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2017 Lie of the Year: Russian election interference is a 'made-up story'
Politifact ^ | 12-12-2017 | Angie Drobnic Holan

Posted on 12/24/2017 2:51:18 PM PST by mission9

A mountain of evidence points to a single fact: Russia meddled in the U.S. presidential election of 2016.

In both classified and public reports, U.S. intelligence agencies have said Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered actions to interfere with the election....(read more)

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


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: angiedrobnicholan; blamegame; clintonnonnews; cnn; fakenews; hillary; hillary2016; holan; media; mediawingofthednc; msm; partisanmediashills; politifact; politifake; russia; trump; trumprussia
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Tripling down, on the doubling down of Penultimate fake news, shape the narrative journalism, NPR spent an hour in their "On the Media" segment, trashing the President as a liar, and touting the fine work of the FBI, and journalists. Barf alert
1 posted on 12/24/2017 2:51:19 PM PST by mission9
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To: mission9

“Politifact”? Lemme guess...a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Washington Post?


2 posted on 12/24/2017 2:55:11 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Remember: All Cultures Are Equal!)
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To: mission9

If hacking into DNC computers is meddling, it’s probably true. The big lie is that the Russians helped Trump win.


3 posted on 12/24/2017 2:55:28 PM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: Gay State Conservative

If you’ve ever had a Drobnic on your Holan you know just how painful it can be.


4 posted on 12/24/2017 2:57:36 PM PST by vette6387
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To: mission9

Politifact?

How about Politifake?


5 posted on 12/24/2017 2:58:21 PM PST by sevlex
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To: Spok

They still need to show us the “mountain” of evidence. “Probably true” isn’t evidence.


6 posted on 12/24/2017 3:02:12 PM PST by Socon-Econ
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To: mission9

I’m willing to bet they never meddlesome any more than they did in 2012, 2008 or 2004.


7 posted on 12/24/2017 3:04:00 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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$ 5 ~ sevlex wrote: How about Politifake? Politifiction!
8 posted on 12/24/2017 3:06:15 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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There was an avid discussion of DNC hacking through the summer of 2016, ON NPR. I remember their reporting well. At the time, the reporting seemed to be well informed and unbiased. The cybersecurity experts, WERE DEFENDING Obama, who had made pronouncements as to the dubious fear, that the Russsians could somehow affect a US election.

One key detail, was that in the narly world of Cyber hacking, hackers, could, and often would, leave bread crumbs, that would implicate OTHER players, in order to cover their tracks. The Cyber security experts, asserted that REAL STATE SPONSORED RUSSIAN HACKERS, were just too good, to leave behind any traces of a breach that they had accomplished, so the implication was that others were doing the dirty work, for their own reasons.

The gist of the reporting, was that Obama was correct, and that wikileaks, Seth Richards, and others were not working with Russia, and that in any event, there was not threat to the Election, because team Obama, in charge of all US intelligence assets, made sure of it in real time.


9 posted on 12/24/2017 3:07:17 PM PST by mission9 (It is by the fruit ye shall know.)
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I’m willing to bet they never meddled any more than they did in 2012, 2008 or 2004.

Or 1996.

Wait, that was us.


10 posted on 12/24/2017 3:11:41 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Gay State Conservative

“Politifact”? Lemme guess...a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Washington Post?

and the WP is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, arch anti-conservative and DJT hater


11 posted on 12/24/2017 3:13:55 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Drew68

And they meddled against Netanyahu.


12 posted on 12/24/2017 3:14:18 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: mission9

The leftwing Tampa fishwrap denies leftwing shenanigans.


13 posted on 12/24/2017 3:14:40 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Close.
A “service “ of The Tampa Bay Times.
Same political propaganda though.


14 posted on 12/24/2017 3:18:19 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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Yes, it looks pretty painful, judging by her expression.

Angie Drobnic Holan

15 posted on 12/24/2017 3:20:39 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: mission9

Orwellian. That is all.


16 posted on 12/24/2017 3:23:52 PM PST by proust (Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.)
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Angie Drobnic Holan is the editor of PolitiFact. She previously was deputy editor, and before that a reporter for PolitiFact, helping launch the site in 2007. She was a member of the PolitiFact team that won the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the 2008 election. She has been with the Tampa Bay Times since 2005 and previously worked at newspapers in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and New Mexico.

NEWSFLASH: Hillary Lost!


17 posted on 12/24/2017 3:28:07 PM PST by McGruff (Lock Her Up! In a Padded Cell!)
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To: mission9
PolitiFact


18 posted on 12/24/2017 3:28:13 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: mission9
PolitiFact


19 posted on 12/24/2017 3:28:14 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: mission9

A mountain of evidence points to a single fact: Russia meddled in the U.S. presidential election of 2016.

Well, that isn’t the story you concocted and have been promulgating for over 1 year

Your BS story is that Trump was unlawfully and illegally colluding with the Russians to win, which is a bald-faced lie


20 posted on 12/24/2017 3:31:19 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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