Where would the MSM be without shaky and suspect speculations?
Before the findings of the Mueller report were released, the MSM’s meat and potatoes had been speculating about its content for years. The speculation just about always went in one direction only: it would sink Trump. This was an audience-getter and a money-maker, as well as wish fulfillment.
Once the Mueller findings were out, it didn’t take long to regroup. Barr’s summary statement was parsed to mean that Trump is probably guilty of obstruction (of a crime that didn’t take place) and it just didn’t rise to the level of legal proof although there was plenty of evidence for it, evidence that would come out in the full Mueller report. That’s what’s driving them now.
Today we have this ray of hope for the left:
…[A]n article was released last night by The New York Times claiming that members of Robert Mueller’s team were “simmering” over AG Barr’s characterization of the report.
There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical of that [Times article’s] report. There were zero named sources. There weren’t even any direct anonymous sources. Instead, we got the ridiculous “people familiar with” trope that used to never pass as responsible journalism. In regards to details, there were none, with the Times reporting that no one elaborated on what they were actually upset about.
That didn’t stop the Times from reporting on it. Nor did it stop the Twitter folk; for example:
NYT bombshell tonight about investigators saying Mueller Report was misrepresented by Barr and bad for Trump is not just important in its own right…its a warning shot. Its investigators saying they won't sit silently by and be misrepresented. A very big deal.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) April 3, 2019
I actually have little doubt that there are indeed people on Mueller’s team who are upset. There are plenty of people there who would probably have dearly loved to take Trump down, and who would be more than willing to interpret every smidgen of evidence (and it stands to reason there are such smidgens) in an unfavorable light. However, the Times didn’t even say it talked to such people, just to “people familiar with.”
The WaPo had an article too:
Shortly after The New York Times piece, a more sanitized leak from Mueller’s team was printed in the The Washington Post. This time saying they were simply frustrated with how little Barr disclosed in his initial summary. This time, they stopped short of actually accusing him of misrepresenting matters.
All of that was followed by a statement from the DOJ:
The Department of Justice released a statement Thursday morning slamming new reporting from the New York Times and Washington Post. Both newspapers accuse Attorney General William Barr of mishandling the release of material in Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel report, in addition to mischaracterizing the findings of the report in the four page summary released two weeks. ago…
“As the Attorney General stated in his March 29th letter to Chairman Graham and Chairman Nadler, he does not believe the report should be released in ‘serial or piecemeal fashion.’ The Department continues to work with the Special Counsel on appropriate redactions to the report so that it can be released to Congress and the public,” the statement continues.
I don’t know about how much the word “slamming” applies. But it certainly is a correction. Barr’s office and Mueller’s office are working together to release as much as possible of the report. I can practically guarantee that, when that happens, unless the full report declares Trump guilty (and I think we can safely say that is highly unlikely), the anti-Trump forces will pick through every single word to find a hook on which to declare Trump guilty. Every slight equivocation, every bit of evidence of even the remote possibility of something that can be interpreted as supporting guilt or even suspicious behavior, will be emphasized and repeated and harped upon.
Bombshell! Bombshell!
Where have I seen that before?
And don’t forget GOLFGATE!
More on the deliquescence of the MSM:
https://spectator.us/boom-autopsy-media-mueller/
Thank you, LeClerc,
That Spectator article is THE BOMB!
President Trump continues to play 7th dimension Chess while the MSM stays clueless.
The report will be released and will contain … nothing.
Giving the President yet another example of how lame both the democrats and the MSM have become.
And peeling more voters away from the d’s. At this rate the 2020 election will be a Republican landslide.
The Mueller team included only Democrats and people determined to take down President Trump. They couldn’t come up with anything that would even, marginally, be presentable in an indictment.
No wonder they are upset.
In other news, my sister-in-law has a coworker who has a friend that knows someone important that is really, really upset that Bernie Sanders is trying to undermine and take down Uncle Joe Biden.
People familiar with the situation report that the New York Times is rife with pedophiles and drug dealers.
The writing style is soooooo masculine…
i can just hear Gidgit the captain of the football team telling all the people in the locker room things like that…
you all just biatching that the backyard fence busybodies of the horrid auxiliaries run everything and thats how they “communicate”… jeese watch some old movies…
maybe, just maybe, there were reasons things were customary in the past, and they arent the reasons given that made it seem the past was stupid and it was an easy fix…
anyway
on the other note..
His opposition is now busy validating him and not working on any coherent platform or ideas or positions other than hodgepodge socialism with feminism taking out Biden and so on..
In a dirty world where no one likes you, to succeed other than within the rules is to hand the other your gluteus maximus, and fail. It has ALWAYS been the key thing to note, the pretty, the loved, etc. are given passes, people who are not liked dont get passes… they have but one protection when all is laid bare (and public is watching – another important point).
Tuvea on April 4, 2019 at 6:47 pm at 6:47 pm said:
President Trump continues to play 7th dimension Chess while the MSM stays clueless.
i would prefer
President Trump continues to play 7th dimension Chess while the MSM plays Clue.
in this way, each one thinks a different thing is the crime, and we all find out when the legal envelope is opened… did professor plumb seize the bearded clam in the tinkle bed? its the game of Clue…
Every slight equivocation, every bit of evidence of even the remote possibility of something that can be interpreted as supporting guilt or even suspicious behavior, will be emphasized and repeated and harped upon.
and never again will anyone ever run that would do as much good as whats going on that people aren’t noticing…
JOBLESS CLAIMS FALL TO 49-YEAR LOW…
Henry D, your report is just as credible as most of the ones in the NY Times. 🙂
If successful, the media is not going to enjoy the future they imagine. But at least they will fully deserve their fate.
“President Trump continues to play 7th dimension Chess while the MSM plays Clue.” – Artfldgr
LOL – haven’t seen it put that way before.
More from RedState’s post though, really pwns the Timess & WaPo:
Those “storied” newspapers is exactly the right adjective.
They haven’t done any critical thinking for years; why start now?
It just messes up the narrative.
O.T., but the Spectator also has quite an interesting piece by Heather McDonald on the latest Scandal, namely Joe Biden’s purported touchiness (so to speak). I think she thinks that some among the Gentler Sex are a bit overwrought.
Joe Biden and the Deranged Policing of Personal Apace
….Have the grounds for feminist complaint ever been lower?
https://spectator.us/joe-biden-policing-personal-space/
Artfldgr on April 4, 2019 at 7:36 pm at 7:36 pm said:
President Trump continues to play 7th dimension Chess while the MSM plays Clue.
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https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-rachel-maddow-turned-into-infowars/
“Maddow still knows obstruction took place. And if only she could see the full Mueller report, she would explain it all to you. (Maddow is promoting a “day of action” for Americans to take to the streets and demand the report.) It wasn’t the Russians; it was old man Barr in the drawing room with the candlestick! Trump is guilty of failing to obstruct an investigation that cleared him!”
These “news” sources provided so much bad information over the last two years that they should have no credibility left. Yet I have family and friends that read only the NYT and watch only CNN (because “they are in the middle”).
Sad.
I want dna tests on the Russian hookers who peed on the hotel room bed where the messiah slept. Show me.i am just north of Missouri.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/two-takes-depression/201106/if-it-bleeds-it-leads-understanding-fear-based-media
“News is a money making industry. One that doesn’t always make the goal to report the facts accurately. Gone are the days of tuning in to be informed straightforwardly about local and national issues. In truth, watching the news can be a psychologically risky pursuit, which could undermine your mental and physical health…..News programming uses a hierarchy if it bleeds, it leads. Fear-based news programming has two aims. The first is to grab the viewer’s attention. In the news media, this is called the teaser. The second aim is to persuade the viewer that the solution for reducing the identified fear will be in the news story. ”
Great article well worth reading written WAY before Trump even entered the race. Suggests to me the media is just doing what it has always done but now with a cheering section of the unhinged.
Where the Dem media could go, but is NOT going — to do real journalism and report all the facts of the important stories.
Then, in opinion or analysis, speculate on what today’s facts mean about the future.
The Dem Fake News folk are enemies of the people, and it’s good for Trump to call them that.
Yet, why aren’t there more honest, conservative reporters? It’s certain there is some market. It’s disappointing that Fox competitors are hardly being tried.
On the other hand, there is Tea Party News:
https://ussanews.com/News1/
and WhatFinger News (thumbs up or down):
https://www.whatfinger.com/
plus Breitbart:
https://www.breitbart.com/
So there’s plenty to read, even if Neo doesn’t cover everything. (Surprising how much she does cover!)
I don’t watch TV news, except for an occasional Tucker Carlson. The local Tucson paper I Iook at for the weather. My wife reads it. She wants to go see the wildflowers.
I am a firm believer in Michael Crichton’s “Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia theory.”
Here is one example.
The Times had editorialized that the NRA was a bunch of hypocrites because although attendees with gun permits were allowed to carry guns on the convention floor, those guns were actually neutered by having the firing pins removed: “Seventy-thousand people are expected to attend the National Rifle Association’s convention opening (last Friday) in Tennessee, and not one of them will be allowed to come armed with guns that can actually shoot.
That was not true. Exhibit guns were disabled. I know from surgeon conventions that exhibits have a habit of disappearing into the crowd.
The correction was weak.
Correction: April 11, 2015
An editorial on Friday about the National Rifle Association’s convention incorrectly described the rules for carrying concealed firearms at the event. Carrying is prohibited at one of the main convention venues, not all of them.
Which venue ? No mention.