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There is nothing new about a Russian government seeking to exert influence in Western countries. For many decades, the Soviet Union supported Western communist parties and ran disinformation campaigns (Operation Infektion, the campaign to convince the world that the United States invented AIDS, was one of the most famous). The KGB slipped money and guns into the hands of terrorists and extremists, the Red Army Faction and the Irish Republican Army among them.

After the demise of the Soviet Union, these games stopped. The KGB was in disarray; more important, a large part of the Russian establishment then wanted to join the West, not undermine it. But now we live in a different era. Russia is run not by “reformers” but by very rich men who believe that Western institutions, and Western democratic ideals, threaten their power and their stolen money.

LOL, did you yourself "stand by" when the "patriot act" of the shrub-cheney cabal listed names of people, and placed them under house arrest, until they could prove their innocence?

And it would be a lot of fun to watch Trump go through impeachment and have his lying, narcissistic, kleptocratic ass shown the door. So I vote for that.

I can take it...Tell me...Is it lupus?

Your imagination is on overdrive. You are silly and uninformed.

People like you hate facts, so like a child give it a thumb down.

I bet you're talking thru your rectum.

I agree with him, he could have won easily.

Nice try, cheese-eater.

That aint what Koppel said at all. He said he thought that, as an opinion commentator (not a journalist), Hannity "was very good at what he does," but that he thought it attracted people who "think that ideology is more important than facts." The typical left-wing distortion of what legitimate people say, eh?

Koppel was NOT talking about Hannity, per se, until Hannity asked him what he thought was wrong with "opinion" pieces like his. He was talking about the media in general, the so-called "main stream media."

Quote:

In a Gallup Poll conducted in September 2016, only 32 percent of respondents said they had “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of trust in the media.

Koppel: "the fact of the matter is by being so openly adversarial, I think it has simply divided the country even more than it was. I think the mainstream media may have to back off a little bit..."

To ignore one side or the other “just adds to more and more extreme partisanship,” Koppel says.

" We can't just get lost in our own little bubble or our own little opinion silo.”

Every left-wing rag will ONLY report what he said about Hannity, and ignore his direct criticism of them.

No one else thinks the so-called debacle, where 90% of the country, including 2/3 of NRA members agreed with Obama,s position, had any effect on 2016,