Early this month, Congressman Adam Schiff, D-CA, appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to promote his latest TV show, i.e. the January 6 Committee hearings.
Schiff seemed
at ease, he had an absolute unquestioning ally in Colbert and a brainwashed audience eager to
accept his deceptions.
Most individuals reveal
their true colors in relaxed settings.
Schiff began by conceding that his previous efforts, the Mueller
Hearing and the Ukraine hearing, were flops because they were monotonous and
marred by partisan disagreements.
The nonchalant
reference to as partisan bickering of the previous probes is quite telling.
Schiff probably
forgot that partisan squabbling is how democracy functions. Only totalitarian
regimes are devoid of partisan divide because dissent is crushed using
draconian methods.
This reference to
'non-partisan' is similar to the ‘diversity’ claim that liberals make. The
differences are superficial, but there is consensus on key issues.
All the Committee members, especially the ‘Republicans’, share a
consensus that Trump is guilty. They are merely working their way backward
hoping to entrap Trump or his allies. The goal of the hearings is not to find
facts but to push a narrative. These kinds of biased ‘probes’ occur only in
third-world dictatorships.
This probe and the
hearing is a prolonged Democrat campaign event for the mid-terms and for 2024.
Next, Colbert asked
Schiff about the ‘fancy TV producer’ hired for the broadcast of the
hearings.
Schiff complained
unlike Watergate Hearings during the 70s, TV channels no longer broadcast such
hearings live and audiences don’t watch hearings for prolonged periods of
time.
He is wrong, 20
million people, which is a sizable audience in today’s times, tuned in
to watch the Schiff show. But they rapidly gave up, perhaps upon deducing the
partisan motives of the committee and the fact they had nothing new to reveal.
Schiff was actually
lamenting that the Democrats no longer have a monopoly over narratives. People
have myriad outlets to discover facts. No longer are the words of the NYT or a
Partisan Committee treated like God’s truth.
Schiff then said that
he wanted to tell 'the story of the insurrection in a clear and compelling way'
to engage the viewers. It was an admission that a made-for-TV
spectacle, where style triumphs because of the lack of substance.
We all know that
Schiff was among the leading proponents of the Russia Collusion hoax that was
aimed at overturning the 2016 election. We also know Colbert used his show as a
platform to push these lies. But the sanctimonious rarely have self-awareness.
Colbert asked Schiff
if there would be any startling new revelations during the hearings.
Schiff claimed that
the public is desensitized due to the relentless barrage of news of the ‘tragic
and incredible breakdown' of the American Democratic system’ under Trump.
Schiff added that the committee had an uphill task to break through the
numbness and ‘grab people by the lapel’ to tell them that they 'came close to
losing our Democracy’.
Beneath these polite
words, both Colbert and Schiff are furious that citizens don’t believe their
narrative. They wish they had obedient subjects rather than questioning
citizens.
Next Colbert referred
to the likes of Steve Bannon, Mark Meadows, and Peter Navarro who defied
subpoenas of the January 6th Committee. He asked how Schiff
felt that these men were not charged by the DOJ.
Schiff said he was
disappointed and alarmed, that people are not punished for their Contempt of
Congress. Schiff also baselessly claimed that Bannon and the rest who defied
summons did not have any privilege to do so.
Perhaps Schiff's
laments didn’t fall on deaf ears, a few days back the DOJ actually arrested
Peter Navarro, and was taken away from a fight before the public in handcuffs
and leg irons like a career criminal.
Defying Congressional
summons is nothing new.
In the past, everyone
from Nixon’s Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to Obama’s Attorney General
Eric Holder refused to testify before Congress. They were held in contempt but
nothing more happened to them.
What is amazing is
how Colbert and Schiff were talking about misusing government powers to punish
their political opponents and attaching morality to it.
Schiff concluded by
saying that it is up to the citizenry to protect Democracy. This was Adam
almost saying ‘Vote Democrat to protect our Democracy’. It was also Schiff
admitting the Committee had nothing.
There was an undercurrent of helplessness in the conversation, they know they have nothing but have to continue with the charade.
The occurrences of
January 6th was a protest that went overboard. It is unclear
how many covert operatives such as Ray Epps had infiltrated the protest to
encourage protesters to enter the Capitol building. It is also unclear if other
covert operatives infiltrated the protests to cause violence.
The protestors were
unarmed and the Capitol police did very little to either prevent them from
entering the building or evict them out of the building.
This was not a coup.
In a real coup,
trained and armed personnel would have stormed into the building. The armed
forces and the media would be overcome. The police would have first been
targeted. Key officials would have been held at gunpoint and ordered to certify
the elections in favor of Trump.
But that didn't
happen.
There was no threat
to Democracy.
The only threat to
Democracy was in 2017 when the Democrats led a baseless probe to overturn
the 2016 elections. The Mueller probe involved the misuse of government
agencies to persecute political opponents. The media was complicit in pushing
the narrative. The Democrats also conducted two baseless impeachments when
the Russian Collusion hoax failed. This January 6th probe is merely a continuance of
this trend.
Back then the goal
was to force Trump out of office, the goal now is to prevent him from running in
2024.
They realize they
have been a failure in governance. Under Biden, the US has suffered on
many fronts. There is 40-year high inflation, surging
gas prices, and a supply chain crisis. The border is open which causes an
influx of migrants, human trafficking, and smuggling of illicit drugs.
The Democrats have
neither uttered perfunctory words of concern for the suffering people nor have
they offered any solutions.
They realize that exaggerations,
lies, phony probes, and staged hearings are their only chance to retain
power.
They probably forget the famous Lincoln quote that you can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
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