I don't like Rod Rosenstein, I don't respect him, finding out he was a friend and supporter of Brett Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court was the last nail in the coffin of my respect for Rod Rosenstein, the kind of people who automatically talk about his sterling character and wonderfulness are the kinds of people who don't get my respect, not even the connected insiders who have a "D" after their names.
That said, he has done his job in the Department of Justice in acting as a wall protecting the Robert Mueller investigation into the Putin crime family and others ratfucking the American political system to put Donald Trump into the ever diminished American Presidency, ever diminished in respectability and legitimacy as it is ever increased in dictatorial power under Republican-fascist rule, under Trump.
ONE HUGE PART OF THAT STORY OF THE DEATH OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY THAT HASN'T BEEN INVESTIGATED BY MUELLER BUT WHICH SHOULD BE IS THE PART THE ELITE AMERICAN MEDIA PLAYED IN SUPPORTING WHAT THE PUTIN CRIME FAMILY HAS DONE TO OUR ELECTIONS AND POLITICAL SYSTEM AND ONE OF THE BIGGEST ROLES IN THAT WAS THE ONE PLAYED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES.
With yesterday's obviously, radically Trump useful article about Rod Rosenstein suggesting that he wear a wire to record Trump to cook up some kind of 25th amendment removal of Trump (which he would be powerless to do), it's obvious that there are reporters at the New York Times who are trying to provide Trump a pretext to fire Rosenstein, to provide fodder to their fellow journalists at FOX, on Republican hate-talk radio, on Republican internet to try to force him out so a Trump protection racket can put someone in Rosenstein's position to end the already very successful investigation and prosecution that are essential to protect American democracy.
The New York Times has had a role in this going back to its earliest days in cooking up the Whitewater attack on the Clintons more than a quarter of a century ago, there have been one after another after another false story in that paper, that first one leading to a more than forty million dollar criminal investigation of the Clinton administration which had the huge result of one criminal conviction against one member of the Clinton's inner circle on an issue that had nothing to do with the Clintons or Clinton administration. There were the false stories during Hillary Clinton's campaign that she was going to be indicted, there were many. many others.
Someone should really do a detailed investigation into the role that the New York Times has played in this billionaire, foreign and domestic, attack on American democracy because that role is very real, has been very damaging and what can be said about the New York Times is as true of other organs of the media, even some of those supposedly anti-Trump by policy, The Nation magazine the quintessential example of that. It won't be done by a special prosecutor, the First Amendment and the mythic cult that has formed around it, especially among those in the media would prevent that. But when the media is an active part in an attack on American democracy, it creates a scenario in which the liberty of the media turns into an enemy of democracy, the free press freely choosing to be a part of a serious attack on the best defense of reasonable and equal liberty in political history, the most basic of all democratic principles, the equal right of people to cast informed votes on who and how they will be governed. The New York Times is alleged to be a liberal paper, it endorses liberals over thugs like Trump - it endorses the actions of thugs like Trump, like Bush II as they hold power - but its daily reportage and the opinions it promotes on its editorial and op-ed pages have been important in aiding the attack on democracy.
The First Amendment is a badly written piece of minor 18th century poetry which has been usefully turned into a tool of facists and neo-Nazis, of Vladimir Putin some of their use of it was aided by pseudo-liberal entities such as the ACLU and the American free press. One of the worst things about it is the press freedoms language might have worked in a world of small newspapers printed by hand, it doesn't work with the mass media. It puts what was a privilege to artificial corporate entities, media companies, in language of rights which is only legitimate when it is people whose rights are being protected. Most of all, it neglected to point out that the privilege came with the obligation that the media report truth and fact that The People need to make self-government real. It should have pointed out that press freedom was contingent on that because the history of the world shows that if democracy turns to despotism, the freedom of the press depends on democracy. The danger of that not being spelled out in the language of the First Amendment becomes clearer every day, it has been becoming clearer ever since the New York Times was the beneficiary of the permission to lie with impunity under the Sullivan v New York Times decision.
This investigation of what the American media has done with its right to lie, gotten for it by the New York Times and the huge part that has played in the decay and death of American democracy. It's time to start that investigation and to make it clear what the very wealthy people who run the media, starting with the New York Times are doing consistently in destroying democracy.
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