Posted on 01/20/2019 5:51:00 AM PST by Kaslin
There is no reason to believe Buzzfeed, Salon, or any of those far left “news organizations.” They are full of a supposition that is intended to paint President Trump in a bad light, make him look anti-American and drive down his public polls numbers. Anything full of so much blatant opinion with no supporting facts is garbage. On Friday, Buzzfeed proved that to be true.
Buzzfeed released a “bombshell report” this week. The article claimed that there was evidence proving Trump told his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about a Trump Tower project plan in Moscow. The authors, Jason Leopold, and Anthony Cormier claimed the information came from two law enforcement officials involved in the investigation.
Soon after publication, CNN had Cormier on to talk about the report. During the line of questioning, from Alisyn Camerota, Cormier admitted he had not personally seen the evidence causing a conservative media backlash. Buzzfeed released a statement to back their reporters; even the ones whom they hire after a proven history of false reporting like Jason Leopold.
Later in the day, the Muller team rejected the Buzzfeed report.
In no less than 12-hours, Mueller’s spokesperson released a statement saying that “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate.”
Shortly after that, Buzzfeed released another statement saying that the Mueller officials need to be more specific.
NBC’s Chuck Todd was giddy while reporting this “significant” development on the “Today Show.” Todd, however, threw in the caveat “if true” several times as if he was not sure but wanted to talk about the allegations.
The Buzzfeed story is a microcosm of left-wing media malpractice. The editors are so intent on getting Trump that they throw ethics to the wind. They are told something by an alleged anonymous source and run with it, feeding information to the public not caring about the outcome. It does not matter if the American public gets the truth as long as there is a negative cry against the president. This is unethical, irresponsible, dangerous, and harmful.
Somehow, Buzzfeed and others feel that they must push their liberal agenda regardless of the costs. The American electorate voted, and Trump won the Electoral College. Period. It is fine that they are not happy about their results, but it is not their duty to lie and mislead.
Americans want the truth. We need the truth. Not an agenda.
The legacy media has become ethically-blind in their venture to oust the president. Under Democratic presidents, the leftist news has withheld critical information that one would have to read Conservative outlets to learn and the same applies for Republicans. But under Trump, the media has gone off of the rails. They cannot control him with allegations and accusations. Trump uses Twitter as a way to get around strategic news editing, and it makes them irate.
Fully expect Trump to take this failed “bombshell” and run with it. Since the media began their assault on him as a candidate, Trump has pushed back against left-wing media attacks. His retaliation has been justified, and the press has validated and vindicated his rebukes. They are self-destructing.
Buzzfeed and all the others are their own worst enemy. When someone is wrong, the best thing they can do to save face and hold on to some respect is to apologize, learn and not make the same mistake again. But the leftist media refuses to do that and this is why no one respects them.
The media was horrified when Trump started calling them the enemy of the people. The left pushed back claiming that was somehow dictatorial and undemocratic, but all they have done is prove him right. Leftist media is the enemy. Any entity that will lie to you and be proven wrong time and time again is not your friend.
Last night on CNN Chris Cuomo was not happy with Mueller. He stated,” Mueller didn’t do the media any favors tonight” referring to the released statement. I did not know Mueller worked for the media. Was he supposed to let this Buzzfeed article fly with no correction so left-wing narrative pushers could continue a false story? Cuomo said a lot more with that statement than intended. He further proved Trump’s statement that the press is the enemy of the people.
Leftist media needs to stop wallowing in self-pity. They created the untrustworthy image for themselves. The result is a matter of biased choices gone wrong. Trump did not make them lie. Buzzfeed chose to run a story that was disputed by Mueller. One would think an investigative journalist would want to at least see the evidence before sticking his neck out. Especially one that already has credibility issues such as Leopold.
Buzzfeed proved they are fake news and anyone else who propped the story up. If a news organization wants to be respected and taken seriously, then they should report the facts and let people think for themselves.
Otherwise, people will laugh heartily at them, and they will deserve it.
“If true” lol, opinionated news
All it took was calling them out as “Fake News.”
They have spent the last three years tripping over themselves to prove it’s true.
Leftist news is fake news.
JoMa
First thing is to invalidate them as a news organization. Call them left wing entertainment and revoke their press pass.
Postmodernists deny the existence of universal objective truth. There are only narratives that work to promote the leftard agenda. Pragmatists believe that if something works, then it is the truth.
There is no reason to tune into the Tonight show, or any of those far left, late night 'comedians'.
They are full of a supposition that is intended to paint President Trump in a bad light, make him look anti-American and drive down his public polls numbers.
#5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.“
There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
Add to the tonight show with the morning shows like Ellen, Today , GMA crap where the ignorant , mindless fools watch and listen to every word as if it were gospel.
The “comedy” shows are part of the coordinated MSM fake need complex now. They get the Media Matters jour-no-list talking points. All coordinated.
Would that that were true. In real life, everyone wants their own agenda to be validated.We need the truth. Not an agenda.
True. That’s what we need, but we can never take for granted that we are getting it.The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.People settle ideas in their minds, and convince themselves that they are worthy of being listened to - and followed. Then they do their best to snow everyone else into believing - and following them.The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors. And as we cannot always be satisfied merely with being admired, unless we can at the same time persuade ourselves that we are in some degree really worthy of admiration; so we cannot always be satisfied merely with being believed, unless we are at the same time conscious that we are really worthy of belief. As the desire of praise and that of praise-worthiness, though very much a-kin, are yet distinct and separate desires; so the desire of being believed and that of being worthy of belief, though very much a-kin too, are equally distinct and separate desires.
The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
As soon as anybody has to say “if true”, they should just leave it there as unproven allegations and hearsay. But, the liberal media is not about the truth; it’s all about accusations which will get to the people, who are expected to form negative opinions about the preside. Most importantly, the accused is expected to defend himself and prove the allegations false. Exactly the opposite of how the American justice system works.
Most importantly, the left knows that, if they pile on with allegation after allegation, people are bound to start wondering if there isn’t truth to at least one or more of the allegation. IOW, where there’s smoke, there could be fire?
I’ll grant the left-wing media one win, and that is that, they surely know how to play the game, and the president has been on defense ever since he announced his run for the presidency. They are relentless, even when nothing has been proven, and if something does prove to be wrong, they immediately find some other ‘crime’ to accuse Trump with. Republicans, on the other hand, have not come to the president’s defense as strongly as democrats want the president out of the White House. In fact, one could conclude that many republicans want Trump gone just as badly as all democrats.
There are rats all over the political spectrum, and it’s not just on the liberal side.
. . . and that used to be much more widely understood than it now is. Before the founding of the wire services after the 1844 demonstration of the telegraph, all newspapers were taken to be the opinions of their printers. And if you lived where there were multiple newspapers available, you bought the one whose printer’s opinions were congenial/interesting. Much as we choose to, or not to, listen to particular talk radio shows.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)Since the AP “wire” and other wire services constitute virtual meetings of “people of the same trade” (journalism), it is naive for anyone to assume that journalists do not conspire against the public. In fact, they do it in broad daylight - with their propaganda campaign to exclude conservative thought from journalism. Journalists don’t claim superior wisdom, of course - that would be too obvious. So they use “objectivity” as a euphemism for wisdom - and claim that.
Hate-filled Democrats will refuse to believe the Mueller denial because they WANT to believe this as true.
We have always known that socialists manipulate facts to fit their agenda. The anti-Trump agenda needs facts that fit the narrative he is a criminal, racist, sexist who hates immigrants. Gutters, like Buzzfeed, provide those facts so hate-filled Democrats can continue believing that they see the truth about Trump while the rest of the nation is blind and stupid.
This is called feeding your delusions and it is very, very dangerous because it usually leads to violence.
I’m sure some of these fools have been throwing in the “seriousness of the charge” crappola too, for good measure.
When CNN reports a liberal story as fake news, you know you’re done for.
That about sums up the problem right there. Our mainstream media is out to get our president (and conservatives in general) at all costs.
At ALL costs. We need to remember that.
That's the main reason I cut my cable TV a few years back and refuse to even click a link for a mainstream media article unless maybe it's about something that is 100% not political. Because it will be spun to paint conservatives in the worst possible light.
Free Republic is more or less a free haven from that nonsense but still we have a dedicated cadre of Freepers who insist on posting this dreck here for the rest of us. They say it's meant to "keep us informed" as to what the other side is saying. But anybody with a room temperature IQ already knows what the other side is saying and that has been consistent for years.
Buzzfeed, Salon and similiar lying/BSing fake news should be banned from Free Republic as news and placed in Fake News.
Any rectum/troll posting Buzzfeed Fake news without a qualifier as fake news, should be banned to posting to his fake news site/blog.
“There is no reason to believe Buzzfeed, Salon, or any of those far left “news organizations.” They are full of a supposition that is intended to paint President Trump in a bad light, make him look anti-American and drive down his public polls numbers. Anything full of so much blatant opinion with no supporting facts is garbage. On Friday, Buzzfeed proved that to be true.”
Is it true that Buzzfeed is owned by NBC?
"That's the main reason I cut my cable TV a few years back and refuse to even click a link for a mainstream media article unless maybe it's about something that is 100% not political. Because it will be spun to paint conservatives in the worst possible light.
Free Republic is more or less a free haven from that nonsense but still we have a dedicated cadre of Freepers who insist on posting this dreck here for the rest of us. They say it's meant to "keep us informed" as to what the other side is saying. But anybody with a room temperature IQ already knows what the other side is saying and that has been consistent for years.
In August 2015, NBCUniversal made a $200 million equity investment in BuzzFeed.[30] Along with plans to hire more journalists to build a more prominent “investigative” unit, BuzzFeed is hiring journalists around the world and plans to open outposts in India, Germany, Mexico, and Japan.
[31] Wikipedia
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