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CNN Busted Making Up Completely Fake Story About Matt Gaetz, But Keeps It Up Anyway
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Posted on 04/12/2021 12:31:05 PM PDT by A.M. Smith

In the early afternoon of April 11th, 2021, internal and external communications staffers for embattled Congressman Matt Gaetz (FL-1) received a request for comment from newly minted CNN reporter Gabby Orr.

Orr, a former POLITICO employee, would report as her first story for Jeff Zucker’s network that Rep. Gaetz had been denied a meeting with former President Trump. The aim of the story was to weaken support for Gaetz on Capitol Hill as the House returns from recess.

Orr’s e-mail read: “Apologies for bothering you on a Sunday but I wanted to run something by you for confirmation before reporting it out… I was told by two people familiar that Congressman Matt Gaetz asked to meet with former President Trump at [Mar-A-Lago] last week and was denied.”

But Orr did, in fact, “report it out” before receiving any confirmation from either side. And the original CNN story claimed neither side has responded, which wasn’t true.

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TOPICS: Politics
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1 posted on 04/12/2021 12:31:05 PM PDT by A.M. Smith
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To: A.M. Smith

The make up 99% of their stories.


2 posted on 04/12/2021 12:32:44 PM PDT by bgill
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To: A.M. Smith

Horribly written story.


3 posted on 04/12/2021 12:33:29 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: A.M. Smith

Nations hostile to US➡️Soros➡️Clintons➡️Democrat Party➡️Press


4 posted on 04/12/2021 12:34:31 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: bgill

Why do members of the media get away with zero liability resulting from the bogus stories?


5 posted on 04/12/2021 12:40:10 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: ptsal

“Why do members of the media get away with zero liability resulting from the bogus stories?”

It’s very seldom that someone will face consequences for behaving badly in support of Democrats. And if you’re a Democrat politician?! Is Andrew Cuomo still governor? Does Eric Swalwell still have his committee appointments? And on and on.


6 posted on 04/12/2021 12:43:26 PM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: A.M. Smith

CNN: “He’s a Republican, so f it.”


7 posted on 04/12/2021 12:44:49 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: ptsal

Because they are part of the DEEP STATE and it is deep!


8 posted on 04/12/2021 12:48:30 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: A.M. Smith
CNN reporter Gabby Orr.

That’s fake news right off the bat.

9 posted on 04/12/2021 12:56:33 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: ptsal

Because of a Supreme Court case from the early 1960s called NY Times v Sullivan.

The Court essentially created for ‘news’ outlets what amounts to immunity from defamation for public or political figures.

The Founder had absolutely no intention of creating such an immunity arrangement.


10 posted on 04/12/2021 1:25:26 PM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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To: AndyJackson

You said it.


11 posted on 04/12/2021 1:31:05 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: A.M. Smith

Soon their stories will start with once upon a time......


12 posted on 04/12/2021 1:34:03 PM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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i wonder what CNN would do if a news station just made up false accusations about CNN on a daily or even hourly basis, and refused to stop?


13 posted on 04/12/2021 1:37:35 PM PDT by Bob434
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Un-named sources. I am surprised she didn’t just go full in and say Trump was in on the deal with Matt.

The MSM is SO evil.


14 posted on 04/12/2021 1:47:14 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Vaduz

And they all (meaning dems, liberals, and MSM only) lived happily ever after.


15 posted on 04/12/2021 1:47:50 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: brownsfan

“It’s very seldom that someone will face consequences for behaving badly in support of Democrats. And if you’re a Democrat politician?! Is Andrew Cuomo still governor? Does Eric Swalwell still have his committee appointments? And on and on.”

Perfectly summarized. Well done.


16 posted on 04/12/2021 1:51:20 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: NEMDF

“Why do members of the media get away with zero liability resulting from the bogus stories?” The liability is that few people believe them. I have a tip for CNN:
Matt Gaetz fathered a child with a space alien.


17 posted on 04/12/2021 1:59:26 PM PDT by Vehmgericht (12)
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To: bgill

“TheY make up 99% of their stories.”

This how it works. CNN has a reporter that just makes Sh-t up. He has several names as follows:

1. “Reliable SourceS” close to the politician of choice.
2. “Anonymous staff” of the politician of choice.
3. “I am staff” but leak my internal knowledge due to moral correctness.

IT IS ALL LIES AND BULL SH-T. If one can not attach a name to it the probability of lies is very high.

The media today is not a media of classic design that ensures truth and honesty of government and news. Our media has become an integral part of government and control allied with the DNC that is really just quasi Marxist. Once in control they go full Marxist.

I lived in Venezuela for a few years working in the oilfields. It was the most prosperous nation in South America. It was corrupt as our nation is corrupt. The people were sick of the corruption thus they voted for a socialist. He was actually a 100% Marxist. Venezuela today is an economic disaster, a social disaster, there is nothing but ruin today to once the most prosperous nation in South America.

I would like to comment about the Bridge between Venezuela and Columbia at Tarija. I crossed that bridge often as just a tourist going to the airport for a flight to Bogota or elsewhere in Columbia. It was just a bridge. That was the good days before Chaves.

Today that bridge is just sorry. Venezuelans flee just to live and eat. They just want to survive. Men will take the most menial of jobs. Good and moral women will sell their bodies so she and her family can survive.

MARXISM IS EVIL!


18 posted on 04/12/2021 2:06:30 PM PDT by cpdiii (Texan Coonass Cane Cutter Deckhand Roughneck Geologist Pilot Phamacist. CONSTITUTION TO DIE FOR. )
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To: A.M. Smith

Gaetz has been an effective spokesman for Trump and Trump’s polices. Therefore, he must be destroyed “by any means necessary.” CNN is a Leftist tool; it can never be expected to tell the truth.


19 posted on 04/12/2021 2:12:32 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: NEMDF

They do live in a fantasy land.


20 posted on 04/12/2021 2:17:42 PM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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