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'Truth Is What Serves the Party'
by Sam Reisman | 10:20 am, October 24th, 2016
Michael Hayden, the former director of the NSA and the CIA, said in a statement Sunday that Foxs Sean Hannity, one of Trumps most ardent and vocal media supporters, behaved like a true propagandist.
In a statement to Brookings Institute senior fellow Benjamin Wittes, Hayden, a retired Air Force general, wrote that Hannity has entered the pantheon of a true propagandist. He added that the Fox hosts behavior reminds me of a conversation I had with a political office in the mid-1980s when I was the air attaché to Bulgaria. I asked this officer what truth was to him. He responded without hesitation, Truth is what serves the party.'
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Former CIA and NSA Director Mike Hayden responds to @seanhannity's endorsement of foreign espionage against the US.
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Haydens remarks were in direct response to Hannitys praising WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. It was a drastic shift for the Fox host, who was hostile to Assange and WikiLeaks for years. His sudden about-face comes after the organization began making disclosures intended to damage Clintons campaign, specifically steadily releasing emails stolen from the private email account of Clintons campaign chair John Podesta.
Hayden noted that, save for a few personalities such as Chris Wallace, who moderated the final debate, Bret Baier, and Megyn Kelly FOXNews has almost completely jumped the shark.
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(15,543 posts)So many Republican chickenhawks leading the downward spiral to DEPLORABLE.
RexCasual
(171 posts)Oh. My. God.
It's brilliant. Concise.
Sometimes words terrify me.