the Russkies would assist
Sanders since Sanders is a socialist, having spent his honeymoon in the old
Soviet Union, and those evil men (e.g., Vladimir Putin) in the Kremlin
certainly would support a like-minded type! And Rush Limbaugh, despite his at times past decent
analysis of the attempts to unseat the president, in the noon hour led off with
the same talking point: “It is,” he said, “logical for the Russians to be supporting
Sanders.”
Such comments betray an utter incomprehension of the history
and politics of post-Communist Russia since the fall of the Soviets in August
1991. Indeed, comments like these must
be called out for what they are: at best representative of a woeful ignorance, a
crass stupidity, or at worst, indicative of a mind filled with ideological
dross and perverted by globalist Neocon talking points, but without the gloss
of the more gussied-up scribbles of Max Boot or John Bolton (who at least make
a pretense at sounding intelligent
when they spew forth this narrative).
To quote
the late Peter O’Toole in one of my favorite films, “Dean Spanley” (2008): “Poppycock!”
This narrative is balderdash that does nothing but attempt to enforce a badly
hemorrhaging Neocon globalist policy plank that has been badly listing port-side
since their debacle back in the Iraq incursion. It totally ignores the
significant studies by Professor Allen Lynch (University of Virginia) in his Vladimir Putin & Russian Statecraft,
Paul Robinson (University of Ottawa) in Russian
Conservatism, Stephen Cohen (Princeton University) in several books and
numerous articles on the topic, John Garrard (University of Arizona) in Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power
in the New Russia, and others who write sensibly and with some knowledge of
the recent history of post-Communist Russia.
I pass on
my latest piece published by The Unz
Review…but with a plea: Will someone in proper authority please fire that obvious
Deep Stater Shelby Pierson?
THE UNZ REVIEW
The Russians
Are Coming! Build That Bomb Shelter Now!
You may remember the satirical movie, “The Russians Are Coming!
The Russians Are Coming!” made during the height of the Cold War (1966). In
that film a Russian sub runs aground on a sandbar near the fictional Gloucester
Island, off the New England coast. Both the inhabitants of the island and the
submarine crew panic: is this an incident that will set off World War III? What
ensues is a comedy of errors, and in the end conflict is happily avoided, but
barely.
That movie repays re-watching, especially in our day, for what it
says about how our impressions—our views—of Russia continue to influence our politics
and foreign policy action across the globe, for good or for, mostly, ill.
I recently wrote a column about the persistence among most
Americans of an irrational Russophobia on my blog, MY CORNER, and
it was picked up and published nationally by LewRockwell.com on
February 17. No sooner than it had appeared than the news broke from the
Intelligence community that the Russians were at it again—attempting to throw
the 2020 election for Donald Trump!
It was almost as if some well-placed Intel spook had met with me
at “Rick’s Café Americain” (remember the film “Casablanca”?) and secretly
revealed what was going to happen just a few days before it became public. The
“Russia Hoax” was going to be fully reborn (in fact, as I wrote, it had never
gone away). Like Dr. Frankenstein’s monster it has emerged again from our corrupted
and corrupt Intelligence agencies (those government apparatchiks who are
beginning to make Inspector Clouseau look like a genius) and the bowels of the
frenetically ideological New York Times (and those poisoned
zombie-brains in Congress, e.g. Adam Schiff). The Mueller Commission, try as it
did, couldn’t find anything substantive because there isn’t and wasn’t anything
there, save for the putrid defecation of three years of strenuous Deep State
“investigation.” But with the crop of Establishment Democrat candidates for
president looking increasingly like a lesser version the Keystone Kops,
something—anything—had to be found, some additional obstacle, some roadblock to
stop “the Donald,” and much more dangerously, the counter-revolution that he
has (quite unwittingly) unleashed.
How better to do this than have the president’s own Director of
National Intelligence, along with his Deep State ideological “Intel savants” (a
true oxymoron!), brief Schiff and top Democrats, and without the president even
knowing it! Ha! Talk about your own team sabotaging you—anyone remember those
words of Julius Caesar: “Et tu, Brute?” And you also, Brutus? But
it doesn’t take a Shakespeare play to instruct us on what is going on. As I
have repeated too many times to count, one of President Trump’s major problems
is that he has surrounded himself with Neoconservative and Deep State minions
who diametrically oppose his announced 2016 agenda, and they have done
everything possible—with some real success, especially in foreign affairs—to
stymie and obstruct it.
Those once highly regarded agencies—the FBI, the CIA, the
NSA—haven’t gotten much right since they officiously proclaimed from on high
their infallible judgment about “weapons of mass destruction” hiding in Saddam
Hussein’s outdoor outhouse. Their active immersion in the government-engineered
plot to bring down a president—the Steele Dossier, the inveigling of General
Flynn, Roger Stone, George Papadopoulos, etc., their use of British
“intelligence” (the Brits stopped having “intelligence” after Enoch Powell’s
warnings about unlimited immigration were ignored)—has revealed for anyone with
eyes to see the fact that, at least in the upper echelons, those agencies form
an integral part, an active arm of the managerial state apparatus that seeks to
strangle any real dissent or opposition to its New World Order designs.
Most so-called “conservatives”—the Neoconservatives—accept the
Russia boogeyman narrative. But it’s not so much Trump who is the target, it
seems, but in their version the Russkies are just warmed-over Communists who
want to “destroy our democracy.” The Cold War, in their pygmy-sized brains,
continues unabated, and even the vaunted Rush Limbaugh has very real difficulty
distinguishing the Communist Soviet Union and post-1991 Russia. Flying in the
face of subsequent history and fact, he uses the terms interchangeably:
palpable historical ignorance on parade. For him and the zealous Neocon
interventionists it is still October 1962 and we are still mired in the Cuban Missile
Crisis, although now it has been miraculously transported over to Ukraine. Just
ask John Bolton (or the late, unlamented John McCain).
The
other night I made myself listen to “Special Report with Bret Baier,” where the
Fox News “All Stars” held forth, fully accepting the Hoax—yes, of course, they
solemnly declared, the Russians are meddling in our 2020 election cycle, just
like in 2016. The Intel folks—whose probity and diligence must not be
doubted!—say so, and we must believe them. And Chris Wallace (who is by no
means a “conservative” of any flavor) pronounced to Ed Henry on another segment
that very simply “we must take these active threats very, very seriously. The
Russians are AGAIN manipulating our elections.”
Got that?
I almost regretted not signing up with that contractor who offered
to build me a bomb shelter in my ample back yard. For only $125,000 he could
construct for me an underground bunker that would withstand those incoming
Russian MiGs….
Suddenly, I was put in mind of that satirical film from 1964, “Dr.
Strangelove.” And I wondered if, echoing Peter Sellers in that scintillating
cinema, the likes of Bolton, Bill Kristol, Max Boot, and those agents of
Russophobia who now surround the president and have turned our Intel agencies
and Congress into little more than a herd of docile bovines (with the
connivance of all our television networks), would finally usher in the
“Doomsday Weapon” (like in the final scene of the film).
Although from somewhat different perspectives and viewpoints, Establishment
Conservatism (i.e, the Neocons) and the Left have made post-Communist Russia
their target. Yet, the major threat by far—very far—is what the actually
Communist Chinese are doing and have done. Adam Schiff doesn’t talk about that,
and neither do most politicians or major American big name capitalists, because
the Chinese Reds already own and dominate so much of this country’s
infrastructure and business.
And the fact—still hidden from most Americans—that post-1991
Russia has actually turned towards its traditional religious faith and
conservative (especially moral) traditions doesn’t go over well with the
transgender-pushing, pro-same sex marriage establishment which dominates both
political parties, both Leftwingers AND Conservatives, here in the United
States. Recall John McCain bitterly criticizing Vladimir Putin for his
“persecution” and suppression of lesbians (i.e., “Pussy Riot”) and same sex
supporters in Mother Russia?
This is what Mainstream Conservatism has become: a sordid and
disreputable second cousin of the rapidly advancing Leftist juggernaut. About
what conservatism had become in the later part of the nineteenth century, I
quote the words of the noted Southern critic Robert Lewis Dabney (1820-1898).
His description readily applies today:
This is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has
been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to
save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at
last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is to-day
one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in
affecting to resist the next innovation, which will to-morrow be forced upon
its timidity, and will be succeeded by some third revolution, to be denounced
and then adopted in its turn.
American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism
as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards
it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost
its savor: wherewith shall it he salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to
explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and
not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious, for the sake of
the truth, and has no idea of being guilty of the folly of martyrdom. It
always—when about to enter a protest—very blandly informs the wild beast whose
path it essays to stop, that its ‘bark is worse than its bite,’ and that it
only means to save its manners by enacting its decent rôle of resistance.
The only practical purpose which it now subserves in American
politics is to give enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it ‘in wind,’ and to
prevent its becoming pursy and lazy from having nothing to whip. No doubt,
after a few years, when women’s suffrage shall have become an accomplished
fact, conservatism will tacitly admit it into its creed, and thenceforward
plume itself upon its wise firmness in opposing with similar weapons the
extreme of baby suffrage; and when that too shall have been won, it will be
heard declaring that the integrity of the American Constitution requires at
least the refusal of suffrage to asses. There it will assume, with great
dignity, its final position.
As we hurdle on to diabolical moral degradation in America, each
step worse than the last, even though our masters tell us not to worry and just
accept it, our supposed opponents in Moscow, Kazan and Novgorod recover and
celebrate their Christian and moral beliefs and inheritance.
What irony! Is this not a full exemplification of Gilbert and
Sullivan’s image of “topsy-turvy”?
And for the American traditionalist, for the orthodox Christian,
to quote Patrick Buchanan, the question is: “On whose side is God NOW on?
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