Huffington Post really is going out of their way to impugn Maddow's journalistic integrity

[still_one]

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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rachel-maddow-defends-niger-ambush-theory_us_59ebbfa8e4b00f08619f4390?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

[MFM008]

1. i saw that

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[chillfactor]

2. they can say all the want...

Rachel has a much better, stronger viewership than that rag.

[onecaliberal]

3. Fuck that rag, theyre not fit to wipe her booty.

[Bradshaw3]

4. I like Maddow and she has done a great job on Russia - but

The piece raises some questions I think she should answer.

[Awsi Dooger]

9. She can't afford to make a mistake like this

I've seen it everywhere the past few days, notably on sports sites I frequent. The rightwingers are using it as ammo that the left is no different. Rachel has been relentlessly mocked on those sites.

I'm not a fan of her style but Rachel does some good work as long as she has plenty of time to decipher something, and the topic has nothing to do with an actual election.

[WinkyDink]

12. Gee, I'll bet her being a gay woman has nothing to do with their vitriol.

[Squinch]

20. And exactly what mistake did she make? The NYT just backed up her story. So tell

us where she went wrong.

[nolabear]

5. Ive seen several really odd HuffPo articles lately.

I don’t know what’s up but they seem odd all of a sudden.

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. That article made no sense at all.

It relied on some college professors that appeared to have no more knowledge of the situation that a guy surfing Wikipedia. Huffington is of the 90s

[Squinch]

19. And a "PhD candidate." Which could be a cheeto basement dweller for all we know.

[moondust]

7. CFR seems to support Maddow.

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Why are the Chadian troops leaving? It is suggestive that the departure comes in the aftermath of the Trump administration’s imposition of a travel ban for Chadian nationals coming to the United States. At the time, Chadian spokespersons warned that the ban could affect its security commitments.

~

Chad is under the thumb of strongman Idris Deby. It is possible that Deby has taken the Trump administration travel ban as a personal insult, and that he is retaliating by withdrawing Chadian troops from Niger.

https://www.cfr.org/blog/chad-removes-hundreds-soldiers-nigerien-region-affected-boko-haram

Furthermore, if Deby was really mad and wanted to get even with this "ally" who just kicked them in the teeth for no apparent reason with a travel ban, on their way out the door he or one of his troops might even hand over some intelligence about that "ally's" troops remaining in Niger.

"You screw us and we'll screw you and we'll call it even."

[KY_EnviroGuy]

11. K&R - A wannabe dictator screwing with a real one!

Thanks for the CFR link.

[ariadne0614]

22. Let us not forget the implied Rex/Exxon connection to the travel ban.

Rachel connected this very big dot by reporting that Chad forced Exxon to the pay back taxes they owed, which upset them very much. It was a lot of money.

[moondust]

24. Indeed.

I fear the travel ban against Chad may have actually been a case of abusing the organs of government (similar to Nixon) to inflict punishment on a party involved in a private sector dispute with the SOS's oil company.

[Laffy Kat]

8. HP is so horrible now anyway.

It used to be my #1 to get news and now it's just crap.

[still_one]

10. It thrives on sensationalism

[JI7]

13. isn't HP mostly entertainment tabloid and the site is full of clickbait

[coolsandy]

14. Looks like Russian bots have taken over HP.

[cwydro]

15. The word you meant to use is impugn.

Words matter.

[still_one]

17. you are right, thanks

[coolsandy]

16. Why don't they go after the NYT too?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/us/travel-ban-reaction.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FYemen&action=click&contentCollection=world&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=9&pgtype=collection

They just about confirmed what Rachel said.

[Squinch]

18. Their "experts" are a PhD candidate and an assistant professor. Yes, odd doings

over at Huffington Post. They really had to reach low to get this story, and they ran it anyway.

[Vinca]

21. I rarely read HuffPo anymore.

And it doesn't help that their newly-configured site doesn't seem to work for me. The drop down menu doesn't work and the comment section doesn't work. There's probably a solution, but I don't care enough about the site to fix it.