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Read CNN's response to Trump's accusations of false reporting
CNN ^ | 1/11/2016 | CNN

Posted on 01/11/2017 8:45:52 PM PST by greeneyes

CNN)CNN's decision to publish carefully sourced reporting about the operations of our government is vastly different than Buzzfeed's decision to publish unsubstantiated memos.

The Trump team knows this. They are using Buzzfeed's decision to deflect from CNN's reporting, which has been matched by the other major news organizations. We are fully confident in our reporting.

It represents the core of what the First Amendment protects, informing the people of the inner workings of their government; in this case, briefing materials prepared for President Obama and President-elect Trump last week.

We made it clear that we were not publishing any of the details of the 35-page document because we have not corroborated the report's allegations.

Given that members of the Trump transition team have so vocally criticized our reporting, we encourage them to identify, specifically, what they believe to be inaccurate.

Read CNN's exclusive report: Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: fakenews
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To: greeneyes

Very skilled propagandists. They know how to surf nuance and create weasels (verbal and visual presentations that make the untrue sound like absolute truth).

4 0f their news fraudsters were on C-Span Book TV Jan 1 re Thos. Lake book: “Unprecedented”. Dana Bash, Brian Stifter, Patti Solis Doyle & Amanda Carpenter. Very revealing of the total and very dark hatred of Trump. Corrupt News Network poses as fairbroker of the facts but delivers virtually non-stop propaganda for the left.


61 posted on 01/11/2017 9:31:54 PM PST by Diogenez (The Media: PR Machine for the left.)
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To: Leaning Right
In related news, CNN has just reported that Nathan Thurm has been chosen as the next chairman of the DNC.

He kinda looks like that Nazi torture pervert in Raiders of the Lost Ark.


62 posted on 01/11/2017 9:32:38 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: greeneyes
Dear CNN,

The tone and content of your little article reveal that while it MAY fall to the Executive to substantiate their complaints, there is another body before which you must justify yourselves: the public.

We remember. We remember Candy Crowley. We remember YOUR staff sharing information with one campaign. We have no reason to take you at your word.

And there is yet another party concerned and involved. I imagine few at CNN are much concerned with the God of the Christians and the Jews, but there is reliable indication that he very much opposes bearing false witness.

Justice itself, if you are not happy with what you would probably call “cruder” ideas of God, opposes being careless about the truth, suppressing what is true and suggesting what is false. So let us personify justice and say he also has a seat at this table.

Your documented and undeniable partisanship places the republic in peril. But if, by some unforeseen eventuality, we Biblical theists are right, you place yourselves in far greater peril.

63 posted on 01/11/2017 9:34:09 PM PST by Mad Dawg (Sta, si cum canibus magnis currere non potes, in portico.)
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To: hoosiermama
I don’t think people in media or the office of transition know that it was created by 4chan. There was talk today that 4chan is speaking with their lawyers before coming forward Even Drudge has not pointed out the origin of the hoax.

Breitbart used to let the tension build for more pronounced effect. I hope people don't let the maximum damage window pass without letting this grenade fly.

64 posted on 01/11/2017 9:34:47 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

“Soccer” is not an Americanism, although the British may have abandoned its use over the years. Soccer is short for “Association football,” to differentiate it from “Rugby football” when the rules were codified in England in the 1800s.


65 posted on 01/11/2017 9:35:34 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: DiogenesLamp

I’m pretty sure that 4chan troll is from England and he sent this piece of fiction around to many people in the mefia...anti Trump people to see who woulf bite and he may have sent it to Christopher Steel as well.


66 posted on 01/11/2017 9:35:35 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: Diogenez

I read a report the other day that RT has more credibility than CNN - that’s a pretty sad state of affairs. Put it’s a fact that the “LSM” in this country is beyond being a somewhat biased source of info, and is instead a purveyor of gossip and fake news, indeed not a bit better than Tabloid Media.


67 posted on 01/11/2017 9:36:02 PM PST by greeneyes
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To: greeneyes; All

Here it IS!

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-10/4chan-claims-have-fabricated-anti-trump-report-hoax

Needs a thread in FR with Drudge as source But I’m unable to post it


68 posted on 01/11/2017 9:38:14 PM PST by hoosiermama (It is time to believe in the future: Time to believe in each other: Time to believe in AMERICA ! DT)
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To: Mad Dawg

Amen.


69 posted on 01/11/2017 9:38:20 PM PST by greeneyes
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To: SoCal Pubbie

All the Brits I have ever heard speaking of the game call it “football.”


70 posted on 01/11/2017 9:41:01 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: greeneyes

Dear CNN,

Have you stopped beating your wife yet? Yes or No answers only.

Sincerely,

Inquiring Mind

/S


71 posted on 01/11/2017 9:41:05 PM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: greeneyes

What CNN did was far worse than BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed clearly expressed skepticism about the story in their lead paragraph, noting numerous errors and improbabilities in the report, whereas CNN breathlessly reported the story in total seriousness with no critical reasoning exhibited whatsoever. Now they are lying and pretending this is a First Amendment issue. The First Amendment has never protected libel, nor is it an excuse for sloppy reporting.


72 posted on 01/11/2017 9:41:39 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Leaning Right

Nathan Thurm: “I’m not being defensive. Why is it always the other person who’s being defensive? Maybe you’re the one who’s being defensive, did you ever consider that?”


73 posted on 01/11/2017 9:44:49 PM PST by Fedora
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To: hoosiermama

I’d say go to zero hedge and post it that way. Here is the one I posted yesterday to bring the 4Chann involvement to light.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3512733/posts


74 posted on 01/11/2017 9:45:55 PM PST by greeneyes
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To: greeneyes
The internet news is replacing the dying media.

Left wing San Fransisco based tech companies (google, facebook, apple, twitter, etc.) are taking over the internet where they can with an eye on destroying alternative news sources. I've seen plenty of examples of google searches being tampered with to help elect Hillary, and promote various other left wing causes.

Our puny little internet media distribution system is not going to be a match for the increasingly powerful left wing control of the information streams.

However, the NDAA act has set up a ministry of truth, and Obama gave up the internet to Globalists. Both actions need to be addressed.

Yes they do. We need to make it illegal for people to censor internet sources, at least those in the United States.

75 posted on 01/11/2017 9:46:29 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: BwanaNdege

Right on. Slimy presstitutes.


76 posted on 01/11/2017 9:47:03 PM PST by greeneyes
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To: Fedora

I agree totally. That’s why I started this thread. Total slimeballs.


77 posted on 01/11/2017 9:49:06 PM PST by greeneyes
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To: Jim Robinson

I had a friend call me last night to gloat over this moronic story...

I literally started laughing my ass off. Well, not really. It’s still huge.

Anyway, I informed her she and her idiot friends had been trolled by a bunch of teenagers and even explained 4chann to her.

She then informed me that her husband, who really is slightly more techy than me, said it was true.

She then went on how all her friends were going on and on about his phony crap and Trump is being exposed.

I just kept laughing and told her she probably shouldn’t talk about this with her friends, so they can look like idiots.

I then told her goodnight and to wait until the morning for this blow up in everyone’s face.

Then as if by Effin Magic Trump and Acosta went and all I heard was Boom!!! Shaka Laka - - - Boom!!!

My brother, myself and a friend were watching this and the second Trump called him fake news we each bowled over, howling.

Stupid people...


78 posted on 01/11/2017 9:51:26 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: DiogenesLamp

I understand that. But the word soccer comes from England. I can’t help it if they don’t know their own history.


79 posted on 01/11/2017 9:51:45 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: greeneyes

It doesn’t matter what CNN reports from now on, we all know they’re traitors.


80 posted on 01/11/2017 9:52:43 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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