Hoist With One's Own Petard The Novelty Act, himself, ushered in the age of ideological show business, tawdry, phony glitz in lieu of substantive reality, and so as he delivers his crybaby act at the release of dubious, delegitimating data in a paranoid frenzy against the free press, Democrats and Republicans - "Nazis!", he shrieks - we cannot help but imagine that his "thousands" of imaginary friends in New Jersey are now cheering the collapse of The Great Flatu. . "He doesn't have a birth certificate. He may have one but there's something on that, maybe religion, maybe it says he is a Muslim. I don't know. Maybe he doesn't want that. Or he may not have one.". "I have people that have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding," Trump said an interview that aired Thursday Morning. Asked if he has assigned people specifically to search in Hawaii, Trump said, "Absolutely!" The self-proclaimed p*ssy grabber's investigators should be reporting back to him with the shocking "news" just about the time he's keeping his promise to release his tax returns.
Somebody has been visiting Dictionary.com. Sorry I don't have anything more to add because, try as I might, I just cant find the point of this thread.
BuzzFeed Next Up For A Defamation Lawsuit? The transparency point BuzzFeed, Ben Smith claimed is the same rationale Rolling Stone’s Will Dana used to justify publishing the fake story, that ended in a major court loss. Ooops! Buzzfeed is in peril. Yesterday the site published unverified claims that President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, met with Russian operatives in Prague in August 2016. Given the current news environment concerning Russian hacking of Democratic National Committee emails, this is explosive news. BuzzFeed Editor in Chief Ben Smith, in an attempt to be the good publisher, released on Twitter his letter of rationale to BuzzFeed staff: And yet he help kill the Kahlidi video that showed the Saudi Prince guiding Barack Obama into Harvard, 20 years before his Presidential run, assisted by Valerie Jarrett's father in law, also a protegee of the communist, Franklin Davis. Note his comments about transparency and erring on the side of publishing. Even though one of their “ferocious” reporters had been “chasing specific claims in this document for weeks,” they still had “serious doubts about the allegations.” Smith had BuzzFeed publish the story anyway. “Publish and let the reader decide” might sound good—to everyone but the slandered entity, that is. Cohen claims BuzzFeed’s story is completely false. He says he has never been to Prague or Russia and that on the day in question he was at the University of Southern California with his son. A staff writer at The Atlantic, Rosie Gray, called him and asked. If Cohen can verify any of this, then BuzzFeed and Smith have a problem. By 11 p.m. last night, Gray had also called the USC baseball coach and verified that Cohen was in California on August 29. The transparency point Smith claimed in his letter to his staff is basically the same rationale former Rolling Stone Managing Editor Will Dana used when he added a clarifying note to “A Rape on Campus” instead of issuing a retraction. If you recall, Rolling Stone published a devastating story about a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia. As soon as it went live, simple queries by other journalists unraveled the story. A few weeks later, Dana added a note to the article stating that they had lost confidence in the main source. The lesson of Eramo v Rolling Stone is to err on the side of not publishing. In the first defamation suit to go to trial over the Rolling Stone rape story, the jury did not find against Rolling Stone for publishing a poorly investigated story, but for leaving the story up when they had lost confidence in their sources (although if the court had not found that the plaintiff wasn’t a public figure, then Rolling Stone would have been tagged for defamation on the original publication, as the author was.) How distinguishable is Dana’s “we aren’t sure of this story” note from Smith’s “we never verified this story after weeks of trying” note? At least Rolling Stone believed their story when first published. BuzzFeed has admitted up front that there are “serious doubts about the allegations.” Will another quick round of cursory investigations, such as credit card receipts, air travel logs, or USC eyewitnesss to Cohen’s presence in California on the day in question, unravel BuzzFeed’s scoop and expose the site to a defamation suit? Unfortunately for BuzzFeed, not only did Gray’s few hours on the phone do more to (un)verify the story than BuzzFeed’s ferocious reporting managed in weeks, but late last night 4chan, that swarm of master trollers, claimed the dossier is their handiwork. BuzzFeed got trolled. Journalism standards used to work against publishing rumors. Source verification was expected. But news media in the modern era has tossed most journalism standards in pursuit of speed. First site up with the hot take gets the clicks. And in the wake of the 2016 election, “journalists” have decided that they need to get better at influencing rather than reporting the news. In fact, this is how Smith closed his little letter: “But publishing this dossier reflects how we see the job of reporters in 2017.” As busybodies and gossips, apparently. http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/11/buzzfeed-next-defamation-lawsuit/ Popcorn!
Yep. I suspect many the folks crying over Hillary's loss are feeling like the aforementioned anatomy part. (or at least behaving so)
It's feeling as if the opposite numbers of his Birther crackpots will be eager to return the favour for the next quadrennium and, unlike his loonies, they'll have plenty of dirty fuel to feed the conflagration. His Hawaii investigators better report back very soon with their unbelievable findings if he hopes to distract from his plight.
Could be. The revelation that the US intelligent services are investigating the reports in the interest of national security was supposed to be suppressed. .
Actually, that isn't the issue at all. Read my link and post for enlightenment on the issues that result in their exposure.
Seeing where the mods moved this train wreck to gives one a clue. It is a self adoration fest, from someone in love with the sound of his own meaningless words.
Why would the smitten KGB suitor not wish to consummate the romance and have his way with the political ingénue? With President Obama completing his second term on a high (Rasmussen: 60% Approval / 38% Disapproval) and the coming out party of an already seriously compromised Trump (who fell short by nearly 3 million in the popular vote) we have a reversal of when the Dub absconded after having mired the US in a three-trillion dollar, fraudulently-pretexted nation building fiasco and amidst general economic collapse after eight years of his policies. With far more credibility that the crackpot "Birther" delusion, Trump as Putin's poodle is a meme that will keep him tweeting hysterically for some time. Are the salacious reports concerning the self-proclaimed pudenda-grasping fellow true? I have no idea, but even when Obama's birth certificate and contemporaneous newspaper birth announcements were made public, there was still a hardcore residue that could not accept the legitimacy of the first non-white-guy president. Devout worshippers of Trumpery should be prepared for the steadfast nature of the public's patriotic concern. This one has legs!
Kinda like when Obama kept winning and the right kept whining about Obama's birthplace and religion? Must suck to now be on the receiving end. I guess karma is a (*)(*)(*)(*)(*).
They're just flailing around trying to kick at nearby objects. Hopefully they get tired soon, it really is embarrassing for them. - - - Updated - - - On the contrary, it makes me laugh and laugh and laugh.
