The Most Dangerous Aspect of Obamagate

The news media has committed suttee on the pyre of ideology.

David Catron February 5, 2018

The alleged journalists of the legacy media spent all weekend denouncing President Trump and the GOP for ignoring their warnings against the release of the infamous FISA Memo. The party line from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and countless lesser outlets that parrot their “news” stories is that the memo was both a “nothingburger” and a dangerous attempt to undermine federal law enforcement agencies. Immediately upon its release the Times published a column titled, “Devin Nunes’s Nothingburger.” Then, 24 hours later, the Gray Lady published another piece under the headline, “The Memo Doesn’t Vindicate Trump. It’s More Proof of Obstruction.”

The problem here isn’t that the fabled “newspaper of record” would have us accept the proposition that the memo proves nothing while also providing proof that the President is guilty of obstructing justice. The danger is that the media is largely controlled by people who are so committed to a dead statist ideology that they are willing to ignore objective facts and contradict themselves on a day-to-day basis in order to participate in what amounts to a coup attempt against a duly elected President. Doubt that this is their goal? Read what a sitting Congressman wrote in Esquire, which had just the day before echoed the nothingburger line, yet was still willing to publish this rubbish:........To Read More.....