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Sidney Blumenthal taken in by Fred Trump campaign ads that appear to be fake
P o l i t i c o | 2/10/2017 | Peter Sterne

Posted on 02/10/2017 7:42:36 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas

"A pair of racially charged videos that purport to be campaign ads created for Donald Trump's father in 1969 appear to be well-produced hoaxes, according to a POLITICO review of YouTube records and those of the group that posted them."

Article: http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2017/02/london-review-of-books-cites-fred-trump-ads-that-appear-to-be-fake-234901


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KEYWORDS: first100days; hoax; trump45; trumpfamily
Article: http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2017/02/london-review-of-books-cites-fred-trump-ads-that-appear-to-be-fake-234901

"The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler, who writes the paper's "Fact Check" column, also shared the videos on Twitter, before later deleting the tweets."

1 posted on 02/10/2017 7:42:36 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Link: http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2017/02/london-review-of-books-cites-fred-trump-ads-that-appear-to-be-fake-234901


2 posted on 02/10/2017 7:43:51 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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To: SpeedyInTexas

CNN = FAKE NEWS.

Heck, they hired Alisyn Camerota.


3 posted on 02/10/2017 7:52:16 PM PST by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

There is a very interesting point here.

For many years, our firm represented a number of professional “voices”, the very well-paid golden-throated announcers you hear (but rarely see) on television, radio, commercials, movie trailers, etc.

The voice on this sounds very much like one of our former clients, and it’s clear they tried very hard to make it sound like him. But I knew, it was just a tiny bit off.

I called him this evening. Yes, it sounds very much like him, but it is not. He did not lay down those audio tracks or anything like it.

So, to the anti-Trump scammers, as Bill said about Monica, “close, but no cigar.”


4 posted on 02/10/2017 8:13:07 PM PST by Strac6 ("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
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With Thanks To FReeper: Grampa Dave


5 posted on 02/10/2017 8:14:53 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Strac6

Funny part is, the videos were probably intended to hurt Trump. However, they ended up biting his critics/”haters” who latched onto them.


6 posted on 02/10/2017 8:15:38 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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To: Fiddlstix

Enjoy this time.

The Left is on life support.

They have no Clinton or Bronco. They have CNN.


7 posted on 02/10/2017 8:17:27 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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Glenn Kessler, the #FAKENEWS aficionado!!


8 posted on 02/10/2017 8:21:16 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SpeedyInTexas

They will hurt Trump. LIVs will see them & believe them.


9 posted on 02/10/2017 8:32:08 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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These “journalists” hate Trump so profoundly, they don’t even care if they flush the last shreds of their respectability and credibility down the drain, so long as they think they can hurt him a little in the process.


10 posted on 02/10/2017 9:01:31 PM PST by FenwickBabbitt
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To: FenwickBabbitt

Bookmark


11 posted on 02/10/2017 9:15:32 PM PST by ptsal
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To: SpeedyInTexas
The London Review of Books has since removed that paragraph from Blumenthal's essay and issued a correction: "A paragraph referring to Fred Trump’s campaign for mayor of New York, although it accurately reflected Trump’s racial attitudes and his hostility towards Mayor John Lindsay, has been removed because the campaign ads referred to appear to be clever fakes."

How disgusting. That's just like Dan Rather's "Fake, but accurate" smear campaign against President Bush in 2004. You print a correction, but can't do so without libeling a man who has been dead for decades. No wonder normal people have no respect for the media.

12 posted on 02/10/2017 10:05:58 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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Can a dead person sue for libel or slander?


13 posted on 02/11/2017 6:00:49 AM PST by Steven Scharf
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Sid "Vicious" got fooled, supposedly. Same guy who sued Drudge for $30 Mil for briefly posting, then retracting a story about Sid beating his wyfe. Suit was settled 4 years later with Sid paying Drudge $2.5k for Matt's travel expenses defending himself.

*insert Nelson Muntz HAW! HAW! picture here*
14 posted on 02/11/2017 12:09:06 PM PST by leftcoaster
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