After hearing from the mainstream media a bunch of breathless stories for the last two weeks about how close the Mississippi senate runoff race was, the GOP candidate Cindy Hyde Smith easily won that race today. I predicted last Sunday that she would win by at least 10%, and as of now, she is ahead by 11%. For all the phony claims of racism against the senator because she mentioned a public hanging or because there are some old pictures of her wearing a confederate cap, the Mississippi voters just didn't buy it. Indeed, it's hard to sell voters on a Democrat who was indicted for corruption while a member of the Clinton cabinet, and that's who Mike Espy is.
To me, however, the result is not the news tonight. Rather, I'm fascinated by how little coverage media outlets like MSNBC and CNN have given to these election results. On MSNBC, the coverage tonight has been mainly about the "shocking" news that Paul Manafort's lawyers may have told President Trump's lawyers what Manafort was discussing with the Mueller team. I just heard Lawrence O'Donnell speculate that the discussion was obstruction of justice. Actually, the discussion was perfectly proper insofar as it concerns the Trump team. Apparently, the geniuses on the Mueller team didn't bother to put a provision in the plea agreement that prohibited Manafort's attorneys with speaking to lawyers for the White House. That's a failure by Mueller.
Then there's a bunch of coverage about a story in The Guardian which claims that Manafort met with Julian Assange of Wikileaks in 2013, 2014 and very early 2016. One does have to wonder how it could be that these meetings took place but no one knew about them for three years. Of course, Manafort, Assange and their teams have denied strongly that they ever met. The Guardian has no proof that these meetings took place, so it is doubtful that they did. But we get once again to a major failing by the media. Manafort had no connection to the Trump campaign in 2013, 2014 or early 2016. If he met with Assange, it had nothing to do with Trump. Further, the hack of the DNC (if indeed it was a hack) which got John Podesta's emails took place in mid 2016. That's after all of these supposed meetings. That means that the meetings couldn't be about the emails obtained in the hack (as the idiots in the mainstream media now claim) because even Wikileaks didn't have those emails yet.
So Mississippi disappears from the media as soon as it is clear that the Republican has won. It gets replaced by two lame stories that are ridiculous on their face. It's always hard to believe that the mainstream media could sink any lower, but then they just surprise you and do it.
To me, however, the result is not the news tonight. Rather, I'm fascinated by how little coverage media outlets like MSNBC and CNN have given to these election results. On MSNBC, the coverage tonight has been mainly about the "shocking" news that Paul Manafort's lawyers may have told President Trump's lawyers what Manafort was discussing with the Mueller team. I just heard Lawrence O'Donnell speculate that the discussion was obstruction of justice. Actually, the discussion was perfectly proper insofar as it concerns the Trump team. Apparently, the geniuses on the Mueller team didn't bother to put a provision in the plea agreement that prohibited Manafort's attorneys with speaking to lawyers for the White House. That's a failure by Mueller.
Then there's a bunch of coverage about a story in The Guardian which claims that Manafort met with Julian Assange of Wikileaks in 2013, 2014 and very early 2016. One does have to wonder how it could be that these meetings took place but no one knew about them for three years. Of course, Manafort, Assange and their teams have denied strongly that they ever met. The Guardian has no proof that these meetings took place, so it is doubtful that they did. But we get once again to a major failing by the media. Manafort had no connection to the Trump campaign in 2013, 2014 or early 2016. If he met with Assange, it had nothing to do with Trump. Further, the hack of the DNC (if indeed it was a hack) which got John Podesta's emails took place in mid 2016. That's after all of these supposed meetings. That means that the meetings couldn't be about the emails obtained in the hack (as the idiots in the mainstream media now claim) because even Wikileaks didn't have those emails yet.
So Mississippi disappears from the media as soon as it is clear that the Republican has won. It gets replaced by two lame stories that are ridiculous on their face. It's always hard to believe that the mainstream media could sink any lower, but then they just surprise you and do it.
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