Sanity in an insane news cycle

I actually wait for Michael Flynn to comment on the news the way I used to wait for the ice cream truck to come to our neighborhood.  He has a knack for looking past the BS we’re willing to swallow for convenience.  In a nation of punditry over principles, little things like consistency and common sense take a back seat to whatever works at the moment.  In this mess, Mr. Flynn points out how easy it is for the media to focus on molehills in order to avoid investigating mountains.   Especially given our twitter culture where five seconds is four and a half seconds longer than the average attention span.

So nobody seems to have noticed how Wikileaks is the great conspirator against our very freedoms, when only a short memory ago, Julian Assange was the bold hero calling out our vile ruling class.  Not that the press has done a Woodward or Bernstein on this.  Apart from the Russia angle, only a few damning emails pulling the curtain away from the ‘same party as the other one’ have been mentioned, then quickly dismissed in favor of gushing over the latest day of the DNC.

Which leads to another interesting take by Mr. Flynn.  Perhaps Trump wasn’t reaching out to Putin at all, but was just trying to be funny.  He might have been jabbing at the most qualified candidate in history whose main defense was ‘how was I supposed to know  you shouldn’t work with classified emails on privates servers in hostile environments?’  And as CNN pointed out this morning, Ms. Clinton wades into dangerous waters here.  If she follows the cries for Treason!, then she risks forcing the administration to do something about it, as well as making the case that her emails were a national security concern all along.   Perhaps.  We’ll see.

Anyway, fun stuff.  Read his entire piece.  As always great insights beyond the rush to hysteria that our current choices for president understandably encourage.