Fox, Right-Wing Media Run With Conspiracy Linking Clinton To Murdered DNC Staffer

[Gabi Hayes]

they were talking about this on Fox a few minutes ago.

Richard Mellon Scaife, are you still alive? got your checkbook handy?

Fox News has followed others in right-wing media in suggesting that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich may have been murdered because he had helped WikiLeaks gain access to the DNC’s email servers. These conspiracy theories were floated after WikiLeaks offered a $20,000 reward for information on Rich’s murder, and after Trump ally Roger Stone suggested Rich was murdered for talking to the FBI about election fraud.

https://mediamatters.org/research/2016/08/10/fox-right-wing-media-run-conspiracy-linking-clinton-murdered-dnc-staffer/212304

if you don't like that site anymore:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/08/09/wikileaks_is_fanning_a_conspiracy_theory_that_hillary_murdered_a_dnc_staffer.html

Julian Assange and his WikiLeaks organization appear to be actively encouraging a conspiracy theory that a Democratic National Committee staffer was murdered for nefarious political purposes, perhaps by Hillary Clinton.


Seth Rich was killed last month in Washington, D.C., in an early morning shooting that police have speculated was a failed robbery. Because Rich did voter outreach for the DNC and because we live in a ridiculous world, conspiracy theorists have glommed on to a fantastical story that Rich was an FBI informant meeting with purported agents who were actually a hit team sent by Hillary Clinton.

There is of course absolutely zero evidence for this and Snopes has issued a comprehensive debunking of the premise itself (Rich is only 27 and has only worked at the DNC since 2014 so is unlikely to be in possession of information that might take down Clinton, he was on the phone with his girlfriend at the time of the shooting and she hasn’t reported any FBI meeting, there have been a string of robberies in the area, an FBI rendezvous at 4 a.m. only happens in movies, the whole thing is batshit crazy, etc.)

The fact that the idea is so absurd, though, has not stopped Assange from suggesting that Rich was murdered for nefarious political purposes either because he was an informant for the FBI or because he may have been a source in last month’s WikiLeaks release of thousands of DNC emails. In an interview on Tuesday that was picked up by BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski, Assange seemed to lend credence to the idea that Rich had been retaliated against.

it'll be interesting to see if actual news operations pick up on this.....sure hope they interview Roger Stone.

[Gabi Hayes]

1. I looked here on site google, and the only reference was to a response that

I couldn't find.

why doesn't google cache work for me? did they stop highlighting the key words in color? hasn't worked for me in at least a year

wtf?

is there another search engine that functions that way, cause that's the one I'll start using

[rusty quoin]

2. No surprise here since experiencing the 90s,

and they impeached a president about a blue dress because it was the best they could get.

But what's the deal with Assange? Why is he working for the right, which I'm completely convinced he's doing...Vince foster.

[yeoman6987]

3. It's on the main page of yahoo

They ask how many people you deal with who are murdered. General public most 0 or 1. Clintons in the hundreds. Ridiculous.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. yahoo links completely fake 'news' sites, which are strictly

bought and sold RW propaganda sources. they present them as actual news

they're worse than drudge, and anyone who posts there is a delusional, frothing at the mouth psycho.....so, that doesn't surprise me at all

I just wonder when CNN is going to start running with it.

[yeoman6987]

6. I know. I really only go to check mail but on the rare occasion I read

something it's like wow? But the comments are the worst part. It's sick really.

[Kingofalldems]

10. Why didn't you mention that in your post?

[Kingofalldems]

12. Seems like you are agreeing with the article. Maybe not though.

Please explain 'ridiculous'.

[SCantiGOP]

5. She murdered Judge Crater

(You'll have to Google that if you're under 85)

[TheDebbieDee]

7. OMGosh! I belong to another political forum that is right-wing...

Literally every 4th thread is about the Clinton Body Count, Clinton Drug Cartel, Clinton Money Laundering Enterprise, blah, blah, blah!

They often ask me how I can consider voting for the "corrupt" Hillary Clinton after all those investigations - I list each of the previous Hillary investigations and punctuate each one with "Result: No indictment!" I then tell them that all these fruitless investigations prove is that Hillary is being harassed thru these investigations.

Tonight, I started facetiously posting Boris and Natasha or Bonnie and Clyde photos in these threads.

[Gabi Hayes]

8. what site? sounds like fun

try linking some of the articles from this thread....one of my favorites, the sexual assault thread, starring Ivana, Jill Harth, and a thirteen year old girl:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7980814

or this one, which will make them feel right at home, I'm sure

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028038136

that one has most of his top racist comments, like the OP:

''Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.''

[TheDebbieDee]

13. It's a FB page called Let's Talk Politics...

You have to become a member to join, tho. I mostly go there to find people to argue/debate with. I like to try to explain things in a way right-wingers have never heard... At least they are not a complete cesspool like Free Republic...

[struggle4progress]

9. Assange is a classic misogynist: his anxieties about women lead him to serial short-term

objectifying relationships and regular bragging about how many women he's impregnated

When a woman wanted him to get a VD test, after he had condomless sex with her while she was asleep, he obsessively rebranded the tale as a great international conspiracy, involving at least four different nations

Our most natural guess should be that women like Hillary Clinton completely terrify him -- and that he doesn't have the stability or emotional maturity to control the paranoid fantasies that he constructs to protect his self-esteem

[Blue_Tires]

11. Assange is a ratfucking piece of shit

He knew all he had to do was dangle an insinuation out there, and it would grow wings real fast...