On my radio show, I told you of my flights to and from Florida over the course of one week last year. Almost every time that I looked at a television screen in the airport (and this is NOT an exaggeration), CNN was discussing possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
When I returned to the radio after my Florida, I speculated about what CNN would do if the Russian collusion turned up nothing. I wondered about a news network that was so "all in" on the outcome of an investigation - how CNN has a vested interest in something dramatic conclusion.
Now, CNN is not only dealing with non-developments in the collusion story, it's dealing with an investigation that is actually making the PREVIOUS administration look bad. In summary: to what extend did our executive agencies attempt to assist Hillary Clinton's election while hindering Donald Trump?
The latest: a release of text messages between an FBI agent and his alleged mistress that contained anti-Trump messages. Astonishingly the agent, Peter Strzok, played key roles in investigating the Clinton email scandal AND the Trump collusion investigations before being dismissed from the Trump investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
And the FBI has now been forced to admit it is missing six months of texts between Strzok and his alleged mistress.
CNN Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin says: no big deal.
Host John Berman asked Toobin if it was suspicious to have lost six months worth of texts between Strzok and Page, but Toobin dodged the question and said there should be an investigation.
“Let’s see. There can be an investigation of why these text messages disappeared. We all worked in big bureaucracies, Stuff gets lost. It happens in law enforcement,” Toobin said. “If there was someone who got rid of these text messages for some sinister reason, that we should know. If they disappeared just in the normal course of business, we should know that, too.”
But if something "sinister" is going on, that IS a big deal, right? Or can CNN fairly report anything that causes the "collusion" narrative to backfire on Democrats?