It is an occasional thing that in agricultural fairs, especially state fairs, someone will carve a statue out of butter and put it on display. Sometimes that statue is of a cow. I remind you of this for I wish to use it in an analogy.
We are all clear that, although it has the shape of a cow, and is made from a product whose raw material is produced by cows, it is not in fact an actual cow. It is never confused with, or mistaken for, a live cow.
It merely resembles one’s overall shape and configuration. It is evidence of a lot of skilled work on the part of the sculptor. That, and the waste of a lot of tasty butter.
Now for the analogy. Fifty-one so-called “intelligence experts” said the Trump Russia collusion report and the Hunter lap top story had “all the earmarks of a Russian disinformation op.” They were probably at least somewhat correct in this exaggeration, made in an attempt to aid the Hillary campaign.
The dossier looked like Russians fooling around in our election, because it was designed by the Hillary Clinton campaign to look that way. It has been shown to be a false-flag operation paid for by the Clintonistas.
My question is why no reporters recognized that it was a fake? We intuit the butter “cow” is just a statue but not that a fake intelligence report is a Potemkin village, a false front with nothing behind it.
I conclude the news media have diligently earned the lack of trust and of income from which they now suffer. And that the multi-agency intelligence community needs a vigorous house-cleaning, having forfeited any supposition that their ‘expertise’ is even-handed and data-driven.
