Monday, December 09, 2019

Roger Kimball: On the omerta | Power Line

Roger Kimball: On the omerta | Power Line
See the source image"...I am so glad that you wrote about the mainstream media’s policy of omertà (a code of silence about criminal activity and a refusal to give evidence to authorities.) regarding Andy McCarthy’s Ball of Collusion and Lee Smith’s The Plot Against the President
Both books, as you say, are essential to our understanding of what has turned out to be the most serious political scandal in the history of the American Republic...because the nature of the scandal—the weaponization of our intelligence community in order to overturn a Presidential election—is at once so grievous and so misreported by the organs of a co-opted Fourth Estate that the usual niceties about declaring an interest pale before the egregious reality of this attempted coup. 
Again, I am not being hyperbolic in deploying the phrase “attempted coup.”
What we have seen in the response to both books is a perfect storm of unspoken media collusion to bury the books in order to preserve The Narrative..."
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