Demonization of Nunes a window into our times

national security adviser Susan Rice to confess that they had requested most of the unmaskings. Rice had previously denied it.

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence also confirmed that FBI agents had interviewed former national security adviser Michael Flynn and did not think he had lied to them concerning his contact with a top Russian diplomat.

No one has refuted the committee’s findings. Yet Chairman Nunes has become the subject of unprecedented venom, largely because a spate of further embarrassing scandals at the FBI, DOJ and CIA have resulted from his committee’s findings.

The progressive political apparat has targeted Nunes’ 2018 re-election race and contributed hundreds of thousands of out-of-district campaign dollars to his opponent, Andrew Janz, whom Nunes beat by 26 percentage points in a June primary. (They will square off again in a general election in November.)

The national media has disparaged Nunes, a farmer, as some sort of rustic bumpkin snookered by the Deep State’s Washington, D.C., professionals.

“The match between his backstory and his prominence seems wholly incongruous and helps underscore the perception that Nunes is cavalierly playing at a very highstakes game while in way over his head,” wrote David Hawkings for Roll Call.

MSNBC analyst Elise Jordan described Nunes as “a former dairy farmer who House intel staffers refer to as ‘Secret Agent Man’ because he has no idea what’s going on.”

The demonization of Nunes is a window into our times. We hunt for mythical Russian collusion while foreign collusion between Steele and his Russian sources is ignored. Progressives who claim an affinity for the middle classes demonize farmers as hicks.

A supposedly noble press prints fakes news.

The real question is not why today’s jaded media go to such lengths to slander Nunes, but why they are so afraid of him.