{"id":328678,"date":"2017-10-02T19:31:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T18:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-slimy-business-of-russia-gate-2\/"},"modified":"2017-10-02T19:31:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T18:31:45","slug":"the-slimy-business-of-russia-gate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-slimy-business-of-russia-gate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slimy Business of Russia-gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cField of Dreams\u201d slogan for America\u2019s NGOs should be: \u201cIf you pay for it, we will come.\u201d And right now, tens of millions of dollars are flowing to non-governmental organizations if they will buttress the thesis of Russian \u201cmeddling\u201d in the U.S. democratic process no matter how sloppy the \u201cresearch\u201d or how absurd the \u201cfindings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, if you think the pillars of the U.S. mainstream media \u2013 The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN and others \u2013 will apply some quality controls, you haven\u2019t been paying attention for the past year or so. The MSM is just as unethical as the NGOs are.<\/p>\n<p>So, we are now in a phase of Russia-gate in which NGO \u201cscholars\u201d produce deeply biased reports and their nonsense is treated as front-page news and items for serious discussion across the MSM.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, there\u2019s even an implicit confession about how pathetic some of this \u201cscholarship\u201d is in the hazy phrasing that gets applied to the \u201cfindings,\u201d although the weasel words will slip past most unsuspecting Americans and will be dropped for more definitive language when the narrative is summarized in the next day\u2019s newspaper or in a cable-news \u201ccrawl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For example, a Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/27\/technology\/twitter-russia-election.html?mcubz=3\">front-page story<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday reported that \u201ca network of Twitter accounts suspected of links to Russia seized on both sides of the [NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem] issue with hashtags, such as #boycottnfl, #standforouranthem and #takeaknee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/specials-silver\/?utm_source=LRC_Text_Ad&amp;utm_campaign=silver_specials\">Buy Silver at Discounted Prices<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The story, which fits neatly into the current U.S. propaganda meme that the Russian government somehow is undermining American democracy by stirring up dissent inside the U.S., quickly spread to other news outlets and became the latest \u201cproof\u201d of a Russian&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/10\/robert-parry\/the-slimy-business-of-russia-gate\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cField of Dreams\u201d slogan for America\u2019s NGOs should be: \u201cIf you pay for it, we will come.\u201d And right now, tens of millions of dollars are flowing to non-governmental organizations if they will buttress the thesis of Russian \u201cmeddling\u201d in the U.S. democratic process no matter how sloppy the \u201cresearch\u201d or how absurd the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-328678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}