Mainstream media desperately tried to memory-hole the biggest bombshell report of the year, Seymour Hersh’s Nord Stream revelations, attacking the Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist instead. It was a field day for the Kremlin, which delighted in pointing out what ridiculous propaganda tools the mainstream media have become.
Instead of trying to verify or question Hersh’s minutely researched report based on an inside source familiar with the alleged CIA attack on the Nord Stream pipeline Sept. 26, 2022, the floundering Fake News instead took to attacking the 85-year-old prize-winning former hero of the left, who exposed the My Lai massacre, Watergate and Abu Ghraib.
Leading the way for the character assassination campaign, Reuters labeled Hersh “no stranger to controversy”, as if that were a bad thing for an investigative journalist. “The White House dismissed Hersh’s report, which relied on a single source to support its claim about the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, as ‘utterly false and complete fiction.’ Reuters was unable to corroborate Hersh’s self-published article”, the WEF and Pfizer-tied “Reuters” wrote.
It was not clear what Reuters had done to try and “corroborate” the story.
No one at Reuters seems to have spoken to the Russian, German, Swedish or Danish investigators about the charges, for example.
TASS did, and were informed the Swedish Prosecutor’s Office “is unable to tell you anything about that because of confidentiality.” The Copenhagen Police also had “no further comment” on the bombshell report, which is not exactly a denial.
Speaking in the German Parliament on Wednesday, Green “Climate and Economics Minister” Robert Habeck said any information on the Nord Stream blast is “classified” and “part of a classified investigation. Therefore this is not a topic for parliamentary Question Time.” It was also far from a denial of Hersh’s claims.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Hersh’s report contains “nothing unexpected”: “We assumed the involvement of the US and at least some of Washington’s NATO allies in this outrageous crime, which was an armed attack on a key element of critical infrastructure.”
In classic Stalinist style, Hersh’s Wikipedia entry was retconned to label Hersh a “conspiracy theorist”.
He puts this piece on substack 7 hours ago. Here’s what his Wikipedia looks like normally pic.twitter.com/yuUTdSdfdX
— memory of a man (@Mr_Unspeakable) February 8, 2023
So-called “journalists” from UK-based fake news spigot Bellingcat labeled Hersh “senile, corrupt and obsessively lying”.
https://twitter.com/OJutel/status/1623393932205002752?s=20&t=q-hWjGJfxZroTS4tcyDuQQ
“We get a lot of our money from donors like the Open Society Foundation,” Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins told the Guardian 2018.
The MSM couldn’t do more to prove how fake they are if they tried
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov blasted the Fake News media for trying to bury the bombshell story: “It is so crucial for the media to pay attention to this very serious, and probably controversial, publication by Mr. Hersh on the alleged involvement and direct guilt of the White House for organizing the act of sabotage and terrorist act on critical energy infrastructure in the Baltic Sea, namely the Nord Stream pipelines. ” Unfortunately, Peskov said, “this article has not circulated widely in the Western media, and this undoubtedly surprises us.”
“Ignoring it would be unfair to say the least, particularly for such a country like Germany, which lost an essential energy facility as a result of a terrorist act,” Putin’s press secretary said. “This report should provoke acceleration of international investigation. On the contrary, we see attempts to silently curtail this international investigation,” the Kremlin Spokesman noted.
Kremlin sees “attempts to curtail investigation”
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said that western governments and media were trying to “sink” the Nord Stream story:
“If we talk about how much EU countries are concerned [over ecology issues], then the situation with the Nord Stream comes to mind – [the pipeline] that was detonated, as you know, under completely silent enabling and weakness of European countries. The investigation proceeds in a way that is aimed to have the tracks submerged, both literally and figuratively,” Grushko said.
Tucker Carlson was the only mainstream media source to take Hersh’s allegations seriously:
