{"id":37064,"date":"2018-02-17T10:39:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T18:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37064"},"modified":"2018-02-17T10:43:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T18:43:27","slug":"trump-fluffing-fox-news-pundit-calls-russian-indictments-rocky-and-bullwinkle-kind-of-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37064","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Fluffing Fox News Pundit Calls Russian Indictments ‘Rocky and Bullwinkle Kind of Stuff’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the hours following special counsel Robert Mueller’s latest set of indictments, there has been flurry of frantic activity over at Fox News. The desperation of Donald Trump’s phalanx of sycophants rushing to his defense is thick enough to slice with a scimitar. When they aren’t celebrating Trump’s imaginary vindication, they are insisting that the charges are meaningless. To these bipolar shills Mueller has either produced a profound success or a pitiful failure. Or, of course, it was all Obama’s fault<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Case in point: On Special Report, the afternoon Fox program that is cited as its flagship “news”<\/em> hour, they hosted a hard-boiled Trump supporter who demonstrated the absurdity of wingnut media. Matt Schlapp is the chairman of the American Conservative Union and is married to Mercedes Schlapp, the White House Director of Strategic Communications. In a fit of pique that threatened to burst a blood vessel, Schlapp offered a unique simile to illustrate his opinion of the Mueller indictments (video below):<\/p>\n

“This is rather absurd. This is like Rocky and Bullwinkle kind of stuff. When I think of Russian collusion in our elections I am offended. I think it’s repulsive. Is this what it was? It was thirteen guys having some rallies?”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Boris and Natasha must be laughing their cartoon asses off. Schlapp’s attempt to trivialize these charges is an anguished plea for help. His first blatant cognitive lapse was to mistake that the thirteen indictments means there were only thirteen participants in the Russian operation. Rest assured that the White House, despite their outer dismissals, is not amused. These are serious violations of the law and they imply further legal jeopardy for the President and his crime family.<\/p>\n

But never mind that. Reality is fungible to the goons who make up the Trump Defense League. This outburst by Schlapp is typical of the imprimatur that Fox News wants so badly to stamp on this affair. That’s why he goes unchallenged by guest host Mike Emanuel. Schlapp’s main point that the whole Russian espionage campaign was a silly plot devised by a small band of losers is a lie that is explicitly addressed<\/a><\/strong> in the indictment which states that hundreds of people were involved with an annual budget of millions of dollars:<\/p>\n

“The ORGANIZATION employed hundreds of individuals for its online operations, ranging from creators of fictitious personas to technical and administrative support. The ORGANIZATION\u2019s annual budget totaled the equivalent of millions of U.S. dollars.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No one on Fox News corrected this material falsehood. Which explains why Fox News viewers are so clueless about the facts of pretty much any topic that is covered by Fox. The network deliberately misinforms their audience and leaves them to wallow in ignorance.<\/p>\n

Schlapp continued with his disinformation rant by shifting the blame to the right’s favorite black president\/villain saying that “Obama should have stopped it.”<\/em> And he concluded by saying that undermining the foundation of our nation’s democracy “is not worth a year of the country’s time,”<\/em> and that the charges are “ridiculous and not true.”<\/em> He is so adamant in his arguments that you have to wonder if he is now serving as the defense counsel for the indicted Russians?<\/p>\n

If so, Schlapp would have to take a backseat to Trump, who has been litigating the innocence of Putin’s spies for more than a year now. However, these indictments prove that Russian meddling in the 2016 election was not, as Trump whines, a hoax, or a witch hunt, or fake news. It is a cyberwar, and any complicity on the part of any American is treason.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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.@mschlapp<\/a> on Mueller indictment: "This is not worth a year of the country's time over everything else that we have to deal with…these charges of Russian collusion, it's clearly been ridiculous and not true." #SpecialReport<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/MZz1gvs8mH<\/a><\/p>\n

— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n