{"id":13483,"date":"2021-06-02T12:10:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T19:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13483"},"modified":"2021-06-02T12:10:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T19:10:18","slug":"eeyores-cabinet-living-in-our-kingdom-of-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/eeyores-cabinet-living-in-our-kingdom-of-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Eeyore\u2019s Cabinet: Living in Our Kingdom of Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Private Papers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part One<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Isn\u2019t it true that almost every \u201cbig\u201d news story of the last four years has proved to be an utter lie?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moscow Fantasies<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Do we even remember the months of the Russian collusion lies? The daily fare that in one hour or so Trump would be indicted and frog-marched, and the next hour he would turn state\u2019s evidence? That Russians were in constant communications with the Trump campaign, that Carter Page was a Trump Russian \u201casset\u201d? The Alpha Bank Russian computer pings? That Brennan and Clapper winked and nodded to us about their secret sources that proved Trump was going down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

How about the \u201cend of Trump\u201d Michael Cohen \u201cbombshells\u201d? The Glenn Simpson courageous investigations? The brilliant Christopher Steele? The furrowed brows and pained looks of our best and brightest news readers talking of \u201cbombshells\u201d and end-of-the-world \u201cwalls are closing in\u201d epitaphs for the Trump family? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How much wasted time, money, and resources went into James Comey\u2019s various \u201coperations\u201d or into \u201cBob\u201d Mueller\u2019s 22 months of chasing his own tail? Or the wasted reportage on the DNC\/Perkins Coie\/Fusion GPS\/Christopher Steele dossier firewalls, all leading back to the checkbook of an embittered Hillary Clinton, forever braying about a \u201cstolen election,\u201d which meant paying Steele to blame the Russians hadn\u2019t worked? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the super ship \u201cdream team\u201d? It wrecked itself on the shoals of Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and the forger Kevin Clinesmith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bat s–t<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

What happened to the bat\/pangolin origins of COVID-19? And the \u201clies\u201d of \u201cracist\u201d Trump spreading \u201cconspiracy theories\u201d about a leak from a Wuhan virology lab? Remember how it was racist for Trump to talk of the \u201cChina virus\u201d even as his accusers repeated ad nauseum scare stories of the \u201cIndian variant\u201d and the \u201cBrazil strain\u201d and \u201cThe South African mutation\u201d and the \u201cUK bug\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was all a lie that the virus could not have been birthed through gain-of-function research and misadventure. It was all a lie that any who sought answers along those lines of inquiry was a \u201cnut,\u201d a \u201ccrank,\u201d or indeed a \u201cracist\u201d? How much untold damage did the media do in silencing, Soviet-style, legitimate inquiry that might have made the nature of the epidemic far clearer, far earlier.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Reichstag Capitol \u201cCoup\u201d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

It was all a lie that organized, armed insurrectionists, in premeditated fashion, stormed the Capitol, murdered Officer Sicknick, caused the deaths of four others, and brought along plastic ties to round up progressive politicians as hostages\u2014as requisite to taking over the country <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No leaders found. No plans uncovered. No arms possessed, much less used. No murdered officer. Natural deaths of all three others\u2014except an unarmed protestor and military vet shot by a still unknown officer. No ties brought in by the protestors. No videos released by the government that might \u201cprove\u201d an insurrection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what was \u201cit\u201d? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A buffoonish misadventure of mostly irate and unhinged protestors who in ad hoc fashion unlawfully entered the capitol and then rioted, and smashed stuff up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was not the \u201cgreatest assault on Washington since the Civil War\u201d\u2014unless you think the 9\/11 blasting apart of the Pentagon was small stuff. Or was the 1932 Bonus March of over 20,000 angry vets, demanding past due military severance bonuses from World War I, no big deal? For 90 days they camped out near the Capitol\u2014until steamrolled out by US troops firing on the crowd and backed by tanks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or do we remember the 1950 running gun battle between Secret Service agents and Puerto-Rican-nationalist assassins intent on killing President Harry Truman as he slept at Blair House? Or many more such gunmen reappearing four years later who shot down the House visitor\u2019s gallery and wounded five congressmen? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or how about left-winger James Hodgkinson\u2019s murderous attempt to take out key Republicans while playing baseball? He was a former Sanders supporter who severely wounded US Majority House Whip Rep. Steven Scalise and three others. Or the six-day 1968 DC race riots that saw 12 die and 1,200 fires set, and about the same number of buildings destroyed or damaged. And on and on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, we were told to envision that the likes of some nut playing a Shaman in a cow costume and the leftwing Mr. Sullivan, a Black Lives Activist instigator, who egged on the crowd and who took films to sell on the internet, were the core ingredients of a preplanned rightwing revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ol\u2019 Joe Biden From Scranton Myth<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

And perhaps the most egregious lie? That good ol\u2019 Joe Biden from Scranton was running to unite the nation, after Trump\u2019s \u201ctearing it apart.\u201d At 78, Joe was still in his old nice-guy top form, or so we were told. Forget, the media ordered us, the stealth primary campaign, the basement refuge, as he outsourced to others the general campaign, the somnolent transition, the 10AM-2PM presidency, the falls, the slurred words, the weird stream of half-conscious outbursts, the now trademark creepy references to girls, the fantasy lies about no vaccinations before his inauguration, and the shouting and screaming for emphasis on his teleprompted, lose-your-way speeches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prune away the media lies, and the American people voted in a 78-year-old cognitively challenged president, whose myth of the return of a 1970s moderate was used as clumsy cover for a hard-left, 21st<\/sup>-century agenda\u2019s take-over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Private Papers Part One Isn\u2019t it true that almost every \u201cbig\u201d news story of the last four years has proved to be an utter lie? Moscow Fantasies Do we even remember the months of the Russian collusion lies? 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