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Book: The Russia Hoax

Kid Eager

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Kid Eager said:
For some reason this book has started showing up on my Kindle suggestions (I think it might be a paid promotion): https://www.amazon.com/Gregg-Jarrett/e/B07CV8ZKC6/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1534656706&sr=1-1

Have any of the US forumites heard of Gregg Jarrett? Is he credible? I read some of the reviews there and it’s pretty full-on with a range of hating on everybody not on the Republican side of the political fence, as far as I can tell.
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Gregg Jarrett is a regular guest on the Sean Hannity show. But since Hannity's show isn't on MSNBC, you probably don't know who he is either.
 
Jarrett has a regular program on Fox News. He's right up there with the Hannity crowd.

He does more than fill in.
 
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Slings and Arrows said:
Gregg Jarrett is a regular guest on the Sean Hannity show. But since Hannity's show isn't on MSNBC, you probably don't know who he is either.
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Yes, Jarrett can be counted on to give Hannity a "legal" opinion that invariably lines up with his right-wing politics, even if it contradicts what he said in a different case. But that's okay in a game where everything is made up and the points don't matter.
 
Slings and Arrows said:
Gregg Jarrett is a regular guest on the Sean Hannity show. But since Hannity's show isn't on MSNBC, you probably don't know who he is either.
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Jarrett was a news anchor on MSNBC before he joined Fox; he actually anchored their coverage of 9-11 as it happened.
 
Kid Eager said:
For some reason this book has started showing up on my Kindle suggestions (I think it might be a paid promotion): https://www.amazon.com/Gregg-Jarrett/e/B07CV8ZKC6/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1534656706&sr=1-1

Have any of the US forumites heard of Gregg Jarrett? Is he credible? I read some of the reviews there and it’s pretty full-on with a range of hating on everybody not on the Republican side of the political fence, as far as I can tell.
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He's an attorney turned newscaster turned "guest expert" for right wing hacks who need an authoritative sounding name to support their bogus opinions. For sometime he was in the running with Rush for "most drugged out rightwing talking head" but supposedly took the cure (a week before he was arrested for being drunk and disorderly).

Donald Trump plugged his book. When asked to comment from a legal perspective as to whether the POTUS should be commercializing messages to the populace, he commented, "I dunno. What does Donnie want me to say?"

He has the usual convenient morals and principles of "experts" at Fox. In August he called for a grand jury to lock her up over the Emails!! Within 24 hours Mueller had impaneled a grand jury and Jarret said that grand juries were undemocratic and a farce.

Now that doesn't beat Sean and Donnie Johnny - they've been known to change their minds and contradict themselves mid-sentence, but that's the kind of expert we're dealing with here. (Book's been out for a bit, though... I guess it ain't selling so they're now plugging it, but I have to say I haven't seen any ads for it here.)
 
Brainster said:
Jarrett was a news anchor on MSNBC before he joined Fox; he actually anchored their coverage of 9-11 as it happened.
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Dylan Avery probably thinks Jarrett did 9/11. He's blamed everyone else on the right, might as well throw in the Fox crew.
 
Brainster said:
Jarrett was a news anchor on MSNBC before he joined Fox; he actually anchored their coverage of 9-11 as it happened.
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I had forgotten that. I wonder why he left MSNBC. Actually, no, I don't. Jarrett, Pirro, Hannity, Dobbs... they don't just support Trump's alternate reality; they help him create it.
 
Gregg Jarrett = right wing Trump sycophant.


I managed to get about 20% of the way though this ebook, but I had to stop because the half truths and obvious bias of the writer was too much to stomach.

This book is a plainly obvious Trump-sponsored effort. It describes Clinton and Obama using words such as criminal, treacherous and corrupt but fails to provide any facts to back up those descriptions (or at least none that I was able to find). What I read of it follow almost word-for-word the sort of crap you see daily on Fox news.

Jarrett is quite obviously a conspiracy theorist, and continually panders to Trump and the idiots he surrounds himself with. Anyone who has been following the investigation into the Russian 2016 election hacking will recognize that this book is a work of fiction. If you are looking for accurate information about the subject material, give this book a miss.
 
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TheSupermeerkat said:
I am not surprised by this.

Are there any real howlers in it?
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The first obvious one:

Lost amid all the speculation about "collusion" was the fundamental fact that no such crime even exists anywhere in American law as it pertains to political campaigns.

There are others, I'm just not sure I want to insult my brain by reading any more of Jarrett's garbage.
 
smartcooky said:
Gregg Jarrett = right wing Trump sycophant.


I managed to get about 20% of the way though this ebook, but I had to stop because the half truths and obvious bias of the writer was too much to stomach.

This book is a plainly obvious Trump-sponsored effort. It describes Clinton and Obama using words such as criminal, treacherous and corrupt but fails to provide any facts to back up those descriptions (or at least none that I was able to find). What I read of it follow almost word-for-word the sort of crap you see daily on Fox news.

Jarrett is quite obviously a conspiracy theorist, and continually panders to Trump and the idiots he surrounds himself with. Anyone who has been following the investigation into the Russian 2016 election hacking will recognize that this book is a work of fiction. If you are looking for accurate information about the subject material, give this book a miss.
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I hope you left this as a review.
 
eerok said:
There's your review right there.
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Hah! Reminds me of a review I read once by Ann Newbury, who used to do the movie reviews for the "NZ Listener" magazine....

Flying Piranhas 2
If you missed seeing Flying Piranhas, here's your chance to miss the sequel.
 
smartcooky said:
The first obvious one:

Lost amid all the speculation about "collusion" was the fundamental fact that no such crime even exists anywhere in American law as it pertains to political campaigns.

There are others, I'm just not sure I want to insult my brain by reading any more of Jarrett's garbage.
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Hmmm:

We asked legal experts—former federal prosecutors, law professors and more—to help make sense of the situation based on the evidence that has been made public so far. Most were quick to note that collusion itself is not a specific federal crime—what matters is what kind of cooperation might have taken place and in what way.
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Skeptic Ginger said:
Come on Brainster, it's logic 101: Conspiracy is collusion but not all collusion meets the criteria for criminal conspiracy.
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Bingo, and the difference is that the collusion must be towards some criminal goal. And that's where the whole Russia collusion case falls apart. I'm trying to see some way that Trump's goal was criminal. He wanted to defeat Hillary; that's not illegal.
 
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