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@davidwebbshow @chucktodd @NBCNews @FoxNews @SiriusXMPatriot @thehill I am no defender of @chucktodd, but this maelstrom is a fake one. Yes, he should have let the tape run. But what was cut off is not any defense of a position, but simply an assertion that "history will vindicate me"..this on the accurately described cynical answer that

@davidwebbshow @chucktodd @NBCNews @FoxNews @SiriusXMPatriot @thehill 2/ how history will judge the response depends upon who the victors are. This is a true statement, and one that Barr smugly proposes as an answer to the obvious question of the politicizing of the office in the example of Flynn.

He expects to be the victor, thus the writer

@davidwebbshow @chucktodd @NBCNews @FoxNews @SiriusXMPatriot @thehill 3/ history. It is that imperious certainty that leads him to assert "I think history will look back on this...".

That is not a position. Not a justification. Not a reasoned dialect that arrives at the answer that is drop the Flynn charges due to unjustice.

It is the assertion

@davidwebbshow @chucktodd @NBCNews @FoxNews @SiriusXMPatriot @thehill 4/ that "we are going to win", and because of that win, what we are doing will be seen as right.

Everything this administration does concerning its lack of transparency, accountability, and the deep, destructive dismantling of the Justice system for political gain & purposes

@davidwebbshow @chucktodd @NBCNews @FoxNews @SiriusXMPatriot @thehill 5/ all of it should have been part of this interview. But of course nobody from the Trump administration, especially Trump, but also especially Barr, the executor and protector of Trump, could stand up to even serious questioning, much less an inquiry.

See how he refuses to

@davidwebbshow @chucktodd @NBCNews @FoxNews @SiriusXMPatriot @thehill 6/ sit before Congress and give account for himself and the decisions he is making re the Dept.

Sure, Todd goofed up. But it seems to me he was trying to make a different point. Based on the transcript heading this thread, it is clear Todd did not excise anything important

@davidwebbshow @chucktodd @NBCNews @FoxNews @SiriusXMPatriot @thehill 7/ relative to the underlying question.

What is fascinating is how the Non-Fox/Faux news sources will scramble to admit error, even one as little as this; take on the framing of those who see an opportunity, not to tell the truth, but to squelch actual discussion & engagement.

@davidwebbshow @chucktodd @NBCNews @FoxNews @SiriusXMPatriot @thehill 8/ This ploy, this tactic is ripped from the GOP playbook, & has been used to great effect for very many years. You would be forgiven to think that the Dem's & journalists might have figured this out by now.

In Kerry's time it was Swift Boating. HRC, emails. Now going after

@davidwebbshow @chucktodd @NBCNews @FoxNews @SiriusXMPatriot @thehill 9/ Biden & his son not for actual lawbreaking, but covering Trump's actual lawlessness by making it out that Biden is doing it.

This point needs to be better examples and explicated. @TimothyDSnyder makes the compelling case, referencing Russia & Putin tactics, that the point

@davidwebbshow @chucktodd @NBCNews @FoxNews @SiriusXMPatriot @thehill 10/ is to make the case that "Sure we are corrupt, but so is the American system. It is no better. There is nothing any better...".

That @chucktodd does not include a clear statement concerning the truth value and history and facts of the Flynn case, & is getting swallowed up

@davidwebbshow @chucktodd @NBCNews @FoxNews @SiriusXMPatriot @thehill 11/ in the windstorm of a detail that isn't even the point...That he is unable to make the point in the face of this enemic, loud, faux outrage is the real point.
And is the real point of failure, not only by Todd, but by our journalists at large. If we continue to allow Trump&Co

@davidwebbshow @chucktodd @NBCNews @FoxNews @SiriusXMPatriot @thehill 12/ to define the context of what is and is not acceptable to discuss, and continue to expend all the journalistic energies on side shows and trivialities, or secondary points... it will be one of the leading causes of Trump's victory.
The failure of the press to do its job and

@davidwebbshow @chucktodd @NBCNews @FoxNews @SiriusXMPatriot @thehill 13/ to give account for itself will be one of the leading causes of the final lights being turned off on the doings of this administration. And then we will have nothing more official than a new "Goebbels" level press conference, where the administration has zero accountability

@davidwebbshow @chucktodd @NBCNews @FoxNews @SiriusXMPatriot @thehill 14/ for anything it does. We will be sotted with Trump(isms) declaring absolute perfection on the part of the dear leader, the one who understands everything and does no wrong. Ever. By definition.

And Barr will be found to be right in his citing of, not his, but the ancient

@davidwebbshow @chucktodd @NBCNews @FoxNews @SiriusXMPatriot @thehill 15/ insight that it is the victors of the war that write the history.

If that happens here, and this year, expect a firing up of Orwell's Memory Hole to consume everything Trump&Co find inconvenient & contradictory to their party line.

We will know less than nothing.

@davidwebbshow @chucktodd @NBCNews @FoxNews @SiriusXMPatriot @thehill Coda:
Here is the present tense example of the point...

Make the minor point the only point in play in the public square as a way to fog up the actual issues. Drain the ability of the public to make a distinction by sending up an endless barrage of flak.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1259837779237842954?s=20