{"id":11174,"date":"2018-05-02T17:24:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T00:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11174"},"modified":"2018-05-09T13:32:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T20:32:40","slug":"05-02-18-angry-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/05-02-18-angry-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"05-02-18 Angry Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"

From An Angry Reader:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fake Claims. WE HAVE A CONGENITAL LIAR AS A PRESIDENT. HE HAS SCAMMED THE US WITH TAXES AND BANKRUPTCY. HE IS A SERIAL ADULTERER AND SEXUAL PREDATOR. EVEN AS I TEXT HIS BUSINESSES ARE PROFITING FROM MY HARD EARNED AND MEAGER INCOME. HE IS A NARCISSIST AND EGOTIST. AND YOU CRITICIZE MUELLER???? CLEAN UP YOUR OWN (to quote the president) \u201cSHIT HOUSE\u201d FIRST. THEN START ON MULLER- IF YOU HAVE ANY TIME LEFT.<\/p>\n

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Dear Angry Reader Louise Roam,<\/strong><\/p>\n

I will give you a \u201c9\u201d on the angry reader OUTRAGE scale. You hit almost all the right buttons:<\/p>\n

All capital letters? Check.<\/p>\n

Obscenity? Check.<\/p>\n

Strings of ad hominem slurs instead of an argument? Check.<\/p>\n

Misspelled words and incoherent grammar and syntax? Check.<\/p>\n

How exactly are the President\u2019s businesses profiting from Louise Roam\u2019s hard-earned but \u201cmeager\u201d income? All presidents are egotists and narcissists; do you remember Obama\u2019s various boasts that he would cool the planet and lower the seas, or that he was more adroit in his various fields of political expertise than were each of his various advisors and aides? Do you remember the faux-Greek columns, or the first-person pronoun monotony?<\/p>\n

\u201cMuller\u201d (sic<\/em>) is federal special counsel. If he cannot appoint disinterested attorneys to his team, or follow the mandate for which he was appointed, or stop deliberate leaks from his staff, or control the amorous passions and wild communications of his various subordinates, then he is not deserving of respect due simply to his appointment.<\/p>\n

It is hard to calibrate whether Trump\u2019s crudity is unusual for a president or amplified by the biases of the media and our current 24\/7 social media culture. Certainly, he has not jailed video makers, surveilled Associated Press reporters, weaponized the IRS to hound his political appointments, or warped the FISA courts to monitor U.S. citizens and unmask their names for the purposes of harming a political opponent. I am waiting for proof of Trump-Putin collusion; but in the meantime, I do not think there is any doubt that the Hillary Clinton campaign hired a foreign national (Christopher Steele) to find dirt on her opponent. Steele in turn likely purchased gossip and dirt from operatives of the Russian government, and then he used contacts in the DOJ, FBI, CIA, and State Department to ensure such unsubstantiated smears were leaked to the media before the November 2016 election, in hopes of either altering it or at least providing \u201cinsurance\u201d for the Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n

When you write an angry letter, please try to be logical and rational. If any of the above seems unsubstantiated to you, please explain where and how. Meanwhile, ranting with capital letters and foaming about are no substitutes for an argument.<\/p>\n

Victor Hanson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From An Angry Reader: Fake Claims. WE HAVE A CONGENITAL LIAR AS A PRESIDENT. HE HAS SCAMMED THE US WITH TAXES AND BANKRUPTCY. HE IS A SERIAL ADULTERER AND SEXUAL PREDATOR. EVEN AS I TEXT HIS BUSINESSES ARE PROFITING FROM MY HARD EARNED AND MEAGER INCOME. HE IS A NARCISSIST AND EGOTIST. 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