Distractions with shiny objects is a normal routine for punditry to save face and keep a sitting POTUS on a regular viewing schedule – PB/TK
After Comey’s “extremely damning” testimony, Fox & Friends focuses on distractions – By Matt Gertz / June 9 2017
Yesterday, in damning testimony before the Senate intelligence committee, former FBI director James Comey alleged that President Donald Trump had grossly abused his power. According to Comey, the president tried to get him to declare himself loyal, pushed him to end an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and then fired him after the director refused to comply in an effort to terminate the FBI’s investigation into whether Trump’s associates colluded with the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election. After each of his seven one-on-one meetings and phone calls with the president, Comey said, he detailed the interaction in a memo because he believed that Trump might lie about what had happened.
But if you turned on Fox & Friends, the president’s favorite morning news program, this morning, these crucial issues of whether Trump is undermining the rule of law were all but unmentioned. Instead, the program’s hosts dedicated their efforts to undermining Comey’s reputation by directing their audience’s attention toward a series of shiny objects of limited relevance. For their efforts, they were praised and thanked by Trump himself.
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