Today’s paragraphs come to us from powerlineblog.com’s Paul Mirengoff, who, in his latest piece, explains the frenzy over Donald Trump’s meeting with a supposed Russian purveyor of news about Hillary Clinton:
The mainstream media is in a state of ecstasy over the story of Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with that Russian lawyer. It’s easy to understand why. After months with nothing to feed on, the media now has a scrap. In this context, the meal feels like a feast.
It certainly seems that way to Ruth Marcus. She declares, absurdly, that the Trump Jr. emails “could hardly be more incriminating.” I must have missed the one in which he told the Russkies to go ahead and hack John Podesta’s emails, and provided them the password.
Marcus also opines that Trump, Jr. violated U.S. law by accepting something of value from a foreign government agent. If that’s true, then the FBI should raid every embassy party in Washington and half of the city’s cocktail parties. Journalists and others routinely accept useful information (and plenty of interesting gossip) from “foreign government agents” at these events. Even I have used information obtained from diplomats in my writing.
“After months with nothing to feed on, the media now has a scrap. In this context, the meal feels like a feast.”? Now there’s a line I wish I had written.
Paul Mirengoff wins Paragraphs Of The Day honors for showing so clearly, in so few words, how absurdl the overreaction to this meeting is.
Reminding readers again: Hillary Clinton’s campaign was far more deeply involved in getting dirt on Donald Trump from Ukrainian nationals – and virtually nothing was said about it from these same media. Not then, and not now, as they desperately attack the Trump administration.
Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s running mate, insanely (I don’t use that word lightly) suggested Trump Jr’s meeting with the Russian woman might have been treasonous. Since he was as much a beneficiary of the information supplied by Ukrainian nationals as Hillary Clinton, I wonder if he thinks he and she committed treason too.
Don’t hang by your thumbs waiting for someone from our wonderful “neutral” media to ask him.
