Not long after CNN and Buzzfeed tried to roll out yet another anti-Trump story without verifying it, it was learned that the story was purely made up and disseminated on the internet by frauds waiting to see if the story would be picked up by mainstream media, which CNN and Buzzfeed surely did. It was later confirmed that 'Chad Four' (sp) was behind the lead of the story, reportedly originally concocted by a former BBC intel officer. On the Michael Savage radio show a 'Michael' from Chad Four called in claiming the organization put out the story on the internet to see if mainstream media would pick it up.
Following Donald Trump's press conference today, Jan 11, 2017, CNN's Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer and a panel of seven tried to defend reporting an 'uncorroborated' story broke by internet 'news' Buzzfeed, this coming curiously only a week before Trump's inauguration.
Tapper kept saying that CNN didn't report the details of the salacious story -which he admitted was uncorroborated- but the fact of the matter is that CNN did report the story. And, while admitting it was uncorroborated CNN said that the story was 'backed up' as 'authentic' by sources, which would lead the average viewer to view the story REAL news, i.e. accurate. Included in the CNN story was the replay of a feed showing Republican Senator John McCain talking of delivering the details of the story to the FBI, even though 'he didn't know if the story was true or not.'
For over an hour CNN's one-sided panel of eight - only one GOP senator represented the Trump position- tried to support CNN's position. By even mentioning an unsubstantiated story like this CNN is going 'yellow' as in 'yellow journalism.' Any true journalist knows that you don't even mention a story if you're not sure of the facts.
Now we also know that the U.S. Government 'intelligence' may not be so intelligence with James Clapper and Co. also releasing two pages of the fake story. Clapper was an Obama appointee and has been caught already in several misleading efforts favoring the Obama adminstration. CIA's Brannan and FBI's Comey may also be complicit in promoting this story as if real news.
We further learn that even the one right-leaning news network, FOX , supported CNN's reporting via newsman Shepherd Smith. Perhaps FOX wasn't aware that Smith was saying that CNN and its reporters were correctly questioning Trump regarding the story. Perhaps FOX and Smith owe an apology.
As an aside, President-elect Trump must be commended for standing up to CNN and Buzzfeed, while commending the other media that DID NOT report the story.
