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-Great Cultural Revolution
Fox News Backs Off on Durham Hillary Spying Investigation
2022-02-20
[Newsmax] Left-wing media analysts have noted an abrupt change in Fox News coverage of special counsel John Durham's court filing alleging Hillary Clinton campaign ties to "exploiting" access to internet data in "gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump."

Both Mediaite and CNN noted Fox News now gives scant attention to claims Hillary Clinton's campaign "spied" on Trump.

The media critics say Fox's change came after Hillary Clinton's New York State Democratic Convention speech Thursday where she alluded to a potential lawsuit against conservative media, suggesting they had violated a legal standard to prove libel: "actual malice."

Clinton, denouncing the coverage of Durham's Feb. 11 court filing, claimed Fox News was "getting awfully close to actual malice."

Durham's legal filing never accuses Hillary Clinton herself of spying or wiretapping the Trump campaign or the Trump White House.

But the special counsel does make clear her campaign lawyer Michael Sussmannn, who has ties to high-tech firm, sought to monitor the internet traffic of the Trump campaign, Donald Trump's personal residence in Trump Tower, and the White House.

Still, Hillary Clinton's threat of a lawsuit might have effectively chilled media reports on Durham's allegations that her campaign spied on the Trump campaign.

False claims — including those made in the Steele dossier that was partially funded by the DNC and Hillary Clinton's campaign — promoted the idea Trump's campaign had secret ties to Russian agents. These allegations were used as the pretext for an FBI KGB counter-intelligence probe of Trump and his campaign.
After falsely calling the election for Biden in Arizona Fox continues running DNC/deep state propaganda
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Posted by:Woodrow

#32  ^ What weenies Fox has become.

Blame the spawn. Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-20 18:29  

#31  What weenies Fox has become.
Posted by: JohnQC   2022-02-20 17:40  

#30  Other than wearing a button down sweater, I would never correlate George Will and VDH. VDH understood Trump, his supporters and working class Americans. And supported the movement. George Will despises Trump and us smelly Wal Mart voters.

Posted by: Shemble the Ugly3507   2022-02-20 16:59  

#29  Maybe what we need is a Constitutional amendment that says "If you die in office, your family gets nothing."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-20 12:35  

#28  ^ They all were told at the beginning to not get the shots.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-20 12:32  

#27  They're all over 60. They could die any time and they have healthcare the Aga Khan only dreamed of. They are playing for the money. Nothing more. You are a body to climb over to get to the money. Nothing more.

But read VDH and believe in a perfect future. Just stay out of the way when the action begins.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-20 12:32  

#26  I agree that the capitulation of the four GOP cucks tells us all we need to know about the complete fecklessness of the loyal "opposition."

If any of these fvckers had even a basic understanding of evolutionary biology and biostatistics, they'd oppose this madness with every fibre of their being.

We Are Ruled By Venal and Power-Mad Morons
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-20 12:26  

#25  Look at the lauguage / symbolism being used right now: Turdo is a limp wristed soy boy. Well. Seems the legislature there isn't too anxious to reign him in. Joe is a dementia riddled old fool. Well. Seems it only took 4 GOPe senators finding something more important than their jobs to skip a vote and let him keep vaxx mandates in place.

A lot of people are totally fooling themselves about how tenuous a grip these guys have on power. As of right now, they seem to be totally in charge, with the connivance of the alleged "opposition."

But VDH and G Will readers see a brighter day ahead.

Morons.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-20 11:44  

#24  TLDR synopsis: Referees are useless.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-20 11:34  

#23  Trust and Game Theory
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-20 11:33  

#22  The future is Zero Trust.

Well, it can't be zero. Do you mean you have zero trust in Gov. DeSantis? Less than total, sure-- anyone not born yesterday would agree -- but zero?

Trust simply needs to be mediated by new authorities that bypass our corrupt institutions. These will include family, place, experience, and new, alternative mechanisms that are taking shape now, spontaneously, outside the control of the kakocracy.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-20 11:27  

#21  "If by 'play' you mean, Drink deep the aura of the game..."
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-20 11:22  

#20  The future is Zero Trust. Making any sort of deal that relies on "somebody's word" (good will, past track record) will be a waste of time and an affront to any honest man's sensibilities.

How it gets implemented I certainly am not qualified to say. That is where it has to go.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-20 11:18  

#19  Yes... George Fwill's baseball: the only game that transcends the boundary between fury and repose. Played in a ballpark, whose enclosed green space stirs vestigial memories of Edenic existence. Which in the course of human events Loren ipsum hic haec hoc verbiage prevaricatus wordswordswordzzzzzzz
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-20 11:17  

#18  VDH is a learned man. Nothing more.

Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-20 11:07  

#17  But, you could calm down, put on some khakis (blue jeans are gross prole stuff) and a button down collar Brooks Brothers shirt (top button tastefully undone) drink a light beer and watch a baseball game until you fall asleep at the bottom of the 6th inning during a pitcher change.

That would make you a Good Americanâ„¢
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-20 11:05  

#16  VDH is a great man, a giant, even. But his time has passed.

Post-Ottawa, we're in a new phase. Conventional tactics won't cut it. Can't work within this system.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-20 11:04  

#15  Working within the system is pointless.

Look at where we are: The legal system is corrupt. Our biomedical establishment is incompetent. Elections are suspect. Our FB-eye is becoming American Stasi and there is now a de facto gulag on the Potomac.

Big Tech and left-media monoliths have given us American Pravda. Our schools and colleges are reeling; most public K-12 schools are a shambles and our elite universities are becoming a parody of Woke credential mills.

Even our military, the one remaining institution that used to command universal respect and even admiration, has been degraded by this madness. Milley-Vanilli and Lloyd Have Moicey are doing their best to make our military into Tranny Story Hour.

The system is beyond repair. Time to separate.

If you live in a blue area, move to a red state: empty out all the blue areas.

Substack instead of Big Tech/American Pravda.

Bypass the financial system with a blockchain-based eBay style barter system based on calculated "indicative units" instead of currency.

Homeschool your kids. Support the expansion and adoption of certification exams to replace our corrupt and degraded Woke colleges' buttwipe BA/BS degrees.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-20 11:02  

#14  So, regardless of the sour assessment by some, it's time to realize you are not helping anybody see things as they are by pitching VDH et al.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-20 10:49  

#13  ^ Agreed. We're through the looking glass now. We just need to separate from these lunatics.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-20 10:46  

#12  Doesn't change the fact that the pious yammerings of people like VDH, George Will, etc. lulls too many into a false sense that maybe, if we play fair, we will win in the end.

That's tripe. Ain't. Going. To. Happen. Whenever some GOPe squish says "We can't play by their rules, then we are just as bad as them," it's time to quit reading the stuff from the kids' table in the dentist's waiting room and maybe grow up.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-20 10:45  

#11  Forget it, Jake, etc.

Reforming our corrupt justice system would take two generations at least. We can't look to the law to protect us or our Republic any longer. Better to start ctr ating a parallel society with parallel institutions -- which will one day become a separate legal and Constitutional entity altogether.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-20 10:40  

#10  The piece was opinion. Not news.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-20 09:15  

#9  He should be ashamed to be writing it. The people who go "Ohh, ooh, ya gotta read this!" should be even more ashamed.

I get it. You're the arbiter of all news? Spare me.
Posted by: Frank G   2022-02-20 09:11  

#8  Snake oil. Nothing more...

Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-20 08:08  

#7  Trump says Durham's probe will expose 'the crime of the century' and claims there is even MORE to come on Hillary's 'spying': Admits even he was shocked by the extent of the hack
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-02-20 08:04  

#6  ^ Point well taken. VDH has been studying the history of politics going back 3000 years his whole career. There's a bit more there to work with than say the writings of Nicklaus Wirth. And still, all he can come up with is this?

He should be ashamed to be writing it. The people who go "Ohh, ooh, ya gotta read this!" should be even more ashamed.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-20 07:57  

#5  Political Scientist? Is that like Software Engineer?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-02-20 07:21  

#4  Shouldn't serious political scientists, um, be off working on improving the system against this sort of thing, instead of just whining about it?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-20 06:25  

#3  USSA
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-20 04:39  

#2  Fox News may be suffering from justifiable fears. Needless to say, these people and their beltway following are very dangerous. Bobby posted the following from Townhall here at the Burg this morning.

VDH - Hillary Clinton's Greatest Masterpiece
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-02-20 04:04  

#1  You'd think a real news news organization would welcome discovery. Unbleaching Hillary's bits.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210   2022-02-20 00:34  

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