On the eve of Attorney General William Barr’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee today, the liberal media decided to toss a grenade—insinuating the Special Counsel Robert Mueller “complained” about Barr’s letter that summarized his report.
Buried down in The Washington Post’s story is the tidbit that Mueller did not think Barr’s letter to Congress was inaccurate.
The Washington Post and New York Times seized on the March letter, in which Barr criticizes the way he chose to present Mueller’s findings regarding Russian interference in the 2016 Trump campaign, as evidence of a conflict between Barr and Mueller over the way the AG handled the report’s release.
Both outlets createdthe impression Mueller is severely upset with Barr for mischaracterizing the Russia report in his four-page summary of Mueller’s report and that the tone of his criticism shocked the Department of Justice.
That response from Mueller would give a lot of ammunition to the leading narrative that Barr mishandled the delivery of the report and intentionally misled the public as to its contents if it were accurate. But the letter, read in full context, suggests a much more banal reality, which The New York Times and Washington Post buried in their reporting.
Mueller did disagree with the way Barr delivered his findings; he wanted Barr to release executive summaries of the report, but he did not take issue with the accuracy of Barr’s memo to Congress.
Bottom line is that Mueller wanted Barr to introduce the public to his report in a different way. Barr did not say anything inaccurate about Mueller’s report. Still not collusion, still no obstruction, still no crime, giant lie that wasted a lot of energy and a lot of taxpayer money.
I’m frankly surprised (though not really) that in the era of #MeToo we have CNN’s Jim Acosta saying he didn’t lay a hand on a White House staffer during a tense exchange with President Trump this week. Even more unsettling is that so many verified ‘journalist’s’ social media accounts are saying he never laid a hand on her.
Well this is not complicated. @PressSec has patently misrepresented what happened here. White House aide aggressively tries to take the mic from @Acosta and he never lays a hand on her. The truth still matters. https://t.co/MsWwlTGTd2
For Barbaro’s claim to be evaluated we need two things.
First, we need the dictionary definition of ‘palm.’
palm noun (2)
1 : the somewhat concave part of the human hand (emphasis mine) between the bases of the fingers and the wrist or the corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal
So, according to the English language and basic biology, the palm is a part of the human hand. I know this was confusing for some of you. I’m glad to have cleared that up. After all, biology is not biology anymore.
Second, we need the video of the incident. The incident happens at 1:30 of the video.
I shared the direct video from C-SPAN’s own YouTube channel because there’s a conspiracy theory that this video is doctored, or that a third party has made the video more ‘violent’ than it actually was. C-SPAN has not altered any video of the event that I’m aware of. So their video is not in dispute.
Let’s look at Jim Acosta’s Judo chop (Karate chop, knife hand strike, hurray pop culture reference) to the woman’s arm in a loop:
You can clearly see Acosta Judo chop her arm with his palm. We’ve already established that the palm is a part of the human hand. Therefore, Acosta laid a hand on this woman and used some force in doing so. Something the video clearly shows. It’s undeniable. Yet, is being shamefully denied by members of the media. One might call that denial FAKE NEWS!
Barbaro actually shared a link with the video that proved his claim wrong for crying out loud.
Remember when Trump aide Corey Lewindowski was charged with ‘unwanted touching’ for grabbing reporter Michelle Fields? Remember how she lied about what happened and the media crucified him? She wasn’t injured either and he used similar force to Acosta.
Wouldn’t this qualify for ‘unwanted touching?’
Shouldn’t the media come down on Acosta like they did Lewindowski? Acosta violated the rules, refused to give up the microphone, rebuffed several passive attempts she made to get the microphone back, and finally, Judo chopped her arm when she attempted to forcefully get the mic from someone refusing to obey the rules. She was just doing her job and he, in fact, laid a hand on her.
