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Pizzagate: From rumor, to hashtag, to gunfire in D.C.
The Washington Post ^ | December 6, 2016 at 8:34 PM | Marc Fisher, John Woodrow Cox and Peter Hermann

Posted on 12/06/2016 6:05:17 PM PST by speelurker

What was finally real was Edgar Welch, driving from North Carolina to Washington to rescue sexually abused children he believed were hidden in mysterious tunnels beneath a neighborhood pizza joint.

What was real was Welch — a father, former firefighter and sometime movie actor who was drawn to dark mysteries he found on the Internet — terrifying customers and workers with his assault rifle as he searched Comet Ping Pong, police said. He found no hidden children, no secret chambers, no evidence of a child sex ring run by the failed Democratic candidate for president of the United States, or by her campaign chief, or by the owner of the pizza place.

What was false were the rumors he had read, stories that crisscrossed the globe about a charming little pizza place that features ping-pong tables in its back room.

The story of Pizzagate is about what is fake and what is real. It’s a tale of a scandal that never was, and of a fear that has spread through channels that did not even exist until recently.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: pizzagate
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WaPo fires off a long one on PizzaGate.
1 posted on 12/06/2016 6:05:17 PM PST by speelurker
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To: speelurker

“It’s a tale of a scandal that never was”

The Podestas and their links to child porn and degenerate and violent depictions of children, are already a scandal.

The Post is providing cover — to its shame.


2 posted on 12/06/2016 6:11:51 PM PST by CondorFlight (I)
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To: speelurker

There have been enough posts on FR the last few weeks telling us how this is such a bad place. Who are you people and why were you posting this stuff? Did you fall for the fake news?


3 posted on 12/06/2016 6:12:25 PM PST by Edison (I don't know what irks me more, the lying or the incompetence.)
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To: speelurker

For a scandal that really didn’t get off the ground, the MSM is really defensive. If it’s not real, drop it already.


4 posted on 12/06/2016 6:13:48 PM PST by Crucial
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To: CondorFlight

True.


5 posted on 12/06/2016 6:14:34 PM PST by realpatriot (Some spelling (and grammar for the grammar nazis) errers entionally included!)
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To: speelurker

Podesta’s emails aren’t a rumor.


6 posted on 12/06/2016 6:16:25 PM PST by TigersEye (Congratulations, President Donald J. Trump! - Let's MAGA!!!)
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To: Edison

CNN, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, ad nauseum is the fake news and you know it.


7 posted on 12/06/2016 6:16:29 PM PST by realpatriot (Some spelling (and grammar for the grammar nazis) errers entionally included!)
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To: Edison

What do you call fake? There is enough smoke here to suggest a major fire. Are all the dots connected? No. Could it be the Podestas are just extreme weirdos with a particular affinity (though innocent) for children? Yes, possible.

But to suggest it’s “fake news” is silly. It bears investigating. The Wiki connections to the Clintons and Huma and Weiner also are very damning. At the very least they were on the Pedophile Express. At worst, well, it’s something extremely sickening.

To not investigate this as a journalist would be completely irresponsible-—yet that is the WaPo’s position. So what is “fake?”


8 posted on 12/06/2016 6:16:42 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: speelurker

Senior editors of WP are owners of Politics and Prose, which is part of the CP block.


9 posted on 12/06/2016 6:18:15 PM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat)
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He triggered a round?

No, he did NOT trigger a round.

THIS is fake news.

And the man is an ACTOR.

They’re terrified of anyone taking seriously ANY aspect of Pizzagate, so they orchestrate this, then hype it.

They’re trying to scare people off.

There HAVE been distortions, yes.

But there’s NOTHING there at all..? That’s ridiculous.

That’s FALSE.

Just wait a month, a little more.


10 posted on 12/06/2016 6:19:50 PM PST by gaijin
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To: speelurker

This article reminds me of the Washington Post’s hard hitting coverage of how the fake “Hands Up Don’t Shoot™” stories led to the violence in Ferguson.

Does anyone really need a sarcasm tag here?


11 posted on 12/06/2016 6:20:38 PM PST by Junk Silver
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To: speelurker

Yet they will never show the instagram photos of the owner and his followers. Nor the paintings of the Jimmy Comet’s & Podestas’ favorite painters. Why??


12 posted on 12/06/2016 6:20:56 PM PST by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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To: Edison

What does the hashtag “inthebutt” when talking about a baby picture mean to you?


13 posted on 12/06/2016 6:21:26 PM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat)
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To: speelurker

They seem so sure that everything is innocent at the comet. Hmmmmmm


14 posted on 12/06/2016 6:21:34 PM PST by The Toll
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What was real was Welch — a father, former firefighter and sometime movie actor who was drawn to dark mysteries he found on the Internet — terrifying customers and workers with his assault rifle as he searched Comet Ping Pong, police said. He found no hidden children, no secret chambers, no evidence of a child sex ring run by the failed Democratic candidate for president of the United States, or by her campaign chief, or by the owner of the pizza place.

It's been a few weeks since the investigations started within the Internet.

What did Welch expect to find?

15 posted on 12/06/2016 6:22:50 PM PST by Does so ( 'Time for English as the US' sole National language...==8-O)
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To: speelurker

Marc Fisher. one of the authors of this article, has written an earlier article defending Comet pizza, when it was under fire from Winstead:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2008/06/dc_official_outdoor_seats_at_p.html


16 posted on 12/06/2016 6:23:13 PM PST by CondorFlight (I)
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To: MNDude

It’s TOTALLY NORMAL for an unmarried, middle-aged man to electronically LIKE whacko satan kiddy art.

It’s completely normal to paint up your restaurant bathroom with kiddie sex art emblazoned with “Shut up and F*CK..!”, then amidst the uproar, paint OVER it.

It’s totally normal to be a nearly constant instagramer, then suddenly CLOSE the account right after the uproar begins.


17 posted on 12/06/2016 6:24:46 PM PST by gaijin
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To: speelurker

“It’s a tale of a scandal that never was”

#fakenews


18 posted on 12/06/2016 6:24:48 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: pissant

this is from a media that provoked so much hatred against Trump that a guy rushed the stage at a Trump rally..then interviewed him like he was a hero!


19 posted on 12/06/2016 6:26:25 PM PST by ground_fog ( My God this was from today!)
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To: gaijin

It’s completely unremarkable to perform transcontinental, express walnut deliveries.

Via Lear-jet.

We have ALL had Satan-worshipping witches over to our houses for religious meals, we’ve all done that a dozen or more times, right..?

There’s NOTHING to this story, just like there was nothing to it in Belgium.

And in Great Britain, where there was NO pressure on ANYONE, especially on the cops, to keep quiet about it.

For years and YEARS.


20 posted on 12/06/2016 6:28:22 PM PST by gaijin
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