Bob’s Hailstone – SE 07.28.25

The Mirror Lies: CNN vs. Reality

Bob’s Hailstone – Special Edition 07.28.25

🧳 The Mirror Lies: CNN vs. Reality

A razor-grooked rebuttal to the narrative keepers

Grook: The CNN Effect

A tale repeated, smooth and slick,
can pass for truth when pushed by clicks.
But when the dam of silence breaks,
we see what truth the mirror fakes.
CNN spoke what power fed—
but Bob kept score, and now it bled.

[Could this be Bob? He’s got the hammers. Maybe the attitude, too.]

Author’s Note
This isn’t your regular Hailstone. This is a strike force edition—a high-velocity collision between CNN’s mirror maze and the blunt force of declassified reality. In late July 2025, CNN published an article titled “How Tulsi Gabbard is trying to rewrite the history of the 2016 election,” authored by Zachary B. Wolf and bolstered by reporter Jeremy Herb. The article is a full-throated defense of the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) and a direct attack on newly declassified evidence released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

This edition doesn’t just call out the distortions—it dissects them. Bob walks us line-by-line through CNN’s spin, answering back with ice-cold receipts and sharp-edged insight. When CNN omits, Bob restores. When they misframe, Bob retools. When they lie, Bob hits back.

It reads like a Hailstone. It hits like a wrecking ball.

🪓 Bob’s Hailstone Shards: CNN’s Big Lie in 9 Blows

Here we examine several quotes and paraphrased arguments that come directly from the CNN hit piece by Zachary B. Wolf and Jeremy Herb. Each CNN claim is answered by Bob—with the hammer of counter-evidence now made public by Tulsi Gabbard’s document releases.

1. “No one said Russia changed votes.”

CNN frames Gabbard’s claims as absurd by arguing she implied Russia changed tallies. But her declassified document refers to a December 8 President’s Daily Briefing (PDB) concluding Russia did not impact vote infrastructure—contrary to later implications.
🪓 Classic bait-and-switch. Gabbard never said they did. She cited the December 8 brief that said they didn’t.

2. “Gabbard is wildly misleading.”

CNN accuses her of conflating hacking infrastructure with influencing voters. But Gabbard repeatedly separated the two and focused on Obama ordering a new assessment after the initial PDB found no election hacking.
🪓 Projection. She drew clean distinctions. CNN blurred them, then screamed ‘fire.’

3. “The House Intel report was too sensitive to release.”

CNN claims security concerns blocked release of the 2017 GOP House report. But now unsealed and redacted, it shows the real concern was narrative control, not security.
🪓 Translation: It was too damning to release. Suppression, not protection.

4. “Ratcliffe wouldn’t release it either.”

CNN uses this to imply Gabbard’s release is reckless. But according to the record, Ratcliffe was pressured by CIA and NSA leadership—protecting institutions, not truth. What CNN fails to mention is that the leadership of those agencies has changed under the Trump/Gabbard administration, which is precisely why the documents are only being released now.
🪓 They threatened him. Gabbard stood firm. CNN treats fear as virtue. Truth got buried—until now.

5. “Durham found no crimes.”

CNN asserts that the lack of indictments proves Gabbard’s claims are baseless. But Durham wasn’t tasked with reviewing the ICA’s origins—he focused on FBI misconduct in Crossfire Hurricane.
🪓 Wrong scope. Durham didn’t investigate what Gabbard just exposed.

6. “Senate Intel backed the ICA.”

The article cites the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee’s support of the ICA. But the committee relied on the same filtered inputs and was denied access to contradictory evidence now public.
🪓 Rubber-stamped groupthink isn’t validation—it’s insulation.

7. “The dossier didn’t inform the ICA.”

CNN claims the Steele dossier didn’t shape the ICA. But it was annexed, leaked, and aggressively reported by CNN itself to seed suspicion against Trump. That annexation also supported using the dossier to spy on Americans through the FISA courts.
🪓 They didn’t use it in analysis—but they broadcast it as gospel. That stain won’t lift.

8. “Gabbard claims the election was hacked.”

CNN suggests Gabbard accuses Russia of hacking the outcome. She doesn’t. She says Obama ordered a narrative rewrite on December 9 after the December 8 PDB said no tampering occurred.
🪓 CNN fabricates the claim, then slaps it down. Straw man torched.

9. “We’re just reporting the facts.”

This article uses passive language, curated experts, anonymous sources, and omits hyperlinks to the actual documents Gabbard released.
🪓 This isn’t journalism—it’s laundering. No links, no truth trail.

Final Note

This isn’t just about 2016. CNN has lied about the Hunter Biden laptop (“Russian disinfo”), masks and mandates (“safe and effective”), the southern border (“whip-gate”), the lab-leak theory (“debunked”), the 2020 election (“most secure in history”), and January 6 (“armed insurrection”). They framed “fiery but mostly peaceful protests” with a burning city behind them. Each time, their job was to shape the narrative—not report the facts.

But Russiagate? That’s the kingpin lie. That’s the narrative they built their brand around. The one that justified four years of hysteria and two impeachments. The one that kept half the country in a paranoid fog and the other half gagged with suspicion.

And now it’s falling.

So they sent out their best enforcers—Wolf, Herb, Brennan—to do damage control. But the mirror cracked. And the light’s coming through.

Bob brought a hammer.

Smash it. Walk away.

—End—