Here's yet another amazing Trump/Russia media failure that's been forgotten. Bear with me for a sec, because this one is truly unbelievable. Cast your mind back to Oct. 7, 2016: the day the Access Hollywood tape came out, and also when WikiLeaks started publishing Podesta emails
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Nance, Reid, and Frum never apologized or clarified the falsehoods they propagated. And why would they? There's no accountability in elite media. But that's not the end of the story. This next thing, which came a few weeks later, is the craziest part.
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The pro-Clinton troll -- an admitted purveyor of fake news, whose mission was to spread as much disinformation as possible on the internet so he could make money -- was rewarded. With a column. In the Daily Beast. I swear to God, I'm not making this up. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ive-been-making-viral-fake-news-for-the-last-six-months-its-way-too-easy-to-dupe-the-right-on-the-internet …pic.twitter.com/vKeMRtwwNN
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The Daily Beast decided to combat the problem of fake news and online disinformation by giving one of the absolute worst offenders column space to brag about it. Could there be a more ridiculously perverse set of incentives for a major media organization to foster?pic.twitter.com/fEKascjrVj
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Ultimately, this was a minor episode. (I was never contacted for comment, despite being maligned in the troll's article.) But it was one small insight into how elite US media, in the throes of Trump and Russia-induced insanity, decided to throw all their standards out the window.
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I also wonder in these situations if the troll is someone close to the campaign
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If you think this is a meme, it isn't, it's a forced meme.
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This is BIG
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I came up against this wall 2 when I tried 2 authenticate emails where Podesta said Crooked Hillary was slipping RE: her hygiene (cabbage, farts, pee..) a few months back...I remembered the reporting but when I tried 2 figure out if true or false, I got the "doctored/fake" thing.
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So that's how they got away with saying, "Don't read the emails, they are all lies" I always wondered how that narrative started
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Yep they think they can muddy the waters. It’s all on Wikileaks
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