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Newsweek Admits They Didn't Write Or Even Read "Madam President" Issue
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| 1DEC16
| Tyler Durden
Posted on 12/01/2016 3:41:43 PM PST by vannrox
Fake News: Newsweek Admits They Didn't Write Or Even Read "Madam President" Issue
Newsweek's political editor, Matthew Cooper, looked as though he'd had a rough month when he appeared on the Tucker Carlson show last night to discuss the "Madam President" debacle. While the printing and distribution of the erroneous "commemorative edition" magazine was embarrassing enough, Cooper also revealed that no one at Newsweek wrote the Hillary article or even bothered to proofread it before it was shipped off to stores around the country.
Frankly, it's difficult to discern between fact and fiction with this story, but, given the quality of the writing, we suspect Cooper had little choice but to distance himself and his team completely from the magazine. Here is a small excerpt in which Trump's supporters are again referred to as "deplorables" who "called to repeal the 19th amendment." Oddly, we covered the election pretty thoroughly and don't recall anyone calling for a repeal of the 19th amendment...guess we totally missed that one.
"...as the tone of the election grew darker and more bizarre by the day, President-Elect Hillary Clinton 'went high' when her opponent went even lower. No stranger to trudging through the mire of misogyny in her career as first lady, senator, and secretary of state, President-Elect Clinton continued to push for an issues-based campaign even as a handful of Trump's most deplorable supporters, seeing the wide margins Clinton held among female voters, called to repeal the 19th amendment. On election day, Americans across the country roundly rejected the kind of fear and hate-based conservatism peddled by Donald Trump and elected the first woman in U.S. history to the presidency. The culminating election of a career in politics spanning 3 decades and arguably more experience than any other incoming president, 2016's was not an easy race to watch, comment on or be a part of--but when the dust cleared it revealed a priceless moment in American history. The highest glass ceiling in the Western World had [been shattered]..."
Of course, in distancing himself from the magazine Cooper noted that the "writing in this is, shall we say, was not up to the editorial standards of Newsweek."
So, as Zero Hedge and others come under attack from the mainstream media for reporting "fake news", we now have a concrete example of an establishment "news" source admitting that it printed and distributed fake news under it's corporate brand that it neither wrote nor even bothered to read, yet no one, other than Fox News, says a word?
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; blunders; election; fakenews; hillary; hillary2016; media; newsweak
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To: vannrox
Anyone who believes the News-weak response is a brain-dead zombie (or maybe thats to generous).
Nothing is printed/published by them that hasn’t been vetted (as they would normally call it) and approved for print. Nothing. There is no way to play the “plausible deniability” card. It doesn’t exist in this case.
They truly believed Hillary’s machine had the “fix” in.
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:17:35 PM PST
by
TheBattman
(A member over 15 years, yet my posts are "submitted for review" and no freepmail...)
To: vannrox
Hillaryous
Rotten Criminal
LOCK HER UP!
LOCK HER UP!
LOCK HER UP!
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:18:20 PM PST
by
PGalt
(CONGRATULATIONS Donald J. Trump)
To: vannrox
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:20:31 PM PST
by
TheBattman
(A member over 15 years, yet my posts are "submitted for review" and no freepmail...)
To: reaganaut
They pulled this when Trump won, and instead of doing one on Trump - which would have been honest, they just printed Februarys special edition on the Science of Relationships
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WRONG. I have a copy of the special commemorative edition with Trump’s photo on the cover on my desk right now.
To: vannrox
Just bought 2 on ebay. Couldn’t resist after reading the part about how America resoundingly rejected the evil mysogenistic bad awful Trump.
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:22:35 PM PST
by
tinyowl
(A is A)
To: beethovenfan
LOL I’m at a major studio right now and the lib morons I work with were wondering why I was laughing so hard..
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:24:42 PM PST
by
max americana
(For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
To: vannrox
Cooper noted that the "writing in this is, shall we say, was not up to the editorial standards of Newsweek." That's not a real high bar, but this definitely stinks as writing all right, it's mendacious trash. They can't stop lying even in the middle of a triumph the country may thank God they never enjoyed.
To: yarddog
I really wish I had a copy. Funny as all get out.
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I have a copy of both, the one with Trump on the cover and the one with Clinton on the cover. Got Trump in a store and Clinton on e-bay.
To: vannrox
That interview with Cooper was awesome. He looked like a fool.
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:31:18 PM PST
by
clintonh8r
(AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
To: fortes fortuna juvat
I have not seen it. I looked. Here there was a special edition and it was “Science of Relationships” NOT Trump.
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:34:55 PM PST
by
reaganaut
(I'm looking forward to Trump as President. I'm an Evangelical and I vote.)
To: longfellow
They can still sell it for target practice at the range. Eh. It's not fit to line a birdcage.
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:48:59 PM PST
by
Lou L
(Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
To: vannrox
a handful of Trump's most deplorable supporters, seeing the wide margins Clinton held among female voters, called to repeal the 19th amendment. Even the Onion wouldn't write this brand of odious and odoriferous tripe; it's too unbelievable for satirical fiction and too hate-filled and sexist to be "beyond edgy".
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posted on
12/01/2016 4:52:22 PM PST
by
Seaplaner
(Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
To: reaganaut
They pulled this when Trump won, and instead of doing one on Trump - which would have been honest, they just printed Februarys special edition on the Science of Relationships
That's February's. The election is December's. They printed both Trump and Clinton victory issues.
Special issues stay on shelves for a while and there can be more than one out at the same time. They actually sell some of them, which is more than you can say for the regular issues of the magazine.
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posted on
12/01/2016 5:02:52 PM PST
by
x
To: vannrox
i think everywhere she goes someone needs this photo with #neverpresident on it. waving in her face.
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posted on
12/01/2016 5:40:15 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: okie01
OK. So, who did write the piece.
Some hack in the bowels of the Clinton Campaign?
An academic?
Chelsea
I don’t know, but I write better than that excerpt!
To: Salvation
‘Then how did it get written and printed??
This isnt making sense.’
What doesn’t make sense is their claim not to have read it. That’s like setting a big box of porn in front of a sex addict, and telling him it’s his job to review it.
Later he claims he didn’t. Implausible.
The Leftists could not WAIT to revel in Trump’s (anticipated) defeat. The idea that the Leftists at Newsweek could have resisted that issue is ludicrous.
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posted on
12/01/2016 5:42:32 PM PST
by
Fantasywriter
(Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
To: HiTech RedNeck
I’d buy one and frame it for grandpa’s outhouse.
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posted on
12/01/2016 6:21:51 PM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: vannrox
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posted on
12/01/2016 6:27:57 PM PST
by
HotKat
(Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
To: vannrox
“The culminating election of a career in politics spanning 3 decades...”
“3”? That should be written as “three”!
Either a complete amateur wrote this or merely a typical, modern, leftist graduate from any of the so-called top journalism schools in the land.
It was probably the latter.
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posted on
12/01/2016 6:29:36 PM PST
by
YogicCowboy
("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
To: vannrox
Ah, they will probably get a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction award out of it.
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posted on
12/01/2016 9:23:05 PM PST
by
Surtur
(The Dem's woe: From euphoria to insanity in less than 24 hours...11-08-16!)
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