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.
“Journalistic misjudgment” my arse.
This story doesn’t include, and few do include, the question: “WHY did Comey and McCabe want so badly to nail Flynn?”
That question is necessary in order to really get to the bottom of this fiasco.
Thanks for posting that pic. An excellent example of proper social distancing. At least they’re wearing masks.
Why Brit Hume? He didn’t write the article. Matt Vespa wrote the article. You should have addressed him. And btw I did a search on Brit Hume . He writes that he is a registered Dem but has voted for Republicans. I am a registered Republican who only votes for Republicans. There is no dem that deserves my vote. Although I did once vote for a school friend of my daughter, they were both in the same class from the 1st grade to the 6th grade and was the cutest boy. He ran for city councils of our ward. He was the best councilman. He died several years ago of brain cancer.
Hume is learning what the rest of us have known for a long time... the ‘journalists’ are in bed with the thugs...
It’s not a ‘mistake’ - liberal elite editors receive packets of information from democrat war rooms (yes, detectives pay for information) that’s presented to them as ‘between friends’ ... with extra ‘self-serving’ stories included so editors can pretend their ‘agonizing’ over choices... (extra self-serving stories were added years ago because the act of rejecting made the other stories more attractive.)
Liberal journalist became addicted... and more so with downsizing. So slowly the free press became owned by democrats....until the end result was this kind of crap.Glad Hume is seeing the results... Hume can talk to Chris Wallace about his ‘agonizing’ if he wants to understand the psychology of the takeover.
Yes - a short little blurb of a retraction and then dropping it after going wall to wall with with the original false story - so the lie was still the truth to 99% of the viewers.
Look, I’m not sure what your problem is with me. My original comment was just an observation that Brit is way late to understanding that journalism is corrupt and inept.
Why would I address the writer of the article when it’s about Brit Hume? Did you take the time to csstigate other posters who mentioned Brit, or just me.
BTW, you thought I was referencing you in original post to me. Can you just admit you didn’t read my original post carefully?
Well put and succinctly worded. What I wish with all my heart is that I, personally, could rise above my overwhelming desire to get even with Obama. I wish it just didn’t matter. It rules much of my thoughts and causes me to distrust people in increasing amounts. I am a cynic. I am suspicious of others on the basis of race. Sadly, I know it doesn’t reflect Christ-like behavior and it is not where I thought I would be in the later days of my life.
Thanks for taking the time to post a photo.
Apparently I need to update vocabulary definitions at my profile.
He, like the other #neverTrumper mentioned in my post, deserves no respect.
“Masks are Petri dishes. Just as Cuomo learned that being homebound caused MORE infections, we’ll soon learn that maskes are doing the same thing.”
Who in ABCCBSCNNMSNBCFOX/AP will dare to publish the last part?
I don’t think Cuomo learned anything. BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, our domestic enemies tell us. They KNOW they are at war against all America stands for, especially because we elected Trump.
They want US dead, too.
Chaguito wrote:
“This story doesn’t include, and few do include, the question: “WHY did Comey and McCabe want so badly to nail Flynn?”
That question is necessary in order to really get to the bottom of this fiasco.”
I think there were two reasons: First, a vendetta by Obama for Flynn agreeing to be part of the Trump Administration. Second, it was a way to kneecap the new President and justify further unlawful actions by the treasonous FBI, CIA and DOJ.
Particularly amazing, given that Hume has been no great fan of Trump.
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Oh, so now it’s a journalistic fiasco. From what I’ve read it’s treason.
You said it perfectly.
Liberals and criminals (What’s the difference?) squirm when they’re cornered. They have run out of options. Their reactions will become more and more insane.
One of their responses (like this one) is typical: Change the subject. Obfuscate.
Hume was late to the game. He should have known the “knives were out for Trump” from the beginning. We did.
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