Buzzfeed blows it again

Good day all. Last week, Buzzfeed posted a story that claimed that President Trump had told his then lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress. There was just one small problem. Buzzfeed appears to have made the whole thing up.

Buzzfeed is an online news service that’s been around for a few years. They are not friends of President Trump. This is also the same gang of clowns that posted the phone Trump Dossier just before the election. Credibility is not one of their strong suits.

As you can imagine, the Progressives, Liberals, CommuNazis and that moron Adam Schiff, started screaming “Resign! Impeach!” In other words, situation normal for them. There was just one small problem. Robert Mueller came out and said that the reports were wrong and Michael Cohen was not told to lie to Congress or anyone else. That was the first time Mueller has made any comments regarding his witch hunt investigation. Here are some of the details from The Daily Caller:

The special counsel’s office is disputing a bombshell report published by BuzzFeed alleging that President Donald Trump instructed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress.

“BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate,” spokesman Peter Carr said in a statement to The Daily Caller News Foundation.

The original story in Buzzfeed was posted on January 17^th, and was a bombshell. If it had been true, it would have been all over for President Trump. The problem was, it wasn’t true and the lead writer, Jason Leopold, has a history of making things like this up. Years ago, he posted that Former Bush adviser, Carl Rove was about to be indited and arrested. The problem was, it flat out wasn’t true.

Two anonymous law enforcement sources told BuzzFeed that emails and witness interviews backed up Cohen’s alleged claims.

Ahh yes, the infamous “Anonymous Sources.” The problem with those “sources” is that they either do not exist, or they were a plant to set up that Moonbat Leopold. My guess is, it was the former. The real problem here, isn’t the fake news, it’s that the entire editorial process failed miserably. Buzzfeed was so hot to get anything on President Trump, that any sort of fact checking or attempts at corroboration went by the way side.

But the statement from Mueller’s office pours cold water on the story, which was hailed Friday as the most significant report related to the Russia probe. Democrats seized on the report to call for congressional investigations into whether Trump obstructed justice or suborned perjury from Cohen, who was sentenced to three years in prison on Dec. 12.

One of this people just salivating at the thought of “Getting Trump!” as Kalifornistan Representative Adam Schiff. This moron still believes that the Trump dossier, bought and paid for by Felonia von Pantsuit, is actually an honest and legitimate document. As soon as he saw the Buzzfeed report, he was out there, fornicating with the news cameras demanding that President Trump be arrested, impeached and jailed. Now? He’s been rather quiet this weekend.

One of the problems with the Buzzfeed story was the other Fake News channels. While they were crowing about it at first, although they were not able to verify any part of it. That didn’t stop the talking heads from blathering on about it. Here are few details on that from Fox News:

Despite the fact that the BuzzFeed News story was not confirmed by — well — any news outlet from when it was first published to the statement from Mueller’s team, the broadcast networks devoted 27 minutes and 33 second on their Friday morning and evening newscasts (minus opening teases) to a story that, for lack of a better term, has been sunk. All three networks pointed to the questionable veracity of the BuzzFeed piece by Anthony Cormier and Jason Leopold to some degree, but each still gave it coverage with two dithering away over 10 minutes each.

This was a case of “Oh please!! Please make this true!!” All the left-wing networks a significant amount of air time on this story, all the while working behind the scenes to verify it. Then came Robert Mueller.

Just before 8:00 p.m. Eastern, Office of the Special Counsel spokesman Peter Carr released this statement, sending the media (and Twitter) on all sides into a frenzy: “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate.”

And, just like that, it was over. This hasn’t stopped the Mostly Stupid Media from pushing Buzzfeed to confirm everything.

CNN’s Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter and his fellow media cheerleader were beside themselves on Friday night, seeking to point fingers at BuzzFeed instead of, in addition to BuzzFeed, themselves for running the story.

Rather than that, Stelter worried about the backlash, insisting on AC360:

“Don’t fall for what these politicians out there want you to do. They want you to think we are all crooked, we’re not, but BuzzFeed now — but now, BuzzFeed — now, the onus is on BuzzFeed, right? The onus is now on BuzzFeed. Ben Smith says he knows the identity of the two sources. Obviously, the reporters know the identity of the two sources. They’re going to be going back to those two sources and hopefully to other sources to try to get to the bottom of this. Now, it’s a dispute and I don’t know how that dispute’s going to be resolved….This will be used, obviously against the media as a whole. But I hope we can see past that and be smarter than that. I hope the President doesn’t guide everybody else to use it against the press.”

It seems to me that the Mostly Stupid Media is demanding that Leopold and Buzzfeed provide access to the two “Anonymous sources.” That is a major thing in the world of Fake News. Getting people who provide information to come out of the closet and make themselves available is almost impossible, and burning the sources is a good way to never get any other sources. The only reason to burn the sources is if they lied.

Of course, another problem may be that there aren’t any sources. Leopold’s co-writer, Anthony Cormier, has said that he never met Leopold’s sources. He’s only seen documents allegedly provided to them by the “sources.” I think we’re beginning to see the bus getting warmed up and Leopold being readied to be thrown under it.

It’s people like Leopold that are the reason no one trusts the Main Stream Media any longer. They have been caught over and over again, either being dead wrong or making things up. Buzzfeed is still standing by the story, however, I suspect it will quietly be pulled in the next week or so and Leopold and Cromier invited to start new careers in the food service industry.

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