3/ to what was always a weak case for indictment. "The remote odds of one came to be seen as something like a 50-50 proposition," he writes.
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4/ See the irony? By responding to demands for bend-over-backwards fairness, which the GOP would be first to press upon them, journalists—
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5/ —collaborated with Republicans in a manufacture of the party's own devastating illusions. Not that any Republicans see it that way. But—
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6/ —that's what so funny (and sad) about it. Political journalism, mainstream wing, cannot serve as any kind of reality check for the GOP.
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7/ In fact, bend-over-backwards treatments of an unlikely case (Hillary's impending indictment) are condescending. A babysitting of the GOP.
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8/ But this is an insult that culture war has placed beyond the range of Republican hearing. In the mind of the GOP, the press never took—
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9/ —the case against Clinton seriously. Actually, it's the GOP that journalists don't take seriously enough to warn 'em about a weak case.
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10/ Compare all this to the Facebook trending topics controversy, with that sucker's headline: 'We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News.'
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11/ Read carefully, that story barely existed. Just enough fact to justify Gizmodo's headline. But the culture war right had to be pacified.
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12/ —Now it was Facebook's turn to babysit the right. No one had the heart to tell outraged conservatives they were exploding over a trifle.
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I did try. *ducks" But seriously, I'm likely not trusted by them. It was non-troversy. FB likes viral outrage, right or left.
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