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A woman approached The Post with dramatic — and false — tale about Roy Moore. She appears to be part of undercover sting operation.; How the real news caught the fake news
Topic Started: Nov 27 2017, 06:38 PM (126 Views)
BuckFan

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic-%E2%80%94-and-false-%E2%80%94-tale-about-roy-moore-she-appears-to-be-part-of-undercover-sting-operation/ar-BBFQkBq

A woman who falsely claimed to The Washington Post that Roy Moore, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama, impregnated her as a teenager appears to work with an organization that uses deceptive tactics to secretly record conversations in an effort to embarrass its targets.

In a series of interviews over two weeks, the woman shared a dramatic story about an alleged sexual relationship with Moore in 1992 that led to an abortion when she was 15. During the interviews, she repeatedly pressed Post reporters to give their opinions on the effects that her claims could have on Moore's candidacy if she went public.

The Post did not publish an article based on her unsubstantiated account. When Post reporters confronted her with inconsistencies in her story and an Internet posting that raised doubts about her motivations, she insisted that she was not working with any organization that targets journalists.
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BuckFan

This is what separates the blog-o-sphere "news" sites and real media. Real media investigates its sources. It looks for collaboration to back up a source's story. It does not just publish articles without having a solid basis in facts and multiple sources. Project Veritis bought into Trump's lies on the MSM and thought it could pull one over on real journalists. It got exposed itself.
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Robert Stout
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I am surprised the Washington Post did not rush to print that hot story............ :lol:
Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid
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Dr. B
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They print what the Deep State wants them to print. Why would they trust some random woman off the street?
#BringWilmyBack
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George Aligator
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Dr. B
Nov 27 2017, 06:58 PM
They print what the Deep State wants them to print. Why would they trust some random woman off the street?
This ^^^ is a paranoid ideological statement without the slightest factual support. I'll gladly retract my statement if you can show that there is something more than a mere notion about a "deep state" as a pejorative synonym for career federal employees and that this "deep state" has expressed a preference which the WaPo is consciously following as editorial policy... [I didn't think you have any such evidence]

The concerted and coordinated effort to discredit Moore's accusers is standard counter-propaganda. Similar lies, exaggerations and implications are on threads all over this forum. They aren't going anywhere. Their only effect is to prop up wavering conservatives.
Conservatism is a social disease
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Dr. B
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I’m only saying that this is the narrative, and this story does not contradict that narrative. Why would the media run with a goofy year book signature that looks phony but show severe scrutiny with this woman? I don’t have evidence any which way, but I don’t see how this story helps the anti-Moore side.
#BringWilmyBack
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RaiderNation
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The 'media' didn't run with the goofy year book signature, Gloria Allred did.

Your lack of grasp of facts is staggering.
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Dr. B
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I’m only saying what the narrative is.
#BringWilmyBack
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RaiderNation
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No, you attributed it to the media, which is BS.
Will Munny: "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it..."
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Eddo26
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Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group
By Glenn Greenwald
We believe only what we want to believe.
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Eddo26
Nov 27 2017, 09:11 PM
Glenn doesn't like being labeled a Russian stooge but that is exactly what he has turned into.
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70-101
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James O'Keefe is a proven right-wing stooge, with a criminal record, who thinks lying is a form of personal expression; I'm glad he's been exposed once again.
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RaiderNation
Nov 27 2017, 08:11 PM
No, you attributed it to the media, which is BS.
Well that's how I heard about it....not by carrier pigeon...by the media.... :lol:
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Robert Stout
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RaiderNation
Nov 27 2017, 07:34 PM
The 'media' didn't run with the goofy year book signature, Gloria Allred did.

Your lack of grasp of facts is staggering.
I immediately saw the goofiness of the yearbook...The media eventually saw it too...Some people are bright and others are slow....... :shakeshead:
Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid
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Eddo26
Nov 27 2017, 09:11 PM
Millions have been deceived by Russiagate and the Washington Post............ :oyvey
Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid
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