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Buzzfeed’s Trump report takes ‘fake news’ to a new level
The New York Post ^ | January 10, 2017 | John Podhoretz

Posted on 01/10/2017 9:19:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

So the website BuzzFeed decided to publish a series of memos that have been floating around for months alleging all kinds of terrible things about Donald Trump.

Some of those terrible allegations have to do with efforts to influence the American elections and Trump. Some of them have to do with Trump’s personal sexual conduct.

Readers of this newspaper know well not to include me among Trump’s supporters. But the scurrilousness of what BuzzFeed has done here is so beyond the bounds of what is even remotely acceptable it should compel even those most outraged by Trump’s political excesses to come to his defense and to the defense of a few other people mentioned in these papers whose names are also dragged through the mud.

There is literally no evidence on offer in these memos or from BuzzFeed that any single sentence in these documents is factual or true. What’s more, we know most major news organizations in America had seen them and despite their well-known institutional antipathy toward Trump, had chosen not to publish them or even make reference to them after efforts to substantiate their charges had failed.

BuzzFeed tells us that “the document was prepared for political opponents of Trump by a person who is understood to be a former British intelligence agent.” Indeed, the memos are designed to read as though they were cables sent from the field to the home office. And they should set off the bull detector of every rational person who reads them....

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Politics
KEYWORDS: antitrump; buzzfeed; donaldtrump; fakenews; internet; podhoretz; slander; smear; trump; trumptransition
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To: Pelham

Look who her father and step-mother (Linda) are.


61 posted on 01/10/2017 11:40:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: heights
4chan invented the “rick roll” and many other Internet pranks.

Supposedly anonymous the hacking group takes its name from 4chan “anonymous” post handles...

This is will go down as the biggest practical jokes in web history... and 4chan use Rick Wilson as their stooge

62 posted on 01/10/2017 11:50:18 PM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh I know, I just enjoy seeing her make a complete fool of herself. Megan McCain needs to follow her true calling as a celebrity gossip monger, her only real talent.


63 posted on 01/10/2017 11:52:11 PM PST by Pelham (the refusal to Deport is defacto Amnesty)
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To: bob_esb

The funny thing: this trolling overshadows Obama’s glorious (/sarc) farewell, and Trump’s presser likely will be stunning.


64 posted on 01/11/2017 12:44:31 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How could anyone believe this ridiculous story? He’s a notorious germ-freak! Ask Ivana!


65 posted on 01/11/2017 12:47:53 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: tophat9000

Easter egg? OMG. In the “British Intel” report?


66 posted on 01/11/2017 12:50:00 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

CNN fell for it. I watched a video, that I can no longer find. IIRC, they mentioned that a number of stories had been circulating for quite some time.

What had changed was that the Intelligence Community had been able to vouch for the MI6 source, and that it was now considered credible. They did not mention the salacious specifics.

CNN also reported that the DNC and GOP opponents had hired this MI6 contact for opposition research. If this was a true story, do they really believe that HRC wouldn’t have used it?

We were told that Russians with held info on Trump to get him elected. Does that mean that HRC with held info to get Trump elected? Well according to their logic yes. These people are incompetent nuts.


67 posted on 01/11/2017 12:56:22 AM PST by greeneyes
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To: 2ndDivisionVet



68 posted on 01/11/2017 1:04:54 AM PST by onyx (DONATE MONTHLY!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well it’s made the front page of the Atlanta Journal this am.


69 posted on 01/11/2017 1:53:41 AM PST by BubbaJunebug
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To: bob_esb

I think mccain was involved..also I think he knew it was fake. He should know about intelligence reports and what they look like..or he is senile


70 posted on 01/11/2017 4:00:25 AM PST by RummyChick (Trump Train Hobo TM Rummychick. Example - Ryan Romney Kasich. Quit trying to Jump on the Train)
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To: Fai Mao

His twitter feed says he has a lawyer now


71 posted on 01/11/2017 4:01:48 AM PST by RummyChick (Trump Train Hobo TM Rummychick. Example - Ryan Romney Kasich. Quit trying to Jump on the Train)
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To: RummyChick

actually i think McCain is too senile (and in his own magic world) to know it was a fake. He thought he was doing the right thing ....

OR he was trying to get revenge on DT


72 posted on 01/11/2017 7:14:34 AM PST by bob_esb
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