The following story is lifted from This Week magazine, p. 14:
"A fake story the Russians endorsed," by Max Boot, Foreign Policy.com
"If you don't watch Fox News," said Max Boot, "you likely don't have any idea who Seth Rich was." But if you follow Fox or other fonts of fake news cush as Rush Limbaugh or InfoWars, you might think that Rich was murdered by a secret Democratic Party cabal for leaking the party's emails to WikiLeaks. In recent weeks, Fox News has aggressively promoted the conspiracy theory that Democratic National committee staffer Rich--who police say was shot during a 4 a.m.robbery on a Washington, D.C., street last July--was actually assassinated by Democrats. The network's source? A Fox News contributor named Rod Wheeler, a private investigator who once warned Fox viewers about "an underground network" of armed lesbians. The Rich family denounced Fox for trying to exploit his death, and Wheeler recanted his story and admitted he had no sources. But the shameless Sean Hannity nonetheless devoted three segments of his show to "the DNC murder mystery," in a desperate attempt to distract attention from President Trump's very real scandals. The Russians, not incidentally, welcomed the Fox story, saying it proved that their hackers didn't steal Democratic emails after all. "The Russians have tipped their hand--and Fox's as well."
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So another awesome revelation by our resident right wing wacko bites the dust. Can't wait for Pkrbum's alternative fact report for today. LOL
"A fake story the Russians endorsed," by Max Boot, Foreign Policy.com
"If you don't watch Fox News," said Max Boot, "you likely don't have any idea who Seth Rich was." But if you follow Fox or other fonts of fake news cush as Rush Limbaugh or InfoWars, you might think that Rich was murdered by a secret Democratic Party cabal for leaking the party's emails to WikiLeaks. In recent weeks, Fox News has aggressively promoted the conspiracy theory that Democratic National committee staffer Rich--who police say was shot during a 4 a.m.robbery on a Washington, D.C., street last July--was actually assassinated by Democrats. The network's source? A Fox News contributor named Rod Wheeler, a private investigator who once warned Fox viewers about "an underground network" of armed lesbians. The Rich family denounced Fox for trying to exploit his death, and Wheeler recanted his story and admitted he had no sources. But the shameless Sean Hannity nonetheless devoted three segments of his show to "the DNC murder mystery," in a desperate attempt to distract attention from President Trump's very real scandals. The Russians, not incidentally, welcomed the Fox story, saying it proved that their hackers didn't steal Democratic emails after all. "The Russians have tipped their hand--and Fox's as well."
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So another awesome revelation by our resident right wing wacko bites the dust. Can't wait for Pkrbum's alternative fact report for today. LOL