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| Conservative Group Has Started Making Journalists Play by the New Rules and the Journalists Are Terrified of What's Coming | |
| 2019-08-26 | |
| [RedState] If you’ve ever watched CNN’s rainman, Andrew Kaczynski, aka @KFile, at work you know how this stupid gotcha game is played. You go back through the target’s writings, often delving into college newspaper columns, looking for untoward things that they may have said and then splash the findings across the internet as though they were particularly relevant. This is an example that is happening now where out of context and completely defensible statements are being manipulated by CNN to try to torpedo an appeals court nominee: Steven Menashi, who is nominated for the Second Circuit, wrote dozens of editorials and blog posts in the late 1990s and early 2000s for a number of college and professional conservative publications. https://t.co/PCuYO2pN4N ‐ andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) August 22, 2019 So today, the New York Times reported that what was sauce for the goose will be sauce for the gander in 2020: A loose network of conservative operatives allied with the White House is pursuing what they say will be an aggressive operation to discredit news organizations deemed hostile to President Trump by publicizing damaging information about journalists. Operatives have closely examined more than a decade’s worth of public posts and statements by journalists, the people familiar with the operation said. Only a fraction of what the network claims to have uncovered has been made public, the people said, with more to be disclosed as the 2020 election heats up. The research is said to extend to members of journalists’ families who are active in politics, as well as liberal activists and other political opponents of the president. The group, so far, has been responsible for the firing of a CNN photo editor who liked to tweet anti-Semitic stuff in his free time and it unearthed racist and anti-Semitic writings by a New York Times politics editor named Tom Wright-Piersanti. There are more on the way: The operation has compiled social media posts from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and stored images of the posts that can be publicized even if the user deletes them, said the people familiar with the effort. One claimed that the operation had unearthed potentially "fireable" information on "several hundred" people.
Mr. Nunberg and others who are familiar with the campaign described it as meant to expose what they see as the hypocrisy of mainstream news outlets that have reported on the president’s inflammatory language regarding race. "Two can play at this game," he said. "The media has long targeted Republicans with deep dives into their social media, looking to caricature all conservatives and Trump voters as racists." | |
| Posted by:Victor Emmanuel Johnson5472 |
| #3 Only going back a decade? I thought we were supposed to play by their rules. |
| Posted by: gorb 2019-08-26 12:00 |
| #2 The MSM, aka Propaganda Arm of the Progressive Party, has had sway for too long putting out spittle, drivel and nonsense. CNN is probably the worst. They have doubled-down on stupidity by hiring the likes of McCabe, Clapper, Brennan, Anderson Cooper, George Costanza (Brian Stelter) and other luminaries. NBC is not far behind in the race to the bottom. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-08-26 09:11 |
| #1 Better call Saul [Alinsky]. "Make them play by their own rules." Anyone care to peruse some of NYT Editorial Board Member Sarah Jeong's pearls of Twitter wisdom? She left THOUSANDS of them, over FIVE YEARS. This will be fun. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-08-26 07:24 |