NYT is Right

[KeithE]

[Haruo]

[KeithE]

Thanks for reading the article. Anyone else care?

[Sandy]

There's a way to behave in such matters if you are confident that you are innocent, and Trump isn't behaving that way. The investigation has already turned up evidence of "collusion," specific enough to identify Russian sources who were involved and the Trump campaign officials with whom they met or communicated, at least three of whom have provided testimony in exchange for leniency. If you're not guilty, you don't threaten to replace the justice department official who is in charge of the investigation, and whom you appointed, with someone who will be more loyal to you than they are interested in serving the country. If you're not guilty and you know you're not, you let the investigation draw its conclusions, let the evidence speak, and trust the outcome.

[KeithE]

[Jon Estes]

[KeithE]

[Sandy]

The credibility of the New York Times rests on their ability to get the facts, and accurately report them. I say this all the time, and it usually winds up that the subject is diverted with no response, but if you think what they've put together is innuendo, or biased, or wrong, you're welcome to find facts that refute them, or prove the point. And the extremist right wing media isn't a source for those facts.

The factual nature of their (the New York Times') reporting, the thoroughness of their investigation and getting those facts, stands in stark contrast to Fox News, where it has been discovered that their headliner, Sean Hannity, was one of Michael Cohen's clients. That's no crime, or at least, not at this point, but it certainly classifies every word Hannity has ever spoken about Trump in the category of biased propaganda, and zaps whatever credibility he, or the network had. I always thought Hannity was a phony, and a propagandist posing as a conservative "journalist", not out of any real sense of conviction, but because he can snatch up cash in the wake of lunatic egomaniacs like Limbaugh. This is hard proof of that. To his credit, I guess, at least he's not a sexual predator like O'Reilly or Trump.