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WaPo, NYT Refuse to Return Pulitzers for Spreading Lies About Russia Collusion Hoax
Red State. ^ | May 17, 2023 | Mike Miller

Posted on 05/18/2023 6:41:16 AM PDT by george76

The Washington Post and The New York Times knew from the beginning that the purported Russia “collusion” story — the assertion that Donald Trump conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election — was a hoax,

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WaPo and the NYT garnered Pulitzer Prizes — the most prestigious award in American journalism — for their “deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage” of the Democrat-pushed hoax. Uh-huh. Deeply sourced from the likes of thoroughly discredited former FBI director, James Comey and others.

Moreover, both formerly-respected papers refuse to return the Pulitzers, following the release of the damning Durham Report, which concluded: “Neither U.S. nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”

Even worse, a WaPo spokesperson told Daily Mail the paper “stands by its reporting,” and absurdly insisted the report didn’t discredit its coverage of the crock-of-crap lies it continually sucked down — hook, line, and sinker. The New York Times ignored Daily Mail’s requests for comment.

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the left-wing media sock puppets not only knew they were being lied to; they loved every lying minute of it.

Amid calls for both outlets to return their Pulitizers in the wake of the Durham Report, their refusal to do so should surprise precisely no one; the smug gall is quintessential leftism in (non)-action

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Ted Cruz (Texas) were among Republicans calling on the discredited papers to return the Pulitzers.

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Cruz slammed both papers “for breathlessly spreading these ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ lies.”

In response to the release of the Durham Report, the FBI frantically released a statement, somewhere between revisionist history and outright lying:

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got caught with our TDS pants down and now we’re trying to cover our asses.

(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: bias; drivebymedia; enemedia; hoax; lies; media; mediabias; msn; newspapers; oldmedia; pulitzers; russiacollusion

1 posted on 05/18/2023 6:41:16 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Does anyone believe these newspapers? They are propaganda for the left.


2 posted on 05/18/2023 6:44:40 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: george76

Of course they don’t.

Mission accomplished.

Their goal was to undermine Trump’s (or any Republican’s) presidency and get him OUT OF OFFICE.

Which they did. The executive power is now in the hands of a Democrat and his appointed minions.

Mission accomplished. And they were rewarded for it.


3 posted on 05/18/2023 6:45:06 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: george76

They won a Pullet Surprise!.....................


4 posted on 05/18/2023 6:45:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: george76

They’re proud of them.


5 posted on 05/18/2023 6:46:09 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: george76
Still waiting for the NYT and the Pulitzer Board to do the right thing and take back the Walter Durante 1932 Pulitzer prize...
Walter Duranty (25 May 1884 – 3 October 1957) was an Anglo-American journalist who served as Moscow bureau chief of The New York Times for fourteen years (1922–1936) following the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War (1917–1923).

In 1932, Duranty received a Pulitzer Prize for a series of reports about the Soviet Union, eleven of which were published in June 1931. He was later criticized for his subsequent denial of the widespread famine (1930–1933) in the USSR, most particularly the Holodomor. Beginning in 1990, there were calls for the Pulitzer board to revoke Duranty's prize. The Pulitzer Board declined to revoke the award and in 2003 said the articles which it examined in making the award did not contain "clear and convincing evidence of deliberate deception"


6 posted on 05/18/2023 6:46:26 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: george76
WaPo and the NYT garnered Pulitzer Prizes — the most prestigious award in American journalism

It can't be that prestigious if they hand them out for lying to Americans. Unless they are now being honest and awarding journalists who commit the best lies and the most egregious fraud for their leftist activist cause.

7 posted on 05/18/2023 6:49:08 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: george76

They offending newspaper should file a lawsuit against the Clinton Foundation for reparations.


8 posted on 05/18/2023 6:52:12 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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9 posted on 05/18/2023 7:00:29 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

These people are worse than a golfer cheating to win the tournament. He knows he cheated and yet took the trophy anyway.

But again, these are democRATS, lying, cheating and deception is what they do.


10 posted on 05/18/2023 7:17:26 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Red Badger

They need a bullet surprise, actually.


11 posted on 05/18/2023 7:36:02 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: george76

It’s not a prestigious prize. It could be if the prizes were rescinded by the Pulitzer organization.


12 posted on 05/18/2023 7:45:45 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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I'm going to award the papers a

"bert Prize"

The

"bert"

is awarded to journalists who tell a whopper lie over and over until it becomes mainstream and accepted as truth
13 posted on 05/18/2023 7:51:29 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: george76

They effectively gave them to themselves. The Pulitzer board is not an independent objective body. It is part of the social bubble of elite media people, and Columbia J-school, which feeds them new personnel, plus revolving door professorships.


14 posted on 05/18/2023 7:57:13 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: george76

Pulitzer prizes for investigative journalism.

If there was no valid information to find, how did the NYT and WaPo find information to write the stories/articles? The answer is they didn’t find any information and they didn’t do any independent investigations. And as such, the stories and articles were nothing more than pablum.

But then again, recent history shows that pablum is what you get from both of them . . .


15 posted on 05/18/2023 8:45:20 AM PDT by MCSETots (at)
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To: george76

The Pulitzer is defined by activism, not accuracy. If anything it should be a shame to win one.


16 posted on 05/18/2023 8:58:22 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (/s)
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To: george76

why should they return their pulitzer propaganda awards?


17 posted on 05/18/2023 10:49:02 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: bert
Actually a competing 'prize' might be a good idea... seems editors of these silly 'newspapers' are too stupid to understand the only 'prize' worth having is the respect and trust of their readers.

But since New York Times and Washington Post editors ARE that stupid, someone like the Babylon Bee needs to come up with an alternative 'prize'.... 'Most biased piece' Most Un-name sources' 'Fewest facts that can be checked'... etc etc

18 posted on 05/18/2023 12:25:04 PM PDT by GOPJ (How many 'intelligence' goons & thugs live in mansions on $180,000 a year? And drive expensice cars?)
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