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It seems that Senator Aqua Buddha -- tm/The Blog, so don't steal it, pal. -- has been shitcanned by the ghost of Sun Myung Moon just in time to get hired by the ghost of Andrew Breitbart. This is a remarkably straight career path into the manure bin for the formerly rising young champion of the brogressive Left, especially those who don't want to be droned before they score with that cute barista. (Guess what? The champion of human freedom voted against ENDA yesterday because liberty!) I'm sure AB has something pithy to say on the subject that somebody said first, but it strikes us that he's probably going to show up on Morning Joe, where his kind of journalism is a ticket to the big table.
And then there's 60 Minutes.
Oy. Also, vey.
I held off for a while on this because history tells us that jumping ugly early can have very unfortunate results on stories like this but, Jesus H. Christ on tour with Iron Maiden, does it look like the show screwed the pooch on its big scoop regarding Benghazi, Benghazi!, BENGHAZI! Lara Logan is tap-dancing as fast as she can, but the fact remains that the guy that they hung their story on is turning out to be the Stephen Glass of counter-terrorism.
LOGAN: Because he was very upfront about that from the beginning, that was always part of his story. The context of it, when he tells his story, is that his boss is someone he cared about enormously. He cared about his American counterparts in the mission that night, and when his boss told him not to go, he couldn't stay back. So, that was always part of the record for us. And, that part didn't come as any surprise.
What in hell kind of answer is that? About what was this guy "upfront"? It sounds to me here as though Logan is defending her source's demonstrable lie. In what possible "context" could you believe him? This story fell apart in about 48 hours because its primary source was proven to be completely unreliable. And she's still talking about "his boss told him not to go, he couldn't stay back." The guy told his boss -- and, apparently, the FBI -- that he wasn't even there. In any "context," lying to the FBI is a big deal. At the very least, it should sink your credibility. At the very most, it can land you in the clink.
Oh, and not to pile on, CBS, but shutting Dan Rather out of your coverage of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of JFK, when Rather happens to be one of the dwindling group of reporters who actually witnessed the murder in broad daylight of a president of the United States, is an act of towering chickenshit. Shame on you twice.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/rand-paul-hired-as-breitbart-columnist-110813
trumad
(41,692 posts)calimary
(81,523 posts)Or as we say around our house, "...but she photographs well!"
ewagner
(18,964 posts)with big boobs.....
even The Weather Channel is falling for it.
calimary
(81,523 posts)Don't forget the stiletto heels! And please seat her under glass desks or at the edge of the table or sofa so everyone can see her legs.
Mr.Bill
(24,334 posts)babylonsister
(171,102 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
arthritisR_US
(7,300 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)It was a hatchet job, delivered deliberately to disparage Obama, and thank their right-wing owners and management. Everything in every newspaper, radio station, and TV "news" utterance is nothing but far right propaganda. Rove has more perfect control over the mass media that Goebbels had in Nazi Germany
riverbendviewgal
(4,254 posts)and it seems the world is going to see that America has gone senile and has dementia...It is a senior old man or lady pissing in its pants...no control, just wants to eat its Mcdonalds and drink tanks of beer and get drunker than a skunk watching football or a Nascar race. Few even know where Benghazi is or even their own state capital...
Such ignorance that is put on a pedestal..and extolled!!!!!!..Please stay away from my country....I don't want our country to get your sickness.
Do you know it is a crime up here for a media newspaper or tv or radio show to report lies as the news....A LAW has been made to make it a crime.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)And drones to kill people with even if we don't send tanks. So the rest of the world has reasons, good reasons, to fear us.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R
dchill
(38,556 posts)Yes, Lara, so therefore, it can only follow that it is true foxnewsmax!
Your future is bright - somewhere over the sharkbow.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)journalist. Logan is a propagandist for the far right.