MSM Pundits Push Idea That Criticizing US Policy On Russia Makes You A Russian Agent by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-01-31 at 02:58:56 )

MSM Pundits Push Idea That Criticizing US Policy On Russia Makes You A Russian Agent by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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One thing I have been meaning to write about these last few days has been the way mass media pundits have been insinuating or outright asserting that Fox News host Tucker Carlson is literally an agent of the Russian government.

Mr. Carlson has been accused of promoting Russian propaganda by mainstream narrative managers for frequently criticizing the Biden administrations hawkish posture toward Russia regarding the entirely unsubstantiated claim that Moscow is preparing to launch an unprovoked military invasion of Ukraine.

We have been seeing things like Anderson Cooper innocently musing that "It is striking how neatly Kremlin propaganda seems to dovetail with Mr. Carlsons talking points" and this CNN segment from December with Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter and tinfoil hat Russiagater Julia Ioffe wondering aloud about why Russian state media seem to be so fond of Mr. Carlson. By mid-January, Democratic Party operatives were openly demanding that Mr. Carlson be investigated for violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

"This is not journalism, it is an ongoing FARA violation. Tucker Carlson needs to be prosecuted as an unregistered agent of the Russian Federation and treason under Article 3, Sec. 3, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution for aiding an enemy in hybrid warfare against the United States," tweeted former DNC official Alexandra Chalupa, best known for colluding with the Ukrainian government in 2016 on opposition research against Donald Trump.

-This is not journalism, it is an ongoing FARA violation. Tucker Carlson needs to be prosecuted as an unregistered agent of the Russian Federation and treason under Article 3, Sec. 3, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution for aiding an enemy in hybrid warfare against the United States.-Alexandra Chalupa (AlexandraChalup) January 19, 2022

The accusations and insinuations increased, eventually leading to Mr. Carlson outright denying being a Russian agent in a recent interview with The New York Times saying, "I have never been to Russia, I do not speak Russian. Of course I am not an agent of Russia."

As you would expect, this denial was then spun by the same demented mainstream pundits who have spent the last five years being wrong about Russia as evidence that Mr. Carlson is a Russian agent.

"Tucker Carlson told The New York Times he is not a Russian agent amid controversy over his pro-Kremlin stance," blares a headline by Business Insider.

"What would a Russian agent say if asked if they were a Russian agent?" tweeted former FBI special agent Clint Watts in response to Mr. Carlsons denial.

"Tucker Carlson Denies Being Russian Agent After Taking Kremlins Side," says a viral tweet by former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi.

"Narrator: After he helped destroy American Democracy, it turned out he was, indeed, a Russian agent .. though a rather silly one," added MSNBCs cartoonish "intelligence" expert Malcolm Nance.

"Tucker Carlson is walking proof that you do not need to be an agent to be a useful idiot," former FBI agent Peter Strzok told MSNBCs Nicole Wallace, apparently less willing to commit to the bit than his FBI peers.

"Why has Tucker Carlson not registered as a foreign agent?" reads a viral tweet from the notorious Lincoln Project.

-"Of course I am not a Russian agent": Tucker Carlson Denies Being Russian Agent After Taking Kremlins Side-Frank Figliuzzi (FrankFigliuzzi1) January 28, 2022

I have never gotten used to the insane McCarthyite accusations which United States liberals will hurl without a second thought at anyone who disagrees with them.

Every time it happens it startles and alarms me, and this latest trend of claiming that opposition to United States military posture toward a nuclear superpower constitutes evidence of being a treasonous foreign intelligence operative is a marked uptick in the madness.

I am highlighting this deranged behavior not to defend the odious Mr. Carlson, but to point out that it works very much in the United States empires favor to have a bunch of influential narrative managers aggressively manufacturing the consensus that anyone who criticizes Americas posture toward Russia is suspicious and untrustworthy.

The mass media, whose primary job is to propagandize the masses and who have an extensive history of lying to the public to manufacture consent for war, are not pushing the belief that Tucker Carlson is suspicious and sinister for questioning the official narrative about Russia.

They are pushing the belief that anyone is suspicious and sinister for questioning the official narrative about Russia.

That is the message that people are receiving from this line that is being pushed by narrative managers and ex-federal agents.

Anyone who is successfully indoctrinated with this belief will become inoculated against wrongthink about that nation because they will reflexively distrust the motives of anyone who says anything that differs from the officially authorized line.

That is the real value of this framing for the imperial propagandists.

They do not care about Tucker Carlson, who serves their agendas more often than not.

They care about making sure that current and future establishment narratives about Russia will be swallowed hook, line and sinker by the mainstream public without the slightest twinge of gag reflex. You do not even need to silence dissent if you can simply render it impotent.

It is worth considering the possibility that all the artificially manufactured Russia hysteria we have seen over the last five years has been geared toward building public support for the exact escalations we are seeing today.

After all, it says a lot that Russiagate began with unevidenced claims by United States intelligence agencies who have an extensive track record of lying, resulted in the reignition of a new cold war against a nation long targeted for destruction by the United States intelligence cartel, and now there are tons of weapons being flown in to Ukraine and United States troops are being moved to Eastern Europe in response to a threat we have still seen no evidence is actually real.

Whoever controls the narrative controls the world.

If you can control what people believe about a certain thing, then you can control what they will do and what they will allow in response to that thing.

Controlling peoples beliefs about reality is controlling their reality.

If you can convince people that anyone who disputes what you are saying about a government you do not like is suspicious and not to be trusted, then you can keep them believing everything you say about that government.

It is clear that it is very, very important to the narrative managers that we believe what we are told about Russia.

Now we are just waiting to find out toward what specific end that agenda is being driven.

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