Seth Rich

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Donald Trump
'Do your research and take this down': Trump is slammed for retweeting conspiracy theorist's TWO-YEAR-OLD video of disabled
dailymail.co.uk - Ariel Zilber
President Trump is drawing criticism on social media on Tuesday after he retweeted a 2017 video showing an airport security agent give a lengthy, …
Conspiracies
Review: Psst! We are all conspiracy theorists.
americamagazine.org - Brandon Sanchez March 19, 2019
The 17th-century minister Cotton Mather believed Native Americans were “conspiring with [the Devil]” to dislodge white colonists. Today, the …
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Conspiracies
OAN, the Right-Wing Network, Airs Segment Making Point for Open Borders
The Daily Beast - Timothy Burke
Because we watch Trumpland TV so you don't have to, today we learned someone was asleep at the wheel at One America News as the right-wing network …
CNN
Politics
Donald Trump's craziest day ever on Twitter
CNN - Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Washington (CNN) — On Sunday, President Donald Trump sent out 29(!) tweets and retweets. Which, in and of itself, is a remarkable thing to say about the chief executive of the United States. (A prolific
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Opinion
Donna Brazile and Fox News need each other
The Washington Post - By Erik Wemple
Weeks before the 2016 presidential election, Donna Brazile became something more than her usual pundit self. She was a bona fide campaign story. Emails published by WikiLeaks showed that she had shared
Liberal View
'MAGA forever': Man accused of killing mob boss shows pro-Trump and QAnon messages in the courtroom
rawstory.com - Matthew Chapman, Alternet
On Monday, Anthony Comello, the man accused of fatally shooting Gambino crime family boss Francesco Cali in Staten Island, appeared in court for an …
The Washington Post
Fake News
In Sunday tweetstorm, Trump elevates a series of conspiracy theories — and theorists
The Washington Post
President Trump has long been a conspiracy theorist, and he has long been prone to angry tweetstorms. On Sunday, those two things collided in a major way. In a lengthy string of tweets and retweets before
Donald Trump
Trump goes off the Deep-end with his Latest Tweet Storm
dailykos.com - jamess
— Not only has he just (publicly) declared himself “programming director” of Fox News (ah given) — he is now telling the FCC to “investigate SNL for …
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Joe Arpaio Called "Libel-Proof" As CNN, HuffPo, and Rolling Stone Push for Lawsuit Dismissal
hollywoodreporter.com - Eriq Gardner
Huffington Post reported the convicted former sheriff went to prison. Although he didn't, the publication says the gist was substantially true. Joe …
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Liberal View
Fox News Has Always Been Propaganda
thenation.com - Eric Alterman
Eric AltermanThe cable news channel has poisoned political discourse from the moment it went on the air.The post Fox News Has Always Been Propaganda …
Splinter
Liberal View
Two Sets of Teeth Argue About Robert Mueller
splinternews.com - Samantha Grasso
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, known for logging on too hard as the President Defender and being praised for doing so by Donald Trump himself, has once …
Donald Trump
EXCLUSIVE: Anderson Cooper, the New York Times and DNC are sued by financial adviser who claims he received death threats
dailymail.co.uk - Kayla Brantley
Financial adviser Ed Butowsky is suing Anderson Cooper, The New York Times and The Democratic National Committee for allegedly peddling 'fake news' …
Liberal View
Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: They're coming for your Medicare
dailykos.com - Greg Dworkin
WaPo: Medicare-for-all v. Medicare-for-less: Trump’s proposed cuts put health care at center of 2020 race Democratic strategists and officials argued …
ThinkProgress
Liberal View
Tucker Carlson is never going to apologize
ThinkProgress - Jessica M. Goldstein
No remorse from the Fox host over his recently-unearthed rants about statutory rape. Where to begin with Tucker Carlson? From 2006 to 2011, the man …
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Lifestyle
Why can’t Fox apologize? It won’t back down even amid Pirro, Carlson controversies
The Washington Post - By Paul Farhi, Sarah Ellison
Fox News has no regrets and no remorse. It isn’t sorry. Faced with yet another uproar — actually, two of them within 24 hours — the cable network has blandly, mildly offered . . . well, very little in
Liberal View
Kurt Bardella Explains Why Democrats Are Never Going To Get A Fair Debate At Fox
crooksandliars.com - Heather
Following the publication of Jane Mayer's excellent article about Fox News at The New Yorker last week, as we've already discussed here, much of the …
Liberal View
Our Elite Pundits Are Awfully Slow On The Uptake
crooksandliars.com - Steve M.
At The Atlantic, Ronald Brownstein makes a startling discovery: Donald Trump will probably run for reelection by playing to his base.In his marathon …
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Politics
Sarah Isgur No Longer CNN Politics Editor After Backlash
The Daily Beast
Sarah Isgur, a Republican political adviser whose hiring as a politics editor at CNN drew backlash from media critics and CNN staffers alike, will …
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Opinion
Fox News’s Chris Wallace embraces false equivalence
The Washington Post - By Erik Wemple
If Fox News’s Chris Wallace made arguments such as these on his own program, he would destroy himself. In an interview with Michael M. Grynbaum of the New York Times, Wallace, host of the excellent program
The Washington Post
Lifestyle
It’s time — high time — to take Fox News’s destructive role in America seriously
The Washington Post - By Margaret Sullivan
Chris Wallace is an exceptional interviewer, and Shepard Smith and Bret Baier are reality-based news anchors. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s talk about the overall problem of Fox News, started
Democratic National Committee
The Big Lie About ‘Russian’ ‘Hacking’
theepochtimes.com - www.theepochtimes.com
Commentary Hearing Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.) address former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen in committee last week was another grating …
Content Curation
Disney CEO Bob Iger may have to resign his board seat at Apple, as both companies become competitors in the streaming space
mediagazer.com - www.mediagazer.com
3:10 PM ET, March 6, 2019 Spirited Media has sold Denverite to Colorado Public Radio and is in talks with buyers to sell Philadelphia's Billy Penn and …
Rolling Stone
Politics
CNN Is Silent on Why It Gave Airtime to a Conspiracy Theorist
Rolling Stone - Andy Kroll
WASHINGTON — CNN, the network whose motto is “Facts First,” gave airtime on Monday evening to the notorious conspiracy theorist, Jerome Corsi, as …
Politics
Conservative conspiracy theorist retracts article about murdered DNC staffer
cbsnews.com - CBS News
/ AP WASHINGTON — A conservative author and conspiracy theorist entangled in the special counsel's Russia investigation said Monday that he had …
MSNBC
New York State
Tuesday’s Mini-Report, 3.5.19
MSNBC - Steve Benen
Today’s edition of quick hits: * A new line of inquiry: “New York State regulators have issued an expansive subpoena to the Trump Organization’s …
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Politics
Pro-Trump Conspiracy Peddler Jerome Corsi Apologizes to Seth Rich’s Family
Rolling Stone - Andy Kroll
WASHINGTON – The family of Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer whose unsolved murder in 2016 spawned a wave of conspiracy theories, …
Donald Trump
What are the Donald Trump investigations all about?
nzherald.co.nz - NZ Herald
A look at where the investigations related to US President Donald Trump stand and what may lie ahead for him: What's this all about? Special counsel …
CNN
Dow Jones
Jerome Corsi retracts InfoWars story that spread Seth Rich conspiracy theory
CNN - By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business
New York (CNN Business) — Right-wing author Jerome Corsi issued an apology on Monday and retracted an InfoWars story he wrote spreading a conspiracy theory about murdered Democratic National Committee
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Roger Stone
Jerome Corsi, InfoWars Retract and Apologize for Spreading Seth Rich DNC Murder Conspiracy Theory
The Daily Beast - Julia Arciga
Right-wing conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi on Monday officially retracted and apologized for an InfoWars article he wrote in 2018 claiming that …
Charles Swisheradded this to Truth Be Told
Liberal View
Trump confidante Jerome Corsi forced to apologize over bogus Seth Rich conspiracy story
rawstory.com - Charlie Amter
Conservative author Jerome Corsi, who is currently a person of interest in Robert Mueller’s Russia probe due to his possible involvement with …