FAKE NEWS: WaPo Claims

GURPS

INGSOC
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The Washington Post’s Adam Entous mischaracterized a flippant comment made in jest by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as a sincere expression of fear that Donald Trump is an agent of foreign influence operating on behalf of the Kremlin.

Entous’ Wednesday headline reads: “House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump,” decontextualizing the comment’s humorous flavor in order to push a narrative of Republicans secretly fearing Trump as an operative of a covert Moscow-driven coup.

The Washington Post transcribed the audio of a private conversation between McCarthy, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), and Republican Conference Chairman Cathy Rodgers (R-WA), opting against providing the full audio to its consumers.

Below is a broader context of the conversation omitted from the primary article (emphases added):

McCarthy: The Russians hacked the DNC and got the opp research that they had on Trump.

McCarthy: laughs

[Crosstalk]

Ryan: The Russian’s hacked the DNC…

McHenry: … to get oppo …

Ryan: … on Trump and like delivered it to … to who?


[Unintelligible]

McCarthy: There’s … there’s two people, I think, Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump… [laughter] … swear to God.

Ryan: This is an off the record … [laughter] … NO LEAKS … [laughter] … alright?!

[Laughter]

Ryan: This is how we know we’re a real family here.

Scalise: That’s how you know that we’re tight.

[Laughter]

Ryan: What’s said in the family stays in the family.

[clip]

The Washington Post and NBC News both present themselves as politically balanced and non-partisan news media outlets.


FAKE NEWS: WaPo Claims House Majority Leader Said Russia Paid Trump. He Was Obviously Joking.
 

vraiblonde

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I figured it was something like that.

Just one more example of WashPo and their biased crap "news" that they make up. But we'll note that the dumbasses have all picked it up and it's trending on social media so other dumbasses can gobble it up, repeat it, and gather more dumbasses.
 

tommyjo

New Member
It REALLY helps if you ACTUALLY READ what was written!!

Here is the line from the WaPo article that completely destroys GURPS' article and exposes Vrai's ever present search to confirm her bias....

It is difficult to tell from the recording the extent to which the remarks were meant to be taken literally.
This is taken directly from the 9th paragraph. They preceding 8 paragraphs are factual representations (unlike GURPS' post which is propaganda opinions.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...ipt-6pm:homepage/story&utm_term=.8d0fba26c7f7
 

vraiblonde

Board Mommy
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It REALLY helps if you ACTUALLY READ what was written!!

Here is the line from the WaPo article that completely destroys GURPS' article and exposes Vrai's ever present search to confirm her bias....

This is taken directly from the 9th paragraph. They preceding 8 paragraphs are factual representations (unlike GURPS' post which is propaganda opinions.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...ipt-6pm:homepage/story&utm_term=.8d0fba26c7f7


And yet here is the headline:

House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump

That's apparently all the mouth breathing Left can manage because that headline is ALL OVER the internet in various embellished forms. And WashPo knows that. They reeled psychos like you in like starving fish.
 

SamSpade

Well-Known Member
It REALLY helps if you ACTUALLY READ what was written!!

Here is the line from the WaPo article that completely destroys GURPS' article and exposes Vrai's ever present search to confirm her bias....

No it doesn't. It exposes the writer's bias, because it was clear to anyone else present what was meant.
Just because he was too stupid to include the reactions of others present to get the meaning and still presumed a huge conspiracy to throw an election INSTEAD -
that's not proof except of idiocy.

Seriously, you guys sound like all the loonies of the 60's and 70's who were sure there was a commie under every stone.
 

vraiblonde

Board Mommy
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Seriously, you guys sound like all the loonies of the 60's and 70's who were sure there was a commie under every stone.

And then it turned out that there WAS a commie under every stone.

They remind me of Nineteen-Eighty-Four - the uneducated reactionary brainwashed proles spewing their two-minutes hate every day.
 

Wishbone

New Member
And then it turned out that there WAS a commie under every stone.

They remind me of Nineteen-Eighty-Four - the uneducated reactionary brainwashed proles spewing their two-minutes hate every day.

They're getting WAAAAYYY more than two minutes.
 

Hijinx

Well-Known Member
It REALLY helps if you ACTUALLY READ what was written!!

Here is the line from the WaPo article that completely destroys GURPS' article and exposes Vrai's ever present search to confirm her bias....

This is taken directly from the 9th paragraph. They preceding 8 paragraphs are factual representations (unlike GURPS' post which is propaganda opinions.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...ipt-6pm:homepage/story&utm_term=.8d0fba26c7f7

Hook Line and Sinker, Baby.
You bit.
 
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