Posted on 02/17/2018 8:01:05 PM PST by TheConservator
For over three months there’s been an 800lb gorilla in the corner of the discussion desperately being avoided by an incurious corporate media.
In the fall of 2017 Fusion-GPS founder Glenn Simpson and Clinton-Steele Dossier author Christopher Steele were in frequent media stories. However, on December 2nd 2017 the first outline of previously invisible FBI Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Attorney Lisa Page hit the headlines.
Pete and Lisa were soon joined by other previous DOJ/FBI invisibles like Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Jim Rybicki, James Baker and ‘he-who-shall-not-be-named’. Eventually the ripple effect expanded to include David Laufman (DOJ) and Mike Kortan (FBI).
However, one thing has been brutally missing throughout the three months…. there’s been no media interviews or statements by anyone.
Additionally, in a rather odd dynamic there’s no appetite by any media to get any of the names on record,… for anything…. not.a.word. Not a single satellite truck outside any house. No-media knocking on doors for comment(s). No TV pundits seeking ‘exclusive’ interviews to set the record straight, etc. It’s as if everyone in the DOJ/FBI ‘small group’ is carrying has an Ebola virus that destroys healthy narrative cells.
Nothing.
Nada.
Zylch.
Not a single Washington beat journalist writing a sentence about any of the crew to include any actual statement or inquisitive question of them. Nothing. Pete, Lisa, Bruce, Nellie, Jim, James, Bill, David, Mike, Andy… nothing. All of them collectively create the silence of an 800lb gorilla sitting ‘over there’ while the incurious media look away.
Think carefully about this. There’s not even a comment to say “no comment”.
Reverse the politics and ask yourself if the media would intentionally avoid questioning the White House staff if Adam Schiff was speaking their names and executive office staff was demoted, removed, reassigned, investigated, forcibly-retired or quit without notice. Do you think media would just as similarly avoid trying to interview them?
….And along comes the political sanctimony of James Comey. With a book to sell… and an incurious media.
Oh sure, Comey has his defenders. However, there’s a battalion of people inside the DOJ and FBI who would love nothing more than a few moments of uninterrupted interrogation time with the lying liar who lies.
How’s the need to ignore the 800lb gorilla going to work with a simultaneous book tour?
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The contrast is like vibrating blinking neon lights ten feet tall.
The hangings need to include about a quarter of the Media.
It’s a very good point, but understandable when we all finally realize that most of today’s media are young women just beyond college who can never, ever, in a million years admit they might be wrong about anything.
It’s a MASSIVE problem.
Kinda like “the dog that didn’t bark”?
It’s a MASSIVE problem.
So? Young women are narcissistic egomaniacs. Who doesn't know that?
I would think that the fact that no one believes them, or their media outlets, would be at least as massive a problem.
CNN is conducting a layoff, IIRC. That's probably causing a few individuals a massive problem.
It became a sport to listen to one of the conspirators denying involvement and to dissect the way his "denial" was ambiguous.
The article rightly points out that we are confronted by silence from all involved. Interesting that none of the players seem anxious to clear the air and clear their names.
Doesn't Strzok have a clever explanation for why he changed "grossly negligent" to "extremely careless"?
Doesn't Page have a clever explanation for why it is that she can carry on an adulterous affair with a co-worker without opening up both of them to blackmail threatening them with exposure?
Doesn't McCabe have a clever explanation for why his wife was blessed by close to a million bucks for an unsuccessful campaign from friends of Hillary?
Doesn't Ohr have a clever explanation for why his wife was working for a firm feeding "intelligence" to the FBI without his being concerned about a conflict of interest?
Doesn't Nellie Ohr have a clever explanation for the need to obtain an Amateur Radio License?
Who have I left out?
the dog that didn't bark
Watergate was a Media coup that ousted a duly elected American President.
The Media is trying to do the same with Donald Trump, but there is enough alternate media that details of the coup keep leaking out around the edges of the Media cone of silence.
The obvious interpretation is 'higher than personal gain / power'
What I take it is 'higher than my country' -> i.e. the one-world lefty utopia BS, Soros ... higher than the Constitution.
All of them have their own reasons for hating the country, but they sure do seem to disdain it.
“Sundance makes the very good point that no one in the media has even attempted to interview any of the players in the “small group” of the FBI.”
True, but in the case of Page & Strzok, it’s hard to interview people when their pants are around their ankles all the time.
THAT has long been a curiosity of hypocrisy for me.
The LSM are co-conspirators with the Deep State to run a Coup against Trump.
They all need to be prosecuted for RICO Sedition.
RosenWeasel and his wife.
Comey’s book will open him up to perjury charges. I hope he eats his own hubris.
The elite media is losing, and fear acknowledging proof of their losing by publishing a syllable against their fellow soldiers in arms, the FBI coup crowd and the Obama administration who set them loose to set up against Trump.
The conservative news, FOX NEWS, etc., have taken over the field and whipped the lib-heads fair and square. The news is out there, now.
The fun part is that Rubenstein and Mueller & Company belong to the Obama Media Complex. These are their guys, and their guys have thrown in the towel against “collusion” conspiracy.
The lowest blow for the Complex is that by implication, Rubenstein includes the discord of the media, promoting divisiveness and conspiracies, that all together played into the hands of the Russian mission for fanning internet flames and subscribe to the discord with street rallies for opposing sides.
This may be the first lap, but Mueller has no obstruction of justice case to be made, either. According to Trey Gowdy, who has seen the Comey memos that were about his conversations with Trump.
JoMika will be very discouraged, but will continue their road show for impeachment and mental illness, Alzheimer symptoms and unfitness for office, against the president.
What a FAIL. They are all cooked as pundits, advisers, journalists and general know-it-alls’.
Quelle suprise.
...The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time...
Colonel Ross still wore an expression which showed the poor opinion which he had formed of my companion's ability, but I saw by the inspector's face that his attention had been keenly aroused.
"You consider that to be important?" he [Inspector Gregory] asked.
"Exceedingly so."
"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
"The dog did nothing in the night-time."
"That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.
Do you believe in coincidences? I think not!
The hangings need to include a majority of the MSM.
Damn, NICE SUMMARY! If you still have your climbing legs, you should join Sundance up there.
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