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Look how the Washington Post writes their headlines now!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/03/05/trumps-evidence-for-obama-wiretap-claims-relies-on-sketchy-anonymously-sourced-reports/?utm_term=.5c9b0fabc3e8 ^

Posted on 03/05/2017 10:29:41 AM PST by Jeff Chandler

Trump's 'evidence' for Obama wiretap claims relies on sketchy, anonymously sourced reports

Washington Post


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1 posted on 03/05/2017 10:29:41 AM PST by Jeff Chandler
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Sketchy. Really hard to find.

Except that Mark Levin held up paper-copy proof this morning.

And it’s all public record.

The WashingFake Post is trying their hand at fiction writing.


2 posted on 03/05/2017 10:31:23 AM PST by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Just like all the “Russians did it” stories.


3 posted on 03/05/2017 10:31:26 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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4 posted on 03/05/2017 10:31:27 AM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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“claims relies on sketchy, anonymously sourced reports” no one knows this


5 posted on 03/05/2017 10:33:40 AM PST by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Explain this to me like I received 12 years of government run education. How is this headline different from the way they usually write them?


6 posted on 03/05/2017 10:33:49 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Multiple written applications to the FISA court are "sketchy?"

The words of the President of the United States, straight from his own fingertips, are an "anonymous source?"

BTW and OT, but where the heck are Meryl Streep, Rosie O'Donnell, and Michael Moore? They seem to have dropped right off the face of the Earth.

Not that I mind.

7 posted on 03/05/2017 10:34:20 AM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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Would not AG Sessions be able to tell almost immediately if this took place?


8 posted on 03/05/2017 10:34:41 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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Their own sketchy, anonymously sourced reports they should add.


9 posted on 03/05/2017 10:36:53 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony

irony
noun iro·ny \ˈī-rə-nē also ˈī(-ə)r-nē\
1: a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning —called also Socratic irony
2: the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaningb : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by ironyc : an ironic expression or utterance
3
(1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result
(2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play —called also dramatic irony, tragic irony

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If the WaPost, specialist in aketchy, anonymously sourced innuendo for political purposes, was trying to demonstrate irony, they did a great job. This is the most tragic instance of irony I've seen in journalism.

10 posted on 03/05/2017 10:37:45 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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Funny how it went from “no evidence” to “sketchy evidence” in one day. Tune in tomorrow.


11 posted on 03/05/2017 10:38:02 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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Washington Pravda at it again reporting with headlines full
of adjectives and few nouns. The mark of a true propaganda machine.


12 posted on 03/05/2017 10:39:31 AM PST by chuckee
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Yeah, Trump’s such a master negotiator that he doubles down and bets his presidency on something he read in the Daily Mail. Right.


13 posted on 03/05/2017 10:41:31 AM PST by AndyJackson
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Would not AG Sessions be able to tell almost immediately if this took place?

Perhaps, if the DOJ still had some of Obama admin's computers and file cabinets in the building.

14 posted on 03/05/2017 10:41:53 AM PST by Cementjungle
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Trump's 'evidence' for Obama wiretap claims relies on sketchy, anonymously sourced reports

By now you would think that the Washington Post would be able to connect the dots between what Trump says and reality. Trump has a long record of being correct!

15 posted on 03/05/2017 10:42:18 AM PST by olezip
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16 posted on 03/05/2017 10:44:09 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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sort of like their ‘evidence’ of Russian hacking?


17 posted on 03/05/2017 10:44:31 AM PST by Mr. K
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To: Texas Eagle

Well, have they mentioned the “sketchy” evidence of the Russian “interference” in the election in their headlines?


18 posted on 03/05/2017 10:45:23 AM PST by hanamizu
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Isn’t that exactly the same kind of sources that the WP uses all the time when reporting about Trump or anything else?


19 posted on 03/05/2017 10:45:49 AM PST by euram
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No Russian hacking is a fact according to Fake CNNews


20 posted on 03/05/2017 10:47:34 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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