Hours Before Trump's Press Conference CNN And BuzzFeed Hit 'Fake News' Bottom

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  1. CurrentsITguy

    CurrentsITguy New Member

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    So you're buying it hook, line, and sinker. Do you really believe POTUS stayed in a known FSB compromised hotel? Do you really believe that even if he did bug sweeps were not conducted? Please.

    The document is so childish it reads like a kid wrote it.

    https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html

    An excerpt from a pretty good analysis from a very hostile to Trump site:

    It smacks of the Dan Rather takedown Bush CYA Letter.

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  2. ButterBalls

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    A better question is where were they years ago ;)
     
  3. APACHERAT

    APACHERAT Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    But but but without fake news how can CNN, the DNC, Obama administration, Washington Post, N.Y. Times, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News compete against Fox News Channel and take out Donald Trump ?
     
  4. bx4

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    Given the date of the post on 4Chan, that could quite possibly be the Russians covering their tracks. Knowing the information is going to come out, they plant the seeds of a story that someone fabricated it all and trolled the CIA.
     
  5. TomFitz

    TomFitz Banned

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    Nearly all of the stories about Trump, his lies, his behavior, his sleazy business practices, etc are true and well documented.

    Of course, the people who eat up fake news pretend otherwise.

    Your hero is a sleezy schmuck. And no amount of right wing fake news is going to change that.
     
  6. Iron River

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    The MSM and McCain will suffer for this. John is an old fool that wanted to be important but he didn't have the courage to go after 0 and lost the election in 08 to an America hating muslime progressive and he can't get over Trump winning.
     
  7. Thirty6BelowZero

    Thirty6BelowZero Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    These idiots are trying SOOO hard to get something on Trump that would sink him. I bet it sucks miserably to fail every single time while you cover for the worst president, followed by the worst candidate in the history of America.
     
  8. TomFitz

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    I don't know. Nearly all of it is unsubstanted claims by anonymous people with no connection to anything.

    Trump is easy prey to an operation like this, thought. He's been doing business with Russian gangsters for some time. That's who you're reduced to when your reputation on the street is where his is. Nobody in the banking community trusts Trump at all. And with good reason.

    Trump has all the worldliness and sophistication of Archie Bunker. He's easily suceptible to flattery, and he craves celebrity, the cheaper the better.

    A guy as shallow and vein as Trump is an easy mark.
     
  9. Think for myself

    Think for myself Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    While I am not sure about Buzzfeed as I do not see it as an actual news source, CNN certainly noted that the report was questionable when it was presented, as did every news outlet that I read.
     
  10. Ddyad

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    The American political class is too insulated and inbred too realize how over exposed they are.
    The MSM and fake news are now as harmless as starter pistols.
     
  11. TomFitz

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    You noticed!

    Yup, the MSM reported the story but noted that they could not verify it. Funny, but one of the right wing posters on this thread pointed that out as well about the NYT.

    That's what journalists do.

    OF course, none of the right wing citations here hue to any such journalistic standard, nor do their readers;. They just yell "fake news" without any evidence, and with nobody even bother to check anything.

    Trumpsters have also claimed that stories like this drive support for Trump up.

    There is no evidence of this either. The most recent Quinnipiac poll indicates that Trump's approval rating is fully ten percentage points behind the outgoing President ,and a scant 37% of voters have any confidence that he will do a good job.

    Outside the US, Trump is already an international pariah.
     
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    Trump isn't my hero, and I will give him a chance. If Trump fails and lets me and America down, I will strike at him like a Mohave rattle snake.

    The only hero in my life was my father.

    I hold some to high esteem, Vince Lombardi, Chesty Puller, "Bull" Halsey, "Blood and Guts" George S. Patton and Ronald Reagan.
     
  13. Margot2

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    Has Trump cancelled his 11 AM news conference?
     
  14. Labouroflove

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    Then why give it the imprimatur of seeming endorsement by propagating a very questionable work? There is zero excuse. Publishing it was malicious.

    Cheers
     
  15. Labouroflove

    Labouroflove Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No

    Cheers
     
  16. Think for myself

    Think for myself Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Great word. I had to look that up. I like it.

    \
    im·pri·ma·tur
    ˌimprəˈmädər,imˈpriməˌt(y)o͝or/
    noun
    noun: imprimatur; plural noun: imprimaturs

    an official license by the Roman Catholic Church to print an ecclesiastical or religious book.
    a person's acceptance or guarantee that something is of a good standard.
    "the original LP enjoyed the imprimatur of the composer"


    That being said, it is news. Since when do journalists do the old Woodward and Bernstein style two verified sources? This is the age we live in. It was noted that the reports are unconfirmed. I am not sure how much more spoonfed it can be than that.
     
  17. GreenBayMatters

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    Wrong. Watching press conference now on c-span
     
  18. TomFitz

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    An odd thing to say. Attacking media for printing an allegation and saying that is an allegation is a considerably higher standard of journalism than what we see in right wing media all the time.
     
  19. ButterBalls

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    Hey com'er, I just read this on 4chan!

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    4Chan really?

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    4chan!

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    Please tell me it's true.

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    CRAP, I WAS BAITED!
     
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    No. It seems the predictions of the left once again have fallen flat.
     
  21. guavaball

    guavaball Well-Known Member

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    So you didn't read it. What a shocker.

    No one cares about your claims. This is about a fake news story not your own personal beliefs.

    Says the guy who can't even address the actual story.

    Well done. That's in the link too.

    That doesn't change the reality that its fake. Please educate yourself on the actual story here.

    - - - Updated - - -

    McCain is pure scum. I hope Trump goes after him with both barrels.
     
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    To hear Trump supporters whine about fake news, after it's announced a Breitbart CEO will be installed in the White House as a presidential advisor, is something right out of Bizarro World...Trump is gaslighting reality.
     
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    Trump's news conference is disjointed............

    - - - Updated - - -

    Trump just said that a veteran has to wait 16-17 days for an appointment and by then his cancer is terminal..
     
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    if True this is another Watergate moment for republicans... time will tell
     
  25. Eyeswideopen1989

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    Honestly, there should be some punishments that the government gives media who acts extremely dishonest, such as CNN. Freedom of speech and press does not extend beyond freedom from legal prosecution. Removing them from the white houses press pool would be legal, and very well deserved.

    Mabye that, as well as some loss in views from the public (if we could ever rally behind boycotting this type of dishonesty) would make them clean up their act.

    Fat chance though.
     

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