Posted on 03/25/2019 3:01:13 AM PDT by a little elbow grease
Nobody wants to hear this, but news that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is headed home without issuing new charges is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media.
As has long been rumored, the former FBI chief’s independent probe will result in multiple indictments and convictions, but no “presidency-wrecking” conspiracy charges, or anything that would meet the layman’s definition of “collusion” with Russia.
The New York Times:
A senior Justice Department official said that Mr. Mueller would not recommend new indictments. The Times tried to soften the emotional blow for the millions of Americans trained in these years to place hopes for the overturn of the Trump presidency in Mueller. Nobody even pretended it was supposed to be a fact-finding mission, instead of an act of faith.
The Special Prosecutor literally became a religious figure during the last few years, with votive candles sold in his image and Saturday Night Live cast members singing “All I Want for Christmas is You” to him featuring the rhymey line: “Mueller please come through, because the only option is a coup.”
The Times story today tried to preserve Santa Mueller’s reputation, noting Trump’s Attorney General William Barr’s reaction was an “endorsement” of the fineness of Mueller’s work:
In an apparent endorsement of an investigation that Mr. Trump has relentlessly attacked as a “witch hunt,” Mr. Barr said Justice Department officials never had to intervene to keep Mr. Mueller from taking an inappropriate or unwarranted step.
Mueller, in other words, never stepped out of the bounds of his job description. But could the same be said for the news media?
(Excerpt) Read more at citizenfreepress.com ...
...because, just like the election...they believed
their own BS...of course
bolstered by Odungo and
Hilda.
CNN, Woof Bitcher , Acosta, you are going to TANK!
I glanced at CNN while at the gym this morning. As far as I can see, they are pushing the idea that — while no laws were broken — we now know for certain that Trump lacks the moral and ethical bearing that we deserve in a president, and impeachment is definitely not off the table.
They thought the Mueller report would bring on Nixon 2.0 but they cannot accept the truth nor that President Trump won the 2016 election fair and by our system of government....Now they continue to push obstruction even though over 30 million tax payer dollars was blown to prove otherwise and with 13 rabid Hillary democrats on the Mueller team doing their best to scrape up non-existent evidence for their hatred of this country and its choice of President!
Amazing, Trump went up against the treason media that has been plaguing this country for decades and he WON!!!
“...because, just like the election...they believed
their own BS...of course
bolstered by Odungo and
Hilda.”
Yes, and the fact that their heroes (i.e. Hillary, Obama, Maxine, Schiff, etc.) fed them lies and manipulated them should tell the left something important about what their own ‘leaders’ think of them.
Perhaps, just maybe our side can see the benefit of pushing back? Finally? Will this turn a new page for us?
WMD times a million indeed.
But at least we had valid reasons to suspect the presence of WMD in Iraq.
There was no valid reason to begin this investigation.
But at least we had valid reasons to suspect the presence of WMD in Iraq.
There was no valid reason to begin this investigation."
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I hear you. I had actually believed there were WMD. I thought I saw surveillance film observing them down below.
.... long time ago, memory is going.
:-)
I doubt it....too much $$$ involved
to actually enforce the law and do what’s right to protect the citizens.
Well, we know Saddam had them, he used them in the past, so his having them wasn’t the question. The question was, what happened to them.
I always felt that in a world recently removed from terrorists murdering 2,000 of our fellow citizens, it was worth taking seriously.
FWIW, I believe those weapons ended up in Syria.
The WMD comparison is stupid beyond belief. Saddam USED chemical weapons on many occasions. They was a reason for the intel mistake. The deep state witch hunt was no accident.
It's official: Russiagate is this generation's WMD
It's quite long with multiple links. Taibbi, one of the few honest liberal reporters, really nails it.
It's a very good piece of journalism that deserves to be read.
The largest chemical weapons plant in that hemisphere was located 60 clicks north of Baghdad. Chlorine and mustard gas have been being used by the Caliphate/Daesh from Iraq to Syria since Saddam bounced from the end of a rope. Printed stories in the WSJ and NYT clearly documented this place and years worth of US soldiers facing battle where chemical weapons have been detected.
Even CNN and Wolfie Blitzkrieg got in on it.
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/04/wbr.00.html
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Get called into MOPP IV 5 times a night for 6 weeks straight and tell me there are no chemical weapons in the area.
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Acquating all this to whether or not Russian collusion was made by Trump to win the presidency is laughable.
...other than the fact that its the liberal fascists who are putting out both stories.
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Second only to election night 2016!
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Wow.
A measure culpa, calling out the Fake News Media, from...
Matt Taibbi?!?!?! That’s HUGE.
Mea.
Mea culpa.
Not measure or meanwhile!
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