The left's attempt to tie conservatives to Russia

 Andrea Widburg:

One of the things that makes life easy for true conservatives is that their principles are fixed, so they don't often get tripped up on their past stands.  That's not true for leftists, for whom the ends always justify the means, so the means can do a 180 in an instant.  When one enterprising New York Times reporter tried to attack Candace Owens as a Russian stooge for repeating Russian propaganda about Ukraine, Owens politely, and helpfully (very helpfully), explained that all her information about Ukraine came from...the New York Times.

Owens tweeted out the exchange, writing:

Received an email from The NYTimes asking for comment regarding me "advancing ideas that Ukraine is a corrupt country"—similar to Russian state TV.

I replied informing them that I actually got my ideas from the New York Times, and provided them links to their past articles. 😂

She included the receipts in the form of the email a New York Times writer sent to Owens stating, "We note that you advanced the idea that Ukraine was a corrupt country, which matched comments we've seen from Russian state media."  Subtext: Gotcha!  You're a secret Russian asset.

Owens was equal to the task of responding to this missive:

I am very confused by this e-mail. I learned about 'the idea that Ukraine was a corrupt country' from the New York Times. You guys have covered the corruption of Ukraine extensively, for years. As just one example, here is a piece from the NYT Editorial Board entitled, "Ukraine's Unyielding Corruption": https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/opinion/ukraines-unyielding-corruption.html

I educated myself about both the neo-nazi problem in Ukraine and the unyielding corruption by reading your newspaper, not Russian state media. Is there something specific I said that was different from what you guys have written in the past?

Boom!  And just to rub things in a little, Candace was kind enough to include a list of articles from other left-leaning publications discussing Ukraine's problems with corruption and neo-Nazis....

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I have no illusions about corruption in Ukraine or Russia for that matter.  Russia's invasion was not about Ukraine's corruption nor do I believe it was about alleged Nazis.  It was about Putin's fantasy of a greater Russia and his desire to reconstitute the land mass of the Soviet Union.  Supporting the Ukraine resistance is not about supporting corruption.  We were all well aware of some of the corruption because of the Biden family participation in it, along with other Democrat operatives.  The war was brought to the world by the Big Green policies of the Democrats.

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