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‘You Can’t Make This Stuff Up’: CNN Analyst Says After Going Viral For Making Up A Story About Republicans
Daily Caller ^ | January 22, 2020 | SCOTT MOREFIELD

Posted on 01/24/2020 12:05:20 PM PST by Mount Athos

CNN political analyst Joe Lockhart experienced backlash Wednesday after he posted a “convo between two Republican Senators” on Twitter that he later claimed was “satire.”

“Overheard convo between two Republican Senators who only watch Fox News,” Lockhart, a former White House press secretary under former President Bill Clinton, wrote during Wednesday’s impeachment hearings. “‘[I]s 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.'”

Minutes later, Lockhart tweeted that he had “made up” the conversation, but insisted everyone knows “that’s exactly what they’re thinking.”

“You can’t make this stuff up. Actually they can and continue to make up stuff every day,” Lockhart tweeted after his “made up” conversation, referring to a different tweet about the president being out of the country.

The former White House press secretary’s tweet went viral for all the wrong reasons, with thousands of responses, most of which were highly critical of the CNN analyst:

The reaction was strong enough for another tweet telling everyone to “relax” because his tweet was “satire.”

Lockhart sent out another tweet several hours later lamenting that he’d “poked the bear” and now the “purveyors of Pizzagate and the Seth Rich conspiracy are lecturing me on honesty.”


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: joelockhart
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1 posted on 01/24/2020 12:05:20 PM PST by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

Schiffyism

Outright fraud in the media as they witchhunt and lynch the political opposition.


2 posted on 01/24/2020 12:07:04 PM PST by a fool in paradise (We need a tax to stamp out Communism- If you espouse Marxism weÂ’ll redistribute all of your money.)
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To: Mount Athos

Like a maniac shooting flaming arrows of death is one who deceives their neighbor and says I was only joking. — Psalm 26:18-19


3 posted on 01/24/2020 12:09:07 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Mount Athos

Joe Lockhart = paid liar


4 posted on 01/24/2020 12:09:10 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Mount Athos

“Minutes later, Lockhart tweeted that he had “made up” the conversation, but insisted everyone knows “that’s exactly what they’re thinking.”

Yeah, because we’re all mind readers. Just like that episode on Gilligan’s Island.


5 posted on 01/24/2020 12:09:52 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: Rurudyne

Sorry ... Proverbs 26:18-19


6 posted on 01/24/2020 12:10:00 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: blueunicorn6

Democrat journalist ... pretty much the same difference these days


7 posted on 01/24/2020 12:11:17 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Mount Athos

It’s safe to assume that 99% of what you hear from the legacy media is tainted by bias, they are Left Wing activists, that’s what they do.


8 posted on 01/24/2020 12:13:04 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Mount Athos

It’s called “satire” after they’ve been caught lying.


9 posted on 01/24/2020 12:14:45 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Like when Schiff read a “transcript” of the Ukraine phone call in the HofR. When PDJT released the actual transcript, Schiff claimed his was “satire”.


10 posted on 01/24/2020 12:19:53 PM PST by hanamizu
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11 posted on 01/24/2020 12:24:42 PM PST by simpson96
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12 posted on 01/24/2020 12:25:43 PM PST by simpson96
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Overheard convo between two CNN fake journalists, “Hey have you ever stopped to think maybe we ARE just a bunch of democrat propaganda lackeys?” “What, are you crazy? Everybody already KNOWS that. Sheesh.”

Okay, maybe I made that up but you know that’s exactly what they’re thinking.


13 posted on 01/24/2020 12:32:02 PM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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14 posted on 01/24/2020 12:32:46 PM PST by justme4now (Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it)
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To: hanamizu

I don’t think there was much doubt Schiff was being satirical to anyone carefully listening to it. But he made no claim that it was, and read off a fake transcript to Congress and the American public, trying to make the president appear criminal. And Democrats still cannot admit that the actual transcript shows none of what they falsely claim. As Jesus said in the Bible, when you lie you speak the devil’s native tongue, and Democrats do it blatantly all the time.


15 posted on 01/24/2020 12:33:38 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Mount Athos

“OK I made up the convo but you know that’s exactly what they’re thinking.”

Oh I see, it’s not fake news, but news that’s real with only the facts being fake.

JACKASS.


16 posted on 01/24/2020 12:33:40 PM PST by Made In The USA (Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
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To: Mount Athos

Every conversation between two “journolistas” broadcast on CNN is a fake news conversation,


17 posted on 01/24/2020 12:34:40 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Mount Athos

Absent any consequences, this Schiff will continue.


18 posted on 01/24/2020 12:37:37 PM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: justme4now

Drop the mic, there is nothing more to be said.

Way to go Babylon Bee


19 posted on 01/24/2020 12:37:42 PM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Mount Athos

Fake but accurate...where have we heard that before?


20 posted on 01/24/2020 12:38:33 PM PST by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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