The fantasy crumbles for the cult...........
Will any of them apologize for the fraud?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-met-mueller-report-kass-20190419-story.html
For almost three years now, much of the American political media — what I’ve been calling the Democratic Media Complex — has been clinging to a fantasy about President Donald Trump and Russia.
You might call them bitter clingers.
They cling to the fantasy that Trump won the 2016 election only because he was the servant of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
And they believed, really believed, as a matter of faith, that their saint, special counsel Robert Mueller, would clap Trump in irons for his sins, or at least drag him out of the White House, and their long nightmare would be over.
with the Mueller report, which showed there wasn’t enough evidence for criminal charges against the president, what did they do?
They babbled and floated, stubbornly, willingly, deeper into the whirlpool, like Blanche DuBois.
For years now, Blanche has been insisting that Shep Huntleigh (Robert Mueller) would be coming any day, to save her from the barbarian Stanley Kowalski (Trump).
When the report was released, if you walked past a news screen, you would have heard them babbling. CNN had several panels of experts channeling Blanche DuBois, and none of them said anything about depending on the kindness of strangers.
Instead they damned Attorney General William Barr, a longtime friend of Mueller’s, as a creature of evil.
Some of the more tribal residents of the left might want to condemn me for conservative thinking. But it’s not about left or right.
It’s about reality. And the journalist Glenn Greenwald is not a conservative by any measure.
He is a man of the left, a founder of The Intercept and no fan of Donald Trump.
The other day, Greenwald noted that years ago, journalists who supported the Bush administration’s war on Iraq on false premises had reason to search their souls and spend time in self-reflection.
Some of us apologized, publicly, for groupthink, and vowed never to be herded again. I apologized, publicly and repeatedly.
“But here I don’t see any of that,” Greenwald told Tucker Carlson on Fox. “They’ve just put collusion and conspiracy and all those conspiracy theories they’ve spent the last three years endorsing, just flushed it down the toilet like they don’t exist and seamlessly shifted to obstruction. And then conflating them to claim, essentially, that they were right all along. And that is really the alarming thing.”
They’re doubling down, moving quickly from the Trump collusion narrative. And since they can’t sell that one, they’ll sell the obstruction narrative instead.
Will any of them apologize for the fraud?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-met-mueller-report-kass-20190419-story.html
For almost three years now, much of the American political media — what I’ve been calling the Democratic Media Complex — has been clinging to a fantasy about President Donald Trump and Russia.
You might call them bitter clingers.
They cling to the fantasy that Trump won the 2016 election only because he was the servant of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
And they believed, really believed, as a matter of faith, that their saint, special counsel Robert Mueller, would clap Trump in irons for his sins, or at least drag him out of the White House, and their long nightmare would be over.
with the Mueller report, which showed there wasn’t enough evidence for criminal charges against the president, what did they do?
They babbled and floated, stubbornly, willingly, deeper into the whirlpool, like Blanche DuBois.
For years now, Blanche has been insisting that Shep Huntleigh (Robert Mueller) would be coming any day, to save her from the barbarian Stanley Kowalski (Trump).
When the report was released, if you walked past a news screen, you would have heard them babbling. CNN had several panels of experts channeling Blanche DuBois, and none of them said anything about depending on the kindness of strangers.
Instead they damned Attorney General William Barr, a longtime friend of Mueller’s, as a creature of evil.
Some of the more tribal residents of the left might want to condemn me for conservative thinking. But it’s not about left or right.
It’s about reality. And the journalist Glenn Greenwald is not a conservative by any measure.
He is a man of the left, a founder of The Intercept and no fan of Donald Trump.
The other day, Greenwald noted that years ago, journalists who supported the Bush administration’s war on Iraq on false premises had reason to search their souls and spend time in self-reflection.
Some of us apologized, publicly, for groupthink, and vowed never to be herded again. I apologized, publicly and repeatedly.
“But here I don’t see any of that,” Greenwald told Tucker Carlson on Fox. “They’ve just put collusion and conspiracy and all those conspiracy theories they’ve spent the last three years endorsing, just flushed it down the toilet like they don’t exist and seamlessly shifted to obstruction. And then conflating them to claim, essentially, that they were right all along. And that is really the alarming thing.”
They’re doubling down, moving quickly from the Trump collusion narrative. And since they can’t sell that one, they’ll sell the obstruction narrative instead.
