CNN finds Trump GIF creator, threatens to reveal identity

[Boogie Munster]

The kid is 15 :lol

(CNN)The Reddit user who initially claimed credit for President Donald Trump's tweet that showed Trump tackling CNN issued an apology Tuesday for the video and other offensive content he posted -- one day after CNN identified the man behind the account and attempted to make contact with him.

Reddit user "HanA**holeSolo" first shared the GIF last Wednesday of Trump pummeling a wrestler with CNN's logo imposed on his face. CNN could find no earlier instance of the GIF. The GIF was later edited into a video with sound and tweeted by the President on Sunday.
On Reddit, "HanA**holeSolo" took credit for inspiring the tweet. Soon after, "HanA**holeSolo's" other posts on Reddit, some of which included racist and anti-Semitic imagery, quickly circulated on social media.



After posting his apology, "HanA**holeSolo" called CNN's KFile and confirmed his identity. In the interview, "HanA**holeSolo" sounded nervous about his identity being revealed and asked to not be named out of fear for his personal safety and for the public embarrassment it would bring to him and his family.
CNN is not publishing "HanA**holeSolo's" name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same.
CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.



http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-user-trump-tweet/index.html

[AaronY]

The fuck is going on over there

[pgardn]

The kid is 15 :lol

(CNN)The Reddit user who initially claimed credit for President Donald Trump's tweet that showed Trump tackling CNN issued an apology Tuesday for the video and other offensive content he posted -- one day after CNN identified the man behind the account and attempted to make contact with him.

Reddit user "HanA**holeSolo" first shared the GIF last Wednesday of Trump pummeling a wrestler with CNN's logo imposed on his face. CNN could find no earlier instance of the GIF. The GIF was later edited into a video with sound and tweeted by the President on Sunday.
On Reddit, "HanA**holeSolo" took credit for inspiring the tweet. Soon after, "HanA**holeSolo's" other posts on Reddit, some of which included racist and anti-Semitic imagery, quickly circulated on social media.



After posting his apology, "HanA**holeSolo" called CNN's KFile and confirmed his identity. In the interview, "HanA**holeSolo" sounded nervous about his identity being revealed and asked to not be named out of fear for his personal safety and for the public embarrassment it would bring to him and his family.
CNN is not publishing "HanA**holeSolo's" name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same.
CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.



http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-user-trump-tweet/index.html


He was worried about the CNN gif? This one specifically was offensive?

It was childish, but offensive?

The truth must be he is afraid of losing a job. Or really ashamed of a stupid childish joke that our elementary school level president decided to use. He must have been posting a bunch of other foolishness besides something our president is proud to use.

[DarrinS]

Why are they intimidating some kid over a fvcking meme?

[boutons_deux]

The kid is an elevated hero for the Alt-reich crowd and Trash's supporters.

[DarrinS]

Lol, CNN going full FuzzyLumptard over a meme. :lol

[Spurminator]

CNN is definitely overplaying the victim card here, and it was really stupid to make a veiled threat in the article about it.

While it's completely beneath the office of the POTUS to tweet something like that, it's not beneath random people on the Internet to make them and shouldn't be seen as something that risks your anonymity or safety. Frankly it's one of the most benign things I've seen from r/The_Donald anyway.

[Thread]

- "Trump Tweeting all the time doesn't bother me in the least."

- Chris Cuomo - CNN - this morning.

tee, hee.

[AaronY]

So in today's world Donald Trump is currently president of the United States of America and CNN is trying to track down a guy who made fun of them with a meme on the internet and treating it with the grave seriousness of something like Watergate................

[boutons_deux]

So in today's world Donald Trump is currently president of the United States of America and CNN is trying to track down who made fun of them with a meme on the internet and treating it with the grave seriousness of something like Watergate................

not defending CNN, but the context Trash is leading an orchestrated, wide-spread attack, including ST assholes, on the media, with CNN the agreed-upon punching bag.

A poll of Repugs show that 42% of them think "the freedom of the press has gone too far". iow, like all Repugs, they are anti-Constitutional traitors.

They NEVER complained about Obama being trashed every day by their beloved right wing hate media.

Dickless Repugs, can dish it out, but can't take it.

[AaronY]

They're upset someone made a meme about them. I mean for fuck's sake

[boutons_deux]

They're upset someone made a meme about them. I mean for fuck's sake

in the context (is everything) of Trash and his supporters wanting to discredit, shutdown the critical media.

[AaronY]

Goddammitt

[Mitch]

Of course Botox deuce wants to deflect and semen shield

[DMC]

So in today's world Donald Trump is currently president of the United States of America and CNN is trying to track down a guy who made fun of them with a meme on the internet and treating it with the grave seriousness of something like Watergate................

Yes, welcome back.

[Thread]

can dish it out, but can't take it.

I'm a trend setter.

I set trends.

[boutons_deux]

he's not 15, that's bullshit from DJT,Jr

[AaronY]

Boutons what do you do for a living?

[benefactor]

Boutons what do you do for a living?
Trust fund tbh

[AaronY]

Trust fund tbh

Thats a good guess if it was one. Dont see how he could ever function in the real world in any way

[Trill Clinton]

Im not mad cnn made the geek apologize. They actually took it easy on him. they discovered the guy was a racist and he was scared of being outed.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/05/07/420A5B7600000578-4666454-image-a-23_1499234535358.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/05/07/420A5B7A00000578-4666454-image-a-24_1499234538127.jpg

[monosylab1k]

So is this really just a kid?

[Trill Clinton]

It's a grown man

[Adam Lambert]

So is this really just a kid?

probably a 40+ russian like the rest of thedonald, tbh.

[spurraider21]

:lol cnn

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Lol, CNN going full FuzzyLumptard over a meme. :lol

Rent free

[DMC]

Rent free

Yeah that's it :lol

[Adam Lambert]

tsa hasnt posted since the apology.

youd think hed be all over this.

we know hes active on thedonald.

hmmmmm

[Reck]

Why are they intimidating some kid over a fvcking meme?

Because he's not a kid, for one? The guy is a middled aged fucker like most of the trumpie losers in here with nothing better to do than toss his salad daily.

[Spurminator]

They shouldn't be intimidating anyone over this.

The online history of the person who created that video is irrelevant. It's just like countless thousands of stupid shitposts that happen on Reddit, Twitter, and other places every day.

CNN acting like it's some kind of call to arms against the media is exactly the kind of tone deaf elitist bullshit that people hate the media for. It's one thing to question the President using it, and the message that sends, but some random shitposter on Reddit? Who gives a fuck? Stop feeding the trolls.

[Chris]

Because he's not a kid, for one? The guy is a middled aged fucker like most of the trumpie losers in here with nothing better to do than toss his salad daily.

Link?

[spurraider21]

They shouldn't be intimidating anyone over this.

The online history of the person who created that video is irrelevant. It's just like countless thousands of stupid shitposts that happen on Reddit, Twitter, and other places every day.

CNN acting like it's some kind of call to arms against the media is exactly the kind of tone deaf elitist bullshit that people hate the media for. It's one thing to question the President using it, and the message that sends, but some random shitposter on Reddit? Who gives a fuck? Stop feeding the trolls.yep

[AaronY]

Wgas how old he is? It's a fucking meme. Jesus

[boutons_deux]

and you dickless, gullible haters go after CNN children. Trash's American trash

A Pro-Trump Neo-Nazi Group Just Threatened The Children Of CNN Reporters

Here’s a screenshot of the relevant part of the article by Andrew “ (https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/07/05/daily-stormer-troll-army-threatens-cnn-staffers-over-reddit-user-behind-trumpcnn-gif#.WV0nGpVOkzQ.twitter)weev” Auernheimer (https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/07/05/daily-stormer-troll-army-threatens-cnn-staffers-over-reddit-user-behind-trumpcnn-gif#.WV0nGpVOkzQ.twitter). The rest of the article is mostly slurs undeserving of reproduction on this page.
http://washingtonjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/neonazi.jpg
Andrew Kacynski of CNN’s KFILE already has protestors massing outside of his house and is being swamped with threats.

http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/07/05/pro-trump-neo-nazi-group-just-threatened-children-cnn-reporters/

[DarrinS]

Lol

[vy65]

They shouldn't be intimidating anyone over this.

The online history of the person who created that video is irrelevant. It's just like countless thousands of stupid shitposts that happen on Reddit, Twitter, and other places every day.

CNN acting like it's some kind of call to arms against the media is exactly the kind of tone deaf elitist bullshit that people hate the media for. It's one thing to question the President using it, and the message that sends, but some random shitposter on Reddit? Who gives a fuck? Stop feeding the trolls.

[TSA]

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f49/postban/Mobile%20Uploads/1499264037_zpsiq5d2wbp.gif

[boutons_deux]

"CNN acting like it's some kind of call to arms against the media"

.... alt-Reich Trash fellators threatening entire families of CNN staff, aka a "call to arms" against the media, intimidating the press critical of their Trash leader.

[TSA]

https://image.ibb.co/di9r2v/IMG_5204.gif

[Thread]

CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.



http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-user-trump-tweet/index.html


tee, hee.

[TSA]

http://i.imgur.com/66qIBrB.gif

[Thread]

https://image.ibb.co/di9r2v/IMG_5204.gif

:lol

[Reck]

https://image.ibb.co/di9r2v/IMG_5204.gif

:lol The fuck

[TSA]

882656630290231297

:lol RIP CNN

[Chucho]

Because he's not a kid, for one? The guy is a middled aged fucker like most of the trumpie losers in here with nothing better to do than toss his salad daily.

LOL. So, the biggest "news" empire on the planet spends a whole lot of time flat out not reporting news (Christian genocide for 1 of countless stories they don't cover) should be shooting the rest of it's minimal credibility by acting like overzealous message board Admins with severe inferiority complexes??

LOL, no wonder CNN has become more laughable than Fox ever was. And you're defending this sad example of the American media. Objectively, how can you defend a company so reknown and revolutionary in the news biz that is acting like Trump?

Double standards? Partisanship? Universal straw-grasping? What is it?

[spurraider21]

yes and the dossier was a 4chan hoax too.

4chan is like isis in that they like taking credit for everybody's work to exaggerate their impact

[TSA]

yes and the dossier was a 4chan hoax too.

4chan is like isis in that they like taking credit for everybody's work to exaggerate their impact

According to BuzzFeed, “one user pointed out that what Trump tweeted wasn’t actually HanA**holeSolo’s GIF.” Trump’s gif included both video and audio – whereas the Rebel smuggler wannabe’s gif did not include audio. Furthermore, the original HanA**holeSolo gif “was shorter, had a different aspect ratio, and had a WWE logo in the corner…Not even the colors are processed in the same manner… HanAssholeSolo's GIF has an NTSC aspect ratio, because it was cut directly from a taping of analog Westlemania footage. Trump's video has an aspect ratio of 16:9.”

:lol

[Chucho]

"CNN acting like it's some kind of call to arms against the media"

.... alt-Reich Trash fellators threatening entire families of CNN staff, aka a "call to arms" against the media, intimidating the press critical of their Trash leader.


And if this was an old Fox News faux pas, instead of the countless New Fox News faux pas, you'd be all over it, you simple minded, partisan twit.

Just admit your Nazi idols and their Propoganda ministries just aren't as effective as a dead Goerbells. Your party is flat out inept, among many, many other things including evil and disgusting.

[spurraider21]

According to BuzzFeed, “one user pointed out that what Trump tweeted wasn’t actually HanA**holeSolo’s GIF.” Trump’s gif included both video and audio – whereas the Rebel smuggler wannabe’s gif did not include audio. Furthermore, the original HanA**holeSolo gif “was shorter, had a different aspect ratio, and had a WWE logo in the corner…Not even the colors are processed in the same manner… HanAssholeSolo's GIF has an NTSC aspect ratio, because it was cut directly from a taping of analog Westlemania footage. Trump's video has an aspect ratio of 16:9.”

:lol but before you mocked people for using buzzfeed as a source because they're fake news

i admittedly know very little about this meme/gif story. its just a pattern i'm observing

[Chris]

Lol

[florige]

https://image.ibb.co/di9r2v/IMG_5204.gif


:lmao

[Reck]

LOL. So, the biggest "news" empire on the planet spends a whole lot of time flat out not reporting news (Christian genocide for 1 of countless stories they don't cover) should be shooting the rest of it's minimal credibility by acting like overzealous message board Admins with severe inferiority complexes??

LOL, no wonder CNN has become more laughable than Fox ever was. And you're defending this sad example of the American media. Objectively, how can you defend a company so reknown and revolutionary in the news biz that is acting like Trump?

Double standards? Partisanship? Universal straw-grasping? What is it?

OK..that was a useless rant I dont care about.

But how do you know they dont cover "countless" other stories? Do you watch them and that's how you know?

It seems you dont even know what you're talking about. More laughable than Fox ever was? Talk about stretching it.

And I wasn't defending them. I was pointing out how this "kid" wasn't a kid but a grown ass adult.

I'm not a CNN spokesperson or paid person to come to their aid. My thoughts about them stooping to Trump's level is a different matter which has nothing to do with my main comment about the dude's age.

[Adam Lambert]

lol at any moron who suggests cnn is anything close to the joke fox news is. no objective journalist should treat this potus as anything more than the retard he is. thats not bias, thats just reality. fox trying to treat him with the same amount of respect as any other president is way more retarded than anything cnn has ever done, and their viewers are still the biggest idiots who own tvs.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Yeah that's it :lol

I was out of service range for much of the weekend. I did not post here much less this thread and yet he has Fuzzy on the mind.

Your dumbass has used the term incorrectly several times so I can understand why you would be confused.

[Mitch]

:lol so much mental gymnastics from the usual suspects

[Chris]

:lol so much mental gymnastics from the usual suspects

:cry muh MSM :cry

[Adam Lambert]

:lol so much mental gymnastics from the usual suspects

lol theres hardly any semen shielding for cnn in this thread so wtf are you talking about?

lets talk about mental gymnastics when there are church of cnn and cnns doing a great job threads staying at the top of the forum for months. until then you guys are still the fucking olympians of the forum when it comes to convincing yourself that your side hasnt been hijacked by retards.

[Mitch]

:cry muh MSM :cry

:lol

:cry "yeah but fox tho!!!"
:cry "not defending CNN, but FOX THO!!!"
:cry "it's okay because CNN wants to dox a trump supporter"

[Chris]

church of cnn and cnns doing a great job threads staying at the top of the forum

Trump president, not CNN

[Chris]

:lol

:cry "yeah but fox tho!!!"
:cry "not defending CNN, but FOX THO!!!"
:cry "it's okay because CNN wants to dox a trump supporter"

Exactly.

[Pavlov]

Heh, posters here try doxx each other all the time.

Now indignant.

[Adam Lambert]

:lol

:cry "yeah but fox tho!!!"
:cry "not defending CNN, but FOX THO!!!"

your butt buddy dmc/chucho brought up fox. take it up with him, faggot.


:cry "it's okay because CNN wants to dox a trump supporter"

said literally no one

:lol so desperate for validation that you have to make shit up. libs will always be your intellectual and moral superiors, even when flawed, and you just hate that shit. deal with it.

[spurraider21]

chucho isn't dmc... and that's not going to change because you keep repeating it

[Adam Lambert]

chucho isn't dmc... and that's not going to change because you keep repeating it

what the fuck do you care? didnt you think chucho was culburn? not sure youre suited to have an opinion here.

[spurraider21]

what the fuck do you care? didnt you think chucho was culburn? not sure youre suited to have an opinion here.
no

[DarrinS]

882685398752923648

[mavsfan1000]

I'm a trend setter.

I set trends.
Who knew a Laker fan would be the one I agree with the most in politics on Spurstalk. :)

[TSA]

How a CNN Investigation Set Off an Internet Meme War

As Americans relaxed over a long Fourth of July weekend, the pro-Trump meme factories were gearing up for war.

These online communities, which churn out lo-fi, shareable images and videos meant to amuse and energize President Trump’s social media supporters while provoking his enemies, were spurred to action by what, in their world, qualified as a series of seismic events.

The first shock came on Sunday morning, when President Trump tweeted a video that depicted him in a professional wrestling arena attacking a man with a CNN logo superimposed on his head. The meme, or one very similar to it, had been created by a user on Reddit, the popular internet forum, and posted days earlier on /r/The_Donald, an active pro-Trump forum there, before making its way to the wider internet and, finally, to the 33.3 million Twitter followers of the leader of the free world.

In the world of meme creators, where getting a presidential tweet is akin to having your artwork hung on the wall of the Smithsonian, President Trump’s post was cause for celebration. “Wow!! I never expected my meme to be retweeted by the God Emperor himself!!!” wrote the creator, a frequent poster on Reddit whose user name combines a vulgarity with the Star Wars character Han Solo.

Days later, that Reddit user himself became a figure of national interest as news organizations checked his posting history and discovered that he had a record of creating memes that were racist and anti-Semitic.

On Monday, a CNN reporter tracked down the identity of the user, who quickly deleted his posts, renounced his meme-creating ways, and apologized in a long, seemingly sincere post to /r/The_Donald. CNN declined to name the user, but said, somewhat mysteriously, that it “reserves the right” to publish his identity in the future if he continued to create offensive content.

To many on the right, that caveat felt like a threat issued by a powerful news organization to a private citizen: Fall in line, or we’ll expose you.

CNN quickly clarified its intent, saying that it had “decided not to publish the name of the Reddit user out of concern for his safety,” but the battle had already begun. Right-wing Twitter users excoriated CNN for what they saw as a threat against the Reddit user, and the hashtag #CNNBlackmail began to spread as thousands of the network’s detractors began to pile on.

“A multibillion dollar TV network blackmailing a private citizen into not making funny videos about it is not journalism, CNN,” tweeted Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.

To understand how Reddit memes could ignite a national controversy and put a multibillion-dollar media company on its heels, it helps to know that right-wing meme-makers are a particularly prolific and vocal internet subcommunity. They gather in clusters on Reddit, and similar sites like 4chan and Discord, in order to trade images and strategize about disseminating them to wide audiences.

Their goal isn’t necessarily political influence. For some, it’s a game whose only goal is to impress and entertain other meme enthusiasts; for others, it’s a more serious pursuit designed to push the limits of discourse, either by riling up the enemy camp or by creating something that becomes ammunition for their own side. A particularly clever creation (or “dank meme,” in the jargon of the trade) might be shared by a prominent alt-right Twitter user or, in rare cases, by a bona fide public figure.

But in instances where the meme-making community finds itself facing off against a clear antagonist, its tactics can be swift and brutal, and can catch large institutions off guard.

In these communities, a feud with CNN over the identity of a Reddit user provided a perfect storm of hot-button topics: speech policing, journalist ethics and the perceived bullying of right-wing sympathizers on social media. The fact that the media organization in question was CNN, which has been singled out for criticism in recent weeks by the Trump administration, only added fuel to the fire.

In a Reddit message, a user known as ShadowMan3001, one of the moderators of /r/The_Donald, told me that memes were “by far the fastest, and likely the most effective, means of spreading an idea” in today’s oversaturated media environment. He added that CNN’s statement about possibly releasing the identity of the Reddit meme-maker was “a glaring example of their absolute lack of not only journalistic integrity, but basic morality.”

That was certainly the theme of the right wing’s subterranean meme machines as they kicked into high gear Wednesday. The Reddit forum r/CNNmemes, a self-described outpost for “memes of CNN or other failing MSM networks,” began to fill with user-generated images. One user pasted CNN’s logo into a still image from what appeared to be an ISIS hostage video, implying that the network had coerced the Reddit user behind the pro-Trump meme into making an apology. Another user superimposed CNN’s logo onto the face of Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator.

On Discord, a chat app for gamers where several right-wing factions congregate in private groups, the news of a new, high-profile feud was cause for celebration. Some even likened the effort to humiliate CNN to Peter Thiel’s well-publicized campaign to take down Gawker, another longtime enemy of the online right.

“I want to see CNN go down like Gawker,” wrote one user, posting to a pro-Trump Discord channel called Centipede Central.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/business/how-a-cnn-investigation-set-off-an-internet-meme-war.html?referer=http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/2010161_CNN-blackmails-Trump-wrestling-gif-maker.html&page=30

[Thread]

Who knew a Laker fan would be the one I agree with the most in politics on Spurstalk. :)

Plain & simple, I'm a renaissance man, Thou.

[boutons_deux]

Echoing disgraced Repug Tricky Dick's enemies list

NY Times: White House Discussing Using Pending Merger To Silence CNN

The New York Times is reporting late this evening (https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/business/media/jeffrey-zucker-cnn-trump.html?smid=tw-share&referer=https://t.co/yG1TBdPN3u?amp=1) that administration officials are exploring ways to leverage a pending merger involving CNN to somehow exact retribution on them for their constant criticisms of the Trump presidency.

According to Times writer Michael M. Grynbaum:


“White House advisers have discussed a potential point of leverage over their adversary, a senior administration official said:

a pending merger between CNN’s parent company, Time Warner, and AT&T. Mr. Trump’s

Justice Department will decide whether to approve the merger

, and while analysts say

there is little to stop the deal from moving forward,

the president’s animus toward CNN remains a wild card.”

http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/07/05/ny-times-white-house-discussing-using-pending-merger-silence-cnn/


Why do Repugs single out CNN when MSNBC is much more viciously accurate, voluminous in trashing Trash and the Repugs

[Adam Lambert]

the snowflake in chief is as tough as a used tampon. what a pussy.

[Thread]

https://image.ibb.co/di9r2v/IMG_5204.gif

[Thread]

^^^He's got that CNN snatch by those little short hairs. He's pullin' 'em hard too.

WOOT!!!

[Chris]

^^^He's got that CNN snatch by those little short hairs. He's pullin' 'em hard too.

WOOT!!!

[TSA]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEDvfOXXgAAsvt1.jpg

[TSA]

CNN picked the wrong Anons to fuck with.

"The day 4chan called in an airstrike in Syria"

http://imgur.com/gallery/5P1N1GI

[Adam Lambert]

CNN picked the wrong Anons to fuck with.

"The day 4chan called in an airstrike in Syria"

http://imgur.com/gallery/5P1N1GI

4chan is going to bomb cnn?

[TSA]

The internet doesn't forget Andrew Kaczynski

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/wrongly-accused-boston-bombing-sunil-tripathys-story-now-being-told-n373141

[boutons_deux]

How Trump Can Legally Use the Federal Government to Punish His Media Enemies


It's within the president's powers to muzzle the free press, stifle dissent and reward cronies.How Trump Can Legally Use the Federal Government to Punish His Media Enemies

It's within the president's powers to muzzle the free press, stifle dissent and reward cronies.

Media companies may censor themselves if Trump makes an example of one of them, Yglesias warned — and he cited a couple of possible targets for such a vendetta.

Trump could punish Jeff Bezos, who owns both the Washington Post and Amazon, for unfavorable reporting by pressing a Federal Trade Commission investigation of the online retailer’s predatory pricing.

Independent media aren’t as vulnerable to regulatory threats, but they’re more vulnerable to harassing lawsuits filed by Trump himself or a business ally such as Peter Thiel — who funded the lawsuit that killed Gawker (http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/nick-denton-peter-thiel-plot-to-murder-gawker).

Even Facebook, which plays a larger role in disseminating news than it will admit, could shake up its algorithm to favor pro-Trump propaganda to stay in the good graces of U.S. trade negotiators or financial regulators.

“We are used to corruption in which the rich buy political favor,” Yglesias wrote. “What we need to learn to fear is corruption in which political favor becomes the primary driver of economic success.”

Trump enlisted a media ally to intimidate MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the “Morning Joe” hosts revealed (https://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/morning-joe-white-house-official-begged-me-to-grovel-before-trump-in-national-enquirer-blackmail-scheme/) last week after the president hurled personal attacks against them on Twitter.

They said top White House staffers urged them to grovel before the president or the National Enquirer would publish a negative story about them, although Scarborough said they refused.

The tabloid, which is published by Trump friend David Pecker, has — along with the gossip site TMZ (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/business/media/tmz-trump-meets-with-harvey-levin.html) — been reportedly buying and then killing (http://www.thewrap.com/trump-national-enquirer-morning-joe-scarborough-mika/) stories that might damage the president, while also praising him and attacking his rivals.

Online, Trump-supporting trolls viciously harass individual journalists with racist, misogynist and anti-Semitic threats, and by dumping their private information online.

Jack Posobiec, a controversial pro-Trump activist who has attended White House briefings, shared (http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/pro-trump-activist-with-white-house-access-publishes-doxed-personal-information-for-cnn-anchors/) purported personal information for several of the network’s employees and their families.

White supremacist trolls rallied by the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website then threatened (http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/neo-nazi-vows-to-hunt-down-children-of-cnn-staffers-over-reporting-on-pro-trump-reddit-troll/)CNN employees and their families.

Most of those cyberbullies would probably never act on their threats, but Yglesias warned “it would only take the murder of a single opposition activist or journalist to chill dozens of others.”

“The risk is not that Trump becomes a dictator, but that civil society simply withers and dies,” Yglesias wrote.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/how-trump-can-legally-use-federal-government-punish-his-media-enemies

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Trump is deranged but 42 percent of Republicans say 'freedom of the press' is out of control (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/3/1677518/-Trump-is-deranged-but-42-percent-of-Republicans-say-freedom-of-the-press-is-out-of-control)

Republicans also view press freedoms and the citizens' right to criticize the government as a major problem, suggesting that's part of why they think overall civility is deteriorating.

When asked if the nation

has "gone too far" in expanding the freedom of the press, 42 percent of Republicans (http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/misc/usapolls/us170621_PBS_NPR/NPR_PBS%20NewsHour_Marist%20Poll_National%20Nature %20of%20the%20Sample%20and%20Tables_Democracy_Trus t_July%202017.pdf#page=3) agreed

, with just 9 percent saying press freedoms were being restricted too much;

in contrast, just 11 percent of Democrats believe freedom of the press is too expansive, while 32 percent say press freedoms are too restricted.

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/7/3/1677518/-Trump-is-deranged-but-42-percent-of-Republicans-say-freedom-of-the-press-is-out-of-control

I'm absolutely CERTAIN, that 42% of Repugs did NOT agree when Barak HUSSEIN Obama was Pres.

[TSA]

http://oi63.tinypic.com/2a7ivzm.jpg

[Pavlov]

The internet doesn't forget Andrew Kaczynski

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/wrongly-accused-boston-bombing-sunil-tripathys-story-now-being-told-n373141

So you no like him for doing what you do.

[Chris]

http://oi63.tinypic.com/2a7ivzm.jpg

:lol

[TSA]

4chan is going to bomb cnn?

hur dur

they'll ruin his career and make sure to bring up and spread his past that was long forgotten

https://medium.com/@Cernovich/creepy-andrew-kaczynski-has-history-of-harassing-women-spreading-fake-news-e5dbec523bf6

[TSA]

R80VYN6eObU

[Chris]

R80VYN6eObU

:lmao

[SnakeBoy]

R80VYN6eObU

:lol

[Adam Lambert]

hur dur

they'll ruin his career and make sure to bring up and spread his past that was long forgotten

https://medium.com/@Cernovich/creepy-andrew-kaczynski-has-history-of-harassing-women-spreading-fake-news-e5dbec523bf6

OH HAHA THIS IS AWESOME!!
OMG CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS GUYS?
4CHAN FTW!!
:lobt2::elephant:makemyday:makeout:danceclub:cheer :drool::deadhorse

[Pavlov]

hur dur

they'll ruin his career and make sure to bring up and spread his past that was long forgotten

https://medium.com/@Cernovich/creepy-andrew-kaczynski-has-history-of-harassing-women-spreading-fake-news-e5dbec523bf6Wow!

History of harassing women and spread fake news!

Qualified to be President.

[Chris]

This is clearly extortion.

[spurraider21]

This is clearly extortion.
what are they demanding of him?

[boutons_deux]

you rightwingnut assholes swallow and regurgitate every Repug/hate media talking point and conspiracy as Bible-humping truth straight from inerrant God.

There is no right to ANONYMOUS speech, as we can see with you rightwing assholes and misogynists doxing your enemies.

[Pavlov]

CNN picked the wrong Anons to fuck with.

"The day 4chan called in an airstrike in Syria"

http://imgur.com/gallery/5P1N1GIhttps://tu9srvbirvvtmjakmtk4mtgtchjlc3njzg4tcgfnzwx5lm5ldg ruys1zc2wuy29.g00.dailydot.com/g00/2_d3d3LmRhaWx5ZG90LmNvbQ%3D%3D_/TU9SRVBIRVVTMjAkaHR0cHM6Ly8xOTgxOC1wcmVzc2Nkbi1wYW dlbHkubmV0ZG5hLXNzbC5jb20vd3AtY29udGVudC91cGxvYWRz LzI5OC9hMS9TY3JlZW5fU2hvdF8yMDEzLTA0LTE3X2F0XzkuNT kuNTlfQU0ucG5nP2kxMGMubWFyay5pbWFnZS50eXBl_$/$/$/$/$/$

[TSA]

https://tu9srvbirvvtmjakmtk4mtgtchjlc3njzg4tcgfnzwx5lm5ldg ruys1zc2wuy29.g00.dailydot.com/g00/2_d3d3LmRhaWx5ZG90LmNvbQ%3D%3D_/TU9SRVBIRVVTMjAkaHR0cHM6Ly8xOTgxOC1wcmVzc2Nkbi1wYW dlbHkubmV0ZG5hLXNzbC5jb20vd3AtY29udGVudC91cGxvYWRz LzI5OC9hMS9TY3JlZW5fU2hvdF8yMDEzLTA0LTE3X2F0XzkuNT kuNTlfQU0ucG5nP2kxMGMubWFyay5pbWFnZS50eXBl_$/$/$/$/$/$

Any names look familiar in this article?

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/wrongly-accused-boston-bombing-sunil-tripathys-story-now-being-told-n373141

[TSA]

you rightwingnut assholes swallow and regurgitate every Repug/hate media talking point and conspiracy as Bible-humping truth straight from inerrant God.

There is no right to ANONYMOUS speech, as we can see with you rightwing assholes and misogynists doxing your enemies.

CNN made their bed

[Thread]

http://oi63.tinypic.com/2a7ivzm.jpg

:ihit

[Pavlov]

Any names look familiar in this article?

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/wrongly-accused-boston-bombing-sunil-tripathys-story-now-being-told-n373141Guy who was already dead?
"I'd like to extend the deepest apologies to the family of Sunil Tripathi for any part we may have had in relaying what has turned out to be faulty information," wrote Reddit user Rather_Confused.
"We cannot begin to know what you're going through and for that we are truly sorry.
"Several users, Twitter users, and other sources had heard him identified as the suspect and believed it to be confirmed.
Sunil Tripathi
Image caption
Wrongly accused Sunil Tripathi, 22, has been missing since mid-March
"We were mistaken."http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-22214511

What is your Boom?

[TSA]

Guy who was already dead?http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-22214511

What is your Boom?

Buzzfeed's (CNN) Andrew Kaczynski. No apology and he deleted his tweets.

[Pavlov]

Buzzfeed's (CNN) Andrew Kaczynski. No apology and he deleted his tweets.That's it?

That's BOOM?

[Pavlov]

Buzzfeed's (CNN) Andrew Kaczynski. No apology and he deleted his tweets.Even this one?
325186454454149120

[TSA]

Even this one?
325186454454149120

The next multiplier came from Andrew Kaczynski, a journalist at BuzzFeed, who sent out the police-scanner misinformation to his 81,000 followers and quickly followed up with: “Wow Reddit was right about the missing Brown student per the police scanner. Suspect identified as Sunil Tripathi.”

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/magazine/should-reddit-be-blamed-for-the-spreading-of-a-smear.html?referer=https://medium.com/@Cernovich/creepy-andrew-kaczynski-has-history-of-harassing-women-spreading-fake-news-e5dbec523bf6

[Pavlov]

The next multiplier came from Andrew Kaczynski, a journalist at BuzzFeed, who sent out the police-scanner misinformation to his 81,000 followers and quickly followed up with: “Wow Reddit was right about the missing Brown student per the police scanner. Suspect identified as Sunil Tripathi.”

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/magazine/should-reddit-be-blamed-for-the-spreading-of-a-smear.html?referer=https://medium.com/@Cernovich/creepy-andrew-kaczynski-has-history-of-harassing-women-spreading-fake-news-e5dbec523bf6So you say he delete wrong tweets about already dead guy and leave right tweet up where even you could find it?

This your BOOM?

[TSA]

So you say he delete wrong tweets about already dead guy and leave right tweet up where even you could find it?

This your BOOM?
Your timeline is off.

[Pavlov]

Your timeline is off.Post timeline as you see it.

Stupid for not publicly apologizing but not much BOOM.

[TSA]

Post timeline as you see it.

Stupid for not publicly apologizing but not much BOOM.

Never said anything about a BOOM. Might want to tone down the BOOM talk your are starting to expose your alt.

[TSA]

back to mocking CNN

https://s1.postimg.org/ai1ij21pb/1499358807748.gif

[TSA]

https://s1.postimg.org/4fslnyk73/1499333788529.gif

[TSA]

http://i.imgur.com/C9Q65BZ.gif

[TSA]

http://i.imgur.com/yCm9t7R.gif

[TSA]

http://i.imgur.com/kQ7lgvs.gif

[Pavlov]

Never said anything about a BOOM. Might want to tone down the BOOM talk your are starting to expose your alt.I guess you could make threat to doxx me.

March 16, 2013: Sunil Tripathi goes missing without phone or wallet.

April 2013: Everything else.

[Thread]

http://i.imgur.com/yCm9t7R.gif

That's priceless.:lmao:lmao:lmao

[Pavlov]

Your timeline is off.


March 16, 2013: Sunil Tripathi goes missing without phone or wallet.

April 2013: Everything else.Post your timeline.

[spurraider21]

https://i.gyazo.com/150b4f3843ebd674edc0e88206f6f4fc.png

[TSA]

https://i.gyazo.com/150b4f3843ebd674edc0e88206f6f4fc.png

Did you find this funny/witty or just plain stupid? Not sure how to react yet.

[Pavlov]

Did you find this funny/witty or just plain stupid? Not sure how to react yet.Maybe we voat on it.

[spurraider21]

Did you find this funny/witty or just plain stupid? Not sure how to react yet.
why do you need my queue to know how to react? just so you can go the opposite route?

[TSA]

why do you need my queue to know how to react? just so you can go the opposite route?

Did you find this funny/witty or just plain stupid?

[Pavlov]

Got timeline yet? Been a day.

[TSA]

Got timeline yet? Been a day.

Got a better sock? Been a few months.

[Pavlov]

sock*ding*

[Pavlov]

TSA never talk about timeline again.

[Chris]

883112438568235008

[Adam Lambert]

:lmao
when total hasbeen celebrities desperately appeal to alt-reich losers to maintain relevance

even funnier when those losers care

:cheer
rob schneider is on our team!!

[Pavlov]

ROB SCHNEIDER DID A THING EVERYBODY

[DarrinS]

:lol

http://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/image.png

[Chris]

:lol

http://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/image.png

I used to love watching Nick-at-Nite :lol Green Meadows is the place to be...Farm livin is the life for me :lol

[TSA]

:lol

http://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/image.png

:lol squeaking by the Hallmark channel

[Chris]

:lol squeaking by the Hallmark channel

zUyqDxa2k3w

[boutons_deux]

alt-Reich have declared war, with Trash as their hater-in-chief

http://washingtonjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/DEF_gKqUwAEiThD.jpg

[Chris]

CNN can dish, but they cannot take.

[TSA]

alt-Reich have declared war, with Trash as their hater-in-chief

http://washingtonjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/DEF_gKqUwAEiThD.jpg

CNN poked the bear. RIP CNN.

[spurraider21]

:lmao rob schneider

[Adam Lambert]

:lol

http://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/image.png


I used to love watching Nick-at-Nite :lol Green Meadows is the place to be...Farm livin is the life for me :lol


:lol squeaking by the Hallmark channel

its cute how you guys pretend to know what that chart means.

i suppose you think thats a huge change from previous weeks where cnn was much higher in the evening time slot or something.

:lol selective tv ratings
:lol what is digital media?

[TSA]

:lol chugging loads for CNN

[Adam Lambert]

:lol chugging loads for CNN

:lol shooting blanks at cnn with your 4chan circle jerkers

[Silver&Black]

zUyqDxa2k3w


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R80VYN6eObU

[Chris]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R80VYN6eObU

:lmao

[sickdsm]

:lmao
when total hasbeen celebrities desperately appeal to alt-reich losers to maintain relevance

even funnier when those losers care

:cheer
rob schneider is on our team!!

So it matters to you if someone is an a list celebrity what they think? I never understood why i should care what Katy Perry or Ted Nugent say or do.

That tweet is LOL worthy no matter who wrote it.

[Adam Lambert]

So it matters to you if someone is an a list celebrity what they think? I never understood why i should care what Katy Perry or Ted Nugent say or do.

That tweet is LOL worthy no matter who wrote it.

where did you get that i care what celebs think?

[Thread]

I never understood why i should care what Katy Perry or Ted Nugent say or do.

sick

[sickdsm]

where did you get that i care what celebs think?

By referencing the fact that he's a has been, you're showing that it makes a difference to you. Not much difference that a homophobe highlighting Adam Lambert's sexuality.........

[TSA]

By referencing the fact that he's a has been, you're showing that it makes a difference to you. Not much difference that a homophobe highlighting Adam Lambert's sexuality.........

zUyqDxa2k3w

[SnakeBoy]

its cute how you guys pretend to know what that chart means.

i suppose you think thats a huge change from previous weeks where cnn was much higher in the evening time slot or something.


So your argument is that CNN's rating have always sucked this bad. It's true but it's not a great defense of CNN.

[Adam Lambert]

By referencing the fact that he's a has been, you're showing that it makes a difference to you. Not much difference that a homophobe highlighting Adam Lambert's sexuality.........

um no. by referencing the fact that hes a hasbeen, im mocking him for being a hasbeen. you are reading way too much into it beyond that.

if chris had posted a tweet from meryl streep i still would have mocked him for scoreboarding with celebs but i probably just wouldnt have used the word hasbeen. get it?

[Adam Lambert]

So your argument is that CNN's rating have always sucked this bad. It's true but it's not a great defense of CNN.

im not interested in defending cnn. im interested in clarifying to these dumbasses that their prime time ratings the week of june 26 had nothing to do with the reddit meme war against them. theyve always had low prime ratings.

[boutons_deux]

CNN's Man of the 'Resistance' Is the Person Most Responsible for Trump Being President


Blame Trump on Jeff Zucker, and throw in Morning Joe and Mika while you are at it.

http://www.alternet.org/media/same-media-who-assisted-rise-trump-now-rebrand-themselves-anti-trump-resistance

[Thread]

CNN's Man of the 'Resistance' Is the Person Most Responsible for Trump Being President


Blame Trump on Jeff Zucker, and throw in Morning Joe and Mika while you are at it.

http://www.alternet.org/media/same-media-who-assisted-rise-trump-now-rebrand-themselves-anti-trump-resistance


No. Uh, uh. It was Bannon. He'd waited all, well, at least a goodly portion of his life for just THIS moment---and tapped the forgotten white man, went to Trump and told him:::"Tell them, Donald, tell them this:::"The men and women who have been forgotten in this country..." [then pause, D, a 3 count-then finish it]..."Will be forgotten no more."---slack jawed the Trump pilot light pumped. "Now, go, go twixt New York and just south of the Canadian border above Minnesota. GO!!! Now!!!"

The remainder:::He mopped the fuckin' floor with her fuckin' ass.

"In the name of the greatest people who has ever trod this earth."

[TSA]

https://m.imgur.com/r/The_Donald/l41mSWh

:lmao

[spurraider21]

https://m.imgur.com/r/The_Donald/l41mSWh

:lmaoyes, trump made the biggest bomb full of fraud news. not surprising

[sickdsm]

If it hadn't mattered to you you wouldn't have mentioned it. You could have used a lot of different descriptions, and alot of them would have not shed any light but clearly that one did.


I'll file that one away, you value someones worth based on how popular they are.

[Pavlov]

If it hadn't mattered to you you wouldn't have mentioned it. You could have used a lot of different descriptions, and alot of them would have not shed any light but clearly that one did.


I'll file that one away, you value someones worth based on how popular they are.You file away opinions of celebrities from people you never met.

[Adam Lambert]

If it hadn't mattered to you you wouldn't have mentioned it. You could have used a lot of different descriptions, and alot of them would have not shed any light but clearly that one did.

I'll file that one away, you value someones worth based on how popular they are.

you go right ahead, you are clearly more passionate about rob schneiders honor than anyone else here.

[sickdsm]

Deflecting the spotlight on you towards a nonissue on me? Not sure i said one positive thing about Rob Scneider, besides he made a lol worthy tweet, I'll throw him under the rug just as easily as i would you.

[Adam Lambert]

Deflecting the spotlight on you towards a nonissue on me? Not sure i said one positive thing about Rob Scneider, besides he made a lol worthy tweet, I'll throw him under the rug just as easily as i would you.

glad thats settled then. i had no idea my one post making fun of rob schneider would generate this much reaction from anyone. can we stop talking about rob schneider now?

[spurraider21]

glad thats settled then. i had no idea my one post making fun of rob schneider would generate this much reaction from anyone. can we stop talking about rob schneider now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S8m-ykU41k


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKwZB_AsSXc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxYA6duF-9E

[leemajors]

http://boingboing.net/2017/07/15/seriously-fuck-that-guy.html


Donald Trump is running a national-scale voter-suppression effort, billed as a "Voter Fraud Commission," whose first act was to illegally demand that state election officials dox every registered voter by sending their lifelong voter records to the White House.

Not only did the states object to this -- including red states with GOP governors -- but so did many ordinary Americans, who wrote to Trump to tell them that they thought this was a bad idea.

The White House carefully gathered all of those letters from concerned voters, and published them, all 112 pages' worth, without redacting those voters' names, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, and places of employment.