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Matthew Gertz
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Sean Hannity and Fox News are using the Barr memo to take an anti-press victory lap.

This is wrong for many reasons, one of which is that the memo demolishes the network's Seth Rich conspiracy theory. mediamatters.org/blog/2019/03/2…
Some examples of this phenomenon here:
If Hannity is a mission to denounce liars and con artists who promote conspiracy theories for political gain, he should start with himself.
Anyway, still no sign of the internal investigation that Fox claimed to be doing to figure out how they ended up publishing Seth Rich conspiracy theories! Weird how that happened.
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Here’s the guest lineup for Jeanine Pirro’s first show back after her bigoted anti-Muslim comments. It is fascinating that there are no White House or congressional guests.
No Pirro apology or reference to her disappearance the last two weeks at the top of the show.
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Left, Fox & Friends Saturday, 7:47 am
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Pete Hegseth notes they've been following Gallagher's story "very closely on this program." Gallagher's brother was on F&F yesterday; this morning he returned and thanked Kilmeade and Doocy for their coverage.
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I want to share a thread about conspiracy theories and the right. In the last few days we’ve seen lots of proper scorn for flawed and overly-credulous reporting on Russiagate and proper scorn for leftist conspiracy theory dot-connecting. You know, “game theory” and all that. 1/
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Jay McKenzie
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Lovely. Remember how Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi - with the help of WikiLeaks and the Alt-Right - admitted to spreading the Seth Rich conspiracy theory even though they knew it was false? @CNN hired a politics editor who pushed it too.

This is pathetic.
thedailybeast.com/cnn-assures-dn…
@CNN Look at this.

Here's the now-retracted Fox News article that falsely claimed Seth Rich was the source for the DNC emails released by WikiLeaks.

It was published on May 16, 2017. This article was reportedly coordinated with CNN's new hire, Sarah Isgur.

web.archive.org/web/2017051613…
Then on May 17, 2017 , one day after that Fox News article, Jerome Corsi wrote for Infowars that "Democratic National Committee computer expert Seth Rich was the one who hacked DNC emails, sending some 44,000 DNC emails to Julian Assange at Wikileaks."

archive.is/jhrWU
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Corsi informed Stone about the planned WikiLeaks Dem email releases 2 months in advance.

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(No date): The Russian government allegedly performs various “intelligence-related activities targeting the U.S. voting process” starting in 2014,
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Caroline O.
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The lawsuit filed by Seth Rich's family says Fox News used "false and fabricated facts" to develop a "sham story," and then provided a national platform to fuel the conspiracy theory alleging that Rich was murdered in connection with the hack of the DNC by WikiLeaks.
Reminder: This is not the 1st lawsuit filed against Fox News for their role in the Seth Rich conspiracy theory. Last yr, a Fox commentator sued the network, saying they created the false story *with full knowledge & help from the White House.*

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Sean Spicer admitted he met w/ Ed Butowsky, a wealthy Trump supporter who worked w/ Fox News to create the fake Seth Rich story. Butowsky reportedly went to the WH to brief Spicer on the story before it aired. He said he briefed Trump, too.

He's now being sued by Seth's parents.
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