**** Elections thread *****

[BananaStand]

They didn't fabricate the dossier. They got it from a source. In fact, they were able to verify that the source was a member of the UK intelligence community.

Former member of the UK intelligence community, hired as a private investigator by democratic operatives supporting Hillary Clinton, to drudge up dirt on Trump. As far as I can tell, this "dossier" of "sources" is really just a journal of rumors compiled by a guy who was paid to compile a journal of rumors.

You make it sound like CNN showed some kind of restraint by not running the story. There was no story.

[surviva316]

You make it sound like CNN showed some kind of restraint by not running the story. There was no story.

I damn near doubled the word-count of my post trying to make it as clear as possible that I don't think CNN deserves a Pulitzer for not publishing the dossier.

I'm saying if we're comparing it to the lowest-of-the-low standard of publishing totally fabricated information (or hell, even unvetted information), then CNN is well above that (absurdly low) standard. Not all shit news is fake news.