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Blue_Tires

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26. and that's fine

Reply to kwassa (Reply #4)

Thu May 18, 2017, 02:33 PM

May 2017

While I've been following Mench long before it was cool, and she was tearing down Kremlingate long before most liberal bloggers/pundits even acknowledged it as a legit issue, even I'll admit she might be trying to overreach a little and fast-forward her story before revelations get us there naturally...

But I don't appreciate certain people on the horseshoe left and horseshoe right pretending this discredits her entirely....

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New fake news dilemma: sites publish real scoops amid mess of false reports [View all] kwassa May 2017 OP

And this article is in keeping with past distortions of what Mensch has said. pnwmom May 2017 #1

Really stretching to defend a conservative. Dr Hobbitstein May 2017 #2

She did NOT. You need to read more carefully. She distinguished between the initial protests pnwmom May 2017 #3

FUCK LOUISE MENSCH! Dr Hobbitstein May 2017 #7

Do you understand the difference between "riots" and "protests"? pnwmom May 2017 #10

You really like defending that conservative, don't you? Dr Hobbitstein May 2017 #12

The enemy of an enemy can be an ally. For now, she is a never-trumper, and that pnwmom May 2017 #15

Post removed Post removed May 2017 #6

I'm not the one hanging on to every tweet of a RW conspiracy theorist, am I? Dr Hobbitstein May 2017 #9

Watergate was a conspiracy theory till it became a conspiracy fact. n/t pnwmom May 2017 #11

Post removed Post removed May 2017 #14

Maybe you should stop being personally insulting. n/t pnwmom May 2017 #16

Maybe you should stop defending conservative hacks on a liberal website? nt Dr Hobbitstein May 2017 #18

She, unlike many of the liberals on this very website, understood all along pnwmom May 2017 #22

Obviously LM has a strong thread of loony running through her, but she has scooped the tblue37 May 2017 #27

All sorts of crazy with this CONSERVATIVE. Dr Hobbitstein May 2017 #17

If you read your own link you'd see she was very clear. pnwmom May 2017 #19

She believes crazy shit. Dr Hobbitstein May 2017 #21

No. I can think of a few actual hateful maggots. Mensch isn't one of them. mhw May 2017 #23

Having an opinion is fine ... kwassa May 2017 #4

But... But... She says bad things about Trump, so she must be right... Dr Hobbitstein May 2017 #8

and that's fine Blue_Tires May 2017 #26

Well, I have to give her credit at least she is pro vaccination snooper2 May 2017 #13

This is the witch hunt Trump is referring to. "Unhinged British witch" "a textbook succubus" L. Coyote May 2017 #5

Wow... The Guardian is tossing hand grenades around their greenhouse... Blue_Tires May 2017 #20

Discrediting Mensch for outing Putin/Trump with links to mhw May 2017 #24

he had them fooled.. Cha May 2017 #29

I love how the author pretends this is a "new" phenomenon Blue_Tires May 2017 #25

Last Part Of Subtitle: .... 'forcing readers to discern truth for themselves.' OMG! crosinski May 2017 #28