{"id":31171,"date":"2018-07-21T01:45:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T01:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31171"},"modified":"2018-07-21T01:45:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T01:45:53","slug":"it-wasnt-mere-meddling-it-was-an-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31171","title":{"rendered":"It wasn’t mere ‘meddling,’ it was an attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have just made a command decision as the publisher of High Plains Blogger.<\/p>\n

No longer will I refer to the Russian attack on our electoral system, on our democratic process merely as an act of “meddling.”<\/p>\n

It was a full-frontal assault on our electoral process. It was an attack on our way of life.<\/p>\n

I got the idea from a letter to the editor I saw this morning on Twitter. I think the letter was from the New York Times. The writer compared “meddling” to the butting in by nosy relatives on the business of family members.<\/p>\n

I thought, “Wow! I get that.” Not the nosy relatives thing, but the notion that “meddling” is far too mild a term to describe what the Russians did during our 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n

Thus, I made the decision to henceforth refer to that act using terminology that more aptly describes its impact.<\/p>\n

Am I going to assert that the Russian attack actually produced a Donald Trump victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton? I won’t go there. At least not just yet. I will await the results from Robert Mueller’s exhaustive probe into potential “collusion” between the Trump campaign and Russian goons ordered by Vladimir Putin to launch their attack on our system.<\/p>\n

In the future, though, do not look for the word “meddling” from this blog to describe what I consider to be damn near an act of war<\/em> on our democratic process by a hostile nation.<\/p>\n\n

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I have just made a command decision as the publisher of High Plains Blogger. No longer will I refer to the Russian attack on our electoral system, on our democratic process merely as an act of “meddling.” It was a full-frontal assault on our electoral process. It was an attack on our way of life. … Continue reading It wasn’t mere ‘meddling,’ it was an attack<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[74,1424,3360,3983,7093,7467,5125],"class_list":["post-31171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-ny-times","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe","tag-russian-interference","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31173,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31171\/revisions\/31173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}