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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow did I miss this? Fox posted a story about McCabe being fired 4 hours before it happened
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Then it suddenly disappears. No way can they deny that they're State-Run TV and the Traitor's mouthpiece.
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)lock step when it comes to most issues.
global1
(25,298 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Has never happened before.
triron
(22,031 posts)blugbox
(951 posts)This should be one of the biggest stories of the weekend!! I hope people are SCREAMING about this
rurallib
(62,483 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Oneironaut
(5,547 posts)News organizations do this a lot. They have obituaries created for famous and still living people, for example. They probably have a draft for Mueller getting fired as well (as does CNN, MSNBC, etc.).
UpInArms
(51,295 posts)Having canned stories ready to roll and rolling a story before it happens are two separate issues
Foolacious
(497 posts)Notice that it also has a slot left open for whenever Comey was fired, and claims that McCabe ran the FBI until he was axed, with no mention of Wray. That suggests that this is a really old boilerplate, dating to before Comey was fired. In other words, they had boilerplate before Comey was fired to cover the follow-on story that McCabe would be fired. That's some pretty confident domino-style boilerplating, don't you think?
blogslut
(38,023 posts)Fresh, branded stories don't get added to their site like some aggregator.
UpInArms
(51,295 posts)Am ripped into wordlessness
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They had to have been fed that from the Whitehouse ... and I cannot stress how
Searching for the right word ...
Wrong and possibly illegal?
Unethical on all parts ...
And am certain a line was crossed and rules were breached
Ms. Toad
(34,130 posts)(before McCabe was fired)
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210369046
SunSeeker
(51,811 posts)blogslut
(38,023 posts)Friday was so full of crazy newsdump that as it was happening I filed it away under: Future WTF