Assange Defends WikiLeaks Against Allegations It’s Interfering In US Election
Really, you have to read the statement. For gawds sake, even his protector, the Ecuadoran embassy in London, was straightforward about why they cut off Assange’s Internet access: Ecuador’s government has a policy of “non-intervention in the internal affairs of other states.” The best part is this:
“[Assange] dismissed allegations that WikiLeaks has disproportionately focused on material related to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and wrote that the organization has not received equivalent information about Donald Trump or third-party candidates which ‘fulfills our stated editorial criteria.'”
What a great dodge: Assange claims that any information they’ve got about Trump (say) just doesn’t fit their editorial criteria, so Wikileaks won’t publish it. And how exactly do we know that any such information doesn’t fit their editorial criteria? Well, the incorruptible Julian Assange told us that, so it must be true. No need for anyone outside Wikileaks to have a look.
Assange’s argument reminds me of some of the unverifiable excuses my wife’s college students come up with for not turning in assignments. This being the age of home computing, “the dog ate my homework” just doesn’t work any more, so students now come up with stuff like “my pet pig ate my flash drive”. Really.
Trust me. I’m from Wikileaks and I’m here to help!!!
You write:
Let me rephrase this statement as it might have come from the many spokesmen for the PermaGov media that has pretty much lockstep…along with most of the PermaGov-oriented Republican hierarchy…attacked Trump and supported HRC dunng this lamebrained campaign.
Gimme a break!!!
Of course it’s slanted.The myth of an impartial media is just that. A myth. It’s all slanted.
Why?
Self-interest leavened with at least some portion of real belief.
What are the proportions of that leavening?
Hmmmm…
Lemme see.
1-Mass media controllers…editors, owners, etc.:
They are wealthy and free to drive their Ferraris or whatever home to their suburban mansions/urban palaces unbothered by police actions of any serious kind.
2-Assange:
He is holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and hasn’t seen the light of day in years. Why? He’s afraid if he steps on his balcony or goes outside he’s going to be assassinated or at the very least experience some form of what the intelligence killers oh so politely refer to as “extraordinary rendition.”
So…why is he doing what he is doing?
Because he believes that he is right.
End of story.
You don’t believe him?
Feel free.
That’s a myth, too, but at least it’s a comforting one.
AG
SO, you don’t seem to be disputing the idea that Wikileaks has been out to sink Clinton.
No. I am not opposed to that because I am opposed to both sides of this fiasco. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander as well.
As the blind man said to his deaf wife;
Silly geese, all of them.
AG
P.S. William Burroughs: “”Stupid, vulgar sons-of-bitches. Thought they could hire Death as a company cop…”
Old newspapers in the wind, a rustle of darkness and wires.
Ahhhh…another Burroughs connoisseur!!!
I knew I liked you!!!
AG
Who could resist? You left me the best part.