{"id":16996,"date":"2018-08-09T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=16996"},"modified":"2018-08-09T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T00:00:07","slug":"fundamental-failure-to-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/08\/09\/fundamental-failure-to-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundamental Failure To Understand"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rachel Maddow Show<\/strong><\/em> was gifted with a secret recording of a recent private fundraiser hosted by Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA), chairman of the House Intel Committee, who, instead of taking his job seriously, has been a knight-defender of the President, extending himself to releasing memos that purported to clear the President of wrong-doing, while not paying a whit’s attention to his bailiwick.<\/p>\n

Or so, at least, it seems to me.<\/p>\n

TRMS<\/strong><\/em> has released transcripts<\/a> of selected portions of the recording, which I found interesting.<\/p>\n

Clip #1:<\/strong><\/p>\n

REP. NUNES (R-CA): \u201cSo therein lies, so it\u2019s like your classic Catch-22 situation where we were at a \u2013 this puts us in such a tough spot. If Sessions won\u2019t unrecuse and Mueller won\u2019t clear the president, we\u2019re the only ones. Which is really the danger. That\u2019s why I keep, and thank you for saying it by the way, I mean we have to keep all these seats. We have to keep the majority. If we do not keep the majority, all of this goes away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clip #2:<\/strong><\/p>\n

REP. NUNES (R-CA): \u201cThey know it\u2019s ridiculous to go after the president for obstruction of justice. But if they tell a lie often enough and they put it out there and they say, \u2018Oh, we\u2019re looking at the tweets,\u2019 cause you know you\u2019ve got a mixed bag on the tweets, right? Like sometimes you love the president\u2019s tweets, sometimes we cringe on the president\u2019s tweets. But they\u2019re trying to make a political, this is all political as to why that story ran in the New York Times on the tweets.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So that confirms the impression. One might wonder if, as he asserts, this is really the Democrats engaging in a political lynching, and that might be reasonable if the situation were considered in isolation.<\/p>\n

But once we consider the deceit and venality of Nunes, of Trump, of various Cabinet members, then it’s hard to consider Nunes’ contention to be reasonable.<\/p>\n

So that’s our lesson for today. The Big Lie paradoxically works very well, and not well at all, in the Age of the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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