Media Punked By Fake 'Josie' Account Of Michael Brown Shooting

[Suburban Warrior]

"Dana Loesch was all over the air last week defending caller 'Josie's' claim to be telling Darren Wilson's story. Either she was punked or she was part of the punking.

Last weekend, a caller named "Josie" called into Dana Loesch's radio show claiming she knew the real story of Michael Brown's shooting because Darren Wilson had told her. The story spread like wildfire through The Blaze, Breitbart.com, Drudge, and more. Then it shot right into mainstream media with CNN jumping on it too.

Just to make sure it caught fire, Loesch appeared on Fox News to defend Josie's account of the killing.

The story was exactly what you would expect it to be. Michael Brown was the aggressor; Wilson was the victim. Brown rushed Wilson and he had no choice but to shoot. And so on.

As it turns out, that story was lifted from a fake Facebook page..."

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/08/media-punked-fake-josie-account-michael

[gollygee]

1. We will be hearing "Josie" used as an excuse as to why the shooting was justified

FOREVER.

And we will say, "Josie wasn't real. It was all made up." But they either will just change the subject and bring Josie up again later, or argue that MAYBE Josie was real.

[tblue37]

4. Just like the repeatedly debunked Benghazi lies. nt

[Laelth]

6. I fear your cynicism may be warranted. n/t

-Laelth

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. And the impervious to facts will say "Well, we'll just have to agree to disagree on that."

[VanGoghRocks]

20. The curse of all who inhabit the reality-based community:

Reality-based community is an informal term in the United States. In the fall of 2004, the phrase "proud member of the reality-based community" was first used to suggest the commentator's opinions are based more on observation than on faith, assumption, or ideology. The term has been defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from judicious study of discernible reality." Some commentators have gone as far as to suggest that there is an overarching conflict in society between the reality-based community and the "faith-based community" as a whole. It can be seen as an example of political framing.

The source of the term is a quotation in an October 17, 2004, The New York Times Magazine article by writer Ron Suskind, "Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush," quoting an unnamed aide to George W. Bush (later attributed to Karl Rove):

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community

[arcane1]

12. Exactly. Too bad it never goes the other way around: Loesch having to constantly hear about Josie!

Instead we'll get "The Josie hoax is itself a hoax" and "Even if she doesn't exist, her story could be true!" and it will be like Saddam's WMDs, birth certificates, Vince Foster, and every other lie that never dies.

Heck, they are still pushing the broken eye socket bullshit!

[Louisiana1976]

14. Yeah I was listening to a talk show this morning where the host said Brown had broken Wilson's

eye socket.

[JDPriestly]

24. If that were true, the police force would have announced it by now.

[Kalidurga]

2. I think I know who set that account up and it can probably be confirmed or denied.

Dana Loesch, she is really the only one to benefit from the story.

[Laelth]

7. That's the best suspect to be certain. n/t

-Laelth

[Louisiana1976]

15. I wouldn't be surprised.

[Salviati]

3. Just once, I'd like to see someone go all in against one of the hacks who spread shit like this...

Something along the lines of:

"This story has been known to be fake since about X hours after it was unceremoniously dropped into the conversation like so much turd in a punch bowl. The most cursory research into the topic would have revealed this, so either you haven't done the minimal work required of a barely passing elementary school report, or you're purposely disseminating falsehoods in order to further your narrative. So, which is it, are you a liar, or merely an incompetent?"

Fits any bullshit right-wing meme of the week.

[Agschmid]

5. Kick.

[AngryAmish]

8. Josie's on a vacation far away.

[jillan]

11. Funny - that song was sung by a band called the Outfield which is exactly where this Josie came from

[VanGoghRocks]

22. Way OT, but Steely Dan has a killer song by the same title.

[nolabear]

32. When Josie comes home to stay, we're gonna dance in the streets.

Pleasant memory in the midst of a horror show of a situation.

[jillan]

10. Doesn't mean a thing.. just wander onto any website (Huffpo,etc) & hear all about his broken eye

socket.

That's the thing about the teagoop - just like with Fast n Furious, the IRS scandal, Benghazzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiii - facts don't mean a flipping thing.

[catrose]

13. Does it ever occur to these "professional journalists" to check something before spreading it? eom

[Louisiana1976]

16. That's a good question.

[AndyTiedye]

25. Not When They Have an Agenda to Push

[Blue_Tires]

35. and ratings to whore for...

[AndyTiedye]

36. The Agenda Trumps Ratings

If it really were all about ratings, they wouldn't bury every story that makes a Republican look bad.

[alcibiades_mystery]

17. As a writer for my HIGH SCHOOL paper, I had to have two corroborating sources

FOR EVERYTHING!

These people are a disgrace to their profession.

"Josie."

For fuck's sake. I couldn't have gotten away with that in 9th grade writing about the damn cafetorium.

[tclambert]

19. They work around that by corroborating the quote, not the facts in the quote.

"Did you hear her say that?"
"Yes."
"Well, I heard it, too. So that's two of us. We can report that she said it."

[Jerry442]

18. If I had cartooning skills...

...I'd do a cartoon showing a bunch of people hurling things with two onlookers saying:

"OMG, are those people rioters, throwing things at the police?"

"No, they're right wing journalists, throwing crap against the wall to see what sticks."

[Duer 157099]

21. Here, just use this one:

Change the wording in the bubbles

[erpowers]

23. The Mainstream Media

My problem is with the mainstream media. I am not surprised that right wing media would push out a story like this. However, I would expect the mainstream media to look into this story more before pushing even further.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

29. Not when you consider most of the media starts their day with a cup of coffee and Drudge....

Those who like to claim they're willing to look at the "other side" check out The Huffington Post for some side boob action.

[Iliyah]

26. Journalism is dead.

Fracture eye socket story and this one was on ABC and CBS internet news sites. The stories are out there now and the believe anything negative crowd will run with it like gospel.

[KurtNYC]

27. "a lie can get half way around the world before the Truth can

get it's pants on" - Churchill

[Spitfire of ATJ]

28. So now I suppose we can expect Wolf Blitzer to report BOTH SIDES do this shit.

[ReRe]

30. K&R for EXPOSURE

I knew they were all a pack of lies to begin with. Listen, everybody: If there's a story rolling around that sympathizes with Wilson, know that it's a GD lie. Has anyone noticed all the talking heads coming on to defend him? Whenever there is a panel discussion and their faces are present, I switch channels immediately. They are hired PR persons. It is the travesty of M$M.

There will be hell to pay if that man walks. Mark my word. And the people who enabled it will be so sorry they did. It's so sad to see in this country. There's a problem and rather than face it and deal with it, they choose to cover it up. Karma comes back to get them, every single time. But they never learn. They never learn. What's the matter with a people that can't learn by their mistakes? I guess they get away with it, and that's why they keep on doing it. So, the chaos and turmoil goes on and one and on.

[JEB]

31. Lying liars. Its all they got. Sad that it gets so much traction.

Sadder still that so many of our citizens choose to believe such bile.

[Jack Rabbit]

33. Jack Rabbit's Law of TV journalism

Whenever Sean Hannity says he has breaking news of "bombshell" that will be a real "game changer" (favorable to Team Right, of course), then invariably the hyped bombshell is a dud.

[Cha]

34. And, that's the calibre of Dana Loesch's reporting.. null and void. Spreader of

Lies, gossip, and anonymous call ins who tell her what she wants to hear and she goes on fox "news" and jabbers about it.