Post by robeiae on Aug 3, 2019 15:38:03 GMT -5
This is a fascinating read from Matt Taibbi: The rise and fall of superhero Robert Mueller
It's less about Mueller specifically than it is about the media in general. But as to Mueller (from the beginning):
That matches my view, pretty much. I thought having Mueller publicly testify was a major error by the Dems. He did what he was supposed to do: he investigated and wrote a complete report on his findings. That was his task. Barring actual impeachment proceedings, his role should have been over.
But please read the remainder of the piece, as I think Taibbi makes many excellent points about how "Russiagate" was portrayed in the media (for the most part).
And if anyone thinks Taibbi is some sort of right-wing Trump apologist...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/andrew-breitbart-death-of-a-douche-90257/
www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/the-madness-of-donald-trump-197853/
It's less about Mueller specifically than it is about the media in general. But as to Mueller (from the beginning):
Mueller was sold in hundreds of articles and TV features as earth’s most competent human, a real-life superhero. His close-lipped manner and razor intellect supposedly presented a living antidote to our blabbermouth numbskull president, Donald Trump. He was as a character straight out of Team America, an ex-Marine FBI chief by way of St. Paul’s, Princeton, and a grad program at the University of Awesome. “Batman is back to save America,” his former FBI second Timothy Murphy said in a typical story from two years ago, describing Mueller as “the hero America needs.”
This myth died on television.
It happened by mistake, the kind that’s always a risk when you’re dealing with live broadcasts, as even censorious societies like the Soviet Union have found. Congressional Democrats like House Judiciary chief Jerrold Nadler and Adam Schiff of the Intelligence committee thought a TV show would bring the Mueller report “to life.”
How these two goofs didn’t know, or bother to find out, that Mueller was not up for the task of following difficult questions is hard to understand. Nadler and Schiff are both lawyers. A first-year law student wouldn’t put a witness on stand blind like that for a minute, let alone seven nationally-televised hours.
This myth died on television.
It happened by mistake, the kind that’s always a risk when you’re dealing with live broadcasts, as even censorious societies like the Soviet Union have found. Congressional Democrats like House Judiciary chief Jerrold Nadler and Adam Schiff of the Intelligence committee thought a TV show would bring the Mueller report “to life.”
How these two goofs didn’t know, or bother to find out, that Mueller was not up for the task of following difficult questions is hard to understand. Nadler and Schiff are both lawyers. A first-year law student wouldn’t put a witness on stand blind like that for a minute, let alone seven nationally-televised hours.
But please read the remainder of the piece, as I think Taibbi makes many excellent points about how "Russiagate" was portrayed in the media (for the most part).
And if anyone thinks Taibbi is some sort of right-wing Trump apologist...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/andrew-breitbart-death-of-a-douche-90257/
www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/the-madness-of-donald-trump-197853/