Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Press hyperventilation

Sometimes this election seems really surreal. Donald Trump, in one of his ironic moods during a press conference, invites Russia to publish all Hillary's "missing" emails, and the liberal press goes wild with outrage.

Does anyone really think Russia needs his invitation? Does anyone really think Russia (and China, and North Korea, and...and...) haven't already been hacking any government sites they can get into - including no doubt Hillary's unsecured home server for all those months she was Secretary of State? 

What this manufactured outrage really shows is how shallow the reporting is in this election.  Yes, Trump's statement was probably dumb and intemperate (so what else is new?), but hardly the threat to civilization and life-as-we-know-it that the press would like to make it. The unbelievable incompetence of Hillary and of the Democratic National Committee in using such insecure systems that can so easily be hacked - now that would be real news.