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trump calls for wapo’s dave weigel to be fired after bogus report of empty fl rally
GP ^ | December 9,2017 | Kristinn Taylor

Posted on 12/09/2017 6:41:50 PM PST by Hojczyk

President Donald Trump slammed Washington Post politics reporter (and former Journolist) Dave Weigel for posting a photo mocking Trump for the size of the crowd at his rally Friday night in Pensacola, Florida that was actually taken well before Trump entered the venue. Weigel mockingly quoting Trump’s tweet about the rally, “Packed to the rafters”.

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier Saturday, liberals online, including the site Raw Story, were spreading a photo of the rally taken well before Trump took the stage at the Pensacola Bay Center that showed many empty sections of seats. It was falsely claimed that Trump could be seen entering the rally in the photo. Several reporters took to Twitter to debunk the false claims, posting photos and videos from the rally while Trump was actually on stage.

Weigel replied to Trump–but was still surly–accusing Trump of lying about the photo. “Sure thing: I apologize. I deleted the photo after @dmartosko told me I’d gotten it wrong. Was confused by the image of you walking in the bottom right corner.”

Weigel later laughed off a critic, “It was a bad tweet on my personal account, not a story for Washington Post. I deleted it after like 20 minutes. Very fair to call me out. Everything I say on Twitter is a joke, except what I say about @swin24.”

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: daveweigel; deceit; fakenews; florida; fraud; journolist; partisanmediashills; pensacola; twitter; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost; weigel; wp
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To: Enchante
They can’t fire every lyin’ lib reporter.... who would be left to “report” their “news”????


Fake news is an art form. It just doesn't fake it all by itself. Requires human intervention.
21 posted on 12/09/2017 7:54:11 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Panhandle.deporable

Ping!


22 posted on 12/09/2017 7:57:29 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Hojczyk
TRUMP Calls for WaPo’s Dave Weigel to BE FIRED After Bogus Report of Empty FL Rally

One of the main reasons we like President Trump is that he is a street fighting POTUS like we have never ever seen before!!!

The Fake News MSM has had their way the past 50 years without any POTUS telling them they are all Fake News and lies.

They do not like our President Trump telling them that they are all full of Bravo Sierra all the time.

We love it big time!!!

23 posted on 12/09/2017 8:03:45 PM PST by TheConservativeTejano
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To: Chode
Chode, it is not working :/
The other thread show the same empty square as this one..

This is what we (well, at least I) see when I click on view image:

24 posted on 12/09/2017 8:05:32 PM PST by Bikkuri
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To: SamAdams76

I think he saw a picture of Trump in a walkway and thought he was ready to go to the stage. That was before the building was filled. If the guy does not have a history of this crap, I don’t like to see people lose their jobs for something that is not really earthshaking.


25 posted on 12/09/2017 8:07:22 PM PST by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: Hojczyk
On another similar thread tonight I posed the question does any one know the attendance at this Pensacola rally vs. seating capacity of the house?

No replies.

It's usually announced at some point, but my research turned up no figures.

I understand there was also another large crowd outside that couldn't get in.

My point is...you can't counter fake news of this sort without facts and figures...and for some odd reasons, the figures on the rally's attendance can't be found.

Leni

26 posted on 12/09/2017 8:11:59 PM PST by MinuteGal (MAGA !!!)
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To: doug from upland
Like I said in my earlier post, the Trump rally was watched by millions on TV Friday night. There are dozens of streams of the rally on the Internet that show Trump speaking to a full house. That a so-called journalist would not do even the basic fact-checking before posting that Trump spoke to a mostly empty arena is inexcusable.

Also, that is not Trump in that walkway. The photo was taken hours before the event started and Trump was still in Washington.

27 posted on 12/09/2017 8:12:09 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: gaijin

Your photo in #10 is a lot different from the one posted with the article. It looks to me like the same arena but was taken during a different event. The first one looks like it has Christmas decorations or something.


28 posted on 12/09/2017 8:12:28 PM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: Maudeen

Simple, Trump should start giving the news organizations - not individual reporters - a time out from holding WH Press Passes. Say at least a week at a time.

A few of these and the media bosses would clean up their reporters acts or lose total access.

PS I would also include reporters postings on FB and twitter...:^)


29 posted on 12/09/2017 8:26:11 PM PST by az_gila
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To: Bikkuri
thx, and i can't figure out why... same winning gif i've been using for months, and the original shows on google

gonna have to quit using it

30 posted on 12/09/2017 8:28:17 PM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: az_gila
"A few of these and the media bosses would clean up their reporters acts or lose total access."

I disagree.

Even if so-called "reporters" were banned, they would just keep making up $hit.

Like the NYT article out today that *somehow* just KNOWS what the POTUS does in his bedroom each morning.

And KNOWS what the President is thinking.

The media is composed soley of brown-eyed people.

People so filled to the brim with feces that their eyes turn that color.

31 posted on 12/09/2017 8:38:01 PM PST by boop ("So much wasted time"-David Cassidy)
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The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.


32 posted on 12/09/2017 8:47:19 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: doug from upland

Normally I would agree with you... but have you noticed these ‘journalists’ don’t make ‘mistakes’ that damage democrats?

Kind of like a store that makes ‘mistakes’ on prices - but ALL the ‘mistakes’ are ones that give MORE money to the store. We call that stealing.


33 posted on 12/09/2017 9:05:59 PM PST by GOPJ (Katie Couric - please do a 'special' on NBC women who 'put out' to move up the corporate ladder...)
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To: MinuteGal

“Thousands of people filled the 12,000-seat Pensacola Bay Center on Friday night for Trump’s “Make America Great Again” rally as hundreds were left waiting in line to get in as the doors were closed.”

From the Pensacola News Journal, 12/8/17
http://www.pnj.com/story/news/politics/2017/12/08/donald-trump-pensacola-bay-center-rally-go-vote-roy-moore/934962001/


34 posted on 12/09/2017 9:14:30 PM PST by jeannineinsd
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To: jeannineinsd; MinuteGal

The Pensacola News Journal also states “President Donald J. Trump greets a capacity crowd gathered at the Pensacola Bay Center Friday December 8, 2017.”

I tried to post this article on its own thread, but I get an error message “Gannet”. I am afraid I don’t know what that means.


35 posted on 12/09/2017 9:34:58 PM PST by jeannineinsd
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To: jeannineinsd

We are forbidden to post anything from Gannett.


36 posted on 12/09/2017 9:36:29 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: Maudeen

Weigel was a JournOlist member and was let go by WP for some of his posts to the list during the 2008campaign. However they hired him back a few years later. He also took part in covering (bashing) the tea party activities regularly.


37 posted on 12/09/2017 9:37:15 PM PST by georgiarat (The most expensive thing in the world is a cheap Army and Navy. - Carl Vinson)
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To: georgiarat

Before that, he was a regular contributor to Reason. More than once he was accused of being a statist and finally left for the WaPo, confirming the low opinion others held of his politics.


38 posted on 12/09/2017 9:39:48 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: Publius

Well, I guess that explains why my post wouldn’t go through. Thank you for your response, I didn’t understand what that meant.


39 posted on 12/09/2017 9:44:17 PM PST by jeannineinsd
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To: jeannineinsd

Click on “Copyright List” at the top of the page, and you’ll see the publications that have put restrictions on what we can post.


40 posted on 12/09/2017 9:45:49 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon.)
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