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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere is video of the Rachel Maddow segment on the fake document
This is very interesting
Good thing Rachel and her team are smart, because it appears someone is very threatened by her reporting
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canetoad
(17,180 posts)Much appreciated.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)It's trying to turn legitimate news into the "fake news" like the maggot claims.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)Collusion between the Russians and some current tRumpets? Russians on their own?
I really hope Rachael can find who created the document.
madamesilverspurs
(15,806 posts)that she and her team are as astute as they are. Whoever tried to set her up woefully underestimated her smarts. In any event, somebody somewhere is very concerned that she cleaves so close to the truth; hope she stays off small planes.
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Bet that will not be the only baited hook the MSM gets.
Whoever is trying to set them up is gambling that the urge to scoop other news outlets will keep news teams from looking too closely at the info.
KelleyKramer
(8,982 posts)In addition to her story of what happened, Rachel is also pretty much giving a shout out to other media outlets to be on the alert
This was a very good catch for Rachel and their team!
It's easy to overlook, but if they had run with it and got burned it would have been a big set back... there would have been a non-stop attack of.. "see, it REALLY IS fake news"
Good for Rachel for being smart, it will be interesting if there is more to come on this
longship
(40,416 posts)And here she is... laying it all down -- throwing the gauntlet down as it were! Don't mess with us! We are on top of this. We are smart enough to know how to source documents, because our staff have the most brilliant forensics at our disposal.
And by the way, we are alert to your shade and we will henceforth be reporting on that very thing.
Remember, it's not what they say that matters. It's how they act.
RACHEL!!!!!
This is an extraordinary segment. It deserves its own thread in the Video forum.
Virtual Burlesque
(132 posts)Ratfucking -- and the rats doing it -- turned out to become some of the crumbs guiding Woodward and Bernstein along the trail toward bringing down Nixon.
So, there's that.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)When someone is trying to corrupt the information we receive by planting "fake" documents, as if they are Top Secret, with the markings of the NSA? Somebody doesn't want some information to reach the public?
calimary
(81,440 posts)Wonder if Roger Stone had something to do with this? He's already described what he does as a political dirty trickster as "rat-fucking."
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Luckily, Rachel's team is so good, they won't allow themselves to be 'Rathered'.
I like how she said, "We don't know who's behind this but we're working on it!" Go get 'em, Rachael!
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,586 posts)I hope others in your biz are inspired by this and get to the bottom of the story........