Episode 239: The Signal Scandal

The mainstream outlets lost their collective mind this past week over a nothing-burger story about a hostile reporter from The Atlantic being “inadvertently” added to a group chat between high-ranking officials from the Trump Administration discussing war plans in Yemen. Peering through the thinly veiled attempts at manufactured outrage, one can easily see that rather than being a damning story about Trump Administration incompetence, the only relevant aspect to the incident is that someone on the inside is likely trying to sabotage Trump and his cabinet picks. The only problem (for the wannabe saboteurs) is that, as usual, they picked the most benign, pointless story one could possibly imagine to get outraged over, and if anything, the story actually makes the targets look semi-decent.