A couple mockingbird things I noticed perusing Sunday gaggles:
1) Mule bucking BuzzFeed FakeNews - media cannot be certain what, exactly + specifically, was at all wrong with BuzzFeed report. Apparently there was a slight discrepancy in their reporting that the Mule took issue with and, if only they’d explain further, then we’d know which / what aspects of BuzzFeed FakeNews is FAKE, then we would know, but until then BuzzFeed has proven totally accurate over time so we can now only assume all of their prior reporting as well as all the rest of mockingbird reports that have come forth over the past 2-1/2 years are now certainly true because the Mule never disputed anything that’s been said about his op before. Oh and Matthew Dowd is such a twit!
2) CBS has an interesting choice of guests and narratives for Slay the Nation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_McGurk
Yeah, that guy. What a sleazeball! The slime oozes ...
Anyway he was there to puke on the idea of leaving from Syria and then transitioned to ... IRAN with Jason Rezaian to pitch his new book “Prisoner”.
McGurk then links Syria to the Iran deal: “It’s the kind of hard diplomacy you have to do”
CBS InfoBabe asks about the $1.7 - $1.8 billion, “planeloads of cash” - McGurk says, “there is so much nonsense going on about this”, “lawyers that did that transaction” - refers to Hague, “we had to pay Iran”, “we had to give them that money”.
CBS InfoBabe: “This looks like cash for hostages.”
ME: WTH? Was this intended? Why are we talking about the $1.7/1.8B to Iran? Not that it’s something that shouldn’t be discussed but why NOW? Was this exchange intended or inadvertent? CBS InfoBabe then commented this was the first time she thought they’d gotten the top hostage negotiator together with one of the hostages.
It wasn’t NBC but the more you know ;)
:: BuzzFeed has proven totally accurate over time so ::
There screw-up was using Jason Leopold as a stringer. He makes stuff up.