The Natasha File – The Illegitimacy of the Reporting has been Telegraphed well in Advance

On By philo

Before getting into the most recent material, here is what was posted about the title character in this pathetically sad career in ‘journalism’ that continues to head nowhere good:

…it is interesting to me that looking back on her activities it is clear that this creature is exactly as advertised here: a reliable conduit/tool for the dissemination of misinformation. What fascinates me is that everyone involved in the charade is aware of the game and plays their part in it with a straight face. What depresses me is that, by the third or fourth time this creature “breaks” a Watergate-style story and the charade is clear to all willing to see, the citizen-consumers of her product continue to buy it as anything close to legitimate. The willful ignorance of way too much of modern American society is simply breathtaking. – CODENAME: Natasha, April 30, 2021

Luckily, in the era of Trump 2.0 (with the expanded team of fighters against the narrative collected around the Champ as well as distributed widely around the interwebs), the charades tend to be exposed early and often. That was the case this week:

Fake News Fail: CNN Exposed for Bad Iran Strike Reporting

The legacy media is still up to its old tricks… On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt let CNN have a darn good piece of her mind over their reporting of the American air strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities – and there’s a familiar name invoked in her response to that CNN piece.

[Leavitt:] FAKE NEWS CNN STRIKES AGAIN: This alleged “assessment” is flat-out wrong and was classified as “top secret” but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community. The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.

[Leavitt:] This CNN story was written by the same “reporter” who wrote the very first FAKE NEWS story claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation. How did that work out for you, Natasha Bertrand?

Is it any wonder people don’t trust CNN?

Even the Champ chimed in on this one:

Trump calls for firing of CNN reporter over Iran nuclear damage report

President Trump on Wednesday called for the firing of CNN correspondent Natasha Bertrand, who reported on air that an internal U.S. intelligence assessment found Saturday’s strikes on Iranian nuclear sites set back Tehran’s nuclear program by only a few months.

“Natasha Bertrand should be FIRED from CNN! …

Powerline has a wonderful round-up of the case today:

Return of Natasha Bertrand

… When I saw Bertrand’s name on the CNN story reporting the low-confidence DIA assessment of the effectuality of our strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, I applied a 100 percent discount to its substance. Bertrand had been called back to service by her friends in the deep state to undermine Trump in a shining moment of victory. Bertrand’s CNN story might have been good for a flashback but is otherwise worthless.

[Emphasis added]

Being a favored…or at least reliably desperate…whore for the deep state in this way is not going to end in a happy place. Rock bottom for this Natasha character is certainly not going to be a pretty place. I wonder how CNN will handle that story.

[For those with access to the legacy site – unlike me – here are two earlier stories on the subject: CODENAME: Natasha (April 30, 2021) and The Re-Emergence of Natasha (January 28, 2022).]

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