Premise:
"i know i i've been seeing all these weird things they send in and uh i says gee i ought to get that"
Hypothesis: They don't send anything in.

no

Premise:
"All the same, continued Whittington, "some one's been talking."
Hypothesis: Whittington was naive and didn't realize someone's been talking.

no

Premise:
"Even when Realpolitik led the United States to side with dictators and oppressors, it was in the service of maximizing democracy and human rights in the world at large--a goal we in fact achieved."
Hypothesis: Realpolitik encouraged people to side with the dictators through an elaborate ad campaign.
it is not possible to tell