Opinion: The Michael Cohen hearing felt like a Fox News rant
Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, testifies before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday. By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry.
Even so! Rep. Paul Gosar ripped away at Cohen: “You’re a pathological liar. You don’t know truth from falsehood.” He also called the former Trump counsel a “disgraced lawyer.” More telling than the words was Gosar’s unmerciful tone. For his part, Rep. Jim Jordan labored to establish that Cohen’s various deceptions didn’t all accrue to the benefit of President Trump; some of them helped Cohen’s own selfish interests.
Ridicule rained down upon Meadows. Better to stick to attacking the attackers. If the Republicans on the committee hadn’t learned this tactic from Fox News, it sure seemed as if they had. On his prime-time program “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” for example, Tucker Carlson has taken this form of deflection to professional splendor. If Trump has done something awful, there’s always something more awful that Carlson can focus on.
With Democrat Elijah Cummings running the hearing, however, Republican members could do only so much to suppress discussion of the president’s deeds. So they ended up doing this:
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