, which is an insult to all African - Americans . Even after Trump finally conceded that Obama is an American , he repeated the lie that Hillary Clinton started the birther conspiracy theory . Clinton was right during the first debate to label Trump 's shameful " birther " behavior racist .
And everybody took it fine . Whether it was presidential or not I ca n’t tell you . I can just say that what he said was a liecontact.prevarication.broadcast. And everybody , they wanted to do stories on my hands ; after I said that , they never did . And then I held up the hand , I showed people the hand .
But when the Podesta emails reveal ongoing , systemic , baked - in wrong - doing on the part of anointed political favourites , the bogeyman of “ Russian state - sponsored hackers ” is trotted out , hell - bent on throwing the election and Obama ( as per the aforementioned quote ) starts talking about “ folks needing some kinda Ministry of Truthiness ” . As I also covered yesterday , Glenn Greenwald exhaustively back - traced where the ‘ Russia - hacked - the - election ’ meme came from and that it was pure spin . The original author who set the entire farce in motion later admitted it was all a mistake , and in his own ‘ Mea Culpa ’ revealed that according to the subtext of extensive emails from a Newsweek reporter pressuring him to allow the liecontact.prevarication.broadcastto live , it was US intelligence agencies pushing to spread this narrative . ( NSA whistleblower William Binney said the hack itself was the act of a disgruntled employee within a US intelligence agency ) . The “ 17 agencies that actually confirmed ” it was the Russians ?
1 . Trump Is Conning You Whatever it is that Donald Trump has sold you , it ’s a liecontact.prevarication.broadcast. I wish I could write a personal column to every Trump supporter who reads The Ringer . Maybe Simmons will let me crush your arguments on his Facebook Live one at a time .
It was a mistake , and I take responsibility for that . " But she really has n't taken any responsibility for it because no form of punishment has been handed out to her , and the fact that she tried to delete the evidence suggests that she never viewed it as a mistake . Instead , Clinton continues to repeatedly liecontact.prevarication.broadcastabout it . Quotes from the debate were provided by a transcript from The Washington Post .
Under these conditions , Obama — with the help of an equally arrogant 38-year - old national security fabulist , Ben Rhodes ( with whom he ’s said to “ mind - meld”)—succeeded in remaking the Middle East to empower America ’s most hated enemy , the only United Nations member state committed to the annihilation of another state : the theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran . Rhodes and Obama knew that , for anyone but the hard - left to accept a deal with America ’s bitter enemy in Tehran , a new narrative needed to emerge , even if it was relatively transparent nonsense . As Rhodes explained to his bemused interviewer , David Samuels , in a New York Times Magazine profile this weekend , it was first necessary to liecontact.prevarication.broadcastto a corrupted and inexperienced American media about all sorts of things , beginning with the nature and intentions of the enemy Iranian regime . Subsequent lies were caked on , as the White House took advantage of a dangerous mix of journalists’ ignorance , their ideological and partisan commitment to the administration , and , finally , their career aspirations . Rhodes said , “ The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old , and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns … They literally know nothing . ” Thus they will believe what he tells them .
You can watch it here . So Pence was unable or unwilling to defend Donald Trump — except by pretending that neither he nor Trump said what they most definitely said . Yes , all politicians exaggerate , and most of them liecontact.prevarication.broadcast, some more than others . But Trump is wholly and completely untethered from reality , and so are his senior aides and surrogates . This is what makes the idea of a Trump presidency so worrying .