Here's an interesting opinion piece from The Hill that cuts through the (mostly fake) outrage and asks, and kind of answers, the questions that I've been asking ever since the whole "Russia hacked the election!" thing broke. That is...
What, exactly, did Russia do? And how did they affect the election?
It also touches, quite brutally, on why the left has been so eager to place the blame for losing the election onto the Russians, instead of on themselves where is belongs.
The answer to "What, exactly, did Russia do?" is actually quite simple - they hacked into the DNC and Podesta's emails and leaked what they found. They didn't fabricate anything, they simply leaked what they found. And what they leaked was stuff many people already strongly suspected, that the DNC had selected Hillary to be the IT girl, conspired against Bernie to ensure he didn't win, and the DNC, the Hillary campaign, and the mainstream media all colluded to try and make it happen with Hillary.
As to the second question of "How did the Russian hacks affect the election?" the answer to that is pretty simple, too - they didn't.
But you noticed from almost the very beginning of the leaks, the left and the press were full of moral outrage, to the point where what was in the leaks was (and still is) irrelevant, because the leaks were carried out by the Russians.
Once you've read that article, read this one. It's an excellent example of deflecting blame, moral outrage, and hilarity. It's almost like the author is stomping his feet and throwing a temper trantrump in the candy aisle
On a separate note, I think it's butt-hurt hilarious how the Dems and the press immediately dismissed as being without evidence and just utterly ridiculous that Obama would wiretap the Trump campaign, despite the known existence of FISA orders to do just that, yet at the same time, with even less evidence, accept as stone-cold truth that the Trump campaign actually conspired with Russia to hack a couple of email accounts with a phishing scheme.
What, exactly, did Russia do? And how did they affect the election?
It also touches, quite brutally, on why the left has been so eager to place the blame for losing the election onto the Russians, instead of on themselves where is belongs.
The answer to "What, exactly, did Russia do?" is actually quite simple - they hacked into the DNC and Podesta's emails and leaked what they found. They didn't fabricate anything, they simply leaked what they found. And what they leaked was stuff many people already strongly suspected, that the DNC had selected Hillary to be the IT girl, conspired against Bernie to ensure he didn't win, and the DNC, the Hillary campaign, and the mainstream media all colluded to try and make it happen with Hillary.
As to the second question of "How did the Russian hacks affect the election?" the answer to that is pretty simple, too - they didn't.
But you noticed from almost the very beginning of the leaks, the left and the press were full of moral outrage, to the point where what was in the leaks was (and still is) irrelevant, because the leaks were carried out by the Russians.
Once you've read that article, read this one. It's an excellent example of deflecting blame, moral outrage, and hilarity. It's almost like the author is stomping his feet and throwing a temper trantrump in the candy aisle
On a separate note, I think it's butt-hurt hilarious how the Dems and the press immediately dismissed as being without evidence and just utterly ridiculous that Obama would wiretap the Trump campaign, despite the known existence of FISA orders to do just that, yet at the same time, with even less evidence, accept as stone-cold truth that the Trump campaign actually conspired with Russia to hack a couple of email accounts with a phishing scheme.
