{"id":8554,"date":"2018-07-25T06:44:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T10:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8554"},"modified":"2018-07-25T06:44:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T10:44:15","slug":"breathless-pseudo-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8554","title":{"rendered":"Breathless pseudo-journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you know?  A book which purports to set out the truth about the deep-state conspiracy against Donald Trump is at #1 on Amazon&#8217;s <i>Politics and Social Sciences<\/i> list.  The Donald, y&#8217;all will not be surprised to learn, is beside himself with joy.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe Russia Hoax, The Illicit Scheme To Clear Hillary Clinton &amp; Frame Donald Trump\u201d is a Hot Seller, already Number One! More importantly, it is a great book that everyone is talking about. It covers the Rigged Witch Hunt brilliantly. Congratulations to Gregg Jarrett!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1021924262045802496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well, a conspiracy to frame the Buffoon-in-Chief is a grave matter; let&#8217;s see what this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Russia-Hoax-Illicit-Hillary-Clinton\/dp\/0062872745\/ref=sr_1_1\" target=\"_blank\">book<\/a> has to say for itself.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett reveals <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">the real story<\/span> behind Hillary Clinton\u2019s <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">deep state collaborators<\/span> in government and <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">exposes their nefarious actions<\/span> during and after the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>The Russia Hoax reveals how persons within the FBI and Barack Obama\u2019s Justice Department <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">worked improperly<\/span> to help elect Hillary Clinton and defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>When this <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">suspected<\/span> effort failed, those same people <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">appear<\/span> to have pursued a <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">contrived investigation<\/span> of President Trump in an attempt to undo the election results and remove him as president.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">suggests<\/span> that partisans within the FBI and the Department of Justice, <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">driven by personal animus<\/span> and a misplaced sense of political righteousness, <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">surreptitiously<\/span> acted to subvert electoral democracy in our country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The overwrought language and weasel-words tell you everything you need to know about the book &#8212; it isn&#8217;t journalism, it&#8217;s conspiracy-mongering advocacy.<\/p>\n<p>The talking-snake crowd, the people who weep for the perfidy of a world that hates Poor Donald every time yet another of his indecencies is revealed, will probably break their years-long habit of avoiding books in order to make it a best-seller.  The rest of us can safely ignore it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you know? A book which purports to set out the truth about the deep-state conspiracy against Donald Trump is at #1 on Amazon&#8217;s Politics and Social Sciences list. 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