At 9:00 tonight, I decided to take a look at the cable news shows to see what the networks were covering. CNN was covering the terror attack by ISIS in New York that has left at least 8 people dead. Fox News covered the same story. MSNBC began by Rachel Maddow telling her viewers about big news in the Trump-Russia investigation. The news Maddow said was important is that George Clovis testified before the grand jury this week and the special prosecutor released more documents like the arrest warrant and brief on setting bail for Manafort and Gates. After a few minutes focused on Trump-Russia, Maddow cut away for a short time for an update on the ISIS attack, but then it was back to Trump Russia.
So which story do you think is more important? Should America hear about a terror attack in New York City and the unfolding news that makes pretty clear that the terrorist was acting on behalf of ISIS? Or, should America hear that one of the supervisors of the Trump campaign testified to the grand jury and that some rather mundane documents were made public? In making your decision, you ought to know that Sam Clovis is the person in the Trump campaign to whom George Papadapoulos emailed a suggestion that he would meet with a Russian professor. Clovis was Papadapoulos supervisor in the campaign hierarchy.
My own view is that MSNBC is a disgrace. I understand that the network is wedded to being anti-Trump all the time, but it is supposed to be a news network. When we have a terror attack in New York, the news network should provide coverage of that terrible event rather than some meaningless drivel about rather unremarkable events in the Trump-Russia story. The fact that Clovis testified before a grand jury really doesn't mean much of anything unless we also know what he said. It cannot have been very important, however, or the testimony would likely have been leaked by the Mueller team (or someone else) just like the news of the sealed indictments was.
So which story do you think is more important? Should America hear about a terror attack in New York City and the unfolding news that makes pretty clear that the terrorist was acting on behalf of ISIS? Or, should America hear that one of the supervisors of the Trump campaign testified to the grand jury and that some rather mundane documents were made public? In making your decision, you ought to know that Sam Clovis is the person in the Trump campaign to whom George Papadapoulos emailed a suggestion that he would meet with a Russian professor. Clovis was Papadapoulos supervisor in the campaign hierarchy.
My own view is that MSNBC is a disgrace. I understand that the network is wedded to being anti-Trump all the time, but it is supposed to be a news network. When we have a terror attack in New York, the news network should provide coverage of that terrible event rather than some meaningless drivel about rather unremarkable events in the Trump-Russia story. The fact that Clovis testified before a grand jury really doesn't mean much of anything unless we also know what he said. It cannot have been very important, however, or the testimony would likely have been leaked by the Mueller team (or someone else) just like the news of the sealed indictments was.
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