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The election is more than a month behind us, and the Democrats still cannot accept the fact that they ran a lousy candidate and lost. They have had a long list of excuses and have blamed nearly everything except climate change, but I am sure they will get around to climate change once they make the connection. For now, they have settled on Russian hackers and fake news as the culprits. It seems to them that the Russians hacked the emails of John Podesta and the Democratic National Committee, and then circulated the emails via WikiLeaks creating “fake news.” Everyone now knows this is the gospel truth because the Washington Post reported it, and they claimed that they got the story first hand from an unnamed CIA operative. The rest of the mainstream media has picked up the story, and even Brian (the liar) Jennings is reporting it on MSNBC. It has almost reached the level of “settled science.”
Like climate change, there are still a few skeptics who do not believe it is settled science. Some have been so bold as to suggest that if the CIA had the evidence suggested by the Washington Post story, wouldn’t someone be arrested, extradited or subjected to banking restrictions and sanctions? My old friend Sam, a former NSA snoop, has suggested that this is merely a double fake, sort of like a double reverse in football. He explains that the fake Russian hacking story was created to give credibility to the fake news narrative. I told him that I thought that it would be very bold to create a big lie to cover a colossal lie, and he suggested that I think about it.
I did not know what my friend Sam meant at first, but after some thought, I recalled the propaganda technique known as the “big lie.” Adolph Hitler coined the expression in his book Mein Kampf. His idea was that honest people tell small lies in small matters, but they would be too ashamed to tell a big lie. So they would never believe that anyone would be bold enough to fabricate a big lie. Therefore, they would believe the big lie. When you think of it, this whole “Russian Hack/Fake News” episode smacks of a colossal lie, so maybe Sam is on to something.
I did have another thought about lies. I recall very well that my mother tried very hard to teach me not to lie. She said if you tell one lie then you are bound to tell another lie when the first lie is found out. I did not quite understand at the time, but I later found out, and so did she. Since then, I tell mostly small lies in small matters.
So as the Democrats cast about for an excuse for their failure, it is interesting to note that George Washington said, “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
Until next time…
