This week we saw a perfect example of how corrupt journalism has become. There was an opportunity to report the news and journalists and their fellow travelers in the pundit class balked. While that wasn’t unusual, what was is how they did it in the lead up to the news, not bothering to wait until they’d seen what they were attempting to discredit. There was an unprecedented attempt to make the release of the FISA memo NOT NEWS before anyone knew what was in it.
Over the past two weeks, Democrats scrambled to “warn” the public that the release of the FISA memo would “damage national security” were it released. Journalists picked up the mantra and ran with it, unquestioningly parroting it in badgering Republicans about why they would support its release considering this charge. There was virtually no discussion as to whether or not this allegation was true or an attempted partisan distraction, it was simply accepted and repeated as if it had been carved into stone tablets by a burning bush and sent directly to the teleprompter in their TV studios..........Once it was released to the public, the discussion shifted to anything but its contents or the fact that unverified Clinton campaign opposition research was used as justification to spy on an American citizen without disclosing that’s what it was.......To Read More.....
My Take - This charge that the release would endanger national security was a lie - the Democrats knew it was a lie, and the media was complicit in that lie. Once it became obvious it was a lie, it was now necessary to obviate the truth of what this memo exposed, and do anything they could to diminish the impact of how serious this is, and this is the tip of the iceberg.
For those old enough to remember the Nixon Watergate scandal, you immediately recognize how far more serious this is compared to anything Nixon and his cronies did, and the media was frothing at the mouth.
Journalistic integrity is an oxymoron.
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