“There are two reasons why the mainstream media is minimizing this story. Both are very troubling.
1) They are left leaning. Duh. I know, not exactly breaking news, but they are biased. That feeds into it. But the bigger problem is...
2) They are criminally complicit. The unmasked names and transcripts were leaked to the NYT and CNN and others. These “news” outlets absolutely know who is behind all this stuff, because they’ve been getting the material directly from them. And because they have been talking to them and seeing these classified materials, they know this is not merely intel related, but is in fact Obama’s admin using the IC to spy on the Trump team. They knew it, and yet they did their bidding and ran with those Russia stories instead of exposing the biggest corruption scandal since Watergate. The mainstream media has to be sh___ing their pants, because they are actually a direct part of the corruption in this case. CNN and the NYT are essentially part of the Watergate burglar team.
Now if these investigations lead anywhere, it goes far deeper than merely asking them “who were your sources” for leaks, because NYT and CNN certainly had a clear enough picture to know that this surveillance was extremely improper. Yet they ignored that fact in order to run the stories their “sources” wanted them to run.
We are in the infant stages of this scandal. But it threatens to not only bring down major players in the former administration, former IC staff, but it threatens to bring down some major media entities and perhaps even change how 1st amendment protections of the press are viewed.
This is not a small scandal, this is potentially the biggest scandal of our lifetimes.”
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They are. The media people who go on air, as Obama admin surrogates, are definitely in panic mode. They're shrill and desperate. You can smell the fear, even though the tv screen.
CNN instructs the dumb :
CNN Tonight’s Don Lemon went so far as to announce he would ignore the (Rice) news at all costs.
CNN’s Chris Cuomo claimed it was “demonstrably untrue”
CNN Jim Sciutto excused Rice claiming ignorance of the unmasking...”unaware”
CNN Alisyn Camerota the news as ‘unimportant’.
Just so. The "king" digs up the dirt, passes it with "press privilege" to "the watchdog," who proceeds to dish out the dirt.
Even now the press justifies this in its usual contradictory fashion, where knowing Trump/Russia connections is important for the people to know, but Podesta/Clinton/Russia connections are harmless.
-- ... it threatens to bring down some major media entities and perhaps even change how 1st amendment protections of the press are viewed. --
Press privilege was on thin ice anyway. Otherwise, short of defamation, "free press" is there to protect "free to lie," not "free to tell the truth."
I'm not going to hold my breath for a public awakening, but will be quite happy if a bit of one comes about.
PING!!!
Article and comments, esp #11
the mainstream media is minimizing this story..... They are criminally complicit. The unmasked names and transcripts were leaked to the NYT and CNN and others....
This is not a small scandal, this is potentially the biggest scandal of our lifetimes.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3540913/posts?page=11#11
more here
Thanks, combat_boots & H/T WildHighlander57
Susan Rice admits on MSNBC that OBAMA requested the spreadsheet after first denying its existence YUUUGE! (self.The_Donald)
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/63f2po/susan_rice_admits_on_msnbc_that_obama_requested/
Excellent analysis!............................