journalist, Quotes for Now
"we have become untrustworthy guardians of democracy."
Date: July 26, 2019Author: moorezart
Being thousands of miles away from home in Portugal, a country that 45 years ago was in the grasp of a brutal dictatorship, gives me an interesting perspective on former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's Wednesday testimony and on the now nearly forgotten — was it only a week ago? — racist call for four nonwhite congresswomen to "go back" to where they came from.
I worry that we — the media, voters, Congress — are dangerously unserious when it comes to preservation of our democracy. To spend hours of airtime and write hundreds of print and online reports pontificating about the "optics" of Mueller's performance — when
he confirmed that President Trump accepted help from a hostile foreign power and lied about it, that he lied when he claimed exoneration, that he was not completely truthful in written answers, that he could be prosecuted after leaving office and that he misled Americans by calling the investigation a hoax — tells me that
The "failure" is not of a prosecutor who found the facts but might be ill equipped to make the political case, but instead, of a country that won't read his report and a media obsessed with scoring contests rather than focusing on the damning facts at issue.
source: Mueller didn't fail. The country did
Jennifer Rubin, journalist
Jennifer RubinjournalistQuotes for Now
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