Liberals are smart. So smart that, give them an inch of rope, and they will figure out how to hang themselves. Every time.
CNN is getting to the end of their inch of rope. This weekend they trotted out former senior White House correspondent and would-be Trump foil Jim Acosta to interview former White House staffer John Dean, who obligingly called for the arrest of former Trump advisor and War Room host Steven K. Bannon.
For those unfamiliar, John Dean is best known as the White House lawyer in charge of the Watergate coverup who turned state's evidence on President Richard Nixon when it became clear that Nixon and his inside team were setting him up to be the fall guy on Watergate. Dean’s testimony was a dramatic break in the investigation, and spelled the beginning of the end for Nixon.
Dean achieved a fleeting fame on national television which he attempted to parlay into a cottage industry of criticizing the neocon Republican establishment. He wrote books, authored columns, and has regularly appeared as a guest on MSNBC and CNN. He clearly loves the spotlight.
While Dean may have had receipts on George W. Bush by dint of his father's service under Nixon, he is clearly a fish out of water in asserting that Bannon is "up to eyeballs in January 6."
Dean at 84 has been out of politics for almost fifty years, and that he continues to offer himself as a kind of high-minded whistleblower to a used-to-be watchdog press that is now a mouthpiece for the Great Reset only underscores that he has outlived his utility to the modernity that has replaced him.
If anyone is up to their eyeballs it is CNN, who bet all their chips on depicting the January 6 Capitol Riots as an attempt by Trump to overthrow the US government.
CNN has since watched their investment decline in value under the investigative reporting of Revolver.news which is increasingly showing that January 6 was a failed intelligence operation and not a failure of intelligence.
Of all the news operations, CNN is the most deeply invested in the Democrat’s J6 insurrection narrative.
CNN leads J6 reportage with 149 articles-- more than all other news outlets combined.
CNN leads J6 coverage with 333,812 words--more than all other outlets combined.
CNN leads in J6 malword density with 192.55 PPM--more than all other outlets combined.
Think of malwords as a the metric for media narrative control. Here’s a quick primer:
Malwords are keywords weaponized for information warfare. Not a year ago “January 6” meant nothing more than a date. Today, it invokes an alleged attempt by Trump supporters to topple the US government. “Unvaccinated” used to be a Scrabble term. Now it describes mouth-breathing science deniers whose ignorance threatens to kill us all with a virus from which there is a 97-99% recovery rate.
Malwords are mental malware, verbal viruses designed to spread quickly for the purpose of a) silencing dissent by control of language, narrative, and speech, and b) by increasing public tolerance for government-sponsored atrocity and c) emboldening officials to acts of atrocity for which they would normally lack spine. Hence the Acosta-Dean interview.
Malword frequencies are expressed in parts per million (PPM), the number of times per million published words we can expect to see them. The average person processes approximately 20,000-30,000 words over the course of a day, so if a particular malword shows up in the the news corpus at a frequency of over 50 PPM, chances of hearing that term at least once in your daily consumption of news is pretty good.
With CNN as your news source, chances on encountering a weaponized J6 article is roughly four times daily. On an individual reporter basis, it’s even better:
Ten of the top ten reporters by number of J6 articles are from CNN
Annie Grayer: 29
Ryan Nobles: 17
Manu Raju: 17
Jeremy Herb: 16
Chris Cillizza: 16
Zachary Cohen: 13
Wolf Blitzer: 12
Whitney Wild: 10
Marshall Cohen: 9
Clare Foran: 7
Ten of the top ten reporters by J6 malword density are from CNN:
Whitney Wild: 1069.00 PPM
Annie Grayer: 1010.66 PPM
Ryan Nobles: 829.52 PPM
Zachary Cohen: 587.01 PPM
Jeremy Herb: 549.52 PPM
Marshall Cohen: 545.26 PPM
Chris Cillizza: 268.44 PPM
Manu Raju: 267.26 PPM
Clare Foran: 109.70 PPM
Wolf Blitzer: 89.54 PPM
Many of these journalists write for CNN Wire Service, where average article length is 1,000 words, meaning you are going to be getting malworded at least once per article in anything on January 6 by Whitney Wild or Annie Grayer. Wolf Blitzer is broadcast and averages about 7,500 words per segment, giving him a lower malword PPM of 0.675 instances per article, but at a rate which gives you a malworded piece on J6 from The Situation Room almost twice a day if that was all he was reporting on. And for many of these reporters J6 is pretty much ALL they are reporting on.
Jeff Zucker made a big bet on turning January 6 into a strategy for recapturing market share for his failing network by turning up the heat on the Deplorables. Now that his bet is threatened, he rolls out Jim Acosta who until now has been largely MIA on the J6 story. But Acosta knows better than anyone else at CNN how to create a scandal out of nothing at all, and that is what Zucker increasingly needs.
It may seem rich that Acosta would dust off someone from nearly half a century ago as expert witness on White House politics. But CNN is not playing for relevance but to emotion. Few things mist the eyes of the aging Democrats on the Select Committee--Chairman Bennie Thompson, Zoe Lofgren, Adam Schiff-- like the reminder of their glorious Watergate past. And the message could not be clearer from someone who was up to his eyeballs in Nixon's coverup--- there's a John Dean in there somewhere, and it’s gotta be Steven K. Bannon.
And that's all the Select Committee needs to throw Bannon in the clink until he turns on Trump. Problem is that Bannon is spoiling for a fight, and will not testify unless it’s on his terms. The committee can let him rot in solitary, but the longer they do, the more of a Nelson Mandela figure Bannon will become, metastasizing MAGA into a VietCong-style insurgency that will not give a shit, “radicalizing” further behind bars or in COVID camps, and waiting Taliban-like, for its moment.
You think supply chain collapse is bad?
The Liberals may get their man, but they will overplay their hand, only accelerating economic collapse and a Thermidorian Reaction against everything Woke.
Be careful what you wish for. It may happen sooner than you think.