'You're being played': The Week's Damon Linker warns media giddy over Mike Flynn's resignation

https://twitter.com/Southfive/status/831652902498422784

Read the thread. Apparently Flynn's demise was pure Team Obama: the ends justify the means. https://t.co/Lz7OgsqQle

— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) February 14, 2017

Michael Flynn may have been a crappy, inept choice for national security adviser, but as The Week’s Damon Linker points out, even those pleased at Flynn’s ouster should be concerned by how it came about:

1/8. My new column, about how no one should be cheering the way Flynn was brought down. https://t.co/NsJXzFe4Mx

— Damon Linker (@DamonLinker) February 14, 2017

2/8 Flynn was brought down by a disinformation campaign orchestrated by unelected, anonymous members of the surveillance state.

— Damon Linker (@DamonLinker) February 14, 2017

3/8 @EliLake is right to call this police-state tactics. https://t.co/ybjyVlnNv2

— Damon Linker (@DamonLinker) February 14, 2017

4/8 Now the Free Beacon reports a key player in promulgating the story re Flynn was @brhodes https://t.co/IwCilZYFuE

— Damon Linker (@DamonLinker) February 14, 2017

5/8 Rhodes isn't just a former Obama staffer.

— Damon Linker (@DamonLinker) February 14, 2017

6/8 You'll recall from David Samuels blockbuster NYT Mag profile last May, Rhodes is someone who excels at manipulating the media.

— Damon Linker (@DamonLinker) February 14, 2017

7/8 Message to media: You're being played—turning yourself into what Bannon insists you are: an opposition party deploying weaponized spin.

— Damon Linker (@DamonLinker) February 14, 2017

8/8 Worse, you’re working to destroy reputations w clandestinely acquired information peddled by people hiding behind a cloak of anonymity.

— Damon Linker (@DamonLinker) February 14, 2017

PS: Down this road lies the end of democracy in America.

— Damon Linker (@DamonLinker) February 14, 2017

The end of Democracy in America? We’re not quite there yet, but it would definitely behoove the media — and any liberals — rejoicing at Flynn’s resignation to remember that this knife cuts both ways. If the “deep state” can mess with Trump’s administration, they can mess with a Democrat’s, too.

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