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Media Blames Russian Hack for Hillary Clinton Loss, Fails to Blame Big-Spending Hillary Clinton


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By Emily Zanotti|1:28 pm, December 10, 2016
The national media has finally discovered the real reason Hillary Clinton lost the Presidential election, and it’s conveniently not Hillary Clinton, despite evidence that Clinton out-raised and outspent the Republican nominee by a gargantuan measure – and still lost.
Last Friday night, the Washington Post reported, relying on a source inside the CIA, that a team of intelligence officials concluded that the Russian government may have been looking to assist Donald Trump in the Presidential election.
According to this “secret assessment,” Vladimir Putin’s administration may have had a connection to DNC (and RNC) hacks, that individuals “close” to the Russian government handed DNC documents to Wikileaks — and that the CIA informed Congress of this back in September or October.
The story notes that the CIA operatives “do not have specific intelligence showing officials in the Kremlin “directing ‘the identified individuals to pass the Democratic emails to WikiLeaks,” or evidence of any election system hacks.
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Purveyors of fake news now concerned about “fake news”If you’re looking for fake news, you might want to check in on the people trying to shut it down. They say we need to cut out fascists and censorship and bigotry and they get people fired, shut down talks, and embrace Islamists in the process. Any parameters you set to ban fake news would mean the MSM would be the first to go.  “Fake news” sites such as Project Veritas continued to bust open story after story during the election. James O’Keefe exposed one major controversy per day in the two weeks before the election, including the DNC promoting violence and bussing in fake voters. InfoWars helped showcase WikiLeaks, which became a seemingly infinite number of emails exposing everything from collusion with the mainstream media to the Democratic primary being rigged.
 If the economy is doing so great, why are my adult children not moving out? If the unemployment rate is declining, why are so many prime-age males not working? And doesn’t it matter that the quality of jobs for non-college graduates is so obviously worse than it was a generation ago? Why, instead of working, are so many people dependent on public benefits and falling prey to addiction?

All of these questions had answers—but looking to the Obama White House for clarity about the uncomfortable tradeoffs their policies involved was a fool’s errand. 

  

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