The leftist media will not stop bending over backwards to help and support Democrats and their radical political agenda. Case in point, on Tuesday’s Morning Joe, co turned into an attack on that evil Attorney General William Barr, courtesy of co-host Mika Brzezinski (click "expand"):
Now to Attorney General William Barr who is expected to have a confrontational appearance this morning when he testifies before the House Judiciary Committee for the first time as a member of the Trump administration. According to the opening statement released yesterday, Barr plans to defend the use of militarized federal police to quell protesters in Portland saying, "What unfolds nightly around the courthouse cannot reasonably be called a protest; it is, by any objective measure, an assault on the Government of the United States." He will also tell the committee that the President has not intervened in the Justice Department cases, even though Barr has filed motions that benefitted the President’s allies in their criminal cases.
The media will always try to protect left-wing rioters and violence in the streets, as they do here by attacking “militarized” federal police in Portland. First of all, the term militarized means nothing besides they are wearing body armor and helmets and such, normal equipment when people are trying to hit you with projectiles and fireworks. Also, they pretend as if Barr has never testified before the Senate, even though he clearly has before. But that didn’t stop Democratic hack Joyce Vance from whining:
...this attorney general has escaped anything that approaches congressional oversight for so long that there's a multiplicity of really important questions and what we don't know here is whether Democrats will have devised a strategy that will help bring focus to the issue. So my hope is that Congress today will focus on those credibility questions on whether this attorney general has so politicized the department that he's in effect acting as the President's wingman not as the people's lawyer.
It’s deeply amusing that the media are now all fired up about Barr supposedly being the President’s wingman, but when Eric Holder said the exact same thing regarding his boss, President Obama, the Democratic operatives in the press didn't bat an eye. Put that with the fact that Vance was lying here about Barr never facing congressional scrutiny. But that didn’t stop anti-Trump Lincoln Project guest Kurt Bardella from bashing Republicans yet again:
It’ll be interesting, cause you won't hear a lot from Republicans about the events going on right now, about the abuses of power, firing of inspectors general, the firing of U.S. Attorneys, the role that Barr played directly in what we saw unfold at Lafayette Square just a few months ago. You're gonna see Republicans talk about Robert Mueller and conspiracy theories and text messages between agents. Everything they can do to try to protect Donald Trump, protect the idea that nothing happened in 2016 as far as Russian interference. In a lot of ways, they're going to be doing Russia's job for them on national TV and the United States Congress, repeating this propaganda, repeating the idea that Trump did nothing wrong, that there was no at all communication with Russians during the campaign.
The media never waste an opportunity to lie on behalf of the Democratic Party, especially when it gives them the chance to savage a member of the Trump administration.
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Read the full transcript below to learn more.
MSNBC’s Morning Joe
07-28-20
7:27 a.m. EasternMIKA BRZEZINSKI: Now to Attorney General William Barr who is expected to have a confrontational appearance this morning when he testifies before the House Judiciary Committee for the first time as a member of the Trump administration. According to the opening statement released yesterday, Barr plans to defend the use of militarized federal police to quell protesters in Portland saying what unfolds nightly around the courthouse cannot reasonably be called a protest; it is, by any objective measure, an assault on the Government of the United States. He will also tell the committee that the President has not intervened in the Justice Department cases, even though Barr has filed motions that benefitted the President’s allies in their criminal cases. He's expected to criticize, once again, the foundation of the Mueller investigation and accuse Democrats of bias against him, claiming ever since I made it clear that I was going to do everything I could to get to the bottom of the grave abuses involved in the bogus Russiagate scandal, many of the Democrats on this committee have attempted to discredit me. Let's bring in former Senior Adviser for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Kurt Bardella. He is a USA Today opinion columnist, "Morning Joe" contributor and also a senior adviser to the Lincoln Project. Kurt, where do we begin? Any idea as to what lawmakers want to focus on with Attorney General William Barr who many believe has pushed the boundaries of justice in many different directions?
KURT BARDELLA: You know, Mika, this is one of those times where the biggest challenge for Democrats in a hearing like this is that there's so many areas of inquiry that members are gonna wanna go on that it's going to appear to be tough to be focused. And they understand, after talking with a number of House Judiciary Committee members yesterday, they’ve told me, they know that they’re up against. Bill Barr is seasoned, he is practiced, he will try to filibuster answers, he’ll try to lean on the Republican counterparts who will try to relitigate ,as you kind of alluded to,the overall conspiracy theories about what happened with the Mueller investigation, with the Russia probe. But I think what you'll see is there are gonna be about ten areas of inquiry that the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are gonna focus on. And they include looking at what happened with SDNY U.S Attorney Berman being removed. Now remember, Berman’s done a sit down deposition, transcribed interview with the committee so they’re gonna have that transcript to go off of, expect to see that come into play. There are going to be questions about the firings of multiple inspectors general and Barr’s role in that. There will be questions about whether or not really Barr is acting as the President's personal attorney, the role that Michael Cohen used to serve as, more than the attorney general. How he's wielding that influence, what the legality and constitutionality of what we're seeing happen in Portland, in Kansas City, in Chicago with the President sending federal troops to these areas, where they're not welcome, the governors and the mayors don’t want them there, but there they are with the show of force. There are so many areas that so many lawmakers want to go down towards, I think it'll be a real challenge, honestly for these Democrats to appear focused, to stay on some kind of message. But, you know, this is the first time in 18 months that we've had any kind of hearing with the attorney general. This has been a long time in the making and they realize this might be the only chance they get to really get any kind of answers from him on the record before the November election.
WILLIE GEIST: Joyce Vance ,as Kurt points out ,it's going to be a wide-ranging day, it’s set up to be kind of a wild day where they're gonna talk about the 2016 Russia investigation, they’re gonna talk about federal troops on the ground in Portland. We’ve seen in the early draft of the remarks that Attorney General Barr is going to talk about police violence but also emphasize black on black violence is much worse and go into that question. So if you were sitting on that panel what would you want to really get at with Attorney General William Barr in the time you had?
JOYCE VANCE: Well Kurt points out the problem Willie, which is that this attorney general has escaped anything that approaches congressional oversight for so long that there's a multiplicity of really important questions and what we don't know here is whether Democrats will have devised a strategy that will help bring focus to the issue. But this attorney general has a credibility problem. It started in his first days in office when he mischaracterized or lied about what was in the Mueller report and peddled that to the American people as a full on exoneration of the President, we know now that that's not true. So my hope is that Congress today will focus on those credibility questions on whether this attorney general has so politicized the department that he's in effect acting as the President's wingman not as the people's lawyer. That needs to be exposed because it bears on every action that Barr has taken that Congress will otherwise choose to scrutinize and particularly his efforts to miscast the actions of protesters exercising their First Amendment rights in Portland, people who are protesting against police excessive force under the Black Lives Matter umbrella. The efforts by the attorney general to turn those people into criminals is unworthy of the office that he needs to hold. I hope Congress will focus there.
BRZEZINSKI: And Kurt Bardella, what do you think one of the key issues, most revealing areas to focus on would be? And what do you expect from the Republicans who will also be asking questions?
BARDELLA: You know, I think that for the Republicans -- and they're led, remember, by Jim Jordan from Ohio, who is a seasoned hearing performer from his time both at Oversight and now leading Judiciary. I think you're gonna see, really, a play of what they say on Fox News every night that they're going to try to play into the 2016 conspiracy theories. It’ll be interesting, cause you won't hear a lot from Republicans about the events going on right now, about the abuses of power, firing of inspectors general, the firing of U.S. Attorneys, the role that Barr played directly in what we saw unfold at Lafayette Square just a few months ago. You're gonna see Republicans talk about Robert Mueller and conspiracy theories and text messages between agents. Everything they can do to try to protect Donald Trump, protect the idea that nothing happened in 2016 as far as Russian interference. In a lot of ways, they're going to be doing Russia's job for them on national TV and the United States Congress, repeating this propaganda, repeating the idea that Trump did nothing wrong, that there was no at all communication with Russians during the campaign. And they will give Barr the opportunity to filibuster. The way that they see it, the more time they can spend talking about 2016 and less about 2020 the better off they’re gonna be.
