{"id":17072,"date":"2018-02-08T18:24:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T01:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17072"},"modified":"2018-02-08T18:24:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T01:24:02","slug":"dots-and-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/02\/08\/dots-and-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"dots and conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The case has ever been thus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/trump-supporters-read-share-fake-news_us_5a7a25f9e4b06505b4e8f07d\">and a little confused<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 As Counterpunch&#8217;s Jeffry St Clair mentions in the discovery of some <a href=\"http:\/\/portlandtribune.com\/pt\/9-news\/385248-272731-when-russian-troll-infiltrates-website-editor-investigates\">Russian troll using that site<\/a>, to promote shared political biases.<\/p>\n<p><em>whether it&#8217; s a (fired plagiarist) Jayson Blair story in the New York Times or a (controversial reporter) Judith Miller story in the New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The mention of Judith Miller in the same breath as Jayson Blair gives his politics away, as does the particularly uncertain words in the parentheses give away the politics of the Portland Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>Dots abound all over the place.\u00c2\u00a0 You connect the dots in a haphazard way and find&#8230; er&#8230; child sex traffic from a pizza parlor in released Hillary Clinton emails?\u00c2\u00a0 Or&#8230; Ahmad Chalabi passing on misinformation to Judith Miller to advance his political aims.\u00c2\u00a0 One or the other&#8230; or both.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case has ever been thus, and a little confused.\u00c2\u00a0 As Counterpunch&#8217;s Jeffry St Clair mentions in the discovery of some Russian troll using that site, to promote shared political biases. whether it&#8217; s a (fired plagiarist) Jayson Blair story in the New York Times or a (controversial reporter) Judith Miller story in the New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17073,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17072\/revisions\/17073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}