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You got what you wanted--NPR did a story on Seth Rich
Posted on 5/23/17 at 7:00 am
Posted on 5/23/17 at 7:00 am
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During the presidential campaign, unfounded conspiracy theories regularly made their way from the fringes into mainstream news reports. That problem has not gone away. Last July, a 27-year-old staffer for the Democratic National Committee was shot to death here in Washington. D.C. police say it was a botched robbery.
That has not stopped a runaway conspiracy theory that Seth Rich's death was an assassination, that Rich gave DNC emails to WikiLeaks and was killed to cover it up. The outlets pushing this narrative without evidence include Breitbart, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, where former House Speaker Newt Gingrich spoke about it yesterday morning.
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HAPIRO: Can we just start with a simple fact check of Gingrich's remark that nothing serious has been done to investigate Rich's murder? Is that true?
WEIGEL: That's not true. Police have investigated this, and unfortunately it is one of the many unsolved murders in D.C. right now. It's one of the many unsolved crimes in the neighborhood of Bloomingdale.
SHAPIRO: You've mapped out how this story moved from the fringes to the mainstream. It's a complicated journey. But in a nutshell, how did this happen?
WEIGEL: Well, it really began as soon as Rich was killed. There were questions on the Internet. And what pushed it into the next level was Julian Assange of WikiLeaks doing a very meandering interview with a Dutch TV station where he, to paraphrase him, said our sources take precautions. For example, there's this man Seth Rich in D.C. who was killed. The interviewer pressed if that meant Seth Rich was a source. Assange would not say yes. And that is what Assange has done since then.
What happened over the last week is that first FOX 5, a local Fox affiliate in D.C., said it had new information on the case that literally was based on one interview with an outside investigator who recanted his story within 48 hours. That did not stop Sean Hannity on Fox and then Newt Gingrich later on Fox from furthering this. And it did not stop, I think, one entity we haven't mentioned yet, which is most intriguing, the Russian Embassy of the United Kingdom tweeting about this.
SHAPIRO: And we should say Russia has an interest in this because they have been blamed for the DNC hack. And if they can say that it was somehow this conspiracy theory linked to Seth Rich that might remove some pressure from them.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 7:01 am to GetCocky11
How can the author (Ari Shapiro) dismiss Julian Assange so arrogantly? He doesn't qualify as "evidence"?
This post was edited on 5/23/17 at 7:02 am
Posted on 5/23/17 at 7:03 am to GetCocky11
This is a hit piece on Fox and other conservative media. How is this what I wanted?
Posted on 5/23/17 at 7:03 am to GetCocky11
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unfounded conspiracy theories regularly made their way from the fringes into mainstream news reports. That problem has not gone away.
In fact, it has become CNN's motto.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 7:05 am to GetCocky11
So NPR says the Seth Rich story is also Russians.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 7:12 am to GetCocky11
Republicans so want Pizzagate & Seth Rich to be true.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 7:26 am to GetCocky11
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the fringes
Equates to anytime you don't go along with the media
Posted on 5/23/17 at 7:36 am to GetCocky11
#pizzagate2
Just going to make Trumpkins look even more retarded. Amazing that this is possible but hey, they work hard at it.
Just going to make Trumpkins look even more retarded. Amazing that this is possible but hey, they work hard at it.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 7:38 am to GetCocky11
quote:Have to love this jewel though.
It's one of the many unsolved crimes in the neighborhood of Bloomingdale.
Weigel's use of the term "unsolved murders" is a reference to areas like DC's Carver Langston, Trinidad, H Street, or Shaw districts. He then conflates the term unsolved "crimes" in SR's Bloomingdale neighborhood. It's ridiculous.
If you own the truth, speak it.
If you are not certain, say so.
Instead this trash reporter attempts to mislead the audience into believing there were/are multiple unsolved murders in Seth Rich's neighborhood. There aren't. the entire Bloomingdale area averages less than 1 robbery every 10 days. Only a fraction of those involve use of a gun.
Last year there were 4 shootings in Bloomindale, one of which was SR.
Weigel is garbage.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 7:40 am to GetCocky11
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What happened over the last week is that first FOX 5, a local Fox affiliate in D.C., said it had new information on the case that literally was based on one interview with an outside investigator
This is false. Fox News had their own anonymous source inside the FBI who claimed this. Rod Wheeler heard it from Fox News.
I am not saying the source is legit or not, I am just clearing up what actually happened. Rod Wheeler didn't invent the story about Rich giving documents to Wikileaks. An anonymous FBI source told Fox that.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 8:06 am to GetCocky11
NPR...not wasting my time with them...
Posted on 5/23/17 at 8:29 am to GetCocky11
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You got what you wanted--NPR did a story on Seth Rich
I didn't ever want National Propaganda Radio to do a damn thing.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 8:30 am to GetCocky11
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The outlets pushing this narrative without evidence include Breitbart, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News
This board claims everyone but Fox and Breitbart does this.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 8:36 am to GetCocky11
It is easy to see how useful idiots buy into The Narrative so easily. They are literally hit with propaganda all day, every day from every mainstream media source.
Muh racism.
Muh Islamaphobia.
Muh Mexicans have the same rights as Americans.
Muh misogynist.
Muh anti-Semtism.
Muh taxes.
Muh Russians.
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During the presidential campaign, unfounded conspiracy theories regularly made their way from the fringes into mainstream news reports. That problem has not gone away.
Muh racism.
Muh Islamaphobia.
Muh Mexicans have the same rights as Americans.
Muh misogynist.
Muh anti-Semtism.
Muh taxes.
Muh Russians.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 10:21 am to GetCocky11
Serious question... what has more legs? Russia manipulating the Election or Seth Rich
I'm going Seth Rich.
I'm going Seth Rich.
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