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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInteresting interview of Louise Mensch from a year ago. Shows that she was way ahead of MSM.
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-39250257/andrew-neil-interviews-louise-menschawesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Rah rah for Louise & her ability to plow thru the dung heap of hate thrown at her from the fools who never actually read a damn thing she wrote, but felt from their little glass computet screens, they knew more than she.
And here they come pounding their baseless mockery & name calling & hate in response to your post.
They don't read her work, don't follow her, never have but gosh darnit somebody online told them to hate her so they follow like lemmings rather than ever have a thought of their own to back up their repeated shouts from their online cults.
Louise spoke the truth about many things as to the dangers of Putin & Trump long ago.
She was right all along & the RU trolls & hate they spread online to shut her up failed to stop her truth telling blog.
If you don't read her you don't have a right to say a word.
Carry on brave Louise & your righteous 20 Committee. You were right & they were wrong for buying the lies of Putin's troll farms.
Kudos to the 20 Committee.
Thank You!
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)I had to finally put someone fairly prominent here at DU on Ignore the other day because he was browbeating me relentlessly because I said -- well I said she wasn't Satan's spawn. Here was my actual comment (The thank you was to someone whose comment was similar to yours):
I never understood the hostility toward her. And still don't.
She deals in deep inside information, some of it may be or have been wrong, but much of it hasn't, tho the verification by "credible" sources may not have come immediately as most people here demanded.
It's basically gossip plus well-informed speculation. Take it for what it is, is my philosophy.
Oh, boy, did I catch it. Whew. Told the guy (fairly nicely) to back off and he doubled down!!
There is far too much authoritarian insistence on adhering to the accepted ideology going on here for my taste.
triron
(22,003 posts)elias7
(4,003 posts)The intelligence community used her to give us hope.
brettdale
(12,381 posts)For all those white house arrests she said was going to happen, tomorrow, a year ago.
peggysue2
(10,828 posts)I'm expecting incoming at any moment 3 . . 2. . 1 . .
I've never understood the ire that Mensch has inspired. Some of the online spats were silly but it doesn't discount the woman being wa-a-ay in front of the curve on a lot of the Trump/Russia nitty-gritty. Plus she's on RT's Ten Most Hated Critics List, along with McCain, NATO, Hillary Clinton, Morgan Freeman, Rob Reiner, etc.
Not bad company! In my mind for all the brouhaha, she's been doing something right, as in making Putin and his kingpins very unhappy.
malaise
(268,998 posts)She was early with some serious information
peggysue2
(10,828 posts)The sort of information that gave people hope that all was not lost. That's no small thing.
Much of her early work is now being validated by the MSM. A year later. She hasn't been 100% accurate but then I don't know anyone who has been with the deluge of connecting networks and confusing data we've seen. She's also admitted mistakes which her critics refuse to accept or admit.
For all that, she's done important work in sorting out the on-going mess in a clear, convincing manner. I give her kudos for that. I think in time she'll get her due despite all the cattiness and professional rivalries, the petty spats and call outs.
Comes with the unconventional territory, I guess.
.99center
(1,237 posts)Between two Russian banks? Bannon had Andrew Breitbart murdered? "I have evidence, I had evidence, I believe it's true."
"Facts are like religious beliefs." Say what?
Did anyone actually watch the video?
melman
(7,681 posts)More than usual even. Bizarre that this would be held up as an example...of whatever it is it's supposed to be an example of.
elias7
(4,003 posts)He was condescending and obtuse, and doing a hatchet job, not a real interview. Funny how we can watch the same thing and see totally different things. She will be proven right on all her reporting in the end (see Patribotics), and her twittering of opinions is just that, as she says: opinions.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)something I can believe in. To me it didn't make sense that she was trolling the left. Perhaps folks don't really know what troll means. If calling RUMP and the treason weasels every name in the book is trolling the left she needs some lessons.
Anyone taking any prediction from anyone as gospel is a fool. She is not the only one with assertions although she has had some wild ones. The jury is still out so to speak and final judgment shall be reserved until this whole mess is over. But for now...carry on Louise -- as long as you are denigrating deceitful, degenerate, deplorable, dotard, dip shit donnie two scoops SPANKY I'll get behind that.