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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis simple response from this morning, by CNN's fact checker Daniel Dale, is sublime.
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Daniel Dale @ddale8 · 19m
A "fact check" is sometimes inadequate.
9:31 AM · Jun 9, 2020
It's basically the fact checking response equivalent of this:

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This simple response from this morning, by CNN's fact checker Daniel Dale, is sublime. (Original Post)
Tommy_Carcetti
Jun 2020
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)1. Response to...?
Context please.
Tommy_Carcetti
(44,446 posts)2. Trump's tweeting of the bizarre OAN conspiracy theory...
...about how a senior citizen was really Undercover Antifa and he staged his own attack at police hands.
Dale's exasperated delivery--before actually going into the fact checking--says it all.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)3. Thanks.
underpants
(195,564 posts)4. Daniel Dale is really good
As soon as a Trump event is over hes right there in CNN with all the background and sourcing for Trumps BS. Really he is just like a lot of us who follow the news and whacked RW media. The other people on TV at CNN should look into it.
