I’m going to go ahead and state the obvious here: When you hold a news conference and afterwards 49% of Americans think you committed treason, it doesn’t leave you a lot of wiggle room. The lockstep GOP consists of the 27% who disagreed, not a lot more than the 21% or Republicans who agreed that yes, it was treason. You can spin those numbers at the speed of light and they’ll still radiate “ugly.”
They can’t spin this one in an anti-FBI direction, either — as Jack Shafer points out, this week’s Russian volcano erupted independent of the Mueller investigation.
Why can’t all the Deep State types who’ve gone public actually derail any of this? People like former CIA director James Clapper, the kind who used to be treated as unassailable experts on TV, are all but ignored by the public, and this article explains why: Their track record on guiding the country’s foreign policy over the past two decades is unsullied by success.
The most important story buried in the pyroclastic flow comes from Trump’s Kiddie Kamps, where evidence emerged that the administration intended family separations to be permanent. That’s the sort of policy that gets you convicted of crimes against humanity at The Hague.
Facebook had another bad week when The Zuck said Holocaust deniers deserve a platform, too, but its real problem is one legacy media has dealt with for years:
Facebook is mired in this swamp not because of any recent decision or gaffe, but because the business of determining what news people see is inherently messy. Media companies face tough editorial decisions every day; it’s what they’re built for. Facebook is starting to face them too, on a grand scale. And the fact that this wasn’t what Facebook was built for is an excuse that no longer flies.
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