The Media Coverage of Cassidy Hutchinson: A Cautionary Tale

A New York Times headline reads: “Billionaires Wanted to Save the News Industry. They’re Losing a Fortune.” The opening sentence is: “Time magazine, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times—owned by Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong—are still losing money.” And they are surely not the only ones. Is it any wonder?

The mainstream media’s coverage of Cassidy Hutchinson and her testimony before the now-pardoned January 6 Select Committee offers a cautionary tale.

The Interim Report of the Failures and Politicization of the January 6th Select Committee issued by the House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight is not exactly weekend reading, but it nevertheless fascinates and rewards. Readers who don’t slavishly read only the left-wing media may have a general sense of what the authors have to say, but those who read and listen only to the left-wing propagandists will be in for a shock. The perfidy of the left-wing in this country is remarkable, but it no longer surprises.

The Subcommittee on Oversight’s press release may be what encouraged Biden to issue his last-day pardons. The top three findings cited in the subcommittee’s press release were: “1. Former representative Liz Cheney colluded with ‘star witness’ Cassidy Hutchinson without Hutchinson’s attorney’s knowledge. 2. Former representative Liz Cheney should be investigated for potential criminal witness tampering. . . . 3. Cassidy Hutchinson’s most outrageous claims lacked any evidence and the [January 6th] Select Committee had knowledge that her claims were false when they publicly promoted her.”

Hutchinson was a twenty-four-year-old special assistant to the president and coordinator for Legislative Affairs for White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during his tenure as chief of staff. That was the position, which now seems far beyond her capabilities, that she held on January 6, 2021. […]

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