Has anyone else noticed that not one American news outlet has referred to the two Americans released from Iranian prison yesterday as anything other than “hikers”?
Don’t get me wrong. It’s not conspi
racy theorizing. But the idea that they might be spies when our government says they are hikers … during a time of high tension when the US is openly threatening Iran and running covert ops and having recently spent $400 million to disrupt their elections … well, the notion that these might just maybe not be hikers … well … that notion never even occurs to them. That’s kind of their job, like good puppies, never pottying on the carpet.
And they might really be hikers. It’s just an odd place to trek. It’s fishy. It would not hurt to be a tad suspicious but that quality does not exist in American journalism. It’s been bred out. The ones left really think that lack of curiosity is a virtue. That’s quite an accomplishment.
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