Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

There is a glaring problem with this article. It jumps right off the page in just the second sentence and keeps doing it again and again.

Look at this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-teams-meeting-with-muellers-office-poised-to-ratchet-up-tensions/2017/12/18/15dac668-e41d-11e7-a65d-1ac0fd7f097e_story.html

We get so used to seeing it, we don't even notice it after a while. Here's what's wrong:

"people familiar with the probe"
"according to administration officials"
"advisers close to Trump"
"People with knowledge of the investigation"
"according to a person familiar with the Trump team’s plan who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations".
"according to a person who spoke with Trump last week and spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation".
"He is living in his own world," the person said
"Another associate said"
"Among people familiar with the probe"
"A White House adviser said"

I make that a total of 10 anonymous sources in an article spanning little more than a few hundred words.

Either the reporter is monumentally lazy or this is a total fabrication. Either way, it garners very little veracity in my mind.

PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

Undoubtedly 90% fabrication.

Hemiman Loc: Communist California

The other 10%are lies.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

PLT Sarge Loc: Alabama

The reporter is not lazy. He/she has entered every dodge, way out the left uses to spin their fabrications.

wuzblynd Loc: thomson georgia

90% fab +10 % lies= 100% truth!!!!

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

You are right of course but when anyone takes just a moment to digest what these lying rag news media are trying to give us You know right away..That is if you have the reasoning of a 5 year old that is..

Perhaps that’s why so many of the left eat it up so readily....????

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

That may pass for mathematical logic in your universe, but in mine, 90% fabrication + 10% lies = 100% lies = 100% fabrication, because a fabrication is the same as a lie.

Failure to cite a credible source provides grounds for accusations of fabrication. Since a fabrication is a lie, failure to cite a credible source is equivalent to lying.

Having established that these are lies, the big question remains: Why? What do they gain by so obviously lying like that? That's the $64,000 question. If you can provide a credible answer, you just might become famous.

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

I think it's more about positive reinforcement. They see something that appears to affirm a predetermined bias and they automatically latch onto it whether it makes sense or not. Actually, having the reasoning ability of a five-year-old would probably overrule many of these biases in the first place... Sad, isn't it?

Crayons Loc: St Jo, Texas

if you study the 'prog cult' long enough you'll find they all have
group think, and they all whole heartedly believe if they
repeat the lie often enough and long enough it becomes the truth.

PLT Sarge Loc: Alabama

Double Speak, 1984.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Well can’t argue your Logic....

The predetermined bias is of course their own bias they relate to so well...

wuzblynd Loc: thomson georgia

I meant it adds up to 100%truth about what is being reported, it's 90% fab and 10%lies and that's the truth . I do live in my own universe, it's pretty kool here.