Opinion: John Oliver spotlights Fox News’s 'Trump exonerated' brigade
Traffic on Sixth Avenue passes by advertisements featuring Fox News personalities in New York on March 13. By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email Bio Follow Media critic April 1 at 1:26 PM In certain precincts, noted John Oliver on his HBO show Sunday night, the good news concerning the Trump-Russia scandal has displaced the bad news. “That doesn’t normally happen,” said Oliver. “The O.J.
On Fox News and like-minded outlets, said Oliver, commentators did something a bit underhanded, considering what’s in the summary of the Mueller report furnished a week ago by Attorney General William P. Barr.
And anywhere you find Hannity shilling, you find tremendous irony. For months and months, Hannity inveighed against the upper echelons of the leadership in federal law enforcement, complaining they were part of a scheme to dig up dirt on Trump. Yet all of a sudden, he shows tremendous confidence that a four-page summary of the Mueller report emerging from the Justice Department is automatically worthy of our trust.
For the record, the Erik Wemple Blog isn’t alleging that Barr had lied in his summary. He may, however, have formulated a sunny synopsis, considering that the Mueller document numbers more than 300 pages. Once that redacted product surfaces in the near future, news organizations will do their best to summarize its contents. The Hannity-Pirro-Dobbs team, meanwhile, will do their best to cherry-pick those portions that support what they’ve been saying: no collusion, no obstruction, nothing.
It’s a fair bet that their viewers will come away with that idea as well, no matter what’s in the document.The Post’s View: Trump did not collude with Russia. But he’s wrong to say Mueller exonerated him.Erik Wemple: Sean Hannity comes face to face with his own corruption
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