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What seems to be becoming steadily more apparent is that there’s a growing awareness of how a significant part of the population obtains its news from alternative sources to the mainstream media. Two major items today confirm that transformation.

The first was  found @FoxNews.com, by Hans A. von Spakovsky, a Senior Legal Fellow at The Heritage Foundation and former Justice Department official. He's also coauthor of “Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk”.  

von Spakovsky writes that “James Comey raised quite a furor in his testimony on Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee—albeit not the kind the left had anticipated.

“The president’s political opponents had hoped that this hearing would finally give them what they needed to bring him down. They were sorely disappointed.”

“The New York Times and others who reported these stories were obviously conned by their anonymous sources into painting a nefarious picture of the Trump campaign and its supposed involvement with Russian intelligence officials. Per Comey’s testimony, it was a complete fantasy.  Comey also referred to many other media stories pushing the false narrative as “dead wrong.”

Total falsehoods constantly repeated in the MSM now proven to be purposefully misleading include:  

1) There was no obstruction of justice under the requirements of the applicable statute, 18 U.S.C. §1503. 

2) The president was never under investigation in the Russia probe.

3) There was no hacking or other interference with the voting, ballot counting, and administrative process of the election.

4) There is no evidence of any “collusion” between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. 

5) Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch ordered Comey to parrot the language of the Clinton campaign regarding the FBI’s investigation into the mishandling of classified material.

In Lynch’s case, per her instructions, “Comey was to refer to his agency’s actions in the case as a “matter,” not an investigation.  Comey said the order “confused” and “concerned” him, but he did as he was told.  This directive from Lynch wasn’t unlawful, but it seems to show that Lynch was trying to help the Clinton campaign at a time when the FBI, which is a part of the Justice Department, was investigating her for possible criminal violations of the law.  If Donald Trump talking to the FBI director about his views on Michael Flynn was somehow inappropriate, Loretta Lynch trying to help the public image of the Clinton election efforts is even more so.”

von Spakovsky summarizes his findings this way: “James Comey, despite his calling the president “a liar” and being obviously angry about his firing, in essence punctured all of the balloons President Trump’s opponents have floated to try to delegitimize his election.  This should be a lesson to the media in particular about the danger of using anonymous sources who have a political ax to grind. It gives them a powerful motive to simply make things up.”  

A reader, mominnj2, followed with a perceptive question: “If  Comey could read "intent" with what Trump did, then why couldn't he find "intent" when Hillary deleted 30,000 emails and smashed several devices with a hammer?”

Taking the subject further, pollster and analyst Pat Caddell spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Matt Boyle on Friday about his reaction to Comey’s testimony, as well as the media’s reaction.

Caddell said: “I didn’t think it was a great day for the media. However, if you watched some of the other cable news networks, you’d think this was a disaster for Trump. It was anything but.”

He went on to call out the media for pursuing a political agenda, as opposed to the truth, saying that media today is actually “a danger to democracy.”

“The media really took it on the nose,” Caddell went on, pointing out that Trump was not lying about the three times he claims Comey told him he personally was not under investigation. “How come that didn’t leak out? That is an interesting question because enough people knew on Capitol Hill, and it tells me that it was the media. And this was really the chilling part, that they have their narrative agenda, that Trump is in collusion, Trump is this, and Trump is that, and he’s under investigation. They did not want to challenge that narrative.”

“They weren’t reporting facts,” continued Caddell. “They were reporting sources who would give them statements that would contribute to their anti-Trump narrative. This is not a press. This is a propaganda machine. It’s full speed against the president.”

“Caddell said he could turn to almost any network and predict its coverage, “If Trump walked on water, they’d say he couldn’t swim.”

In Caddell’s opinion the media’s now “invested themselves in a political result, not in telling the truth, and that is a danger to democracy.”

In conclusion, Caddell stated, “[Comey] was the one in the meetings, and he never raised a protest, and then he said a sentence that I was stunned by. He said, ‘I did it because I gave my friend the memo to give to the New York Times because I thought we needed a special counsel.’ Here’s a man who wouldn’t have a special counsel or wouldn’t even investigate the IRS stuff, a person who didn’t do it with Hillary Clinton, particularly in terms of the Clinton Foundation, and yet it was pointed out to him by a couple of the senators, you know, basically he gave her a whitewash. He wants to do this with Trump. I thought that was devastating and puts him in a very precarious place.”

Caddell added, “It chills me to think that this person was running the FBI.”

All of which helps to confirm the point that, thanks to alternative sources of news, such as Breitbart and others like it, political experts like Caddell can communicate directly to the public in general.    

And by receiving unfiltered information, supporting confirmation and knowledgeable opinion the public gains truly invaluable education not available from the MSM. 

Which explains why those sources, combined with a POTUS who communicates with his constituents directly himself, are quite rapidly neutralizing the MSM altogether. And, most importantly, not only are those same constituents the one’s that put the POTUS in office, he and the alternative news sources surely know it.

That's it for today folks.

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