A Novel Approach to the Mueller Report

[aggienaut]

   I had a book idea today. Not something epicly original but ...

   I've been listening to the Mueller Report on audible. I thought it would be 19 hours of mind numbing legal tedium but I actually have found it quite interesting and easy to follow and I feel "informed as fuck" and better for it all. And yet, I still feel like a lot of people will still find it too dry and legal to get through it, because I know the reading capacity of your average person. BUT, what if one were to "translate" a vulgate version of it, so to speak. A novelization of the Mueller Report. The report is, after all, mostly reporting on events as they occurred -- what if one were to re-recount them in a more fluid readable manner, maybe inserting you know how the weather was that day or other mundane details to make it flow better as a story, and deleting tediously long recountings of the supporting evidence of a fact (leaving a footnote with the page in the Mueller report if someone really wants to know the support for an assertion). Similarly with the purely legal arguments it ends with, write summaries in plain speech while not inserting any personal opinion or trying to make any arguments that aren't in the report. Basically it would be the report, just written to be more readable to the non-legal audience. What do you think?

Comments

[wpadmirer.livejournal.com]

I think it would certainly make it easier for some people. Plus shorter is better for a lot of people.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

That laughter was meant for the other comment (:

[wpadmirer.livejournal.com]

No problem.

[selucius.livejournal.com]

Nah, I think we should summarize it into 3-4 pages that suit our own narrative and really have nothing to do with the report at all.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha

[stasia]

Where did you find a copy of the un-redacted one, or am I just out of the loop? (I might be - if I pay too much attention to the news, I'm immobilized for the rest of the day with despair-rage-fury-depression, so I tend to skim the headlines.)

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Ah no the version I'm listening to is as redacted as ever

[newwaytowrite.livejournal.com]

How about one with a red cover with all the text redacted and one with a blue cover with all the words?

[notodette.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I love the idea of listening to it, instead of reading the whole thing! I'm going to look it up.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

It's FREE on audible and I seriously recommend!!

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

That's not a bad idea. It would certainly get more widely read!

*HUGS*

[lenine2.livejournal.com]

I would read that!

[richaarde.livejournal.com]

The problem isn’t that the Mueller report is above most people’s reading levels. It’s that people would rather cling to their own preferred narrative that they’ve been following, and any facts that contradict their narrative would likely cause them to have a meltdown.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

There's definitely some truth to that. Yesterday I shared on facebook this article about how 370 retired federal prosecutors have said based on the evidence in the report they'd definitely prosecute Trump for obstruction and expect to win -- then my friend who is a trump supporters, and practically a troll, said they were all idiots because there's no underlying crime. So I quoted the Mueller report where it quotes the literal words of the law about how there doesn't NEED to be an underlying crime just an attempt to obstruct "official proceedings" with "corrupt intent," ... plus he clearly witness tampered with Manafort, Cohen, and other people convicted during the probe ..... and yet my friend remained steadfast and undaunted in his belief that somehow his twisting around of the literal words of the law is correct and Mueller and 370 former federal prosecutors are wrong. ::eyeroll::

[richaarde.livejournal.com]

I have an uncle who takes insulin for diabetes. Obamacare used to cover insulin until Trump tinkered with it, and now my uncle is stuck paying out of pocket for it. But Sean Hannity on Fox News says that Obama is to blame, so my uncle blames Obama...

What can I say, Uncle Boozy. You got what you wanted out of the election. Enjoy your $500+ a month insulin bill.

[xxmadsenxx.livejournal.com]

I think that would be really cool.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

I think it is a fabulous idea IF the following was strictly adhered to:

while not inserting any personal opinion or trying to make any arguments that aren't in the report.

That is the problem with most paraphrasing IMO, people call it paraphrase, but change it to express their POV or agenda.