How low the yellow journalists have fallen
No, not Raines whining about someone disagreeing with his Messiah, this story you've probably seen a few places. Quote For
the want of a better two-second picture of a tachometer, ABC News has
called into question its reporting on acceleration problems with Toyota
vehicles.
I'm going a totally different direction from where I've seen others go and I'm kind of surprised by that.
This story shows exactly what's most wrong with "journalism" today . Notice the above beginning, "For the want of...", no, for using a fraudulent clip their 'reportage'/crap hit piece is in question. The article is full of ABC saying, 'Sure it wasn't the right clip,
here's some bullshit reason we're claiming is why we couldn't use the
real clip, so it's all okay.'
None of the "journalists" involved in this story even see the fundamental problem.
Fake But Fucking Accurate is not journalism you dumb fucks. How hard is that concept to understand? Seriously. All you had to do was put in "dramatization" or some note about why you used that shot and problem solved.
Not a one of the idiot, "journalists" involved in this story, including the many layers of idiotor... err... editors probably even thought about it and if any of them happen to get lost and end up here instead of Kos and read this they will have no idea why this is a problem and they'll think I'm the idiot. That's how journalism works these days, they'll think.
It's absolutely funny that as reporters started coming out of J-schools instead of just getting a degree and going into journalism their reporting ethics, abilities and diligence have gone right down the tubes.
We now have "fake but accurate", "too good to check" and "feels right" for journalistic standards. Why, it's almost as if J-schools are teaching advocacy journalism instead of "just the fax ma'am".
H/T, I don't know, I've seen it all over.
Let's say....... Lemur King, I missed giving him one once.
So, who was it that called Obama 'articulate'?
I'm thinking it was Pluggy Joe and not the Republicans. Funny that between Biden and Dan Rather, 'articulate' is now an epithet.
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At some point, folks are going to wonder if all these enlightened Democrats are not actually projecting. And by folks, I mean folks who are not those of us ACTUALLY on the right.
Posted by: MikeD at March 09, 2010 10:29 AM (FkL60)
1Because of some personal stuff my parole officer finding the goats' heads and hoboes buried in the backyard, I haven't watched much news over the
past couple of days
FTFY
Posted by: Alice H at March 05, 2010 06:12 PM (qJHYy)
Oh happy day! Will we see Sarah jogging? Will we see Todd lifting heavy things? Will we see the Firestarter actually start fires? Will we see Sarah kill a wolf from a helicopter? Oh the mind it it it . . . .
Um. Wait just a second. Here's what the show is really about:
Sarah Palin, TV producer? Multiple sources confirm that Palin and
uber-reality show producer Mark Burnett have been making the rounds in
Hollywood this week to pitch a TV docudrama about Alaska.One source called it a “planet-Earth type look” at Palin’s home state.
Sooooo by a "Sarah Palin reality show" they mean a nature documentary. Now, that would be awesome and all but the LA Times now full damn well that's not what the headline implies.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Alex like that. It won't end well.
More MSM Coffee Party fun
This time, from a Kansas City Star columnist named Barb Shelly, who takes a different approach than the NYT or the WAPO. Instead of simply glossing over Coffee Party founder Annabel Park's pro-Obama activism and/or involvement with Netroots Nation, she doesn't bother to mention Park at all. Clever, that.
But Barb luuurves the Coffee Party much more than the Tea Party, even though she thinks the latter (lamentably, in her eyes) has a better chance at changing the political landscape:
It's fueled by idealism. But idealism doesn't carry the same jolt as anger, which is stoking the tea party movement.
Idealism gets weary and watered down. But in these United States, anger is a bottomless cup.
It has so many targets. Wall Street bankers, illegal immigrants, climate scientists, Barack Obama. Health care reformers, stimulus packages, public education, Barack Obama. The Federal Reserve, John McCain, open borders, the United Nations, gun control backers, Barack Obama.
Um, Barb, do you notice a common thread in any of those "targets" that you just mentioned? Possibly that they're all, more or less, involved in the shitty economy that we've got right now? That we've got ten percent unemployment? That there's a government-run health insurance boondoggle that one of the "targets" you happened to mention three times there is trying to ram down the throats of a citizenry which has said over and over that it DOES. NOT. WANT. IT?
Oh, and this part is fun...
There are think tanks, lobbyists, consultants, magazines, talk shows, an entire television network, devoted to telling Americans that, even in the good times, we should be aggrieved.
Government is out to oppress the people of America. So say the captains of the aggrievement industry, speaking from their lavish office suites and their suburban Virginia mansions.
So she says, without a fucking trace of irony. When we had unemployment at around five percent and the economy was growing pretty well, we heard nothing from TIMENEWSWEEKNYTWAPOCNNNBCCBSABC, etc. and their buddies in liberal think tanks and on talk shows about how we were supposedly in the WORST ECONOMY SINCE HERBERT HOOVER!!!
Yeah, sorry if I don't take you particularly seriously now.
Oh, and if you'd bothered to mention the Coffee Party's founder, you might have had to mention that she was a progressive activist from (dun dun DUHHHHN!!!) suburban Virginia.
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Honestly, I'm so fucking sick of this shit.
Coffee party = idealism
Tea party = anger
She's got a point there, because I'm getting pretty fucking angry right now.
Posted by: Car in at March 04, 2010 07:48 AM (bUWh3)
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As the Rot would say; "Tree, journalist, rope, some assembly required."
Posted by: jukin at March 04, 2010 10:24 AM (vkkNZ)
But Ms. Park said that while the Coffee Party — and certainly the name — was formed in reaction to the Tea Party, the two agree on some things, like a desire for fiscal responsibility and a frustration with Congress.
“We’re not the opposite of the Tea Party,” Ms. Park, 41, said. “We’re a different model of civic participation, but in the end we may want some of the same things.”
You're a fucking liar, Ms. Park, and you fucking know it. You want the government to take over Americans' health care insurance, and the only thing preventing you from admitting it is the fact that the rest of us realize that it's a fucking boondoggle and a disaster.
And the NYT (and Jon Zak of the WaPo, as well) are fucking abettors of your lies, trying to make it seem that you're some kind of centrist who just wants the left and right to come together.
Update: By the way, Annabel Park is never mentioned even once in the same sentence as Barack Obama in the NYT article, even though she was an Obama supporter at least as early as 2008. And, while the WaPo didn't bother to mention that, they at least mentioned that she worked for Virginia Dem Sen. Jim Webb. The NYT glossed over that, too.
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Funny how these folks have been glowingly mentioned in bothe the NYT and WAPO in less than a week.
That can't be a coincidence, can it?
Posted by: eddiebear at March 02, 2010 08:15 AM (XJLtt)
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It's even funnier, as we saw at the Puppy Blender's today, Spoiler: the only private sector work listed is “Strategy Analyst: The New York Times”
Heh, and the Times tool and Zak didn't see fit to mention any of that but Zak's article "Implied" she was an Obamabot because..uhh...... it didn't say she wasn't!
Posted by: Veeshir at March 02, 2010 09:29 AM (p0YfC)
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This is so transparent. Bunch of fuckin' johnny-come-lately copycats. If you can't beat 'em, co-opt 'em.
It wasn't too long ago that the Tea Party movement was everything that was wrong in this country. Tea baggers, Racists, Terrorists. Now, all of a sudden, "They're just like us. We're not so different." First the Lizard Queen says it, now the stormtroopers are on it, with Minitru obediently pushing the script. Expect to see this everywhere soon.
This would be funny if it wasn't so fucking obvious. It's really kind of sad. These are supposed to be the smartest people in the room, and they can't see how stupid they look. They actually think this is going to work.
Posted by: Mob at March 02, 2010 09:35 AM (8c34o)
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What's been funny to me is watching the unraveling of the Agit-Prop on the Astro-turfed You Tube sites. They keep marking comments outing their Axelrod - Organizing For America v2.0 origins as "spam", but can't keep up.
Someone also keeps congratulating them on their efficient handling of re-writes from Minitrue, and asking which Starbucks they're to report to for the two minutes of Hate. (marked as Spam).
And there's a Youtube commenter named, "MsEllieLight"(snort) who's concerned and thinks Obama should just start over and televise everything on C-SPAN like he promised -- "Change We Can Believe In". MsEllieLight seems to be having a lot of fun toying with the Coffee Party.
I think they've lost control of the message.
Posted by: Moonpie at March 03, 2010 01:53 AM (Fm/4+)
Give us Jake Tapper already, ABC
Elizabeth Vargas' performance on ABC's This Week didn't exactly instill me with great confidence in her objectivity:
How are we going to...empower Congress to be able to pass the sweeping kinds of changes that we need in the country?
ISeeWhatYouDidThere. Um, aren't they empowered by, you know, having massive majorities in both houses? Yes, clearly the problem is that Congress has too little power. Good gravy...
Isn't the obvious pick for the slot the only guy at ABC who is even cognizant of the idea of journalistic integrity? Stop screwing around with Vargas and Baba Wahwah. Give us Tapper!
Minitru
Nothing major, just another example of why I started calling them Minitru a little over a year ago. First, we've all seen Hot Air's story about Rubio's credit card. I hadn't read it earlier (I usually don't read the Capt's posts unless I can't get to sleep), so I did when I saw the update. I'm waiting for the hockey game to start and nothing's going on here. Lo and behold, the article was substantially rewritten, removing much of what Capt Ed quoted, with no mention of how or why. What was left was pretty typical of Minitru.
They manage to find a bunch of people to say bad things about Rubio. Like Ana Navarro, "Rubio contributor" who's 'concerned'. Yup, she contributed to him, she gave more to a Dem congressman. It's also disingenuous to call her a "contributor" she's a pac treasurer and bundler. The Pac is "Friends of Liz Cheney" but I can't find any money going in or out of that pac anywhere from 2002 to today. Personally, she gives to both Dems and the GOP.
The rest of the quoted are similarly misrepresented, including the last quote by "U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Weston" who is also 'concerned', she is not listed as a Democrat.
They do get a quote from a Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum, the Republican front-runner to replace
Crist as governor, said of releasing the credit-card records: ``To open
this at the present time could compromise a criminal investigation.''
Heh, maybe I'm just paranoid (well, too paranoid) but that surely looks as though they're trying to imply that Rubio is the target of that investigation. What is the investigation? I'd guess it's who leaked it, if Rubio was the target that would have been the headline, the lead and every other paragraph would have included that.
Another, smaller, Minitru moment. My alarm clock is set to WTOP (traffic, weather, conventional leftism), this morning it came on to one guy saying something about Obama's "We're not campaigning" as the other two tools laughed, laughed, laughed at McCain being all bitter about not winning and Obama slapping him down. These are "news" guys, not opinion. I mean, they're called "news", but like the rest of Minitru, they have ceased even pretending to be neutral even as they screach about how they are neutral.
If something appears on the Intarwebs 57 times, it must be true
Why Veeshir didn't post this himself is beyond me - it so clearly illustrates the wisdom of our 16th president.
“The problem with quotes on the internet is that it is difficult to verify their authenticity”
Donny Douche, er DeutschRefers to Marco Rubio as a coconut. If you're unfamiliar with the terminology, it's the slander as when someone refers to a black person as an Oreo, but in regard to Latinos. What I find interesting is, when you watch the clip, he's so offhand about it, sometimes you hear other commentators and reporters use terminology like this on TV and you think, okay, you picked that up from your buddies at the office or bar, and you...didn't fully grasp what that actually means when you stupidly said that on air, did you? Not getting that vibe from him at all, and I'm a little surprised by how casual he is in saying it.
What a fucking twat Deutsch is. I don't know how a TV show with fewer watchers than this crapblog has readers manages to stay on the air, but there it is.
You're cruising along, he seems to be making sense (in your ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN centered world) when suddenly he spews hate so casually.
I'd like to think that people would see that and say, "Huh." and maybe look more closely at the other stuff he says.
But then, I'm an eternal optimist that way.
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St. Louis Reporter Proves Yet Again What A Jackass He Is
Full Disclosure: I have had multiple run ins over the years with Charles Jaco. He is an unpleasant jackass of the highest order, and an arrogant one to boot.
Within a day, they found half a dozen examples of passages lifted from other news sources. On Sunday night, an editors’ note was published on the Times Web site admitting that Mr. Kouwe had indeed lifted lines from a variety of sources, including The Journal and Reuters.
By Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Kouwe had resigned.
“We have a zero tolerance policy for unethical journalism,” wrote Mr. Keller in an e-mail to The Observer. “Plagiarism is unethical journalism.”
“I was as surprised as anyone that this was occurring,” said Mr. Kouwe, referring to the revelation that he had plagiarized. “I write essentially 7,000 words every week for the blog and for the paper and all that stuff. As soon as I saw, I guess, like six examples, I said to myself, ‘Man what an idiot. What I was thinking?’”
Mr. Kouwe says he has never fabricated a story, nor has he knowingly plagiarized. “Basically, there was a minor news story and I thought we needed to have a presence for it on the blog,” he said, referring to DealBook. “In the essence of speed, I’ll look at various wire services and throw it into our back-end publishing system, which is WordPress, and then I’ll go and report it out and make sure all the facts are correct. It’s not like an investigative piece. It’s usually something that comes off a press release, an earnings report, it’s court documents.”
“I’ll go back and rewrite everything,” he continued. “I was stupid and careless and fucked up and thought it was my own stuff, or it somehow slipped in there. I think that’s what probably happened.”
Yeah. Just an accident. It's not as though the NY Times has made mistakes before, right? Ok, so how is management responding?
A Times spokeswoman said, “Our journalistic standards are the same online as they are in print.”
Heh.
Look, I know things happen, and that shitbags wind up in every line of work. But why is it so many of these guys end up at the NY Times, especially after the Jayson Blair fiasco?
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Posted by: Elliott at February 17, 2010 07:17 PM (bYTjt)
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He's less entertaining than the spam. We've had spambots curse and the one the other day said, "BS".
I've seen basically that same comment on a whole bunch of blogs over and over for a long time now. Dude obviously doesn't read the posts, he just clicks, says it's a great post, doesn't talk about the post and ends with. "Link exchange?"
He's never made me want to read his blog. Here you'd need some "fucks", at Ace's maybe a link to a big-tittied ewok, at Classical Values something else. But no, just some inane comment with "Link exchange?" Here's a link http://doubleplusundead.mee.nu/
There, we've exchanged links.
Posted by: Veeshir at February 17, 2010 07:47 PM (z7rTW)
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*pours over blogroll* Shit, I'm not on the blog roll. If spambot gets a link over me, I'll be pissed!
Posted by: Ember at February 17, 2010 08:06 PM (LdRAG)
Someone please let me know when it is determined whether this Link Exchange Steve is human being or a bot. I'll take a real link whore over the fake variety any day!
Posted by: Eric Scheie at February 23, 2010 07:10 PM (TPKuq)
Layers of fact checking, etc.
Ummm NBC? Michael J. Fox is not dead.
For pity's sake, I knew who Terry Fox was before I became BFF with a Canadian. He's rather super famous.
I know there's the whole Canada! It's like a whole other country! thing but this is rather rude. Is this super important? Of course not. But I'm not about to miss a chance to kick NBC about something this obvious.
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Chris Matthews brings teh crazee on Palin
The hate never ends on MSNBC. Chris Matthews and crew went completely bananas tearing Palin apart for her Tea Party convention appearance, calling her, "an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology she doesn't understand."
Before I go further, let me issue my standard quotation of Jim Geraghty that he wrote after the Vanity Fair hit piece: "There’s room in this world for a profile that is critical of Palin,
but that preferably didn’t begin with the supposition that she is the
root of all evil in the political world."
Chris Matthews does not seem to read Geraghty's stuff.
Please read a substantial portion of the transcript at NewsBusters, but brace yourself for some weapons-grade radioactive hating before reading or watching.
Of course, there's some jibing about her writing on her hand:
MATTHEWS: Well, I don`t know. I just don`t know what to make of this, Richard Wolffe. This is like something that every kid in school can understand, crib notes.
RICHARD WOLFFE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Crib notes. Teleprompter no good, but crib notes OK.
(LAUGHTER)
WOLFFE: And there were only six words on it.
(LAUGHTER)
Ok, I still don't get it. Out of six cribbed words she pulled a passable speech and Q&A session. Obama needs a full prompter set-up to speak to school students. How does this make her stupid?
This part was particularly revealing:
MATTHEWS: Well, so you`re not saying there`s -- well, let me go to you, Mark. It seems to me the issue here isn't that she took notes. I`m looking at notes now. We all look at notes. It`s when you sneak them on your hand! She could have put that on an index card and nobody would have made a big issue, but she had to look like she was just pulling it out of the air, so she pulled it off her hand like a palm reader!
Ok, so it's the physical act of writing on her hand that has their panties in a knot, no?. Notecards = good, hand = bad. Mmmkay.
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I still don't get the huge issue with her writing notes on her hand. I do it all the freaking time. Hell, when I was lecturing at a local college, I always had stuff scrawled on my hands. I may be many, many things, but stupid is not one of them.
Posted by: alexthechick at February 11, 2010 12:15 AM (pyITm)
Posted by: alexthechick at February 09, 2010 11:06 PM (pyITm)
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what is so amazing is how the circle of "Moderates" absolutely refuse to admit that they were wrong about Barry. They are practically begging Obama to accomplish something that they can herald before the November stormclouds wash them away.
Posted by: eddiebear at February 09, 2010 11:16 PM (agab5)
3what is so amazing is how the circle of "Moderates" absolutely refuse to admit that they were wrong about Barry.
They can't. It's like with global warmmongers*, they've spent the last year plus telling us how stupid we are and how smart they are. If they admit they were wrong, they have to admit we weren't stupid and, even worse, have to admit that they aren't smarter than Sarah Palin.
That's a culpa too mea.
*Both Obots and global warmmongers took too little information, were told the proper stance, took that proper stance and then felt smugly superior about being smarter than the rest of us.
Posted by: Veeshir at February 10, 2010 08:25 AM (kUW1O)
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Good Grief! Could some one please knock Biden's dick out of Brooks' mouth?
Posted by: Big Daddy at February 10, 2010 01:48 PM (pOcKt)
A thought experiment
Okay, let's imagine the most angry, hateful MSM reaction to the Tea Party movement. Is it sneering? Is it condescending? Is it everything you thought it would be from a liberal douchebag like Joe Queenan?
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You know what I think really really really pisses off most of the Left? Those on the Right don't give a shit about being cool. I accepted my lack of coolness and inherent geekiness at a very early age (I possibly may have had some gentle assistance by my peers in reaching such an epiphany). So I don't give a flying fuck if people don't think I'm cool. That is so outside the worldview of much of the Left that they can't conceive that I hold my views based on rigorous analysis and careful consideration not what some jackass thinks of me at a party.
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Posted by: Veeshir at February 09, 2010 09:38 AM (f2Knt)
fuck that fuckhead. Fuck him like they do in those Korean videos that I have heard about and then send him to involuntarily "star" in a Japanese Tentacle Goodness video.
Seriously, "cool" may work when trying to get laid, but Vlad The Vicious, the Chicoms, or al Qaida take some guy acting as though he wants to be the leader of a poetry circle as a sign of weakness.
Posted by: eddiebear at February 09, 2010 10:37 AM (wnU1W)
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Phew, I thought you were talking to Bill. We might have had a problem.
Posted by: Veeshir at February 09, 2010 10:46 AM (dNx5J)
That article is a perfect illustration of an elitist, effete, leftist snob author being praised in some of the comments by wannabe effete, leftist snobs who honestly think they are cooler than the rest of society.
The condescention and outright distain for your fellow man laid out in this article is exactly why November will be a bad day for them and a good day for those who cherish liberty.
If love of liberty and respect of the principles of our founding fathers is not a "cool" thing to these "types" it truly says more about their character (or lack there of) than it does about the people attending the Tea Party gatherings.
I think this quote says it all about the utter bankruptcy of character with Joe Queenan.
"Tea Partyers are mostly pasty-faced middle-Americans, holding the sorts of smallish, grassroots, INBRED gatherings that could easily be ignored in the pre-viral era before cable television and the internet."
Joe Queenan (F-n nerd/toolbag that he is. Just look at his pic the baby-boom, ex-hippy prick that he is) is a human paraquat.
Posted by: B-line Snowboards at February 09, 2010 02:08 PM (s1pOg)
The more left wign the douchebag, the more mentally fucked up they are.
This is merely from anecdotal evidence, but if you see 100% of the ones you meet and they have weird personality shit going on, then you just believe they are all fucked up that way.
A few of them were complete poseur douchebags, incredibly so.
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Actually, I would never challenge 4chan about creating the most inappropriate composite image. You're not going to win and you'll be scarred for life.
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Vicious, lying children
updated below Okay, so James O'Keefe, the Pimp of Pimp n' Ho, is doing real journalism and exposing lies and other dishonesties on lefties and for that he can never be forgiven. So I saw this article and it looked weird to me, I could see the left was in full "vicious attack mode". Quote Now an activist organization that monitors hate groups has produced a
photo of O'Keefe at a 2006 conference on "Race and Conservatism" that
featured leading white nationalists.
OMG!!!! A racist!!!!! He was manning a table at a white supremacist event. With Literature!!!! Connect the dots folks!
First, look at the pic. It's blatantly obvious the head is Pshopped into everything else. The jacket looks like a cartoon drawing for instance.
So I knew it was bullshit, but I didn't have enough info and I wanted to see what O'Keefe said because, well, he knows what happened. Of course, the fine, tolerant, totally honest journalists at the Village Voice had an even better "scoop" Quote It is telling that O'Keefe would organize an event... So now, not only was he at the event, he organized it!!!!! White supremacists!!! Why, I bet CJ has a pic of him next to Stacy McCain just to complete the white supremacist circle (note: I'm making fun of people who call Stacy a racist).
So Big Gov't decided to call him and ask him (which, for obvious reasons, none of our leftist media betters did, after all, they never let facts get in the way of a good, vicious attack on their political opponents) Quote James O’Keefe attended a forum years ago that dealt with race and
politics. The forum was located at a Georgetown University building
(that’s right, a 21-year-old man attended an event on a college
campus). The forum had as one of its three speakers a controversial
figure, Jared Taylor, with a track record of making racist statements.
He was being debated by two other people including Mr. Martin (taking
issue with the racist figure).
Vicious, lying children. At least they've learned one thing, "Racist" is too over-used, so now they're going to use "White Supremacist".
I figure it went out in their townhouse memos. "Look you retards, we can't use racist anymore. Now use "white supremacist"." Look for that meme among our fine, tolerant, loving, totally free-minded and non-top-down leftist brethren. Oh, and laugh at the fail. Quote We also spoke with Daryle Jenkins of One People’s Project, the man who
started this entire legend. ...His claim ... is based on eye-witnesses who
were at the event. ...snip... Mr. Jenkins only produced the name of one witness: Dave Weigel...
We called Mr. Weigel and he denied ever telling Mr. Jenkins that Mr. O’Keefe was “manning the table.”
Heh, so their "proof" called them liars. On the record. I can personally confirm that he was there, but not that he was manning
the table — nor that O’Keefe “planned” the event (as Blumenthal put it)
with Marcus Epstein, who was president of the Robert Taft Club.
Fucking vicious, lying children who have to viciously attack anyone who threatens their ignorant, hate-filled agenda. Fuck them all. I anxiously await the day the NY Times, the Wash Post, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Reuters, AP and the rest of the vicious, lying sacks of shit are out of business and out of jobs. Fuck them all.
Via eddiebear in the comments (yes, this blog has comments) we see Retracto the Correction Alpaca is on the job! Apparently, the only thing they didn't get wrong was that they spelled his name right.
It appears that a. there was no wiretapping and b. he was not trying to bug Sen. Landrieu's office.
He claims that he was simply trying to confirm whether the phones were acting up (my paraphrase) as Landrieu's office was claiming. I concur in his opinion that the way he did it was less than optimal. Any business would have security concerns about access to parts of the office, let alone a Senator's office.
His points about the media reporting on this are well put as well.
I still think what he did was stupid but apparently it was less dumb than previously reported. Why do I think it was stupid? Because it should have been obvious that someone was going to call the cops on their asses. Look, I have as little sympathy for him as I do for any journalist who is breaking the law to get an undercover story and then gets caught. Hey, you take the risk, you pay the price.
Gee, surprise, surprise: he wasn't actually wiretapping or doing anything a fraction as bad as was alleged w/ no actual information to go on short of hearsay.
Now it'd be great if those that threw him into the shark tank would be so kind as to show him some support rather than trying to justify their initial, knee-jerk, reaction but, of course, I realize that something like that is just asking far too much.
Posted by: ECM at January 29, 2010 11:47 AM (nYKDd)
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And that's one of the problems with today's set of "journalists". We have no idea what he did because of all the disinformation put out there by our intellectual betters in Minitru.
This also hides what he was investigating, Landrieu disabling her own phones so her constituents couldn't bother her with their petty, little problems.
Posted by: Veeshir at January 29, 2010 12:21 PM (RYrwv)
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The MSM's "reporting" (quotes for obvious reasons) of this story was a classic hit-piece, in that it portrayed O'Keefe as a law-breaking extremist. Moreover, for voters over a certain age the headline claim of wiretaping recalls the boogyman of Watergate, which is a huge red flag for leftists.
The real travesty of the MSM treatment is that there's virtually no way to undo the damage done to his reputation: Even if he were to succeed in a demand for retractions, those are a single sentence on page 8, whereas the "Right-wing zealot busted in wiretap attempt" story seems to have been much more prominently featured.
MSM== Leftist bastards
Posted by: sf at January 29, 2010 02:48 PM (xz5dP)
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In his "corrections" page (Retracto the Correction Alpaca, heh) he links this MSNBC article claiming a "law enforcement" type said they were going to shut down her phone lines to see how the staff reacted.
Very stupid and I'd bet illegal, but not what so many of our fine media betters in Minitru were so gleefully trumpeting.
If it had been Mitch McConnell's office somehow I think Minitru would be trumpeting about freedom of the press.
Posted by: Veeshir at January 29, 2010 06:28 PM (JEvrq)
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stupid political theater. Next time bring a giant paper mache' puppet.
Posted by: Douglas at January 29, 2010 09:27 PM (uU+Ss)
