Fox News Created This Problem
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Fox News Created This Problem
The people who are close to William Barr, who really know him, know that he only ever turns off Fox News when an opportunity arises to run outside and yell at kids on bikes. What a gift that he managed to make that a full time gig as attorney general of the United States!
He essentially applied for the job by convincing the president that he had a plan for shutting down the Mueller investigation. Now he has been tasked with undermining the entire rationale for the Mueller investigation by “proving” that it wasn’t Russia that helped Trump but Ukraine that helped Clinton. It’s the ultimate get-off-my-sidewalk move.
Here’s some reporting from Philip Rucker and Robert Costa of the Washington Post :
Barr’s role in the investigation into the Russia probe’s origins, which is being conducted by U.S. Attorney John Durham in Connecticut, is extraordinary in part because the probe seeks evidence of misconduct within his own Justice Department to support the conspiracy theory — embraced by Trump and advanced on Fox News — that the Russia inquiry was corrupt and predicated on undermining Trump…
…The White House and Justice Department have defended this review of the investigation into possible connections between Russia and members of the Trump campaign as appropriate; Barr told Congress in April that he believed “spying did occur.”
Barr’s interest in the probe is unsurprising to several of his associates, who said this week he is a headstrong and deeply conservative man who at this point in his career has grown disdainful of the Democratic Party, the federal government and the news media, criticizing them in private as biased and skewed against the president.
In other words, Barr came out of retirement after spending a couple of decades marinating his brain in Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly every night. He’s grumpy and reality-challenged, and whatever moral compass he ever had has atrophied into dust.
The story has been repeated hundreds of thousands of times, all over the country. You hear about it all the time. “I can’t even talk to my father anymore.” “My mother is so bitter.” “My brother never used to be a racist.”
That’s what Fox News consumption will do to a person over time. Before you know it, they’re nodding in approval when the president says we should shoot asylum seekers in the legs to slow them down or build a moat on the border filled with snakes and crocodiles.
Rucker and Costa continue, explaining how Trump’s Fox News -inspired worldview has taken hold throughout the government.
But taken together, they illustrate the sweeping reach of Trump’s power and the culture he has spawned inside the government. The president’s personal concerns have become priorities of departments that traditionally have operated with some degree of political independence from the White House — and their leaders are engaging their boss’s obsessions.
“Barr and Pompeo are stuck in the fog machine. They seem captives of the president’s perverse worldview,” said Timothy Naftali, a historian and former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. “Authoritarian regimes have this problem all the time . . . when all government activity is the product of the id of the leader. But in a republic, that’s unusual.”
There are some obsessions of Trump’s that seem independent of Fox News , inspired perhaps by even loonier regions of the interwebs. But it’s mostly untrue that people like Barr and Pompeo are buckling to a foreign perspective. They hold their current positions precisely because they, like the president, have lost the ability to distinguish between truth and propaganda. Spending twenty years watching Lou Dobbs wet his pants over Mexican immigration will do that to even sturdier stock.
Anyone in the Trump administration who still retained the ability to be skeptical when Laura Ingraham is talking was quickly sacked. The lemmings replaced them.
Some of these lemmings, like Barr and Pompeo , are borderline brilliant in terms of their raw intelligence. Their reasoning ability didn’t collapse overnight or completely, so it was also necessary for the morals to collapse. It’s this second piece that allows them to plod ahead over the objections of that little voice in their head that still knows they are peddling bullshit. It doesn’t matter because they have to beat the other side. It doesn’t matter because they’re the last hope for white people .
It is an urgent problem that these people are running the most powerful government on Earth, armed with enough radiation to destroy all life on the planet. And none of this would be possible without the influence of Fox News.
Donald Trump will be gone someday, but half our country will still be yelling at kids on bikes.
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Putting this through the truth translator says that the left is scared shitless of what Barr and Durham and going to turn up against all the bad actors on the left.
Stay tuned for the coming investigations and indictments on the deplorable left wing slimers,
LOL!!!!!! You support the most lawless president in history, and you are worried about bad actors on the left? Greg, go start an article about all those bad actors, sure to get a lot of traffic.
If people are too stupid to see Trumps reactions to the few there, who actually, have the audacity to report reality, as opposed to talking points designed by those inclined to create an agenda that in order to defend, a LIE is a constant requirement , they are deserved of bedding down in, As their acquired deception is worn like a badge of dishonest dishoner , but they realize not, that they are honoring those who remove the right to even have, Dis Honor
Damn right Iggy..
I think Barr slept through the class that explained he is not the president's personal lawyer.
Nah....that would be Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch
You will be relieved to hear that they don't work for the US government anymore, and, they are actually respected. Barr? Not so much. Barr has orange stretch marks around his mouth, should tell you something.
Holder and Lynch were respected? Where did you dig up that pile of shit?
Holder was held in contempt by Congress. In case you forgot.
As for Lynch the Tarmac Queen- she wasn't even respected by Comey- of course it is hard to find anyone that Comey did respect- outside of himself, Mueller, and the Agency he presided over.
You are correct they no longer work for the government, thankfully. That is the only thing you are right about.
Pretty sure that "fast and furious" was a GOP Bush/Cheney thingy.
BS, and more BS.
Operation Wide Receiver was a Bush/Cheney thingy.
Fast and Furious was all Holder (remember Obama claimed to have no knowledge of it- before claiming executive privilege for both Holder and Holder's wife that is).
Just to hi-lite some of the major differences between the two programs.
But by all means keep the lie alive.
The tracking devices' batteries failed. 400+ of the 474 guns were lost. In F & F 1,400 of 1,800 guns were lost. To put in perspective what ATF is trying to get a handle on, the estimate is that 200,000+ guns are illegally sent in to Mexico *each* year because of US lax gun acquisition laws. These are used to murder tens of thousands of people (Mexicans & Americans) yearly. If conservatives actually gave a shit, this could be substantially stopped.
Sounds like you get all your "news" from CNN, MSNBC, and major networks.They've got more lefties on Fox than conservatives now,
Especially the guests.
Yes, I get my news from networks that have journalistic integrity. Fox has none.
And yes Greg, we know that to you, anyone that says anything that doesn't fit your political agenda is a "leftie".
Having guest that foam at the mouth over Trump to entertain and brainwash their TDS viewers is not journalistic integrity. Opinions having nothing to do with reporting.
Without Trump they would have died. Before Trump they would spend 6 months 24/7 trying to figure out how a plane crashed. Poor Cooper and Lemon where always befuddled.
Proud to be a liberal centrist "leftie".
Spent my whole life standing up to far right wingers.
Marched against the war in Nam. Was a hippy in the 60s with hair.
Now an environmental scientist trying to make a difference.
So glad to have a mind of my own rather than being a corporate tool.
Fox isn't a news station, they are an opinion station.
CNN is an arm of the DNC
All fake news and opinions all the time.
Care to list all of those fake news stories? The only reason you say CNN is fake news is because a guy that has told over 12,000 lies in 3 years told you so.
I know from personal experience it was true, that's why I quit watching them
The only gullible people are brainwashed liberals and their supporters
Then you will have no problems listing all the fake news stories they have ran. We'll wait.
i won't
Fox is an arm of the rnc and gullible deporables
the arm is now an amputee ,
of a sound mind that NO body, deserves
The irony of the guy citing a fake fact to call others gullible is hilarious.
Fox has an opinion section from 5-6pm and 8-11 pm. Most all newspapers have opinion pages. The rest of Fox is news.
I think fox news is trying to distance itself from trump....not a lot, but to a degree. Fox and friends held Mark Levine's feet to the fire the other day..
Mark Levin was flat out awesome and right on in all that he said above. Bravo 👏👍🗽🇺🇸
In general, I think that meme is quite accurate as to what has led us to the disaster we are now in.
Not all meme's are worthless jokes.
Yes, but you left out ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN. and a host of other leftist entities.
What are you pissed about- that the right now have mouth pieces just like the left?
Freedom of the press is hard for the left to tolerate and accept and now they have Facebook , Google, Twitter, MBFC, the SPLC and IFCN with which to try to silence us on the right.
The impeachment inquiry is being led by a guy who spent years falsely claiming he had proof of collusion between Trump and Russia...
Fix your own house.