This “News” Report is Bananas
I like to think of myself as a critical thinker with reasonable intelligence and a decent vocabulary, but lately, the best adjectives I can conjure to describe many recent events that range from fake news to allegations of sullied mattresses at the Moscow Ritz are “bonkers,” and “bananas.” The months following November’s presidential election have been a litany of the bizarre, and every time I think things can’t get weirder than a reality television star serving as the leader of our glorious nation, I’m proven wrong.
To wit, earlier this week over at CBS46 (WGCL) in Atlanta, evening anchor Ben Swann, a former reporter for the state-owned Russia Today and a Sandy Hook truther, decided that the Pizzagate story, which was born of fake news and has been debunked by media outlets ranging from the New York Times to Fox News – and which reached a potentially tragic climax when a North Carolina man traveled who to Washington, D.C. to investigate matters on his own fired a round from his AR-15 in the pizzeria – merited a month of his own independent investigative journalism.
AJC media reporter Rodney Ho was the first to report on the bizarre segment. Ho’s colleague Greg Bluestein called the report “six minutes of strangeness.”
Swann says his Pizzagate report is “a reality check you won’t see anywhere else.” You know why you won’t see it anywhere else – including WGCL’s website, where the story has been removed from the “Reality Check” page? Because it’s…
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Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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Bizarre was an applicable adjective prior to the election.
The tail follows the head.
Teri, so now you are throwing shade on casual pedo investigations by concerned citizens too? Or do you think that one pizza owner/DC Insider’s reputation is more important than looking into the very strange coincidences (which is a word that Swann used over and over, apparently much to your chagrin, or tone deafness, whatever reason you choose to ignore his multiple caveats) that might uncover a CST ring?
So tell us why you think people should not investigate the very (Hastert) real ( Epstein) pedo rings that, over and over, we find arrests for? Why did you use your few times to post here specifically to throw shade on Swann?
Can you find anything Swann reported on that covers anything but what others have found, and points out a few facts (symbols) and a logo change (germain or not, who knows?)?
Are you so confident in this not being a real story (pizza aside) that you are quick to mock?
What if you are wrong? What if the citizens who are looking into the emails might be victims themselves? Or shall we deny that things like this just.don’t.happen.
Don’t buy it folks, there is something going on. If not at Comet, at some of the players.