Posted on 05/13/2020 4:55:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
Former Fox News host Brit Hume has seen a lot on his career in media that spans five decades. He’s still a regular fixture on the network, serving as a senior political analyst, but he has cited one event that has been a total trainwreck for the industry: The Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
From the get-go, it started out as sour grapes from liberals. How could Hillary lose; Trump must’ve cheated? This circus began quickly. As we now know, former President Barack Obama held a key meeting on January 5, 2017—days before the Trump inauguration—to lay out his game plan for protecting the FBI’s counterintelligence probe into Russian collusion. Preferably, it would be nice if the Trump team never found out about it. And so, the deluge of targeted leaks, which was part of executing Barry’s last-minute order was initiated.
How many bombshells did we endure? How many fell apart within 36-48 hours? Too many to count because there is no evidence of Russian collusion. It’s one of those fantastic lies the liberal media peddled and got the base of the Democratic Party rambunctious with impeachment lust. It took the special counsel investigation and an IG report from the Department of Justice to debunk this clown show. Both reports shot holes through the whole narrative and slicing away at the Trump dossier, a piece of Democrat opposition research funded by the party and the Hillary Clinton campaign. It was compiled by an ex-MI6 spook and it was mostly unverified gossip. And yet, it was used to secure a spy warrant against former Trump campaign official, Carter Page.
What else? Oh, there’s the total screw up from CNN, who reported that Donald Trump. Jr. and other top aides got a decryption key code from a donor that accessed troves of documents relating to the DNC and John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman. The problem: well, if CNN bothered to read the timestamp of the email, the Wikileaks Democratic document dump was already public.
CNN Admits Story on Don Jr… Is A Bunch Of Bananas
Oh, and that anonymous source who said Donald Trump knew about his son’s meeting with some Russians in Trump Tower during the 2016 election, which turned out to be a colossal waste of time as the meeting was not what they thought would be the topic of discussion, blew up as well. The source was longtime Democratic lawyer Lanny Davis, who served as counsel to Trump defector Michael Cohen. Davis retracted the whole story and apologized for being “cute” about it. He admitted that it could not be corroborated and doubted if it was accurate. Then, there's Van Jones, CNN contributor and former Obama official, who said the collusion story is a nothing burger.
What about Brian Ross? The now-ex-ABC News reporter dropped a story that was fake and tanked the markets. He took to air saying that during the 2016 election candidate Trump ordered Michael Flynn to make contact with the Russians. Well, it didn’t take long for the timeline to reveal that this order was given after the 2016 election by President-elect Trump, as this was run-of-the-mill transition moves from a new incoming administration. Yeah, this is what killed the narrative that Trump’s tweeting was harmful, not nearly as bad as when Ross opens his mouth. Remember, this is the guy who said the Aurora shooter might be a Tea Party member. This was also taken to air without proper vetting. Ross is trash, but so are a lot of his colleagues. And these are just some of the bombshells that turned out to be baseless gossip.
It was considered tin foil hat talk to suggest that Michael Flynn was the victim of an FBI run amok. It’s not. New documents show that Flynn was the subject of an entrapment plot spearheaded by the bureau’s top brass, like James Comey and Andrew McCabe, both disgraced, who wanted to get Flynn no matter what. We have former Obama officials going on MSNBC and claiming they have evidence of collusion when they really have none. That was exposed in a document dump from acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell. So, you can see why Hume said this story was the “worst journalistic fiasco” he’s seen in his entire career (via Washington Examiner):
Oh, and that anonymous source who said Donald Trump knew about his son’s meeting with some Russians in Trump Tower during the 2016 election, which turned out to be a colossal waste of time as the meeting was not what they thought would be the topic of discussion, blew up as well. The source was longtime Democratic lawyer Lanny Davis, who served as counsel to Trump defector Michael Cohen. Davis retracted the whole story and apologized for being “cute” about it. He admitted that it could not be corroborated and doubted if it was accurate. Then, there's Van Jones, CNN contributor and former Obama official, who said the collusion story is a nothing burger.
What about Brian Ross? The now-ex-ABC News reporter dropped a story that was fake and tanked the markets. He took to air saying that during the 2016 election candidate Trump ordered Michael Flynn to make contact with the Russians. Well, it didn’t take long for the timeline to reveal that this order was given after the 2016 election by President-elect Trump, as this was run-of-the-mill transition moves from a new incoming administration. Yeah, this is what killed the narrative that Trump’s tweeting was harmful, not nearly as bad as when Ross opens his mouth. Remember, this is the guy who said the Aurora shooter might be a Tea Party member. This was also taken to air without proper vetting. Ross is trash, but so are a lot of his colleagues. And these are just some of the bombshells that turned out to be baseless gossip.
It was considered tin foil hat talk to suggest that Michael Flynn was the victim of an FBI run amok. It’s not. New documents show that Flynn was the subject of an entrapment plot spearheaded by the bureau’s top brass, like James Comey and Andrew McCabe, both disgraced, who wanted to get Flynn no matter what. We have former Obama officials going on MSNBC and claiming they have evidence of collusion when they really have none. That was exposed in a document dump from acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell. So, you can see why Hume said this story was the “worst journalistic fiasco” he’s seen in his entire career (via Washington Examiner):
"It was the worst journalistic fiasco of now my more than 50 some years in journalism.
It was a disaster."@BritHume called the media's coverage of @realDonaldTrump's alleged collusion with Russia the "worst journalistic fiasco" he's seen in his 50-year career. pic.twitter.com/lOOYSgtrDp— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 13, 2020
Longtime veteran journalist Brit Hume called the media's coverage of President Trump's alleged collusion with Russia the "worst journalistic fiasco" he's seen in his 50-year career.
Hume's criticism comes in light of a trending social media theme of #Obamagate after former President Barack Obama expressed his concern over the Justice Department dropping charges against Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn last Friday.
Flynn was fired in early 2017 for lying about conversations he had with the Russian ambassador. Trump and his allies have accused Obama of being aware of a "deep state" ploy within the highest levels of federal law enforcement to deny Trump the presidency.
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"It was the worst journalistic fiasco of now my more than 50 some years in journalism," Hume said on Fox News's The Story with Martha MacCallum on Tuesday. "It was a disaster."
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"It was a terrible journalistic misjudgment, and it was rooted in their view, in my opinion, it was rooted in their view of Donald Trump that when this charge arose, they thought so little of him and that he was such a terrible person, that had to be true," Hume continued.
And they’re still doing it. The Trump-Russia collusion posse still hasn’t admitted that they were wrong. The bias against Trump, as Hume noted in his TV spot, also carries into other stories about the White House. But the media poured gasoline on a fake story that set forth the impeachment of a president. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow desperately wanted the Trump dossier to be fact. It wasn’t. None of this story was real. It was a hoax. And those who weaponized it to attack Trump are starting to get some blowback for their antics, as they should.
If only the media would do its JOB instead of political advocating...
Victims have recourse in the law against individuals/groups who openly and intentionally defame them with what they KNOW to be false!
Perhaps but in this case the victims are the citizens of the US, a group. You see any class action suits being filed or even being granted status? No. I don’t want these people sued for what they did. The result will be five years down the roads after it gets battled to the SC. I want immediate criminal action against them for a criminal conspiracy to undermine the lawful operation of government. That is what went on here. We should be able to rope in all those clowns in Congress like Shift et al who conspired with the “press” in furtherance of their conspiracy by citing things allegedly in evidence that were false.
Journos don’t give two sh*ts about conveying the truth. Their liberal narrative is what rules their world.
Brit is a snarky Never Trumper elitist. He must’ve gagged a little when he said this.
Obama is despicable.
....President Barack Obama held a key meeting on January 5, 2017—days before the Trump inauguration—to lay out his game plan for protecting the FBI’s counterintelligence probe into Russian collusion...
I believe Matt got off on the wrong foot.
0bama developed and deployed a surveillance tool to gather information on anyone who opposed him.
After the Republician super Tuesday primary, the automated “algos” kicked in to gather intell on the remaining candidates.
The NSA monitoring tools measured the uptick in surveillance database queries and alerted the human IT folks.
Those IT folks reported the issue to Mike Rodgers.
Mike Rodgers shut down 0bama’s corrupt use of the NSA database.
Deep State built a mechanism to rig elections.
All assets were deployed to elect Hillary.
Everyone was confident of success, the system elected 0bama, twice.
Then President Trump won.
The coup was launched day after the election. The ends justify the means to cover decades of criminal activity
“We’re all now a bunch of mask wearing sheep.”
On Saturday, my SIL and nephew stood outside their local Walmart passing out info on the hazards of masks. I haven’t heard what kind of comments they got.
“when they realize their personal integrity will be openly challenged.”
I doubt it. They have no integrity, and that’s always been the case.
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The MSM has become the “He’s not carnival personnel!” press.
It’s a line from “The Jerk”. Google it if you’ve not seen the movie.
News Flash!!! I didn’t write the article. *rme*
My late father noted that Brit changed in that respect after his son’s (alleged?) suicide.
Am still thinking that as long as Big Media shows the demented pedophile rapist way ahead of Trump, our domestic enemies will be working hard to make all their felonies “old news”, and are hoping to keep us locked down long enough to close the books on America by November.
"their personal integrity" ??? LOL
That's a good one...you think the large percent of the MSM gave a rats ass about personal integrity?
I guess you’re right... or it wouldn’t have come this far.
“Victims have recourse in the law against individuals/groups who openly and intentionally defame them with what they KNOW to be false!”
Ideally. Sadly, the press seems to be protected, generally. I know that some have been sued successfully ( Melania, Nick Sandmann, for example), but it rarely happens. Maybe WE should start a class action suit. Some group should.
Also, lies told on the floor in the House are protected. Adam Schitt is happy about that.
“Maybe WE should start a class action suit. Some group should.”
We HAVE a group...the GOP. (sarc)
“That’s not true?”
LOL
He’s a “has been” relying on the momentum of his once almost good career. Time-in-grade does not make you reliable.
As said, “...in my book.”
Be careful.
I like your thinking!
But they’d only need a squad or two, maybe a platoon. And maybe a Humvee to carry the ammo. We want them well rested after a fun day at the “range”, so to speak.
Funny how many people even here still consider Brit Hume and Megyn Kelly conservative, though the latter seem to be exclusively #neverTrump Hussein Heads (because she fought so hard against Trump in 2016).
Ben Gleck had her on yesterday for the few minutes I caught at lunch, was fawning all over her, as they had both sold out for BJ Clinton’s wife.
What a stupid thing to say, She probably had to move on. They only have so many minutes with each person
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