https://thehill.com/homenews/news/483600-the-hills-review-of-john-solomons-columns-on-ukraineThe Hill finished its 'review' of throwing John Solomon under the bus, then backing up and driving over him again a few times until only a chunky salsa remains
Reading through it, they didn't find a single consequential fact to confirm or deny anything Solomon wrote or even the 2017 Politico article that laid out the Ukraine ledger. They found a single translation error over whether Lutsenko said that Yovanovitch provided a written list, or whether she provided a verbal list which he wrote down. Talk about splitting hairs. If they can devote a whole paragraph to something that inconsequential and not have any other errors, its clear they searched hard and found nothing. Instead their only gripes are over how to label columns as 'news' or 'opinions', as if every journalist in America isn't blending the two right now, and that columns sometimes neglected
full disclosure of every personal connection Solomon had- a great aspiration for sure, but a double standard.
What's really damning here is that without any additional facts, The Hill's staff have decided that Joe Biden did nothing wrong, that Shokin was corrupt and the people who fired him weren't, that seeking his ouster was legitimate policy and there was no conflict of interest. What's particularly absurd is that they regurgitate uncritically the DNC talking point that "Russia interfered, not Ukraine" and that anyone asserting Ukraine interfered is pushing a Russian narrative. They present that same brainless false dichotomy as if only one foreign country in the entire world is capable of influencing domestic US politics at a time. Just look at this crap:
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Contradicting assertions in Solomon's columns, in Politico and in some other media reports, State Department officials, U.S. national security agencies and the Senate Intelligence Committee have concluded that Ukraine did not meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Russian government officials, who have denied meddling in the 2016 election, have pushed the narrative that Ukraine interfered in that U.S. election.
They don't contradict anything in the Politico article they hyperlink to, they don't deny any of the facts presented, they don't declare whether the story about the Ukrainian embassy passing the Manafort ledger to the DNC / Clinton campaign is true or false, or whether the ledger was real or manufactured. Without contradicting a single fact in that story, they arbitrarily declare that Ukraine did not meddle in the 2016 election. Even though if the facts in that story are true, then by definition Ukraine meddled in the 2016 presidential election. And the same "officials" who denied that were the ones
testifying to try to impeach Trump, including people personally involved in that same interference and Joe Biden's actions in Ukraine. Which again, were denials made without denying any of the facts.
Its this absurd situation where an argument-from-authority can declare that John Solomon's reporting and the Politico article about Ukraine are both false narratives, without denying anything they say or finding any errors.
I don't see how anyone can pretend that sending a ledger of Manafort's finances to the opposing political campaign when Manafort was Trump's campaign manager, for the explicit purpose of trying to undermine his election, could possibly be construed as anything other than election interference. You can deny it happened, you can rationalize whether it was justified or not, you can figure out whether it was real or forged contents. But you can't say that there was no election interference if you won't deny it happened. Those two can't coexist. Its like saying you deny that JFK was murdered, but accept that a bullet was fired and entered his head and splattered his brains. Which is called murder.
This is what passes for journalism in 2020. They accidentally printed daring investigative content, now the establishment has decided they had too much to think. You can't call yourself journalists and then declare that anything US state department officials declare is the truth, the contradictory facts your investigators uncovered be damned.
This post was edited by Goomshill on Feb 19 2020 09:04am
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