Posted on 01/07/2019 3:56:20 PM PST by Mount Athos
Stories are now being attributed to sources who themselves have sources.
That is, they are dispensing with the notion that a source is someone with first-hand information about the claims being made. Now they're printing hearsay from a source (Glenn Simpson and co.) who claim they in turn have sources who told them about the information.
Ashe Schow begins the story by revisting McClatchy's last FusionGPS #FakeNews report, that Cleta Mitchell, a current lawyer for the NRA, became aware that the NRA was taking #MoneyFromRussians for Trump.
McClatchy was unbothered that this "report" (from Fusion) contained two claims, one which could be fact-checked and one that couldn't be, and the claim that could be fact-checked, that she was the current lawyer for the NRA, was flat-out wrong -- she stopped working for the NRA ten years ago.
But I guess that gave them even more confidence in the other claim, that Russians were funneling money to Trump through the NRA. I guess based on the idea that if they got one thing wrong, heck, Fusion must be right about the other thing!
No matter how many denials she issued, McClatchky was determined to claim that Cleta Michell herself had told someone else that she was very worried about this #RussianMoneySituation.
Cleta Mitchell also pointed out to these Fusion stooges that this story had been shopped around to all of DC's bottom-feeding reporters and none of them had gone with the story after she had denied a statement that she, supposedly, had made to some anonymous source.
But McClatchy did.
Ashe Schow looks at the latest McClatchy claim -- from the same reporters -- and finds it fits the pattern of a Fusion GPS FakeNews op perfectly.
No other media outlets have felt comfortable reporting this crap, given that everyone in the world has looked for the Prague Connection and come up empty.
Even the Daily Beast (!!!) criticized the weakness of McClatchy's "reporting" here.
But once again, they're reporting what other bottom-feeders won't touch.
Schow finds it interesting that these two jagoffs keep "reporting" "news" that just so happens to rehabilitate Simpson's and Steele's (actually Blumethal's and Shearer's) discredited, unverified, and embarrassing phony dossier.
New ground is being broken in journalistic malpractice by McClatchy
Defacto state run, taxpayer funded psy-ops propaganda steered media. Nice.
1. Glenn Simpson/Fusion GPS PAYS MONEY to reporters to publish innuendo “as fact.”
2. They have w LOT of money to do so. Remember, they got funded an additional FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS, AFTER THE ELECTION, to keep “investigationg Trump.”
3. This will never, ever end, until...
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