“WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange “no longer wanted” and not a rape suspect, Swedish prosecutor says on website”— Huh?? .. CNN headline .. Confusing day..
Confusing day? Confusing MORNING. That’s how fast this story broke and unbroke—for me, anyway.
I woke up to this story this morning and since I woke up early, I took a nap and when I woke up, the arrest warrant had been dropped.
This is one of those ridiculous stories that pops up, distracts the crap out of us for days or weeks and then goes away forever. Sure, it’s already obvious the charges had no connection to reality, but will that stop TV’s idiot-pundits and repulsive Republicans from casting aspersions on Assange for the next week or two just to give their True Believers something to be hateful of?
I always wonder about these sorts of “Flash in the Pan” “news” stories. They always seem so incredibly concocted and contrived that I imagine they were completely planned in order to distract from some other story that someone doesn’t want getting out. Sure, it’s just my imagination, but these stupid stories come up and even though they’re obviously useless, the Mainstream Media makes sure that they’ll distract us for several days. What are we missing in the meantime? Even if this Assange/rape story wasn’t cointelpro by the USG, the time lost to this story will cost other stories face time. What if one of those other stories was really important?
Thanks to our wonderful newsmedia of shitheads, we may never know.
It’s not like this is the first time a story like this has come along, either. Remember that time that creepy dude claimed to be the murderer of JonBennet Ramsey? It was fodder for all the headlines for about a week. If you believe the MSM, everyone wanted to hear about this transgendered guy in Asia who had suddenly decided to admit his guilt. Then, as quickly as he had appeared on the national scene, he was gone.
While I don’t imagine Assange will disappear as that creepy dude has, I believe these accusations will hang around for a week or two and then disappear—just long enough to serve as another useless distraction.
it’s like a pop-up on my computer asking me some irrelevant question I don’t really care about.
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