[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
#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.
#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.
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02/20/2022 7:57 Comments ||
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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.
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02/20/2022 9:11 Comments ||
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#10
The piece was opinion. Not news.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/20/2022 9:15 Comments ||
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#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.
#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.
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#13
^ Agreed. We're through the looking glass now. We just need to separate from these lunatics.
#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.
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02/20/2022 10:49 Comments ||
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#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.
#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 American™
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02/20/2022 11:05 Comments ||
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#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 ||
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#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
#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 ||
02/20/2022 11:18 Comments ||
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#21
"If by 'play' you mean, Drink deep the aura of the game..."
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.
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02/20/2022 11:33 Comments ||
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#24
TLDR synopsis: Referees are useless.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/20/2022 11:34 Comments ||
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#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 ||
02/20/2022 11:44 Comments ||
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#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.
#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 ||
02/20/2022 12:32 Comments ||
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#28
^ They all were told at the beginning to not get the shots.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/20/2022 12:32 Comments ||
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#29
Maybe what we need is a Constitutional amendment that says "If you die in office, your family gets nothing."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/20/2022 12:35 Comments ||
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#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.
Canadian authorities also announced they had used emergency powers to seize 76 bank accounts connected to protesters, totaling roughly $3.2 million ($2.5 million U.S.).
[AlAhram] Police aggressively pushed back protesters in Canada's besieged capital on Saturday, seizing trucks and finally retaking control of the streets in front of the country's Parliament building. Scores of trucks left under the increasing pressure, raising authorities' hopes for an end to the three-week protest against the country's COVID-19 restrictions and the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ...hereditary prime minister of the same country that once produced McKenzie King... The street in front of Parliament Hill was the heart of the protests. It had been occupied by protesters and their trucks since late last month, turning into a carnival on weekends.
``They are trying to push us all away,'' said one protester, Jeremy Glass of Shelburne, Ontario, as authorities forced the crowds to move further from the Parliament building. ``The main camp is seized now. We're no longer in possession of it.''
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#1
Smashing windows and tossing flash bangs is more aggressive than anything the protestors have done.
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02/20/2022 0:51 Comments ||
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#2
About half of Canadians have voted for this. As I have said before, it's too bad we can't devise a political system where only the people who vote for bad stuff have to endure the consequences of their ill-informed choices...
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02/20/2022 6:22 Comments ||
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#5
Well. We know where Joostin's patronymic came from. His genetic patrimony? That's maybe less clear. Are there any pictures of Pierre with a beard? On his face I mean.
Oh, that still didn't come out quite right...
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#6
It appears as if the Canadian public supports the prime minister. Biden will interpret the same results will occur in the US.
#7
I don't think this would go over near as well in the U.S..
There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.
Heinz Guderian
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02/20/2022 10:01 Comments ||
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#8
No public support. Only 100’s arrested. You can’t expect change with 100’s of protesters. You need hundreds of thousands. J6 failed for same reason. Like one of our commentators wrote yesterday. Americans have a job and family and will comply with government.
#9
Biden will interpret the same results will occur in the US.
Correct. The kakocracy is desperate for signs they can get away with their monstrous shit.
e.g. Newsom defeating his recall attempt by more than 2:1 after he was down in the polls -- solely by waving the bloody COVID scary-shirt. After that sign, the Brylcreemed dictator doubled down on COVIDian repression. So even as blue states are slowly but steadily backing off of their ridiculous mandates, CA is now talking about forcing kindergartners to participate in their Mengelian experimental gene therapy. Every few months. Forever.
So now Prime Minister Klain, Fauxi, Da Ferret et al. will look to Canada and conclude, Yes, we can mandate whatever the hell we want, and all the tools of oppression -- doxxing, burning their financial lifelines, cracking heads -- will force compliance. Without a whimper.
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It appears as if the Canadian public supports the prime minister.
I keep seeing this message, but I'm skeptical. The PM was already annoying to at least half of Canada already. Overhead shots of the truck convoy and the large, cheerful crowds seem to contradict this. Also a number of provinces have dropped their mask/vax mandate.
As a side note, it is interesting how the government messaging has changed over time. Originally, when the blockade came to Windsor, the mayor was going on about swastikas and Confederate flags (in Canada?) and white supremacy and the general anti-government nature of the loutish protesters. When that did not stick, he switched to the terrible economic impact the blockade was having both on Canada and the US. Now, it is just a small group of malcontents with no general support. OK, sure.
#15
I can only speak for me. I'm not buying any Canadian products.
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#16
Turbo hasn't been very bright in dealing with this. The truckers were not asking for much. This is not about health and controlling a pandemic. It's about control over citizens and trying to institute a globalist agenda. It's about squelching and smothing fteedom. Damn the fascists.
#18
Reading this comments make me throw up
Instead posting your coward conservative thoughts in here start to prepare and go active.
Go around and take civil servants and policemen addresses …..
This is the bunch that has to go first in the event of a dictatorship in the USA.
#22
There once trolled a greasy Sardinian
Whose penis fell well below median.
When he opened a can,
That unfortunate man
All too often heard, "Damn, is yo'," etc.
Seriously, though, aren't you also "black is..." and "Birra Ichnusa?"
In Austin, Texas to rally support for House candidates Greg Casar and Jessica Cisneros, the New York Democrat was heckled by a pro-Palestinian protester
'With media, with all this stuff, Palestine is basically a banned word. It's censored. We don't talk about it. No one knows about it,' she said
She pushed back on charges of anti-semitism leveled against some of Israel's biggest critics in the House, such as Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib
'Believing in the basic human dignity and the ability for a person to not be jailed or beaten for who they are, it does not mean that you are bigoted,' she said True. But believing and spreading baseless blood libels for political benefit does.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...hereditary prime minister of the same country that once produced McKenzie King...
