05-03-2019, 11:44 PM
(05-03-2019, 10:02 PM)Dill Wrote: 1. Rachel was interviewing Hillary, as a follow up to Hillary's op ed piece about how to respond to the Mueller Report. So long as there are people (like me) who think the Russian interference is a serious subject, increasingly so as we approach another presidential election, I think she will continue covering it, as opposed to covering it up.
You misunderstand. I am not saying the Russia story is unimportant or that it should be, as you say, covered up. I am pointing out that Maddow apparently thinks there are no other topics worth covering.
Quote:2. The question of whether China does or does not interfere was not a topic of discussion during the interview. That is in part because no presidential candidate in 2016 called for China to interfere, and the FBI/CIA did not catch China hacking a major party's email account and publishing its emails, nor breaching the election system in various states. People in Hillary's administration did not meet with representatives of Chinese intelligence--and then lie about it. And China did not orchestrate a massive fake news campaign on social media--e.g., creating sock puppets to actually organize protests against candidates. Also, China did not then deny all this activity, while a president backed Li's word over his own FBI/CIA.
Again, you misunderstand. I get all of that but I am pointing out that China is at least as bad as Russia in this regard and is a far greater threat than Russia has any chance of being in the near, or even far, future.
Quote:PS Watching Rachel right now. She is talking about the Trump-Putin meeting in Helsinki, right after the CIA published its detailed indictment of Russian intelligency. Trump believed Putin. I'm going to watch her now. More later . . . .
I'm stunned.