We've been through two years of Fake News as a topic of discussion. Now we may be getting Fake History. There's a new book coming out by David Corn and Michael Isikoff in which the authors detail a supposed plan to launch a cyber counterstrike against the Russians in the Summer of 2016 to get them to stop meddling in the US elections. Supposedly a detailed plan for this cyber strike were developed at the White House until the Obama administration wimped out and stopped the preparations. Of course, given the authors of this book, there's no way to know if anything it contains is true.
Isikoff is best remembered as the reporter who first got the Monica Lewinsky story but who sat on it. It took Matt Drudge to bring the truth to light. Corn writes for Mother Jones magazine (which ought to tell you all you need to know.) Corn was a major Clinton acolyte; he is also not a slave to the truth. These two could easily be writing a history to show that it was Obama who led to Hillary's defeat. That would not be because the history would be true, but rather because it would please the Clintons.
It may be easy to believe that Obama wimped out in confronting the Russians and protecting the USA. After all, Obama wimped out so many times previously, it was as if wimping out was Obama's hobby, a hobby he loved. Still, since much of the story in the book supposedly depends on statements by Susan Rice who has never met a lie she didn't like, there's no way to know if any of this is true. Thus, we go from #FakeNews to #FakeHistory.
Isikoff is best remembered as the reporter who first got the Monica Lewinsky story but who sat on it. It took Matt Drudge to bring the truth to light. Corn writes for Mother Jones magazine (which ought to tell you all you need to know.) Corn was a major Clinton acolyte; he is also not a slave to the truth. These two could easily be writing a history to show that it was Obama who led to Hillary's defeat. That would not be because the history would be true, but rather because it would please the Clintons.
It may be easy to believe that Obama wimped out in confronting the Russians and protecting the USA. After all, Obama wimped out so many times previously, it was as if wimping out was Obama's hobby, a hobby he loved. Still, since much of the story in the book supposedly depends on statements by Susan Rice who has never met a lie she didn't like, there's no way to know if any of this is true. Thus, we go from #FakeNews to #FakeHistory.
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