So, with the media, particularly with FOX News which has weirdly become a propaganda outlet for Vlad Putin, I expect there to be things that are misleading and because the television outlets often want to be "fair and balanced" this generally means we will get, rather than an accurate look at the facts and truth, each side's spin on the facts and truth.

I will say this though, Trump's open war on the facts and truth has reinvigorated much of the media and spurred them to do a better job, which is great and has left FOX News looking...well...insane. To the extent that at times even FOX News employees have said "Um, we look totally batshit here." which is kind of fun.

I mean FOX now does shows specifically for the president (Hannity and FOX and Friends) and the president is enamored of Alex Jones...you can't make this stuff up. It does not take much brain power to see these people and their shows are totally divorced from reality but there are people, worst of all our president, that seem to think these people are valid places to go for "news" and take what they say seriously. I admit that this is frightening and disturbing and most disturbing of all that we elected a man to the highest office in the land that literally thinks Rupert Murdoch's farts are the most wonderful perfume known to man.

But what is far, far worse to me is that we have Republican politicians leading the charge into fantasy land. They are promoting lies and conspiracy theories in what appears to be an open WAR ON REALITY in such a frenzied manner that I have to admit it is mind-blowing. It is criminal the lengths they are going to in an effort to mislead the public...but also baffling that anybody would believe them.

Let's take this RELEASE THE MEMO nonsense. Do people not find it a giant red flag that Devin Nunes wrote his "memo" without even reading the FISA Warrant or the thousands of pages of attached evidence and that he has no idea what is in it? So, how do you write a memo criticizing this warrant when you have no idea what is in it or what evidence was shown to the court to have it approved?

Answer is you don't at least if your intent is "exposing the truth" to the American people.

Is it not a red flag that this memo refers to an ongoing investigation of Carter Page, a man our law enforcement and intelligence agencies have been looking at since at least 2013 for unusual activities involving Russia, and reveals the time frame openly that they have had him under heavy surveillance? Who exactly does this help? Who would you be signalling with releasing a memo like this that exposes information about who and how and how long our law enforcement and intelligence agencies have been conducting an investigation like this of a hostile foreign power?

Answer, it helps that foreign power to know who, when, and how the investigation has been conducted and tips them off to what they might know and who on their side might also be compromised. It compromises everybody around Carter Page. That's common sense. That's why our law enforcement and intelligence community did not want this released.

Who does it help when the "memo" clumsily includes the investigation was not actually prompted by the "dossier" but a tip from Australian intelligence services? That certainly did not help the Australians who give us tips with the expectation that we are not going to say where we got them. It does help Vlad Putin and his people put together a clearer picture of how we obtained the information we have and how that information came into our hands and compromises the Australian intelligence agents and sources that provided it. This is not even the first time these idiots have done this and the idiot in chief Trump has exposed intelligence allies and assets to the Russians himself.

This is why this "memo" was called "reckless" and likely why the Republicans did not want law enforcement and intelligence agencies to review it prior to releasing it.

The odd thing is the "memo" does nothing to help Trump or his case and all it did was make the Republicans look like idiots or worse traitors to their own country and as if they are employed by the Russians.

I believe Nunes is being used to do this because he is actually an idiot and stooge and did not know any better. However, he may be catching on because I saw an interview with him where he looked frightened and appeared to be backing away from the idea that this memo was his. Problem is he idiotically put his name on it...so he owns it and it should cost him his job and seat if there is any common sense left in the world.

The Devin Nunes and Jim Jordans of the world are truly enemies of the state. How people do not see this is beyond me and I find them, their attempts to obstruct justice and mislead the public, absolutely criminal.

It does expose what a panic they are in and the desperation of their situation that they are doing things like this but wow, this kind of lying and obfuscation is totally obscene.