n yet another reminder of the damage inflicted by the Trump-Russia collusion hoax on the establishment media’s credibility and sanity, liberal pundit Keith Olbermann recently took to Twitter to renounce “the stain of Russian heritage” that apparently haunts him.
It’s unclear where this is coming from in the first place. In 2007, Olbermann spoke of “my immigrant German ancestors” to try to score a point against conservative immigration restrictionists. More than a decade later, he seems to have discovered new foreign blood to weaponize against his political opponents. But indiscriminately trashing Russia—not just its government, but the nation as a whole—is nothing new to establishment propagandists. Since the 2016 election, pundits like Rachel Maddow and Jonathan Chait have spun elaborate Russian conspiracies. In 2017, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told NBC that Russians are “almost genetically driven to co-opt, penetrate, gain favor, whatever.”
Russia and Russians are some of the American media’s few remaining acceptable targets because the U.S. defense establishment prefers to focus on Russia to the exclusion of more dangerous enemies. The Obama Administration spent eight years compromising the United States’ ability to respond to Islamic extremism, and the Biden Administration is now re-opening the door to Chinese influence on American institutions.
This leaves Russia as not just a competitor to the United States but as the only foreign power against which the national security state and its supporting actors in the media can deploy unrestrained aggression.
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