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(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) We reported Monday on a “bombshell” report from Rolling Stone that, like many supposed “bombshell” reports coming from the mainstream media (including Rolling Stone’s storied history on that front) over the last several years was much ado about nothing.
The anonymously sourced “ report ” centered around the supposed revelation that some of the so-called organizers and planners of the January 6th Trump rally purportedly met with some Republican members of Congress, where they allegedly “participate[ed] in ‘dozens’ of planning briefings ahead of that day when Trump supporters broke into the Capitol as his election loss to President Joe Biden was being certified.”
As Bonchie correctly pointed out in his write-up, there was simply no “there” there in the Rolling Stone “bombshell” because the framing of the story was wrong. So what if Republican members of Congress and/or their staffers met with organizers of the Trump rally in advance of it? The Trump rally was NOT the Capitol riot, last I checked.
But the mainstream media and hardline Democrats desperate to smear Republicans over their supposed “participation and plotting” of the Capitol riot want you to think that, which is why we see even more bad framing here from CNN reporter Melanie Zanona, who tweeted today in response to the Rolling Stone article that Mo Brooks told her he wasn’t involved in, her words, “planning the Jan 6 rally” but that he said he’d be “proud” if he found out his staffers had had any help in planning the “lawful rally”: Rep. Mo Brooks told me he had “no involvement” in planning the Jan 6 rally but said: “I don’t know if my staff did.. but if they did I’d be proud of them for helping to put together a rally lawful under the First Amendment at the ellipse to protest voter fraud & election theft.” — Melanie Zanona (@MZanona) October 26, 2021 The insinuation was clearly there that Brooks was actually saying he would be “proud” if his staffers helped plan the Capitol riot. But Brooks’ distinction there was very important. Trump’s rally in and of […]
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