{"id":12041,"date":"2019-11-04T11:43:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12041"},"modified":"2019-11-04T11:43:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:43:21","slug":"the-military-intelligence-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-military-intelligence-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"The Military-Intelligence Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much has been written about the so-called Resistance of disgruntled Clinton, Obama, and progressive activists who have pledged to stop Donald Trump\u2019s agenda. The choice of the noun \u201cResistance,\u201d of course, conjures up not mere \u201copposition,\u201d but is meant to evoke the French \u201cresistance\u201d of World War II\u2014in the melodramatic sense of current loyal progressive patriots doing their best to thwart by almost any means necessary the Nazi-like Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We know from a variety of disinterested watchdog institutions and foundations that the media has offered 90 percent negative coverage of the Trump Administration. CNN in its anti-Trump zeal has ruined its brand by serial fabrications and firings of its marquee biased reporters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An entire array of CNN journalists and analysts either has resigned, been fired, retired, forced to offer retractions, or been disgraced either for peddling ad hominem crude attacks on Trump, displaying unprofessional behavior, concocting or repeating false stories, engaging in obscene commentary, or being refuted, including but not limited at times to&nbsp;Reza Aslan, Carl Bernstein, Donna Brazile, James Clapper, Marshall Cohen, Candy Crowley, Kathy Griffin, Julie Joffe, Michael Hayden, Suzanne Malveaux,&nbsp;Manu Raju,&nbsp;Jim Sciutto, Julian Zelizer, and teams such as Thomas Frank, Eric Lichtblau, and Lex Harris, and Gloria Borger, Jake Tapper, and Brian Rokus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About every month or so, a Hollywood or entertainment personage offers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/06\/02\/tired-boring-and-dangerous-celebrity-death-wishing\/\">a new assassination scenario<\/a>&nbsp;of shooting, torching, stabbing, beating, blowing up, caging, or lynching the elected president.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/11\/03\/the-military-intelligence-complex\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Much has been written about the so-called Resistance of disgruntled Clinton, Obama, and progressive activists who have pledged to stop Donald Trump\u2019s agenda. The choice of the noun \u201cResistance,\u201d of course, conjures up not mere \u201copposition,\u201d but is meant to evoke the French \u201cresistance\u201d of World War II\u2014in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-38d","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10551,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/two-resistances\/","url_meta":{"origin":12041,"position":0},"title":"Two Resistances","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"By Victor Davis Hanson National Review The quiet resistance \u2014 the one without black masks and clubs \u2014 is the more revolutionary force, and it transcends race, class, and gender. 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