{"id":72277,"date":"2017-05-07T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=72277"},"modified":"2017-05-07T11:54:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T15:54:53","slug":"why-are-buzzfeed-employees-joking-about-a-trump-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=72277","title":{"rendered":"Why are Buzzfeed employees joking about a Trump assassination?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>BUZZFEED RESPONDS TO REVELATION EMPLOYEES JOKED ABOUT TRUMP\u2019S ASSASSINATION<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-subtitle\">Ludicrously claims leaked chat doesn&#8217;t suggest bias<\/h3>\n<p>Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\"><strong>BuzzFeed has responded to the revelation that its employees joked about President Trump being assassinated by ludicrously claiming that such talk doesn\u2019t reflect \u201cbias\u201d at the organization.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Former BuzzFeed employee Tim Gionet dropped a bombshell when he leaked screenshots from a private chat which featured BuzzFeed\u2019s Director of Social Media Maycie Thornton joking about someone assassinating Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cMaybe someone will assassinate him,\u201d said Thornton.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If she&#39;s not an employee, why does she call herself BuzzFeed&#39;s &quot;director of social media&quot;? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zIjMeC76S5\">pic.twitter.com\/zIjMeC76S5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrisonPlanet\/status\/860138869701963777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Other BuzzFeed employees responded by laughing, having previously written of how much they missed Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">BuzzFeed responded with a statement claiming that Thornton was not an employee, despite the fact that she describes herself as BuzzFeed\u2019s \u201cdirector of social media\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cWhile the remark in question is regrettable, it was made in private by someone who is not a reporter nor even an employee of BuzzFeed News. Attempting to turn a throwaway comment from an entertainment employee into evidence of bias at an affiliated news division is ludicrous,\u201d said BuzzFeed communications director Matt Mittenthal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">A BuzzFeed employee told Infowars that Thornton is in fact an employee at BuzzFeed, just not in the company\u2019s news division, a distinction that matters little.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">The claim that BuzzFeed does not operate with a \u201cbias\u201d is also ridiculous given their sustained anti-Trump coverage, which culminated in the infamous fake news \u2018pissgate\u2019 dossier that was completely fraudulent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cThis was not the first time BuzzFeed employees talked openly about wishing President Trump would get assassinated, they hated conservatives so much they even held an office party when Justice Scalia died. It was a toxic environment and you were declared a heretic if you were a Trump supporter, bottom line,\u201d Gionet told <a href=\"http:\/\/bigleaguepolitics.com\/exclusive-leaked-screenshots-reveal-buzzfeed-director-wishing-trump-assassination\/\">Big League Politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Despite BuzzFeed\u2019s obvious bias, Ben Smith Editor-in-Chief of BuzzFeed News, claimed last night during an appearance on Tucker Carlson\u2019s show that the organization doesn\u2019t discriminate against conservatives.<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w8gfBSw9v8c?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">The three BuzzFeed employees exposed as joking about President Trump\u2019s assassination subsequently set their Twitter accounts to private after the revelations about their chat were published.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/CassandraRules\/status\/860049244505468929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.infowars.com%2Fbuzzfeed-responds-to-revelation-employees-joked-about-trumps-assassination%2F<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XlS_KxR3-Qk<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/buzzfeed-responds-to-revelation-employees-joked-about-trumps-assassination\/\">http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/buzzfeed-responds-to-revelation-employees-joked-about-trumps-assassination\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUZZFEED RESPONDS TO REVELATION EMPLOYEES JOKED ABOUT TRUMP\u2019S ASSASSINATION<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}