Posted on 01/15/2017 10:24:07 AM PST by John Semmens
A bogus dossier alleging that Donald Trump paid Russian prostitutes to urinate on a hotel bed in Moscow has not had the impact that Trumps enemies had hoped. The scheme hatched by CNN came unraveled when the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper denied that the salacious document was prepared by any member of the U.S. Intelligence Community.
Despite the lack of any evidence to support the mystery dossiers claims, CNN went public with news of the existence of such a report hoping to insinuate enough dirt to damage the incoming administration while preserving its journalistic integrity by not actually publishing the content of the document itself. That task was undertaken by NBC-owned BuzzFeed.
CNNs anticipated ambush of the president-elect at his press conference earlier this week ran off the rails when Trump refused to accept any questions from Jim Acosta, the networks reporter at the event. The hyper-belligerent Acostas sustained effort to shout down everyone else in the room only earned him and CNN the label of fake news from Trump.
It was outrageous and completely inappropriate, a very distraught Acosta said afterward. Fake news is a term we invented to discredit right wing media. Trumps attempt to tag us with it is unprecedented. We are the ones who are qualified to establish what is fake and what is not. We are trained professionals. Neither Trump nor anyone else is qualified to make such a judgment. They are all just an amateurs.
What this country desperately needs is an official pre-publication vetting process, Acosta pleaded. Right now there is a proliferation of erroneous news throughout the Internet by an army of ignorant naifs. This needs to be stopped. We need a government agency like they have in China or France that is staffed by people who have the credentials validating their expertise to sift through content before it can be posted. That this wasnt accomplished when they had the majority in Congress is one of the Democratic Partys major failures during President Obamas tenure in office. Now theres no telling how anarchic things will get with the Republican holding both Houses of Congress and the presidency for the next two years.
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
https://azconservative.org/2017/01/15/doj-inspector-general-to-probe-fbi/
Nice.
It sure doesn’t take much distortion of reality to create satire these days.
Trump has their number. The difference is that he’s real, and they don’t know how to handle that.
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