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New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman Claims Hackers Planted Child P-rn on his IP Address?

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New York Time columunist Paul Krugman has posted what one can only consider a highly unusual Tweet:

  • Well, I’m on the phone with my computer security service, and as I understand it someone compromised my IP address and is using it to download child pornography. I might just be a random target. But this could be an attempt to Qanon me. It’s an ugly world out there.

 

I’ve seen a lot in my life – stuff I hope others don’t.

Rarely am I in AWE….. and BEWILDERED

This tweet….. I can’t stop looking at it.

It makes absolutely no sense to make something like this public.

It is of course possible that someone hacked his computer and used it as a server for illegal conduct. That does happen. But man oh man, why post something like that at this phase?

Utterly incomprehensible.

Update: “The Times is now on the case.”

 

 

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The Nick Sandmann Covington Hoax is Everything Wrong with the Media

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CNN settled a lawsuit for its Nick Sandmann hoax, but the hoax itself shows everything that’s wrong with modern media.

First, CNN smeared an innocent teenage boy. That’s a fact. Nick Sandmann was with his friends when a group called the Black Hebrew Israelites called them “f-ggots.” Nathaniel Phillips was friends with members of the Black Hebrew Israelites.

A member of the Black Hebrew Israelites went on an anti-Semitic killing spree. What Are Black Hebrew Israelites, the Group Jersey City Shooters Were Linked To?”

Second, even if Sandmann had started drama, where’s the story? Who cares? In what world is “High School Student is a Jerk” worthy of saturation media coverage in outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and others?

Third, where are the disinformation reporters? The Covington hoax was massive. Yet there haven’t been any attempt to ask, Where did the media go wrong, and How can the media improve?

Fourth, without social media, the CNN/WAPO/NYT hoax would never have been busted.

Mike Cernovich was the first person to expose the hoax, as the Washington Post reported:

  • “As is typical in such breaking-news situations, initial news accounts — which drew howls from partisans on both sides — were unable to provide all the context and facts. It took close to 48 hours for reporters, and a divided America, to fully grasp what had occurred, and to whom.”
  • “Like many viral outrage stories, the narrative became more complicated as more facts emerged, and more people stepped forward to talk about what they saw and experienced in that moment.”
  • “Now, a new viral outrage emerged. This time the villain of the story was the news media. That outrage came from a parallel universe online, one that has been waiting for a moment like this. The pro-Trump Internet has, for years, worked to create a media environment that is designed to destroy the traditional news media and replace it. Mike Cernovich, a popular figure in this world….”
  • “Cernovich has since rebranded himself as an anti-mainstream media source of real news — one who on some days tries to tie mass shootings to anti-fascist activists without credible evidence and on other days manages to get a Hollywood director fired from a major movie by using his popular Twitter account to amplify old, offensive tweets from the director about children and sexual misconduct.”
  • “The Covington story is the sort of thing the pro-Trump Internet and figures like Cernovich are made for. As videos emerged, showing Phillips slowly approaching the teens during an altercation with a third group nearby, they went to work.”

As mainstream media outlets push to have people banned from social media for “disinformation,” they themselves use their massive power and legacy prestige to smear innocent teenagers.

Today’s lawsuit settlement might give the next would-be hoaxer pause.

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CNN is Fake News, Settles Covington Lawsuit

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Fake news outlet CNN began 2020 by settling a lawsuit brought against it for their lies and smears about Covington high school student Nick Sandmann.

COVINGTON, Ky. (FOX19) – CNN agreed Tuesday to settle a lawsuit with Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann.

The amount of the settlement was not made public during a hearing at the federal courthouse in Covington, Kentucky.

Sandmann’s lawsuit sought $800 million from CNN, the Washington Post and NBC Universal.

Trial dates are still not set for Sandmann’s lawsuit against NBC Universal and the Washington Post.

The amount of the settlement was not disclosed.

My earlier coverage is here.

 

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New York Times Reporter Shares Video of Suleimani, the Dreamy Poet

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Farnaz Fassihi of the New York Times wants you to know that Qasem Soleimani has range. The man was also a poet.

Watch Soleimani’s poetry read and check out her Tweet about “dreamy poet Soleimani” here.

Whenever you think the media can’t go lower, they surprise you!

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Has Trump Really Been Impeached?

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Early today I observed on Twitter, “Because the House is refusing to send the articles of impeachment over to the Senate, there are questions as to whether the impeachment itself is valid.”

That idea was dismissed by media bros who have never been published constitutional law scholars, unlike me, a published legal scholar.

Now Noah Feldman, a Harvard Law professor and pro-impeachment witness for the Democrats has agreed with my analysis:

The Constitution doesn’t say how fast the articles must go to the Senate. Some modest delay is not inconsistent with the Constitution, or how both chambers usually work.

But an indefinite delay would pose a serious problem. Impeachment as contemplated by the Constitution does not consist merely of the vote by the House, but of the process of sending the articles to the Senate for trial. Both parts are necessary to make an impeachment under the Constitution: The House must actually send the articles and send managers to the Senate to prosecute the impeachment. And the Senate must actually hold a trial.

If the House does not communicate its impeachment to the Senate, it hasn’t actually impeached the president. If the articles are not transmitted, Trump could legitimately say that he wasn’t truly impeached at all.

Read, “Trump Isn’t Impeached Until the House Tells the Senate.”

As usual, Cerno knows.