Posted on 04/02/2019 11:34:53 PM PDT by a little elbow grease
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are demanding to know why Fox News did not publish a story prior to the 2016 election about an alleged affair years before between porn star Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump.
House Committee on Oversight and Reform chair Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) wrote to former Fox News reporter Diana Falzone last month demanding that she turn over any documents relating to Trump’s alleged extramarital affairs.
An article in the New Yorker last month alleged that Fox News executive Ken LaCorte spiked the story to protect Trump — a claim LaCorte has vehemently denied, saying the story lacked corroborating evidence and that the network was merely practicing responsible journalism, as were other outlets who declined the story.
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Blow it out your Democrat, Democrats!
Can this be true in America?
Good grief. First amendment mean anything to you Cummings?
And how many legitimate news stories have ABC/NBC/CNN/MSNBC spiked that pertain to the attempted coup of President Trump and/or that pertain to Hillary Clinton’s crimes????
This is a slight of hand maneuver to save face on the miserably failed Russia probe.
Cummings knows that FOX is protected by the same Constitution that protects all the other news networks from disclosing that there was no “russia collusion” from the beginning. He’s not asking them why they lied.
Cummings is as stupid as he his ugly.
Ex-Fox News Editor: Here’s Why I’m Not Complying With House Investigation Into Spiked Stormy Daniels Report
In the country’s escalating partisan fights and media attacks, two bad ideas have surfaced.
One was from President Donald Trump, who tweeted that Saturday Night Live’s constant mocking of him could, in fact, be an “advertisement without consequences” and wondered if the Federal Election Commission should investigate. It’s a silly notion that should be ignored.
The other was from a lawyer for a former Fox News reporter who, in trying to get her client from underneath a non-disclosure agreement, baselessly speculated on MSNBC that I and Fox may have broken campaign contribution laws because I wouldn’t publish a half-cooked Stormy Daniels story two weeks before the 2016 election. It’s another silly notion that, unfortunately, Congress is now acting on.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) took the bait, and is now bringing newsroom debate into his House Oversight Committee for investigation. In a letter sent to the former reporter, Diana Falzone, he asked for her working documents on the story, as well as an interview with the committee.
Falzone’s lawyer announced that she would comply with the committee. I won’t.
If House Oversight can launch an investigation based on the ridiculous notion that publishing, or even more bizarrely not publishing, a story can be construed as an in-kind campaign contribution, then no journalist in America is safe from government intimidation. It’s a vast overreach of power, and I won’t have any part of it.
To be clear, I fully support Fox News lifting Falzone’s non-disclosure agreement so that she can make her case publicly, without leaks or lawyers. But neither editorial decisions nor joke writing should be a subject of government approval.
Perhaps this is all a PR stunt disguised as an investigation. I wouldn’t be surprised to read an anonymous source close to the House Oversight investigation leak out that, lo and behold, Fox News is really horrible, faux news after all.
Or, perhaps Trump and Cummings are ushering in a new era of criminalizing “wrong” journalism and comedy. Whether its cries of “lock her up!” or “traitor,” we’ve seen a desire to shift political disagreements into courtrooms, so perhaps it’s the media’s time for similar treatment. I hope not.
Whatever it is, House Oversight committee members should be ashamed that an important investigative arm of Congress is being used in this manner.
Nah. This has to be. April Fools joke.
They don’t even pretend to care about the constitution anymore.
I doubt it’s an April fools joke. Cummings has an aligator mouth attached to a pissant butt. He’s about overtipped it.
They want to control the executive as well as the public. These people are sick!
Good to see Baltimore’s problems have been solved! Now Cummings has the time to chase squirrel’s.
How’s about the news media tells the stories about how Obama went to gay bath houses in Chicago.
When you turn over all the information you KNEW about crimes committed by Obama his administration and hillary
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Yes, and I read more than once long ago that at least one of those little gay fellows wound up not breathing.
I think this is a perfect intern assignment for Ocasio.
When did a one time event become an “affair”?
Dems again trying to blow up a story into a big deal.
Elijah Cummings could easily be the punchline to any joke.
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Yes.
Cummings has made a living keeping his constituency dependent on government.
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Elijah Cummings, Shelia Jackson Lee, A.O.C., Hank Johnson, MadMaxine Waters, Frederica Wilson, Ilhan Omar, Maize Hirono ----
The Democrat Congressional Hall of Shame
Who was it that said she hoped Clarence Thomas’s wife would fix him a lot of bacon and eggs, then he would get heart disease, and die?
Just thinking out loud, here...
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