As Twitchy reported, Brian Stelter sort of covered the recent court filing by Special Prosecutor John Durham for CNN in the only way he knows how — by telling us how Fox News was reporting on it. The banners were just so over-the-top. Spying? Come on, man!
The Washington Post’s Philip Bump is also taken aback by Fox News’ coverage of the court filing, and let us know in a thread that what we’re dealing with is an “insinuation-filled filing with any number of holes.”
The reaction to this thread, which combines an assessment of why perceptions of "spying" differ with a riff on Fox's inaccurate reporting, has been interesting.
It's more important that people are misrepresenting what happened than how we describe it.https://t.co/Glj1JkcJ1t
— Philip Bump (@pbump) February 15, 2022
The point (as the article hopefully makes clear) wasn't "whomst amongst us can say what 'spying' is." It's that, in this case, the spying was assumed before the evidence, leading to Fox's treatment of the whole thing.
Also that there was no "hacking," come on now.
— Philip Bump (@pbump) February 15, 2022
Like, look how entirely dishonest this is. This is the former president's spokesperson! https://t.co/UAtiP3wVty
— Philip Bump (@pbump) February 15, 2022
That’s not even Fox News, it’s OAN.
Another interesting aspect of this is that people think Durham released a clear-cut report instead of an insinuation-filled filing with any number of holes. It's just "here is a Real Government Document!!!"
— Philip Bump (@pbump) February 15, 2022
— Raisintooth (@raisintooth) February 15, 2022
Are you a lawyer?
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) February 15, 2022
You must've got your law degree from Wuhan High School
— OptionG5 (@OptionG5) February 15, 2022
Is it not a court filing submitted by a prosecutor? Might have a little more legitimacy than the rambling conjectures of a regime-controlled rag who’s fixation on Trump, at this point, borders on some kind of lurid, erotic obsession.
— Brendan Armbruster (@bj_armbruster) February 15, 2022
Do you really think a pro like Durham would make claims in a file he didn’t feel he could prove beyond a reasonable doubt? And why would a WaPo reporter be so sweaty about this? 🤔
— Scytale (@BulleitBro) February 15, 2022
Someone doth protesth too much.
— Scytale (@BulleitBro) February 15, 2022
He’s a federal prosecutor, he’s not doing insinuation .
— Nancy (@sooo_nance) February 15, 2022
If CNN thought it was a big nothing burger they would be reporting on it
— Proud American (@gsdrules1) February 15, 2022
You have no idea what you're talking about
— Jon (@JonsBrian) February 15, 2022
Special prosecutor files legal document, leftist reporter does distraction dance to keep from reporting what's in it.
— Mister Loyal ☂️ (@MisterLoyalEsq) February 15, 2022
— Billy Carruthers ❼ (@BillyCarruther3) February 15, 2022
Y’all will really go down defending corruption? Interesting.
— Hunt 🇺🇸🍊 (@Hunt_For_Truth) February 15, 2022
Guy who sold Russian pee tape has thoughts.
— NevilleTheCat (@FearTheFloof) February 15, 2022
He’s so mad right now. This is what happens when you can’t rationalize being lied to for years on end. Everyone else’s fault
— Airborne Heel (@abnheel) February 15, 2022
You sound upset and in the denial phase
— WTP (@humanbeans17) February 15, 2022
So kinda like what the press ran with as "the walls are closing in" and "this is the end for Trump" for 4 straight years?
— Jasnotron (@jasnotron) February 15, 2022
Philip is scared where Durham may go. Presume that Durham did not lightly file what he considers is the case he will prove. https://t.co/ay1fFNDqp7
— Gray Connolly (@GrayConnolly) February 15, 2022
Smoke-screen engaged…
— Jack Mehough 📡 (@JackMehoughJr) February 15, 2022
“Here is a real government document”…in a sense he’s right. We’ve spent so many years hearing details from “anonymous sources” that when someone will actually sign their name to a document it DOES catch conservatives attention.
— ConservativeCoach (@conservcoach) February 15, 2022
How could he be so obtuse? The evidence for spying on the Trump campaign was multi-faceted, and done by organizations ranging from the FBI to the Clinton campaign, and here he thinks he scores points against those who knew this before him.https://t.co/KkT97WaPNC
— Classical Conservative (@Classical_Con) February 15, 2022
Intentional obtuseness is the best obtuseness
— Woke Bob Butterbur (@ersatzkulak) February 15, 2022
Bump was the unlucky writer WaPo assigned to do a takedown of my viral thread last year. His analysis was bad at the time, relying on his readers' ignorance of basic facts (ignorance he and his paper soiled their legacies to maintain), and has only gotten worse with developments. https://t.co/ZwniSdV2Ic
— Martyr Made (@martyrmade) February 15, 2022
Bump is a special combination of bad facts and bad analysis.
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) February 15, 2022
And will fraudulently change the actual wording & scope of polling questions to launch defamatory smear jobs. Other than that, he’s a gem. https://t.co/6FpggJ31wx
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) February 15, 2022
They’re not sending their best.
— Justin Martin (@supertrucker) February 15, 2022
It sure is taking Durham a long time to make these frivolous court filings that are full of holes.
Related:
CNN and MSNBC have apparently decided that only Fox News’ viewers need to know about John Durham’s report [pic, video] https://t.co/QqGau1XOQM
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 15, 2022
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