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Is James O'Keefe a turd nozzle?

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irstupid on 28 November 2017

Kind of sad on Washington Post that they felt the need to post a story about this. Seems every 10th story these days has updates that change it in some way or it becomes redacted, and here they are posting a story about catching someone trying to make fake news.

It just screams petty. Like "oh look at us, we do, do our research and investigate and don't just post quick stories without validating them"

Hell they even mention in this article bragging about how good they are at research. A big new company like this should not have to defend itself or write stories about stuff like this. This should be obvious things going on behind the scenes.



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sethnintendo on 28 November 2017
irstupid said:
Kind of sad on Washington Post that they felt the need to post a story about this. Seems every 10th story these days has updates that change it in some way or it becomes redacted, and here they are posting a story about catching someone trying to make fake news.

It just screams petty. Like "oh look at us, we do, do our research and investigate and don't just post quick stories without validating them"

Hell they even mention in this article bragging about how good they are at research. A big new company like this should not have to defend itself or write stories about stuff like this. This should be obvious things going on behind the scenes.

Narcissism seems to be contagious and when you have the ultimate self loving person at the top then it apparently trickles down to the rest of us.  Might be the only time trickle down effect has worked in real life.



StarOcean on 28 November 2017
monocle_layton said:
TargaryenVers2 said:

Dang, that would've been really funny! Is it too late to change it?

Don't sweat it. It's too late, but we may stumble upon something else soon

bigjon said:

ya... and CNN, Foxnews, MSNBC, NYT or WAPO NEVER EVER do that.....

Damn, that whataboutism is back at it. Almost as if a 'tu quoque' argument only ignores the issue at hand.

The biggest mistake is ever assuming those who use whataboutism are actually capable of independent thought. They aren't. 



Nymeria on 28 November 2017

The issue is we've become so tribalized that fact and fiction have no bearing. I already know people who claim the Washington Post were "caught" publishing fake allegations and how it "brings the other women into question".

This isn't the first time this has been done.  I remember the Planned Parenthood video that was edited to be "selling baby parts" and despite being discredited in court we still had politicians and people long after quoting it as fact.

The goal isn't to get to truth, it is to muddy waters so much that no offense matters. "Yes, I lied, but we're all liars, nothing matters, support the tribe above all!"



DonFerrari on 28 November 2017

Yes, washington post never post wrong news or do clickbait. And of course the media is very rigorous.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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DonFerrari on 28 November 2017
vivster said:
FIT_Gamer said:

You're right, but it's still weird as fuck. 

What's weird to be attracted to in some cases fully developed primary and secondary sexual attributes?

As long as there are 14 year olds that look like 21 year olds and 21 year olds that look like 14 year olds all this discussion about age is absolutely moot. If a person has all the attributes of a sexually developed human then there is no problem or shame being attracted to them. Welcome to genetics and instincts. 

Weird are the people who cling to arbitrary age numbers that are indiscernible for the normal eye and pretend that they matter in the slightest.

I mean how do you think attraction works? Teenagers lust after other teenagers and it's completely fine. Do you think as soon as a teenager hits the magic number 18 suddenly all people below that age become suddenly repulsive?

Agree with you... being attracted isn't wrong or repulsive... but falling for the instinct when you know it's a 14y old is wrong because of the possible abuse.

But yes, repulsive is attraction to prepubescent



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

SuaveSocialist on 28 November 2017

Olivernintentoal said:

1) That said, I don't understand how people are saying we can't trust anything they say.

2) Even if James O'Keefe can't be trusted, you can't deny video footage of people being interviewed. 

1) It's largely due to virtually every Project Truth (Veritas) story has been thoroughly debunked and in this case willfully deceptive and manifestly untrue.  James O'Keefe has cried 'wolf' too consistently and too many times.

2) There are actually a number of ways to present a video-recorded interview in misleading ways.  Potholer54 explains a few of them here: