Don's Tuesday Column

            THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson   Red Bluff Daily News   4/20/2021

        Lies travel while truth gets dressed

As Winston Churchill (or Mark Twain) opined, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on” (Brainyquote.com). Long before Churchill’s or Twain’s iterations, consider Jonathon Swift’s 1710 entry in his political newspaper, The Examiner:

“Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…”

Who can forget, or forgive, Harry Reid, then-Senator (D-NV) and Majority Leader, telling the world from the Senate floor, August 2012, that candidate Mitt Romney hadn’t paid taxes? “So, the word is out that he has not paid any taxes for ten years. Let him prove that he has paid taxes, because he hasn’t.” While Reid repeated his inflammatory claim in other venues, some news outlets expressed doubts—Politifact.com gave it a “Pants on fire!” rating.

In 2015, with retirement looming, Reid admitted to CNN, with a shrug and a smirk—without saying he lied—“I don’t regret that at all…Romney didn’t win, did he?” News outlets from Huffpo.com to Time.com to WashingtonExaminer.com pilloried Reid for his blatant, shameless prevarication. Ends justifying means?

His stature among his party suffered not a whit; it could be said that there is a continuum of such dastardly election tactics through the many frauds in numerous states that added to Biden’s total. A thin majority of voters, and most Republicans, have high certainty of a stolen election, especially when it's been found that 15-20 percent of Democrats wouldn’t have voted for Biden if they had known of one or more scandals. The Hunter Biden laptop (that it was “Russian disinformation” was itself Dem/media disinformation) revelations of Biden family corruption vis-s-vis China and Ukraine would have lost Biden the election; but media buried it.

Accusations against Trump from day 1—of Russian collusion/Steele “dossier” (containing not one confirmed fact according to the CIA, Bob Mueller, I.G. Horowitz), tax crimes, Ukraine quid-pro-quo on the phone call to its president, to Jan. 6 “insurrection”—were likewise coughed up out of the pit of lies that defines the Democrat Party. Four years of such perfidy can’t be separated from the few tens of thousands of votes by which Trump lost.

The “Russian bounties” story was, in June 2020, “the final nail” in Trump’s reelection coffin. As Glenn Greenwald, one of the few honest, liberal reporters, wrote last week:

“That Russia placed ‘bounties’ on the heads of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan was one of the most-discussed and consequential news stories of 2020. It was also, as it turns out, one of the most baseless — as the intelligence agencies who spread it through their media spokespeople now admit, largely because the tale has fulfilled and outlived its purpose.” (from “Journalists, Learning They Spread a CIA Fraud About Russia, Instantly Embrace a New One; The most significant Trump-era alliance is between corporate outlets and security state agencies, whose evidence-free claims they unquestioningly disseminate,” Greenwald.substack.com, 4/16.

See also “The New York Times’ ‘Russian Bounties’ Story Just Unraveled—U.S. officials walk back claim that Russia paid bounties for dead U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan,” by Rick Moran, pjmedia.com, 4/15).

About that “New One (fraud),” the media lapdogs found yet another Trump/Russia collusion story “too good to be verified,” in a press release from Biden’s Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen: One Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian-Ukrainian political consultant was being sanctioned because, Yellen asserted, “Kilimnik provided the Russia intelligence services with sensitive information on polling and campaign strategy” that he received from then-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.”

In hindsight and in summary, the CIA or related security agencies have fed American journalists a steady stream of assertions, (ultimately disproven fabrications) directed at undermining President Donald J. Trump to hamstring him in office; and assure these self-styled possessors-of-delivered-policy-wisdom of his defeat. Near the top of Greenwald’s “Journalists…Spread a CIA Fraud…” he included lists of dozens of “ex-spooks who served as media figures in the Trump years” (credit to Matt Taibbi—https://t.co/g7nWvsXmFf).

Readers are likely aware (Dems should try to keep up) that all the outrage over Georgia’s “election integrity” amounts to malicious lies like the “it won’t allow water for those in line.” Actually, nothing can be given to voters within a certain distance of the polling station…by…partisan…political…actors. That Biden encouraged the boycotts against Georgia proves he is the opposite of a “uniter,” setting state against state.

Consider that Biden, his mouthpiece Psaki, et al have embraced the diabolical “Critical Race Theory” of systemic, our-Constitution-is-racist-as-founded. There is no such thing as uniting around such garbage—they mimic Communist China’s propaganda. I hope parents are closely watching that Tehama County schools don’t start trying to program students to hate “white-ness,” hate America and hate our God-given freedom to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, as is going on right now in Santa Clara County.

“California county teacher training: U.S. a ‘parasitic’ system due to ‘invasion’ of white men” (Thecollegefix.com, 7/14), describes Santa Clara county’s implementation of California’s new ethnic studies curriculum. According to a new report by Christopher Rufo at City Journal, presenters at the Santa Clara workshops “encouraged teachers to inject left-wing politics into the classroom and to hide controversial materials from parents.” Give these leftist America-haters a generation of our children, and our nation is lost to the ash heap of Marxist/Communist slavery.