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Embarrassment for NBC News after Lester Holt apparently falls for North Korean propaganda
Fox News ^ | 1/24/18 | Brian Flood

Posted on 01/24/2018 5:34:52 PM PST by markomalley

NBC News is reeling after “Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt appears to have been badly fooled by North Korean propagandists -- giving a cheery report from a ski resort in the Hermit Kingdom that looked to be bustling when it was widely known to actually be a ghost town.

Holt -- who returned early from North Korea after scathing reviews -- reported for “Nightly News” from the Masikryong ski resort on Monday, a facility that is the brainchild of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and is typically empty. The resort, built to create the appearance of a prosperous nation, was largely deserted during peak 2017 ski season, according to multiple reports.

But for Holt’s appearance, the North Korean government appears to have brought in skiers — wearing identical outfits — and staged the scene, something Holt did not appear to realize. 


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fakenews; korea; lesterdolt; lesterholt; media; msm; nbc
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To: markomalley

I’m sure they didn’t have to work too hard to fool him or his fellow “fence posts”!


41 posted on 01/24/2018 6:10:19 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty

“There is no starvation in Ukraine ... hey! Where’s my Pulitzer Prize.?”

Oh, his family probably STILL has it, because it was never recalled.


42 posted on 01/24/2018 6:15:01 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: JBW1949

Will take a look when I have time.
Watching Hannity now.


43 posted on 01/24/2018 6:17:23 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: markomalley

I am surprised they didnt get footage of him in a nork aa gun turret.


44 posted on 01/24/2018 6:20:15 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: markomalley

I’ve watched two or three of these reports from NK.

I was wondering when Lester would step in it.

He did...


45 posted on 01/24/2018 6:21:04 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: markomalley

NOT a ski area, with any skiers.

Did not see ANY skiers actually skiing on any of the slopes, and only three on the bunny hill, one of which had already fallen down.

Maybe I am just not focusing, but I did not see ANY actual skiers..

None. Just two who actually knew how to stand up, skiing front of the television. And one who didn’t, apparently.

The media in America is completely, totally, 100% leftist supporters.

All of them.

Or I am just blind, and cannot see the skiers. But I don’t see them.


46 posted on 01/24/2018 6:25:33 PM PST by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: markoman

Holt can’t be that stupid but who knows? Agenda drives all to them. They find a bigger enemy in President Trump and traditional America as opposed to the barbarians of North Korea and other sh*tholes. The bigger special ed libtards are those who generate social media. They are a product of government education from the Clinton era up to now. They fuel the mass sheep who slurp it up.


47 posted on 01/24/2018 6:26:34 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: markomalley

North Korean propagandists fool American propagandist.
#FakeNews at 11:00.


48 posted on 01/24/2018 6:27:11 PM PST by TigersEye (#ReleaseTheMemo)
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To: markomalley

Cut the guy some slack. He’s an affirmative action hire expected to function beyond his abilities.


49 posted on 01/24/2018 6:28:37 PM PST by PAR35
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To: JBW1949

That’s right. You have to be in your right mind to consider the rational bounds of what is possible, which certainly includes the deception described. It is not only possible, it makes sense!


50 posted on 01/24/2018 6:36:57 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: cba123
The media in America is completely, totally, 100% leftist supporters.

You understate the case.

51 posted on 01/24/2018 6:39:08 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: af_vet_1981

Let me ask you this. Kim Jung UN has openly threatened a nuclear attack on the United States of America including an overt threat at an EMP.What would you do? duck?


52 posted on 01/24/2018 6:42:14 PM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: raiderboy
What are you doing ?

Go enlist.
53 posted on 01/24/2018 6:48:11 PM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: WayneS

They weren’t called useful idiots for no reason.


54 posted on 01/24/2018 6:49:08 PM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Bernard
I often tell people that the memory is the second thing to go, and I forget what goes first.

I'm in that terrain now, everything seems a little strange and uncertain ... We now return you to your regularly scheduled program!

55 posted on 01/24/2018 6:49:12 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: af_vet_1981

We have a paid military that is painfully weak but lets get them out of the garage and drive them around to crush these communist bastards before the kill millions of Americans laughing at you. Nuke them NOW!! Remove cowards here!


56 posted on 01/24/2018 6:53:44 PM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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This is obvious propaganda, everybody knows grobal warming would have melted any ski srope


57 posted on 01/24/2018 6:58:35 PM PST by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: Mean Daddy

Lester is not the sharpist rock in the box.


58 posted on 01/24/2018 6:59:43 PM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: markomalley

Holt’s obviously been brainwashed in to a Manchurian reporter.

Under no circumstances should he be allowed access to Pres. Trump.


59 posted on 01/24/2018 7:02:06 PM PST by Rebelbase (1/12/18 read the word 'shithole' more times in one day than in my entire life up to that that point.)
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To: Kozy

Pefore his promotion to lead anchor, he was known as iron-ass Holt.
He could remain on scene or in studio for hours and keep on talking...


60 posted on 01/24/2018 7:02:29 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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