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friendly_iconoclast's JournalNew York Post Published Hunter Biden Report Amid Newsroom Doubts
Source: New York Times
The New York Post’s front-page article about Hunter Biden on Wednesday was written mostly by a staff reporter who refused to put his name on it, two Post employees said.
Bruce Golding, a reporter at the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid since 2007, did not allow his byline to be used because he had concerns over the article’s credibility, the two Post employees said, speaking on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.
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Headlined “BIDEN SECRET E-MAILS,” the article appeared Wednesday with two bylines: Emma-Jo Morris, a deputy politics editor who joined the paper after four years at the Murdoch-owned Fox News, and Gabrielle Fonrouge, a Post reporter since 2014.
Ms. Morris did not have a bylined article in The Post before Wednesday, a search of its website showed. She arrived at the tabloid in April after working as an associate producer on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, according to her LinkedIn profile. Her Instagram account, which was set to private on Wednesday, included photos of her posing with the former Trump administration members Mr. Bannon and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, as well as Roger J. Stone Jr., a friend and former campaign adviser to Mr. Trump. (In July, the president commuted the sentence of Mr. Stone on seven felonies.)
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/business/media/new-york-post-hunter-biden.html
Well well well well well....
"Every time Republicans aren't prosecuted, they answer with even more reprehensible behavior...
... Holding them accountable is the only answer. They have no shame."The reply:
Yes. And this isn't merely academic. We have the real-world progression from Watergate to Iran Contra to GWB that illustrates this with terrifying clarity.
Those two random posters on Fark gave a great precis on how this WaPo op-ed was so very wrong:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/truth-reconciliation-tribunal-trump-historians/2020/10/16/84026810-0e88-11eb-b1e8-16b59b92b36d_story.html
Let history, not partisans, prosecute Trump
I will call the GOP "The Anti-Democratic Party" in conversation from now on.
It has the supreme virtue of being true in both senses of the term- and I don't care who gets upset by it-
I'm too old and too pissed off
I realized there are a few more* reasons why the GOP especially fears Kamala Harris
(*aside from her being a confident, assertive black woman with a spine, that is...)
1. The WH now will be able and willing to enforce Congressional subpoenas.
2. Soon-to-be Vice-President Harris had a long career as a DA, and will know where to dig for dirt.
3. The GOP is a nest of vipers. and the smarter among them have undoubtedly realized by now
that 'the early witness gets the deal'...if you thought the Trumpists were paranoid now, just wait
until they start trying to cut deals in order to save their own sorry asses.
Some truly genius-level trolling of Susan Collins, brought to you by the Maine Democratic Party...
The MDC had a bunch of signs printed up saying "Trump Collins 2020"
Few outside Maine would have noticed these if ex-TV reporter Bill Green hadn't pulled a Streisand and complained about them on Twitter:
@billgreensmaine
These signs were paid for and put up by the Maine Democratic Party. I consider this a dirty trick.
https://twitter.com/billgreensmaine/status/1313508188638117888
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjqEuzzXgAEQdeY?format=jpg
Some background for non-Mainers:
https://www.sunjournal.com/2020/10/05/retired-tv-reporter-bill-green-backs-susan-collins-in-series-of-ads/
After a 47-year career that made him one of the most familiar faces on Maine television, retired newsman Bill Green can still pull off a surprise.
As a News Center Maine reporter, Green said Monday, “I tried to be as fair and balanced as I could,” always seeking both sides of every story.
Now, though, freed from journalistic constraints, Green recently told U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican seeking her fifth term, that he’d like to help her win.
Before long, he was cutting television ads to boost Collins in her four-way race against Democrat Sara Gideon and independents Max Linn and Lisa Savage. Polls are showing Gideon with a small lead in one of the country’s most-watched contests...
Genius-level trolling of Susan Collins (and Bill Green) by the Maine Democratic Party
The MDC had a bunch of signs printed up saying "Trump Collins 2020"
Few outside Maine would have noticed these if Bill Green hadn't pulled a Streisand and complained about them on Twitter:
@billgreensmaine
These signs were paid for and put up by the Maine Democratic Party. I consider this a dirty trick.
https://twitter.com/billgreensmaine/status/1313508188638117888
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjqEuzzXgAEQdeY?format=jpg
Some background for non-Mainers:
https://www.sunjournal.com/2020/10/05/retired-tv-reporter-bill-green-backs-susan-collins-in-series-of-ads/
After a 47-year career that made him one of the most familiar faces on Maine television, retired newsman Bill Green can still pull off a surprise.
As a News Center Maine reporter, Green said Monday, “I tried to be as fair and balanced as I could,” always seeking both sides of every story.
Now, though, freed from journalistic constraints, Green recently told U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican seeking her fifth term, that he’d like to help her win.
Before long, he was cutting television ads to boost Collins in her four-way race against Democrat Sara Gideon and independents Max Linn and Lisa Savage. Polls are showing Gideon with a small lead in one of the country’s most-watched contests...
Armed militia leads protest march after Louisiana police kill Black man
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-not-fing-around-coalition-protest-march-armed-militia-louisiana-20201004-ijd7ku7hhfchnfeqpce4qbbmau-story.htmlSaturday’s demonstration was held in honor of 31-year-old Trayford Pellerin who was shot by Lafayette police on Aug. 21 after police responded to a call concerning a disturbed individual with a knife at a gas station...
...The march also occurred after Congressman Clay Higgins reportedly threatened members of the group in a Facebook post.
“Me? I wouldn’t even spill my beer,” Higgins, a former sheriff’s deputy, wrote on Facebook under a photo of the group. “I’d drop any 10 of you where you stand. We don’t care what color you are. We don’t care if you’re left or right.”
Let it be noted that "Alligator mouth, hummingbird ass" Higgins was nowhere to be seen during the march...
Soaring Gun Demand Boosts Firearm Maker Stocks
Yeah, I know Barron's is a Murdoch joint- but the numbers check out *for the companies mentioned* (see caveat below)
https://www.barrons.com/articles/soaring-gun-demand-boosts-firearm-maker-stocks-51601907910
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SWBI/
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RGR
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VSTO
Conversely, Colt is privately owned, and Remington is bankrupt, as DUer sl8 noted recently:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1172209576
Guardian: White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/27/white-supremacists-militias-infiltrate-us-police-reportWhite supremacist groups have infiltrated US law enforcement agencies in every region of the country over the last two decades, according to a new report about the ties between police and far-right vigilante groups.
In a timely new analysis, Michael German, a former FBI special agent who has written extensively on the ways that US law enforcement have failed to respond to far-right domestic terror threats, concludes that US law enforcement officials have been tied to racist militant activities in more than a dozen states since 2000, and hundreds of police officers have been caught posting racist and bigoted social media content.
The report notes that over the years, police links to militias and white supremacist groups have been uncovered in states including Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia.
Police in Sacramento, California, in 2018 worked with neo-Nazis to pursue charges against anti-racist activists, including some who had been stabbed, according to records...
Link to the report in the article:
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/hidden-plain-sight-racism-white-supremacy-and-far-right-militancy-law
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