Benjamin Goggin, NBC News’s deputy tech editor, defended his report on Nazis receiving a “friendly reception” at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference after CPAC publicly called it “false, misleading, and grossly manipulative.”

Goggin noted in his report that CPAC has long had to deal with far-right extremists trying to infiltrate the conference, but in past years would quickly eject those with explicit ties to neo-Nazis, like Nick Fuentes.

“But this year, racist conspiracy theorists didn’t meet any perceptible resistance at the conference where Donald Trump has been the keynote speaker since 2017,” Goggin wrote…

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    9 months ago

    I hesitate to ask why so many people are sitting at an interrogation table, but I don’t know that much about interrogation…

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      9 months ago

      Good cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop.

      And that first one isn’t that good either.

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        9 months ago

        Two of them hold the rag over his face, one pouring the water, two holding his arms, four holding his legs.

        The good cop is the one refilling the bucket it looks like