Former FBI Director James Comey’s congressional testimony Thursday was not good for the mainstream media — and liberals were not happy about it.
The most damning facts to emerge from the hearing exposed a number of “fake news” stories being pushed by liberal journalists.
It left Democrats and their mainstream media cheerleaders stunned — and scrambling to figure out a way to spin it
Here are the five most embarrassing backtracks, meltdowns and logical leaps following yesterday’s testimony —
1) CNN admits the hearings were good, not bad, for Trump’s political standing… then blamed racism.
In their analysis of Thursday’s hearing, CNN was forced to admit that “the most intriguing takeaway of Comey’s performance for the ages … was that Republicans came away with more than they had hoped for to bolster their defense of the President.”
Desperate to retake the narrative, CNN commentator Sally Kohn made sure to call the hearings racist —
Trump ran on promise to respect law enforcement. But guess he just meant cops who kill black kids, not FBI who investigates his team.
— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) June 8, 2017
2) MSNBC’s Chris Matthews admitted on-air the hearing destroyed the Trump-Russian conspiracy theory.
“The assumption of the critics of the president — of his pursuers, you might say — is that somewhere along the line in the last year is the president had something to do with colluding with the Russians … to affect the election in some way,” Matthews said Thursday after the hearing.
“And yet what came apart this morning was that theory!”
3) CNN’s John King admits the media will spin the story to cover for Loretta Lynch’s misdeeds
“A number of significant things [came out of the hearing],” CNN”s John King said Thursday. “One, this won’t get much attention because it’s in the rearview mirror but a pretty damming account from Jim Comey there about Loretta Lynch, the former Attorney General in the Obama administration and her handling of the Clinton e-mail investigation.”
The media won’t give it “much attention, but that was pretty damning,” King confessed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXlcfdiFAog
4) The Washington Post doubled-down on their liberal spin
Despite numerous other mainstream media sources agreeing that Trump was “totally vindicated” of wrongdoing, The Washington Post doubled-down.
The newspaper — which also relies heavily on anti-Trump “anonymous sources” to sell subscriptions — spun the testimony, insisting that somehow Trump not being under any kind of investigation WASN’T the total vindication that other media sources were admitting.
Following Trump’s tweet —
Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication…and WOW, Comey is a leaker!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 9, 2017
The Washington Post quickly published analysis saying yes, maybe Comey was a leaker — but that’s still not good for the president!
One of their top three points in their anti-Trump attack? Some FBI agents didn’t want to admit Trump wasn’t under investigation.
The anti-Trump FBI agents being cited, of course, were anonymous.
5) Liberals gathered in Washington, D.C. bars to party — but were stunned into silence.
In Washington, D.C., bars around the city opened early and were flooded with liberal journalists and political cheerleaders wearing shirts like “Jared Kushner is so f****ed.”
But once the hearing started, it turned out Thursday morning wasn’t the wild anti-Trump party being advertised.
“Despite the crowd size, the [bar] remained almost soundless for hours on end, as onlookers watched Comey be questioned by lawmakers in a seeming stunned silence,” The Hill reported.
“Bar-goers who were promised free drinks with every Trump tweet reacted excitedly every time Comey accused the president of falsehoods — but were ultimately disappointed.”
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Fox News put together a great compilation of the insane liberal meltdown during the Comey testimony – and the unhinged spin the media has put on it since.
— The Horn editorial team