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Tommy_Carcetti

(44,446 posts)
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 08:51 AM Jun 2020

This simple response from this morning, by CNN's fact checker Daniel Dale, is sublime.




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 OP
Response to...? lagomorph777 Jun 2020 #1
Trump's tweeting of the bizarre OAN conspiracy theory... Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2020 #2
Thanks. lagomorph777 Jun 2020 #3
Daniel Dale is really good underpants Jun 2020 #4

Tommy_Carcetti

(44,446 posts)
2. Trump's tweeting of the bizarre OAN conspiracy theory...
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 08:58 AM
Jun 2020

...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.

underpants

(195,571 posts)
4. Daniel Dale is really good
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 09:25 AM
Jun 2020

As soon as a Trump event is over he’s 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.

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