While speaking with Bret Baier Tuesday Real Clear Politics President Tom Bevan couldn’t help but admit the media coverage of the Durham probe filing has been one-sided. The nets have already decided to disregard and discredit Durham’s probe when they practically foamed at the mouth to spread the lies that came from the Steele Dossier.
Baier pointed to how inconsistent coverage has been, “it depends on what you were looking at or what you were reading, how to interpret the results of the latest finding by John Durham in the investigation into the Trump Russia probe,” the host explained. “The revelations did not sit well with some in the mainstream media. Some downplayed them, others just ignored them,” Baier continued.
Braier played a short clip of various liberal nets slamming the report:
“The media double standard here is absolutely glaring. As you mentioned, Bret, no time spent on any of the networks. The New York Times, The Washington Post didn’t even cover it until today, when they each spent about 1,500 words defending it, downplaying it, explaining why it wasn’t a big deal,” Bevan explained.
Bevan called out the media for being political activists instead of just reporting the news, “The media has again revealed itself as putting their thumb on the scale for one side and not the other.”
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BRET BAIER: Well, it depends on what you were looking at or what you were reading, how to interpret the results of the latest finding by John Durham in the investigation into the Trump Russia probe. It is still coming out, we are still learning more. However, the revelations did not sit well with some in the mainstream media. Some downplayed them, others just ignored them.
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KATELYN POLANTZ [CNN CRIME AND JUSTICE REPORTER, NEW DAY]: This new wrinkle, it really is just a wrinkle, and it’s very vague. We’re still trying to get a sense of what the facts are here.
EVAN PEREZ [CNN SENIOR JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT, INSIDE POLITICS]: It does show the actual spying that Trump and others are saying it does.
TOM WINTER [MSNBC MORNING JOE]: If you’re gonna call it Watergate, it’s that the security guard at the Watergate, while being paid to do security to see just who was coming in. It doesn’t mean they were going through their briefcases, it doesn’t mean it was going through the files that they were bringing in.
JOE SCARBOROUGH [MSNBC MORNING JOE]: If what they did had been illegal, we would have had a charge.
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TOM BEVAN [REAL CLEAR POLITICS]: The media double standard here is absolutely glaring. As you mentioned, Bret, no time spent on any of the networks. The New York Times, The Washington Post didn’t even cover it until today, when they each spent about 1,500 words defending it, downplaying it, explaining why it wasn’t a big deal. After we just spent years and years of the media running with far less. I mean, if this was any sort of filing regarding Donald Trump, it is all we would be hearing about from the media, day in and day out. And so that to me is the troubling issue here. The media has again revealed itself as putting their thumb on the scale for one side and not the other.
BAIER: Tom, how does this poll? You know, it’s interesting to hear Democrats say – and we had Congressman [Adam] Smith [D-WA] on last night saying, you know, people care about more important things. But rewind the tape, you know, a few years to the early part of the Trump presidency, and it was all about the Russia investigation.
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