Media Vapors: How Special Counsel John Durham Has Triggered a Media Meltdown

[Elderberry]

Jonathan Turley 2/15/2022

Media Vapors: How Special Counsel John Durham Has Triggered a Media Meltdown

Pediatricians call it “breath-holding spells.” It was when children hold their breath when upset until they experience syncope, or passing out. The media in Washington appears close to a collective faint over the recent filings of Special Counsel John Durham. While the media has largely buried or downplayed the disclosures by Durham on the origins of the Russian conspiracy claims, Durham keeps adding new details implicating top Democratic figures in what he describes as an ongoing investigation. You can only hold your breath so long and Durham shows no signs that he is done by a long shot.

The latest disclosures by Durham are difficult for many in the media to cover because they directly refute years of prior coverage. Many in the media lampooned Donald Trump for claiming that the FBI and the Clinton campaign spied on Trump Tower and his campaign. Yet, we later learned that the FBI did spy on the campaign. In 2020, the media largely ignored that finding.

That is when the first stage of syncope began:  the “prodrome” with signs of media “discomfort, extreme fatigue, weakness, yawning, nausea, dizziness, and vertigo.”

Now, Durham has told a court that he has evidence that Clinton operatives  “exploited” access to systems at the Trump Tower, Trump’s apartment building, and “the Executive Office of the President of the United States.” While Durham does not use the term “spying,” he states that the operation allegedly targeted the campaign and the Trump Tower as well as the Executive Office.

We are now in the second syncopal phrase: loss of media consciousness.

There is no way to cover this story without many admitting that it facilitated a false narrative created by the Clinton campaign, including attacking those who suggested that the Clinton campaign would ever engage in such disreputable conduct.

The case itself remains a single false statement (much like some of the charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller). It is not an easy case to prove. However, the details emerging in the case are filling in gaps on how the Clinton Campaign’s funded and directed the development of the now debunked narrative of a conspiracy between Russian and the Trump campaign. What is also notable in the filing is the extent to which the Clinton campaign used lawyers to carry out this work, including hiding its funding while denying connections to the work of figures like Christopher Steele.

More: https://jonathanturley.org/2022/02/15/media-vapors-how-special-counsel-john-durham-has-triggered-a-media-meltdown/

[Smokin Joe]

The Ministry of Propaganda has gone all-in on several narratives readily refuted by known facts.

"Suddenly" these lies which have been repeated to the point of being tru-isms are not only not supported by evidence, but the whole narrative they have so insistently crafted has been turned on its head.

Unfortunately, their ignoring the real facts, y'know, the ones the "factcheckers" have spent the last two years denying, just keeps the narrative's inertia going, when it could have been stopped cold by simple admissions that the previous stories were wrong.

It isn't a question of credibility any more, the truth has been revealed and is spreading, and the media outlets' collective credibility isn't worth a vienna sausage tin full of dog poop.

There must be some other reason for not backing off, and that reason is becoming evident with the draconian and totalitarian behaviour of the Trudeau regime, something I fully believe those pulling the Biden puppet's strings hope to play right here in the USA.

Unfortunately, the tendrils of the Deep State/Swamp are indeed deep, and with rare exception, the GOP is failing miserably at objecting to either the narrative or the measures the Communists/Totalitarians in our own government hope to use to run roughshod over our Constitution.

When the Patriot Act was passed, in a fit of anti-terrorist fervor, with eyes looking outside our borders, few noted (as did some of us) that there were no safeguards against those measures being taken against the average American--the only 'safety' we had was one of a commonly agreed upon definition of what constituted a "terrorist".

Well, friends and neighbors, in the words of Walt Kelly, who so aptly placed his characters in the comic strip Pogo in a swamp, "We have met the enemy, and he is us."

The media are the propaganda arm of the totalitarians, whatever political party they claim.
By their fruits (actions) shall ye know them.