Fox & Friends, Daily Mail Falsely Suggest James Comey Met With The New York Times

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite


by Ken Meyer | 9:17 am, June 23rd, 2017

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Fox & Friends aired a report on Friday about how James Comey visited The New York Times yesterday. The only problem is that, that does not appear to be true.

Fox’s report was based on a Thursday article from Daily Mail which included pictures of Comey and his wife entering the building where the Times‘ newsrooms are located. This initially created the impression that Comey was giving the paper an interview, one where he could possibly leak important news, or else, react to Donald Trump‘s tweeted admission that the president never taped him as previously suggested.

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The Daily Mail’s article was seized upon by a number of Link to tweet
" target="_blank">pro-Trump figures and media outlets, though it would seem that the presumptions about Comey’s visit were incorrect. Multiple Times reporters pushed back against the original piece by saying that Comey never visited their offices, and that he actually showed up to attend a charity event at a different part of the building.

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[joeybee12]

1. Is the Daily Fail a Rupert rag?

Fascists of a feather stick together

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. No, owned by a family that has published this crap for generations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Harmsworth,_4th_Viscount_Rothermere

About whom (specifically, the current Lord Rothermere's great grandfather) it was said:

"What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
Baldwin was attacking the leading press barons of his day (Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere); the phrase was suggested by Baldwin's cousin Rudyard Kipling (17 March 1931), quoted in The Times (18 March 1931), p. 18."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stanley_Baldwin

More on the first Lord:

"In the 1930s Rothermere used his newspapers to try to influence British politics, particularly reflecting his strong support of the appeasement of Nazi Germany, and his were the only major newspapers to advocate an alliance with Germany. For a time in 1934, the Rothermere papers championed the British Union of Fascists (BUF), and were again the only major papers to do so. On 15 January 1934 the Daily Mail published a Rothermere-written editorial entitled "Hurrah for the Blackshirts", praising Oswald Mosley for his "sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine".[7]

Rothermere visited and corresponded with Hitler.[8] On 1 October 1938, Rothermere sent Hitler a telegram in support of Germany's invasion of the Sudetenland, and expressing the hope that "Adolf the Great" would become a popular figure in Britain."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Harmsworth,_1st_Viscount_Rothermere

[joeybee12]

19. An alliance with Germany

Jebus! Thanks for the info

[Sunlei]

11. yeah in the old days republicans had to have rupert media hack into voice mails for them.

Republicans sure took good care of their hacker news buddies! Their main go to for hacking shit lived for decades in mansions in florida. Live-in a state where elections have been fucked with forever!

[Thinkingabout]

2. FOX news is playing to Trump's base, the listeners who will continue to watch FOX

and believe anything they say.

[leftynyc]

3. I'm sure Comey (and Mueller) are prepared for this

They know both their reputations are going to slammed by the trumpettes. I hope they both ignore it or perhaps even use it to make their case.

[Sunlei]

12. Mueller needs to ask trump for his personal cell phone to find who hes "taped" & what he has deleted

[leftynyc]

16. I'm waiting for the demand

for his last 10 years of tax returns.

[Sunlei]

17. we don't need to see his wreck of tax forms, hes on constant IRS audt. Let the IRS work on him.

Mueller please don't forget the wife and kids cell phones. That 11 yr old always has a cell or a fidget in his hands when hes with Daddy.

These kind of people frequently use family members devices to hide their dealings.

[leftynyc]

18. Being hundreds of millions in debt

to russian banks is not illegal. It certainly would explain a lot. Don't you think?

[turbinetree]

4. Faux and Friends is an enabler and the arm of the TREASON, as for the Daily Mail

maybe they can explain this piece of shit about this Murdoch rag:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/murdochs-scandal-the-essential-reads/



http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/murdochs-scandal/

[itcfish]

5. So?

Better than meeting with the Russian Ambassador

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Retweeted by David Fahrenthold

https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold

This is embarrassing (or should be)

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.@EdHenry: "I wonder what Comey was doing at the @nytimes. It's so odd…he was wearing sunglasses"

A: Visiting a non-profit for abused kids

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[Leghorn21]

7. That FBI alum is so sneaky!!! Dammit! He's almost seven feet tall, and strides right in and out of

the NYT bldg. in broad daylight...yeah, no one would notice such a 007 move, eh?

Sneaky sneaky man!!!

Oh damn, and wearing sunglasses to boot!!

[Sunlei]

8. fox lies, is run by Republican party & spreads FAKE MEDIA LIKE THEIR 7 YEARS OF BIRTH ER CRAP.

fake LOUSY-LIAR president- you Republicans had to Coup to get him elected!

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Anyone on Faux staking out Drumpf Tower and all the Russian oligarchs coming and going?

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. Martosko is under consideration for next WH Press Secretary

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141803125

"asking for a friend" = "please give me a job, Great Master!"

[broadcaster90210]

14. You could have just stopped at "falsely"

nt

[pnwmom]

15. The Daily Times article reports a spokesperson's denial of him being there

to go to the NY Times, and explains that the NY Times rents out space to a number of other buildings.

I don't know what the Fox reports says, but the Times article wasn't false.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

20. From the WaPo:

‘Fox & Friends’ takes Comey bashing to a cynical low

By Callum Borchers June 23 at 11:16 AM