Evidence required for the hilited.
Both partisan sides play stupid when their homeboys are being looked at.
I understand the pretense: pretending that you want people to source claims.
Well sure, if I say something with even the slightest doubt. Something so widely reported, if you are not operating with a confirmation-bias filter, is an expectation of a reasonably informed person.
But partisanship has us play the game of stupid first: I am too stupid to look up something that reflects negatively on my idol. Then
- kill the messenger, poison the well: the source is biased
- it hasn't been proven in court
- Tu Quoque
- etc.
I expect my ex-presidents to make a lot of money doing speeches, writing books, whatever - these are some of the top people in our country.
But if this is legal - our politicians can amass multibillion dollar fortunes this way. I don't care if they are republicans or democrats - look who is behind the biggest money.
Saudi Arabia for example. Members of that royal family financed the September 11 attacks. It is a bizarre kingdom that has a agreement with the biggest engine of radical muslim terrorists in the world: The Wahabbis.
This century-old alliance was how the House of Saud conquered that part of the old Ottoman Empire, with the support of the head-choppers, the Wahabbis. This is 1901. They cut off 40,000 heads by some estimates and another 350,000 limbs. ISIS is Wahabbist. Saudi Arabia is the source of Wahabbism, the religious source of ISIS.
Since 1901 the House of Saud has kept power by financing Wahabbi mosques both inside, but more importantly outside Saudi Arabia, instilling this extreme radical Sunni dark ages philosophy into the most decisive terrorism in the world.
This is just one example of both parties having been bought off by Saudi Arabia to look the other way when this is supposedly the entire reason for the war on terror. The media shrieks about ISIS doing it and we all agree how horrific it is. But the Saudis do the same things. They are the source of ISIS, who is dutifully following their example. All going back to this 1901 alliance of head-choppers and House of Saud.
I don't want Hillary and Bill Clinton bought off by the Saudis, and I don't want Bush bought off by the Saudis. But both parties are bought off so the 19 pages of the 9/11 report is happily censored, just like the bipartisan war crime paper trail in Hillary's emails is being censored right now. John McCain and Hillary Clinton bear the key responsibility for having armed and funded what became ISIS, acting as allies to Saudi Arabia.
I don't hear either set of partisans wanting to know about what both democrats and republicans were up to in Libya and Syria especially, but they're up to bad things all over the region and our bipartisan blindness is not serving our country well in the place we are fighting an expanding war, meaning across ever more countries.