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Jerome Corsi retracts and apologizes for 2018 story promoting Seth Rich conspiracy theory

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Imagine that. An entire right-wing conspiracy theory was fabricated out of thin air for political gain.

I'm shocked I tell ya! Shocked!

Actually, the only thing here that shocks me is the dirtbag who made a living duping Right-wing cult members admitted it.

So has Jones.. multiple times, yet he still has followers. What the actual, literal and figurative fuck?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...PyQL7OyPaagesuFp6_NJoM&utm_term=.2207ced87a9a


Conservative author Jerome Corsi on Monday apologized for writing an article in which he falsely alleged that Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer who was killed in 2016, and Aaron Rich, his brother, had leaked thousands of emails to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks.

Corsi said in a statement that the allegations he made in his article, which was posted on the Infowars website last March, “were not based upon any independent factual knowledge” about the Rich brothers.
 
I assume he's doing this because he's either compelled to by a court or because he's facing a potential lawsuit over it? That seems to be the only way to get conservatives to be honest. Well outside of when they drop their facade and reveal how racist and despicable they are.
 
Seeing the Rich family go after the Washington Times and now that asswipe Corsi, making them admit that they were lying about Seth, is bittersweet. That they have to do this after the tragedy of losing their son is absolutely horrible, but it has to make them feel good that they are exposing conservative liars and the conservative media that amplify their lies. The worst part is that this doesn't change the opinions of those conservatives who are going to believe this because of their conditioning to accept lies that fit the narrative that they've been fed. Shit like this is why conservative voters are the least informed of all voters.

Conservative voters are little more than trained seals that feed on lies like this and hit the R button at voting time to please their trainers.
 
Did someone lie? Has Seth’s killers been caught? Do we know the motive? The journalism is questionable but a conspiracy theory has as much truth as random mugging since nobody knows what happened.
 
UglyCasanova said:
Did someone lie? Has Seth’s killers been caught? Do we know the motive? The journalism is questionable but a conspiracy theory has as much truth as random mugging since nobody knows what happened.
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Post-truth with a vengeance, huh?

There is no actual evidence that Seth Rich leaked anything. None whatsoever. There is ample evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC to obtain the information, enough to obtain criminal indictments of 12 Russians. There's nothing but bullshit to connect his murder to actual events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich
 
sactoking said:
Methinks UC is the Zodiac Killer. After all, the Zodiac Killer hasn't been caught, we don't know the motive and this crackpot theory has just as much truth as random killings since nobody knows what happened.

Lock him up!
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I'm sure that there are some unsolved rapes and murders in the area of Louisiana that UC lives in that he may have had a hand in. Unsolved crimes in LA and UC is posting here as if nothing has happened?

That could be suspicious.
 
sactoking said:
Methinks UC is the Zodiac Killer. After all, the Zodiac Killer hasn't been caught, we don't know the motive and this crackpot theory has just as much truth as random killings since nobody knows what happened.

Lock him up!
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Nice shishkabob! Excellent presentation!
 
UglyCasanova said:
Did someone lie? Has Seth’s killers been caught? Do we know the motive? The journalism is questionable but a conspiracy theory has as much truth as random mugging since nobody knows what happened.
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Who lied? Appears everyone connected with pushing the Rich false narrative.

The Washington Times retracted and apologized on Monday for an op-ed column that made erroneous statements about the killing of Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staff member who has been the subject of a right-wing conspiracy theory.

“The Washington Times now does not have any basis to believe any part of that statement to be true, and the Washington Times retracts it in its entirety,” the paper said in a published statement. It added, “The Washington Times apologizes to Mr. Rich and his family.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a25645dda2a8

When someone says no basis to believe any part of a statement to be true, that means it was a lie. Nothing else. (This was in reference to the op-ed the Wash. Times ran from a retired Admiral from which Corsi drew his stupidity.)


Corsi said in a statement that the allegations he made in his article, which was posted on the Infowars website last March, “were not based upon any independent factual knowledge” about the Rich brothers.

He pointed to a now-retracted Washington Times column by a retired Navy admiral on which the article was based.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...PyQL7OyPaagesuFp6_NJoM&utm_term=.59638b5a8114

So, talk to me again about non-fact based reporting or who is lying. Seems only the right wing ran with this, amongst other things, as they were facts instead of stupid musings of an addled ex-military member.

But I guess you'll continue to cling to any diversion you can, as you were doing in the quoted post of yours above. Sad you are, really.
 
UglyCasanova said:
Did someone lie? Has Seth’s killers been caught? Do we know the motive? The journalism is questionable but a conspiracy theory has as much truth as random mugging since nobody knows what happened.
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Duhvert, as usual. Better get on the case, inspector.
 
dawp said:
what sad is he didn't apologize out of the kindness of his heart, he basically had to.
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Coming from a conservative, that's to be expected. They are all about the money and in Corsi's case he's looking at a lawsuit if he didn't come clean. He's made his money from milking the rubes with his phony story and now it's time to "conserve" those bucks in his bank account. Money is all conservatives like him are all about. Like most conservative mouthpieces, he would shit his pants if he ever had to get a real job instead of milking conservative rubes for their $$$$. In a way I can't blame him and those like him for selling their snake oil to rubes and taking their money, it's too damned easy to part those fools from their money.

In the end it's the product they sell that's poisonous to others than their rubes that damns them.
 
UglyCasanova said:
Did someone lie? Has Seth’s killers been caught? Do we know the motive? The journalism is questionable but a conspiracy theory has as much truth as random mugging since nobody knows what happened.
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honest question: does your brain come up with these initial responses because this is a challenge to something you actually believed? Is your unquestioning belief in these nonsense conspiracies being threatened, so your brain is just all-in defending itself from creating a false truth?

Why is your first response to keep the door open for some manner of truth, rather than simply admitting that you were duped? Why is that?
 
Why is it that the people so invested in the idea of some conspiracy behind Seth Rich's murder ignore the fact that he was alive and conscious when he was found one minute after the shooting by the police and yet told them nothing of this?

Wait, let me answer that, they are all in on the cover up.
 
zinfamous said:
honest question: does your brain come up with these initial responses because this is a challenge to something you actually believed? Is your unquestioning belief in these nonsense conspiracies being threatened, so your brain is just all-in defending itself from creating a false truth?

Why is your first response to keep the door open for some manner of truth, rather than simply admitting that you were duped? Why is that?
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I missed it, what new has come to light that gives any kind of clue as to the motive. Because you seem very sure that you’re right.
 
UglyCasanova said:
I missed it, what new has come to light that gives any kind of clue as to the motive. Because you seem very sure that you’re right.
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Robbery? Which is what Seth himself told the police when he was found? Why is that so hard to believe? That things are what they seem?

Let me ask a different question. Why is it so easy to believe that some of the most powerful people on the planet would arrange to have someone executed and yet the target be left alive and conscious so he can tell the police everything?
 
UglyCasanova said:
I missed it, what new has come to light that gives any kind of clue as to the motive. Because you seem very sure that you’re right.
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Nothing new needs to come to light if the investigation and crime, at time of occurrence, already point to the most probable story: random robbery.

Why do you insist on creating fantasy narratives where they have no reason to exist?

Oh....you actually don't know anything about the facts of this incident....just stuff you read 3rd and 4th hand from the derposphere?

Here's the other question: why do you support narratives from sources that are absolutely willing to lie to you about the known facts of a case in order to weave a story that is specifically designed to go straight past your cerebrum and stroke your reptilian brain?
 
zinfamous said:
Nothing new needs to come to light if the investigation and crime, at time of occurrence, already point to the most probable story: random robbery.
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With nothing being robbed.

Might be right, might have been a botched robbery. Might have been a serial killer. Or might have been somebody wanted him dead for some reason. Who knows? But to pretend it’s not still an open case is silly. Calling it a lie infers you have some sort of truth, and you don’t. The most you, me, the cops, Infowars, anybody can do is speculate.
 
UglyCasanova said:
With nothing being robbed.

Might be right, might have been a botched robbery. Might have been a serial killer. Or might have been somebody wanted him dead for some reason. Who knows? But to pretend it’s not still an open case is silly. Calling it a lie infers you have some sort of truth, and you don’t. The most you, me, the cops, Infowars, anybody can do is speculate.
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I notice you keep skipping my post pointing out the fact that Rich was alive and conscious when he was found. He had bruising on his hands indicating he fought back. It is in no way unusual for a robbery to go bad when a potential victim fights back leading to violence but nothing being taken. See what happens is the bad guy panics, shoots and then runs.

Everything else you said is just mindless bullshit with no basis in fact that ignores all reality and evidence.
 
UglyCasanova said:
With nothing being robbed.

Might be right, might have been a botched robbery. Might have been a serial killer. Or might have been somebody wanted him dead for some reason. Who knows? But to pretend it’s not still an open case is silly.
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An open case is one thing, but the fact remains that there's no evidence Rich was killed as part of a conspiracy -- the only thing here is a "huh, that's odd" circumstance surrounding how he was shot, and it's not actually that odd in the first place given the evidence Rich fought his assailants.

You can avoid making definite conclusions while still assigning probabilities and ruling out certain explanations, you know. All conspiracy claims have been debunked; what evidence there is supports one likely conclusion, a bungled robbery attempt.
 
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