The Totalitarian Leftist Tactics against the Right

Faith, learn to read what you quote. Note the weasel wording and innuendo instead of stating facts.

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"Well, if you look at some people connected with Hillary Clinton during her campaign, you would probably see that he had lots of meetings of that kind," Dmitry Peskov told CNN "GPS" host Fareed Zakaria.

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You mean like The 2016 United States Presidential Election? Fake polls, fake news would also have been a good thread for your post, but Adminnemooseus dropped it into summation mode for being hopelessly off-topic, suggesting that another thread for the topic be opened for discussing fake news.--Percy

And here I thought if I got it from Yahoo news rather than a conservative site it would be more acceptable. Now it's clear that if I'm the one posting it, nothing will be acceptable.

I forgot about the earlier election thread and I knew about the fake news thread being closed, but I didn't want to start a new thread. I didn't think there would be that much to debate.

It's not the source Faith but rather the content. What you posted is a classic example of innuendo, weasel wording, attempts to misdirect attention while the pea is palmed, goal post moving, all of the classic conman tactics.If you like we can step through the quote line by line.

No I don't want to go through it with you, but I would like to know what you are concluding: the story is made up, totally, partially, what?Interesting that The Hill turns out to be "Left-Center" on this ranking:https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-hill/...which would lead me to expect it to be skewed in the direction of implying the usual allegations about Trump's supposedly having unacceptable Russian connections. Instead the whole point seems to be that he didn't. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

My conclusion is that it is classic damage control propaganda. It is of no value since it really says nothing.

Faith deluded spouts: According to RAZD's chart in Message 443 they are Right-Center.

This isn't particularly relevant.Everyone understands that there are legitimate reasons to talk to the Russians. If Trump had legitimate reasons, he could have said so, and indicated the reasons. Instead, he lied. He denied meeting them. The problem is this pattern of lying that looks like a cover up, and looks as if he has something hide.And the pattern of lying has continued.

Well, follow my link: Fact Checker says Left-center.

There is no lie where the question was understood to be about the campaign. That was the same thing Sessions was accused of. He answered truthfully according to the question as he understood it.Liberals know all this, know that it's common to meet with Russians and others, for them and Republicans both. This is just the Left on its witch hunt as usual, trying to drum up something against Trump even if they have to make it out of thin air. They can make it look like a cover up to people who don't know anything about this stuff, when it's nothing of the sort. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

Faith writes:

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There is no lie where the question was understood to be about the campaign. That was the same thing Sessions was accused of. He answered truthfully according to the question as he understood it.

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That's a lie, Faith, and you know it because I posted the video of the interaction between Franken and Sessions here in Message 523. Here it is again: Take a good look at what Franken asks, Frank.Notice how he isn't asking if Sessions had any contact with Russian agents. He's asking what Sessions would do if he discovered that members of the Trump campaign had contact with the Russians.Sessions then volunteers on his own that he never had any contact with the Russians.So how on earth can you claim that he "answered truthfully according to the question as he understood it"? He wasn't asked if he had contact with the Russians. He was asked what he would do if he found out someone else had contact with the Russians.So when we find out that he did have contact with the Russians at least two times (and once during the Republican National Convention around the time that the Republican platform was being altered to remove their statements about the Ukraine and thus become more friendly to Russia...and remember that Sessions was Trump's foreign policy advisor), to claim that he "answered the question" is simply false. He was never asked if he had contact with the Russians.He volunteered that information on his own.

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Liberals know all this, know that it's common to meet with Russians and others, for them and Republicans both.

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Yep.Which is why it's so odd for someone who has legitimate reasons to talk to Russians to claim that he's never talked to them. If you know you've talked to the Russians and you know that your contact with them was in your capacity as a Senator, why lie about it? That's why Trump's attempt to tar Schumer fell so flat: The pictures were of a public meeting between Schumer and Putin regarding the selling of a gas station that was owned by a Russian company...which Schumer did not deny. They were in physical proximity, but there was no conversation between them and any words they did share were recorded by the press.And Schumer didn't lie about it. He didn't say that he never met Putin. And he certainly didn't make that claim when asked an unrelated question.This is just you on your foolishness as usual, trying to dumb up everything, even if you have to lie. You try to make it look like nothing happened to people who don't know anything about this stuff, when it's nothing of the sort.

Put it in a brief sentence or stick to one link with a brief sentence of commentary. Not only do I find most of what you say stupid and irrelevant, you write too much.

Maybe it is time for you to take a break. I know you get a lot more leeway from the Admins than anyone else, but you have devolved to nothing more than personal attacks.I send my 7 year old off to school everyday with the telling him to think before he does things. To not get in trouble for something he does that if he just took a moment to think he wouldn't do.I implore you to do the same thing. I have said I would no longer feed the troll. I just have one thing to say Stop acting like child and think before you post. If your post has a personal attack do not post it. Do not respond unless you have something substantive to say. The level of the discourse has dropped to the lowest denominator. Faith, you, are responsible for that.Edited by Theodoric, : No reason given.

Faith responds to me:

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Put it in a brief sentence or stick to one link with a brief sentence of commentary. Not only do I find most of what you say stupid and irrelevant, you write too much.

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Read: You're absolutely right, but I can't think of any way to deny it, so I'll just ignore it all and claim that it's "stupid and irrelevant."Franken didn't ask Sessions if he met with the Russians.Sessions volunteered that information on his own. And it turns out that it was a lie.Thus, any claim that Sessions "honestly answered the question" is a lie.Follow the link, Faith, and watch it for yourself. It's been presented to you twice. Why do you refuse?