{"id":36945,"date":"2018-02-04T10:51:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T18:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36945"},"modified":"2018-02-04T10:57:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T18:57:18","slug":"the-desperate-fox-news-effort-to-spin-the-nunes-memo-is-a-pretty-bogus-bombshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36945","title":{"rendered":"The Desperate Fox News Effort to Spin the Nunes Memo is a Pretty Bogus ‘Bombshell’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, Devin Nunes, spent the last couple of weeks alleging that he had proof of an all-consuming, “deep state”<\/em> conspiracy to destroy Donald Trump. He didn’t<\/a><\/strong>. But that didn’t stop him from beating the drum for partisan drivel that was giddily embraced by many of his GOP colleagues, as well as the conservative media echo chamber.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, Fox News was the first, and most enthusiastic, torch carrier for the overblown hype that Nunes was peddling. Take a look at how they presented the “news”<\/em> announcing the memo’s release:<\/p>\n

\"Fox
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

Okay, that last one in the bottom-right was from Saturday Night Live, but even they have better journalistic ethics than Fox News does. The others are from Fox’s primetime Trump-fluffers Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, and Saturday’s pitiful wannabe propagandist, Jesse Watters. And what they all have in common is the compulsion to characterize the super-dud Nunes memo as a “Bombshell.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Let’s be clear, the memo fell as flat as the Earth that Fox’s science deniers are perpetually squawking about. It failed utterly<\/a><\/strong> to prove any of the allegations its authors and promoters had put forward. In fact, it literally proved the case made by Democrats that the FISA court’s granting of a surveillance warrant for Trump flunky Carter Page had nothing to do with the Russia investigation or the work of special counsel Robert Mueller. If anything, that was the “bombshell”<\/em> produced by the memo. And even several Republicans who sit on the Intelligence Committee agree. As reported by Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n