“Durham is Ken Starr II, and the press still hasn’t learned any lessons.”
this DC narrative that ‘gee, conservative media overshot the Durham story; they’re exaggerating’ is extremely dangerous bc it refuses to address the fact that GOP, Fox embrace propaganda 100%
think abt it: if entire Dem leadership, MSNBC, liberal writers etc all sudden claimed Trump pee tape was real do you think WP would politely say, ‘they’re overreaching’
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this is exactly why @deanbaquet fired the paper’s public editor after 2016 campaign
the strategy was to circle the wagons and to force entire newsroom to sign off on collective denial re: one of the worst journalism failures of this generation
another partisan GOP conducting a Clinton witch hunt.
“The bad news is the same elite news outlets are stepping lightly around the real story at the center of the right-wing mob — the unethical nature of Durham’s work and how he’s clearly working with the far right to try to manufacture controversy where none exists.”
“U.S. retail sales rebounded by more than forecast with the biggest gain since March, as Americans kept spending through a Covid-19 spike and hot inflation to help drive the economic recovery.”
<Contrary to reports, nowhere in Durham's filing does he state that lawyers for the Clinton campaign paid a tech company to "infiltrate" servers belonging to Trump Tower and later the White House.>