Danger to Democracy: Clinton-Complicit Media Try to Ignore Durham

February 19th, 2022 4:00 PM

Over there at The Wall Street Journal, the paper’s Kimberley Strassel, always a superb detective of behind-the-scenes shenanigans, has dissected the recently released filing by Special Council John Durham. Her findings make plain that Durham points to the tie between all those lefty techies and the Clinton Campaign, joining forces to spread “an inference” and “narrative” in the media…

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MSNBC: GOP 'Syndicate' Just Trying to Raise Money With Durham Story

February 19th, 2022 12:44 AM

On Friday’s edition of The 11th Hour on MSNBC, host Chris Jansing derisively claimed that the reason why Republicans were talking about the latest filing from Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation is because the GOP just wants to fire up its base and raise money.

NewsBusters Podcast: Hillary's Vanity Leads to Vanity Fair Garbage

February 18th, 2022 9:23 PM

Hillary Clinton didn't take the conservative media attacks lying down after the John Durham filing, tweeting out a "good debunking" of their "nonsense" from Bess Levin in Vanity Fair. That magazine is an anti-Trump hothouse in dire need of debunking. Levin has written up florid fantasies about punishing Donald Trump and wild suggestions that Trump's "beaten a few homeless people to…

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NewsNation Puts Networks to Shame, Spends 36 Minutes on Durham

February 18th, 2022 4:41 PM

While struggling in the ratings, NewsNation (formerly WGN) has spent the past year and a half as a genuine, substantive outlet based in professional and unbiased journalism. We saw the latest example this week as, between Monday and Thursday, NewsNation’s evening shows spent 36 minutes and 16 seconds on the bombshell filing from Special Counsel Robert Durham into the origins of the Trump-…

Fact Checkers Nitpick: Durham Never Said the Libs 'Infiltrated' Trump

February 18th, 2022 3:43 PM

The "independent fact checkers" really wanted to downplay anything John Durham was saying about lawyers for the Clinton campaign snooping around in the Trump team's internet activities. They seized on words that Fox News used that sounded like active verbs meant to sell a story -- in this case, that Team Clinton paid to "infiltrate" the Trump orbit.

Dirty Tricks: The Sequel

February 18th, 2022 1:13 PM

“Dirty tricks” was a term used to describe the behavior of operatives within the Nixon administration to smear the reputations of opponents and undermine the appeal of certain politicians. Fifty years ago, these dirty tricks included a false allegation that Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson (D-WA.) had fathered an illegitimate child with a 17-year-old girl and the break-in at Democratic National…

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Unhinged Scarborough Rants: Durham Filing Written By 'A Third Grader'

February 18th, 2022 11:29 AM

MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough continued his rantings against Special Counsel John Durham and conservative media on Friday when he concluded that Durham's latest filing was written by a third grader and it was deliberately incomprehensible. 

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NBC Defends Sussmann, Hillary from Accusations of Spying on Trump

February 18th, 2022 10:54 AM

On Thursday, NBC Nightly News broke the evening newscast silence regarding the bombshell findings from Special Counsel John Durham showing that a lawyer for the 2016 Clinton campaign was involved with spying on Donald Trump. Not only did they break the network blackout, but they stepped up to the plate and defended both Hillary Clinton and campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann.

Editor’s Pick: The Federalist on 5 Media Lies About Durham Findings

February 18th, 2022 10:17 AM

On Friday, The Federalist Senior Contributor Margot Cleveland outlined the multiple media lies being told to downplay or dismiss revelations from Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation. She noted: “While earlier filings by Durham had revealed equally explosive facts, this time the special counsel’s motion generated enough attention that #Durham began to trend on Twitter. Not since the…

Column: 'Explainer' Articles Insist Nobody 'Spied' on Trump

February 18th, 2022 5:47 AM

There’s a second wave of media reaction to John Durham’s latest filing on the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. The first wave was silence, hoping somehow the whole story would vanish. Now the second wave is “Explainers,” which attempt to hem and haw defensively through the whole business.

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MSNBC Trashes ‘Dangerous Disinformation’ From Conservatives on Durham

February 17th, 2022 3:02 PM

Deadline: White House provided MSNBC late Wednesday afternoon with only the third mention of the bombshell revelation from Special Counsel John Durham on alleged spying against the Trump campaign and early presidency, but they predictably used 16 minutes and 10 seconds to dismiss it as “dangerous disinformation” peddled by “right-wing media.”

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Morning Joe Mocks Those Making 'Total Asses of Themselves' on Durham

February 17th, 2022 11:20 AM

On Tuesday's Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough said that anyone who cared about Special Counsel John Durham's latest filing "stupid." On Thursday, he upped the name-calling even further, saying only "complete, total asses" care about Durham. For Scarborough, this includes Durham himself.

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NBC FINALLY Discovers Durham, Touts Denials From Clinton & Sussmann

February 17th, 2022 10:22 AM

On Thursday, NBC’s Today show finally noticed the bombshell development from Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign spied on Donald Trump, both as a candidate and as president. However, the Democratic Party shills at the network immediately turned to Hillary Clinton and attorneys for her former campaign aid Michael Sussmann – who has been…

Stelter Screeches at 'Explosion of False Claims' from Durham Filing

February 17th, 2022 7:56 AM

When the liberal media aren't ignoring the John Durham probe, they're "reporting" on it by suggesting it's the newest pile of overwrought MAGA propaganda. CNN's covering it by letting Brian Stelter cry "HOAX" at Fox News and other conservative outlets. His headline was "Right-wing media said it was exposing a scandal. What it really revealed is how bad information spreads in MAGA world".