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    Fox's Shepard Smith: CNN is not 'fake news'

    Fox's Shepard Smith: CNN is not 'fake news'

    By Nikita Vladimirov - 02/24/17 05:30 PM EST

    Fox News anchor Shepard Smith defended CNN on Friday after the news organization was barred from spokesman Sean Spicer’s question-and-answer session at the White House.

    "For the record, 'fake news' refers to stories that are created, often by entities pretending to be news organizations, solely to draw clicks and views and are based on nothing of substance," Smith said during his program.

    "In short, fake news is made up nonsense delivered for financial gain. CNN’s reporting was not fake news. Its journalists followed the same standards to which other news organizations, including Fox News, adhere," he added.

    CNN was not the only news organization to be barred from attending Spicer’s "gaggle." Others included Politico, The Hill, BuzzFeed, the Daily Mail, BBC, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News.

    CNN also criticized the administration's tactics Friday, calling it "an unacceptable development by the Trump White House."

    Smith maintained that talking with White House officials off the record does not fit into the category of fake news.

    "Senior administration officials regularly speak without attribution so that the public can be informed of what our government is doing, off the record," he said.

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    "For the record, 'fake news' refers to stories that are created, often by entities pretending to be news organizations, solely to draw clicks and views and are based on nothing of substance," Smith said during his program.
    Well, I think "fake news" in the context of Donald Trump is sort of like that except much more. "Fake news" on Donald Trump is stories that have no substance, no meaning, where the CORRUPT MEDIA tries to create meaning for a political purpose.

    Take the Russia story. There was nothing wrong with Mike Flynn talking with the Ambassador during the transition. There was nothing wrong with him even talking about sanctions from his own view point. Russia has every right to know or seek to find out what the new Administration's view on sanctions might be. Why wouldn't they? Flynn wasn't negotiating, he wasn't establishing policy, he's not in that position to do that, only the President can do that. Is Flynn open to a new deal? Yes, many Americans are. Is Trump open to a new deal? Of course, what person in their right mind wouldn't be?

    Russia is one of the most important countries on this planet, Russia is an old ally to whom many countries owe their very existence. Russians suffered horribly during WWII and gained little for it. The big winners were the Western Europeans. Because of a phone call or perhaps several phone calls that were supposed to be private, at least one of them is known when it shouldn't be.

    While our even knowing about the phone call is wrong and illegal, that's not even the real problem. The real problem is the "fake news" hysteria an improper leak created. That's "fake news" and it's not just for "clicks", it's to create shadows, mistrust, concerns, investigations, wariness and hysteria about a new Presidency, one of the most important Presidencies for the United States in a very long time.

    The implication that there was wrong-doing on the part of Flynn in speaking with the Russian Ambassador for weeks when there's absolutely nothing wrong with it, let alone illegal, was "fake news" both for "clicks" and political gain at the expense of the Trump Presidency.

    We've seen this hysteria take down Ted Stevens, a wonderful man from Alaska, one of the longest serving US Senators. He was ultimately cleared but it took years and the "fake news" that led to a kangaroo trial by the US Department of Justice, cost him his seat in the US Senate.

    We've seen it attack Governor Bob McDonnell in Virginia, a wonderful Governor, who did amazing things for the state of Virginia. "Fake news" that led to another kangaroo trial cost him his seat as Governor, his feeling that he should resign. He was ultimately cleared but it took years.

    We've seen the "fake news" on Trump. OH MY GOD! Where does one begin? It was constant. But Trump is a different character than what "fake news" artists are used to dealing with. They're used to dealing with people who resign or give up because they don't know how to defend themselves, and that is understandable. Most people have no clue how to prove their innocence against false charges, so they hire a lawyer and slink away, hoping eventually the truth will find it's way through the fog and clear them.

    What CNN, the New York Times, NBC and to a great extent the Washington Post are doing is beyond belief. But they've met their match this time. Donald Trump won't be slinking away. He'll meet them head-on, with both barrels blazing, he'll dish it right back on them, except where they're sitting there with their little buckets trying to dump on him, he'll show up with a dump truck and bury them.

    And that will be the new story. Who are the leakers who so far are the only ones who broke the law? And who are the reporters who take the word of a leaker breaking the law with no evidence and printing and broadcasting gossip as "news alert" or "breaking news" or a "report" not worth the ink on the NYT's front page?

    Fake News is a huge distraction for our country and it's very unfair to the people of the United States. It's unfair to mislead people into thinking Trump is in bed with the Russians for treason. It's unfair to raise the hopes of the snowflakes that he's done something impeachable. It's wrong on all levels for Mainstream Media to be blasting manufactured conspiracy theories and their big story wish lists on global television and in print watched and read around the world. It's an embarrassment and a distortion that has consequences, not for Trump, he'll prevail in great fashion, the consequences will be suffered by the people of the United States.

    In our country, it's the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Half-truths don't count, because half-truths presented as whole truth are lies, and that's what CNN and others have been selling for weeks now about the Trump Presidency. That's why they were slapped out of the gaggle briefing yesterday, and rightly so.

    The tables have turned on them, and now they are their own "big story" and deserve every bit of the new scrutiny on them and the inevitable consequences.
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