Approved responses - by Tom Tomorrow

[kpete]

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[myrna minx]

1. K&R n/t

[L0oniX]

2. Tom seems to always get it.

[smiley]

22. agreed

He's the best in the biz as far as I'm concerned.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. Who's that in Panel 2?

I don't watch TV so it must be someone I don't recognize or is that just a generic TV person?


Anyway great as always.

[Octafish]

4. That's a likeness of someone who had something to do with the death of Lori Klausutis.

Seeing smirking Joe makes me think of Lori Klausutis.



The 28-year-old woman worked on his staff.
Her body was found July 20, 2001,
near her desk in his official congressional GOP Florida office.

Sorry, I can't find her picture.

Going by the lack of outrage at the guy's presence on the teevee
makes me believe most Americans don't know the story.
Here's a bit of background:

A Death in the Congressman s Office Joe Scarborough

Does Anybody in the Press Care About Lori Klausutis?

By Denis Wright and Chris George

August 8, 2001 (APJP)
Special Report

Once upon a time, the phrase "investigative reporter" actually meant something. It usually involved hard work, possibly even mentation. Now, it seems, they just make stuff up. Especially on the Fox News Channel, where an uninitiated viewer could easily think she/he had tuned in Comedy Central. It's "Chandra-Chandra-Chandra" with the occasional "Condit is just like Clinton" thrown in. Given our media's 24/7 obsession with the Gary Condit "scandal", you might assume that there is a real dearth of hard news to pursue.

In reality, there is indeed a news story percolating out there. The story bears remarkable and ironic similarities to the Condit/Levy story. Both involve Congressmen, rumors of infidelity, and the fate of a younger female subordinate. The details are so similar as to remind one of two alternate universes. The difference between the two stories? First, in the Klausutis case as not in the Levy case, there is a real body, very dead. Second, the Klausutis case involves a Republican.

The story had a brief flutter in the Northwest Florida press, which ran a few very short stories on Lori's death. With the exception of the Northwest Florida Daily News, they were of the "Aw-what-a-shame/ nothing-to-see-here-move-along-now-folks" variety. But nationally, this mysterious death earned a mere one paragraph mention in The Washington Post's NATION IN BRIEF column:
"FORT WALTON BEACH, FL. - Lori Klausutis, a 28-year-old office worker for Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-Fl), was found dead in the congressman's district office. Police said preliminary findings from the medical examiner's office showed no foul play or any outward indication of suicide."
Unbelievably, that was it. The story was simply dropped. A young female employee of one of Florida's Congressmen had died unexpectedly in the Congressman's office. There were no witnesses to her death and the cause of death was not apparent. Klausutis' boss, Joe Scarborough had recently resigned from Congress prematurely and unexpectedly, amid rumors about his marital fidelity and soon after a divorce. He had also abruptly resigned as publisher of the Independent Florida Sun, claiming that resigning from Congress and as publisher was necessary to spend more time with his sons.

Such circumstances make one pause. Sick to death of the clear bias of the corporate owned media, and suspicious of the odd nature of this death, we began to dig for answers. The more information we discovered, the more unlikely, and the more newsworthy the story became.

CONTINUED...

http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html

The editors of American Politics Journal raise three important issues:

Three Pivotal Questions

by the Editors

September 1, 2001 (APJP) -- Over at The American Prospect's message board thread concerning this very article, Phoenix Woman has asked a trolling Scarborough "defender" three pivotal questions. We'd love to know the answers ourselves:

1) If Lori's death was just a simple accident, then why did Rep. Scarborough and his spokesman Miguel Serrano feel the need to go to two different local TV stations within three hours of her body's being found and invent a nonexistent history of chronic medical conditions for her -- in other words, why did they feel the need to lie about Lori's health?

2) Would you trust without question the word of a Medical Examiner who lost his ME license in two separate states (Missouri and Florida) because he LIED about his autopsy work (for instance, saying he had autopsied some brains when he hadn't)?

3) Why should whoever wrote Ms. Klausutis's obituary feel it was appropriate to mention nearly everything about her life -- EXCEPT where she'd been working since 1999?

http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html

If he was a Democrat, it's a good bet ABCNNBCBSFauxNoiseNutwork would immediately be screaming for his appointment with the electric chair.

In this affair, apart from quitting Congress and his newspaper, Joe Scarborough hasn't even had his hair-do mussed.

[chervilant]

26. Thanks for posting this.

I have to wonder how much Joe paid Lori's parents to hush up what REALLY happened.

I'll never forget Lori, or stop wondering exactly WHAT happened to her. I doubt that we'll ever know the truth.

[daleanime]

27. +1

Scum bucket joe makes me sick on multiple levels.

[tosh]

5. LOL! Cool, what you did there.

[Blue_Tires]

6. #4 pisses me off the most

and I see it on DU far more often than I should, imo...

[ReRe]

8. uhhh.... why does #4 piss you off??? n/t Thanks.

[Blue_Tires]

12. Because I don't enjoy still having to debate on a progressive forum

that racial profiling is a REAL thing??

Even today, there's still some "This incident had nothing to do with race" trolling...

[ReRe]

13. Still don't understand...

... but that's ok. I'm on down the road. Have a good one.

[tblue37]

31. He means panel #4 in the cartoon, not post #4 about Joe Scarbough. nt

[ReRe]

34. Ohhhhhhhhh!

Sometimes I just can't keep up. Thanks for telling me where I jumped the track.

[tblue37]

37. jThe post *was* ambiguous. nt

[ReRe]

39. Went back to see...

... and I agree with you. I still don't get it.

[chervilant]

25. Vile stuff is being posted on Yahoo News and similar outlets.

But, it seems totally incongruous on this, a purportedly Democratic (and somewhat liberal?) website. I'm sickened by the hate and bigotry spewed about the MURDER of Mike Brown. I'm seeing it all over the inner tubes, including here. Thus far, the worst offenders here are getting their well-deserved pizza.

[tblue37]

32. She thinks you mean post #4 about Joe Scarborough. Your post is

ambiguous, so some readers can't tell you mean panel #4 in the carton.

[Fred Sanders]

7. "Do not ever challenge a cop"....what kind of power mad police officer would say that? What kind of

freaky training are these guys getting?

Maybe time to have an investigation into police training schools and have a gander at the curriculum, because we folks have that right too.

[hopemountain]

17. the same hate filled bigoted training that has law enforcement officers

referring to peaceful protestors and journalists as "animals"

[blackspade]

18. This guy apparently

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/08/19/im-a-cop-if-you-dont-want-to-get-hurt-dont-challenge-me/?hpid=z10

Even though it might sound harsh and impolitic, here is the bottom line: if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge. Don’t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don’t even think of aggressively walking towards me. Most field stops are complete in minutes. How difficult is it to cooperate for that long?

[Fred Sanders]

23. It is not a matter of cooperation, it is the attitude of subjugation, citizens are not subjects, a

blanket "do as you are told and watch your mouth or else" is not a helpful attitude and is not proper policing.

Of course folks should cooperate to the police, but they should not bow, and many professions are subject to verbal scorn, none of them happen to be armed in public.

[nomorenomore08]

33. "Of course folks should cooperate to the police, but they should not bow."

This.

"Many professions are subject to verbal scorn, none of them happen to be armed in public."

This too.

[Mopar151]

38. Cop Management 101

This how you avoid being shot, beaten, Tased, cavity searched, Maced, or hassled. Especially if there are no witnesses around, and/or there is "backup" present.

[tblue37]

35. Did you read that op ed piece by some retired LAPD cop (named Dutta, I think)?

He now teaches those studying to be cops.

His op ed says exactly what that panel says--that when people get hurt by cops, it is because they don't obey and cooperate. He admits that the cop might well be violating your rights, but says cooperate anyway and file a complaint afterward (as though those ever do any good!).

He explicitly claims that whether a person gets hurt by a cop is controlled by that person's decision to obey/cooperate or not, regardless of whether the cop is abusive or even brutal.

On Edit: blackspade postd the link in post #18.

[Fred Sanders]

40. Folks need to understand that violation of the democratic rights of a law abiding citizen who never

is charged or accused after the violation of their rights is what is being protected, not just when the same innocent until proven guilty law abiding citizen IS charged or accused.

What happens before you are charged or arrested is the only thing that matters, not what comes after the violation of protected rights.

Cops do not get it either.

[The Magistrate]

9. "There You Go, Playing The 'Fact Card' Again"

A thing of beauty, Ma'am.

[JEB]

10. Playing the "fact card". lol

I am so stealing that line.

[NYC_SKP]

11. Recommended. (nt)

[me b zola]

14. K&R

[Enthusiast]

15. "Oh, there you go playing the "Fact Card" again."

That would apply to Righties® on any number of issues.

[Enthusiast]

16. Kicked and recommended!

Way to go, kpete!

[kpete]

20. You mean

way to go
TOM TOMORROW!!!

http://www.dailykos.com/blog/tom%20tomorrowpeace,
kp

[Enthusiast]

21. Him, too.

[Zorra]

19. KnR nt

[WillyT]

24. K & R !!!

[rhett o rick]

28. k&r. Thanks for posting. nm

[The Wizard]

29. Seems like

everyone shot by police is resisting and going for the cop's gun. They're trained to say "stop resisting" and "stop going for my gun." as this justifies anything that follows. Has anyone ever been arrested and not charged with resisting? We are at the point of obeying any command, no matter how illegal, or risk a beating or worse.

[tblue37]

36. The HuffPo reporter who was arrested in the Ferguson McDonald's says

that even as he fully cooperated and put his hands behind his back to be cuffed, the cop kept saying to stop resisting--and even when he said, "I'm not resisting," the cop kept saying, "Stop resisting."

[tblue37]

30. Playing the "fact" card! LOL! (And that *last* panel--perfect.) KnR. nt