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CNN Threatens Reddit User For Exercising Free Speech | #CNNBlackmail [video only]
YouTube.com ^ | Jul 4, 2017 | Stefan Molyneux

Posted on 07/05/2017 1:18:16 AM PDT by servo1969

As America celebrated Independence Day, the Internet exploded following allegations that CNN threatened and coerced the Reddit user behind the popular Donald Trump/CNN Wrestling meme into silence for exercising his first amendment rights. In an article by CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski, it is detailed how Reddit user HanA**holeSolo “apologized for calls for violence against the press,” took down all his social media posts, begged for his identity not to be released an promised he wouldn’t engage in any similar behavior. The article noted that CNN agreed not to release his name, but “reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 4chan; 8chan; andrewkaczynski; blackmail; cnn; cnnblackmail; coercion; extortion; kaczynski; kfile; media; meme; molyneux; msm; reddit; thugs
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To: Enlightened1

Andrew Kaczynski is the senior editor and founding member of CNN’s KFILE — the leading investigation team for the social, mobile generation.


101 posted on 07/05/2017 8:18:29 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: servo1969

102 posted on 07/05/2017 8:19:09 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Unrepentant VN Vet
Thomas Wictor‏-(Author, novelist, and the planet's only expert on World War One flamethrowers.)-

(1) This was not written by Roland Freisler, Pol Pot, or Lavrentiy Beria. The author is Andrew Kaczynski of CNN.

ANonymous Covfefe-

#CNNBlackmail'er Andrew Kaczynski Bully 15 yr old, Then #CNN Producer then congratulates him 4 doing so?? This is Vile #FraudNewsCNN


103 posted on 07/05/2017 8:22:10 AM PDT by STARLIT (Draining the Swamp includes Cleaning Out The Sewer.)
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To: servo1969

I’m curious as to why ‘The Donald’ on Reddit kept deleting his apology. Anyone know or understand why?


104 posted on 07/05/2017 8:25:47 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: bar sin·is·ter

FreeRepublic, Breitbart, and Drudge were covering it for hours before FoxNews got on to the story.


105 posted on 07/05/2017 8:26:00 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: CommieCutter
He is 15! Are you serious?

I don't think we know that for sure. It's mostly a rumor making the rounds on Twitter.

106 posted on 07/05/2017 8:26:59 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: tired&retired

Before He Was Attacking Keith Ellison, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski Was Fawning Over Howard Dean

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/12/before-he-was-attacking-keith-ellison-cnns-andrew.html

On Thursday, Andrew Kaczynski, senior reporter and founder of CNN’s “K-File” investigative reporting team, sent out a series of tweets calling attention to an article he’d written about a potential controversy involving DNC chair candidate and progressive favorite, Rep. Keith Ellison.

However, Kaczynski has drawn criticism from notable journalists for other omissions. He does not mention that Ture was the former leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which Zaid Jilani of The Intercept was quick to note, as well as the “Honorary Prime Minister” of the Black Panther Party.

Kaczynski’s piece on the controversy surrounding Keith Ellison’s past provides a wonderful jumping off point to illustrate just how mainstream media is in large part to blame for the spread of fake news—The Washington Post’s largely discredited blacklist notwithstanding.


107 posted on 07/05/2017 8:27:57 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: EliRoom8

I know, I was on those threads.


108 posted on 07/05/2017 8:28:23 AM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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To: tired&retired

I think Andrew Kaczynski did the Trump video himself and is actually covering for himself to protect his job...... Note below his tendancy to post old video clips of politicians!!!

Per Wiki below:

Andrew Kaczynski (born November 30, 1989[1]) is an American journalist and a political reporter for CNN.[2] He became well known in 2011 by posting old video clips of politicians, often of them making statements contrary to their current political positions, to YouTube.[3] He was described as “the [2012] Republican primaries’ most influential amateur opposition researcher”.[4]

He was hired by BuzzFeed in December 2011.[5] He has appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, PBS, and C-SPAN.[6] On October 3, 2016, Kaczynski announced he was leaving BuzzFeed and joining CNN.[7]


109 posted on 07/05/2017 8:30:03 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

2012
In 2012, Kaczynski uncovered numerous clips of Mitt Romney supporting an individual mandate, contradicting his then-current campaign position. He also uncovered a clip of Barack Obama protesting at Harvard while at law school over a lack of faculty diversity.

2013
In November 2013, Kaczynski reported that Kentucky Senator Rand Paul had plagiarized sections of a speech he gave in June 2013 on immigration from the Wikipedia article of the movie Stand and Deliver. Kaczynski subsequently reported Paul’s 2012 book Government Bullies also contained passages that were plagiarized from articles from the right-wing think tank Heritage Foundation and from the libertarian Cato Institute.[18] Further reports by Kaczynski revealed another four instances of plagiarism from an article by Case Western Reserve University professor Jonathan H. Adler and Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Timothy Sandefur. Another section of the book was discovered to be plagiarized from an article written in Forbes Magazine.

Following the Boston Marathon bombings of 2013, he played a role in spreading unsubstantiated misinformation about the identities of the suspected bombers when he retweeted false reports made by Reddit user Greg Hughes.[19][20]

2014
In 2014, Kaczynski continued with a series of articles chronicling politicians’ plagiarism. Kaczynski found more than a dozen examples of politicians running for office in 2014 copying their plans and issues pages verbatim from other candidates.[21]

2015
In 2015, Politico reported [22] Kaczynski was leading internal opposition research at BuzzFeed looking to dig up dirt on politicians. NPR reported[23] Kaczynski’s team dug up clips of Donald Trump saying he supported – despite statements to the contrary – the Iraq War; a clip of Hillary Clinton referring to some children as “super predators”; a video of Ben Carson saying he believed the pyramids were used to store grain; and a video of Bernie Sanders proclaiming his support for Fidel Castro and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.

Kaczynski subsequently found clips of Donald Trump supporting the 2011 American intervention in Libya,[24] the toppling of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak,[25] and pushing for US action to protect Iranian protesters.[26]

2016
Clips Kaczynski found of Donald Trump on the Howard Stern Show[27] were used in both Democratic[28] and Republican[29] attack ads against Trump and as the basis of a question in the first general election Presidential debate of 2016.

During the US campaign for president in 2016, Kaczynski brought to attention a statement by the chairman of the American Nazi Party in support of Republican candidate Donald Trump on the grounds that “if Trump does win ... it’s going to be a real opportunity for people like white nationalists.”[30]

2017
In January, Kaczynski reported that Monica Crowley had plagiarized large sections of her 2012 book What The (Bleep) Just Happened.[31] The publisher, HarperCollins, announced they would stop selling the book.[31] The Trump Administration tapped Crowley to serve as senior director of strategic communications for the National Security Council.[31]

Later that month, Kaczynski surfaced audio of Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of labor, Andrew Puzder, describing the employees hired at his restaurants as the “best of the worst”.[32] Puzder later withdrew due to other reasons, and did not join the administration.[33]

In May 2017, he reported that Sheriff David Clarke had plagiarized portions of his master’s thesis.[34]


110 posted on 07/05/2017 8:33:10 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Semper911; administrator
"8Chan is already doxxing CNN" 4chan is going there. Delet this if it's offensive mod, the chansters would prolly recognize me as falling somewhere on the Asperger spectrum. Image and video hosting by TinyPic
111 posted on 07/05/2017 8:34:01 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought the same thing. I’m betting much unknown information will be revealed about “CNN’s Andrew Kaczynsk” before long. I’m thinking Andrew will soon believe somebody hated him when this job assignment went out. It wouldn’t surprise me if info on several other CNN mouthpieces will be distributed as a warning about declaring war on that hornets nest.


112 posted on 07/05/2017 8:34:59 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: tumblindice

I posted the link to 8chan for the doxing hilarity, not for the racist crap there. Everyone knows the chans are a rough neighborhood of the Internet.


113 posted on 07/05/2017 8:42:41 AM PDT by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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To: salmon76
"Every CNN employee must die. Every CNN building must be razed. Let the name CNN be uttered nowhere, utterly erased from history."

Down Laz, down, good boy...Laz is a good boy. Seriously, dude go get some coffee. Exposing CNN fake news is a very good thing but don't use the left's tactics. Maybe I misses a /sarcasm tag in your comment? :-)

Was I wrong? Every CNN employee WILL die, unless they are Immortal. Further, every CNN building WILL be razed, unless they reached the pinnacle of design.

My only addition to the reality is "Let the name CNN be uttered nowhere, utterly erased from history."

114 posted on 07/05/2017 8:47:29 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: tumblindice

I would say replace the star with a hammer and sickle. I would wager that at least 95% of those shown are a bunch of lousy commie JINOs.


115 posted on 07/05/2017 8:50:22 AM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, that it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Its getting really ugly on twitter. They are even giving information on Andrews older brother and wife and that his wife works for the Wall Street Journal. Steve and Rachel Louise Ensign. Andrew has opened himself up and people are NOW investigating him along with him family.


116 posted on 07/05/2017 8:50:32 AM PDT by STARLIT (Draining the Swamp includes Cleaning Out The Sewer.)
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To: NIKK

*sigh... knew this was coming...

CNN is in covefe hell now.


117 posted on 07/05/2017 8:51:27 AM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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To: bar sin·is·ter
Boca Vista‏(Trump or NONE!,P.

HOW DO YOU KNOW Andrew Kaczynski is LYING?

He PURPOSELY refers to a 15 year old BOY as a "man" & "guy"

*****

Me--Don't mess with Trumper's Andrew! LOL

118 posted on 07/05/2017 9:09:42 AM PDT by STARLIT (Draining the Swamp includes Cleaning Out The Sewer.)
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To: NIKK

Andy C- Wow, so it turns out @SheriffClarke was right. Andrew Kaczynski IS an electronic terrorist. #CNNBlackmail


119 posted on 07/05/2017 9:17:25 AM PDT by STARLIT (Draining the Swamp includes Cleaning Out The Sewer.)
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To: servo1969

Hopalong Ginsberg
4 hrs ·

I most mightily repent, unconditionally and without reservation, for every unapproved idea I may have ever written, shared, spoken, thought, or communicated in any fashion whatsoever. In the holy name of St Hillary of Chappaqua, I hereby pledge to purge these heresies from the sum of human knowledge, and may the chakras of Blessed Albert the Warmth-Bringer eternally roast me if ever I transgress again. May Diversity and Tolerance follow me for all of my days, and may my Privilege ever be checked. In the name of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and MSNBC, amen. #CNNBlackmail

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120 posted on 07/05/2017 9:30:40 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg)
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