Opinion | John Oliver spotlights Fox News’s ‘Trump exonerated’ brigade

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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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Except, no one is exonerated. Pirro is guilty of evil.

Hey they cannot possibly compete with with the 'idiot brigade ' who is trying there best to now throw Mueller under the bus. They are now marching to destroy the Democratic party.

yep, john Oliver ratings is about as high as a Info commercial at 2:00am in the morning

Mueller’s report was prepared on the basis that the full text would be released to the public - I demand the right to see it. Wikileaks, if you’re listening......

Meaning they are incompetent to read and should have any press credentials pulled if they even have them.

Slap the shit out of her words

WHAT A JOKE CONSERVATIVES AS THEY CALL THEMSELVES RESIST CHANGE AND TRY TO HOLD ONTO TRADITION THE WORLD IS FOREVER CHANGING AND CONSERVATIVES CAN'T STOP IT THEY ARE FIGHTING AGAINST GOD THATS WHY THEY'LL LOSE GOD NEVER PROMISED NO MAN THE WORLD WOULD STAY THE SAME.

Let Fox and the cult believe whatever. They are not the majority.

Last Saturday, The judge dominated all cable networks tripling her viewers.

but her lips JudgeJeanine

Pretty uninformed commentary. Oliver is funny, but he's as much a political genius as the rest, like Colbert et al. Meaning NOT.

And shows how reading comprehension has failed in the American school system

State tv gonna State tv

100, 000 in plastic surgery and still looks like this

When PROOF MATTERS!

Are you guys still whipping this horse?...it died with the Mueller report; get uaself another live horse pliz

Yes, he beat you fair and square! The 'popular' vote doesn't mean crap, we are not in high school trying out for prom queen!

John Oliver spent two years pushing a false story and Trump was exonerated WPs point exactly?

Liars and jokers

Is that pic one of the Gambino boys?

When Mueller fails, move on to the next slander victims! Funny aspect of all of this, no one is listening to your narrative and you can’t even understand that!

Washington Post defends Creepy Joe Biden. They don't even hide their bias anymore! Unbelievable! via dailycaller

Spotlight on Fake News:

Fox is not 'news', it's propaganda.

Why aren't you required to disclose the Washington Post is an oligarch's personal advocacy outfit?

I think it’s pretty obvious that Fox News is just the media arm of the fascist Trump regime.

Will you apologize for this collusion trutherism? No. You never will.

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