Groping charge against Trump is déjà vu all over again

 

 

Friday, September 18, 2020

 

You have to admit Democrats never give up on a good scam

So, the current rape charge against President Trump clearly is rehashing old scams they pulled with Kavanaugh and of course back with Thomas in the early 90s.

Democrats in this regard are like the little train that “could,” and when you don’t succeed at first, try, try again.

This may be an attempt to head off allegations against Joe Biden depicting the Democratic candidate as acting inappropriate towards women in public.

No doubt they got the idea this time from that wacko gossip columnist from the Atlantic who has been claiming the same thing for years but never filed charges and try to sell a book on the back of it.

I hate, however, when history repeats itself and no doubt the Democratic Congress will hold hearings the way they did with Kavanaugh and produce witnesses and have a host of additional charges coming from places like the New Yorker or maybe even the Atlantic again.
This of course it's the Democratic version of the October surprise and it isn't even October yet. But they need to have time to gather their so-called evidence so that they can put on a really good show trial in the month leading up to November 3^rd.
In some ways Trump should be encouraged by this because it shows just how desperate Democrats are to resort to Old scams rather than the usual weekly invention of new ones.
The race card backfired; covid-19 is backfiring; and accusing Trump of instigating the wildfires in California has backfired so Democrats need to come up with yet another scam.
They could not use the Atlantic gossip columnist again because she has no credibility although he will likely become a secondary witness the way the Ford charges brought it out every little maggot out of the woodwork for a supporting role.
It will be curious as to what unusual magazine maybe Vanity Fair or the Rolling Stone that the Democrats can filter in alternative story through the way they filtered the fake The Atlantic story last month.
So many news organizations have been corrupted and yet not quite obvious enough for the general public to believe this is all a scam.
Like Ford did was Kavanaugh the charges come out of the blue, raising a claim about Trump  that she did not file charges for back in 1997 when she claims the events happened.

We are in a kind of strange Deja Vu where we are going to get a host of people connected to her who tell us she told them even if she never filed a charge.
Most likely we will see a resurgence of the me-too movement and galloping Gillibrand charging in on her -- well we can't say white horse -- to rescue the scam and to give it some sense of credibility.
Democrats clearly think people are just stupid as to believe that this is anything but a scam partly because of the timing if this event happened in 1997 why didn't she come out in 2016 when Trump was a candidate or did she not need to since everybody thought Trump was going to lose.
It's hard to tell whether people are really going to allow this to become a three ring circus like the Kavanaugh one was and whether we are going to see it dragged out right up to election Eve or maybe Democrats will realize they can't ride this horse to the White House and will seek some other new scam that they can concoct between now and when voters actually choose who will be president.

 

The COVID myth

 

 

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Despite the overwhelming hype we get from Democrats and media, COVID-19 is not statistically worse than some of the pandemics we’ve had in the past – in particular the 1969 variety.

Although the United States has seen about 200,000 deaths so far, this is based on a total population of about 340 million.

The 1969 pandemic – which actually started in late 1967 and lasted into early 1971, killed about 400,000 Americans out of a population of 180 million.

Of course, the spin doctors tell us that COVID-19 does things to the lungs – but a study of past pandemics shows that this is true of all deadly viruses, and as much as we get spun, the truth is, viruses come and go, some worse than others, but all of them with their own life cycle.

Discounting the fact that there are many misreported deaths associated with COVID-19, the CDC reported recently that only about 10,000 of the 200,000 deaths were due strictly to COVID-19. All the rest were due to complications to other factors that in most cases were terminal – such as cancer, heart conditions, and such.

Understand how COVID-19 works. The more contact you have with the virus, the more likely you are to come down with a serious case – such clerks, first responders, medical people are most at risk. While people might test positive for casual contact, these people are not likely to come down with anything but minor symptoms – if any at all.  Since the virus like other viruses dies in open air, the idea of wearing gloves is almost ludicrous unless you are a someone who is in constant contact. People running around with face masks and goggles to protect against possible contact with the virus are even sillier.

The whole dispute over masks is even more ridiculous. It is clear that if you are indoors or close to others a mask may protect others from you giving them the infection, but in the open air – at social distance, it is pointless, and even close up, the mask won’t keep you from getting the virus unless you’re wearing a kind of hazmat mask.

The real problem with COVID-19 has been the politics.

Democrats have been trying to blame Trump for delaying in responding to the virus and even dragged out their old warhorse Bob Woodward to try to pin the blame on him, setting up one of his usual traps to ensnare Trump.

First of all, Democrats knew how dangerous the virus was as early as January – when a Senate intelligence committee reviewed the evidence. But instead of releasing the information, Senators like Feinstein simply sold off their stock.

Trump tried to halt traffic from China – which was the source of the virus as shown by the spread in Italy caused by garment workers returning there after Chinese New Year’s – but idiots like Pelosi blocked the move and deliberately went to Chinatown to prove there was no danger.

Secondly, response to pandemics are handled by states – Departments of Health – coordinating with local health officials and reporting directly to the CDC. This means what Trump knew all the governors of every state also knew at that time.

Thirdly, if there is blame for delay, then Biden and Obama should share the blame for failing to declare a state of emergency in 2009 for nine months, which they did not do until 46 states were reaching pandemic levels.

If anyone needs to be blamed, it is the governors of states like New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut, who ignored reports from Italy that indicated the highest death toll would be among senior citizens and these governors not only failed to send medial professionals in to protect those people, but ordered sick people into nursing homes guaranteeing the death toll would even greater.

Government is a dinosaur, even on a local level, so it took the piling up of bodies in one nursing home for the governor of New Jersey to realize there was a problem, and then more than a month after declaring a state of emergency that force people to hide in their houses, he finally started ordering the testing of seniors – too little too late.

But government is only part of the problem.

Media is constantly hyping stuff up, and the virus became the excuse for sensational headlines that lasted months (and is still being milked for a source of hysteria) and for the most part was in lockstep with the Democratic attempt to blame Trump.

Media is a tool for creating significant events the change public opinion.

This is the George Floyd event that has rippled through the world like a tsunami even though statistics don’t justify the presumption of systemic racism in police departments.

The attacks on 9/11 did the same thing. COVID is one more event that media and Democrats appear to be using to influence public opinion.

As baby boomers, we were less susceptible to this – partly because we realized that media and politician often collude to reshape our reality and to try to scare us into a certain mindset. But we were more practical, the sons and daughters of a blue-collar generation who had lived through the Great Depression and World War II and understood that the only thing we needed to fear was fear itself. We were fooled briefly the cold war rhetoric, but soon understood media hyped these things, too.

We were taught by practical parents that we had to learn how to cope with problems, and that the worst thing our parents could do was coddle us.

But once playgrounds started installing rubber mats instead of teaching kids how not to fall, and schools cracked down on bullies rather than teaching kids to stand up to them, we created a generation that needed to be protected.

So naturally, being coddled by over-indulgent parents, kids – now on the verge of adulthood – expect as much from government.

Still worse, many of these kids are being sold a bill of goods when it comes to saving the planet. If only we all give up our cars and hop on bicycles, we can save the world from the threat of global warming (even though the process of warming has been underway for 18,000 years).

Leaders and followers had deluded themselves into believing that we can somehow affect Mother Nature, and so this generation cowers under the illusionary umbrella of trusting science when it is a very questionable science we are being sold.

So, we believe somehow that someone in government above us know how to save us from a virus we all just suffered through in the past.

We listen to idiots from the CDC when they tell us masks are not necessary, and then they are, that we should wear gloves against touching something that might have a virus on it when in most cases, the virus on any surface is already dead. We are being told to cover our eyes with face shields – or perhaps close our eyes to the silliness. We listen to these fools when we are told shutting down the economy is a good idea when it largely benefits the Democratic Party and its plot to retake the White House.

This is not to say you shouldn’t take precautions. But had we been instructed properly by the CDC from the start, shutting down the economy would not have been necessary (if it ever was). We could have reopened businesses in April.

We keep getting told that there are spikes in the cases – not dramatic increases in deaths or hospitalizations, but in people testing positive who may or may not come down with symptoms, and so we keep up the fear level – teachers scared to go to school for fear of dying, parents scared to send their kids to classes, restaurants kept closed, as are gyms, and other business. Theaters kept closed, and New York City turned into a ghost town where tourists are too scared to come.

Instead of calming fears, we have inept politicians trying to assign blame when there is more than enough to go around – using questionable journalists to steer blame to a president they are seeking to depose.

COVID-19 is a problem, but it is also being exploited by opportunistic politicians in conjunction with biased media and we all seem to be buying their bullshit as if being offered the Brooklyn Bridge.

Biden is to blame for California wildfires

September 14, 2020

You have to wonder just how many years it took for climate change to reek its havoc on the west coast, drying up all that land Beverly Hills to the Yukon.

Or did carbon emissions sudden cause a massive drying up of the water resources that created the tinder box now in flames.

Four years ago, when Joe Bidden was still vice president, the same climate change apparently decided to land on the rich neighborhood just north of Los Angeles, driving some of the wealthiest movie and music stars out their homes.

We heard not one peep from any of the many celebrities who are currently blaming Trump for the disaster.

Biden and Obama did manage to outlaw the 100-watt light bulb and to create the Paris Accord which largely allowed other countries and large corporations to opt out of their climate obligations through the exchange of carbon credits.

This did nothing to actually solve the problem of climate change, but it made a lot of people feel good.

Other than awarding a lot of government and other grants to scientist to come up with more and more outlandish end of the world scenarios, the mother-earth-loving Biden did very little to save the planet except to add to the carbon problem with his hot air.

So how long did it take for climate change to reshape the forests of California and Oregon to make them so vulnerable to flame?

Despite all of the hoopla about this being the largest forest fire in the region – that part of the country has been prone to these fires for as long as anyone can remember with as many as two dozen comparable fires over the last 60 years. Mark Twain even reported similar fires as early as the 1970s.

The dry, windy weather conditions in that regions create ideal conditions for wildfires – and before the year 1800 about 4.4 million acres of forest and shrubland burned each year – and a number of these first have last for months.

Although Biden would like to blame Trump for climate change because Trump voided the Paris Accord that paid other countries to keep polluting, the truth the state of California gave climate change a hand by failing to clear up old wood and other fuel serving as tinder for potential blazes.

Diversion of rivers to feed cities like Los Angeles also creates idea conditions for fire – clearly an issue of climate change.

Of course, a long-standing problem is the Diablo and Sana Ana winds are partners in the crime, helping to spread flames once they’ve started.

Biden blames Trump who has been in office only four years, while these problems have existed for centuries – long before the industrial revolution that Climate Scientists claim created Climate Change.

But we heard nothing from Obama, the environmental president, or his environmental vice president. We didn’t even hear anything about these fires from Al Gore, the man who once claimed to have invented the internet and certainly has invented the Climate Change Myth.

If this has been going on for so long and Biden was vice president for eight years before Trump became president, why didn’t Biden do anything about it when was in a position to raise alarm about climate change setting the west coast on fire?

If we have anyone to blame for the current fire, and the lack of forest management, and the diversion of rivers to feed cities, then shouldn’t we be blaming the man who sat and did nothing while he was vice president for eight years?

How long does it take climate change to work its magic? How many years of neglect did it take to set the country on fire?

Did Trump do it all this in his short four years in office?

Didn’t Biden believe in science back when he was in office?

Living in interesting times.

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

The chill air arrived about on time for the change of season.

With COVID-19 plaguing our lives, we seem to have lost track of these spiritual moments that serve as markers in our lives.

The political outweighing the reality of life itself.

We get spun like threads of silk into shapes we do not recognize as real – some master puppeteer pulling each string so that we react.

We have media-created disasters, wildfires that spread across the landscape of our lives and influence who we will be today and for what purpose.

Media always looks for some magic moment to exploit, new 9/11 or a George Floyd moment that changes our perceptions and steers us into some new course we never expected.

We seek gratification from our news media the way ancients sought from tribal seers, information being the new religion, and media guiding us the way priests did towards some level of salvation, one event tells us to stick little patriotic flags on our car antennas, the next telling us to kneel during the national anthem, neither reality meaning anything except to create our need to conform.

We need to fit it, to seem to go along with the crowd, to hate racism and to love the environment, even though both have become fronts for unscrupulous profiteers, mask wearing that has nothing to do with any virus except for greed.

We are so busy reacting to the latest scandal we forget that life is meant for living, and not living in fear.

We get a scandal every day now, some desperate media trick to create a new pandemic of fear, so that we remain shaken and uncertain, and we forget to notice the drop in the temperature outside is a sign of a change of season, not climate change.

We are being taught that all black people have to be fearful of cops, and all white people have to feel guilty about what some of our ancestors did when they didn’t know any better, and that progress towards accepting people of color as equals means nothing because we will always be accused for being racist as long as our faces remain white.

We are supposed to notice the wildfires burning up the west coast, but not the wildfires out of control radicals have set loose in our cities. We’re supposed to mourn the death of rapists and convicted felons at the hands of police, but not the murder of cops by radicals. We are supposed to condemn a 17-year-old white man for defending himself but not blame the man who raped his girlfriend and then brandished a knife before being shot by police.

If we notice the wind, we are supposed to fear it because it may carry some deadly virus rather than the sweet scent of this season’s decaying flowers, but the stench we catch a whiff of is not that of the distant burning forests in Oregon, but of the manipulation of events that insist we remain fearful and cause us to become the very thing we are being accused of being in the first place.

It’s hard not to become judgmental when media manipulates us so openly, and sells us snake oil instead of truth, and it’s hard to trust leaders who would destroy a person’s life over a haircut, or send people to die in nursing homes – all for some political gain that will eventually fade into some new manufactured myth in the future.

We live in interesting times, the Chinese say, and this is a curse.

Media manipulation

Thursday, September 10, 2020

Mainstream media is desperately trying to spin the news to help the democrats in November. Even though most people have made up their minds and the polls suggest Biden is ahead, there is a panic among the Democrats and their media outlets that things might go the way they did in 2016, and both are doing their best to stir up as much dirt and manipulate the public to stop it.

Media picks and chooses what stories it plays this is why you can manipulate the public so much.
This plays into the ability of media to create kind of false narrative when it comes to such things as police shootings.

We see only those shootings that involve police and black people and so come to think there is a trend of racism in the police department when statistics (the ones that are legitimate) suggest otherwise.

We don’t get to hear reports about a white man gets shot – which one study suggests is 25 percent more likely.

We don’t even get the full narrative of the stories we do get such as the Rochester death of a black man from an overdose that media tried to sell as cops killing him by putting on him a spit mask.

Even the infamous case of George Floyd was reported wrong, suggesting the cop killed him when the medical examiner said his blood contained a lethal dose of drugs.

Whenever there is a police-black confrontation in the country, no matter how trivial, mainstream media reports it, building a string of stories to imply there is a pattern, when it is actually the media cherry picking stories.

The illusion is created by the fact that that's the only stories anybody ever sees.

Since people's perceptions of reality are shaped by media, these stories create an impression of institutional racism that other experts claim simply doesn’t exist.

But the parade of stories – leaving out those in which police acted properly, or even heroically, leaves a lasting impression in the public’s mind that all cops are racist and are out to kill black people.

Unfortunately, people make their decisions by what they read and see on TV. None of them actually have personal connection with these except when it's actually happens in their neighborhood – and even then, media’s barrage of negative stories colors their perceptions.

Eyewitnesses to events are rarely reliable because they often see what they want to see – such as believing a suspect is unarmed even when more objective video shows he was armed.

Media has even tried to manipulate the response to these incidents, claiming a protest is peaceful even when the reporter is standing in front of a burning building.

Except for blunders like this, there is no way for a person who watches MSNBC or CNN or reads the Washington Post to verify this information.

The audience has no way to tell whether the story is true, accurate or even deliberately distorted such as The Atlantic story on Trump and veterans which used unnamed and questionable sources.

Journalism provides a number of tools to make up for this built-in bias in reporters and in reporting.

One of these has to do with “on the record” comments people. By putting a name next to a statement, the public gets to decide if that person is bias or not. They can review that person’s track record to determine if he or she has a history of lying or some other motive that may invalidate the statement.

The Atlantic story did not allow people that ability, instead left it up to a well-known bias reporter on a well-known biased publication to decide.

There is no such thing as objective truth or objective reporting, but this is made up for by balanced coverage. When a publication like The Washington Post constantly publishes only negative stories about someone such as Trump, you know already this is not balance or unbiased.

Mainstream media also manipulates stories by leaving out relevant facts, details that would call into question the angle the story is trying to sell. You get portions of quotes, or even misquoted information that over time builds a negative picture in the audience’s mind that no denial can rectify.

Media is also a club. Reporters rarely disparage other reporters’ coverage. Instead, media circles the wagons and protects media that clearly is biased, hiding behind The First Amendment.

Media can also give life to an illegitimate story such as The Atlantic hit piece or previous pieces filtered through The New Yorker to go after Kavanaugh by having these publications break the fact or dishonest story and then have major media follow up on them as if they were valid – a kind of money laundering scheme.

You can also tell a publications’ bias by the people on the staff. The author of the Atlantic story clearly had a bias and was connected to the Biden campaign. Other staff members have also launched attacks of their own, like the gossip columnist who punished in a new book a charge that Trump had tried to rape her in the 1990s, a crime she never reported at the time, and which only appeared in a book she hoped to sell in time for the election.

Mainstream media, of course, doesn’t have the monopoly it once had, which is part of the reason why media is at war with Trump’s ability to use social media to challenge the mainstream narrative.

This may be why Democrats are pressuring social media to censor conservative outlets in order to restore control of the narrative to mainstream media.

But even alternative media such as Fox News is rapidly falling into the hands of liberal crowd, as was indicated by their coverage of The Atlantic story.

Ultimately, there is no way to avoid being manipulated, and since most people are too lazy or busy to seek out alternative information, they tend to take for fact the misreporting they get from mainstream media such MSNBC, The Washington Post or The New York Times – all of which are anti-Trump.

Bob Woodward strikes back!

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Like a rehash of the Star Wars movies when Darth Vader has his short time victory, the Democrats have called on one media’s patron saints to help save the election.

Bob Woodward is part of the Abbott and Costello journalist team who came to fame in the Watergate investigation when they worked with remnants of the Kennedy clan to help bring down President Richard Nixon.

To understand the dynamic behind Watergate, you have to understand that the paper’s publisher, Graham was in bed with Democrats, the paper’s editor, Ben Bradlee had helped leak information to the Kennedy Administration during his time as Newsweek editor, and at least some of the sources feeding the dynamic duo were connected with Kenney lawyers at that time representing Dean – the man who orchestrated the Watergate coverup.

Woodward has always been a political stooge – and a questionable journalist, going so far as to invent whole chapters about the underground garage and moveable flowerpot in his Watergate years, later to pen book after book of which the accuracy was often questioned.

Woodward is notorious for getting stuff wrong – taking information and twisting it into things that aren’t true – a perfect icon to the modern journalist in an era when misinformation has become an art form.

Democrats bring out Woodward each time they need to bring in the big guns.

Last week, the Democrats dragged out Carl Bernstein to help save a fake story in The Atlantic. This week, they are dragging Woodward out of mothballs in order to save their failing Covid-19 narrative.

Woodward claimed the Trump tried to play down COVID-19 and knew that there could be as many as 200,000 deaths.

Of course, at the time, the CDC was projecting possible American deaths in a range from 200,000 to 1.7 million – figures that had media going crazy with overhyping the virus and clearly creating a panic in the United States that had even the most stout-hearted hiding under their beds.

It is hard to tell whether or not Trump intended to down play the virus total deaths because media was so over playing, or whether like many of us, we didn’t see COVID-19 as the black plague media was playing it to be. In truth, statistically, the 1969 pandemic was far worse as far as U.S. deaths.

Media needs Woodward to get the country to blame Trump for the deaths rather than the Democratic governors who sent many senior citizens to their deaths and failed to provide protection to the most vulnerable people.

The president plays never little role in these things since most of the struggle in on a state level, where state Departments of Health are responsible for the response. Indeed, Obama and Biden thought so little of the 2009 pandemic they waited nine months to declare a state of emergency, and only after the virus has spread to 46 states.

I wonder where Woodward was for that one.

Bringing out Woodward is about as believable as The Atlantic story. Even if the information Woodward is providing us is true, the fact is the burden of health is on the governors of the states in whose hands the medical operations actually transpired.

But Woodward being Woodward evokes the Watergate – which is the Democratic wet dream when they managed to do to Nixon what they are desperate to do to Trump.

The problem is Woodward is no longer believable. Too many people have shown how sloppy his work is and he no longer has the same kind of audience he once had, even though the WOKE crowd is likely to believe anything the Washington Post prints.

Democrats in their frenzy to find another Russian conspiracy to hang on the shoulders of Trump have basically created one more dirty trick, hiding it under the questionable reputation of a has-been reporter, and hoping that Woodward’s status in sainthood will convince the public that he is telling the truth this time, when it is clear he never has in the past.

Media defends The Atlantic hit piece

The whole Goldberg Atlantic magazine debacle shows just how journalism really works in America.
There is no objectivity when it comes to journalism.

When attacked no matter what the persuasion media to circles the wagons and defend itself hiding behind the First Amendment the way gun owners hide behind the Second.
People talk about that blue wall of silence when it comes to cops or how the American Medical Association protects bad doctors. This is nothing compared to unethical behavior in journalism.
Journalist and media do take sides especially under the new activist manifesto that seems to have infected journalism schools.
But that said you can bet that when you are on the firing line you are not going to cross other reporters or risk your own reputation. Too many people go from conservative to liberal publications and back to risk doing too much to endanger their career paths by violating the unspoken rule of never made another journalist look back.
There is no doubt that Goldberg from the Atlantic a one-time socialist writer who met with Biden campaign before publishing his hit piece on Trump clearly knew what he was doing and deliberately kept his sources from being exposed.
Liberal media leaped all over it, and claimed to have verified Goldberg’s claims.

This is because all media tend to use the same sources over and over again for all of their stories. In many cases, media use the exact same sources other media uses. But this does not mean those sources are telling the truth.

The public has no way to determine if these sources are truthful or what their personal agenda is because the journalists won’t get them to go on the record. Goldberg might well be quoting well-known liars or people who have a grudge to settle with Trump. Goldberg also has to accept that what they are saying is accurate without any ability to really know one way or the other.

And since liberal media was using the pretext of the Atlantic story to go after Trump they are not going to dispel the myth that the Atlantic story created.
Unfortunately this left the weight of the whole thing on a Fox news reporter who is an inside-the-beltway person and who also checked the facts but could not verify the most salacious parts of it.
But liberal media started going off on it saying even Fox network verified the facts when that is not true.
Unfortunately Fox refused to actually put anybody on the record and so nobody actually knows who were the sources of are and what their agenda is.
This is the danger of using unnamed sources in the story.
If a person won't put his name to a statement that means he has something to hide or some vendetta he is taking out and the journalist by refusing to put that name to that statement denies the public the ability to determine whether a source is valid or not.

The Fox news reporter is it a tough position being forced to go after a colleague in the news industry.
This is the kind of Benedict Arnold situation in which if she actually printed the truth or put names in print she would alienate the industry she is a part of.
She would be ostracized by other reporters; she would lose her contacts in the in Beltway and any hope of transferring to a better job in another medium is lost forever.
The bigger issue here is the fact that Trump has questioned the validity of some media such as The Washington Post and the New York Times and so media – even those who might also object the unbiased reporting circle the wagons and defend these bad news outlets because they see this as an attack on journalism, not just bad news organizations

An attack on one media outlet is an attack on all media.

There are no checks and balances when it comes to media. Media will not police itself and there are no civilian review boards with subpoena power to check on whether or not they are being honest or that their sources are real or that their sources have no agenda.
There is no accountability in journalism but there is a lot of bias and the fact is that with the new activist journalism we are now witnessing the bias is becoming more acceptable and so as the Atlantic story proves  so are dirty tricks.
The Atlantic story could get away with this because it was clear no other news organization is going to turn on the Atlantic to help Trump.
This is a dirty trick the media and the Democrats if pulled before the most recent was during the Kavanaugh hearing when Feinstein leaked stuff to the New Yorker with a questionable story that later got legs because other media picked up on it and repeated the lies.
The Atlantic has now pulled out all stops dragging even people like Carl Bernstein out of retirement to defend a method of Journalism that almost destroyed journalism in the 1970s and 80s. Watergate was the high point of this kind of investigative reporting but also the lowest because the interest behind Woodward and Bernstein were biased they had an editor with strong ties to the Kennedys and a publisher who was deeply involved with the Democratic Party.
Even during this so-called great journalism feat there were questions about the validity of that information and even Ed Bradlee believe that some of the information was made up.
With the Atlantic there is no way for anybody to actually check on the validity of information all of us having to take the word of a journalism society that protects itself and a Fox News journalist who would ruin her career if she stepped too far outside the boundaries of this journalistic Club.
Because this hit piece worked so successfully you can expect the Atlantic to turn out even more of it getting even more notoriety and further burying the concept of objective unbiased reporting.