Today’s paragraphs come to us from the editorial page of Investors Business Daily.
IBD has published a commentary which points out that the mueller “investigation” has, no doubt unintentionally, exposed the pieces of a major scandal – which it calls a “counternarrative” – that mueller & Co., along with so many of our shamelessly complicit media, is determined to ignore:
While Mueller has turned up no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, this “counternarrative” has led to: former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe fired for lying to investigators; Peter Strzok and Lisa Page booted off Mueller’s team for virulently anti-Trump texts; Deputy Assistant AG Bruce Ohr demoted after contacts with a Trump oppo-research firm came to light; the quitting of former Deputy Assistant AG David Laufman, who played a key role in both the Russia and Clinton email investigations; and FBI general counsel James Baker reassigned after evidence emerged that he’d been in contact with leftist reporter David Corn.
In other words, while the Mueller investigation sputters along, the evidence of political abuse at the FBI and Justice is piling up.
This “counternarrative” also has uncovered the fact that the FBI had a spy in the Trump campaign, and that the FBI has not been entirely forthcoming about how the Trump investigation got started, or when.
Try to imagine what media coverage would be if the parties were reversed.
Try to imagine an “Independent Counsel”, putting together a staff heavily stacked with Republicans, spending a year finding nothing incriminating against a Democrat President, while ignoring the massive evidence against that president’s Republican opponent.
Do you think our media would show the same level of desperate indifference? Or do you think they would be shouting from the rooftops about a conspiracy to overthrow an elected president, and demanding the players be indicted and tried?
Investors Business Daily wins Paragraphs Of The Day honors – not because it has written about this (I’ve been doing the same for months), but because it has written about it so well.
Here are the last two paragraphs of IBD’s editorial…
It reminds us of the story about the cub reporter who is sent to cover a routine meeting of the local town council. The reporter later returns to the newsroom without a story. When the editor asks why there’s no story, the reporter responds: “I couldn’t get to the government building because a massive train wreck blocked the street.”
A good reporter, or at least one who isn’t hopelessly biased, would be able to see that the real story isn’t the go-nowhere Mueller investigation, but the more troubling story of abuse of power by Obama administration officials to protect Hillary Clinton and then derail the Trump presidency.
…to which I reply, “Yep. couldn’t have said it better”.
