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| nw30 wrote: | I'm sure that everyone here is already aware of it, because it's now everywhere. Crickets from the left on this one, specially since ABC's George Stephanopoulos did his on air apology which made him sound like a condescending prick, the apology that really wasn't. He could have just said "I'm sorry I'm a really nice guy who cares about AIDS, the environment, and all these things that need help". Fine, so donate to them directly, then he wouldn't be in the fix he finds himself in. He's now the face of ABC's news, and he's not even a journalist. ABC will never fire or reprimand him, he's their guy.
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By George: ABC’s Clinton Defender-in-Chief
Stephanopoulos hammered 'Clinton Cash' author over accusations against foundation to which he donated $75,000
BY: David Rutz
May 14, 2015 12:44 pm
ABC news host George Stephanopoulos admitted Thursday he had donated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation and did not disclose this conflict of interest to viewers before interviewing the author of a book critical of the foundation’s foreign donors and influence over Hillary Clinton at the State Department.
Stephanopoulos, a former Bill Clinton communications aide, interviewed Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer on the April 26 edition of This Week, where he pushed back against his reporting and Schweizer himself, repeating Democratic attacks that he had a “partisan interest” in disparaging the Clintons.
“They say you used to work for President Bush as a speech writer. You are funded by the Koch brothers,” he said. “How do you respond to that?”
“As you know, the Clinton campaign says you haven’t produced a shred of evidence that there was any official action as secretary that supported the interest of donors,” he asked later. “We’ve done investigative work here at ABC News, found no proof of any kind of direct action. An independent government ethics expert at the Sunlight Foundation Bill Allison wrote this: ‘There’s no smoking gun. No evidence that the changed policy based on donations to the foundation. No smoking gun.’ Is there a smoking gun?”
Stephanopoulos did not point out that the Sunlight Foundation is funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros.
In an interview with Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart after his interview of Schweizer, Stephanopoulos called the case of allegations against the Clinton Foundation “a tough one.”
“I read the book that this is based on, Clinton Cash, and I actually interviewed the author on Sunday,” he said. “This is a tough one. Because when you actually look at, look closely at it, he even says there is no evidence of any direct action taken on behalf of the donors … But everybody also knows when those donors give that money, President Clinton or someone, they get a picture with him, there is a hope that is going to lead to something.”
Both men laughed earlier in the interview when Stewart whether Stephanopoulos was “familiar with the Clintons.”
The story came to light when the Free Beacon‘s Andrew Stiles discovered Stephanopoulos’ donation and requested a comment from ABC News. Stephanopoulos then confirmed the donation to Politico and issued an apology for not disclosing it beforehand, and ABC announced it would not take any punitive action against him.
UPDATE: 2:37 P.M.: This story has been updated to reflect Stephanopoulos donated $75,000, not $50,000.
For the vid~
http://freebeacon.com/culture/by-george-abcs-clinton-defender-in-chief/
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But he's not the only one, many media types have done the same thing for the Clintons.
I did find it interesting that James Murdoch was on the list as well, but he's the only outlier on the list of liberal media types that I've heard of so far.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/clinton-foundation-donors-include-dozens-of-media-207228.html |
interesting that the author went to an interview with George ( full disclosure , i despise George S. wish he would be fired) and did not know George use to work at the top of the Clinton White house. What an idiot that writer was in his writings about the Clintons. Now if you believe he did not know George is a top defender of the Clintons well you must be a moron right winger.
Now the big questions are since politico and the freebeacon who funds them? Gee is there a conflict of interest on those casting the stone.
One thing I did find factually interesting was that the writer of the book was a Bush speech writer, no conflict of interest there is there.
anyway speaking of conflicts of interest that went unknoticed was how several right wingers spent millions hiring writers to go after Clinton before he even took office. That the poster boy Kenny Boy Star that became a special prosecutor did legal pro-bono work for Paula Jones with trust funder millionaire or billionaire ultra right wing media owner Richard Mellon Scaife funding this 8 year legal attack on the Clintons, yes kenny boy star now dean of Pepperdine law school as a reward for his legal incompetence. before the lawsuit was filed years before he became a special prosecutor.
Note Kenny boy star was making a million a year once he became special prosecutor from his law firm where he had to before do billable hours and never made a lot of money. But when he became special prosecutor he was not working at the firm and making a million a year, after a few years it was found out. and then he said he would stop taking the money but would not return the blood money given. so he could see the conflict for the future but kept the money. (turns out once he was special prosecutor the tobacco lobby started dumping 10s of millions in legal fees to his firm, when they did not have a specialist in that firm for this kind of work, gee what did they really want, kenny the whore star to keep a second investigation going, note Star had no legal background in any prosecutorial work. He was just a hateful paid off jerk. Yet he did not see a conflict of interest there when he use to represent Paula Jones for free.
How do we know about these well one of the right wingers paid a million bucks to write the trash books who knew supreme court justice Thomas and top right wingers by first name and worked at the washington times undr owner Rev Moonie spilled the beans. He got a conscience...
Even with a top right winger hit man paid by Scaife and moonie top media owners to date very few people know of this because the right wing media just does not want to spill the beans. Imagine this that incompetent Star is head of a law program as a reward to being a incompetent hateful moron right winger. then he is made a president of another right wing texas school Baylor.
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speaking of lying for the media , lets look at right wing think tanksthat are hired media producers. When they lie should they be fired? did they list their conflict of interests when they send out their lies?
George Carlin Quote Bastardized on Facebook by Heartland Institute (Updated)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/26/1294819/-George-Carlin-Quote-Bastardized-on-Facebook-by-Heartland-Institute?detail=emailclassic#
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April 28 update: Heartland Institute APOLOGIZED, and took down the offending meme! Details here: Heartland Institute Backpedals on George Carlin Bastardized Quote-Meme!
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George Carlin has got to be rolling in his grave.
The Heartland Institute has posted a meme with his photo, fabricated a quote about education that says something VERY different than Carlin himself said when he talked about education, and it's getting "liked" and shared by conservatives by the thousands, all over Facebook.
The offending meme can be found on Facebook: |
here is what he really said...
| Quote: | There's a reason education sucks, it's the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better, don't look for it, be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners, now. The real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They've got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else.
But I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.
You know what they want? Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And, now, they're coming for your Social Security. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club.
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Here is what the right wingers made up
[img]http://images.dailykos.com/images/80186/large/heartland-carlin.png?1398528920[/img] | Quote: | Here's what the Heartland Institute claims that George Carlin said:
Governments don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. That is against their interests.
They want obedient workers who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept it. |
Here is another way PACs do the dirty work under disguise..
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/us/politics/the-right-aims-at-democrats-on-social-media-to-hit-clinton.html?emc=edit_th_20150517&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=43747607&_r=0
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 7:21 am Post subject: Student who told Jeb Bush 'Your brother created Isis' speaks |
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remember when the right wing media plastered the joe the plumber attack on Obama all over the media for weeks. remember the guy the right wing hero who was not even a qualified plumber of some sort and so on. But a hero to the right wing....
Well we have a educated student that took the flip flopper Bush #3 to task on friday and it has not made the front pages and news cycles of the right wing media over a real intellectual challenge by a college student.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/15/jeb-bush-ivy-ziedrich-college-student-isis-iraq-george-w
Student who told Jeb Bush 'Your brother created Isis' speaks out about incident
| Quote: | A college student who confronted Jeb Bush about the Iraq war has spoken out about the incident, which made headlines around the world, saying of the former Florida governor’s position: “It was like somebody crashing their car and blaming the passenger.”
Ivy Ziedrich, a 19-year-old University of Nevada student, addressed the likely presidential candidate after he spoke at town hall event in Reno, telling him: “Your brother created Isis.”
She questioned him amid a flock of reporters about his assertion that the jihadi group developed because Barack Obama had overseen the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq.
“You stated that Isis was created because we don’t have enough presence and we’ve been pulling out of the Middle East,” Ziedrich said, shifting blame instead on to the consequences of George W Bush’s invasion of Iraq. “The threat of Isis was created by the Iraqi coalition authority, which ousted the entire government of Iraq.
“It was when 30,000 individuals who are part of the Iraqi military – they were forced out. They had no employment, they had no income, yet they were left with access to all the same arms and weapons. Your brother created Isis!”
Bush patted her on the arm and asked: “Is that a question?”
“You don’t need to be pedantic to me, sir,” Ziedrich shot back. “You could just answer my question.”
“Pedantic? Wow,” Bush replied, taken aback by the rebuke.
“When we sent young men to die for the idea of American exceptionalism,” Ziedrich asked, “why are you spouting nationalist rhetoric to get us involved in more wars?”
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right wing media is re-writing history of the Iraq invasion to benefit the right wing of course.
Note as Jeb bush and Marc rubio and the rest of the right wing top candidates all say with the intelligence at the time Bush made the right decision.
As we know this is a lie, the intelligence was shown to the bush administration to be made up and correct nothing given showed Iraq was a major threat. even the UN inspectors said it was not and so on. They claim the collision has the same info, well they all know as the british put it the books were being cooked. In otherwords they were going their for their oil company to make money off the oil. And as a fact for example only was it 10 or so countries backed the invasion, vs when we went to afgansistan was it 50 or so sent troops. Even Canada what I consider our closest best friend was not willing to back this lie and sent no troops.
He they can lie as much as they want that is why we have a so called media to take them to task. But in this instance not one major media has taken them to task for lying that the intelligence info showed any case that was appropriate to go to war.
Iraq war lies ignored in Republican campaign coverage
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/iraq-war-lies-missed-in-gop-campaign-coverage-447403075698?cid=eml_mda_20150519
| Quote: | | Rachel Maddow sets the record straight on the deliberate lies told to support the decision to go to war in Iraq, and talks with Dan Rather of AXS TV about how political coverage of "the Iraq question" is allowing Republican candidates to re-write history. |
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well gee here is another example that the right wingers running for president who are trying to re-write history of why Bush Cheney went to war against Iraq. Note that these presidential candidates have no charichter, they care more about their party than they care about the US with this lie.
The lie, is that Bush gave all the intelligence to us and the dems that voted for the so called war. Again the media does not go after these liars with a followup saying that the war was based on lies by Bush Cheney. And what they all miss is what the senate resolution actually stated.
Again Saddam was not involved in terrorism at 9-11 or after. Again Saddam did not have an active nuke program that could do anything. Again why did they out a CIA agents which damaged national security because her husband was tasked to investigate the yellowcake issue, which he reported before the war that they were not and it was also found out the so called smoking letter was forged, the person who wrote the document was not even in a that government position that year it was signed and it was not his signature (note bush et al could not prove in rathergate that those signatures and information were not accurate) but in this case to go to war Bush could have looked at the dates and who was in that office. again wilson reported before the war they had not. But after the war started because Bush Cheney used that example to go to war Wilson came forward to say it was a lie. So they went after his wife endangering the lives a covert CIA agent and her assets. again why do that over the truth if it is on your side.
But here how timely today on MSNBC they posted this... the former deputy director of the CIA says Cheney lied. It took a good interviewer to not let him get away from telling the truth as he tried on many occasions. Lets see if the media plasters this in the headlines. "former deputy director of the CIA finally admits Chey is a liar about Iraq had Nuclear capability" Should cheney be held responsible for this lie? that would be my headline.
But we know the right wing media is not going to harm the right wing liars running for the highest office of the US...
http://www.msnbc.com/hardball/watch/fmr-cia-deputy-director-grilled-on-iraq-war-447888451643?cid=eml_mda_20150520
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Fmr. CIA Deputy Director grilled on Iraq War
Chris Matthews and former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell have a heated discussion about the Bush administration's pretext for invasion of Iraq in 2003, as well as the administration's implications that Iraq and Al Qaeda were connected |
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 6:38 pm Post subject: right wing speaker of the house indicted |
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thats right I would put that headline out, former ultra right wing speaker of the house in indicted. this one should be sending hordes of reporters after this top right winger who was involved in going after Clinton for years.
This has everything one could ask for the top right winger and hypocracy. He is paying off someone to stop embarrassing stuff from coming out to the tune of 3.5 million dollars. yet barely a peep in the right wing media.
didn't even make thetop email headline of the right wing owned Washington Post.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/05/former-house-speaker-denny-hastert-indicted.html
Former House Speaker Indicted for Lying About Paying Off Unknown Person for Unknown Reason
By Jaime Fuller
Dennis Hastert Indicted
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
| Quote: | Federal prosecutors indicted former House Speaker Denny Hastert on Thursday for lying to the FBI about illegally structuring withdrawals from banks while he was paying off someone for “prior bad acts.”
Banks are required to report cash withdrawals of more than $10,000; the indictment accuses Hastert of splitting up $952,000 worth of withdrawals to avoid detection. When federal authorities asked the former Illinois Republican representative about it, he said, “Yeah ... I kept the cash. That’s what I’m doing.”
"Whereas, in truth and in fact," the indictment reads, as Hastert "then well knew, this statement was false because: (i) He had been withdrawing cash from banks and providing the cash to Individual A in amounts of $50,000 or $100,000 to satisfy the agreement he made with Individual A to provide $3.5 million in order to compensate for and conceal his prior misconduct against Individual A; and 6 (ii) He had been withdrawing cash in increments of less than $10,000 to evade currency transaction reporting requirements because he wanted his agreement to compensate Individual A to remain secret so as to cover up his past misconduct."
The indictment does not reveal who "Individual A" is, or what the "past misconduct" happened to be. Hastert was in Congress for 20 years and served as House Speaker from 1999 to 2007. |
Disclosure, I was congratulated by Hastert (coach as I and everyone knew of him) when I was a wrestler, at that time in my life it was one of the most rewarding handshakes of my life. I had three pins as a freshman at a triple duel wresting match that was the first time his team lost in conference in who knows how long. He was a legend in Illinois wrestling. I believe we were the only team to hand him defeats in conference ever. He was head of the Illinois wrestling coaches association and so on.
I was deeply disappointed when he allowed the clinton stuff to go on under his reign, he really was an icon for me. I lost all respect for him for that. I had been a supporter of his till that point.
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| I don't know what media you look at, but this story is everywhere. |
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| Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| techno900 wrote: | | I don't know what media you look at, but this story is everywhere. |
today they are getting it, but was not yesterday. Now it is hitting numbers.
And isn't it interesting they still have not parked 100s of vans outside his houses and everywhere to interview him.
again he was paying out 3.5 million dollars. Not one media I have read has brought out his hypocrisy of allowing the clinton impeachment while he was a scumbag to the tune of paying 3.5 million dollars..... note the owner of a liberal hustler did find out about 5 of the right wingers were hiding adulterous affairs including that past speaker the newty. what number wife is Newty on right now? that family values head of the party/house guy.
my gosh paula jones only got 1 million, but she did get a free nose job, free legal, and such from right wingers.
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| techno900 wrote: | | I don't know what media you look at, but this story is everywhere. |
finally I have seen one media source point out what I have pointed out they should have been saying from the get go...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/30/1389022/-Barney-Frank-calls-out-Dennis-Hastert-GOP-hypocrisy-with-a-perfect-statement?detail=email#
| Quote: | | "There is a hypocrisy issue," Barney Frank said. "Dennis Hastert was a member of the House who voted for the Defense of Marriage act. He subsequently as Speaker twice put before the House of Representatives the constitutional amendment that would have cancelled retroactively all the same sex marriages that had taken place legally. ... The rank hypocrisy of this man using his power to persecute other people for doing what he was doing. Secondly, and it is relevant to note that in terms of the hypocrisy area, you mentioned Gingrich had to quit. It turns out Gingrich was at the time having an affair with the woman he is now married who was an employee of the House Agriculture Committee. And then Livingston who was supposed to replace him had to quit because he was having an affair not just with a woman but with a lobbyist who was lobbying him. So then in an effort to get somebody [who was clean], they get Hastert. The point is that all this was happening while they were impeaching Bill Clinton for having oral sex. So I think that it now looks like if you take Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Dennis Hastert, and Robert Livingston the the Republican Speakers or would be speakers, Clinton is a choir boy." |
again if a partisan liberal owned the media he would be featuring this issue front pages the super hypocrisy of the right wing... Every single day and going for interviews with all right wingers from past to present asking them if they were hypocrites and do they support what they were doing with Hastert raping america behind our backs? again every single right winger past and new breed. give them a few tough questions.
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too funny a religious right winger telling the Pope to shut the f up about science, not knowing the Pope is a scientist. Where is the media dragging this stupid statement in the front pages... If hillary made such a statement it would be headlines your years...
| Quote: | Santorum describes himself as a “huge fan” of the pope, but on “The Dom Giordano Show” on Monday, he said “the church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think that we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focusing on what we’re really good at, which is … theology and morality.”
He continued, “When we get involved with political and controversial scientific theories, I think the church is probably not as forceful and credible.” |
can you imaging the headlines if a dem was this wrong about the Pope......
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Presidential candidate Rick Santorum rebuked Pope Francis this week, saying the pope should “leave science to the scientists” with regard to the pontiff’s remarks on climate change.
Pope Francis — who has a degree in chemistry — has said causing climate change is a sin because the Earth is God’s creation and should be protected. “Safeguard Creation,” he said in a speech last month. “Because if we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us! Never forget this!”
Santorum, a devout Catholic and far right conservative, has expressed disbelief in climate change — and evolution, for that matter — and routinely rejects evidence scientists present on both matters. |
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/santorum-pope-francis-leave-science-the-scientists?cid=eml_mda_20150603
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