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Stupidest Man on the Internet gets caught lying again.

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Typical of the sleazy journalist wannabes on the far right:


The Real Purveyors of Fake News: Gateway Pundit and Other Right Wing Propagandists Smear Wrong Person to Defend Brett Kavanaugh - Little Green Footballs

Garbage blog Gateway Pundit currently has six posts smearing and attacking the woman who’s accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempted rape, including this one — citing student reviews of the wrong person: Kavanaugh Accuser Is Unhinged Liberal Professor who Former Students Describe as Dark, Mad, Scary and Troubled.

As Matt Gertz points out, the right wing idiots circulating this smear — and Gateway Pundit dirtbag Jim Hoft was joined by Mark Levin and Laura Ingraham because they attack in packs — are using reviews for a different Christine Ford.

Christine Blasey Ford is a research psychologist who teaches clinical psychology at Palo Alto University and in a consortium with Stanford University, according to The Washington Post. Kavanaugh’s defenders are citing student reviews for Christine A. Ford, who taught in the social work department at California State University-Fullerton. The Grabienews story has since been retracted.

As I write this, Hoft has not retracted or corrected this false story. “Fake news,” if you will.

This is no mistake; these despicable people do this every single time when they need to attack one of their perceived enemies. This is pure, deliberate malice. They know that even if they’re forced to correct a false story, the right wing base has already taken it and run with it.

Jim Hoft is already facing two lawsuits for exactly this kind of defamation, but that clearly isn’t stopping him.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/right-wing-media-massively-fails-attempt-smear-kavanaugh-accuser-targets-wrong-christine-ford/

Right-wing media personality Matt Drudge on Monday completely crashed and burned in his latest attempt to smear Christine Blasey Ford, who has gone on the record to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of trying to rape her when they were both teenagers,

Specifically, Drudge promoted an article at Grabien News claiming to show that Ford got poor ratings from her students, some of whom purportedly described her as having a “dark personality” on the Rate My Professors website.

However, doing the slightest bit of detective work reveals that the article is targeting the wrong person.

In fact, the RateMyProfessors page refers to a Christine A. Ford, who taught at the social work department at California State University Fullerton, and who actually received only five reviews — two of which rated her as “awesome,” two of which rated her as “average,” and only one of which rated her as “awful.”

Christine Blasey Ford, meanwhile, is a professor of clinical psychology at Palo Alto University who has never worked at Fullerton.

In addition to Drudge, Trump-loving conservative pundits Mark Levin and Kurt Schlichter also shared the false claim that Ford’s students gave her extremely negative ratings on RateMyProfessors.
 
Update, Hoft has finally taken down his smear:

Hoft has now removed all mentions of student reviews, changed the post’s title to “Kavanaugh Accuser Is Unhinged Liberal Professor in California (Updated),” and added this “update” at the very bottom of the post, many hours after it was published.

UPDATE — An earlier post referenced Ford as an unpopular professor but we have since learned this was a different educator with the same name.

Notice that Hoft’s headline still describes Prof. Ford as an “unhinged liberal” with no evidence whatsoever.

The Real Purveyors of Fake News: Gateway Pundit and Other Right Wing Propagandists Smear Wrong Person to Defend Brett Kavanaugh - Little Green Footballs
 

It already fooled the stupidest poster here. The right has collectively lost their minds today. Something tells me they knew and there's more to come out. They really don't like seeing women in power. Whatsoever.

I hope the teacher they did target didn't have twitter.
 

I suppose at this point my role is to come up with something clever about how these schils never make the smallest attempt to make sure that they're actually reporting accurately, but the truth of the matter is that they do this so much that its kind of boring. They're just being them. Same ****, different day. Right wing fruitcakes will believe them, even if they do retract. Then they'll complain that we think they're stupid.
 
Funny to see stupid people but kind of scary too.
 
I suppose at this point my role is to come up with something clever about how these schils never make the smallest attempt to make sure that they're actually reporting accurately, but the truth of the matter is that they do this so much that its kind of boring. They're just being them. Same ****, different day. Right wing fruitcakes will believe them, even if they do retract. Then they'll complain that we think they're stupid.

Well, Hoft has been sued, and a few others have been for false doxing. But, Drudge and Hoft and others don't give one damned concern about quality journalism, they just shovel out the muck to the rubes who eat it up....
 
Well, Hoft has been sued, and a few others have been for false doxing. But, Drudge and Hoft and others don't give one damned concern about quality journalism, they just shovel out the muck to the rubes who eat it up....

It’s very lucrative. Notice it’s the fake news sites who are profitable while real news struggles to stay viable.
 
It’s very lucrative. Notice it’s the fake news sites who are profitable while real news struggles to stay viable.

But there are plenty of rubes here who eat it up like it was candy. No matter how many times you show them that Breitbart, Gateway Pundit and Drudge just flat out don't care about honesty, they still read that crap.
 
Well, Hoft has been sued, and a few others have been for false doxing. But, Drudge and Hoft and others don't give one damned concern about quality journalism, they just shovel out the muck to the rubes who eat it up....

Yup! Same ****, different day.
 
But there are plenty of rubes here who eat it up like it was candy. No matter how many times you show them that Breitbart, Gateway Pundit and Drudge just flat out don't care about honesty, they still read that crap.

Those sources tell them what they want to hear. ANd, mostly what they want to hear is "liberals bad; goobers good."
 
Those sources tell them what they want to hear. ANd, mostly what they want to hear is "liberals bad; goobers good."

Its very telling that the people that post things from Gateway Pundit are nowhere to be found in this thread....:lamo
 
Typical of the sleazy journalist wannabes on the far right:

I have absolutely no argument with you about the stupidity you are pointing out, but without much effort, we can all find even greater stupidity on the net. Let me introduce my almost 4 year old twin grandsons who are convinced the internet and computers are perfect for viewing the Three Stooges and episodes of Alf. Otherwise they find it useless, and they may be right. They have all the shrek dvds.

I accept no responsibility or blame.
 
Ford should move towards actually charging him or withdrawing the claim. To toss the charge out there and refuse to do much of anything to allow Kavanaugh to clear himself is an awful lot like muckraking if you ask me.
 
Ford should move towards actually charging him or withdrawing the claim. To toss the charge out there and refuse to do much of anything to allow Kavanaugh to clear himself is an awful lot like muckraking if you ask me.

Foundation of the MeToo# movement, fun to see it backfire, ask Weinstein!
 
It already fooled the stupidest poster here. The right has collectively lost their minds today. Something tells me they knew and there's more to come out. They really don't like seeing women in power. Whatsoever.

I hope the teacher they did target didn't have twitter.

I think the left has lost their mind more than the right.
 
It already fooled the stupidest poster here. The right has collectively lost their minds today. Something tells me they knew and there's more to come out. They really don't like seeing women in power. Whatsoever.

I hope the teacher they did target didn't have twitter.

Oh the virtue signalling...
Oh the generalizations...
Oh the identity politics...

"They really don't like seeing women in power. Whatsoever."
:lamo
 
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