Jimmy Dore is lying about the Horowitz report just like Sean Hannity
Imagine logging on to YouTube and typing ‘Jimmy Dore’ in the search bar, because Jimmy is a “stalwart anti-war progressive.” He won’t disappoint you like CNN or MSNBC, so what if he spread Seth Rich and has mad, mad respect for Alex Jones? He calls out bullshit on “both sides.”
No biggie he casually watches Fox Business News, I love my “business” news.
“And you wonder why people get their news from YouTube-” to listen to Jimmy Dore, of course, who himself happens to listen to Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity. Jimmy’s even too radical to be graced by Bernie Sander’s presence, and isn’t afraid to show off his commonly-used sources: The Daily Mail, Fox News, and RT
Fox News is the go-to source for Jimmy, in one video, he praised Jim Jordan for spreading Fox News talking points at the House impeachment inquiry, that the Whistleblower’s complaint is based on ‘hear-say.’ Jimmy further downplayed the Whistleblower’s complaint, and said ‘this is possibly the most shittiest way to attack Trump.’
Meanwhile, Dore dismisses the Horowitz Report, and misrepresents its findings.
On the Dec 10 edition of The Jimmy Dore Show, the eponymous host asked an array of dizzying questions you’d normally here from pro-trump pundits, like, “did [Russiagate] get started on false premises,” and did “the FBI step out of bounds, did they overreach their constitutional authority, and act like un-elected arbiters of how our election should go- yes they did.”
A Dec 10 Media Matters article by Eric Kleefeld reveals where Jimmy procured this particular talking point about the Russia investigation being launched on “false premises:”
Prime-time host Sean Hannity really topped Monday night with perhaps the most Orwellian presentation: He declared that the report showed exactly the opposite of what it actually said, saying the investigation was “nothing but outright lies” and “a massive political bias.”
Not just Hannity, FoxNews.com showcased a Lindsey Graham quote rebuking the fact political bias had no impact — “seeming to conflate the problems in the FISA warrant process and other issues during the investigation with Horowitz’s finding of a lack of bias in launching the investigation itself.”
The problem with this is it “conflate[s] the problems in the FISA warrant process and other issues during the investigation with Horowitz’s finding of a lack of bias in launching the investigation itself.”
On the same Dec 10 edition of The Jimmy Dore Show, Dore plants seeds of doubt about the integrity of the FBI’s investigation “Crossfire Hurricane:” “The whole Russia thing’s based on these FISA applications, meaning they go into a secret court,which no one gets to hear what happens, and you don’t get to present a defense. Nothing like that. Just the FBI goes in and meets with a judge, and they go ‘look this is what, this is all the evidence and with what we say it’s true,’ and the judge goes well, if that’s true go ahead, go you can tap everybody’s phone in the white house, this is what a FISA warrant is and you can read every email, and listen to every phone call. […] And so the whole point of it, they’re looking into those applications, was it on the up-and-up, and did they lie to the FISA Court?”
This is what was said on the Tuesday morning edition of Fox & Friends, according to Media Matters:
On the Tuesday morning edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Ainsley Earhardt expressed outrage that “the FISA court wasn’t even told who paid for that dossier — it was Hillary Clinton’s campaign,” referring to the infamous opposition research dossier by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, which President Donald Trump and others have claimed spurred the entire investigation, but which Horowitz’s report says only became a factor during the FISA process, after the probe itself was already underway based on prior evidence.
Halfway through the Dec 10 edition of The Jimmy Dore Show, Jimmy promotes Michael Tracey’s attack on journalists covering the boomer MAGA conspiracy theory QAnon. Tracey characterizes it as ‘snarky cool kid journalists focusing on how this IG report supposedly undermines QAnon, as if crackpot internet trolls are the paramount issue here — ’ and bludgeons with a what-about ‘enormous civil liberties violations’ argument.
Dore laments QAnon being in the media’s cross-hairs: “That’s not what anyone is talking about.We’re talking about the violation of civil liberties and the inherent corruption of the FISA court.”
Afterwards, Jimmy goes on a tirade about how the government pays people to write smear articles about “us,” staring daggers at Ron Placone.
It should be noted Jimmy took 2,500 in pro-Assad money in 2017, the same year, Dore declared the chemical weapons attack on the opposition-controlled town, Khan Sheikhun was likely a “false flag,” and the bodies of dead children merely movie props. This is reminiscent of Alex Jones’ claim the grieving parents of dead children at Sandy Hook were paid actors.
Another telling example of the manner in which Jimmy decides to cover the Horowitz hearing is Jimmy Dore shamelessly gaslit his audience; Fox Business did cancel its interview with James Comey.
Jimmy took it a step further and sent a taunting tweet at James Comey, and bragged about it on his YouTube channel: “Open invitation to come on the Jimmy Dore Show and defend the reputation of the FBI.”
Jimmy Dore capped off his show, by going “mask off,” making an absurd claim that “impeachment is such a shit show, that Sean Hannity gets to look good. Sean Hannity gets to become a truth-teller, right?”
Though, Jimmy did call Fox & Friends ‘a bunch of morons,’ which is kind of strange, considering that’s where he gets his news.
There’s no telling what whirlwind of ‘anti-establishment conspiracism’ Jimmy gets swept up in next, as for the foreseeable future… he’s locked in Hannity’s tinfoil hat realm, barely distinguished in tone from the denizens at Fox News, feverishly warning about FISA abuse and FISA applications…