“People have muted the curators in the world —the experts.” —@SalenaZito, author of The Great Revolt, on why the public isn’t buying the spin that release of Page FISA app somehow undercuts Nunes. It doesn’t. It might in future but no evidence other than Steele Dossier thus far.
The collective assertion of the usual suspects that “X means Y” just doesn’t fly in the world of hyper-partisan journalists. I’m a partisan journalist and have always been transparently so when I began in business in 1990. Public has recognized every journalist is a partisan.
This isn’t a condemnation, just a recognition that our inherent biases and the pull of our colleagues and the weight of the crowd usually press journalists into conformity with the Manhattan-Beltway media master narrative. Page FISA warrant the perfect example of this coverage.
What @SalenaZito and I recognize is that the master narrative simply doesn’t persuade people any more. The facts are in front of their eyes. There is no evidence in Page documents except Steele Dossier, and public isn’t going to be told by “experts” that assertions are evidence.
We will wait for IG report to see if Page warrant was justified, but the table pounding by the left tells me only that the left is trying very very hard to get a conclusion cemented in Manhattan-Beltway circles before the IG report. It’s the #JCPOA “Echo Chamber” 2.0.
