Fox News Stops Covering Hillary Spying on Trump Story After Spending All Week Attacking Media...

[Nevilledog]

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Anyone watching Fox News this week was told that Hillary Clinton’s campaign had been caught spying on former President Donald Trump. This was reported across many Fox News programs as fact, with some hosts adding exotic frills to the story. More reputable news outlets were quick to pour cold water on the assertion. Some even called out Fox News for being either stupid or willfully misinforming their viewers.

The evidence for Fox News’s breathless and repeated “worse than Watergate” claim was a late Friday filing from Special Counsel John Durham that focused on one-time Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman.

A good example of Fox’s sensationalized coverage were these comments from Jesse Watters, made on Monday:

Durham’s documents show that Hillary Clinton hired people who hacked into Trump’s home and office computers before and during his presidency, and planted evidence that he colluded with Russia.

Yeah. You heard that right. Hillary broke into a presidential candidate’s computer server and a sitting president’s computer server, spying on them. There, her hackers planted evidence, fabricated evidence connecting Trump to Russia, then fed that doctored material to the feds and the media.

Durham’s filing did not show this – at all. What’s more, as New York Times reporter Charlie Savage pointed out, the right-wing media narrative surrounding the filing was “mostly wrong or old news.” Indeed, the Times had reported on it last year.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. LOL, they didn't want HRC suing them too.

[underpants]

2. They've created an alternate reality.

and just drill it into viewers heads.

As was posted here yesterday this “reporter asking questions” was someone recording it on their phone screaming out nonsense as Hillary left the stage. Hillary didn’t take questions from anyone and calming walked off stage. Hannity and others told the viewer what they were about to see and frankly that works - viewers had been told what to think regardless of what they were actually watching.

[CaptainTruth]

4. And that alternate reality is the biggest threat to our country today.

It's all messaging, they have no proof to support it, it's just relentless right-wing messaging that creates an alternate reality.

[Wounded Bear]

3. I guess the nothingburger wasn't selling well...

[moose65]

5. Amazing

If Hillary is able to do all that, then why couldn't she fix the election to make sure she won???

Whew.