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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
interesting, but your facts are wrong.
Breitbart did NOT rely on anonymous sources.
Breitbart relied on news report published in the NY Times and other "mainstream" media:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journal...ndent-sources/
The NY Times and other "mainstream" media are the ones who reported that the Obama administration was spying and wiretapping the Trump campaign.
The NY Times and other "mainstream" media are the ones who are relying on anonymous sources.
agreed. The NY Times is "fake news".  |
Hmm...
Let's see: Breitbart uses the New York Times, etc., as a news source and you appear to be saying the Times is not an anonymous source; yet, the Times' articles themselves do not specifically name their sources. By Trump's, Breitbart's and your metrics, any new source that does not specifically specify the source of their reportage is thereby 'fake news', so what we have here is Breitbart using 'fake news' as a source to prop up the credibility of their own reportage; if Breitbart's source is 'fake', what does that make Breitbart's own reports? If you repeat a lie while saying you, yourself are truthful, does that make the lie, itself, true? You can't have it both ways: either the source itself is false and your repeating of or reference to the source is innately false, or by using a source to verify or justify your stance, you are admitting the source is factual. Trump left no wriggle room when he declared reportage based on unnamed sources to be "fake news" and has, in fact, made the issue a very yes/no, right/wrong situation with no middle ground or grey area. So, it comes down to this: if Breitbart uses "fake news" as its own source, is Breitbart 'real news'?; if you repeat what you contend is a lie, does it make the lie true?...
As for Levin, he is well into the running for the title of "King of Unnamed Sources", in close competition with the likes of Alex Jones. The reportage of Levin and Jones, et al, is long on speculation and inference and rather short on actual fact; I guess, by Trump's measure they are also "fake news"...
Also, in all the links you posted, there is not a single one specifically stating there was factual, verifiable support to Trump's charge Obama personally and specifically ordered any wiretapping of Trump for politically motivated purposes. All those links own titles have nothing to do with Trump's trumped-up charges. Got any links from news sources with actual named sources to back up Trump's claims?...
Agreed: Breitbart is "fake news:...
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