[Alberta's Child]

Gateway Pundit and several other "conservative" news sites (one of them may have been Conservative Treehouse) permanently destroyed their credibility in late October 2016 when they began spreading ludicrous, unverified reports about pending arrests of Hillary Clinton and some of her senior aides.

It ran through FR that week like fire, despite my best attempts to point out the obvious flaw in the "source" of the story: It was some nitwit posting on Twitter who claimed he heard about it from an NYPD friend of his, and then all these seventh-rate news outlets began using each other as the "source" for their reports.

Gateway Pundit: "Sources in the NYPD says Clinton arrest is imminent!"

Half-Assed Media Outlet #2: "Gateway Pundit is reporting that Hillary Clinton will be arrested within days."

Half-Assed Media Outlet #3: "Gateway Pundit and [Half-Assed Media Outlet #2] are reporting that Hillary Clinton will be arrested within days."

Etc., etc.

It was beyond pathetic.

[SeekAndFind]

In this case, GP referred to the Tweet of Maggie Haberman of the New York Times. If she is wrong, then GP is wrong.

[Golden Eagle]

Thanks for the reminder. I think a lot, if not most of this type of baloney, can be traced back to either Q, or True Pundit. Would take a long analysis to determine who was the most full of it, but probably True Pundit/Thomas Payne. Somewhere not too far behind are twitter BS’ers like Stealth Jeff, the Greek dude, and the old fat guy with long hair. When I think how much of the right’s energy has been wasted on these false prophets it still astounds me.