• spaceghoti
    +4

    Isn't it funny how this story is being pushed by right-wing and alt-right propaganda mills like the New York Post but not a single reliable outfit has touched it? I call bullshit.

    • joethebob
      +4

      Anonymous sourcing except for retired individuals, lots of claims only mirrored by dubious sources, giant 'OPINION' at the top of the article, on a topic that has been bouncing around as another political football. All this really screams rigorous investigation dedicated to truth to me. /s

      • AdelleChattre (edited 8 years ago)
        +3

        Really? Because it seems to me it doesn't take much of an attention span to understand. You could get it in less time than it takes to make slapped-together ad hominem attacks like that.

        • joethebob
          +2

          Actually that wasn't an adhominem attack it was directly against the paucity of their sourcing, the self-stipulated tag as opinion, as well as a dearth of corroboration by anything resembling a respected news source.

          • AdelleChattre
            +2

            Six of one, half dozen of the other.

            • joethebob
              +3

              I forgot we are only allowed to criticize journalistic standard when it agrees with personal bias. Truth is in the eye of the beholder as long as it's you.

            • AdelleChattre (edited 8 years ago)
              +3
              @joethebob -

              No, you presented a false dichotomy. You can both pull reasons from a hat for disbelieving an article, and they can be ad hominem attacks on the source because you can't refute what it says, as is the case here. Now you've made a straw man argument, in which you pretend you've been told some nonsense you've cut from whole cloth, whilst projecting your blinkered party-line subjectivity-of-truth crap. That a bit overly dramatic, isn't it?

              Someone downvoted this article as 'factually inaccurate.' I wonder whether that person can back that up and point us to any factual inaccuracies. Or whether someone's been voting their gut, facts be damned.

    • AdelleChattre
      +3

      “Had myself or my colleagues engaged in behavior of the magnitude of Hillary Clinton, as described by Comey, we would be serving time in Leavenworth.”

    • Appaloosa
      +2

      I don't trust reliable outfits any more.

      • spaceghoti
        +3

        But the alt-right blogs are telling you what you want to hear?