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2017-01-17 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2017-01-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10327 views ] Top

#1 ...because the network promoted a fake "dossier"...

No, CNN did not "promote" any such thing. The focus of their report was on whether Trump had been briefed on said dossier. (A report that appears to have turned out factual.) There is much to criticize CNN. Jim Accosta, his report, and his aggressive style in asking questions rank at the bottom - if at all. But hey, the Bots squeal like schoolgirls when DJ puts the screws to any media so it's probably in the WE's best intrest to suck up.

Posted by DepotGuy 2017-01-17 09:20|| 2017-01-17 09:20|| Front Page Top

#2 CNN was still trying to sell the idea that the Steele dossier is legitimate as of yesterday. That is their focus. Given that American "intelligence community" staffers have been telling their foreign counterparts for months that Mr. Trump is a loose cannon Russian stooge at best, based on sharing the same dossier that the head of the DNI described publically as obvious Russian propaganda, It seems to me none of the parties involved have yet learnt any lessons.

Though perhaps some of themournalists, staffers, and politicians in in Washington, who've been avidly sharing and discussing the contents of the dossier for the self-same months are beginning to wonder if they've been played. One can only hope.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-01-17 11:23|| 2017-01-17 11:23|| Front Page Top

#3 CNN learns a hard lesson

They'll unlearn it by next week, if not sooner.

Posted by Raj 2017-01-17 11:39|| 2017-01-17 11:39|| Front Page Top

#4 All leftists are incapable of learning.

Posted by newc 2017-01-17 14:34|| 2017-01-17 14:34|| Front Page Top

#5 They can't admit they got played or it will expose them for what they are: a bunch of under educated pompous Democrats.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-01-17 14:35|| 2017-01-17 14:35|| Front Page Top

#6 CNN and Buzzfeed got themselves a decade of lefty loyalty by attaching golden shower (and the millions of variations) to the incoming President. Doesn't matter if it is true or not they will drop it (half jokingly) at every chance they get.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-01-17 14:51|| 2017-01-17 14:51|| Front Page Top

#7 In order to learn from a mistake, you have to admit you were wrong.

Therefore, CNN will never learn.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-01-17 15:20|| 2017-01-17 15:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Sarah Hoyt: Years ago, watching science fiction magazines and newspapers of various sorts come and go, I identified a process I called “roll hard left and die.”

When a magazine or a newspaper or any news or entertainment media was in real trouble, they went hard, hard left, then died.

It took me a little while to realize this was a sane strategy. In a field completely controlled by the left, when you knew that your job was in peril be it through missmanagement or whatever, your last hope was to go incredibly hard left, so you could blame the failure on ideology. And instead of not being able to find a job, you found yourself lionized by all the “right” (left) “thinking people.” New jobs were assured.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-01-17 15:35|| 2017-01-17 15:35|| Front Page Top

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