Posted on 01/23/2020 7:42:27 AM PST by Red Badger
Propagators of fake news often have to be reminded of their place in the media world.
CNN political analyst Joe Lockhart had a viral Tweet today. To many of the thousands who liked and retweeted him, the conversation he pretended to overhear from Senate Republicans at the impeachment trial represented their delusional hope. It was a scathing rebuke of the echo chamber the left often believes Republicans exist in to perpetuate their conservative worldview.
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Joe Lockhart ✔ @joelockhart
Overheard convo between two Republican Senators who only watch Fox News. "is this stuff real? I haven't heard any of this before. I thought it was all about a server. If half the stuff Schiff is saying is true, we're up shit's creek. Hope the White House has exculpatory evidence 37.8K 1:13 PM - Jan 22, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy
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The Tweet immediately took off as those cheering on the House Democrats today in the Senate read his post and believed it. Never mind that it was as far-fetched as a Monty Python storyline. They believed it because they wanted to believe it. They suspended disbelief willfully in hopes that their ultimate goal – the removal of President Trump from office – could actually be happening.
It was, of course, fake. Lockhart admitted it 9 minutes later, an eternity in Twitter time. At that point it had already triggered Twitter’s amplification algorithm and was being presented in tens of thousands of feeds. The original Tweet is currently at 5,000 retweets. The admission that it was fake is under 500.
Conservatives on Twitter reacted harshly.
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Joe Lockhart ✔ @joelockhart · 20h Replying to @joelockhart
Ok maybe I made up the convo, but you know that's exactly what they're thinking.
Tim Young ✔ @TimRunsHisMouth
Did I tell you the one about the CNN analyst who spread a false narrative, watched it go viral, then waited 10 minutes to admit he made it all up?
This is the bullshit that discredits news organizations. 2,700 4:56 PM - Jan 22, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy
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Here’s the biggest problem with fake news like this. People will take him seriously. It’s a common tactic used almost exclusively by the left to make false, outrageous statements to get maximum exposure, then retract or correct them later, at which point the correction gets next to zero exposure. Lockhart took the “just kidding” route. It’s this type of despicable move that reinforces our contention that most mainstream media outlets really are just fake news. In fact, his false satire was called out by the undisputed kings of conservative satire, the Babylon Bee.
What Joe Lockhart did was a microcosm of how mainstream media operates today. Fake news is ugly in all of its forms, but Lockhart’s maneuver is exceptionally disgraceful. Nevertheless, he’ll feel no shame.
CNN is apoplectic over the fact that people are bored and Schiff isn’t changing any mind’s.
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Is schitt still talking?
(I’m not watching.)
Sooo.... What was the definition of “libel” again?
That has come back to haunt us all hasn’t it? Poor old gropey guy. He was a saint compared to Biden for goodness sake. Biden belongs on a sex offender registry and farther than 500 feet from any elementary schools.
"Fake but accurate".
"Truth over facts".
CNN Analist.and Propaganda Secretary for Slick Willy.
Thank you.
Unfit for airtime -- but when was he, really?
Partisan Media Shills update.
He’s proud of himself and getting lavish praise on his twitter account.
it was beyond dumb
It’s this type of despicable move that reinforces our contention that most mainstream media outlets really are just fake news.
At lease we have a President who will call them that very directly and more and more of us are tuning them out of disregarding their “ gotcha headlines”
Never, NEVER, NEVER forget that Joe Lockhart was/is a Clinton defender. He is 100% in league with the Luciferian/Soros/Deep State axis, as is Schiffty, NanPo, and Chuck U. Schumer.
What else is he lying about?
One day the mobs angry at these leftist propagandists/apparatchiks wont wait to even hang such betrayers.
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