So should we fear that .00009375 of the US (<30,000 out of 320MM daily viewers) are watching or that Chelsea is on the board of thedailybeast, and this smear piece is suitable for framing?
BTW I also think Trump is screwing up cozying up to Putin
It’s got nothing to do with the source and everything to do with the accurate picture of RT that it paints (and that you aren’t going to rebut). Were you not aware that RT is literally a Kremlin propaganda operation? This is the same problem you had re: the phony earpiece – it doesn’t matter what you say about Snopes, the picture is the proof.
Or put it another way: do you want a wider variety of sources on Putin and Trump? No problem at all. I just put some together the other day. Forthcoming.
I would not dismiss it, but with Russia as oppressed to the old USSR, you know what the limits are to their territorial ambitions, And you know they have no intention of attacking us. We would need to attack them. Were there are Russians they would like them to be in Russia. China on the other hand has designs on all of the South China Sea, East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. That effects, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the Philippians
You aren’t going to wave this away as a bunch of “rags” that are…what? Lying or something? That isn’t reality.
Reality, incidentally, looks something like this: Donald Trump has spoken more warmly of Vladimir Putin than has any living American political figure. He has fawned over Putin’s kind words (as we might expect a histrionic, classically feminine reality-TV buffoon to do). When he isn’t failing to understand that the one is (or was, if this nightmare becomes a reality) an internationally-recognized part of the other, he has echoed Kremlin propaganda regarding Crimea and Ukraine, up to and including the line that maybe this land grab ought to become legitimized. His advisors have been Putinite jesters: Manafort was literally on the payroll of a Kremlin puppet government, and Carter Page is a Gazprom consultant. Appallingly, he has openly questioned the principle of collective defense outlined by Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty – one of the world order’s chief pillars since the middle of the last century (note: the world order has been all in all pretty damn good for the United States since just about exactly that time; I wonder whether or not this is a coincidence?). Meanwhile, instruments of the Kremlin have attempted to intervene in the American election in such a way that can only be described as on Trump’s behalf. There is consensus among the intillegence community, the FBI, and the three independent firms called in as incident responders that, just as the available evidence (including literal GRU tools reused from the Bundestag hack) suggests, the DNC hacks were FSB/GRU operations. Deteriorating loon and Kremlin stooge Julian Assange is doing his best to sabotage Clinton while sitting in his dark room and wearing Siberian-made silk underwear. Russia’s state English-language propaganda outfit scored a pally chat with Trump, and even the serious instrument of foreign policy that is MGIMO has been deployed to the pages of American media in an effort to tip public opinion away from HRC and toward – take a guess.
I could go on, but the idea should at this point be got.
What you are doing is call an ad hominem. (of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.
Doing what you did is one of the weakest types of argumetn you can make. Even if you are right, you have not made a point at all relevant to the subject. You can point out that the guy who is claiming that water is wet, is a mass murdering. But they does not change the fact that water is wet.