Posted on 04/19/2019 4:43:31 PM PDT by Kaslin
The Department of Justice on Thursday released the redacted findings of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, which stated very clearly that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. No charges were recommended against the president but you wouldn’t have known it by the way commentators on cable and broadcast news were talking.
According to a Media Research analysis, the word impeachment was mentioned 309 times during coverage of the Mueller report on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NBC. And worse, this was only during a 24 hour period.
“In total, the word came up 309 times, with the vast majority (286) coming from cable networks CNN (148) and MSNBC (138),” the report states.
While anchors and talking heads jumped on the impeachment bandwagon, MRC found that congressional Democrats were more restrained than the programs on which they appeared.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell were particularly keen on discussing the prospect of impeachment. The term appeared a whopping 34 times during the one-hour The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Interestingly, journalists also mentioned impeachment 34 times on Blitzer’s The Situation Room, but over the course of two hours, between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. EDT.
By the early afternoon, numerous pundits had begun referring to the Mueller report as “a road map for impeachment.” CNN’s Dana Bash used that catch phrase twice during the 12:00 p.m. EDT hour: “What he did here, as Pamela just laid out, is a road map, a ten-episode road map for really serious consideration for impeachment.” Hours later, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes opened his show with the same terminology. [...]
The closest any member of that party came to actually endorsing the idea on Thursday was when House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler was asked about the option during a press conference: “That’s one possibility. There are others.”
Yet journalists were not discouraged by the Democrats’ reticence to discuss removing the President from office. Given the media’s obsession with impeachment — even after Mueller found no collusion and declined to prosecute on obstruction — one has to wonder whether they’re even reading the same report as the rest of us.
Terms of Impeachment: Media Mention The I-Word 309 Times in One Day
The Leftist loons will have something to really shout about when the first of the Russian hoax perpetrators are indicted.
They are going to do it.
My great hope is that they eventually get off impeachment and move on to going for civil war. Because at this point there seems to be an almost endless supply of Leftists, Democrats and stinky turds like Mitt Romney that I’d just love to have a good reason to exchange fire with.
They’ve got their marching orders. But no case.
Just wasting more of our money on nonsense.
I say ESAD dems.
Just like Hillary, the DNC, MSM, academia, Hollywood and RINOs the President will beat you like a drum too.
5.56mm
Media obsessed with unrealistic fantasy and craziness!
Obsessed?
They have marching orders. They do as instructed.
“We’ll all be hanging . . .”
Setting a precedent so an elected President that did nothing wrong could be removed at anytime = The End of the United States
Since the media is an admittedly used “Echo Chamber” for propaganda with the likes of Brennan, Rhodes, Clapper, and hundreds of counter Intel mercenaries, it’s no wonder. They can see, smell, and taste jail if they don’t wreck and run Trump out of fuel.
The so-called “news” media is still sore about losing the 2016 election.
They are sore losers.
Mueller: I exonerate this man.
Democrats: So, you’re saying he needs to be impeached?
Agreed. And if they succeed it is war.
The MSM are attempting a Coup
Did anyone really think they would stop going after Trump?
They have wanted Trump, his family, his associates, dead since the day Trump became President..today is just the same ol sh*t, new day
Pretty much.
They have to stop him before the Indictments start
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