Fake News: WaPo Fabricated Viral Claim That Sean Spicer Was Hiding in Bushes

Twitter Tweets and a Washington Post article via Big League Politics ^ | May 11, 2017 | Twitter Tweets and a Washington Post article via Big League Politics

[ForYourChildren]

After the Washington Post claimed that Press Secretary Sean Spicer was “hiding in bushes” to avoid questions from reporters about FBI Director James Comey’s firing, the paper has once again had to admit that they published fake news.

In an article titled “After Trump fired Comey, White House staff scrambled to explain why” by Jenna Johnson, she made the spectacular claim that Spicer had actually hid in bushes to avoid questions from the Washington elite media.

“After Spicer spent several minutes hidden in the bushes near these sets, Janet Montesi, an executive assistant in the press office, emerged and told reporters that Spicer would answer some questions, as long as he was not filmed doing so. Spicer then emerged,” Johnson wrote.

The claim went rapidly viral, the latest bit of gossip to paint the White House as being run by a bunch of hapless nitwits.

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“EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated to more precisely describe White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s location late Tuesday night in the minutes before he briefed reporters. Spicer huddled with his staff among bushes near television sets on the White House grounds, not ‘in the bushes,’ as the story originally stated.”

Essentially, Spicer was standing outside.

The countless articles and viral tweets citing Johnson have not all been updated, however — and this is how fake news is born.

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[Moorings]

Washington Post is not a credible news organization. They are just a mouth piece of the democrat party. They spew propaganda continuously against those who are in opposition to the dems.

Washington Post - a party organ of the democrats.