With their best soto profoundo voices, reporters are asking everyone they can get on camera from Trump team members, to members of Congress to simply other reporters, who they interview when they run out of officials to interview: Oh, so what do we think about the Russians hacking our election?
The fact is, I do not care if Russia was behind the news that Hillary did this or that or that Panetta said whatever.
Those "leaks" simply reinforced previously held opinons--like the attack ads funded by the Koch brothers, none of it changed vacillating minds. Minds were made up and unchangeable long before any of that.
Proving the effect of free speech, even fake news, on the outcome of the election is one ongoing, unresolvable argument.
Once upon a time in the United States, when there were only newspapers, or three channels on TV to form public opinions, a news story may have mattered. Not now, with Facebook, Fox News, Twitter, CNN, Rachel Madow.
There are simply too many sources. The proliferation of sources is the best antidote to any one source of disinformation.
Show me the Russians got into the pipes that funneled the vote counts to the main computers so Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan turned from blue to red, then I'll agree we have a direct effect on the outcome of the election.
Until then, the Republicans won because they underestimated the intelligence of the American public and they reaped the benefits of that low opinion, plain and simple.
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| We knew something they didn't |
The fact is, I do not care if Russia was behind the news that Hillary did this or that or that Panetta said whatever.
Those "leaks" simply reinforced previously held opinons--like the attack ads funded by the Koch brothers, none of it changed vacillating minds. Minds were made up and unchangeable long before any of that.
Proving the effect of free speech, even fake news, on the outcome of the election is one ongoing, unresolvable argument.
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| Counties (blue) won by Trump, Beige won by Clinton |
Once upon a time in the United States, when there were only newspapers, or three channels on TV to form public opinions, a news story may have mattered. Not now, with Facebook, Fox News, Twitter, CNN, Rachel Madow.
There are simply too many sources. The proliferation of sources is the best antidote to any one source of disinformation.
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| Phantom's audience, world wide |
Show me the Russians got into the pipes that funneled the vote counts to the main computers so Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan turned from blue to red, then I'll agree we have a direct effect on the outcome of the election.
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| They love me. They really love me. |
Until then, the Republicans won because they underestimated the intelligence of the American public and they reaped the benefits of that low opinion, plain and simple.
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