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Over the past two weeks, Hillary Clinton and the Democrats had been under increased legal scrutiny following the revelations that the FBI had been monitoring Russian spies trying to influence the Uranium One deal, and that Clinton’s campaign and the Democrats had paid a firm to use foreign agents for opposition research. But according to CNN’s Brian Stelter, there really wasn’t any news there and it was all a part of a Fox News conspiracy to leave people confused about the facts.
“Defending President Trump can be hard to do, so some of his allies in the media don't even bother trying,” he mocked as he began his rant. “Instead, they change the subject. This is a campaign of confusion. It is one of the most important things happening in American politics today.”
Stelter ridiculously claimed that “if you watched the opinion shows on Fox News this week, you might have thought Hillary Clinton was president, not Trump, Clinton.” He cut to a clip of former Trump campaign manager Cory Lewandowski on Fox News where he misspoke and accidentally said “the Clinton administration.” Stelter pounced and asserted that it was a sign that the cable network was trying to twist the facts, as though Fox News viewers would somehow believe Trump wasn’t President for the last nine months.
In describing how Fox News’ “campaign of confusion works,” Stelter distorted the facts and omitted key details which allowed him to construct a false narrative. “First, The Hill newspaper revived a relatively old story about Russian efforts to gain influence in the American uranium industry during the Obama administration,” he said, making it seem as though they were just revisiting an old story. But in fact, there were new details never heard before, even after the first time the story broke.
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