Longtime Fox News star Megyn Kelly has made the switch to a purportedly more respectable news outlet, but that still doesn’t erase any of the ridiculous and inflammatory statements she made during her time on the right-wing cable news network.

Below, we’ll recap Megyn Kelly’s seven most absurd moments from the past several years.

1. Megyn Kelly rails against the idea that “historical figure” Santa Claus could be black.

Responding to a Slate column that suggested making Santa Claus black could make people of color feel more included, Kelly said that people needed to stop trying to take the whiteness away from “historical figures” like Santa and Jesus.

“Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn’t mean it has to change, you know?” she said. “I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure, that’s a verifiable fact, as is Santa — I just want the kids watching to know that.”

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http://www.alternet.org/media/megyn-kelly-ridiculous-moments

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“Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly” was many things for many people. For the former Fox personality, it was her major coming-out party on NBC. For Russian President Vladimir Putin, it was a game.

And for viewers, it was a chance to see if months and months of heavy buildup surrounding the network’s new star anchor would pay off.

The hour-long news show promised to be a “a tough conversation” between Kelly and the Russian leader. But for Putin, it was child’s play as he displayed an elusive and ultimately dismissive demeanor toward Kelly.

The interview, which was teased for weeks on NBC as a must-see exclusive, lasted less than 10 minutes. But that was just about enough time to confirm that she’s still not a great interviewer, and he’s still one of the most deceptive interview subjects around.

Short of asking “How many people have you killed with your bare hands, Mr. Putin?,” Kelly did everything she could to get something out of him other than smirks, huffs and “nyets.”

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http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-93459846/

So far there is not a shred of evidence that Russia interfered with the US Presidential elections despite the huff and puff from a dejected media and some rancid senators. And there is good reason for not showing a single piece of evidence: There is none. There is no way Russia could have interfered, not even with "fake news" -- amusing or not, in its RT and Sputnik media, or even on "social media"... Hillary's loss was generated on three fronts: a) not keeping tabs on the colleges, b) the evangelicals prepared to vote for Trump despite not liking him and c) the devilish clever game played by Uncle Rupe... Trump did not need the Ruskies to get him across the line... considering that most of the American public hate the Russians and Trump told them he wanted to get closer to Moscow... AND THEY VOTED FOR HIM?

 

 

 

The concept is straight from the Soviet playbook: Plant false information and use it to influence the attitudes of another country’s people and government. This “active measures” technique from the Cold War era appears to have been resurrected with alarming success by the Kremlin in its attack on the 2016 presidential election—and has been echoed in tactics used by President Donald Trump and his associates, according to Clint Watts, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

 

“Part of the reason active measures have worked in this US election is because the commander in chief has used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,” Watts, a former FBI agent, recently testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee

Key to this equation have been RT and Sputnik international, two Russian state-sponsored news outlets. Both reach only relatively small audiences in the US (RT is estimated to reach about 8 million people via cable television), but their impact has been magnified greatly online, with their stories reposted on what Watts calls “gray” conspiracy sites like Breitbart News and InfoWars. Twitter bots and other social media accounts further amplify the stories. 

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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/russian-active-measures-trum...

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The CIA invented disinformation... not really, nor the Russian KGB either. Actually MI6 or its equivalent under the direction of J C Masterman masterly developed disinformation during World War II. Disinformation has been the name of the game since someone wrote the Torah, back in time immemorial. Read the story of Babylon... That the idiot Trump got elected has nothing to do with the Soviet play book... It's time for Mother Jones to wake up or shut down. Their examples of Russian media deceit are quite pitifully benign, compared to the crap that the US has dished overseas, including in Ukraine.

As well, it is clearly understood with a strong smell of reality that the destruction of Libya was unwarranted, would result in ruinous fragmentation of this country and whether the US tragedy in Benghazi could have been avoided is still open for questioning. Mistakes were made. Other retired agents apart from Clint Watts could attest that BIG mistakes were made.

The US government was involved in a conspiracy against Saddam and IT LIED ABOUT IT. This can be proven. The same can be said of Hillary's conspiracy against Gaddafi WITH INVENTED PURPOSES. The same can be said of the US conspiracy against Assad in Syria.

"That same month, Trump pushed hard on the theme that the election was rigged?" Of course the election WAS rigged. All the MMMM (mediocre mass media de mierda) from the Washington Post to the New York Times supported Hillary as if she had been an angel of god when she had been an angel of death in Libya, as well as being a sucker of cash for her "charities" which for all intents and purposes never showed truly where the money went. And when Hillary did not get the Presidency, all the cash pledged to her "charities" coming from the governments of countries simply ceased. What does this say about the purpose of these cash transactions? That these were donation for favours. Nothing else. 

Beyond this, I am ready to believe that Trump knew he had the colleges in the bag while Clinton (and the MMMM) were only paying attention to the popular votes. Trump did not want to alert the morons doing the sums at the DNC that they were going to get whacked... so he played the game as if the elections were rigged against him, while he would have known that the system actually was in his favour.

The Russians had nothing to do with Hillary's loss. La Clinton simply forgot to woo the evangelicals and Uncle Rupe, who, to give him his due, did not use the Russian card at any time in his subtle subterranean manipulations of voters. Hillary was too glib with her disdain, while Trump was a boisterous walking idiot who had already successfully fought the cream de la cream of GOP political opponents.

Sanders, the Bernie factor, had also a lot to do with Hillary's loss. The True Believers were with the Bern. It can be proven that the DNC only got rid of Sanders by trickery. That should be enough for Mother Jones to realise the Russians had nothing to do with Hillary's discomfiture...

Go away... Or start a better plan of attack on Trump. I believe he's going to be a pain in the neck for a long time to come -- unless he meets with an unfortunate accident. Looking at the history of the Presidents of the United States, this is not out of the question...

 

From Philip Giraldi

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According to the NSA report, the first attack on the American company, subsequently revealed to be VR Systems of Florida, was likely successful and the information obtained was used to create emails that would look authentic to the recipients for the second wave of attacks, which began on October 31 and November 1.  The report describes the second series of attacks as a “voter registration themed spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. local government organizations.”

VR Systems’ products are used by electoral commissions in California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New York, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.

In its article, The Intercept opines that “the report indicates that Russian hacking may have penetrated further into U.S. voting systems than was previously understood.” If everything related in the report is true, indeed it does, and it somewhat challenges Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent emphatic claim that his country had not interfered in the U.S. election.

The Intercept article cites an unnamed intelligence official who “cautioned against drawing too big a conclusion from the document because a single analysis is not necessarily definitive.” To that I would add, “even if it is all true as described.” And I would also make some additional observations about what the report andIntercept article are suggesting. First and foremost would be the questions of scale and timing. There is no evidence that the Russians, or whoever carried out the probes, were able to tamper with the either the actual voting process or the tabulation of votes. Indeed, the NSA report dismisses any such possibility. Second, corrupting an election in a country as large as the United States with an electoral system that is largely decentralized would require much more than a probe of 122 local officials starting a week before the balloting. So there was clearly no intention to disrupt the election or to tilt it in a certain direction based on the evidence provided by the NSA report.

I would also note that there is no proof provided in the report to support the assertion that the GRU, Russian military-intelligence service, carried out the probes. Would a highly-sophisticated intelligence service behave so transparently in an operation that would certainly be regarded as highly sensitive? I think not. Cut-outs would have been used to misdirect anyone looking to determine the hand behind the hacks.

All of which is not to say the Russian government didn’t do it or order it done, but it seems to me that the revelations provided in the NSA report do not go very far beyond the kind of random probings that are part and parcel of foreign-intelligence operations as carried out by any sophisticated service. Did someone in Moscow think it might be useful to have some kind of idea of how to meddle with U.S. election technology if that type of info might prove useful down the road? Quite possibly. It should be noted that the U.S. National Security Agency illegally collects vast quantities of information on ordinary Americans but that does not necessarily imply intent to use it in a malicious way. It is a desirable capability and intelligence agencies are always working to expand their reach.

So was Russian intelligence probing U.S. electoral systems? Quiet plausibly yes, and it should be a matter of concern for every American as it suggests a vulnerability in the electronics behind how we vote. But did Russia actually interfere with the election or seek to use the probing to elect a particular candidate? The answer is clearly no. The article and the document it is based on should serve as a wake-up call to those who are complacent about the security of our technologies. But on a political level, we are back to square one, with often hysterical allegations surfaced as part of the media and political storm we now refer to as Russiagate.

Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer, is executive director of the Council for the National Interest.

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http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/was-russia-probing-u-s-e...

 

Pressed by Megyn Kelly on his ties to President Trump, an exasperated Vladimir Putin blurted out, “We had no relationship at all. … I never met him. … Have you all lost your senses over there?”

Yes, Vlad, we have.

Consider the questions that have convulsed this city since the Trump triumph, and raised talk of impeachment.

Did Trump collude with Russians to hack the DNC emails and move the goods to WikiLeaks, thus revealing the state secret that DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was putting the screws to poor Bernie Sanders?

If not Trump himself, did campaign aides collude with the KGB?

Now, given that our NSA and CIA seemingly intercept everything Russians say to Americans, why is our fabled FBI, having investigated for a year, unable to give us a definitive yes or no?

The snail’s pace of the FBI investigation explains Trump’s frustration. What explains the FBI’s torpor? If J. Edgar Hoover had moved at this pace, John Dillinger would have died of old age.

We hear daily on cable TV of the “Trump-Russia” scandal. Yet, no one has been charged with collusion, and every intelligence official, past or prevent, who has spoken out has echoed ex-acting CIA Director Mike Morrell:

“On the question of the Trump campaign conspiring with the Russians here, there is smoke, but there is no fire, at all. … There’s no little campfire, there’s no little candle, there’s no spark.”

Where are the criminals? Where is the crime?

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http://www.theamericanconservative.com/buchanan/the-impeach-trump-conspi...

 

 

The Associated Press has become the latest news organization to retract a claim alleging that all 17 US intelligence agencies agreed that Russia was behind the hack of Democratic emails and tried to swing the election in favor of Republican Donald Trump.

The claim has repeatedly appeared in the news agency’s reporting in recent months, most recently on June 29 in a piece by White House Reporter Ken Thomas.

“All 17 US intelligence agencies have agreed Russia was behind last year’s hack of Democratic email systems and tried to influence the 2016 election to benefit Trump,” the story states.

Following the NYT, @AP posts a correction of its circulation of a widely repeated myth about Russia hacking https://t.co/rIlpYHQoZxpic.twitter.com/J5YT0HuXD9

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 1, 2017

The retraction, emailed to RT.com on Friday in response to an inquiry about the claim, reads: “In stories published April 6, June 2, June 26 and June 29, The Associated Press reported that all 17 US intelligence agencies have agreed that Russia tried to influence the 2016 election to benefit Donald Trump.

“That assessment was based on information collected by three agencies – the FBI, CIA and National Security Agency – and published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which represents all U.S. intelligence agencies. Not all 17 intelligence agencies were involved in reaching the assessment.”

The retraction, published as a “clarification” on the AP’s website, follows a similar move by the New York Times on June 25.

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https://www.rt.com/viral/394917-associated-press-retraction-trump-russia/

 

see toon at top... Meanwhile the three (3) agencies — CIA, NSA, FBI — do NOT have ANY PROOF of Putin's interference in the US Presidential elections.

 

Listen also: 

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sundayextra/2017-07-02/8655616

 

 

The Kremlin does not know Russian lawyer Natalya Veselnitskaya and was not aware of her reported meeting with US President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., which he said occurred during the 2016 election campaign.

“No, we don’t know who [Natalya Veselnitskaya] is, and obviously we can’t track the meetings of all Russian lawyers at home or abroad,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.

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https://www.rt.com/news/395890-russian-lawyer-trump-son-meeting/

 

Meanwhile at voting for Trump inc.:

 

 

“As reporters chase stories to feed the 24-hour news cycle, they dilute facts and develop false narratives about Russian hacking and potential vulnerabilities in the system,” he said.“The prevailing plot line is that states like Georgia can’t provide suitable security for elections.”

Kemp, who serves as the state’s chief election official in charge of voting procedures, said “non-partisan experts agree that manipulating a presidential election makes a good TV storyline but lacks real-world standing.”

The mainstream media pushing the Russia line in their coverage have simply no clue about safety measures installed to ensure protection of the election system, the official noted.

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https://www.rt.com/usa/395141-russia-us-election-media-false/

 

Meanwhile on Comey island:

 

Former FBI Director James Comey’s memos about meetings with President Donald Trump were government property and four out of seven contained classified information, according to officials familiar with the documents.

Trump tweeted about the revelations on Monday morning, after they were reported on the ‘Fox & Friends’ show on Fox News, saying that Comey leaked classified information to the media and calling it “so illegal.”

James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media. That is so illegal!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2017

After Trump fired him on May 9, Comey revealed he had written up a number of memoranda about their meetings since the beginning of the year. He leaked the content of some of the memos to the press through a friend, later identified as Columbia Law School Professor Daniel Richman.

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https://www.rt.com/usa/395899-comey-memos-classified-fbi/

 

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After a Trump owned Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in 2013, one should see the devil coming out of all the bottom orifices of the press. And the media oblige explaining how this and that and who did what, then the media piss in their own pool, with the hope that would not reach the end of the article — and only pay attention to the grossly unfair headlines. Mother Jones is not an exception in this trickery. When reading articles in the media, the trick is to ALWAYS read the end first to see where the fluff is leading to. Usually nothing and still no proofs of collusion between Trump and Putin on the Presidential elections:

 

 

Given Goldstone’s ties to the Agalarovs and Trump—and the friendship between Trump and Emin—it is not so odd that this talent manager had influence with Donald Trump Jr. and could set up this curious session with Trump’s most intimate advisers. The bigger mystery now is the precise role the pop-star son of a Russian oligarch associated with Putin played in trying to pass derogatory Clinton information to the Trump campaign—and whether this effort extended beyond this one meeting.

UPDATE: On Monday afternoon, Goldstone issued this statement: “I was asked by my client in Moscow—Emin Agalarov—to help facilitate a meeting between a Russian attorney (Natalia Veselnitzkaya) and Donald Trump Jr. The lawyer had apparently stated she had some information regarding illegal campaign contributions to the DNC which she believed Mr. Trump Jr. might find important. I reached out to Donald Trump Jr. and he agreed to squeeze us into a very tight meeting schedule. At the meeting, the Russian attorney presented a few very general remarks regarding campaign funding and then quickly turned the topic to that of the Magnitzky Act and the banned US adoption of Russian children—at which point the meeting was halted by Don Jr. and we left. Nothing came of that meeting and there was no follow up between the parties.”

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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/07/how-a-music-publicist-connec...

 

 

 

Did the Trump campaign collude with Russian agents trying to manipulate the course of the 2016 election? Some analysts have argued that the media has made too much of the collusion narrative; that Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with Kremlin-linked Russians last year was probably innocent (if ill-advised); or that Russian operatives probably meant for the meeting to be discovered because they were not trying to recruit Mr. Kushner and Mr. Trump as agents, but mainly trying to undermine the American political system.

We disagree with these arguments. We like to think of ourselves as fair-minded and knowledgeable, having between us many years of experience with the C.I.A. dealing with Russian intelligence services. It is our view not only that the Russian government was running some sort of intelligence operation involving the Trump campaign, but also that it is impossible to rule out the possibility of collusion between the two.

The original plan drawn up by the Russian intelligence services was probably multilayered. They could have begun an operation intended to disrupt the presidential campaign, as well as an effort to recruit insiders to help them over time — the two are not mutually exclusive. It is the nature of Russian covert actions (or as the Russians would call them, “active measures”) to adapt over time, providing opportunities for other actions that extend beyond the original intent.

It is entirely plausible, for example, that the original Russian hack of the Democratic National Committee’s computer servers was an effort simply to collect intelligence and get an idea of the plans of the Democratic Party and its presidential candidate. Once derogatory information emerged from that operation, the Russians might then have seen an opportunity for a campaign to influence or disrupt the election. When Donald Trump Jr. responded “I love it” to proffers from a Kremlin-linked intermediary to provide derogatory information obtained by Russia on Hillary Clinton, the Russians might well have thought that they had found an inside source, an ally, a potential agent of influence on the election.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/opinion/donald-trump-russia-collusion-cia.html

 

And they lived happy ever after... The media spins fairy tales like a Grimm brother convention...

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Providing new evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election, Facebook disclosed on Wednesday that it had identified more than $100,000 worth of divisive ads on hot-button issues purchased by a shadowy Russian company linked to the Kremlin.

Most of the 3,000 ads did not refer to particular candidates but instead focused on divisive social issues such as race, gay rights, gun control and immigration, according to a post on Facebook by Alex Stamos, the company’s chief security officer. The ads, which ran between June 2015 and May 2017, were linked to some 470 fake accounts and pages the company said it had shut down.

Facebook officials said the fake accounts were created by a Russian company called the Internet Research Agency, which is known for using “troll” accounts to post on social media and comment on news websites.

The disclosure adds to the evidence of the broad scope of the Russian influence campaign, which American intelligence agencies concluded was designed to damage Hillary Clinton and boost Donald J. Trump during the election. Multiple investigations of the Russian meddling, and the possibility that the Trump campaign somehow colluded with Russia, have cast a shadow over the first eight months of Mr. Trump’s presidency.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/technology/facebook-russian-political-ads.html

 

Facebook thrives on fake news... Profit comes from fake news and other stuff... And if the Facebook users are not able to distinguish between fake and true news, don't blame the Russians, please... Meanwhile La Woman is blaming everyone else but herself... Even Bernie is coping one in the gonads, while Obama is not thanked either... Only her cheating husband escape the sociopathic Hillary storm...