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Turkeys, Thanksgiving and fake news

2 December 2017

9:00 AM

2 December 2017

9:00 AM

A bolt of schadenfreude hit many US conservatives inside the beltway last weekend – amid equal horror on the Left – as it emerged that two darlings of the progressive media had faked not just a news item but an entire news program.

Everyone from President Trump down would have been chuckling at the news that MSNBC’s key Morning Joe program had pretended to be live, on the Friday after Thanksgiving, when in fact it was pretaped on Wednesday.

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