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Media Tweets, the “Kavanaugh Pick” & Layering

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The Left have worked themselves into a lather over President’ Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh as the next Supreme Court Justice.

In fairness, it wasn’t really about Kavanaugh:

Following the announcement, a story was floated by NBC’s Capital Hill Reporter Leigh Ann Caldwell (Note: this tweet was later deleted – more below):

In case Caldwell’s “ghost-tweet” is difficult to read:

Kennedy and Trump/WH had been in negotiations for months over Kennedy’s replacement. Once Kennedy received assurances that it would be Kavanaugh, his former law clerk, Kennedy felt comfortable retiring, according to a source who was told of the discussions.

Caldwell’s “story” was quickly picked up by her colleague, NBC’s White House Correspondent, Geoff Bennett”

As of this writing, Bennett’s tweet remains up.

Caldwell continued:

But then a delayed, and significant, caveat – thirty-eight minutes after she “broke” her story:

Caldwell did attempt to provide some backup to her “story”:

As usual, there was a problem:

Meanwhile, Caldwell’s initial tweet rapidly spread:

David Corn is the author of the second Steele Dossier story.

Corn’s article was a completion of the circular reporting begun with the Isikoff article which was used in the Carter Page FISA Application.

Caldwell’s Kavanaugh story continued to gain momentum.

And her “reporting” was used to provide new layers of opposition:

Which, in turn, was layered again:

Once again, narrative problems lurked:

Anyone with a shred of common sense understood this:

But the layering continued:

Yeah. That never actually happened.

FWIW: Charles Cooke is the Editor of National Review.

Of course, Neera Tanden knew both stories were nonsense:

Meanwhile, the damage was done:

Cooke summed the whole endeavor nicely:

The thing is, NBC’s false reporting was effective:

“this one woman irresponsibly created and spread a toxic conspiracy theory that will be cited for years and years.”

Unfortunately so.

NBC’s White House Correspondent, Geoff Bennett’s original tweet:

The count now stands at 16,000 retweets. And growing.

Bennett’s clarification:

The clarification count now stands at 82.

I loathe the media.

Oops. Silly mistake. I misspelled “propaganda arm of the DNC”.

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