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HipChick

(25,485 posts)
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 02:43 PM Mar 2017

Spicer lie about Evelyn Farkas

Spicer lied...again

http://www.snopes.com/2017/03/30/evelyn-farkas-leak/

Nothing said or repeated by Evelyn Farkas on 2 March 2017 was novel or ostensibly more revealing than the New York Times article published just before her interview, and Farkas described the actions of Washington operatives (not President Obama) to preserve extant intelligence about Russian efforts to undermine the presidential election (not to spy on Donald Trump).

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Spicer lie about Evelyn Farkas (Original Post) HipChick Mar 2017 OP
All of them lie all the time Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #1
Yes, this is a remarkable reference to rightwing FAKE NEWS... yallerdawg Mar 2017 #2
can you say george conway? elves? Gabi Hayes Mar 2017 #3
And the old Lee Atwater/Willie Horton School of Deception. yallerdawg Mar 2017 #4
black stone manafort....atwater! Gabi Hayes Mar 2017 #5

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
2. Yes, this is a remarkable reference to rightwing FAKE NEWS...
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 04:19 PM
Mar 2017

which has all the earmarks of Russian cyber warfare disinformation.

Rightwing media devotees know exactly what Spicer is talking about, and it barely gets a mention in traditional, professional media - which is then called a 'cover-up' and 'whitewash' again by the rightwing media.

This is an example of taking a germ or kernel of truth and turning it upside down to create a fictional narrative.

Hillary supporters are well aware how it works.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
4. And the old Lee Atwater/Willie Horton School of Deception.
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 04:31 PM
Mar 2017

The internet has changed everything.

Now they can disseminate falsehoods in the blink of an eye, get it trending and viral across social media, and we have an 'alternative reality' in an unbreakable bubble.

 

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
5. black stone manafort....atwater!
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 04:37 PM
Mar 2017

No charles black here, but this is truly a vile gathering of dead souls

the eyes! especially stone's

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