This week’s Liberal Media Scream features another guest on CNN declaring that the 2016 election of Donald Trump as president was the “biggest” election conspiracy in history and “worse than Watergate.”
Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch said on CNN Sunday that independent counsel Robert Mueller has uncovered the “biggest electoral conspiracy in American history” with “dramatic evidence of collusion.” Appearing on “Reliable Sources,” Bunch insisted that far from “fizzling out,” thanks to Mueller’s investigation, “we have all the proof we need of a scandal that’s arguably worse than Watergate.”
Bunch, on the Dec. 16 episode of “Reliable Sources” on CNN:
“The last couple of weeks, I think the tone of a lot of the coverage I’ve seen on TV has been, you know, we’re waiting for the Cohen plea, we’re waiting for another memo on Manafort, and we’re waiting on new developments. And people, I think, were expecting a big bombshell. And there really weren’t that many big bombshells in the last couple weeks. They basically confirmed things we already know. And I think the Trump administration and I think some people in the media — I saw an NPR piece this weekend, are going to spin this as a question of whether the Mueller probe is fizzling out or something. I would argue just the opposite.
“I think the biggest electoral conspiracy in American history has already been laid out there. It’s hiding in plain sight. I think the bombshell is the details that we already know. You know, in terms of the quids and the quos. There’s been a lot of great investigative reporting over the last two years. And that’s why we know some of the things that came out in court. But I think all the evidence of, you know CNN reported on the 15 Trump campaign officials and their meetings with 15 Russian officials. We have dramatic evidence of collusion, of quids in terms of the Russian hacking, quos in terms of the promises of sanctions relief. We have a motive with the Trump Tower Moscow deliberations that were going on. I think we have all the proof we need of a scandal that’s arguably worse than Watergate.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: “‘Worse than Watergate.’ That’s the most overused and tired media trope. Bunch has combined it with the worst paranoia about ‘the biggest electoral conspiracy in American history’ as he’s an enthusiastic believer in presuming the worst possible interpretations of revelations, putting his personal agenda against Trump ahead of reality.”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
