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19. the 'religious fervor' criticism is bullshit

Tue May 23, 2017, 09:34 PM

May 2017

...and it's absurd to claim that people relating what she's saying are 'willing to suspend all skepticism.'

Funny, really, to find critics making unsupported claims about posters - using inflammatory terms like 'cult' and religious fervor' to knock down the info from Mensch being shared as speculative.

It's a mystery why there's pushback on all of that...

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Mensch gets backup from CNN analyst: [View all] Kingofalldems May 2017 OP

We still have jackets JHB May 2017 #1

We all thought that back in MARCH! Chemisse May 2017 #2

Lol. Are you sure you didn't get it from Mensch in March 2016? Hortensis May 2017 #38

And this: Kingofalldems May 2017 #3

Tweet's gone - what did it say? n/t moonscape May 2017 #16

Pretty much what the OP one said. Kingofalldems May 2017 #18

There's some legs to this story, to be sure Mr. Ected May 2017 #4

Thanks for posting Seth Abramson's tweet. N/T emulatorloo May 2017 #5

Thank you. mhw May 2017 #6

Hmm, maybe we should focus on the message, rather than messenger, where Mensch et al are concerned! FreepFryer May 2017 #7

Thanks. You are correct. mhw May 2017 #8

She has a Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more about her. Demit May 2017 #10

Some people here are oddly obsessed with "discrediting" her Warren DeMontague May 2017 #9

So true. Kingofalldems May 2017 #11

She's just not a reliable journalist Bradical79 May 2017 #12

As I said in a different thread, I don't think anyone here is gonna confuse her with the WaPo. Warren DeMontague May 2017 #13

Yeah, that I agree with Bradical79 May 2017 #22

You're making several big statements Orrex May 2017 #30

Are you kidding, man? Warren DeMontague May 2017 #36

95% of their energy, or more? Seriously? Orrex May 2017 #37

Seems a disproportionate amount of energy on the matter. Warren DeMontague May 2017 #41

Fair enough Orrex May 2017 #42

I blame my Warren DeMontague May 2017 #43

Be careful with those things, dammit! Orrex May 2017 #44

sounds like journalism to me bigtree May 2017 #14

Nonsense Bradical79 May 2017 #20

Mainstream journalists bigtree May 2017 #27

Sounds like advocacy, not journalism. kwassa May 2017 #23

we can pretend advocacy isn't part of journalism bigtree May 2017 #25

The tweet in the OP isn't journalism, and it isn't advocacy. It's rumor. Demit May 2017 #35

this is a discussion board bigtree May 2017 #39

Everything you just wrote is exactly what I'm doing. Demit May 2017 #40

This message was self-deleted by its author RandomAccess May 2017 #17

I'm just so uncomfortable with the cult-like response to her tweets. Chemisse May 2017 #15

the 'religious fervor' criticism is bullshit bigtree May 2017 #19

Her track record is not great Orrex May 2017 #33

His tweet thread is interesting - what he thinks of moonscape May 2017 #21

Mensch calls out Seth - "Then and Now" womanofthehills May 2017 #24

+1 bigtree May 2017 #28

I hope so. BainsBane May 2017 #26

It's a yes or no question, and the word "may" makes this something less than a prediction. Orsino May 2017 #29

And the analyst's sources themselves apparently only used the word may! Demit May 2017 #32

Imagining that a Trump cohort might return Trump's famous lack of loyalty by turning on him... Orsino May 2017 #34

Mensch.... berksdem May 2017 #31