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CNN’s Joe Lockhart makes up Senate GOP ‘convo.’ Conservatives bring down the hammer.
NOQReport.com ^ | January 22, 2020 | JD Rucker

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

15.4K people are talking about this

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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

703 people are talking about this

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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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; clintonnonnews; cnn; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; joelockhart; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; twitter
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To: JerseyDvl

CNN is apoplectic over the fact that people are bored and Schiff isn’t changing any mind’s.

Is schitt still talking?

(I’m not watching.)


21 posted on 01/23/2020 8:11:05 AM PST by samtheman (I hope someone close to Trump is reading FR every day.)
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To: Texas Eagle

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-clinton-press-secretary-makes-up-story-about-gop-senators-discussing-trump-impeachment

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/joe-lockhart-impeachment-senate-gop/2020/01/23/id/950976/


22 posted on 01/23/2020 8:11:33 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Red Badger

Sooo.... What was the definition of “libel” again?


23 posted on 01/23/2020 8:11:49 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: PIF

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.


24 posted on 01/23/2020 8:13:36 AM PST by blackdog (Making wine cave appearances upon request.)
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To: Red Badger
"Ok maybe I made up the convo, but you know that's exactly what they're thinking".

"Fake but accurate".

"Truth over facts".

25 posted on 01/23/2020 8:14:07 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: Texas Eagle

https://noqreport.com/


26 posted on 01/23/2020 8:14:12 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Red Badger

CNN Analist.and Propaganda Secretary for Slick Willy.


27 posted on 01/23/2020 8:18:54 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Red Badger

Thank you.


28 posted on 01/23/2020 8:21:47 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Unfit for airtime -- but when was he, really?

Partisan Media Shills update.


29 posted on 01/23/2020 8:31:15 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Red Badger

He’s proud of himself and getting lavish praise on his twitter account.


30 posted on 01/23/2020 8:38:43 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: Red Badger

it was beyond dumb


31 posted on 01/23/2020 8:56:54 AM PST by SPRINK (G)
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To: Red Badger

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”


32 posted on 01/23/2020 9:00:29 AM PST by patriotspride
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To: Red Badger

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.


33 posted on 01/23/2020 9:11:19 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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To: Red Badger

What else is he lying about?


34 posted on 01/23/2020 10:07:03 AM PST by CPT Clay (Q sent me)
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One day the mobs angry at these leftist propagandists/apparatchiks wont wait to even hang such betrayers.


35 posted on 01/23/2020 1:31:09 PM PST by elbook
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