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New York Times reporter fact-checks McCarthy on whistleblower claims
The Hill ^ | 10/02/19 | Zack Budryk

Posted on 10/02/2019 6:40:17 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

A New York Times reporter fact-checked House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Twitter after McCarthy claimed an article reported that House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) “orchestrated with” the whistleblower at the center of a scandal involving President Trump.

“Chairman Adam Schiff just got caught orchestrating with the whistleblower before the complaint was ever filed. Democrats have rigged this process from the start,” McCarthy tweeted Wednesday, linking to an article co-authored by reporter Matthew Rosenberg.

“Nope. Not what the NYT reported. The whistleblower went to an intel committee staffer with a vague account of the complaint, and was told to file through proper channels,” Rosenberg tweeted in response.

“Schiff personally never knew the whistleblower’s identity. That’s hardly ‘orchestrating’ the complaint,” he added.

Trump and his allies have seized on the Times article, which also says the aide in question told the whistleblower to hire a lawyer and file a complaint through formal channels. “That’s what they’re supposed to do,” Schiff said in a tweet.

SNIP


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nyt; schiff; whistleblower
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To: yesthatjallen

Schiff4Brains said “we” many times. We, like royal we, or all wee-weed up?


21 posted on 10/02/2019 8:06:22 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: philman_36

Ya can’t say I’m not trying! :)


22 posted on 10/02/2019 8:06:47 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: TigersEye
You're doing a fine job at it, young man. {;^)
23 posted on 10/02/2019 8:14:13 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

Why, I'm gettin' so mean I scare myself sometimes!

24 posted on 10/02/2019 8:23:52 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: TigersEye
You seriously need to revamp your self image
if you want to be a mean old man...

...like me.

25 posted on 10/02/2019 8:32:01 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: yesthatjallen
I am not going to the NYT and read what the reporter wrote but from what I read here it doesn’t sound like rigorous fact checking.

Talking to staffers is not much in the way of fact checking.

Did he get to review meeting notes or desk calendars?

Did he get to review phone logs?

Taking staffers at their word as to what really happen doesn’t add up to fact checking in my book.

26 posted on 10/02/2019 8:32:52 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: fhayek

Schiff personally never knew...

Did they share adjoining seats on the Metro?


27 posted on 10/02/2019 8:33:04 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: TigersEye
At least get the Ogre part right.
Might I suggest this...

ROTFLOL

28 posted on 10/02/2019 8:34:47 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

You set a high bar, Old War Hammer!

But I’m still young. ish.


29 posted on 10/02/2019 8:40:08 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: TigersEye

L8R, old FRiend. Don’t let the snow get to ya this year.


30 posted on 10/02/2019 8:48:59 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Republican Wildcat

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.” - Ayn Rand


31 posted on 10/02/2019 9:08:44 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurker

Fact check means media lies. No exceptions.


32 posted on 10/03/2019 12:24:45 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: kiryandil

33 posted on 10/03/2019 1:42:52 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Luke21

“Fake. BUT ACCURATE!” - Dan Rather, CBS News, AP, HBO


34 posted on 10/03/2019 1:49:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Lurker
The NYT dog returns to its Ukrainian vomit.


35 posted on 10/03/2019 3:57:55 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Somewhere in Hell Walter Durante is snickering.

L


36 posted on 10/03/2019 4:03:23 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: yesthatjallen; Lurker
History rhymes.


37 posted on 10/03/2019 4:15:31 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: a fool in paradise
 face 

with tears of joy face 

with tears of joy face 

with tears of joy

"truthiness"

38 posted on 10/03/2019 5:18:32 AM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: mass55th
Hearsay accuser at best. Had no first hand knowledge. Just spewing crap probably talked about over a drink in a bar. None of it would be allowed as evidence in a court of law, so why is it being allowed in the halls of the Federal Government

Because of Dems such as AOC (ex bartender) and lowlifes (list too long to place here) a bar is now a place of higher honor and respect than Congress. At least in bars they have bouncers to toss out babbling types to the sidewalk or street. Not so as "sgt.at arms" guys seem half asleep (as during Kavanaugh hearings when screeching, howling women scratched at the wooden doors in a mob.)

39 posted on 10/03/2019 7:37:00 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: realcleanguy
Schiffty spent 10 hours with Michael Cohen before his testimony, Schiffty took a phone call from pranksters claiming to be Russians with dirt of DJT and I’m supposed to believe he didn’t meet with the so-called whistleblower and prep him on what to do and how to get around not having first hand knowledge? Yeah.....okay.
40 posted on 10/03/2019 7:42:18 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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