LOL. I love how the media mafia go after famous, accomplished journalists who dare to question the official establishment narrative.
It always starts out the same way:
"He used to be good, but now he's bad".
I have seen it done to everyone from Glenn Greenwald to Max Blumenthal to Chris Hedges (another Pulitzer winner) to - most recently - Matt Taibbi.
In each case, the attacks are pathetic in their transparently facile arguments. And yours is no exception, Bill.
OF COURSE you cannot come out and just accuse the great Seymour Hersh of being a hack, a liar or a propagandist; that wouldn't pass muster - the man won a Pulitzer after all. No, you have to acknowledge that he was good at one time, but that NOW he is just not good anymore.
You claim that the story is "evidence free" and "stupid", yet you ALSO claim it is a "gift to Russian propagandists".
Well, which is it, Bill? Obviously, a story that is so blatantly "stupid" and "evidence free" would be of no value propagandistically - and certainly not a "gift".
Bill, you are carrying water for the Biden Administration, and you are simply supporting the dominant narrative - a narrative which is, on its face, RIDICULOUS. Everyone KNOWS the US did it.
People say that Sy Hersh is an expert at "deconstructing the obvious", and that is certainly true in this case. Everyone knows that there is no reasonable explanation for what happened to Nord Stream OTHER than the one Hersh outlines. - namely, that the Biden Administration did what they had said they would - time and time again. No one other than the Americans had the means, the motive and the opportunity to blow up Nord Stream.
The detail you mention about Stoltenberg has nothing to do with the story or what Hersh has uncovered. It is a throw-away mention in a paragraph on background that has no bearing WHATSOEVER on the veracity of the account detailed in Hersh's piece.
For those unfamiliar, here is the entire section that Sy wrote on Stoltenberg, and the only place where he is mentioned:
"Norway was one of the original signatories of the NATO Treaty in 1949, in the early days of the Cold War. Today, the secretary general of NATO is Jens Stoltenberg, a committed anti-communist, who served as Norway’s prime minister for eight years before moving to his high NATO post, with American backing, in 2014. He was a hardliner on all things Putin and Russia who had cooperated with the American intelligence community since the Vietnam War. He has been trusted completely since. 'He is the glove that fits the American hand,' the source said."
Exactly WHEN Stoltenberg became that glove is utterly immaterial.
