"A giant fog machine": how right-wing media obscures Mueller and other inconvenient stories
"A giant fog machine": how right-wing media obscures Mueller and other inconvenient stories
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2017/10/31/16579820/mueller-clinton-russia-uranium-manafort-charlie-sykes
By Sean Illing at Vox
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Charlie Sykes
That's exactly right. Frum has another line about that. He said something like, “Republicans have a crisis of followership.” The Republican leadership in Congress sees all of this. They’re horrified by it. But they’re not willing to do anything about it because their base won’t allow it.
Sean Illing
Let’s wrap this up by circling back to the Mueller story. How do you see this playing out in the coming weeks and months in conservative media?
Charlie Sykes
I think this is going to be a test of the strength of that bubble, and we're going to see how far the conservative media is going to go in providing that kind of air cover to Donald Trump. I wish I could say I was optimistic, but based on past experience, I'm not.
And by the way, most of the conservative media will justify their support for Trump on the basis of conservative issues. They’ll say, We're backing him because of the judges, or because of tax cuts. But what you're going to see is that they're going to support and rationalize the corruption that has nothing to do with any of those conservative values or ideas.
I think the next several months will go a long way in defining conservatism.
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