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Flashback: Buzzfeed's Jason Leopold Was Source for 2006 Fake News Karl Rove Indictment Story
Newsbusters ^ | January 21, 2019 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 01/21/2019 10:38:57 AM PST by PJ-Comix

This quick collapse of the Buzzfeed story should come as no surprise to anybody familiar with the dubious background of Jason Leopold. Back in 2006 Leopold, who was writing for TruthOut, was the source of the fake news report that White House Senior Adviser Karl Rove was about to be indicted on May 12, 2006. Almost from the moment that Leopold's story appeared in that publication, it immediately spread far and wide and was enthusiastically heralded by liberals across the country. Even Hillary Clinton who was a U.S. Senator at the time applauded this fake news of the Rove indictment when it was suddenly announced at a political meeting she was attending in Michigan.

This quick collapse of the Buzzfeed story should come as no surprise to anybody familiar with the dubious background of Jason Leopold. Back in 2006 Leopold, who was writing for TruthOut, was the source of the fake news report that White House Senior Adviser Karl Rove was about to be indicted on May 12, 2006. Almost from the moment that Leopold's story appeared in that publication, it immediately spread far and wide and was enthusiastically heralded by liberals across the country. Even Hillary Clinton who was a U.S. Senator at the time applauded this fake news of the Rove indictment when it was suddenly announced at a political meeting she was attending in Michigan.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: buzzfeed; clickbait; fakenews; fitzmas; jasonleopold; willpitt
Ah! Those were the days. Peak DUmmie FUnnies!
1 posted on 01/21/2019 10:38:57 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

You would think the industry would police its own. They won’t so they have no scrupples!


2 posted on 01/21/2019 10:47:58 AM PST by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: PJ-Comix

Dude, has a you done a dig on Pittee-me Pitt? Where is he? He can’t be THAT far away. After All they were Leopold and Loeb! Er, I mean Leopold and Pitt!

Or, in the celebration of “Fake News”, make something up for entertainment purposes! Something like...

“A Day at Kevin Spacey’s Court Hearing”
By William Rivers Pitt


3 posted on 01/21/2019 10:55:34 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Wee Willie Pitt is still at TruthOut.


4 posted on 01/21/2019 11:04:19 AM PST by PJ-Comix (I am eating my way to weight loss. Pass the lox!)
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To: PJ-Comix

NBC gave $400 million to Buzzfeed and Vox. They knew from the beginning the lies told. They helped create and spread them.


5 posted on 01/21/2019 12:38:27 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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