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MSM Nightmare: 'Fake News' Invoked 10 Times at Trump Press Conference
NewsBusters ^ | January 11, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 01/11/2017 2:37:44 PM PST by PJ-Comix

So who has a bigger headache today: Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post or CNN's Jim Acosta?

Last week, media columnist Sullivan requested that the term "fake news" be retired and today President-elect Donald Trump threw that term against Acosta when he shut him down during his press conference.  At the press conference "fake news" was used 10 times thus dashing the hopes of the mainstream media folks that the now toxic term be terminated. Look for "fake news" to be thrown up against the MSM again and again over the next few years starting with today. Here is a compendium of that term as used today starting with incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer:

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: buzzfeed; donaldtrump; fakenews; jimacosta
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Good point.


41 posted on 01/11/2017 3:57:25 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!!)
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To: hardspunned

Trump supporters are in the position to convert many terms to our advantage.

No one will be able to use the word “deplorable” anymore without harking back to Hillary’s idiotic comments.

The MSM must now pause and think twice before they insert foot in mouth.


42 posted on 01/11/2017 4:03:17 PM PST by poconopundit (Trust thyself, every heart vibrates to that iron string. Emerson)
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To: InterceptPoint

FWIW, Norm McDonald did the Weekend Update part of Saturday Night Live back in the 1990s (?) and would start his segment by announcing, “And now, the fake news!”


43 posted on 01/11/2017 4:25:27 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: PJ-Comix

Those in glass houses should never throw stones.


44 posted on 01/11/2017 4:28:43 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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45 posted on 01/11/2017 4:32:33 PM PST by COBOL2Java (1 Tim 2:1-3)
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To: RightGeek

LOLLOLOlolLol!


46 posted on 01/11/2017 4:33:12 PM PST by catbertz
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To: RightGeek
that's deplorable...
47 posted on 01/11/2017 4:44:43 PM PST by Chode (may the RATS all die of dehydration from crying)
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To: gaijin


48 posted on 01/11/2017 4:58:48 PM PST by Stand Watch Listen (ELITE IMMUNITY: how the puppetmasters / puppets continue to function)
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49 posted on 01/11/2017 4:59:52 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: RightGeek

Hahahahahaha!


50 posted on 01/11/2017 5:24:45 PM PST by monkeyshine
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To: TomGuy

GREAT quote. Thanks


51 posted on 01/11/2017 6:21:27 PM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: Bon mots

Thanks. Passed this along in email.


52 posted on 01/12/2017 2:30:00 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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