All those 'bombshell' headlines about impeachment keep blowing up in the face of the media and Adam Schiff

Roger Kimball:

‘No.’ ‘No.’ ‘No.’ ‘No.’

That pretty much sums up yesterday’s testimony.

‘Did you receive any indication whatsoever, or anything that resembled a quid pro quo?’

Former envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker: ‘No.’

Devin Nunes to Tim Morrison, former NSC official: ‘Did anyone ever ask you to bribe or extort anyone at any time during your time in the White House?’

‘No.’

This follows the responses of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to the question of whether he was offered a quid pro quo: US aid in exchange for investigating Hunter Biden’s corrupt dealings with the natural gas company Burisma: ‘No.’

Ditto Gordon Sondland, US ambassador to the European Union: was there a quid pro quo: ‘No.’ (Sondland’s testimony has just begun at the time of writing: rest assured it will be more of the same.)

Last week’s hearings were preposterous, a disaster for the Democrats. This week’s hearings are shaping up to be even worse news for the partisans of the Adam Schiff Show.

Remember that old hippie slogan, ‘suppose they gave a war and nobody came?‘ It’s been updated and applied not to international conflicts but partisan intramural sniping: suppose they gave a hearing and nobody came?

For that’s the truth of the matter. The ratings for this reality TV show are in the tank. During Watergate, during the Clinton impeachment, people were glued to the news. Now, despite the screaming CNN chyrons, anti-Trump Washington Post and New York Times sermons, nobody cares.

The Adam Schiff Show is playing to itself. Even the president has realized that it is 98.6 percent farce, 1.4 percent menace. Hence his little taunts. Some Dems say Trump should testify, assuming the ‘offer’ will be brusquely ignored. But Trump calls their bluff: ‘Even though I did nothing wrong,’ the president tweeted, ‘and don’t like giving credibility to this No Due Process Hoax, I like the idea & will, in order to get Congress focused again, strongly consider it!’

That was the last you’ll hear about asking Trump to testify.
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This morning I saw a headline on the CNN site with the word "BombshellP prominently exposed with words wrapped around it.  I knew then that the anti-Trump network must have fallen for more Schiff lies and it was revealed only a short time later that he was mischaracterizing the testimony.  He has become a regular at that and if CNN and others in the mainstream media were not so in the tank for impeachments they would not keep falling for his BS.  Sure enough, the witness later admitted that he was presoming facts not in evidence.