{"id":40968,"date":"2019-03-25T14:38:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T21:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40968"},"modified":"2019-03-25T18:47:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T01:47:02","slug":"hah-trump-campaign-memo-makes-strong-case-for-banning-lying-trump-surrogates-from-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40968","title":{"rendered":"HAH! Trump Campaign Memo Makes Strong Case for Banning Lying Trump Surrogates from TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s was just two days ago that special counsel Robert Mueller completed his investigation of Donald Trump and the nefarious connections to Russia by the President and his close associates. And it&#8217;s been less than twenty-four hours since Attorney General William Barr released his <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40957\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">deliberately distorted letter<\/a><\/strong> that misrepresented even the few sentence fragments from Mueller&#8217;s report that Barr bothered to cite.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-head-pointing.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34647\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2636260233055422\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, that was plenty of time for the Republican Political Machine to contrive their propaganda offensive and to craft a brazenly false narrative that Trump has been exonerated and that his critics are witch hunting liars. The project they rushed to implement included a bizarre memo from Tim Murtaugh, the Director of Communications for Trump&#8217;s 2020 campaign. Murtaugh&#8217;s memo echoed what most of the GOP Surrogate Squad has been saying: Barr&#8217;s letter is <em>&#8220;a total and complete vindication of President Donald Trump.&#8221;<\/em> Of course, Mueller&#8217;s actually words dispute that. He literally wrote that his report <em>&#8220;does not exonerate&#8221;<\/em> Trump, at least with regard to obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the memo consisted primarily of a list of Democrats who made truthful statements about Trump and Russia. They included Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Rep. Adam Schiff, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Rep. Eric Swalwell, DNC Chair Tom Perez, and former CIA Director John Brennan. Each of them correctly noted that there is abundant evidence that Trump did in fact conspire with Russians to advance his election prospects. Murtaugh sent the memo to TV producers in an effort to poison the media trough by baselessly accusing the Democrats of lying.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Trump campaign is sending this memo to TV producers: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yhr03LAI7N\">pic.twitter.com\/yhr03LAI7N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanvswan\/status\/1110254539163291648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Notice that the only argument that Murtaugh makes to support his allegations is what Barr wrote in his highly partisan interpretation of the Mueller report, which he has so far refused to make public. And on the basis of that he asks TV bookers to reconsider inviting Democratic guests for interviews. It&#8217;s a familiar dictators&#8217; ploy to silence their opponents by starving them of media exposure. But perhaps the most ludicrous paragraph in the Murtaugh memo was the question that he proposed for TV bookers to ask themselves:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Does this guest warrant further appearances in our programming, given the outrageous and unsupported claims made in the past.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a darn good question. The only problem for Trump&#8217;s whiny comms director is that if the media takes his advice, and uses that criteria for future bookings, it would be the end of all television appearances for Trump&#8217;s senior counsel Kellyanne Conway, his press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, his acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, his campaign spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany, his son Don Jr., and pretty much anyone else who works for Trump. They are a team of recidivist liars who, when they aren&#8217;t mangling the truth, are feverishly trying to deflect and divert from the topic at hand. And of course, Trump&#8217;s record breaking 9,000+ lies would make him off limits for TV bookings.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, come to think of it, this is a pretty good idea. Television news would be far better off without these tale-spinners butchering what should be an informative public discourse. Most of the time their interviews devolve into shouting fits wherein they cravenly try to filibuster the limited time available for their segment and avoid giving any substantive answers. So while Murtaugh meant to impose a thinly disguised demand for censorship, he ended up offering a solution to the pollution on the airwaves by dishonest Trump-fluffers and sycophants. We owe him our thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s was just two days ago that special counsel Robert Mueller completed his investigation of Donald Trump and the nefarious connections to Russia by the President and his close associates. And it&#8217;s been less than twenty-four hours since Attorney General William Barr released his deliberately distorted letter that misrepresented even the few sentence fragments from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[1295,554,1140,1183,1351,1247,1256,1364],"class_list":["post-40968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-adam-schiff","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-kellyanne-conway","tag-richard-blumenthal","tag-robert-mueller","tag-sarah-huckabee-sanders","tag-william-barr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-aEM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43459,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43459","url_meta":{"origin":40968,"position":0},"title":"Attorney Genuflect Bill Barr has Fully Morphed Into a Fox News Trump-Fluffer","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/10\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"On Monday the Inspector General of the Justice Department released his report on the origins of the Russia probe. 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