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The liberal media were experiencing nirvana on Sunday as they continued their nearly not stop love-fest for the anti-Trump gossip book Fire and Fury by journalist Michael Wolff. Despite the fact that, when pressed, they admit the book was dubiously sourced and filled with easily provable factual inaccuracies, they still claim to their viewers that the book somehow “rings true.” It was the same on ABC’s This Week were Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos led a largely liberal panel in fawning over the book even as he speculated that only ‘50 percent’ of the book was actually true.
“It seems like every White House in a generation is hit by a book like this usually by Bob Woodward,” Stephanopoulos joked to Matthew Dowd and to the panel’s laughter. “Not this time around. But what is your big take away from here and how much of this can we trust?”
Dowd, who the network likes to pretend was a Republican and who wasn’t known for his own stability when talking about President Trump, first claimed that he didn’t like Wolff’s style of journalism yet touted him for “confirming” what everyone has known:
It's all confirmed those things that have been talked about for a year. The third thing, fund mentally, the President only made this matters worse in what he's done. All the tweets and everything have basically confirmed basically everything Michael Wolff said. Everything that he’s done has confirmed it.
“When you hear him put out that tweet, ‘stable genius,’ it's kind of like Richard Nixon, ‘I'm not a crook,’” Stephanopoulos chided, playing off of Dowd.
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