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Originally Posted by Danzig
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Exactly. I clicked through and read the right-wing Judicial Watch link RBE posted and my first thought was, "This sounds fake." And sure enough, when questioned directly about it, the club owner admitted it could very well have been a prank. But the right doesn't want to admit that a story that is completely preposterous (Hillary has spent 20 years being insulted for her appearance, her marriage, etc. Why start taking offense now? It makes no sense). From the article:
"What we have here is a small-scale demonstration of how the Hillary smear sausage gets made. It starts with a claim that’s ambiguous at best, fabricated at worst, and then interpreted in the most invidious possible light. The claim is reported in one outlet and amplified on Twitter. Other outlets then report on the report, repeating the claim over and over again. Talk radio picks it up. Maybe Fox News follows. Eventually the story achieves a sort of ubiquity in the right-wing media ecosystem, which makes it seem like it’s been confirmed. Soon it becomes received truth among conservatives, and sometimes it even crosses into the mainstream media. If you watched the way the Clintons were covered in the1990s, you know the basics of this process. If you didn’t, you’re going to spend the next year—and maybe the next nine years—learning all about it."
As the old adage goes, a lie gets halfway around the world in the time it takes the truth to pull its boots on.