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Old 12-19-2016, 07:43 PM
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Take a news story that the left doesn't like and simply label it fake news. Someone in the press has an unflattering story? Label them a purveyor of fake news...
That describes perfectly the entire purpose of this thread. Sorry, but your ridiculous projection ain't working on me.
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Old 12-19-2016, 08:06 PM
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I hope this is fake news....

https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016...resident-elect


If it's true it really cheapens the office of the presidency.
And it's hard to tell what " charity" will benefit.
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Old 12-19-2016, 08:31 PM
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I hope this is fake news....

https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016...resident-elect


If it's true it really cheapens the office of the presidency.
And it's hard to tell what " charity" will benefit.
Another source, "The Hill" http://thehill.com/homenews/news/311...t-elect-report

Maybe they'll get to hunt with Dick 'Shotgun' Cheney?
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Old 12-20-2016, 11:46 AM
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FAKE NEWS ALERT

From VOX: Monday's Electoral College results prove the institution is an utter joke

OK, so its probably an editorial, but with Vox its hard to tell the difference between what passes for news and what is meant to be an editorial.

What the story gets right: When Donald Trump won the presidential election in November, some liberals and activists had a cool-sounding idea. What if, they mused, they could in fact block his win through the Electoral College, which actually casts the ballots that will officially make Trump president?

But when the electors gathered across the country Monday, this plot backfired embarrassingly — more electors defected from Hillary Clinton than from Trump.


Yeah, that fiasco had to be embarrassing for some liberals. But its often hard to find lefties that have a sufficient sense of decency to be embarrassed by this.

What the story gets wrong: The record number of defections for the modern era — there hasn’t been more than one faithless elector in any one election in the past century — proves that the Electoral College isn’t a system that can be relied on to accurately reflect the will of voters in the states. And yet it also isn’t a system where electors feel completely free to make up their own minds.

What we actually have is a system in which the vast majority of electors vote in accordance with state outcomes — except for essentially random defections by little-known, idiosyncratic people who happen to have won elector slots. And that is a system that’s badly vulnerable to a very serious crisis.


No, there's nothing wrong with the system of using electors. Its actually quite brilliant. Now if hysterical leftists would quit trying to mess with it every time the system doesn't produce the results they prefer, we'd all be better off.
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Old 12-20-2016, 12:55 PM
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FAKE NEWS ALERT

From VOX: Monday's Electoral College results prove the institution is an utter joke

OK, so its probably an editorial, but with Vox its hard to tell the difference between what passes for news and what is meant to be an editorial...
Yet another example of you not knowing what fake news is and isn't, not that we really needed any further confirmation of that.
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Old 12-20-2016, 01:05 PM
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Not that we didn't already know this story was phony as a 3 dollar bill from the get go....


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According to the newly released court papers, the FBI sought a search warrant two days after Comey's letter on Oct. 30 to review "thousands" of emails on a Toshiba laptop. Those emails, Comey said in his letter, were found in an "unrelated case."
Sources close to the investigation have said the emails were discovered during an unrelated probe into former Democratic U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
In an affidavit, an unnamed FBI agent said there was "probable cause" to believe that correspondence between Clinton and an unnamed individual whose name was redacted was located on the laptop, including emails with classified information.
While the affidavit provided no indication that any emails from Clinton or with classified information were actually found on the laptop when the search warrant was sought, it said emails to State Department accounts had been located.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/search-wa...18.html?ref=gs

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Old 12-20-2016, 04:20 PM
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Yet another example of you not knowing what fake news is and isn't, not that we really needed any further confirmation of that.
What we disagree on - amongst other things - is the definition. The left wants to own the definition of "fake news" so that they can use it as both a term of art and political convenience. In other words they want to make it up as they go along, particularly when there's a story that doesn't align with their chosen narrative. And then they want to own the "filter" that "protects us" from "fake news".

Nothing new here, really. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press have been under attack both abroad and in this country for ages. Fake news is simply another flavor.
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Old 12-20-2016, 04:22 PM
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Yet another example of you not knowing what fake news is and isn't, not that we really needed any further confirmation of that.
Oh, and if you don't think that woman In the video got herself all whipped up over the fake news about the electors and about Trump, you're deluded.
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Old 12-21-2016, 07:38 AM
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What the wrong wing has done with the concept of "Fake news" is quite similar to what it has done with the concept of Christianity - distorted it all out of proportion to serve the ends of those whose ideas cannot flourish in an atmosphere of truth.
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Old 12-21-2016, 07:47 AM
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What the wrong wing has done with the concept of "Fake news" is quite similar to what it has done with the concept of Christianity - distorted it all out of proportion to serve the ends of those whose ideas cannot flourish in an atmosphere of truth.
What the hell are you talking about, counselor? And by the way, Merry Christmas.
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