Fake News Fucks Faked Out Again

Noted here previously. We figured it for bullshit. ("Load of codswallop" we called it then.)

New York Times:
A Bible Burning, a Russian News Agency and a Story Too Good to Check Out  —  WASHINGTON — For some of President Trump's loudest cheerleaders, it was a story too good to check out: Black Lives Matters protesters in Portland, Ore., had burned a stack of Bibles, and then topped off the fire with American flags.
Marissa Higgins / Daily Kos:   Remember that viral story of a Bible-burning in Portland, Oregon? Here's the bigger picture J. Edward Moreno / The Hill:   Russian news agency pushed video of Portland protestors burning a Bible: report
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As the saying goes, you can't cheat an honest man. Apparently you can sure fool a buncha sucker-ass chumps, however.

Deets from The Oregonian.