The English author George Orwell wrote that “political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” But even Orwell couldn’t have imagined the propagandistic whoppers that American…
The story is a blockbuster. Over at Bloomberg, longtime national security reporter Eli Lake headlines this: Top Obama Adviser Sought Names of Trump Associates in Intel Lake reports, in part, the following: White House lawyers last month learned that the former national…
The media’s biased coverage of Obamagate continues to shift. First, reporters feigned outrage that Trump would dare to say that the saintly Barack Obama had spied on him. Never mind that Trump’s assertion sparked off their own reporting — reports…
Susan Rice is the Great Unmasker according to this reporting from Eli Lake: The National Security Council’s senior director for intelligence, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, was conducting the review, according to two U.S. officials who spoke with Bloomberg View on the condition…
(*Sounding: noun, the act of measuring the depths or the heights.) Would Obama Have Beaten Trump? Obama supported Hillary. “There has never been any man or woman more qualified for this office than Hillary Clinton.” (Charlotte, N.C., July 5, 2016.)…
As his term comes to a close, President Obama is continuing to promote staffers and supporters into more permanent positions at a furious clip, with the White House announcing 29 new appointments Tuesday morning. Some of these appointments are innocuous,…
Last week, Hillary Clinton told Congress that an epidemic of “fake news and false propaganda” had flooded social media. She said, “This is not about politics or partisanship. Lives are at risk, lives of ordinary people just trying to go…