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Trump demands, gets apology from Washington Post reporter
dailymail.co.uk ^

Posted on 12/09/2017 4:19:06 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Edited on 12/09/2017 4:50:34 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - President Donald Trump has demanded and received an apology from a Washington Post reporter over a photo of Trump's Florida rally on Friday.

Trump tweeted Saturday that ".@DaveWeigel @WashingtonPost put out a phony photo of an empty arena hours before I arrived @ the venue, w/ thousands of people outside, on their way in." The post included photos of the Pensacola venue as Trump spoke.


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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: apology; compost; daveweigel; fakenews; florida; journolist; lyingliars; media; msm; partisanmediashills; pensacola; trump; twitter; wapo; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost; weasel; weigel
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To: Sub-Driver


and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

41 posted on 12/09/2017 6:09:44 PM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Fhios

No, your error is thinking that it’s news in the first place.

It’s not. It’s enemy propoganda, and this is just another example.


42 posted on 12/09/2017 6:12:23 PM PST by jimjohn (2nd American Civil War: ongoing since January 20, 2017.)
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To: Fhios

Retractions damage their credibility. I can think of no reason media would bring that on themselves.


43 posted on 12/09/2017 6:21:11 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: Fhios

“I’m beginning to think these news errors are intentional.”

They are intentional, it is not news and there are no errors.

It is leftist globalist propaganda.


44 posted on 12/09/2017 6:33:46 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: All

They did this many, many times during the campaign.

They’d show up right as people were just entering the arenas and show the empty seats.

Meanwhile, Hildabeast couldn’t draw flies to her events. Tim Kaine went to one where less than a dozen people showed up.


45 posted on 12/09/2017 7:15:34 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Fhios

They’ve always been intentional.

It’s enemy propaganda. Always.


46 posted on 12/09/2017 7:23:04 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Fhios

The rabid Trumpnuts don’t pay attention to the retractions, they only believe the psychotic visions of a world where Trump never was...they are seriously mentally ill.


47 posted on 12/09/2017 7:30:45 PM PST by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Glenn Greenwald destroyed CNN, CBS and MSNBC on The Intercept.


48 posted on 12/09/2017 8:18:32 PM PST by clintonh8r (I've been banned from TheHill.com. #Proud)
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To: Sub-Driver
WINNING!

Washington Post Reporter Apologizes For 'Bad Tweet' After Trump Calls Him Out

Dave Weigel

49 posted on 12/09/2017 9:01:19 PM PST by blam
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To: Sub-Driver
".@DaveWeigel @WashingtonPost put out a phony photo of an empty arena hours before I arrived @ the venue

He misspelled "weasel"...

50 posted on 12/09/2017 9:07:15 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Trump will have so much material just on the fake news alone for his 2020 campaign videos.


51 posted on 12/09/2017 9:12:38 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: Sub-Driver

The Washington Post reporter is a little sh*t... He probably apologized because his paper didn’t want to get sued.


52 posted on 12/09/2017 9:19:54 PM PST by GOPJ (Katie Couric - please do a 'special' on NBC women who 'put out' to move up the corporate ladder...)
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To: sparklite2

The initial fake ‘story’ gets prime headline or top of the hour coverage.

Their retractions get run in section ZZZZ, page 12184 or in a brief 4 second soundbite at the end of a broadcast. They’re used to (and indeed counting on) nobody noticing or being easily able to explain it away.

New Media is focusing an electron microscope on them now. Dinosaur Media doesn’t know what to do and keeps on with the same thing they’ve always done because it worked for them before.


53 posted on 12/09/2017 10:53:46 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Weigel was hired as the Wash Post’s hitman to augment the others, E. J. Dionne and Mr. UberSmearjob Dana Millbank.

Looks like Weigel got caught with his journalistic pants down.


54 posted on 12/10/2017 1:05:02 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Fhios

Yes, they are absolutely intentional. They are designed to get the worst possible imagine set in the mind of the public - a lasting first impression that the defender is compelled to dispel. The only difference is that now we have a leader who will call the fecal little bitches out, but damage done either way. The left will lap it up like the ignorant socialist bastards they are.


55 posted on 12/10/2017 2:55:53 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Caipirabob; Arthur McGowan; BykrBayb

I have another theory too. It’s an either or situation.

Their sources are being burned by revealing planted disinformation.

I read this earlier about Schiff getting burned on the 4 or 14th email re: wikileaks. Or it was a leak test on the gang of eight.

BTW: Anybody notice that leaks have been down since Reince Priebus left? Steve Bannon left with him but I don’t think he was leaking phone call specifics like we first had.


56 posted on 12/10/2017 3:18:54 AM PST by Fhios (Down with your fascism, up with our fascism.)
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To: Sub-Driver

These lies have been propagated for decades and nothing was ever done about it. No one apologized and the press caught lying thousands of times simply put the occasional retraction in a buried location when they were threatened with lawsuits by those that could afford to be bled by the lawyers.


57 posted on 12/10/2017 4:53:04 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo...)
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To: Fhios

Could be. The Donald didn’t get to the top of the food chain without knowing how to root out challenges to his success.


58 posted on 12/10/2017 5:07:21 AM PST by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: Fhios

Some of these “incorrect” info nuggets ARE A SET-UP to catch a leaker.
The incorrect info is given to certain people and then they wait and watch....when the incorrect info turns up in a news story, they know who is leaking...this picture could be one of those set ups—who knows?


59 posted on 12/10/2017 5:42:32 AM PST by homegroan (Ambition can creep as well as soar.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Leftist apologies are a penny a gross....... worthless and insincere

Pain, real pain, is required to provoke retraction


60 posted on 12/10/2017 5:46:06 AM PST by Thibodeaux (2018 is looking good)
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