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Fake News Exposed — Reporter Tweets Totally False Claim Trump Supporters Were Booing
Daily caller ^ | December 9, 2016 | Christian Datoc

Posted on 12/09/2016 11:21:18 AM PST by lowbridge

Newsweek reporter Kurt Eichenwald is the definition of fake news.

Eichenwald tweeted Thursday night that attendees at Donald Trump’s victory rally actually booed when the President-elect announced the passing of the late, great John Glenn.

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Eichenwald doubled down on the claim, which was soon to be proven totally false.

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After being exposed, Eichenwald apologized for his mistake with a third tweet.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: johnglenn; trump
Full title: Fake News Exposed — Reporter Tweets Totally False Claim Trump Supporters Were Booing The Late John Glenn
1 posted on 12/09/2016 11:21:18 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Put that Putz in Gitmo’.


2 posted on 12/09/2016 11:23:09 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: lowbridge

bttt


3 posted on 12/09/2016 11:23:22 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: lowbridge
AP pulled this stunt on GWB, in a West Allis, WI rally. Bush told the crowd that Bill Clinton was having a heart operation, and we should pray for him. The reporter said "the crowd booed." Total fabrication. I watched the rally live.

News reporters are the most dishonest people on the planet.

4 posted on 12/09/2016 11:23:23 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: lowbridge

Has to be one of the stupidest claims ever.

John Glenn is an American Hero.

No one would boo at anytime.


5 posted on 12/09/2016 11:23:53 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: lowbridge

He didn’t make a mistake. He lied on purpose.

The saddest possible thing to happen is for those responsible for such things to keep allowing ‘journalists’ to blatantly and brazenly lie until citizens start deciding its a problem they need to correct on their own initiative.


6 posted on 12/09/2016 11:24:06 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Vendome

There was booing and noise. It was from anti-Trump hecklers.


7 posted on 12/09/2016 11:25:08 AM PST by mbarker12474
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To: lowbridge

Eichenwald is SUCH a hack! He was doing the same thing to Bernie that he then went on to do to Trump.

PS - Don’t care about Bernie lol


8 posted on 12/09/2016 11:26:00 AM PST by Voluntaryist
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To: lowbridge

Eichenwald, you’re fired!


9 posted on 12/09/2016 11:28:34 AM PST by W. (A funny thing happened on the way to the forum...)
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To: lowbridge

Self hating Jew too?


10 posted on 12/09/2016 11:31:28 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Cboldt

Decades ago i watched parts of the republican convention, live (i think 92 or 96). On more than one occasion the media reporters described it as a “lily white convention”. Yet when the cameras swept the convention floor, i saw more minorities on the floor of the republican convention than i saw on the floor of the democratic convention.


11 posted on 12/09/2016 11:31:41 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

I watched the rally last night & to be honest, I thought the booing was about Glenn too. It seemed like at first, Trump did too. He was facing the other direction & started to say “no, no we like John Glenn” or something like that. As he turned to the booing, he realized it was a protester & what was going on.


12 posted on 12/09/2016 11:33:28 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: lowbridge

I would fire his ass.
He has no credibility left, and that’s all a reporter has to offer.

They will learn, slowly, that in today’s age of cameras in every hand and immediate streaming to thousands of eyes, anything they write, report or, in this case, tweet, will come under immediate ‘fact checking’ the likes of which they have never endured before..................


13 posted on 12/09/2016 11:33:38 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: lowbridge

A MISTAKE? NO, OBAMASS IS A MISTAKE, YOU LIED!


14 posted on 12/09/2016 11:35:16 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: lowbridge
Truth is not a value to the Left.

Furthermore, most of what the Left says and does has little basis in reality. Their words and actions are a combination of what they so desperately want to be so, coupled with a denial of what is so.

And, because so many on the Left possess little sense of public embarassment or of shame, they are unable to grasp how ridiculous their immaturity is viewed by rational, decent people.

15 posted on 12/09/2016 11:44:45 AM PST by glennaro
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To: lowbridge

BS. I saw a lot of condolences here on FreeRepublic yesterday.


16 posted on 12/09/2016 11:45:31 AM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat)
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To: lowbridge

bkmk


17 posted on 12/09/2016 11:50:52 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: lowbridge

Trump wants to strengthen America’s space policy. Glenn should be for inspiration, not the opposite

http://spacenews.com/trump-advisor-sees-pence-playing-a-major-role-in-space-policy/


18 posted on 12/09/2016 11:57:32 AM PST by ari-freedom (Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
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To: lowbridge

After every fake news It should say the name of the media source


Fake News NEWSWEEK — Reporter Tweets Totally False Claim Trump Supporters Were Booing,


19 posted on 12/09/2016 2:37:21 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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