CNBC: 'No, a Teen Did Not Hack a State Election'

Newsbusters ^ | August 25, 2018 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

It the latest example of fake news it turns out that all the recent hype in much of the mainstream media about teens being able to hack state election systems were untrue. The details of what actually happened were revealed in a CNBC article on Friday by Lilia Chang, "No, a teen did not hack a state election." 

Among the MSM outlets hyping the teenage hacker story were Politico Magazine and CNN. Of course, once it was revealed that no such hacking really took place they immediately issued corrections to their original fables... I kid! As of this writing no such corrections have been issued but here are the damning revelations about this fake news story disclosed by CNBC:

[PJ-Comix]

The whole purpose for this fake news about a teenager hacking a state election is for the Democrats to have a ready made excuse if the midterm elections don't go the way they want.

[Right Wing Assault]

This was known on the day a number of kids were able to "hack" the mock election site that was given poor security. It was made easy on purpose so the kids in the contest would stand a chance of some success. Of course, the fake media ignore that fact and made it look like a big deal.

[Revel]

Right. Anyone who keeps up with news knew that it was a mock system and that it lacked some of the security of actual state systems. I have not even read any of the stories after that. It is still a big deal however as these teens were probably 75% of the way there. And who is to say that could not have pulled off the real deal.

But what is really scary is that there are insiders who do it in a snap and not get caught. What is really scary is how easy the machines themselves are to hack. And many polling places have no genuine poll watchers to make sure that does not happen.

[Alas Babylon!]

CNBC: 'No, a Teen Did Not Hack a State Election'

Subheadline:

It was a Russian.

[realcleanguy]

Thanks, PJ, this is bookmarked as the Democrats will claim the midterms were hacked after they lose. This is preparation for their loss.

[TBP]

They are losers looking for a reason they’re losing.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#1. Re “for the Democrats to have a ready made excuse if the midterm elections don’t go the way they want”.

Yes, and isn’t this a perfect case of “Leftwing Media Collusion with the Democrat Party”?

I’d say this calls for an immediate congressional investigation of “election tampering”.

Let’s get the media before Congress on their “fake news” and “political collusion with the Democrats”.

There have been enough examples of this at FR alone to make a great prosecution “examples worthy of indictments” EXHIBIT.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks PJ-Comix. Fire up the wood chipper.