Defying all reason and journalistic duty, BuzzFeed may have now topped the Washington Post in the quickly burgeoning Fake News market, publishing
accusations President-elect Donald Trump has "deep ties to Russia" — but
the astoundingly baseless claim seems to have unraveled in the most hilarious way possible."A dossier, compiled by a person who has claimed to be a former British intelligence official, alleges Russia has compromising information on Trump. The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors," the collaborative BuzzFeed article
asserts.
Duly noting the dubious quality of the information presented,
BuzzFeed chose to publish the threadbare 'dossier' sans any evidence of its legitimacy — and the rush to perhaps damn Trump before the upcoming inauguration has tentatively been discredited by one of the most unlikely sources: 4Chan.
First, ZeroHedge
noted of the contents of the original dossier,
"For those pressed for time, here is the best - as in most laughable - part, discussing 'Trump's personal obsessions and sexual perversions', in which we learn that when staying at the Ritz Carlton Moscow hotel, in order to defile a bed in which Obama had stayed in previously, he employed 'a number of prostitutes to perform 'golden showers' show in front of him.' Good stuff."
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As a final point, the memos authored by the operative claim that the Trump campaign and the Kremlin had established an "exchange of information" of "mutual benefit," and that Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, met secretly with Kremlin officials in Prague in August 2016.
However, Cohen quickly denied that he has ever been to Prague, promptly demolishing the entire argument.
"I have never been to Prague in my life. #fakenews," he tweeted, attaching a photo of his passport.
The Russians
respond:
Peskov told Intefax...
"The information is not true and is nothing other than a total fabrication."
"It's a complete fake, it's a complete fabrication, it's total nonsense."
Trump tweets:
And WikiLeaks:
Russia Insider's Dean Parker blasts the Atlantic for essentially saying that all the networks who knew about the allegations, but who kept them private because they knew they were lies, but who decided to report on the secret allegations as if they were real news, did a very bad thing:
In other words, the CNN knew how laughable the "dirt" on Trump was, but kept that from the viewers, while opting to pretend this was a serious story. Whereas at least BuzzFeed gave the readers enough data to allow them to judge for themselves.
So a passing grade for BuzzFeed and an F minus for CNN?
Not according to The Atlantic. No, Obama's favorite paper has just slammed BuzzFeed, and only BuzzFeed. Apparently it's perfectly OK to talk about a supposed explosive secret Russian dossier on Trump like CNN did, as long as you don't reveal how incredulous the contents of such an alleged dossier must be like BuzzFeed did.
...
The real problem for The Atlantic is that BuzzFeed inadvertently revealed just what lying shits and peddlers of fake news the mainstream media really are. It should have maintained the conspiracy of silence and sat on the document it had like CNN, Politico, Lawfare and many other according to The Atlantic did.
Instead it unintentionally helped kill a perfectly good Trump story the MSM could have kept on banging for days, or years.
The Atlantic hit piece ends with a lecture on why it is important for journalists to keep things away from the public.
The Daily Beast gave the soapbox to the man 4chan claims they trolled, and of course he denied their account:
Wilson dismissed all of r/The_Donald and 4chan's claims in a tweet Tuesday night. "You're wrong if you believe 1. What we had came from /pol 2. That I was Buzzfeed's source. Try again, boys," he wrote.
"The information was out there looooong before the 4chan posts," he replied to another user.
Reached by phone earlier in the evening, Wilson told The Daily Beast that the Russian allegations were "making the rounds before anyone talked about it publicly." He said that they were being discussed as early as a year and a half ago.
"Trump always knew it was out there," Wilson said. "He thought he could bullshit his way through it.
"This stuff is real and it's bad. It's going to be something that weighs on him," he added.
Real stuff? That right there says everything about Wilson you need to know.
Meanwhile ZeroHedge has
published the chain of events that allegedly leads from 4chan's message boards all the way to McCain, CNN, and Buzzfeed. One priceless image includes:
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