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"Their plan, as one member of the team described it, is to research the reporters previous work, in some cases going back years, and to exploit any mistakes or perceived biases. They intend to demand corrections, trumpet errors on social media and feed them to conservative outlets, such as Fox News."
Nixon might have survived Watergate if faux news existed then!
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gop-operatives-dig-up-dirt-journalists
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Don't they have more important things to do there?
OK... they are "Republican" -- not necessarily WH-- "operatives." Wonder if this is Reince's doing?
riversedge
(70,182 posts)Yonnie3
(17,427 posts)It gets shiny for awhile but then oozes an orange smelly fluid and still stinks.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Tread lightly or face the wrath of journalists...this effort seems futile....retractions? - mistakes?? perceived biases?? Can we talk - way to go WH - stupid is as stupid does....
onecaliberal
(32,812 posts)lib-ruhl
(127 posts)While Mueller digs for gold...
procon
(15,805 posts)What next from this incompetent bunch of slack jawed, grade school fuckups? "We have your dog. If you don't stop reporting the truth about Trump we'll let him poop in your flowerbed."
Look at the time and man hours they're wasting (yeah, that's good for the world) into something that will never go away no matter what they try to do to squelch the truth.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Turbineguy
(37,312 posts)After they are done with that there's still most of the rest of the population.
nykym
(3,063 posts)Have a lot more to hide than the journalists.
Go after all of them on a daily basis.