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In reply to the discussion: It's amazing how the media handles right-wing bullshit [View all]
Kid Berwyn
(25,000 posts)40. Here ya go, my Friend*.
Fox News is mangling Special Counsel John Durham's latest Trump-Russia filing
by Peter Weber, Senior editor
The Week, Tue, February 15, 2022
On Friday night, Special Counsel John Durham filed a pretrial motion on possible conflicts of interest by the lawyer representing Michael Sussmans, a cybersecurity lawyer Durham has charged with allegedly lying to the FBI. But he also "slipped in a few extra sentences that set off a furor among right-wing outlets about purported spying on former President Donald J. Trump," Charlie Savage writes in Monday's New York Times.
Trump and allied media organizations say Durham's filing, as Fox News' Brooke Singman put it in a widely cited early report, shows that lawyers for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign "paid a technology company to 'infiltrate' servers belonging to Trump Tower, and later the White House, in order to establish an 'inference' and 'narrative' to bring to government agencies linking Donald Trump to Russia." Those claims were repeated Monday on Fox News' daytime news and prime time opinions shows.
"But the entire narrative appeared to be mostly wrong or old news," the conclusions "based on a misleading presentation of the facts or outright misinformation," Savage writes. Gabriel Malor, a lawyer who writes for several conservative media outlets, lays out a few specific points on Durham's filing, including that it never uses the word "infiltrate" or accuses the Clinton campaign of ordering Sussmans or anyone else to pass the tech company's analysis of DNS data to the FBI or CIA.
Savage summarizes the competing narratives from Durham and the cybersecurity experts who compiled the contested DNS data, adding that the right-wing mischaracterizations "involve dense and obscure issues, so dissecting them requires asking readers to expend significant mental energy and time — raising the question of whether news outlets should even cover such claims." Lawyer Marcy Wheeler, who writes at Emptywheel, has a lot more detail about Durham's filings and Kash Patel's involved role in this story.
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https://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-mangling-special-counsel-064744668.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
* And I mean it.
by Peter Weber, Senior editor
The Week, Tue, February 15, 2022
On Friday night, Special Counsel John Durham filed a pretrial motion on possible conflicts of interest by the lawyer representing Michael Sussmans, a cybersecurity lawyer Durham has charged with allegedly lying to the FBI. But he also "slipped in a few extra sentences that set off a furor among right-wing outlets about purported spying on former President Donald J. Trump," Charlie Savage writes in Monday's New York Times.
Trump and allied media organizations say Durham's filing, as Fox News' Brooke Singman put it in a widely cited early report, shows that lawyers for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign "paid a technology company to 'infiltrate' servers belonging to Trump Tower, and later the White House, in order to establish an 'inference' and 'narrative' to bring to government agencies linking Donald Trump to Russia." Those claims were repeated Monday on Fox News' daytime news and prime time opinions shows.
"But the entire narrative appeared to be mostly wrong or old news," the conclusions "based on a misleading presentation of the facts or outright misinformation," Savage writes. Gabriel Malor, a lawyer who writes for several conservative media outlets, lays out a few specific points on Durham's filing, including that it never uses the word "infiltrate" or accuses the Clinton campaign of ordering Sussmans or anyone else to pass the tech company's analysis of DNS data to the FBI or CIA.
Savage summarizes the competing narratives from Durham and the cybersecurity experts who compiled the contested DNS data, adding that the right-wing mischaracterizations "involve dense and obscure issues, so dissecting them requires asking readers to expend significant mental energy and time — raising the question of whether news outlets should even cover such claims." Lawyer Marcy Wheeler, who writes at Emptywheel, has a lot more detail about Durham's filings and Kash Patel's involved role in this story.
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https://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-mangling-special-counsel-064744668.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
* And I mean it.
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+1, M$M takes ques from MAGA media because they rate well thinking they'd excist if GQP takes over
uponit7771
Feb 2022
#95
Opinions generate more hits (income) than facts. They are not in it for the integrity. (n/t)
OldBaldy1701E
Feb 2022
#16
This morning I turned Morning Joe on. I watched for I don't know maybe a half hour
doc03
Feb 2022
#14
I got sick of hearing the Clinton bullshit and shut it off. I could have watched Faux for that nt
doc03
Feb 2022
#35
If you were watching Morning Joe, that's exactly what they revealed it to be. Bullshit.
oldsoftie
Feb 2022
#17
The people who own the giant media companies need to be held much more accountable.
overleft
Feb 2022
#18
Can anyone point to an actual mainstream media story that says this is serious?
brooklynite
Feb 2022
#20
THIS is the most important post, probably ever, on any message board in history.
BComplex
Feb 2022
#22
Spot on post about the corporate media and how they use their power to unduly influence
c-rational
Feb 2022
#34
Can you point to a mainstream media story that suggests the Durham investigation is a serious matter
Submariner
Feb 2022
#46
IOW, the OP statement that the mainstream media is treating this as serious is also nothing...
brooklynite
Feb 2022
#53
As soon as I hear the name of TFG, I change the channel or turn off the t.v.
LogicFirst
Feb 2022
#38
Terrific rant! Sums up nicely what has happened to mainstream media in this country in my lifetime.
llmart
Feb 2022
#42
Interestingly, I am watching a Turkish historical series on Sultan Abdulhamid II who was the last
Pepsidog
Feb 2022
#47
republican thugs are desperately trying to retain the airwaves, be the news, be relevant.
SWBTATTReg
Feb 2022
#65
If a Republican says something and no-one is around to hear it, is it still a lie?
Keket
Feb 2022
#72
Yep. When the right is outraged at what they claim is bullshit, it's the outrage that's bullshit.
Beartracks
Feb 2022
#82
Which hours do you watch on MSNBC. Not every hour treats the news the same.
LiberalFighter
Feb 2022
#85
Republicans don't have politics. They have scripts fixated on legitimizing bullshit.
ancianita
Feb 2022
#96