Maddow's Memory War Takes No Prisoners

Don’t Speak, Memory: Resistance Apes Trump in Weaponizing Amnesia

by Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque

05 January 2019

Making the social media rounds at the moment is a transcription of Rachel Maddow’s “utterly terrifying” and “deeply chilling” take on one tidbit from Trump’s surreal and probably drug-addled rambling in front of his Cabinet this week.

At one point, Trump said the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in order to fight Islamic terrorism.

But Maddow assures us, in great detail, that no one, anywhere — not even among Trump’s most rabid supporters, not even the bug-eyed goobers on Fox and Friends — has ever advanced the notion that the Soviet incursion had anything to do with terrorism.

In fact, the only place in the history of the world in which this notion has ever been bruited is — of course — Putin’s Kremlin, which is planning an official “reassessment” of the Afghan invasion. (Which, rest assured, is not at all like the “reassessment” being done by our stalwart Resisters today of the murderously criminal regime of George W. Bush.)