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JohnSJ

(92,061 posts)
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 08:01 AM Feb 2022

It is time to sue the NY post for making false accusations calling "Hillary the Spy"

Not only is there no evidence, it is just the opposite, and certain hosts on Fox News are doing the same thing

There no charges or evidence against Hillary Clinton or her campaign by Durham, and in fact the only accusation is one lawyer accused of lying to the FBI

and where are the Democrats calling Durham to task for lack of accountability on what he is doing.

His investigation is longer than the Mueller investigation, and how much money is being spent on this trash

Unfortunately the AG doesn’t have the power to fire Durham because he is a special counsel, but unless the Democrats are going to push back on crap like this, we don’t stand a chance in November.

This is the Comey email bullshit all over again, except it is even worse because there is even less involved.

We have trump calling for people’s execution based on lies, and the fox media bubble misrepresenting the entire investigation

The Democrats must call these liars and fraudsters out.

How many times do we have to learn that you just can’t ignore lies, hoping the everything will work out in the end?

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no_hypocrisy

(46,026 posts)
1. IMO, this article is a corollary to Sarah Palin's defamation suit against the NYT.
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 08:16 AM
Feb 2022

Same premise: We'll publish something that isn't supported by facts, let readers absorb it, and then wait for it to be resolved in court when HRC protests. IOW, what's good for the goose . . . . .

JohnSJ

(92,061 posts)
2. Not even close. The NY Times retracted the Palin story, and admitted the error immediately
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 08:27 AM
Feb 2022

This garbage from the Murdoch empire has been going on for sometime now

Remember the report falsely accusing a couple of people involved in the Boston Marathon bombing?

mnmoderatedem

(3,722 posts)
5. additionally, the judge in the Palin case noted they did not prove intent of malice by the NYT
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 09:16 AM
Feb 2022

the Post cover should be easy to show intent of malice.

JohnSJ

(92,061 posts)
8. Because that is how you lose elections. I guess you don't remember the swift boat liars? Obama
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 09:32 AM
Feb 2022

learned from that error when they pushed the Reverend Wright fiasco. Biden immediately pushed back on the defund the police association that the right wing were making with Democrats

Hillary should have pushed back on the Comey fiasco, and not allowed the media pundits to take over the messaging pushing the lie that the e-mail investigation had been reopened

There are so many examples I can name it is pathetic

If you don’t think the misrepresentation of the Durham investigation by fox and other right wing outlets is going to influence independents, I think you are being naïve


brooklynite

(94,358 posts)
9. Are Hillary and Obama planning to run for something?
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 09:42 AM
Feb 2022

And to my point: "we" can't sue the NY Post over an attack on "her".

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