Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I pivoted to the Taibbi reference because the article you offered on the Steele Dossier was a “no shit, really?” piece. Who ever believed the whole thing, or even most of it, was BS? The only people who’d believe that are credulous sorts who’d take the reporting on the dossier seriously in either direction. Unless you’d shit for brains, it was obviously a mixed bag both sides would spin. From the left, it’d be defended; from the right, it’d be shredded. The reality was obvious from the start: Some of it is accurate and some isn’t. Did anyone need 1000 words on that?

Perhaps you didn't notice that my post was a response to Slave mentioning a "fake dossier"?

It’s a hell of a lot more enlightening to consider how it was spun. That same type of spinning is going on with the impeachment right now. And while I know you know everything, so this will be no surprise, perhaps the media’s culpability and laziness being the biggest problem we have in modern politics is an area worth exploring. It’s certainly more enlightening than that article you posted.

I agree with you that the media is lazy. But that has always been true. But it seems like a bigger problem that conservatives have constructed an alternate reality which is impervious to facts that the rest of us get. You engage in a little both-sideism here, as you are wired to do, but I don't know of a single person who thinks that everything in the Steele dossier is right, but there are plenty of people like Slave who reject it as fake.