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Re:Woman offers WaPo false tale about Roy Moore in effort to... by sanderjd on Monday November 27, 2017 @06:12PM (#15792619)
It's a self-own because this doesn't cast shade on real allegations, it does the opposite by showing that the WaPo is doing diligence on the allegations. It probably doesn't matter though: folks who trust the WaPo already know they do diligence, and folks who don't trust them won't care.
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Re:Woman offers WaPo false tale about Roy Moore in effort to... by r00fus on Monday November 27, 2017 @08:25PM (#15793464)
My point being, that the intersection set of group "readers of this WaPo piece" and "voters of Alabama" are already polarized such that the gain from the in-group (i.e., Trump supporters in Alabama) might be greater than publication of the own-goal.

Consider: what if O'Keefe is just a decoy?

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