Group-think keeps leading our elites into disaster
By Victor Davis Hanson
January 3, 2020 | 8:10pm
The Washington Post recently published a surprising indictment of MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.
Post media critic Erik Wemple wrote that Maddow deliberately misled her audience by claiming the now-discredited Steele dossier was largely verifiable — even at a time when there was plenty of evidence that it was mostly bogus.
At the very time Maddow was reassuring viewers that ex-spook Christopher Steele was believable, populist talk radio and the much-criticized Fox News Channel were insisting that most of Steele’s allegations simply couldn’t be true.
In 2018, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), and the committee’s then-ranking minority member, Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), each issued contrasting reports of the committee’s investigation into allegations of collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s campaign and the misbehavior of federal agencies.
Schiff’s memo was widely praised. Nunes’ report was condemned as rank and partisan.
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