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AARON MATE TRIES TO DISCUSS MICHAEL ISIKOFF'S WEB OF LIES CLOGGING HIS INSIDIOUS BOOK, RUSSIAN ROULETTE
In this episode, TRNN's Aaron Maté's tackles an interview with the uber slimy Michael Isikoff, one of the deans of imperial "journalism" these days, and White Knight (via lies and innuendo) of the Russiagate crowd and legions of neocons pushing for permanent hostility with Russia. Give this scumbag, Isikoff (posing as virtuous defender of the republic's virtue), credit for having the audacity to even question Maté's logical doubts about the credibility of the system's accusations of Russia.
At its core, Isikoff—in a splendid case of convenient historical naivete and circular reasoning— tries to browbeat Maté into accepting the Russiagate narrative using that old bludgeon, "because everyone is saying so." He claims that since "all the US intelligence agencies, Congress, media, and so on" supposedly "saw" the evidence incriminating the Russians, to question such mediated "truth" is to indulge in conspiracy thinking.
Obviously, many people, already brainwashed by the Democrat noise machine are ready to believe Isikoff's elaborate but tedious tissue of lies. Yet those who refuse to stop thinking for themselves easily realise that to accept Isikoff's (and his partner in lies, David Corn) position would require us to believe the US government, the US media and other routine purveyors of disinformation have suddenly and uncharacteristically gone virtuous! .Only shameless apologists for the imperial status quo like Michael Isikoff, what Paul Craig Roberts justly calls presstitutes, can weave insidious narratives like these in support of the Deep State's policies of constant war and hegemonism, and claim to be doing nationally beneficent journalism.
