You have to wonder if this is the MSM’s version of “the lady doth protest too much” . The way NPR is working so hard to discredit the possibility of Russia funneling campaign funds through the National Rifle Association as its vehicle makes it seem that this has really hit too close for comfort. Have they been accused of being a liberal news organization and are overcompensating again?
The editorializing in their headlines is breathtaking, and subsequently not supported in their actual report.
Alleged Link Between NRA And Russia Becomes Fodder For The Left
Fodder:
2: inferior or readily available material used to supply a heavy demand
- This sort of breezy plot line has become cheap fodder for novelists and screenwriters …
- —Sally Bedell
Their jumping off point is the announcement by The American Legal Democracy Fund that it is requesting that the FEC look into this matter. They go to great pains to establish the political leanings of the American Legal Demoracy Fund.
The American Legal Democracy Fund, a group with ties to liberal Super PAC American Bridge and headed by former DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse, filed this complaint in response to reporting by McClatchyearlier this month. The report indicated the FBI is investigating whether a Russian banker with ties to the Kremlin illegally funneled money to the NRA in order to aid President Donald Trump's campaign.
The rest of the article is actually well done , going into great detail and depth about Torshin’s background, the fact that the FBI is actually investigating this case, Fusion GPS testifying about links between Torshin and the NRA to the House,
"It appears the Russians, you know, infiltrated the NRA," Simpson told the panel, in a since-released transcript.
validating the basis for the complaint. But it's “liberal fodder”.
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And here is more “unbiased” reporting in the article
The prospect of having two of the left's most prominent villains caught up in an illegal conspiracy has caught the eye of several organizations on the left, and the ALDF's legal complaint is only the latest salvo in a broader campaign to tie Russia, Trump and the NRA together.
Last week, NRA opponent Everytown for Gun Safety released a new interactive website on these three actors, so that its activists could familiarize itself with their reported ties.
"For years, the NRA cozied up to Moscow, even as Russia meddled in our elections. Now they won't answer any questions about it," said John Feinblatt, the president of the group. "It makes you wonder how much the gun lobby really spent on Trump in 2016 and where that money might've come from."
And liberal media watchdog Media Matters blared in a headline: "NRA's denial it has illegal ties to Russia hits stumbling block with revelation of FBI investigation."
Blared in a headline? That is much more sedate than NPR ‘s tabloid-Esque headline.
They conclude that since the FEC is a hopelessly deadlocked partisan commission the complaint is dead on arrival. I guess if your cause has long odds that makes it worthy of ridicule. Some fine Fox level biased journalism there. This has a weird smell of desperation to it