Media and Politics in 2015-2017

Did the Russians rig the democrat primary process? Nope. The national democrat party did that. The democrat machine (DNC) choose Hillary years ago.

What about making every vote count? What about ending voter disenfranchisement? No shock that those are false ideals.

Did the Russians work with Bernie Sanders to help Bernie win the Wisconsin and Michigan primaries? Nope. Voters disliked Hillary. Simple.

How were those primary losses not huge red flag warnings to the Hillary campaign?

Did the Russians prevent Hillary from campaigning in Wisconsin in the fall of 2016?

Michael Moore predicted that Trump would beat Hillary because of what Moore observed within his home state of Michigan.

The Sanders campaign tried to warn and help the Hillary campaign about what was happening at the local level, but the Hillary people ignored the warnings.

In January 2017, an NPR story featured an interview with a local democrat operative from the Youngstown area. This operative tried to warn the Hillary people about the surprising political changes that he observed in Mahoning County, but the Hillary campaign ignored him.

How may local democrat operatives were ignored by the Hillary campaign/DNC?

Hillary/DNC executed a militantly arrogant campaign. They had no interest in the concerns of rust belt democrats. They deserved to lose.

Politicians lose elections because they are losers. But loser politicians don't think that way. They believe that they lost because of other factors.

Nope. It's not the fault of Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, Jill Stein, Gary Johnson, non-voters, nor the Russians.

100 percent of the blame goes to the losing politician, and in 2016 the blame also goes to the national democrat party for executing a sham primary process.

The national political media CHOOSES which stories to make popular. I don't understand how the rigged democrat primary process is not viewed as violence toward democracy. That's a bigger story than senseless narratives, like the Russians' alleged influence in the 2016 November election and the Facebook fake news.

Fake news, propaganda, and yellow journalism have existed for decades.

I admire the creativity of internet geeks to make money by preying on the ignorance of others. Many media orgs and other businesses have done this too. Have you ever seen an advertisement?

And while fake news was mentioned prior to the November 2016 election, the mainstream media teamed together to turn the issue into an extinction level event after Trump won.

Do you think that the media would have harped on Facebook's alleged fake news problem if Hillary had won? Hell no.

In my opinion, if the national political media was concerned about freedom and democracy, then they would be investigating what happened with the 2015-2016 democrat primary process? Who was involved with that fraud? When did the scheme get hatched? What prevents it from occurring again in either party?

I consider the Washington Post to be a clickbait, content mill, nearly as untrustworthy as Breitbart. WaPo has become lazy and irresponsible.

• Nov 25, 2016 - alternet.org - [Washington Post Promotes Shadowy Website That Accuses 200 Publications of Being Russian Propaganda Plants](http://www.alternet.org/media/washington-post-promotes-shadowy-website-accuses-200-publications-russian-propaganda-plants)
• Dec 10, 2016 - theintercept.com [Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence](https://theintercept.com/2016/12/10/anonymous-leaks-to-the-washpost-about-the-cias-russia-beliefs-are-no-substitute-for-evidence/)
• Jan 1, 2017 - forbes.com - ['Fake News' And How The Washington Post Rewrote Its Story On Russian Hacking Of The Power Grid](https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2017/01/01/fake-news-and-how-the-washington-post-rewrote-its-story-on-russian-hacking-of-the-power-grid/#2ee27f1c7ad5)
• Dec 31, 2016 - boingboing.net - [No, Russia didn't hack Vermont's power grid](http://boingboing.net/2016/12/31/no-russia-didnt-hack-vermon.html)
• Dec 31, 2016 - theintercept.com [Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost Again: False Story About Hacking U.S. Electric Grid](https://theintercept.com/2016/12/31/russia-hysteria-infects-washpost-again-false-story-about-hacking-u-s-electric-grid/)

From the Forbes article:

On Friday the Washington Post sparked a wave of fear when [it ran](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-hackers-penetrated-us-electricity-grid-through-a-utility-in-vermont/2016/12/30/8fc90cc4-ceec-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html?utm_term=.e26a251bd7b0) the breathless headline “Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont, U.S. officials say.”

Yet, it turns out this narrative was false and as the chronology below will show, illustrates how effectively false and misleading news can ricochet through the global news echo chamber through the pages of top tier newspapers that fail to properly verify their facts.