washington. hillary lost. why russia? hunter biden s laptop is here. russia. and so on and so on. so over time probably inevitably the inflated threat of russia became a pretext for everything bad, including censorship in this country. it s russian disinformation. shut it down. thanks to new reporting from matt taibbi we know the federal government s intelligence and law enforcement agencies enthusiastically joined the effort to censor the political speech of american citizens illegally. it was a sophisticated effort. at one point, for example, the state department released a report falsely claiming that thousands of twitter accounts were controlled by foreign governments. russia. and then unnamed sources in the intel world leaked scary headlines about russian disinformation running rampant on twitter. twitter deleted data pertinent
2016, the government transparency organization wikileaks released thousands of emails from the servers of the democratic national committee. those documents showed conclusively that hillary clinton partisans had worked to rig the democratic primary against her rival bernie sanders. it was obvious from the start that that email dump had come from an internal source, probably from a dnc staffer offended by the corruption of the clinton team. of course the democratic party couldn t admit. too embarrassing, too revealing. so instead in order to cover this wrongdoing, the clinton campaign claimed the russians hacked the servers. remember that? you may have believed it or not, but intel agencies in this country must have known at the time that it was not true. they would know, but they said nothing. they said nothing because blaming russia turned out to be a useful political tool. in fact, before long, it became the default response to every perceived disaster in washington. hillary lost.
so i wanted to make sure i got that out there. well, he did. he definitely got that out there. but why no money for the ryan campaign from the dems? tim is a very effective communicator. he s got a good opponent. he s able to define this, like, this is what you want to do in a debate, the moment you define your opponent at his biggest vulnerability. he s a frud. bad inflation numbers, you can say, hey, i m going to fight for you, you can t count on them to fight for you. the problem for ryan is he is at a financial disadvantage. he doesn t have quite the money that j.d. has. j.d. has money from peter field, from mitch mcconnell, and i think the democrats just don t believe in ohio. we ve had hillary lost by eight points, biden lost that state by eight points, but the other sitting senator. that s sharon brown. i m not good at politics. is sharon progressive? she is a progressive, joe,
of fraud. that s the spin on the misinformation. they re all lies. okay, i will tell you today antido antidotally today while i was on my show, i got the same analogy and this was somebody sending me an article telling me of trump and all other things. there is always going to be a segment of people that don t believe it. you are a football fan like i am and different teams who are fans. when your team you feel it s hosed on a call. you are going to hang your hat on that if you don t want to believe your team lost. years ago when hillary lost, the democrats were shocked that there were any way legally or justifiably that she could lose to trump. i would tell you here in arizona ant
of fraud. and so that is the discrepancdi the spin on the misinformation. those are all lies. okay. i will tell you that today anecdotely, today while i was on my show, i got a facebook message from someone. and i brought up the same analogy i gave you. this was somebody that was sending me articles and youtube videos that was telling me just how there was russian collusion with trump and all the other things. what i m saying is there is always going to be a segment of people that don t believe it. you are probably a football fan like i am, probably different teams, but we re fans. when your team you feel like gets hosed on a call, you hang your hat on that if you don t want to believe your team lost a game. in this case, i think that s a lot of what happened. years ago when hillary lost, the democrats were shocked that there was any way legally or justifiably she could lose to trump. and i will tell you that here in arizona, anecdotely of watching the support he had, there were a