Hagel's media defense team

Joel Pollack:

Evidently Smith had not read the speech properly, because he tweeted a few minutes later: “Actually, that '07 Hagel speech isn't so innocuous,on a second read. Hagel wanted consulate in Iran, talked cooperation.” For Smith, debunking criticism of Hagel was a higher priority than getting the story right--a story that BuzzFeed itself was the first to have, and could have been the first to break at a critical moment in the debate.



There is more.

The Hagel defense has been aggressive in its criticism of those who oppose him.  The attacks on on Ted Cruz are nothing short of scandalous insults that ignore the facts, not to mention the facts he was trying to obtain from Hagel.  For some reason the Hagel defense media does not want tot he facts disclosed.  The inference that can be drawn from that is that they do not believe it would help his cause.  

That, BTW, is what the law presumes when litigants fail to produce documents or testimony in a discovery proceeding.  It is a rule of evidence that has been around longer than most people's memory of Joe McCarthy whose name was brought up as a slur against Hagel opponents.


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