@Baldimo,
How many times are you going to try to twist what Obama said in the debate with Romney? In that debate, this is what Obama said, in a discussion about the threat of al-Qaeda: "Governor Romney, I'm glad that you recognize that al-Qaeda is a threat, because a few months ago when you were asked what was the biggest geopolitical threat facing America you said Russia. Not al-Qaeda, you said Russia. And the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back" .
At the time, Russia had been contained within its borders, and al-Qaeda had blown up the World Trade Center and was actively planning and carrying out terrorist plots against the US and other Western countries. Tell me, what would
your answer be to that question back in 2012?
But notice, during his presidency, Obama fully supported NATO, promised and delivered to Romania and Poland anti-missile devices and OKed such programs as the F-35, the most expensive weapon in history. Clearly, Obama understood the need to continue to contain Russia.
Exactly how does this justify the press downplaying the Russian role in this election on Trump's side? Why wasn't the press doing more investigative work, why wasn't the media going deeper into the ties between Russia and Trump's campaign? For instance, Paul Manafort, one of Trump's campaign managers, had a job working for the pro-Russian Ukrainian faction, (which obviously takes aid and orders from the Kremlin), and during that employment he worked to lobby Congress for legislation the pro-Kremlin Ukrainian faction wanted. Trump's campaign manager was a pro-Kremlin lobbyist. How much attention did this news get? Not much, a little noise and they let it drop. And his replacement as campaign manager is Steve Bannon, who is the editor of the Breitbart website, which carries pro-Russian editorials and newsclips.
They have even adopted the Russian practice of attacking politicians who go against Russian policy as Jews, (if they are). What difference does it make which religion you are when dealing with political matters? But if a politician of the Jewish faith does something Russia doesn't like, Bannon's website would make note in the headline that a Jewish politician opposed Russia. It all plays into the right wing and Russian fantasy of the "New World Order", which is a euphemism for Jews who supposedly have all the money and who run the world. Putin is supposedly the anti-New World Order hero. And Trump's campaign manager, now Chief of Staff, is going along with this thinking on his website.
The press didn't go into the Russian backing of Trump until after the election was over, only now are they picking up steam. It's an explosive story, and instead of pursuing it vigorously, the press allowed themselves to become the daily Trump Tweet Report.
That's your idea of left leaning? The conservative's people are up to their neck in Russian connections and openly expressed pro-Russian sympathies and the press lets it go?