{"id":47251,"date":"2019-07-16T06:38:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T11:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47251"},"modified":"2019-07-16T06:38:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T11:38:58","slug":"new-cnn-assange-smear-piece-is-amazingly-dishonest-even-for-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47251","title":{"rendered":"New CNN Assange Smear Piece Is Amazingly Dishonest, Even For CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/07\/16\/new-cnn-assange-smear-piece-is-amazingly-dishonest-even-for-cnn\/\">New CNN Assange Smear Piece Is Amazingly Dishonest, Even For\u00a0CNN<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-16-at-8.52.08-AM.jpg?fit=896%2C505&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CNN has published an unbelievably brazen and dishonest smear piece on Julian Assange, easily the most egregious article of its kind since the notoriously bogus&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/never-ever-forget-the-guardian-politico-psyop-against-wikileaks-a7b9c99b9c9\">Assange-Manafort report by&nbsp;<em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;last year. It contains none of the \u201cexclusive\u201d documents which it claims substantiate its smears, relying solely on vague unsubstantiated assertions and easily debunked lies to paint the WikiLeaks founder in a negative light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And let\u2019s be clear right off the bat, it is most certainly a smear piece.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/WJ05c\">The article<\/a>, titled \u201cExclusive: Security reports reveal how Assange turned an embassy into a command post for election meddling\u201d, admits that it exists for the sole purpose of tarnishing Assange\u2019s reputation when&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/WJ05c#selection-1255.55-1259.25\">it reports<\/a>, with no evidence whatsoever, that while at the Ecuadorian embassy Assange once \u201csmeared feces&nbsp;on the walls out of anger.\u201d Not \u201creportedly\u201d. Not \u201cthe Ecuadorian government claims.\u201d CNN reported it as a fact, as an event that is known to have happened. This is journalistic malpractice, and it isn\u2019t an accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whenever you see any \u201cnews\u201d report citing this claim, you are witnessing a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/assange-smear-11-he-put-poop-on-the-walls-poop-poop-poopie-364df9539c4a\">standard smear tactic<\/a>\u00a0of the plutocratic media. Whenever you see them citing this claim as a concrete, verified fact, you are witnessing an especially aggressive and deliberate psyop. The Ecuadorian embassy was easily the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/11\/27\/it-is-possible-paul-manafort-visited-julian-assange-if-true-there-should-be-ample-video-and-other-evidence-showing-this\/\">most-surveilled building in the world<\/a>\u00a0during Assange\u2019s stay there, and the Ecuadorian government\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/06\/17\/narrative-management-reality-management\/\">has leaked photos of Assange\u2019s living quarters<\/a>\u00a0to the media in an attempt to paint him as a messy houseguest in need of eviction, so if the \u201cfeces on the walls\u201d event had ever transpired you would have seen photos of it, whether you wanted to or not. It never happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New CNN Assange Smear Piece Is Amazingly Dishonest, Even For\u00a0CNN CNN has published an unbelievably brazen and dishonest smear piece on Julian Assange, easily the most egregious article of its kind since the notoriously bogus&nbsp;Assange-Manafort report by&nbsp;The Guardian&nbsp;last year. It contains none of the \u201cexclusive\u201d documents which it claims substantiate its smears, relying solely on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17039,145,2001,496,23314],"class_list":["post-47251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-cnn","tag-julian-assange","tag-mainstream-media","tag-smear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47252,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47251\/revisions\/47252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}