Some readers will not have the time to read book-length investigations into Deep State and media-fueled hoaxes. So here’s an excerpt from Scott Johnson’s review of Lee Smith’s book, The Plot Against the President, posted at
Power Line:
All The President’s Men, Take 2
Lee Smith is the author of The
Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes
Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in US History. The book is an
invaluable companion to Andrew McCarthy’s Ball
of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency; it adds
to and amplifies the case McCarthy makes. I wrote about McCarthy’s book
in “All
the president’s men, Obama style.” Smith’s book elaborates on the
theme to which I alluded in the heading of that post. I urge all readers with
an interest in this incredible scandal to read both books.
Lee Smith is a great journalist.
This bears on one of the book’s principal themes: the complicity of the press
in peddling the hoax alleging the collusion of the Trump campaign with organs
of the Russian government. In peddling the hoax, the most prominent organs of
the mainstream media were the accomplices of the perpetrators. The book cites
the relevant stories and relentlessly names names demonstrating the “collusion”
of the press with the Clinton campaign and the government — the FBI, the CIA,
the Department of Justice — in peddling the Russian hoax as news.
Within the profession there has
been no reckoning for the misconduct that the book makes out. On the contrary,
at the profession’s upper reaches, we have seen only the renewed commitment to
carry on the campaign to remove Trump from office.
This book may be the closest
we ever get to the day of reckoning that is due the press.
Read the full column here.
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