Update to the first post of the day: Just Really, Really Stupid or Something Else?

I haven't been following it but Norman Solomon's old outfit, FAIR, has been pushing a conspiracy theory aimed at debunking the Russian involvement with the hacking of the DNC's e-mail server.   Solomon's associate, Jeff Cohen, was a founder of FAIR and a figure in the the "Bernie Delegates Network" as well.  Whatever motives can be suspected in the whole thing, it's clear that they've been really focused on making as much trouble for the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's campaign as they can.  As they have to admit, Bernie Sanders has nothing to do with what they're doing, they're just using his name, perhaps without his permission.

I am still looking at the stuff put out by FAIR and parroted in some other play-left sites but one of the striking things I'm seeing are citations of Edward Snowden, who I've suspected as having almost certainly given both the Russian and Chinese governments the huge amounts of stolen U.S. intelligence he took with him while he was on the lam.   Now, if there's someone you would choose to have less credibility on this matter than Edward Snowden, the, um, "guest?" of the Putin government I'd be hard placed to name them.

This election season is a good chance for the people, groups and institutions that the real left, the left that actually can get elected and change things need to get shut of to be identified.  They seem to be doing a good job of doing that identification, themselves.  The real left does things, wins elections, changes laws, the play-left does nothing but scribbles, dribbles, blabs and grabs attention.  We don't have the luxury of humoring them, anymore.  We've got a real fascist party to defeat.  Play time was over a long time back.