The Brett Kavanaugh drama certainly did keep the Russian collusion story off the front pages for a few weeks, but a few lefties have already dried their tears over Kavanaugh’s swearing-in and are pivoting back to what they do best: serving up nothing-burgers over a narrative that’s been going around for almost two years now.
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes doesn’t sound too confident about the Robert Mueller probe, seeing as he’s couching his scenario inside a big “if” disclaimer.
Given everything we know about the Trump campaign, *if* someone had contacted them with a concrete plan to illegally cheat during the election, do we think they would have said no?
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 8, 2018
This might not be a good time for news networks like MSNBC to be dealing in unproved hypotheticals; that’s kind of how they got burned with Dianne Feinstein’s letter and celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti’s “100-percent credible” client.
Given everything we know about MSNBC, *if* someone concocted a gangbang party story from 1982, do we think they would have run with it? https://t.co/Adz1TfiXKa
— Federalist Musket ?? (@Patriot_Musket) October 8, 2018
And we’re back to your regularly scheduled programming https://t.co/UffVQJimmO
— Booe! Gabriel Simonson ? (@SaysSimonson) October 8, 2018
And just like that, we're back to Russia again https://t.co/NGFDIlLozS
— Michael Horton (@RollCall79) October 8, 2018
"Well, maybe they didn't, BUT THEY WOULDA!"
What are you, ten years-old? https://t.co/ZrKzDbAbXx
— FFFFF™ (@corrcomm) October 8, 2018
It’s a credible allegation the FBI should investigate!
Oh wait… https://t.co/pUfHJNBkyk
— JC (@FederalistJC) October 8, 2018
Russian investigation not going so well, huh Chris https://t.co/bl38E6NbHD
— Conor Fitzgerald (@fitzfromdublin) October 8, 2018
This is a really solid evidentiary standard Chrishttps://t.co/rbeWpvCjyA
— Rob S @ STL (@ChachiSTL) October 8, 2018
So is this the "Well, maybe it didn't happen, but Trump totally would have done it if he could" stage? https://t.co/oajNefEB37
— Reeeeeee (@reeeeeteam6) October 8, 2018
Yep — the media going to keep going with “guilty until proven innocent.” Maybe Hayes should ask some of his reporter friends to see some evidence of that Russian collusion.
Jesus fucking christ you people are STILL on this!?!?
"Theres no proof of collusion"
"WELL THEY PROBABLY THOUGHT ABOUT IT!" https://t.co/v2rcP50nsg
— Chris B (@chrisbitel) October 8, 2018
#journalism https://t.co/JNp5MAT5YB
— ?????? ?. ???????? (@StevenJDuffield) October 8, 2018
Now do Hillary.
— The Streeter (@thestreeter) October 8, 2018
Given everything we know about Hillary Clinton, *if* Russia approached her about selling them uranium …
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‘Looking for a cookie?’ MSNBC and Chris Hayes hyperventilate over this ‘BREAKING’ NYT Kavanaugh scoop [pic, gif] https://t.co/DXjocfkzRr
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 4, 2018