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A quick check of the NBC News web site’s Politics section reveals absolutely no evidence of this story remains, and also nothing at all on Manafort. Like all Fake News, all traces are wiped clean.
Thank goodness for the web archive, showing truth to all.
They have to deflect from Trump and Pence’s exemplary handling of the hurricanes. This is an emergency. The MSM will be hardest hit.
I have to admit, that cracked me up. :)
I just watched a commentator on Sky News (UK) say that President Trump’s handling of Harvey was a complete disaster, that he couldn’t run anything, that his voters were realising how awful he was. Sounded pretty fake to me.
Is Politico part of the MSM and/or Fake News?
Sure it is. But reporters who get their rear ends chewed out by the boss for being “scooped” by the competition one day often enjoy sticking it to said competition the next when they obviously and royally muck things up. That doesn’t mean they have any more journalistic integrity, it merely means that they’re not beyond a childish “Nyah-nayh-na-nyah-ya.”
I used to read Politico every day but haven’t looked at it for over two months. They’ve tried very hard to be part of the MSM since they started.
The moral quality of reporters’ motivation for doing the right thing is irrelevant. The point is that Politico felt motivated to catch NBC spreading misinformation.
The reason is always relevant. Beating up on the competition isn’t the same as the moralistic, we-only-go-where-the-truth-leads-us horse puckey they feed us.
Someone once described the Press as a bunch of Werewolves. They liked eating Republicans, but on a full moon they eat everybody.
It took Politico to notice NBC spreading misinformation because the rest of us quit paying any attention to NBC.
I had to drop by my dad’s house to drop off something, and he had on the CBS Evening News. Keep in mind he is to the right of Pat Buchanan and, I don’t know, Attila The Hun. I asked why in the world he was watching that, and he said, “What should I watch? NBC News? I’m just waiting for the Local News to come on.”
I thought that was a great point. All three national network news shows are Towers Of Suck, so if you just have it on so you don’t forget the start of the Local broadcast, it doesn’t really matter.
The only reason to watch broadcast news of any kind is to get the local news. They don’t have any actual reporters; they only go racing down to city hall after someone calls them to tell them about some breaking news. It isn’t like reporters just go wandering around down there any more.
But at least they are local. My newspaper laid off most of their staff, and now it is strictly amateur hour. The big media company that owns them assembles our paper and papers of three other cities in our state in an out-of-state newspaper assembly sweatshop. So I get local articles that are written by stringers who include their own opinions along with the news, and these are mixed up with other articles from all over our state because those out-of-state guys are clueless. I was looking just the other day at a long feature article about the development of a small industrial park that is an eight-hour drive away from here. That is what passes for local news anymore.
Well the only paper around Central Texas is the Austin American-Statesman, and it is like something written by Politically Correct robots. Anything that might potentially offend someone is immediately stripped out by the editors.
Attila The Hun was a leftist. He could pillage and destroy with the best of them. So that leaves a lot of room on the right. Of course you also said Pat Buchanan.
Well said. Thank for the smile.
I write a great article with lots of information, and you pick out one sentence in one silly throw-away comment to attack.
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