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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,189 posts) Tue Jun 9, 2020, 09:51 AM Jun 2020

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

Link to tweet

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

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)

1. Response to...?

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Tue Jun 9, 2020, 09:56 AM

Jun 2020

Context please.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,189 posts)

2. Trump's tweeting of the bizarre OAN conspiracy theory...

Reply to lagomorph777 (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 9, 2020, 09:58 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.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)

3. Thanks.

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 9, 2020, 10:00 AM

Jun 2020

underpants

(182,863 posts)

4. Daniel Dale is really good

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Tue Jun 9, 2020, 10:25 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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