The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
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The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
In an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd asks Clapper if there is evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia. “Not to my knowledge,” replied Clapper. He adds that he saw “no evidence of such collusion” while he was in the Obama administration.
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Obama also said Trump’s suggestion of a “rigged election” was unheard-of. “I have never seen in my lifetime or in modern political history any presidential candidate trying to discredit the elections and the election process before votes have even taken place,” said Obama in the October 2016 news conference. “It’s unprecedented.” (Except that Hilla
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Some of the most successful character assassins tend to speak and think in paranoid undertones—justifiably so. After all, they operate in a realm where people really are out to get one another.
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Although Media Matters initially described itself, inauspiciously, as a progressive research and information center, it quickly earned its stripes as a pro-Democrat smear group. It exists to obliterate conservative thought and eradicate any person, place, or thing that’s perceived to be a threat—particularly to Hillary Clinton throughout her two pr
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Whatever the answer, they set about arguing that it’s wrong. Not worthy of a story. Old news. Disproven. Settled science.
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Still, it’s quite a leap for the news media to accept the notion that Russia actually got Trump elected, at least based on the public evidence at the time. First,
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“Donald Trump is out of time,” concludes the Daily Beast’s Goldie Taylor. “There may be three months to go until Election Day. But the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is all but over.” “Is
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In fact, if I were to isolate Brock’s single most important achievement, it would be his uncanny ability to integrate Media Matters into the mainstream news culture as a news source. No other partisan group has been as successful at influencing the media and passing off its partisan work as news, or a newsworthy product.
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From the viewpoint of global warming activists, Pielke’s views had to be crushed.
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
There’s record of only one reporter in the whole bunch pushing back: the late Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed (who died nine months later in a fiery, single-car crash).