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Okay, so, I wasn't going to submit these here because I've really had quite enough of politics for the year but it seems the mainstream media are having an absolute blackout on anything critical of Hillary, to the point of CNN has both coincidentally lost a sitting congressman's satellite feed immediately after mentioning wikileaks and tried to tell their viewers that even reading the wikileaks emails is illegal.
These two videos by Project Veritas Action, apparently with more to come, are the result of a year or so of actual investigative journalism and deserve coverage somewhere though. I don't personally care at all if you like Hillary or not but it's always better to know the truth than to stick your head in the sand, so here they are.
The first part in the series is titled Clinton Campaign and DNC Incite Violence at Trump Rallies. It basically shows precisely what it says it does. Hidden cameras capture Scott Foval of Americans United for Change not so much admitting as bragging that they have operatives in numerous major cities that are actually trained in how best to incite violence at Trump rallies.
The second part of the series is again aptly titled Mass Voter Fraud. In this video Scott Foval is again captured going into minute detail on how not only go commit mass voter fraud but how to get away with it.
Scott Foval and Robert Creamer (also in the videos) are currently unemployed as a result of these videos. Whether Mrs. Clinton should be as well, that's for you to decide.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @05:53PM
Maybe you are not an editor but you certainly seem to have no issue getting your BS Op-ED piece posted to the front page. Are we so low on submissions they are dredging through staffers journals now? Cause that's where this belongs.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday October 20 2016, @06:57PM
Unfortunately, yes.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by pe1rxq on Thursday October 20 2016, @08:54PM
Has it ever occured to the editors that posting nothing might be a better option than smearing buzzard crap all over the place?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by janrinok on Friday October 21 2016, @08:51AM
Of course it has occurred to us. You've been around here long enough to know that we have tried that solution - count how many stories we put out each day now compared with 2 years ago.
Not everyone agrees with your view of this story - calling it 'buzzcrap' rather than taking part in an intelligent debate is not the best response. However, with politics it is frequently the case that the comments deteriorate to the lowest level. This story has already received more than 3 times the number of any other stories posted on the same day, so people are reading it and commenting on it. Or are we supposed to only publish stories that meet with your particular views? A better solution altogether would be for people to submit more stories so that we can pick the cream of the crop. Our IRC bot (#rss-bot) is finding well over 100 stories per day (sometimes finding more that 300 in a single day) worth writing up, but very few in our community seem to want to make the effort to do so. We are also in the process of creating a new nexus for politics, so that you can prevent all stories from that nexus being displayed, simply by changing you preferences page.
The original aim of the site was to publish 1 story per hour. We have already had to cut back to around 15 stories per day because of lack of submissions. I mentioned the other day [soylentnews.org] that our community has changed recently. More people want to be spoon-fed with their favourite group think stories rather than submit stories or take part in an intelligent debate. The editors could leave gaps in the story output, but experience has shown that we also risk losing readership and page hits. There are currently 9 submissions in the queue and, personally speaking, I don't think 7 of them deserve to go to the front page. The solution is in the community's hands.
...and people wonder why I am so reluctant to publish stories about the US election.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday October 21 2016, @02:11PM
Has it ever occured to the editors that posting nothing might be a better option than smearing buzzard crap all over the place?
Think about it. Stagnation is death for a site like SN. Even the occasional bit of weak content is better than nothing.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 20 2016, @11:23PM
Gagh i submitted like 40 this week. I even managed to restrain my wisecracks on most of them.
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