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Newspaper Fell For Now-Discredited Sean Spicer ‘Racism’ Tip-Off From Ex-Convict
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2 Aug 2018120
Sean Spicer, President Donald Trump’s former press secretary, threatened legal action after the Associated Press picked up a Newport Daily New video of Boston-area man Alex Lombard accusing him on Friday of using a racial slur in the 1980s when the two men attended the same high school.
Breitbart News has learned that the viral video of Lombard confronting Spicer at a book signing that began the national media frenzy had its genesis when Lombard, a man with a history of trouble with the law, told the local paper he was planning the stunt.
Sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News that a Newport Daily News representative admitted at least one of their employees was in contact with Lombard before the incident, setting up the filming with the expectation the incident would take place. The newspaper declined to comment on this, referring Breitbart News to their legal team.
The Associated Press quickly picked up the incident, providing no evidence of the accusation’s credibility beyond the word of Lombard, who, Breitbart News has since learned, spent nearly three years in a Georgia prison after multiple parole violations stemming from an arrest over crack cocaine possession. After his release in 2002, he entered a no contest plea to driving with a suspended license.
Lombard was quickly removed from the book signing, but not before he gave the gist of his accusation for the camera — that Spicer had called him the N-word while trying to instigate a fight. Lombard claimed to have been 14 at the time of the incident, which would place it circa 1987, when Spicer, who as an adult stands 5′ 6″, was 15 or 16.
A Twitter account with Lombard’s picture and only 16 followers has been making similar accusations since February 2017, shortly after Spicer joined the White House. In at least one instance he appears to be trying to get the attention of CNN:
I now think Pogo may have been a part of this scam....I wonder how many sites on the internet has he visited? The mods need to look into this poster Pogo.
Dood, you were in here declaring an event you have zero knowledge of to be a "lie". And when I asked what your credentials were to know that you had none. So if there's a "scam" going on here it's on your end pally.
In any case none of this is what the thread was about. This is in "US Constitution" for a reason. As I pointed out immediately in my OP it ain't about Sean Spicer or what did or didn't happen 30 years ago. It's about whether censorship of a story one finds inconvenient can validly be effected through legal intimidation.
Which is what Bowe, Spicer's lawyer-boy, implied he would do "Monday" --- and never did.
And btw as I pointed out in the other closed thread, you have no link here. I found the story anyway, in full, and as already noted, it cites NO SOURCES, quotes NO NAMES, and carries NO LINKS. Which makes it pretty fucking ironic that you stomped around throwing things about an AP article that CITED its sources and LINKED them, and now you think you discredit the event ----- not the AP story mind you but the event itself, which provably DID happen --- on the basis of an ipse dixit suggestion from Dimbart that has no idea where it got that info.
Wrong again....all spicer was asking for was a retraction about the part claiming he had used the n word. This was a bood signing and the media was there and spicer had no problem with them being there and running a story about that. He did have a problem and legitimately so about them airing that video showing the Black guy accusing spicer of using the n word. Spicer was upset about that and only that as in he knew he had never done that. And there is no evidence he ever did and despite that the AP disseminated the video in which the black guy was saying that. Again a violation of the journalism code of ethics as well as being defaming. They did not have to disseminate the video...it is quite apparant they did so in an effort to tarnish Spicer's image as well as that of the Trump administration since spicer had been a part of that. I mean this stuff goes on and on day in and day out. The alphabet media is always doing their utmost to discredit Trump......which is bias which is also against Journalism's code of ethics. And yet the media gets in a hissy fit because Trump correctly identifies their b.s. as fake news.