Posted on 09/17/2019 4:47:01 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) That thing that happens when not everyone is down with the latest smear effort. – The newsfakers at the New York Times made big news of their own on Monday when they were forced by actual journalists to issue a correction to their latest smear story targeting Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
This latest story was penned by two Times fake reporters who have a new book out. Oh, joy! The book rehashes old accusations against Kavanaugh brought forward and rejected as baseless last year, while pretending to add new meat to the bone to one accuser who supposedly claimed that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party. The fake authors claim in the book to have found 7 “witnesses” who supposedly remember the incident.
Big problem: Not a single one of those seven “witnesses” make any claim to have actually witnessed anything. Only one of them was actually at the party in question and has no specific memory of Kavanaugh being involved in any exposing of anything other than a beer cup. None of the other six were even at the party. Oh.
The fake reporters naturally saved those bits of key information for very late in the book and made no mention of them in the story they penned for the oh-so accommodating pages of their employer’s fake newspaper. But actual journalists at other media outlets, including Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist, exposed all of this and much more over the weekend, creating a huge blowback towards the Times and its fake reporters and forcing the Times to issue a correction to the story.
This smear effort was so transparent and corrupt that it even had Brit Hume, who has stubbornly avoided calling his colleagues corrupt all these years, finally giving in to unavoidable reality:
Brit Hume ✔ @brithume This smear was disgusting the first time around. This attempt to revive it is beyond disgusting and speaks to the dishonesty of leading organs of the mainstream media. They are corrupt. https://spectator.us/brett-kavanaugh-debbie-ramirez-character/ …
A fresh assassination of Brett Kavanaugh’s character | Spectator USA God bless Brett Kavanaugh. And shame, shame on The New York Times and its sweaty minions for abetting the revival of this grotesque calumny
But by the time the “correction” was issued, the intended damage to Justice Kavanaugh had already been done, which was the plan all along. For every 100 people who read or heard about the original story, you might have five who read or heard about the correction. This is how our fake news media does these smear campaigns, of course.
Normally, everyone else in the fake news media is fully on-board with smears led by the Times, and never make any effort to inform their readers/viewers of the journalistic mendacity being practiced by the fake newspaper of record. Last night, Jan Crawford at CBS News had apparently had enough of this nonsense.
Crawford, in a report aired on the CBS Evening News, reported on the Times’s correction, and went even further, noting the following:
Jan Crawford ✔ @JanCBS We report tonight the real bombshell: Christine Ford’s close HS friend (who Ford says was at the party when Kavanaugh allegedly assaulted her) said Ford’s story is not believable and told the FBI Ford’s allies pressured her, threatened her with a smear campaign to say otherwise https://twitter.com/cbseveningnews/status/1173729651199549446 …
Oh. Gosh, that’s kind of important information, too, isn’t it? This bit of explosive, real news also gets passing mention in the book by the fake Times reporters, but was naturally excluded from their piece in the Times. The news about Leland Keyser putting the lie to Blasey Ford’s original put-up smear is, in fact, the only real “news” contained in the book at all.
So, here we have the anatomy of the classic fake news media smear as led by the New York Times.
– When you first massive effort to smear the subject during his nominating process failed to bring its desired result, have two of your fakest reporters collaborate on a book that rehashes the original smears but supplements them with “new” information that isn’t new at all.
– When they stumble across one bit of actual real news that would be bombshell evidence of the subject’s actual innocence relate to the original smear, bury it in the book and hope no one actually reads it.
– Then have your fake reporters pen a story for your newspaper and make sure they don’t mention the real news in it and exclude key facts that would also serve to exonerate the subject.
– Take that story to print, and when you get caught excluding the key information, wait at least 48 hours before issuing a half-assed “correction” that no one will read.
As long as everyone else in the fake news media is on-board with the new smear effort, you’re golden. Conservative outlets like the Federalist and Fox News don’t matter because your own readers/viewers will just dismiss them out of hand.
Foolproof, right? And CBS news, whose own “news” division is mostly just a bunch of toadies who do little but parrot DNC talking points and rehash stories printed by the Times and the Washington Post each day, is basically the last competing outlet you’d expect to give up the ghost.
But there’s Jan Crawford, bringing the Times’s fake chickens home to roost. Who know why? Maybe Times Editor Dean Baquet pissed somebody off.
Regardless, good for Ms. Crawford for her decision to be a real journalist, at least for one day. I bet it fells good for her to be reporting the truth for a change.
The Democrat/media propaganda complex is going to need a new smear.
That is all.
The organs of the corrupt state living a lie. The lie is the weapon used most often by the criminal. It takes some criminals to raze a republic. Consequences? Uncivilization ALERT!
If only we had a DOJ. Trump could demand an investigation into all of the lying actors involved in this, Ford, Feinstein, creepy porn lawyer, Jackson Lee, Swetnick, the whole f’n crew. Unfortunately we have the DSDOJ that is only interested in protecting it’s own. Its been nearly a year and I think Ford’s act, if aggressively challenged, would blow up in her face. For Kavanaugh you and me, expect no justice out of Washington.
NY Times - Tehran Times - same thing.
Their goal was to damage Justice Kavanaugh, and yet what it did was:
TO DAMAGE THE NEW YORK TIMES...AND THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.
LIVE WITH IT.
Kavanaugh Book Authors: NYT Editors Removed Part That Victim Did Not Remember Assault
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/17/kavanaugh_book_authors_nyt_editors_removed_part_that_victim_did_not_remember_assault.html
It’s not the smears that are the problem.
It’s the position (apparently accepted by Ga-ga Grassley) that nothing is ever final. When the Senate confirms a nominee - for anything - and the Secretary of State delivers up his commission, that is that.
She failed to reveal additional information that people would want to know, these folks connections to Hillary Clinton. I have to say NorDuh O'Donnell was not pleased that the truth slipped out during her report.
If it is a malicious attack on a person would it be chargeable by the authorities?
To me, a political conspiracy always has to be disproven.
The tiny possibility this was accidental is shown by the WaPo it claiming that it refused the smear story and then the NYT ran it.
More likely: A conference of Dem insiders. Here is the stuff you will see tomorrow in the NYT. Each of your candidates back it up and say they want impeachment of Kavanaugh as a sexual predator. Then act haughty and outraged. Pols in Congress will introduce the bills (the Squad drew lots and Ayana Pressley won). All the cable networks have the talking points... “sexual predator does not belong on the SCOTUS....”
That’s probably the real inside story.
And get the KFC guy to produce a letter he sent to the FBI, and cry like a baby and claim the FBI never properly investigated this serious (although 100% denied) charge.
WOW! This picture says it all. I hope you contact Rush with it.
For at least 2 decades, Rush has had his people monitoring FF for possible good things for his program or site.
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