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In reply to the discussion: Can Louise Mensch now say "I told you so"? [View all]onenote
(42,598 posts)Often laughably so. Like the time she broke the "exclusive" news that Devin Nunes had his "top secret" security clearance revoked, which would have been a neat trick since members of Congress don't get "security clearances" and any sanctions for violating their "secrecy oath" are handled internally by the intelligence committees and ethic committees pursuant to detailed procedural and substantive rules. Nunes not only remained chair of the intelligence committee but there was never any indication that he wasn't being given access to the same intelligence briefings as others on the committee.
Or the Manafort indictment, which Mensch breathlessly reported on September 22, 2017 as having been handed down and sealed which (a) wasn't true -- the indictment was handed down on October 27, 2017 and unsealed on October 30, 2017 and (b) came after mainstream news sources had reported (as early as September 18) that Manafort had been told he was going to be indicted.
Mensch relies on having low-information readers who don't follow other more reliable news sources. Which is how she can end up reporting BS like the Nunes story or her claim that the death penalty was being "considered" (by whom?) for Steve Bannon or that the marshal of the Supreme Court had been dispatched to "notify" Trump of the "formal" commencement of impeachment proceedings against him in May 2017. And on and on.