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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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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The connection between the “troll” and those “elite” media “personalities” is the real story here.
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Sounds a little fishy to me also. Especially that the troll had this prepared to drop right as the real transcripts dropped. This seems like a planned hit to combat the Wikileaks information.
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It was joy's hacker.
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Exactly. Why should they? As far as their bosses are concerned, job well done.
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These 3 are "bottom of the barrel" in terms of integrity. Their only resort is that there are still, unfortunately, millions of folks who need to be lied to in order to maintain their fantasy-based sanity. Their number is decreasing some but still enough to $$ support these 3.
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Like Harry Reid’s lies about Romney not paying taxes: “it worked, didn’t it?”
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Muller Report is clearly not enough!
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Nance never lied. Say that to his face. 100 undisclosed meetings with Russians Polling data to Kilimnik Lies and cover stories Alpha Bank pings Secret meetings in Russian scif Etc Nothing to see here!!
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Translation: The story gets even less interesting from here on but I need attention.
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Elite media. I like that better than MSM.
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