Congressman Weiner has resigned, but the efforts to understand who did what to whom have continued. Our side of the aisle is making a careful survey of the real people involved – Mike Stack, Ginger Lee, and Meagan Broussard. We’re working backward from the events of May 27th, knowing full well that trolls were going to come running to play in the mess.
Breitbart’s partisans have taken the opposite approach, wallowing in distractions, with the seeming aim being to conceal what actually happened and spin the events in his favor. When confronted with obvious errors they choose to shoot the messenger via Twitter blocking rather than moving their model of the event closer to reality. We want the truth, they want nothing but spin.
The purported teenage girl involved, Nikki Reid, was debunked as a complex, purposeful fake. Tommy Christopher of Mediate received a faxed copy of her mother’s driver’s license, spoke with the woman on the phone, but then someone else proved she didn’t exist. This is a complex, well played bit of fakery …
But Patrick Frey persists in interviewing an even sketchier ‘father’ to this fake girl and treating this as a credible source …
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