WaPo columnist rips Rachael Maddow for repeatedly hyping ‘flimflam’, debunked Steele dossier

[mystery-ak]

WaPo columnist rips Rachael Maddow for repeatedly hyping ‘flimflam’, debunked Steele dossier
December 27, 2019 | BPR Wire
Chuck Ross

A columnist for The Washington Post blasted Rachel Maddow for her coverage of the infamous Steele dossier on Thursday, saying that the MSNBC host engaged in “a pattern of misleading and dishonest asymmetry” in her reporting on the salacious document in the nearly three years since its publication.

“As part of her Russianist phase, Maddow became a clearinghouse for news increments regarding the dossier,” writes Post media columnist Eric Wemple in his fifth installment in a series reviewing the media’s coverage of Steele’s dossier.

Wemple took on the project in the wake of the Justice Department inspector general’s (IG) report which undercut key aspects of the dossier, authored by former British spy Christopher Steele.

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[PeteS in CA]

I've not bothered to try to view the WashPost article because I don't want to see whether I'm blocked by their limited access paywall. Evidently, the WashPost editorial rips Madcow rather bluntly, but the WashPost's hands are far from clean (and Madcow probably used the WashPost as a source for hyping the Trump-Russia Collusion Delusion, probably on multiple occasions).

Right message, morally unqualified messenger.