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All in The Trumppening
(REMINDER: "Scaramucci, who initiated the call, did not ask for the conversation to be off the record or on background.")
We ignore Jones' brand and influence at our own peril. Not because of who he is or what he says, but because of what his success says about us, what it says about the appetite of the public. How did ignoring The Deplorables work out last time?
But for all the well-chronicled bias and distortions, as a longtime observer of conservative media I've never before felt that it existed in an entirely distinct reality. Where there used to be an ideological agenda driving commentary on a shared, nominally objective world, a lot of conservative media now feels like it is simply of another world entirely.
It shouldn't be that complicated. The President just fired the director of the FBI, who was conducting an investigation into ties between the President and a foreign adversary. No matter where you stand on the question of Trump's ties to Russia, it is now screamingly obvious that an independent investigation is necessary.
