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February 8, 2013 · 5:48 AM

Ex-cop and murder suspect Christopher Dorner references journalists in manifesto

It will be interesting to see how this saga plays out.

Yes, he’s a very bad guy who shot innocent people and should be held accountable.  Yet, in reading about this guy I just wonder how he made it on the LAPD force to begin with.

He sounds like he is at least….mentally unstable.

Politico

Fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner — wanted in connection with a deadly shooting rampage in Southern California — wrote a rambling manifesto referencing a number of TV hosts and journalists.

In the document attributed to Dorner, the man accused of killing three people promises to “bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or off duty” and also praises several journalists:

Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, Pat Harvey, Brian Williams, Soledad Obrien, Wolf Blitzer, Meredith Viera, Tavis Smiley, and Anderson Cooper, keep up the great work and follow Cronkite’s lead. I hold many of you in the same regard as Tom Brokaw and the late Peter Jennings. Cooper, stop nagging and berating your guest, they’re your (guest). Mr. Scarborough, we met at McGuire’s pub in P-cola in 2002 when I was stationed there. It was an honor conversing with you about politics, family, and life.

Willie Geist, you’re a talented and charismatic journalist. Stop with all the talk show shenanigans and get back to your core of reporting. Your future is brighter than most.

Revoke the citizenship of Fareed Zakaria and deport him. I’ve never heard a positive word about America or its interest from his mouth, ever. On the same day, give Piers Morgan an indefinite resident alien and Visa card.

Dorner also picks out dozens of celebrities and other figures in the document. The LAPD believes Dorner wrote the manifesto because of details in it that only he would know, The Associated Press reported on Thursday. A copy of the manifesto can be found at KTTV-Fox 11 News, the Fox owned-and-operated television station in Los Angeles.

And on Thursday, CNN reported that Dorner also sent a package to CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Inside the parcel was a hand labeled DVD with a post-it note reading in part “I never lie,” and a souvenir LAPD medallion shot through with bullet holes. The package arrived Feb. 1, but Cooper said it was not opened by him and he first learned of it today.

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June 2, 2012 · 9:52 AM

Politico’s: The week in one-liners: Wolf, FLOTUS, Newt

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The top quotes in politics …

“I did an awful, awful lot that was wrong.”  — Former Sen. John Edwards speaking after a mistrial was declared in his federal campaign finance trial.

“He’s slightly wacked.” — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich zinging MSNBC’s Chris Matthews.

“Donald, you’re beginning to sound a little ridiculous.” — CNN’s Wolf Blitzer addressing  Donald Trump.

“What ever happened to hope and change?” — CBS’s Bob Schieffer putting Robert Gibbs on the spot about President Obama’s attack ads.

“You’ll be able gaze at this portrait and ask, ‘What would George do?’” — Former President George W. Bush talking about his new White House portrait.

“You also left me a really good TV sports package, I use it.” — President Barack Obama  thanking  Bush.

“I don’t wield it over him.” — First lady Michelle Obama on having an approval rating that’s higher than her husband’s.

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May 31, 2012 · 12:27 AM

Mediaite Launches ‘Trump Watch’ To Hold Cable Networks Accountable For Trump Airtime

This sounds like a good idea.  I’m not necessarily a Mediaite fan, but I do give them credit for conceiving this idea.  Donald Trump and his birther nonsense needs to be addressed by cable news outlets and call him out on his incessant lies.   They also need to reduce the air-time they have given him these past few days.

Mediaite - March 29, 2012

On the heels of Tuesday’s fiery Donald Trump birther showdown with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, we here at Mediaite would like to finally hold his enablers accountable (and, of course, then in some meta way, we would continue to be enabling the enablers). It’s time for the cable networks to stop giving Donald Trump airtime.

Your willingness to give him airtime is precisely why Trump continues to make outlandish statements on every network within phone’s reach. We understand that he is in the news because of the Romney campaign, but even the sharks are complaining that they are tired of being jumped.

The usually-stoic Wolf Blitzer did a fine job of flogging Trump, making it clear that his birtherism is tiresome nonsense. But the mere fact that Blitzer had Trump on the air, despite Trump having no credibility, is maddening even to those of us who report on the reporters.

And so starting today — the first day of what most assuredly looks to be Trump Week — we here at Mediaite begin our official Trump Watch™. Each day, we will take note of how many times each cable network gives Trump the fumes of airtime that serve as his sustenance.

Today’s tally seems relatively small — CNN and CNBC are, so far, the only guilty parties. Trump is also slated to appear tonight on Greta Van Susteren‘s Fox News program. And we have no doubt that in the coming days, many others will cash in their Trump minutes. And we will be there to count the chips.

We will also track how often each network simply mentions Trump. According to TVEyes, on Tuesday, cable news outlets mentioned Trump for a combined 150 times. More than half of those came from MSNBC alone. And the day isn’t even over!

Stay tuned for our daily Trump Watch.

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· 12:16 AM

CNN Moves To The Right and Loses 52% of Its Viewers

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CNN’s abandonment of news to climb in bed with the tea party has turned into an epic disaster as the network has lost 52% of its viewers.

In a month where all three cable networks had ratings declines, no one did as badly as CNN. The network lost 52% of their total viewers (Run, Anderson, run. Imagine what a Cooper/Maddow primetime could do for MSNBC). Wolf Blitzer’s The Situation Room was down 46% in total viewers and 61% in the demo. How bad for have things gotten for CNN? In my recent travels, I passed through four airports, and not a single one had CNN on. The channel that I have been seeing more public televisions tuned to is The Weather Channel. Yes, even the weather is more interesting than CNN.

CNN’s problems started when the network bosses got the bright idea that they should try to copy Fox News, and move to the right. After climbing into bed with the Tea Party Express and hiring far right wingers Erick Erickson and Dana Loesch led to the current ratings disaster, what would you expect CNN to do?

If you said hire more right wingers and conservatives, congratulations, you are qualified for an upper management position at CNN. The network’s latest hire, Fox News cast-off Margaret Hoover,  let the cat out the bag, “Executives at CNN have been looking for fresh faces and new talent with conservative perspectives, and in the end, offered me an opportunity that was too good to pass up. Indeed, competition, that sturdy pillar of capitalism, is alive and well in the cable news industry.”

Despite the fact that their network is dying because they hired a bunch of conservatives, executives at CNN are looking to hire… more….conservatives.

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November 26, 2011 · 1:11 PM

Politico’s: The week in one-liners: Rahm, Newt and Rick

The week’s top quotes in politics …

“I tasted a beer and tried a cigarette once, as a wayward teenager, and never did it again.” — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney revealing past indiscretions to People mag.

“I do fewer dumb things.” — GOP White House hopeful Newt Gingrich telling  The Brody File how he’s changed over time.

“I’m unbelievably flexible.” — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel talking with NBC about his days as a ballet dancer.

“Africa was a country on the brink.” —Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum flubbing geography during the debate.

“I’m sorry, Blitz, I meant Wolf.” — GOP White House hopeful Herman Cain  addressing debate moderator Wolf Blitzer.

“He was awesome!” — Bristol Palin complimenting  “Dancing With the Stars” champ JR Martinez.

“Never.” — Arianna Huffington making it clear that she won’t vote for Cain, Perry or Romney in 2012.

“… I think it continues to be a possibility.” — Donald Trump saying there’s still a chance he’ll run for president.

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September 13, 2011 · 7:57 AM

Alan Grayson Blasts Tea Party Debate Audience’s Reaction To Health Care Question: ‘It’s Sadism’

The Huffington Post

‘It’s The Same Impulse That Led People In The Coliseum To Cheer When The Lions Ate The Christians’ 

The jubilant shouts of members of the GOP audienceencouraging the death of a hypothetical uninsured man bring to mind the 2009 House floor speech delivered by former Florida Rep. Alan Grayson, in which he famously charged: “The Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick.” Members of the crowd at the Tampa debate agree with Grayson.

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, the event’s moderator, posed the hypothetical question to Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas): What do you tell a guy who is sick, goes into a coma and doesn’t have health insurance? Who pays for his coverage? “Are you saying society should just let him die?” Wolf Blitzer asked.

“Yeah!” several members of the crowd yelled out.

HuffPost asked Grayson what he thought of the crowd cheering for the death of the uninsured man. He writes:

My speech was about the fact I had been listening to the Republicans for months, and they literally had no plan to help all those millions of people who can’t see a doctor when they’re sick. So I said, in sort of a wry manner, that their plan was “don’t get sick.” All I really wanted to do was just call attention to the stark absence of a Republican plan. But Fox, trying to take the heat off Joe Wilson and Sarah Palin I guess, transmogrified that into a charge that Republicans want to kill people.What you saw tonight is something much more sinister than not having a healthcare plan. It’s sadism, pure and simple. It’s the same impulse that led people in the Coliseum to cheer when the lions ate the Christians. And that seems to be where we are heading — bread and circuses, without the bread. The world that Hobbes wrote about — “the war of all against all.”

Watch: Grayson’s famous comments on the House floor:

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September 12, 2011 · 10:53 PM

Tea Party Debate Audience Cheers Idea Of Letting Sick Man Without Insurance Die (VIDEO)

 

These people have no soul and no compassion.  That’s why they didn’t care if the United States defaulted on their debt.  The fact is that most of the teabagger politicians are multi-millionaires and think their money would not be affected if the country defaults.

TPM2012

The last two Republican presidential debates have been some of the most macabre on record. Last time around, at the Reagan Library, the crowd gave the biggest applause of the night to the 234 executions that have occurred in Texas while Rick Perry was governor.

In Tampa, Florida at the CNN/Tea Party Express debate Monday night, the tea party-filled audience literally cheered aloud for the uninsured to be allowed to die.

The moment came during an exchange between moderator Wolf Blitzer and Ron Paul, whose libertarian views often make for good theater at Republican debates.

Blitzer asked if under Paul’s libertarian philosophy, a sick man without insurance should be allowed to die in the hospital rather than have the state pay his medical bills. Before Paul could answer that question, shouts of “yes!” and cheering bubbled up from the audience.

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August 16, 2011 · 6:14 PM

Obama Subtly Smacks Perry and Romney

The author of this piece would disagree with me, but dare I say, it’s about time!

White House Dossier

Honestly, this is tawdry.

President Obama, to paraphrase HIS OWN FIRST CAMPAIGN VIDEO released a few months ago, has a job to do and should be leaving politics alone right now.

It’s fine that he raises money at this point. He has every right to try to amass the war chest that he will need to get himself reelected. In politics, money talks, and BS walks. Actually, BS has a lot to do with getting elected too.

But his remarks, even at his fundraisers, should not be campaign speeches. And, particularly while out on official business, he should not be waging a campaign.

Even if it’s fake official business.

It’s obvious to everyone that Obama’s Midwest jaunt is a campaign bus tour. Obama’s remarks yesterday made this clear.

The latest outrage is that Obama is engaging two of the GOP frontrunners, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney. The president sat down with Wolf Blitzer today and coyly clobbered them both.

From CNN.

Asked to respond to Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s assertion that members of the armed services would prefer a commander in chief who served in the military, Obama said presidential candidates have “got to be careful” about what they say.  But as Perry just got into the presidential race, Obama said, he will “cut (Perry) some slack” for the moment.

Regarding former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s remarks that “corporations are people,” Obama conceded that corporations play a critical role in the generation of wealth but stressed his disagreement with some conservatives over the closure of tax loopholes benefiting certain major corporations.

“If you tell me that corporations are vital to American life, that the free enterprise system has been the greatest wealth creator we’ve ever seen … that I absolutely agree with,” Obama said. But “if on the other hand you tell me that every corporate tax break that’s out there is some how good for ordinary Americans … then that I disagree with.”

The president should simply refuse to talk about the GOP candidates until next spring. It’s just undignified for him to be attacking this early. And it puts him in the frame of mind where for the next year and two months, he’ll be making decisions based on what his political hacks – and Romney’s and Perry’s – are thinking.

He’d do better politically and for the country if he’d just be president. Responding to every peep out of the Republicans is amateurish self indulgence.

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July 20, 2011 · 10:14 PM

West: I Apologized! Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Huh?

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Yes, this confirms it, this sick asshole is a certifiable psychotic!

Think Progress

Following Rep. Allen West’s (R-FL) Tuesday email to DNC chair and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in which he attacked her as “vile, despicable, and unprofessional,” and “not a Lady,” West claimed he apologized.  However, now both Wasserman Schultz and West’s own spokesperson are saying he didn’t.

Roll Call reported the apology earlier in the day, however, DNC aide Brad Woodhouse responded by calling the claim “a complete falsehood.” Wasserman Schultz also told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that she in fact did not receive an apology.

Then, to complicate this escalating ‘he said/ she said’ fiasco, Angela Sachitano, a spokesperson for West also came out claiming the apology is “absolutely false.” She said that actually, West is waiting for an apology from Wasserman Schultz. Indeed, the signs are that West is actually using the incident for fundraising purposes.

Several Democratic House congresswomen also sent a letter on Wednesday to Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) calling on him to denounce the remarks as sexist and unbefitting of an elected representative.

“We see this as a historic and systemic way that women have been subjected to sexism in particularly in this venue, in this political environment,” said Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) at a presser today. “Just once again, we have been told, that in order to be a ‘Lady’ we need to just stay in our places.”

Rep. West fired out the email after Rep. Wasserman Schultz criticized him — though not by name — for supporting the GOP’s Cut, Cap, and Balance Act that would dramatically “increase costs for for Medicare beneficiaries,” troubled waters for a Florida representative.

Meanwhile Wasserman Schultz’s colleagues appeared to take West’s comments personally, defending their fellow member against the accusations.

“Allen West knows as much about being a ‘Lady’ as Rupert Murdoch knows about privacy,” said Rep. Donna Edwards.

Not content with letting West use the squabble for his own fundraising, Democrats and women’s groups are now also using it for theirs.

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May 2, 2011 · 12:35 AM

President Obama Announces: Osama Bin Laden Is Dead

The crowds outside of the White House, shouting “USA!” has grown from about 45 at about 11:00 pm to “thousands”, according to Wolf Blitzer of CNN.

By the way, May 1, 2003, George W. Bush stood on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln and declared (with a sign)  ”Mission Accomplished”. 

Bush stated at the time that this was the end to major combat operations in Iraq. While this statement did coincide with an end to the conventional phase of the war, Bush’s assertion — and the sign itself — became controversial after guerrilla warfare in Iraq increased during the Iraqi insurgency. The vast majority of casualties, both military and civilian, have occurred since the speech.[1] (Wiki)

Huffington Post

Osama Bin Laden is dead, President Obama announced Sunday night, in a televised address to the nation. His death was the result of a U.S. operation launched today in Abbottabad, Pakistan, against a compound where bin Laden was believed to be hiding, according to U.S. intelligence. After a firefight, a small team of American forces killed bin Laden and took possession of his body, the president said.

The announcement that Obama would speak came at 9:45 p.m., less than an hour before he was initially scheduled to go on the air. The unusual hour, and the fact that the White House gave no details about the topic, set off a flurry of speculation.

Officials long believed bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world, was hiding in a mountainous region along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

DEVELOPING…

President Obama’s Announcement…

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