When the Fox News host Bret Baier sat down with the president of Real Clear Politics I half expected him to repeat the same biased nonsense the other media nets have been spewing over the Durham probe discoveries. I was pleasantly surprised to see him call out the inconsistencies and obvious political activism.
The nets are all on the hook for falsely reporting the validity of the bogus Steele Dossier and smearing then-president Trump, so it’s no surprise they want to cover their tracks and dismiss Durham’s findings.
“The media double standard here is absolutely glaring. As you mentioned, Bret, no time spent on any of the networks. The New York Times, The Washington Post didn’t even cover it until today, when they each spent about 1,500 words defending it, downplaying it, explaining why it wasn’t a big deal,” Tom Bevan explained after listening to multiple clips of various nets barking garbage about the probe.
Bevan admitted that his organization and others have run stories on less information. He was referencing to the false notion that Durham’s probe is too ‘vague’ to report on, “After we just spent years and years of the media running with far less. I mean, if this was any sort of filing regarding Donald Trump, it is all we would be hearing about from the media, day in and day out. And so that to me is the troubling issue here. The media has again revealed itself as putting their thumb on the scale for one side and not the other.”
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BRET BAIER: Well, it depends on what you were looking at or what you were reading, how to interpret the results of the latest finding by John Durham in the investigation into the Trump Russia probe. It is still coming out, we are still learning more. However, the revelations did not sit well with some in the mainstream media. Some downplayed them, others just ignored them.
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KATELYN POLANTZ [CNN CRIME AND JUSTICE REPORTER, NEW DAY]: This new wrinkle, it really is just a wrinkle, and it’s very vague. We’re still trying to get a sense of what the facts are here.
EVAN PEREZ [CNN SENIOR JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT, INSIDE POLITICS]: It does show the actual spying that Trump and others are saying it does.
TOM WINTER [MSNBC MORNING JOE]: If you’re gonna call it Watergate, it’s that the security guard at the Watergate, while being paid to do security to see just who was coming in. It doesn’t mean they were going through their briefcases, it doesn’t mean it was going through the files that they were bringing in.
JOE SCARBOROUGH [MSNBC MORNING JOE]: If what they did had been illegal, we would have had a charge.
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TOM BEVAN [REAL CLEAR POLITICS]: The media double standard here is absolutely glaring. As you mentioned, Bret, no time spent on any of the networks. The New York Times, The Washington Post didn’t even cover it until today, when they each spent about 1,500 words defending it, downplaying it, explaining why it wasn’t a big deal. After we just spent years and years of the media running with far less. I mean, if this was any sort of filing regarding Donald Trump, it is all we would be hearing about from the media, day in and day out. And so that to me is the troubling issue here. The media has again revealed itself as putting their thumb on the scale for one side and not the other.
BAIER: Tom, how does this poll? You know, it’s interesting to hear Democrats say – and we had Congressman [Adam] Smith [D-WA] on last night saying, you know, people care about more important things. But rewind the tape, you know, a few years to the early part of the Trump presidency, and it was all about the Russia investigation.