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Here is video of the Rachel Maddow segment on the fake document (Original Post) KelleyKramer Jul 2017 OP
Thank you canetoad Jul 2017 #1
It's more than that. Control-Z Jul 2017 #2
Who would have access to documents, and make such a fake? Sancho Jul 2017 #3
Damned impressive madamesilverspurs Jul 2017 #4
Rachel is so good at breaking down complicated information. dixiegrrrrl Jul 2017 #5
Oh absolutely this bait trick will be tried again KelleyKramer Jul 2017 #14
Rachel and her team are so very much more smarter than all the rest. longship Jul 2017 #6
As I recall ... Virtual Burlesque Jul 2017 #12
This is very important info. kentuck Jul 2017 #7
Yes indeed. Whoever the dirty trickster was - she busted him. calimary Jul 2017 #9
Is that rat-bastard Bannon behind this? PearliePoo2 Jul 2017 #8
Bravo Rachel! Dyedinthewoolliberal Jul 2017 #10
Damn. Right wing politics is so fucking dirty it makes me sick. Kablooie Jul 2017 #11
K and R oasis Jul 2017 #13

Sancho

(9,070 posts)
3. Who would have access to documents, and make such a fake?
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 12:47 AM
Jul 2017

Collusion between the Russians and some current tRumpets? Russians on their own?

I really hope Rachael can find who created the document.

madamesilverspurs

(15,806 posts)
4. Damned impressive
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 01:05 AM
Jul 2017

that she and her team are as astute as they are. Whoever tried to set her up woefully underestimated her smarts. In any event, somebody somewhere is very concerned that she cleaves so close to the truth; hope she stays off small planes.


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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
5. Rachel is so good at breaking down complicated information.
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 01:11 AM
Jul 2017

Bet that will not be the only baited hook the MSM gets.
Whoever is trying to set them up is gambling that the urge to scoop other news outlets will keep news teams from looking too closely at the info.

KelleyKramer

(8,982 posts)
14. Oh absolutely this bait trick will be tried again
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 03:12 AM
Jul 2017

In addition to her story of what happened, Rachel is also pretty much giving a shout out to other media outlets to be on the alert

This was a very good catch for Rachel and their team!

It's easy to overlook, but if they had run with it and got burned it would have been a big set back... there would have been a non-stop attack of.. "see, it REALLY IS fake news"

Good for Rachel for being smart, it will be interesting if there is more to come on this


longship

(40,416 posts)
6. Rachel and her team are so very much more smarter than all the rest.
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 01:47 AM
Jul 2017

And here she is... laying it all down -- throwing the gauntlet down as it were! Don't mess with us! We are on top of this. We are smart enough to know how to source documents, because our staff have the most brilliant forensics at our disposal.

And by the way, we are alert to your shade and we will henceforth be reporting on that very thing.

Remember, it's not what they say that matters. It's how they act.

RACHEL!!!!!


This is an extraordinary segment. It deserves its own thread in the Video forum.

Virtual Burlesque

(132 posts)
12. As I recall ...
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 02:36 AM
Jul 2017

Ratfucking -- and the rats doing it -- turned out to become some of the crumbs guiding Woodward and Bernstein along the trail toward bringing down Nixon.

So, there's that.

kentuck

(111,110 posts)
7. This is very important info.
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 01:55 AM
Jul 2017

When someone is trying to corrupt the information we receive by planting "fake" documents, as if they are Top Secret, with the markings of the NSA? Somebody doesn't want some information to reach the public?

calimary

(81,451 posts)
9. Yes indeed. Whoever the dirty trickster was - she busted him.
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 02:22 AM
Jul 2017

Wonder if Roger Stone had something to do with this? He's already described what he does as a political dirty trickster as "rat-fucking."

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
8. Is that rat-bastard Bannon behind this?
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 02:22 AM
Jul 2017

Luckily, Rachel's team is so good, they won't allow themselves to be 'Rathered'.
I like how she said, "We don't know who's behind this but we're working on it!" Go get 'em, Rachael!

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