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The Press Will Learn Nothing From the Russiagate Fiasco
Rolling Stone ^ | APRIL 23, 2019 | MATT TAIBBI

Posted on 04/25/2019 12:43:09 PM PDT by Mount Athos

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To: Mount Athos

There is no press. Just Democrat thugs pretending to be journalists.


21 posted on 04/25/2019 1:46:23 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: MuttTheHoople

From Rolling Stone?

he even linked all of the “walls are closing in” and “beginning of the end” Youtube montages LOL


22 posted on 04/25/2019 2:10:57 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (1K very)
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To: marktwain

The con is all about getting Trump out of office. They will NEVER give up the con. They must be completely discredited and destroyed.


23 posted on 04/25/2019 2:22:20 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Hate prevents any type of learning, reflection, etc.


24 posted on 04/25/2019 2:30:34 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Sa-teef
If it's from Rolling Stone you know it's gonna be baloney so never mind.

You need to learn how to read before you diss an article! This so-called "baloney" from Rolling Stone is a fair assessment of how biased the media has been and how ashamed of themselves they should be. It also correctly points out that the media is so out of it that they won't learn from their mistakes.

The one major point that this guy misses is that a penitent media would and should out the anonymous sources which fed them bogus information for the last 2 years.

25 posted on 04/25/2019 2:33:21 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: the_Watchman
"....You need to learn how to read before you diss an article!"

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I read enough of it to see his greatest remorse is that the biased reporting which has been exposed may actually help Trump...and he definitely doesn't like that.

Classic attack on another board member for expressing his view. You have a right to "lub Rolling Stone" all you wish. I find most everything I have read there as one sided and strongly leaning to the left.

26 posted on 04/25/2019 3:18:33 PM PDT by Sa-teef
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To: Mount Athos

This wasn’t a “Screw Up”. The press conspired with the democrats to subvert an election. And that effort was down to the level of telling “reporters” what words to use. And the “reporters” are so brazen or stupid they all use the same words across all channels and times. This is treason
not free speech and the perps should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.


27 posted on 04/25/2019 3:20:43 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Mount Athos

The article is based on a false assumption - that these are “journalists” and “reporters” in the classic sense, who were merely naive or wishful in trusting their “sources,” and so were “misled.” (And should be “furious” as a result.)

These “reporters,” in order to hold on to their jobs, follow a slant that is determined in advance by their bosses. The editorial board and owners determine first of all what “the story” is, and then send out their reporters to find “facts” to confirm it.

The NYTimes and Washington Post are outlets for CIA propaganda. They print what the CIA wants people to believe.


28 posted on 04/25/2019 5:40:34 PM PDT by RAldrich
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To: Sa-teef
I find most everything I have read there as one sided and strongly leaning to the left.

Taibbi is the New Journalism's only honest reporter since Tom Wolfe and P.J. O'Rourke. Unlike the rest of the latte Stalinists at Rolling Stone, Taibbi is a liberal who has actual standards. He's equivalent to Nat Hentoff, who wrote for decades for the notoriously Communist Village Voice. A self-described atheist, Hentoff wrote on three subjects: jazz, Constitutional rights, and abortion. For the last 30 or 40 years of his life, he was fervently, insistently pro-life--because he saw that all Constitutional rights depend on the first one. The moonbats at the Voice hated that about him, but Nat had a following, and they feared his integrity.

We invited him to speak to a group of young Catholics once, and he was great. RIP, Nat.

29 posted on 04/25/2019 5:57:03 PM PDT by SamuraiScot (am)
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To: Mount Athos

The Mueller report makes clear reporters were sold wolf whistles over and over, led by reams of unnamed official sources who urged them to see meaning in meaningless things and assume connections that weren’t there.

“Oh, Bull Shiite.

They looked at the Rorschach Test and saw what they wanted to see”


30 posted on 04/26/2019 1:46:29 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: Lurkinanloomin; All

Partner, I agree with your points and we must fight them to the death.

We will not let this country become the next Mexico, end of story.

Mexico exists only because of the U.S.A. and it has always been a corrupt C-R-A-P hole!!!

31 posted on 04/28/2019 7:32:52 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (God Bless Texas...)
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To: Mount Athos
First, Trump did not look like a "brainless goon and thug." He spoke out of righteous anger and frustration over being screwed, expressed totally appropriate concerns and suggestions.

Second, the 'press' wasn't conned. It was a partnership. No less than the NY Times decreed that the 'threat of Trump' meant that the 'old journalistic standards' no longer applied. The 'press' screwed the pooch. No more, no less. It continues today.

32 posted on 04/29/2019 4:00:19 AM PDT by gogeo (Liberal politics and mental instability; coincidence, correlation, or causation?)
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