Aw damn it, its Shepard Smith. One of the few honest brokers at Fox for years. If it had been Brit Hume I would have had a coronary.
However props to Shep. He'll probably have to report to the bosses office for this.
Agreed. OTOH, you weren't nearly as discriminating when the bullshit storm was blowing in the other direction prior to the election.
Post-truth apparently cuts both ways. Try to remember that decades of right wing agitprop & conspiracy theories got people to thinking that way in the first place.
It's unsurprising that somebody would use Repubs' own weapons against them.
Trump did the same thing with birtherism. Why didn't it undermine him?You know how dumb this sounds, if the leaked emails were doctored or fake all the dems had to do was say this was the case and the media would have ran with it in their favor, but they couldn't because they knew the emails were legit.
Trump has come out of the gate saying these claims were bull...media outlets are admitting they have done no vetting of this information prior to release, buzzfeed has openly admitted they have no proof that any of it was real....
Even if any of this is true the media has shot themselves in the ass with this and it undermines anything they release in the future on him.
Breaking News! Fox News defies Trump's press conference temper tantrum and defends and even praises CNN. In other news, snow flurries seen in Hell.
https://www.yahoo.com/tv/fox-news-defends-rival-cnn-against-donald-trump-213951823.html
Cross-posting to this thread because some seem unaware: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38589427
You should really elaborate on the small part of that piece to which you are referring.Why would Russian intelligence officials freely (or for some small monetary gain as suggested) divulge super sensitive information about a 5-years-deep con that involved planting a stooge into their strongest opponent?
Why would Russian intelligence officials freely (or for some small monetary gain as suggested) divulge super sensitive information about a 5-years-deep con that involved planting a stooge into their strongest opponent?
You should really elaborate on the small part of that piece to which you are referring.
Claims about a Russian blackmail tape were made in one of a series of reports written by a former British intelligence agent.
As a member of MI6, he had been posted to the UK's embassy in Moscow and now runs a consultancy giving advice on doing business in Russia. He spoke to a number of his old contacts in the FSB, the successor to the KGB, paying some of them for information.
They told him that Mr Trump had been filmed with a group of prostitutes in the presidential suite of Moscow's Ritz-Carlton hotel. I know this because the Washington political research company that commissioned his report showed it to me during the final week of the election campaign.
Why would Russian intelligence officials freely (or for some small monetary gain as suggested) divulge super sensitive information about a 5-years-deep con that involved planting a stooge into their strongest opponent?
I can't imagine Putin allows for much dissent among his underlings when he assassinates reporters that disagree with him.
Second point makes sense explaining the overall goal for Russian involvement in America, but it ultimately requires that the video (or anything similarly damning) actually exists for it to matter. Also doesn't really explain the specific reason for releasing info to this one ex-MI6 guy. Unless the memo itself is just intended to cause controversy and polarize American politics further, but if that's the case it doesn't even matter if reports are factual, because the damage is still being done.
I can't imagine Putin allows for much dissent among his underlings when he assassinates reporters that disagree with him.
Second point makes sense explaining the overall goal for Russian involvement in America, but it ultimately requires that the video (or anything similarly damning) actually exists for it to matter. Also doesn't really explain the specific reason for releasing info to this one ex-MI6 guy. Unless the memo itself is just intended to cause controversy and polarize American politics further, but if that's the case it doesn't even matter if reports are factual, because the damage is still being done.
Clapper said he told Trump that intelligence agencies made no judgement about the reliability of the allegations.
Clapper said in his statement that the synopsis was included in the briefing because "part of our obligation is to ensure that policymakers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matters that might affect national security."
I can't imagine Putin allows for much dissent among his underlings when he assassinates reporters that disagree with him.
Who's the retard here? Looks like Trump wasn't briefed on this after all....you just fell for some more incredibly shoddy yellow journalism from CNN. lolYeah fsck all those "sources" gimme some of em sweet, sweet lies.
Retard.
Clapper is now confirming, in the open, that the info was in fact briefed to Trump :
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/11/politics/james-clapper-donald-trump/index.html
For you non-readers :
You mean like Obama's birth certificate? If I recall you were on boardThis whole thing is just one big poop festival. I have yet to see anything that I would call credible. Nothing.
Who's the retard here? Looks like Trump wasn't briefed on this after all....you just fell for some more incredibly shoddy yellow journalism from CNN. lol
Donald Trump Wasn’t Told About Unverified Russia Memo, Official Says
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/t...jects-dossier-alleged-russia-dealings-n705586
While multiple officials say the summary was included in the material prepared for the briefers, the senior official told NBC News that the briefing was oral and no actual documents were left with the Trump team in New York. During the briefing, the president-elect was not briefed on the contents of the summary .
"Intel and law enforcement officials agree that none of the investigations have found any conclusive or direct link between Trump and the Russian government period," the senior official said.
According to the senior official, the two-page summary about the unsubstantiated material made available to the briefers was to provide context, should they need it, to draw the distinction for Trump between analyzed intelligence and unvetted "disinformation."
The briefers also had available to them unvetted "disinformation" about the Clinton Foundation, although that was not orally shared with Trump.
Huh? I thought it was supposed to be an Obama briefing. Not a Trump briefing.Who's the retard here? Looks like Trump wasn't briefed on this after all....you just fell for some more incredibly shoddy yellow journalism from CNN. lol
Donald Trump Wasn’t Told About Unverified Russia Memo, Official Says
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/t...jects-dossier-alleged-russia-dealings-n705586
While multiple officials say the summary was included in the material prepared for the briefers, the senior official told NBC News that the briefing was oral and no actual documents were left with the Trump team in New York. During the briefing, the president-elect was not briefed on the contents of the summary .
"Intel and law enforcement officials agree that none of the investigations have found any conclusive or direct link between Trump and the Russian government period," the senior official said.
According to the senior official, the two-page summary about the unsubstantiated material made available to the briefers was to provide context, should they need it, to draw the distinction for Trump between analyzed intelligence and unvetted "disinformation."
The briefers also had available to them unvetted "disinformation" about the Clinton Foundation, although that was not orally shared with Trump.