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2016 Postmortem

DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Wed Jul 20, 2016, 08:01 AM Jul 2016

Fact-Checking the 2016 Republican National Convention’s Second Night

Did Hillary Clinton really hail Syrian strongman Bashar alAssad as a ‘reformer’? And who actually wrote Melania Trump’s speech on Monday? PolitiFact weighs in.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/19/fact-checking-the-2016-republican-national-convention-s-second-night.html

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Fact-Checking the 2016 Republican National Convention’s Second Night (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2016 OP

Republican National Convention and the word Fact should never be in the same sentence liberal N proud Jul 2016 #1

Still searching to find this guy Lucifer, no known address, no website either. Possibly ficticious. L. Coyote Jul 2016 #2

liberal N proud

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1. Republican National Convention and the word Fact should never be in the same sentence

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jul 20, 2016, 08:07 AM

Jul 2016

Even if it "fact-checking"

There are no Facts provided at the RNC only a propaganda specific to the agenda of Donald Trump and the extreme wing of the Republican base.

L. Coyote

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2. Still searching to find this guy Lucifer, no known address, no website either. Possibly ficticious.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jul 20, 2016, 08:27 AM

Jul 2016

But when i search for him on Twitter, Ben Carson comes up, and the top news is the Republican Convention.
So I suspect Lucifer is somewhere in Cleveland right now.

Gideon Resnick ?@GideonResnick 15 minutes ago
.@mollycrabapple did some amazing artwork to go along with this piece.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/20/ben-carson-ties-hillary-clinton-to-lucifer-as-gop-swaps-campaign-for-witch-trial.html

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