Daily Beast Writer: Fake News 'Radicalized' Pizzagate Shooter Like ISIS

Matthew Balan | December 5, 2016
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

On the December 5, 2016 edition of CNN Newsroom, The Daily Beast's Dean Obeidallah bewailed the apparent power of "fake news," particularly after the Sunday shooting at a Washington, D.C. restaurant at the center of the "Pizzagate" issue. Obeidallah proposed a hypothetical scenario: "I wonder if a Muslim guy went to a pizza place with a gun...how that would have went down — I think much worse." The liberal pundit later claimed that "Donald Trump...is the great purveyor of fake news," and that "good people [are] misinformed; and in this case, this man was radicalized online. This is no different than ISIS radicalizing someone."

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