Traditional media outlets are enabling Republican sabotage of the January 6 committee

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/media-outlets-are-enabling-republican-sabotage-january-6-committee

Following the attempt by House Republicans to place members on the January 6 select committee who have not only lied about the 2020 election but openly signaled their intention to undermine the investigation on behalf of former President Donald Trump, mainstream media outlets are engaging in a both-sides narrative. Instead of focusing on the organized Republican efforts to undermine the investigation, they are shifting the blame onto Democrats for somehow not trying hard enough to keep the investigation bipartisan with those very same wreckers.

On Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) rejected two out of the five members that Republicans had offered to sit on the committee — to which Republicans replied by declaring they would boycott the committee entirely. (A single Republican remains on the committee, however: Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) whom Pelosi had already named.)

Of those two members that Pelosi rejected, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) had previously ​​met with Trump in late December to confer on strategy to reject the certification of the election results, and declared this week that the committee was “impeachment round 3, this is to go after President Trump” — rather than to investigate a matter of national security. The other, Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), had released a statement accusing the committee of having been formed “solely to malign conservatives and to justify the Left’s authoritarian agenda.”

This week, Politico echoed the Republican spin and ignored the obvious reality that the Republican committee picks would be set on sabotaging an investigation. The site followed up in its Playbook newsletter Thursday morning declaring that partisan oversight had hit “a new low,” at once acknowledging Republican opposition to the investigation and putting the burden on Democrats to please them.

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[orwell]

1. Politico is...

...RepubliCon spin personified.

5 corporations control the media. RepubliCons cut their taxes, encourage their monopoly, and keep their labor costs low.

Who cares if they are radical fascists bent on destroying our system of government.

All hail power and money!