Lies all the way down

[gcode]

Do you remember the phone call Trump made to the Georgia Secretary of State?
The one they impeached him for???
Turns out the reporting on this was nothing but lies and fabricated quotes from top to bottom.
What is worse.. the Republican governor of Georgia sat in on the call, knew the reporting was
a pack of lies.. and said nothing

If you can believe it, the Washington Post's dud of a "bombshell" isn't even the most scandalous thing about this episode in media malfeasance. No, the most scandalous thing is: Several newsrooms claimed they independently "confirmed" the original "scoop" with anonymous sources of their own.

NBC News reported it "confirmed The Post's characterization of the Dec. 23 call through a source familiar with the conversation."

USA Today claimed a "Georgia official speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters confirmed the details of the call."

ABC News reported: "President Donald Trump phoned a chief investigator in Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office asking the official to 'find the fraud' and telling this person they would be a 'national hero' for it, an individual familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News."

PBS NewsHour and CNN likewise appeared to claim they independently "confirmed" the story through their own anonymous sources.

But Trump never said those things. The sources either were terribly mistaken or lying.

The most likely scenario is ABC, the Washington Post, and others talked to the same person or group. It's either that or a bunch of people managed somehow to be wrong about a very specific claim, which is highly unlikely.

The uncomfortable questions we are left with now are: Whom were they all speaking to? How did this person or these persons get the details of Trump's private phone call wrong? Are there additional examples of the media reporting bad information provided by anonymous sources we don't know about, merely because there's no contradictory audio or video? Just how many anonymously sourced stories are fraudulent? If it can happen this easily, who is to say it doesn't happen often? Further, how many of these bogus stories have enjoyed the backing of supposed independent corroboration when, in fact, newsrooms most likely talked to the same person or people?

But wait, it gets even worse: CNN's correction to the imploded Trump/Georgia story leaves something to be desired. As our sister-site Twitchy notes, "The quote marks in the original story certainly seem to more than imply that it was a direct quote, but since it's CNN none of this should be surprising:"

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/438279/">https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/438279/

[RobertELee]

But it's okay,  WaPo retracted it.

[Jim at Gentex]

Nothing to see here, citizen.
Move along...

[gcode]

But it's okay,  WaPo retracted it.

only after a recording of the call was found in a trash can

[Jeff]

They lied about Trump? Say it isn't so!

[RobertELee]

But it's okay,  WaPo retracted it.

only after a recording of the call was found in a trash can

And only....what....Two months afterwards?
Shit like this proves any part of the media cannot be trusted. How many Smits and Tylers know this is even a story?

[Jon@NOWHERE]

Is this pertaining to what was being discussed here?

https://mastercamforums.com/OfftopicForum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=147">https://mastercamforums.com/OfftopicForum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=147

[pmartin]

Do you mean the recording of Trump talking on the phone that I heard excerpts of on NPR?

[Incogneeto]

Has this been fact checked by the Media???
















(sarcasm) don't be such a Dombass.

[Jeff]

Has this been fact checked by the Media???

Dumbsmits will be along shortly to give you a link to snopes.

[RobertELee]

How do multiple news agencies "verify" a false story? How do you have "independent fact checkers" claim a story to be true?

They don't....

https://bongino.com/numerous-liberal-outlets-claimed-to-independently-verify-debunked-wapo-story/?fbclid=IwAR0702lrQsMeJUOJu_tEigKmZKBa4x6VpIyPrPFSgAotGhNWq0eQ0NVyxDk">https://bongino.com/numerous-liberal-ou ... 0eQ0NVyxDk">https://bongino.com/numerous-liberal-outlets-claimed-to-independently-verify-debunked-wapo-story/?fbclid=IwAR0702lrQsMeJUOJu_tEigKmZKBa4x6VpIyPrPFSgAotGhNWq0eQ0NVyxDk

[Jim at Gentex]

"Oh, that's been debunked." - Liberal Mantra  
 

See?  It's easy to debunk anything just by uttering the magic words. :w00t:

[Del.]

Do you mean the recording of Trump talking on the phone that I heard excerpts of on NPR?

I've been listening to NPR the last few months for the first time. Talk about slanted!!!!

[pmartin]

Do you mean the recording of Trump talking on the phone that I heard excerpts of on NPR?

I've been listening to NPR the last few months for the first time. Talk about slanted!!!!

Well Yea.

[Jeff]

Do you mean the recording of Trump talking on the phone that I heard excerpts of on NPR?

I've been listening to NPR the last few months for the first time. Talk about slanted!!!!

Well it IS gov't funded.
So take that for what it is