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ABC News still hasn't explained why it protected Jeffrey Epstein or why it retaliated against the alleged whistleblower
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[WashingtonExaminer] It has been eight days since the public first learned from a leaked video of journalist Amy Robach that ABC News executives in 2016 spiked her reporting on high-powered, globe-trotting pedophile Jeffery Epstein and his network of well-connected sexual predators.

It has been seven days since the public first learned that ABC conspired with CBS News to have an individual fired from her job with the latter because ABC suspected that she is the one who leaked the video.

It has been five days since the public first heard from the fired CBS producer, Ashley Bianco, that she was not the individual responsible for leaking ABC’s archival footage of Robach.

It has been one day since the public first learned that ABC is still hunting for the real leaker, who is apparently still employed by the network, and that top executives are reportedly "freaking out" over the anonymous employee’s secret identity.
Are they? How very, very delightful.
In all this time, ABC has refused to provide the public with a credible or reasonable explanation for any of its actions. The news network has yet to explain, beyond offering dubious boilerplate statements about "editorial standards" (difficult to swallow, given how this, this, and this apparently met ABC’s rigorous "editorial standards"), why it "quashed" Robach’s reporting on Epstein, even though she claims she had plane logs, pictures, and "everything" for the story.

And the news network has yet to explain why it is putting so much more effort into flushing out the leaker, going so far as to get a rival network to fire one of its own employees, than it ever put into flushing out the alleged head of a global network of child sexual abusers.

I cannot stress enough just how big of a media scandal this is.

ABC News spiked a story about a prolific pederast and his cohort because, according to the journalist whose coverage was killed, the report implicated a member of the royal family and the news network was hungry for an exclusive interview with Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.

There is no version of reality where ABC does not look evil in this.

This entire episode is about much, much more than a report failing to meet the network’s "editorial standards." The way things look, ABC is involved in a far-ranging conspiracy to protect child abusers. If ABC News were a Catholic priest, it would surely be indicted.

It is on ABC to dispel that notion. The network's strategy for dealing with this scandal appears to be to batten down the hatches and wait for things to blow over. The network is depending on silence from the rest of the corporate news media and the likelihood that the public will forget about this Epstein business and move on.

Don't let it happen.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 11/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Did Pravda ever have to explain? Was Izvestia accountable to anyone?

We don't have journalists. ABC and its peers are not engaged in reporting facts without fear or favor. What we have is an auxiliary branch of a corrupt, clownishly incompetent Uniparty.
Posted by: Lex || 11/17/2019 1:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Did Pravda ever have to explain? Was Izvestia accountable to anyone?

As an amateur Kremlinologist, I used to snicker at the Pravda/Izvestia "In News there is no truth and in Truth there is no news" thing, along with the 3-sided skirmishes between the Party, the KGB and the Army. But we seem to have created our own version of that mess despite starting from a completely different point.

Makes me wonder if this is some sort of inevitable state and what comes next. In the case of the fUSSR, it wasn't pretty.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/17/2019 10:18 Comments || Top||

#3  I've always thought the biggest harm todays media does is not "reporting the news"...
Posted by: crazyhorse || 11/17/2019 11:19 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm thinking, other than the possibility of the fired employee refusing to sleep with the ABC/CBS exclusives and got fired as a result, that it's possible that the ABC/CBS exclusives were/are scared that their involvement in Epstein pedeo sex pleasure empire might be exposed?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 11/17/2019 13:46 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The Boggling Retardery of the Impeachment Tantrum
Warning - very intemperate language
[MichaelZWilliamson] The current attempt at impeaching President Trump revolves around a claim of a "quid pro quo" of government aid to the Ukraine, in exchange for them pursuing legitimate law enforcement investigations of your typical Demorrhoid corruption.

First, it is the JOB of the Executive Branch, via State and Commerce Departments among others, to quid pro quo other governments. THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO. "You want X? We want Y. Deal?"

Literally. Their fucking. Job.

In 1948, President Truman's administration approved the creation of ARAMCO for the purpose of acquiring oil from Saudi Arabia, while having a means of putting political pressure on them. That's in the actual statements in the authorization.

So the whole trial is a farce to start with. There are legitimate complaints about some of Trump's actions. This isn't one of them. Of course, most that are questionable were exactly what the Demorrhoids wanted, so they're silent on that.

Second, even worse than ascribing the SNL quote of "I can see Russia from my house" that Sarah Palin never actually said, but is now considered "Fake, but accurate," they're basing this on what some Demorrhoid shithead in Congress paraphrased from hearsay from some source he isn't really sure about.

But, even if we assume this might actually result in any credible, pursuable charges from the Fascist Wing of the DNC, what then? First they have to prove the charge, which is non-existent.

Then, it goes to the Republican controlled Senate for follow up. I'm sure they'll give it all the attention it deserves.

But even if they do something: you may remember when this happened to Bill Clinton over actual perjury charges. The result was "Censure." IOW, a letter saying, "We find you to be quite naughty." Nothing substantive.

But even if they actually remove the sitting president from their own party (I dunno, maybe they think it'll be useful later for removing a Demorrhoid for the easily provable charge of being anti-American), it means, by the time they get to that, Trump is gone for the last 5 months of his term.

Which would mean PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE. Now, that asshole was my governor. If you do not like Trump, you will not like Pence even more, who demonstrably IS a Christo-fascist, anti-choice, anti-gay crusader. Seriously? Are you fucking retarded? Apparently.

AND, that still doesn't stop Trump from campaigning to run for office again, and still winning because his followers and most of the mainstream are pretty fucking sick of "liberal" fascist cocksuckers trying to subvert the legal processes for some strange sexual worship and obsession with Trump. Hell, I might even vote for him to just to watch four more years of complete meltdown.

But worst case, it just means PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE. Jesus tittyfucking Christ in a pink tutu on a pogo stick, are you...well, yes, obviously you ARE that fucking stupid.

What we really need is to quid pro quo some foreign government's intelligence service into assassinating the entire DNC membership. But Trump is too soft and liberal for that.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/17/2019 02:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A truly centrist rant. Some real good suggestions here, to the end.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/17/2019 4:00 Comments || Top||

#2  I will vote for Trump in 2020 because he is in his 70s yet is brilliant enough to sleep nekked every night ... with a super model.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 11/17/2019 7:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Another nice summary of the ludicrous play acting, absurd rhetoric and gross incompetence on display in this farce. But there's no need to mangle the English language and create clumsy, painful-to-threat internet newspeak a la "retardery" (or equally dumb non-words like "assholery" or "libtard" etc).

"The Shitshow" captures and expresses this nicely. Suitably vulgar but concise, vivid, and accurate.
Posted by: Lex || 11/17/2019 8:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Language always evolves, Lex.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/17/2019 10:14 Comments || Top||

#5  I have to say, I like"demorrhoid." I'll be using that one myself.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/17/2019 11:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Demmorrhoid is a good one. And it is fascinating that Demmorrhoids seem not to realize they're gonna get Pence in Trump's place. I think one of the funniest possible outcomes of this whole miserable process would be for Pence to beat the crap out of the Demorrhoid nominee in November 2020 and get a Republican controlled House to boot.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/17/2019 15:23 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
I Didn't Have to Die on This Hill, But I Did
[AmGreatness] Call me Mr. Unicorn. I have degrees in political science, English, and classics‐and I have done extensive work both in ethnic studies and classics. In Los Angeles I found myself teaching at an uber-liberal California college that loved my multicultural work though it viewed my work in classics with suspicion. They suspected at first, then confirmed that my love of the classics might encourage an unstylish conservatism.

On October 3, 2014, I brought students to a conference at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Because of that, some women and gays charged me with discrimination. The Title IX investigation felt absurd. The greatest irony surrounding the spectacle stemmed from what the event at the Reagan Library actually was. It was called "Bonds that Matter" and it was about the importance of family relationships across time. I had tasked my students to identify examples of family relationships in great literature and create exhibits for them.

Between October 3, 2014, and August 1, 2016 (and then for another year beyond), I endured a Kafka-esque investigation too convoluted to summarize here. "Experts" were called in to make gross generalizations about the field of literature, deciding that "Bonds that Matter" held no merit. One anthropologist, for example, concluded that these family subjects were not persistent themes in antiquity or the Romantic Era. The anthropologist seemed somewhat clumsy in his discussion about the role of texts like Oedipus Rex or The House of the Seven Gables.
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Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/17/2019 02:08 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You're right, it's not just the arts.

There's also the perpetual volatility in academics altogether. Allow your passion to get in the way of your job, display an inability to 'play the game', and you'll be set upon by sharks.

The few non-idiots that have the temerity to pursue practicable approaches in sciences or even distinctive ideas in the arts in an institution are always sidelined and leave, like Mr. Unicorn.

I worked with the Defence Institute of Psychological Research (DIPR) or the dipper for a year. It's not the humanities or any academic institution, and does not allow for much ideation. But it has become a bunch of professional naysayers and remf brain nannies trying to mollycoddle soldiers with western liberal solutions. Things like 'indefinite' rules of engagement, humanist approaches to interrogation, 'post-encounter counseling' and that faggot group talk thing where you bare your soul to who-knows-what.

I came to jest that they were foreign agents or receiving some sort of payment from our enemies ☺! Actually I learnt they just imbibe what little they can understand of evolving western psychiatric mores, which are worth jack shit if you ask me. Some 'original' thinkers did try to merge Jungian with Yoga (!) trying to please the new hindoo masters and deliver an ambiguity the likes of which would confound even Mengele. Sycophants all, to one or the other. No real originality anywhere.

I received such opprobrium for my research, and they tried to behave like academics all the time; writing effete complaints, keeping people from assisting me, trying to find out just what we did in our sealed off wing, 'whistleblowing'...

I still have hate letters blaming me with besmirching the medical sciences and using 'a force meant for good' to further political evils. ☺
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/17/2019 3:33 Comments || Top||

#2  As Dr. Kissinger said, faculty politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so low.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/17/2019 4:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Sad but all too common. The West is gripped by self-hatred. We worship the greedy and vulgar, and trash our forefathers and their great achievements.

We have replaced our heritage of great art and thought with a culture of meretricious junk and absurd shows of virtue.

Trump is a vulgarian, but let's hope that he can play John the Baptist to a future savior-- i.e. by exposing the lies and nonsense of our elite to such an extent that his successors can attempt to restore respect and love for our western civilization's cultural heritage.

If not, then we need to look outside the US. Look east, to Hungary or Poland or maybe even Russia.
Posted by: Lex || 11/17/2019 8:48 Comments || Top||

#4  The West is gripped by self-hatred

Don't know about "the West", but academia (IMO) is gripped by second-rate people who - though normally lazy - would work their asses off to destroy anybody whom they suspect of being their better.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/17/2019 12:52 Comments || Top||


Socialist PBS Advances Stuff That Is Non-Darwinian
Original comment by Fairbanks.
On Wednesday night socialist PBS had a nature documentary about a species of crane in China that was not happy about sharing scarce resources with others of their species that are not part of the same family unit. Darwin would think this normal, yet the globalists insist on cultural suicide.
If you have a moment, Fairbanks dear, would you be so kind as to share the name/web link of the documentary? It’s only fair to let us laugh at it, too — they generally allow comments at PBS.
Posted by: Fairbanks || 11/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ....but the Science Was Settled(tm). See - Lysenkoism
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/17/2019 7:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Mrs. Jellyby lives on.

F---ing morons.
Posted by: Lex || 11/17/2019 9:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Episode 6? Tides of Change Wikipedia
Posted by: Bobby || 11/17/2019 11:21 Comments || Top||



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