The Goat Pen

Id like to crack both of your trump loving eggs. Then step on them and pee on them.

$250M against the Washington Post for targeting a white kid wearing a Maga hat.

I hope they pay thru the nose

http://www.hemmerlaw.com/blog/for-truth ... -nicholas/

Oh boy

$250 million isn't even a rounding error for Jeff Bezos...

And $5 billion for a Wall is a rounding error in a $4 trillion federal budget.

hedge wrote:$250 million isn't even a rounding error for Jeff Bezos...

good, let that kid get paid

that's just the start too

$250 million is the entire market value of the Washington Post.

I understand the need for a free press - I believe it is essential to preventing unchecked power in Washington, Stat and local politics, law enforcement and a host of other agencies, issues

that said,

this is an abuse of power and its not an isolated incident.

The press needs to live in fear of retribution for abuse of their platform.

This kid, the women lined up for Kavanaugh, Smollett are just a few of the examples where the press wanted to create a narrative so badly they stopped relying on the one principle that is supposed to protect them - journalistic integrity.

There are a number of factors that lead to this - diminished budgets for research and following stories, attempting to compete with blogs and social media (that have no rules or requirements for integrity) that in the internet world are peers to their domains, but the biggest driver here is their hatred of Trump and people that support him.

Fake news started it.

eCat wrote:This kid, the women lined up for Kavanaugh, Smollett are just a few of the examples where the press wanted to create a narrative so badly they stopped relying on the one principle that is supposed to protect them - journalistic integrity.

Irresponsible fake journalism (aka mainstream journalism) has been going on for a long time: Tawana Brawley, Duke LaCrosse players, Dan Rather and W’s national guard service, CBS and the “exploding” truck gas tanks, Katie Couric’s doctored interviews of gun rights advocates, UVA fraternity rape cases, etc etc etc...

Professor Tiger wrote:

eCat wrote:This kid, the women lined up for Kavanaugh, Smollett are just a few of the examples where the press wanted to create a narrative so badly they stopped relying on the one principle that is supposed to protect them - journalistic integrity.

Irresponsible fake journalism (aka mainstream journalism) has been going on for a long time: Tawana Brawley, Duke LaCrosse players, Dan Rather and W’s national guard service, CBS and the “exploding” truck gas tanks, Katie Couric’s doctored interviews of gun rights advocates, UVA fraternity rape cases, etc etc etc...

Literally everything on Fox News too.

Traevon Martin... the Ferguson shooting.... Brian Ross... Trump colluding with Russia...Trump colluding with Russia... Trump colluding with Russia... (did I mention Trump colluding with Russia?)

Fox News isn't immune from it.

In a sense you can trace it back to Limbaugh in the Daddy Bush era, once news became entertainment and focused on a specific audience, the goal became to say whatever is necessary to retain them.

Real journalist decided they had an obligation to be influence Americans as opposed to reporting news.

Hell, people on social media take pride in it - they label themselves influencers.

Limbaugh does NOT pretend to be a journalist. MSM journalists do what Limbaugh does, except on behalf of the Left, but they pretend to be real journalists.

... Bush Sr. secretly flying in an SR-71 to Iran to present the Ayatollahs with a cake... Mitt Romney hadn’t paid taxes in years... the Telegraph stories on Melania Trump... ABC’s false “breaking news” about Flynn that briefly crashed the stock market...

I didn't know she did this

I can't believe that was a good move for her or the progressive's in the Democratic Party as she is now the defacto leader
1096117499492478977 Today.....

Every New Yorker -- and tourist -- will now know that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Opens a New Window. , D-N.Y., is being partially blamed for Amazon's Opens a New Window. recent pullout of its planned headquarters in the city's borough of Queens.

A new billboard funded by the Job Creators Network debuted on Wednesday in Times Square calling out Ocasio-Cortez for her role in Amazon's canceled plans Opens a New Window. for the new headquarters, known as HQ2.

The billboard -- which will be located on 42nd street near 8th Avenue for one week beginning on Wednesday -- is headlined "Amazon Pullout, Thanks for Nothing, AOC."

The ad goes on to detail the economic consequences of Ocasio-Cortez's part in New York City foregoing 25,000 high-paying jobs and $4 billion in wages and her part in the entire state taking a $12 billion hit in lost economic activity.

fucking Fox News.

Why in the world is Mark Fuhrman a commentator for you on anything, but especially the Smollett case?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dz7hxnKW0AEcpBv.jpg

That IS crazy. The only thing even crazier is the appearance of Al Sharpton, righteously indignant about Smallett.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sharpt ... tions-true

For those who aren’t old enough to remember it, Rev. Al was the godfather of the Tawana Brawley case (which was the first fake racism/victimhood case, and remains the gold standard by which all other fake racism/victimhood cases are judged.

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/tawana-brawley

That he would open his mouth today is the stuff you just can’t make up.

Figures this Meadows guy is a redneck racist from North Carolina.

Thought these charts were interesting.yes its image 2

https://i.imgur.com/mn7ZnDE.png

My life expectancy decreased trying to read that