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"A loose network of conservative operatives allied with the White House" -- translation: These guys are spooky as hell -- has been scouring the social media history of every mainstream journalist who has ever inconvenienced Trump. The operatives will also look at the posts of their targets' friends and family members.

And they plan to use what they find to discredit the very concept of journalism. This tactic has already been used with some degree of success, against Joy Reid and others. What happened to her offers just the smallest taste of what we're in for.

This line of attack validates a point which I've made for years now: Do not use social media. Do not tweet; never use Facebook. You can't erase what you say on such forums. If you are an interesting person, or if you wish to perceived as one, you are bound to say something that someone will find offensive. A statement which seems innocuous one year may seem like a hanging offense the next year.

I like the way digby puts it:

People need to wake up to the modern forms of fascism. It's not Hitler. It' a man in a business suit, boldly defying all norms and rules, using money and influence to intimidate the media and disenfranchise the opposition.

This tactic -- treating all journalists to heavy duty oppo research -- can only work on the left, because only lefties are capable of embarrassment. Only the left loves to scrutinize itself for the smallest hint of offenses against political correctness. Example: If, seven years ago, a mainstream reporter made a slightly lewd comment about Katy Perry's breasts, the Kos Kids will demand that the offender abase and humiliate himself. Mere apology won't be enough: Today's progressives demand blood atonement. The word they use is redemption.

The right, by contrast, doesn't care. If we were to discover that Sean Hannity once said "Katy Perry sure has bit tits," the right just would not care. That's why the same tactic won't work if applied to the Fox Newsers.

Even though I have been called a conspiracy theorist from time to time, I learned to despise the normalization of "conspiracy culture." Perhaps the biggest problem with that culture is that it has taught an entire generation to accept the legitimacy of argumentum ad hominem.

Imagine if that tactic had been allowed in previous generations. "That Ed Murrow guy? He smokes. On camera. In front of kids. You can't trust a guy like that when he slams McCarthy."

(Yes, I still have that Epstein piece in the works. It should put some genuinely new information on the table. It's not easy to devote six or seven hours to writing a long and difficult that few will read.)

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