WaPo’s HIT PIECE on Russia Influencing Election FALLS APART!

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  1. Gatewood

    Gatewood Well-Known Member

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    It turns out that the recent Washington Post article accusing Right of Center journalists and media sources of essentially working for the Russian government in damaging Hillary Clinton's 2016 run for the presidency was disinformation given to them by what very probably is going to turn out to be a CIA run operation. Oh, and it is illegal for the CIA to do such things on U.S. soil.
    So The Washington Post -- a newspaper KNOWN to essentially be working for the DNC -- writes a leftist hit piece against the Right using a CIA disinformation site illegally operating inside the United States? Sweet!
     
  2. Dutch

    Dutch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    In retrospect, if Hillary did not cancel that fireworks ahead of the election, her victory would have been seen as a done deal, and she'd probably won, Russkies or not.

    Wait, it WAS seen as a done deal. Poor, poor Hillary...
     
  3. Lil Mike

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    That piece has been attacked from the left too; Glenn Greenwald's The Intercept has a story on it too. This entire "fake news" meme is agitprop of the media fighting back against non news network and establishment newspaper media sources. I think the entire fake news story line is fake news.
     
  4. lemmiwinx

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    There was a guy named Joseph McCarthy in the 1950's who was famous for accusing liberals of being traitorous commie sympathizers. Now the Democrats are pulling the same game on Trump.
     
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    It sure is hard to manipulate people when they have zero trust in you. The harder the MSM and the establishment try, the sillier they look. :roflol:
     
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    WaPo,.. need anyone say more?
     
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    It is the new McCarthyism. Any outlet that does not repeat the liberal ideology is labeled as a Russian front.
     
  8. Gatewood

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    Yep, I could almost feel sorry for her . . . if she weren't a total leftist Basket of Deplorable type of scumbag, that is.

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    A fake of a fake? Sweet!

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    One thing about all these highly educated elitist type leftists that they all seem to share in common is that pretty much none of them ever learn.

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    And yet they continue to use and rely on the same old discredited tactics. I believe that it is one of the definitions of insanity.

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    Hey, for leftist toilet paper, it ain't bad.

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    Well that's certainly what The Washington Post was going for. Too bad they relied on a CIA disinformation source.
     
  9. Hoosier8

    Hoosier8 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Actually I named anonymous sources. Nothing that can be confirmed. That is how propaganda works.
     
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    Just more fake news from the left.
     
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    In fairness to McCarthy, he was right. It ended up being revealed a bit later, but he was right. Today's Left is sympathetic with the Communists. That's why CNN had that disgusting tribute to Fidel Castro while I was watching the 70's autobiography.
     
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    Now that you mention it since the demise of the communist USSR the liberal media think it's OK to criticize Russia now. Putin bad, Fidel good get it?
     
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    Dems have thoroughly compromised their integrity.

    Time for Trump to drain the swamp.
     
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    So "The Gateway Pundit" a well-known right-wing propaganda site reference unsubstantiated claims by a Russian immigrant who makes a living writing satirical news stories.

    You can't make this (*)(*)(*)(*) up... oh yeah you can... just like The Gateway Pundit.

    That is (*)(*)(*)(*)ing rich. :roflol:
     
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    As much as I think this entire thing is not all that important, how about we hear your take on tyhe actual article itself - which I'm not entirely sure you've read:

     
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    The Gateway Pundit... crackpot right-wing site can't exactly speak on the topic of fake news.
     
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    Well, heck then - you can go all the way up to the New York Times which made making up stories an art form, much less the fact that for all intents and purposes it's an arm of the DNC. And I could go on about any news site as well; I think they've all had their scandals.

    So I ask again, so you have anything to add regarding the actual story itself, or not?
     
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    WASH POST Promotes McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group...
     
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    No one givee a (*)(*)(*)(*). Leave the thread please if you dont want to add anything constructive.
     
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    The Washington Post: Useful-Idiot Shills For A Failed, Frantic Status Quo That Has Lost Control Of The Narrative

    Labeling everyone who dissents or questions the ruling elite's narrative as tools of an enemy power is classic McCarthy-era witch-hunting, i.e. a broad-brush way of marginalizing and silencing critics with an accusation that is easy to fabricate but difficult to prove. Such unsupported slander is a classic propaganda technique. It has more in common with Nazi propaganda than with real journalism.

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-...led-frantic-status-quo-has-lost-control-narra
     
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    Or you could just listen to the lying establishment media and think everything is fine.
     
  22. Gatewood

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    The problem being that it's already too late for the Mainstream Media now that 70% of the nation's adults no longer trust them where the reporting of politically-based issues are concerned. All they are doing by doubling-down with their DNC loyalist propaganda efforts is to dig the hole a little deeper for themselves.
     
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    Precisely. The reason that 70% of adults no longer trust the MSM when it comes to reporting or opining on politically-based issues is that people could detect a huge difference in the stuff that they saw and heard in comparison to what the Leftist-loyal Mainstream Media was always TELLING them that they had seen or listened to. People made up their own minds based on common sense, and blatant propaganda from the MSM telling people otherwise, is simply not going to fly at this point. The only way for the MSM to win back trust is to cease being ideological and political water-carriers for the DNC, period.
     
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    I did not read the Post article, nor have I ever heard of the organization mentioned in the right wing hit piece the OP cited.

    I didn't have to. I've seen fake news first hand promoted by right wingers here on this forum (and on FB) for over a year now.

    Fake news is real, widespread, and largely focused on the right wing, which tends to take what it sees in screens at face value as long as it's what they want to believe.

    I've been blowing up fake stories in right wing media on this forum and others for years.

    Fake news by fake sites like ABCnew.co, and similar ones have been parroted by people on this very thread.

    Of course, a lot of right wing blogs (InfoWars, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit) don't bother with setting up fake sites, they just make the stuff up and spew it out.

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    No, he was not right. He never once exposed a single Communist anywhere. Most of the time, he made it up.

    He was a drunken demogogue who became a hero to the right wing by pandering to fear and xenophobia.

    Just like the right wing does today.
     
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    No, your point makes no sense at all.
     

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