Danger to Democracy: Clinton-Complicit Media Try to Ignore Durham Filing

There are more The Wall Street Journal, the paper’s Kimberley Strassel, as always a superb detective of behind-the-scenes shenanigans, has dissected the recently released filing by Special Council John Durham.

Her findings make plain that Durham points to the tie between all those lefty techies and the Clinton Campaign, joining forces to spread “an inference” and “narrative” in the media that tied then candidate Trump, through the Trump Organization, to Russia-based Alfa Bank. And doing it to “please certain ‘VIPs’” in the Clinton Campaign.

Strassel notes that liberal media ignored the Durham revelations about Clinton Campaign spying on Trump candidate and later President Trump. She wrote:

The press initially tried to ignore the story, then resorted to parsing the definition of ‘spying,’ justifying the accused, and trashing Mr. Durham…..The wonder is that the press and others are stepping up for another humiliation—when the disturbing actions of the creators of the Alfa narrative are already so easy to document, and in their own words.

Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University professor of law, wrote at Fox News about this curiousity, headline:

Durham investigation reveals that some media prefer to ignore major stories than reveal their involvement in its coverage
The Washington media are nearly in a collective faint from John Durham, Special Counsel.

Turley writes:

It is also known as “breathholding spells” by pediatricians. When children are upset, they hold their breath until they have syncope or pass out. Washington’s media seem to have nearly fainted over John Durham’s latest filings. While media outlets have tried to downplay or hide the shocking revelations from Durham regarding the Russian conspiracy, Durham is adding details about top Democratic leaders in an ongoing investigation. Durham is not done, and you can’t hold your breath for too long.

Because they refute decades of previous coverage, the latest Durham disclosures are hard for media outlets to report on. The claims that the FBI and Clinton campaign had spied upon Trump Tower and his campaign were mocked by many in media. We later discovered that the FBI had spyed on Trump’s campaign. This finding was largely ignored by the media in 2020.

Turley goes on, bold print for emphasis supplied: “There is no way to cover this story without many admitting that it Clinton campaign used a misleading narrative to create it, including attacking those who suggested that the Clinton campaign would ever engage in such disreputable conduct.”

Exactly.

Interestingly, Tulsi Gabbard, a former Hawaiian Rep. and Democrat, spoke on Fox to point out the problem. Then she tweeted this: “Durham probe further proves that the greatest threat to our democracy is not some foreign country, but rather the Power Elite, led by the likes Hillary Clinton and her cohorts in Deep State and Mainstream Media.”

Bingo. Three cheers for Ms. Gabbard. You are absolutely right.

Recall that the media spent the bulk of the Trump presidency raving about Trump-Russia “collusion.” Or as Fox’s Tucker Carlson would mock: “Russia, Russia, RUSSIA!” Finally the Mueller report appears and reveals what most Americans of common sense not infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome knew from the beginning- the whole story was fiction. It was all fake. Fabricated.

As a result, WSJ editorial noted accurately: “Along the way the Clinton campaign fed these bogus claims to a willing and gullible media.” With that “willing and gullible media” swallowing the entire yarn hook, line and sinker.

Now comes the latest Durham filing and the reveal that, yes indeed, the Clinton Campaign really was spying on candidate Trump and then, later, President Trump -using  lefty techie experts to spread that “inference” and “narrative.”

What about the media response? As Professor Turley quite accurately notes, “some media would rather ignore a major story than expose their role in covering it up.”

Tim Graham, my NewsBusters colleague, accurately noted that in response to Durham’s filing, the first media approach was to ignore it, as Turley stated. It was easy to pretend that it didn’t exist.

And when that didn’t work as intended, the second approach was invented – trying to explain it away, the media littered with “journalists” (aka leftist activists) who served as “explainers.” Explainers who, in Tim’s words “attempt to hem and haw defensively through the whole business.”

Put it all together – the media collusion with the Clintonites, the flood of Trump-Russia collusion “stories” and the silence or “explainer” approach to the Durham filing – not to mention other episodes like the Big Tech banning of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop scoop- and one sees exactly what Tulsi Gabbard means when she says that “the greatest threat to our democracy” …comes from “the Power Elite, led by the likes Hillary Clinton and her cohorts in Deep State and Mainstream Media.”

This is a serious problem that cannot be ignored.

Victor Davis Hanson, the prominent historian at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, recently asked: “Who Are the Real Insurrectionists?”

Davis asked

….who is trying to federalize election laws in national elections contrary to the spirit of the Constitution? Who wants to abolish or circumvent the Electoral College Do you want to abolish the Senate filibuster of more than 180 years, the nine-justice Supreme Court that has been around for over 150 years, or the 50-state, more than 60 year-old union?

Is it you who is attacking the original constitution idea that two senators are required in each state?

Yes, exactly. And he continues with more examples. But his point is similar to Tulsi Gabbard’s. America has a real problem with “powerful elites” the Deep State and the “Mainstream Media.”

America has reached a dangerous inflection point with the  Mainstream Media — aka the leftist media. The Mainstream Media spins lies, suppresses truths, and creates false stories. It all does this to promote the current leftist agenda.

Rush Limbaugh’s one-year anniversary was marked the other day. Remember the crucial role Rush played in breaking down the leftist monopoly on media. It’s something that continues to drive the left nuts. Conservative media, which includes the publication you are now reading, exists – and it’s not going away.

This is precisely why the media are trying desperately to ignore Durham’s latest findings and attacking conservative media outlets for sharing the news about Durham’s discoveries.

The conduct of the Mainstream Media in trying to suppress or ignore the Durham report brings up Victor Davis Hanson’s pointed question yet again:

“Who are the real insurrectionists?”

We have the solution.