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Hezbollah-backed Syrian troops kill Nusra Front commander responsible for kidnapping Christian nuns
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
When journalism is too good to be true
An expose of the Chevron affair in Ecuador and the sleazy, sleazy journalism of Vanity Fair.

Remember, it's the 90% of bad journalists who ruin it for the rest of them...
Posted by: Steve White || 09/08/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  (Among other things, a hidden video camera recorded an Ecuadoran judge saying he had already decided the case even though evidence was still being submitted.)

Reads like judicial sausage (at least in Eucador) is made the same way as journalistic sausage is made in the U.S.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/08/2014 9:23 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Champ admits golfing cock up following Folley beheading.
[Daily Caller] President Obama admitted on Sunday that he "should've anticipated the optics" of golfing just minutes after a sober statement on the brutal beheading of American journalist James Foley by ISIS, noting that "part of this job is also the theater of it."
Showing respect would have amounted to theater? Well in that case, thanks for being honest.
Obama sat down Sunday with NBC's new "Meet The Press" host Chuck Todd for a wide-ranging interview that touched on immigration, ISIS and other White House challenges. But Todd made sure to ask about that golf game, a moment that even supporters of the president admitted made him look tone deaf and disengaged.
Sorry, no picking this one up from the clean end. It's not simply the look, it's reality.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/08/2014 00:55 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Smartest man in the room, indeed!
Posted by: Bobby || 09/08/2014 7:30 Comments || Top||

#2  So the memo from POTUS goes out: "No more official events less than two hours from tee time."
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/08/2014 7:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Optics? Theater of a beheading? Can these imbeciles not speak English? What a moron.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/08/2014 9:26 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Besoeker || 09/08/2014 9:57 Comments || Top||

#5  "part of this job is also the theater of it"

And the foam Grecian columns behind the the "secular preacher" were just a warm-up...
Posted by: Pappy || 09/08/2014 11:17 Comments || Top||

#6  He didn't study at the feet of Rev. Jeremiah Wright all those years for nothing.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 09/08/2014 11:24 Comments || Top||

#7  He is only saying this because people complained and ruined his golf fun.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/08/2014 11:43 Comments || Top||

#8  "That Foley thing totally distracted my game that day"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/08/2014 13:37 Comments || Top||

#9  I think someone pointed out that his poll numbers didn't go away while he golfed.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/08/2014 14:53 Comments || Top||

#10  Nor did the economy...
Posted by: Pappy || 09/08/2014 15:22 Comments || Top||

#11  He's just running out the clock [attempting to not do stupid shi*]. Don't look for any aggressive passing game. Unfortunately, this strategy appears to have begun at the beginning of his second term.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/08/2014 15:29 Comments || Top||

#12  He called a Foley on the dawg leg12th and played from the neck. Then declared Body Line and went home victorious with the skate of honor.
Posted by: Shipman || 09/08/2014 16:30 Comments || Top||

#13  Theater? Like ..."Springtime for Barack"

He was sorry for how people took him seriously not be serious.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 09/08/2014 18:48 Comments || Top||

#14  be = being

spell check yourself BR!
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 09/08/2014 18:49 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2014-09-08
  Hezbollah-backed Syrian troops kill Nusra Front commander responsible for kidnapping Christian nuns
Sun 2014-09-07
  Kurdish Fighters Retake Territories Seized By Islamic State
Sat 2014-09-06
  Al-Shabaab Terrorists Seek Successor to U.S-Killed Leader
Fri 2014-09-05
  Abbas Rejects Egyptian Offer To Settle Refugees In Sinai
Thu 2014-09-04
  Al-Qaida Declares New Branch in Indian Sub-Continent
Wed 2014-09-03
  Vandals Deface Three Indiana Christian Churches With Islamic Graffiti
Tue 2014-09-02
  Militiamen storm US embassy in Libya
Mon 2014-09-01
  Suicide Bomber Kills 37 In Western Iraq
Sun 2014-08-31
  Suicide Bomber Targets Iraqi Forces, Killing Seven
Sat 2014-08-30
  Obama under fire for admitting he has no ISIL strategy
Fri 2014-08-29
  Sinai Group Says It Beheaded 4 Egyptian 'Mossad Agents'
Thu 2014-08-28
  Online photos show ISIL executing Syrian soldiers
Wed 2014-08-27
  TTP commanders form new splinter group 'Jamatul Ahrar'
Tue 2014-08-26
  Thousands flee to Cameroon after Boko Haram attack in Nigeria
Mon 2014-08-25
  Boko Haram leader declares Islamic caliphate in Nigeria


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