{"id":343820,"date":"2018-01-14T20:28:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T19:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/distorted-discourse-in-america-rt-us-news\/"},"modified":"2018-01-14T20:28:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T19:28:19","slug":"distorted-discourse-in-america-rt-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/distorted-discourse-in-america-rt-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Distorted discourse in America\u2019 \u2014 RT US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        The CIA\u2019s job is not to reach out to Hollywood liberals to try to undermine their boss, the president of the US, whether it is Obama or Trump, political talk show host Bryan Crabtree tells RT.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/415784-moby-trump-cia-russia-collusion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview<\/a> on Thursday to promote his new album, American musician and DJ Moby claimed he has been doing the behind-the-scenes bidding of anti-Donald Trump figures, saying that his friends in the CIA had asked him, due to his significant presence on social media, to promote certain ideas online, including the alleged collusion between the US president and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Last February, Moby wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BQdYaWCDkTY\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=embed_legacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post<\/a> on Instagram where he said <em>\u201cTrump is being blackmailed by the Russian government\u201d<\/em> and called him <em>\u201can incompetent president who is essentially owned by a foreign power.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>RT: <\/strong><em>What was your initial reaction to Moby\u2019s claim that the CIA had asked him to make these anti-Trump posts?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bryan Crabtree:<\/strong> Either he is lying, and a lot of times our political left in the US, which Moby is part of, lies and makes up false equivalences of people that don\u2019t exist or sources, in terms of some of our fake media, or even worse \u2013 there are people in the CIA who are supposed to be serving the intelligence community, who are going to the liberal entertainment community and asking them to get out a message that they don\u2019t want to give to the American people from the intelligence community. I think either way, it is a very distorted discourse in America.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BQdYaWCDkTY\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"8\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BQdYaWCDkTY\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">after spending the weekend talking to friends who work in dc i can safely(well, &#8216;accurately&#8217;&#8230;) post the following things: 1-the russian dossier on trump is real. 100% real. he&#8217;s being blackmailed by the russian government, not just for being peed on by russian hookers, but for much more nefarious things. 2-the trump administration is in collusion with the russian government, and has been since day one. 3-the trump administration needs a war, most likely with iran. at present they are putting u.s warships off the coast of iran in the hope that iran will attack one of the ships and give the u.s a pretense for invasion. 4-there are right wing plans to get rid of trump. he&#8217;s a drain on their fundraising and their approval ratings, and the gop and koch brothers and other u.s right wing groups are planning to get rid of trump. 5-intelligence agencies around the world, and here in the u.s, are horrified by the incompetence of the trump administration, and are working to present information that will lead to high level firings and, ultimately, impeachment. i&#8217;m writing these things so that when\/if these things happen there will be a public record beforehand. these are truly baffling and horrifying times, as we have an incompetent president who is essentially owned by a foreign power. -moby<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/moby\/\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;\" target=\"_blank\"> moby X\u24cbX<\/a> (@moby) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2017-02-13T16:49:50+00:00\">Feb 13, 2017 at 8:49am PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>RT: <\/strong><em>Why would Moby even reveal this? It seems that he has embarrassed himself, and put his so-called friends at the CIA in an awkward position?<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/415784-moby-trump-cia-russia-collusion\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.01\/thumbnail\/5a597ffafc7e9341178b4567.jpg\" alt=\"Musician Moby \u00a9 Bob Strong\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>BC:<\/strong> If you look at the past week, we\u2019ve migrated somewhat from \u2018Russian collusion\u2019 to \u2018Trump has dementia\u2019 and when Trump was accused of having dementia, he then had a meeting that resembled \u2018Celebrity Apprentice\u2019 with senators from both sides and it was anything but a demented guy. So, that failed fairly quickly after the Michael Wolff book. I think they are trying to gin up the \u2018Russian collusion\u2019 nonsense, and the American people are not buying it. The reason the American people are not buying it is: <em>\u201cI want to know where the call that I received the other day that came from our internal revenue service that was obviously an Indian outside of this country pretending to be an American employee to fraud me out of money\u201d<\/em> \u2013 that\u2019s what we care about, and the media doesn\u2019t seem to get that in this country that the majority of Americans don\u2019t care about some story that is now a year and a half old of \u2018Russian collusion\u2019 that doesn\u2019t affect our lives, if it is even true\u2026 We care about what is happening to us. So, we have this detachment between our media and their agenda, which is to finally at some point prove themselves right about this president we have elected, that he is some sort of communist or something, and that is not going to happen, because we care about things that really matter.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>RT: <\/strong><em>It\u2019s believed the CIA dips into Hollywood now and again&#8230; editing the scripts of popular movies, like Argo or Zero Dark Thirty. Is that necessary for them to do that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>BC:<\/strong> That is not their job, no, it is not necessary, it is not appropriate. In fact, if directors at the CIA were to discover such type of outreach and behavior, unless it is at their direction, they should be fired. Whoever is going it should be fired; their job is not to reach out to Hollywood liberals to try to undermine, in a gross display of insubordination, their boss, the president of the US, whether it is Barack Obama or now President Donald Trump. It is insubordination, it is theft, I don\u2019t think it is espionage, unless they are leaking classified data for that purpose, but it certainly undermines their role.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"media__youtube-frame\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300px\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EHkPs_cxcPw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"http:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/415875-moby-cia-trump-russia\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CIA\u2019s job is not to reach out to Hollywood liberals to try to undermine their boss, the president of the US, whether it is Obama or Trump, political talk show host Bryan Crabtree tells RT. In an interview on Thursday to promote his new album, American musician and DJ Moby claimed he has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-343820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343820","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=343820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}