We are at the verge of an historical election, and the FBI injects itself into the muck of this contest with a pronouncement from James Comey that, at this late hour on Friday evening, appears to be a Nothingburger.
Yet the media, in its thirst for the sensational and a closer race leading up to and including 11/8 with the glorious ratings that will entail, reports on this as if it were a bombshell that might be the smoking gun that puts Hillary in prison! At least, that's what they encouraged Donald Trump to proclaim on the stump, as he and his GOP sycophants practically had a collective orgasm of glee that the race for the White House had been completely turned around due to the HRC “scandal machine” finally ruining her.
That nothing could be further from the truth didn't matter here. What mattered was for the media, including MSNBC, to breathlessly report and hype this story as if it was the biggest “October Surprise" of the last 50 years! Until later in the evening, when reports surfaced to show there was less than meets the eye, the media feeding frenzy that this could change the electiom, was at a fever pitch.
Media malfeasance in rushing to judgment, allowing the GOP and Trumpkins to falsely spin it, while engaging in stupid speculation of what this means and how this plays politically, was journalism at its worst. Thank goodness there are still a few real journalists left, like Kurt Eichenwald, to set the record straight.
This whole day has been vomit-inducing. Our media is failing us, again. And again, and again. This time, it could swing election results, down-ballot if not the top of the ballot. Shame on them.