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Va Lefty

(6,252 posts)
Wed Jul 12, 2017, 11:43 AM Jul 2017

White House "operatives" looking for dirt on journalists

"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

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White House "operatives" looking for dirt on journalists (Original Post) Va Lefty Jul 2017 OP
Fer gawd's sake... femmocrat Jul 2017 #1
oink. No governing agenda in this sewer of a WH!! riversedge Jul 2017 #2
I guess they are giving up on polishing the tRump turd. Yonnie3 Jul 2017 #3
Journalists do not take kindly to attacks on fellow journos... asiliveandbreathe Jul 2017 #4
That's going to backfire bigly. That is intimidation and obstruction. onecaliberal Jul 2017 #5
Let them dig all the way down to China... lib-ruhl Jul 2017 #6
Blackmail? Extortion? procon Jul 2017 #7
Intimidation. But no amount of "journalist bias" wll negate Trumpian TREASON with Russia. WinkyDink Jul 2017 #8
When you are surrounded by enemies.... Turbineguy Jul 2017 #9
I would bet these "Operatives" nykym Jul 2017 #10

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
1. Fer gawd's sake...
Wed Jul 12, 2017, 11:43 AM
Jul 2017

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?

Yonnie3

(17,422 posts)
3. I guess they are giving up on polishing the tRump turd.
Wed Jul 12, 2017, 11:47 AM
Jul 2017

It gets shiny for awhile but then oozes an orange smelly fluid and still stinks.

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)
4. Journalists do not take kindly to attacks on fellow journos...
Wed Jul 12, 2017, 11:48 AM
Jul 2017

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....

procon

(15,805 posts)
7. Blackmail? Extortion?
Wed Jul 12, 2017, 12:23 PM
Jul 2017

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.

Turbineguy

(37,295 posts)
9. When you are surrounded by enemies....
Wed Jul 12, 2017, 12:43 PM
Jul 2017

After they are done with that there's still most of the rest of the population.

nykym

(3,063 posts)
10. I would bet these "Operatives"
Wed Jul 12, 2017, 01:42 PM
Jul 2017

Have a lot more to hide than the journalists.
Go after all of them on a daily basis.

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