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 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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"When I tweeted the link and an image of some of the text at Tracey, I did it because I find him to be something of a self-important git and wanted to poke fun at him." Do you think he's wrong here? Sounds like he duped you and you're still mad about it. Kinda sad, actually.
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Malcom Nance is the worst
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"huggers"
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Thanks for sharing. I’ll never forget when
@MalcolmNance compared Podestas email being hacked to “cruise missiles being fired at the continental US.”Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Well yeah, isn't the Daily Beast associated with the New Yorker or some other Big Media dinosaur? Like Vice [ooh, such a cool, edgy name!] is none other than some other dinosaur's fake-alternative kid brother... Disney/Hearst if I recall...
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It’s the Krassenstein biz model. Build an audience of bubble-dwelling elites w/ disposable income.
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What!
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Hot Tip: Never mistake Malcolm Nance for an actual Intel Analyst. Repeated link, but Pete Morlock is an old Navy buddy of mine from 87-90.https://thenewsrep.com/103975/a-matter-of-honor-the-fiction-of-malcolm-nance/ …
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