The Dud

Surrounded by hype, Devin Nunes

Scripted his daily reality show,

While flurries of words on right-wing TV

Gave the viewers vertigo.

The "memo" was the talk of the land.

"Release the memo!" was the rage.

Conspirators wanted to prove wrong-doing--

Biased treatment of Carter Page

And bias toward the president.

Creating a specious storyline

From FBI reports, Trump's

Lackeys attempted to undermine

An ongoing investigation.

All it did was fall with a thud.

Despite Sean Hannity's ranting and raving,

The memo proved to be a dud.

Combine conspiracy theory news,

A cherry-picked narrative filled with holes,

Eagerly manipulated

Believers and Russian bots and trolls,

And you have a farce of epic proportions--

A bucket of chaos, filled to the brim.

As John McCain so wisely put it,

"We're doing Putin's work for him."

-by Bob B (2-3-18)