Memo convinces Rightbloggers FBI is liberal plot
by ROY EDROSO
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
... last week, the right went full-tilt black-helicopter crazy over the Nunes memo ...
Trump claimed the memo “totally vindicates” him (though his on-camera yammerings indicate that he has no idea what it actually says) ...
A few conservatives dismissed the memo — not just the usual resisters like David Frum and Jennifer Rubin, but also garden variety wing nuts like the Cato Institute (“The FISA Follies: The Nunes Memo Edition”), whom your cynical correspondent suspects are just covering their asses for the day Trump flees to Moscow with a Cessna full of gold bullion ...
... the most popular position among the brethren was a straddle: on the one hand trying not to associate themselves too closely with the deranged post-Nunes position, while on the other appeasing the mouth-breathers by finding some way to deflect some of this madness onto Democrats.
... A new poll shows only 38 percent of Republicans approving of the FBI — which, you gotta admit, would have seemed counterintuitive from America’s Party of Authoritarianism, once upon a time. But these days extremism in the defense of Trump is no vice: Now that they’re dissing the FBI and throwing around classified documents like banana peels to keep Mueller off Trump’s tail, what institution won’t they wreck for him? ...
https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/02/05/nunes-memo-gets-rightbloggers-even-more-convinced-fbi-is-a-liberal-plot/
