Discussion: Fox Removes Story Based On Conspiracy Theory About Murdered DNC Staffer

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Very interesting. My heart is not troubled in the least. Night all.

Assumes facts not in evidence.

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“The article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting,”

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Metamucil works when you find you have too much Hannity in your system.

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Where is Peter Thiel to finance a lawsuit to ruin Hanitty and Fox?

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“I believe there’s a special place in hell for the folks who are pushing the story.”

(In my best Johnny Olson:)

“Roger Ailes, come on down!”

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WTTG published an extensive update to the story the next day after Wheeler backtracked and told other news outlets that he got that information “from the reporter at Fox News” rather than from FBI sources, as the Fox affiliate claimed.

poor Marina Morocco

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Is the sick ghoulish fuckhead Hannity going to retract his bullshit and apologize?

Yeah, I thought not.

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Ha

So not happening

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“The article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting … Upon appropriate review, the article was found not to meet those standards.

When we run this through the FOX Translator it means: “Sean pulled this out of his butt to try and defend the indefensible Trump by smearing an innocent crime victim and his family. Normally, we’re OK with evil agitprop, but even this went way too far because Sean is not a news guy at all but just a thuggish Storm Trooper. Even so, mission accomplished because we rely on the fact that a lie travels around the world 4 times before the truth puts its boots on.”

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“The article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting,” Fox said in a brief statement.

It took some digging, but I found a photo of the Fox staff, hard at work on their editorial scrutiny:

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I think I read somewhere after Bill O Hannity might be the next to be shown the door. Perhaps that was some people’s wishful thinking floating out there, but who knows after this… his obsession with the Seth Rich conspiracy has been total disgrace.

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“The article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting,” Fox said in a brief statement."

Translation: “OH SHIT! We might get SUED AGAIN!! TAKE IT DOWN! TAKE IT DOWN NOW! (and somebody tell that asshole Hannity to shut the fuck up about it.)”

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It’s more of the Trump effect at work—as his lies, crimes, and absurdities pile up, there’ll be ever more humiliation and failure for those who want to be bitter-end supporters. They’ll have to follow him further and further down the rabbit hole, and many will never come back out.

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But before they got around to removing it…

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They all have jobs waiting for them on the nascent “Sinclair News Network” that the Mercers are pouring cash into building right now to assault FOX News from the Far, FAR, right-wing of lunacy.

They have been buying up TV stations and newspapers across the nation to push their Pro-Fascist Propaganda now that FOX is getting weak-kneed about it.

It will make FOX News look like MSNBC when it debuts on every single cable network (since they plan on offering it for FREE to the cable companies.)

This is their version of Sheldon Adelson’s “Israel Hayom” (Israel Today) that he publishes and offers FOR FREE to push his ultra-right-wing conspiracy theories and support Netenyahu and other far-right politicians in Israel.
It has been spectacularly successful in taking over as the number one paper in Israel and changing public opinions in the direction they want.
Not only does Propaganda work, but it works even better when it is FREE.

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As a person of Irish extraction, I hope they sue this bog mick back to the famine.

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Also Irish, ditto

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Damn. The Bastards have gotten to Fox. The conspiracy is bigger than we thought…

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