This is the second time the Wall Street Journal has called for Mueller to step down, and should

[still_one]

leave no doubt that the paper, like fox news, is a tool for trump and the administration:

Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Goes To Bat Against FBI And Robert Mueller For Trump

The newspaper has published a series of pieces critical of the investigation into Russian election interference.

The Wall Street Journal editorial pages has emerged as one of the President Donald Trump’s staunchest allies in his efforts to undermine the investigation into whether his campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.

On Monday, the Journal excoriated Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the FBI for withholding information from Congress about the firing of a top agent who reportedly sent anti-Trump messages.

Mueller reassigned a top FBI agent, Peter Strzok, over the summer after it was discovered that Strzok had sent anti-Trump text messages, The New York Times reported over the weekend. Strzok led the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server and held a top role in the Russia probe, which Mueller has been leading since Trump fired former FBI director James Comey. Trump has repeatedly called the investigation a “witch hunt” and has acknowledged that he fired Comey at least partly due to the probe.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wall-street-journal-attacks-mueller_us_5a26540de4b07324e840359e?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

While the editorial pages of the WSJ has always been extremely conservative, I don't recall the paper ever calling for an investigation like this to back off. The Journal has been going down hill since Murdoch bought it, but to me this represents the lowest level I have seen it. It is effectively saying a foreign governments interference in our election is no big deal, and that is quite troublesome.

I believe it was Lenin who said, "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them”, and that sure appears to ring true with the Wall Street Journal. If they had any moral compass, it is no longer evident. They are putting a political party ahead of the country.

[TheDebbieDee]

1. The Wall Street Journal is owned by Rupert Murdoch, right?

Why are you surprised that the journal tells half-truths and supports a republican agenda?

[still_one]

3. Yes it is

[malaise]

16. Precisely

Do the Murdoch children have US citizenship?

[DangerousUrNot]

2. All these weak excuses for Mueller to step down

are signs of desperation.

[still_one]

5. That is a good way to look at it, and there is no doubt they are doing in it to create doubt, and

discredit the Mueller investigation

[Roland99]

10. Shame that impartial grand juries were involved.

[Cosmocat]

17. Except them aren't "weak" functionally

yeah, they are bullshit to you and me, but is how the right manages their pods.

Its like the process where they rode out the Roy Moore thing to now being fully behind him again.

Just little baby steps to keep their "base" disconnected from reality AND to muddle the minds of the "middle" 1/3.

The actual text is not relevant, honestly.

[delisen]

4. Is it possible the Murdoch family is involved in some criminality

or actively participated in a Russian led propaganda effort on Brexit and Trump campaign?

[still_one]

7. That is a very good point. That would be a bombshell

[dalton99a]

12. Sure sounds like it

[uponit7771]

13. No doubt, especially after hearing Putin repeat some of FAUX News talking points

[Jarqui]

6. It's why the Kochs buying Time Inc concerns me

FOX News, WSJ, etc are creating the dead heads who support Trump.

[greeny2323]

8. This is the Trump-Nunes-Murdoch coordinated smear job n/t

[still_one]

9. This sure seems to be a co-ordinated effort

[Historic NY]

11. They are attempting to hornswoggle people.

[spanone]

14. it's a rupert murdoch rag...expected

[malthaussen]

15. Wasn't there a time, in the distant past, when the WSJ...

... was actually a sort of newspaper?

-- Mal