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BuzzFeed and me – The incredible thing the site's CEO did using my name without permission
FOX NEWS ^ | 1/21/2019 | John R. Lott

Posted on 01/21/2019 12:22:33 PM PST by CPRC

BuzzFeed, a popular “news” website, has once again been shamed for publishing fake allegations against Donald Trump. BuzzFeed’s anonymously sourced report claimed that President Trump ordered his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about a proposed business deal in Moscow. Supposedly, two unnamed federal law enforcement officials claimed that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office had the goods. They were purported to have collected emails, texts, and testimony proving the explosive claim.

The story dominated the news on Friday, with Democrats calling for Trump to be impeached. MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” opened with the announcement that this revelation was “a big one.” CNN’s “New Day” host John Berman claimed the disclosure was so dramatic he almost spilled his coffee.

But by late Friday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office issued a very rare rebuke saying that BuzzFeed’s account was “not accurate.” This was hardly BuzzFeed’s first embarrassment. As Trump reminded people, “it was BuzzFeed that released the totally discredited 'Dossier,' paid for by Crooked Hillary Clinton and the Democrats . . .”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buzzfeed; fakeallegations; fakenews; falseinformation

1 posted on 01/21/2019 12:22:33 PM PST by CPRC
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To: CPRC

Wowser. What a scumbag. This Buzzard Feed ought to be sued out of existence and this Perretti dude in prison.


2 posted on 01/21/2019 12:27:32 PM PST by BipolarBob (Occasional-Cortex " Just because I don't know what Armageddon means, it's not the end of the world".)
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To: CPRC

They have a history of impersonating conservatives online.

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2014/02/20/gun-rights-activist-buzzfeed-founder-made-fake-website-to-misrepresent-my-views/


3 posted on 01/21/2019 12:30:48 PM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: CPRC

BuzzFeed should be listed under Fiction and Fantasy.

News just does not fit the organization.


4 posted on 01/21/2019 12:34:26 PM PST by ptsal
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To: gattaca

Somebody needs to get this limped wristed metrosexual twerp in a room all alone and teach him some manners.


5 posted on 01/21/2019 12:36:11 PM PST by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: CPRC

I read on the Drudge Report that this Buzzfeed guy gets the same high breaking fake news as he does from snorting cocaine.


6 posted on 01/21/2019 12:39:54 PM PST by conservative98
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To: CPRC

Yep, lives up to the billing. Scumbag, lying, beta-male soy boy.

7 posted on 01/21/2019 12:48:44 PM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: CPRC

Most of the media wail and cry about letting Mueller do his job, yet when Mueller does his job, knocking down a pack of lies........

They run for cover.

Ohhhh, we said it was unconfirmed..... While they ran it as a breaking news banner and huffed and puffed with their panel of “experts”.


8 posted on 01/21/2019 2:50:36 PM PST by gandalftb
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To: NohSpinZone
Yep, lives up to the billing. Scumbag, lying, beta-male soy boy.

Yep, that face says it all. All leftists seem to be ugly and gross.
9 posted on 01/21/2019 3:03:26 PM PST by ssfromla
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To: CPRC

The MSM won’t let this one go without a fight. Last night, the top news story on Twitter (a liberal headline 100% of the time, of course) was that Buzzfeed stands by their story.


10 posted on 01/21/2019 3:05:44 PM PST by Rastus
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To: CPRC

What a plan! Create a website that appears to be operated by your political enemy, then use that website to ruin his reputation. Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti must be the envy of leftist “journalists” worldwide.


11 posted on 01/21/2019 5:47:11 PM PST by TChad
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