Obviously, bias and balance are different things. To read another point of view for the sake of 'balance' isn't worth much if facts are missing or distorted. For example, 'Mother Jones' has a definite liberal bias, but factual reporting. RT News (Russian Times/RT.Com) is Right center but is a questionable source/propaganda/conspiracy. I often run a news source through Media Bias/Fact Check. I did not see AllSides listed there elengil, perhaps they are new? I suppose they may not be listed because they don't offer up their own news but rate the bias of what is already out there.
There are one or two things I agree with in the article; that Trump is uninformed and out of his depth (on almost every subject) is certainly true. His "great brain" which allows him to be "just about better/smarter than anyone" when it comes to the military/being a general, economics, trade, campaign finance, or just about any other subject at hand, is painfully untrue and absurd. Delusional. In my opinion, Trump is an unscrupulous and amoral man who is not very astute but likes to play-act as someone who is. The job of president, unlike 'reality' TV, is not polished and edited, although I wish his tweets were!
I do not claim to be versed in law and I am certain Andrew C. McCarthy (and you, Voronwë) are far more qualified to address legal terminology and (actual or potential) crimes/legal issues. However, McCarthy chooses his words carefully to include a very narrow scope of the Mueller investigation:
(italics mine)"There was no conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin to commit cyber-espionage against Democratic email accounts. Putin did not “hack the election.”
There is little denying (to anyone honestly paying attention) that Putin/Russia was involved in MANY areas of the 2016 election. Certainly, they were very involved in a social media/disinformation campaign and attempts at voter fraud which SHOULD be of great interest to ANY U.S. administration/congress. The Russians invested many years and considerable expense, this isn't a figment of liberal imagination. At one time Congress nearly unanimously voted for election security measures/funding but the GOP has recently blocked it. Why? That Trump & the GOP have had an odd and less than transparent response or action regarding an assault on our sovereignty SHOULD be an outrage. It is suspect. Whether Trump is/was implicitly involved I cannot say, but if not, given all of the Russian involvement and special treatment (the change in platform at the Republican convention toward Russia/Ukraine for example), Manfort's Russian involvement, debt, and offer of 'free' services, Russians wanting to meet for 'deals' at Trump tower (which should have immediately been reported to the FBI) he's not astute enough to be president! McCarthy says that the Trump Tower meeting was 'a bust', but do we know that to be true? Have we heard Mueller's final findings on that meeting? The author of this piece is correct that Trump gives Mueller/CIA so much fodder. There are so many odd and fishy incidents that NEVER would have been acceptable had any Democrat been involved in similar circumstances. The outright and copious lying, the fawning over Putin, the insistence of private meetings, searching for back channels, etc.. The list is long.
As one of the commenters on that article writes:
I live 5 miles from one of those late-in-the-campaign changed rally sites, so following that has been of special interest to me.The Russians stole campaign data and emails--and not all of the emails stolen were made public.
With Democratic campaign data they could direct their ad campaigns to the exact locations where Democrats were not campaigning because the Democrat's data showed those counties to be safely for Hillary.
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