The Clintons Play Dirty and It Depresses Me Greatly

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Wednesday March 02, 2016 · 9:20 AM PST

2016/03/02 · 09:20

It depresses me that Bill Clinton was out causing chaos as he campaigned at polling places across Massachusetts yesterday., and will, of course, get away with it.

www.bostonglobe.com/…

He held up voting for many citizens, and, as a comment on Gawker notes, “Clinton could have been anywhere else in the state, but he chose the one city that Bernie Sanders was spending a significant amount of effort where he actually had a manageable set of districts to make a large dent in the non-Boston delegate totals.”

gawker.com/…

The Clinton campaign denied that Bill broke the law by entering a polling place, but then, of course, a picture arose to show they were lying:

boston.cbslocal.com/…

This is who they are. This is what they do. They lie, they cheat, they charm, they threaten, they do what they want and they mostly get away with it. Nobody on this site talks about Bill Clinton’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. We all grimace about DWS and the corrupt DNC, but it’s followed by a shrug. Too few talked about how “ending welfare as we know it,” actually meant more poor and suffering Americans than ever.

I voted for him twice. He fooled me. I am a fool no longer. I will not vote for her. Nor will I vote for Trump. I will either vote Green or write in someone. But I will not vote for Hillary Clinton. The Clintons are bad for America.

Dennis Hastert as the Tip of the Iceberg

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Monday June 01, 2015 · 1:04 PM PDT

2015/06/01 · 13:04

How much do you know about pedophiles? Maybe not a lot, because it's a repulsive subject, arguably the worst of all crimes. Nobody likes to think about it.

But there's one sick, sordid fact that comes up again and again in scientific studies of pedophilia: It's a compulsion. They can't stop without some kind of medical treatment.
http://www.theatlantic.com/...

So now, as it looks like a second victim of Hastert the teacher/coach may soon come forward, it's time to ask: How many of us are going to choose to believe this was only happening before Hastert reached Congress? Please follow me below the serpentine squiggle of schadenfreude for further rumination, previous forgotten history and few hypothesis that are beyond unsettling but deserving of consideration and debate.

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Broccoli

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The Latest on the Brian Williams Debacle

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Friday February 06, 2015 · 10:36 AM PST

2015/02/06 · 10:36

Pleased to see DK's Kelly Eleved's piece on the front page today, but things are happening so fast on this story that it's already outdated. Here's what's come out in the past 24 hours:

CNN found an army pilot named Rich Krell who partially backed up Williams story, claiming he was the copter pilot, and it was shot at by guns and rifles, if not an RPG. Still, it gave the celebrity some breathing room.

Immediately, the Washington Post, Politico and other publications began beating the drum on Williams' behalf, using words like "confusing," "fog" and "uncertainty" to create reasonable doubt about what really happened, and perhaps salvage Williams reputation and job.

But very quickly Stars & Stripes, which originally broke the Williams story, and The New York Times took a closer look at Krell's allegations and by mid-morning today, Krell was already backpedaling and CNN had to write a mea culpa.

Meanwhile, Williams dramatic accounts of his experiences during Hurricane Katrina -- seeing a body float by his hotel, catching dysentery, watching a guy commit suicide at the Louisiana Dome -- are also coming under fire.

The guy seemed likable, but you could tell he loved being a celebrity much more than a journalist -- lots of guest appearances on NBC series, got his daughter a TV gig, etc. His career should be over, but NBC hasn't even commented yet, hoping to ride this out. But the vultures are circling. As they should be.

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End of the Week

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End of Next Week

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End of the Month

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Never; he was part of a larger narrative

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Never -- As long as his ratings hold

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Scooter Pie

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About the Brian Williams debacle....

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Thursday February 05, 2015 · 8:25 AM PST

2015/02/05 · 08:25

[Changed Headline now that this has been lingering in the Rec'c stories area for a while. My initial headline was a lot more flabbergasted that I was the first person to mention the Brian Williams story...I appreciate all the recs and comments. This is the first time I've brought anything forward that more than a couple handfuls of people cared about].

As recently as last Friday, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams was touting a story about being shot down in a helicopter during the early days of America's invasion of Iraq. But then, over the weekend, a couple guys who ACTUALLY got shot down in that helicopter called him on it through the Military publication Stars & Stripes:

http://www.stripes.com/...

Williams defense is odd to say the least: “I would not have chosen to make this mistake,” Williams said [and] .... told his Nightly News audience that the erroneous claim was part of a "bungled attempt" to thank soldiers who helped protect him in Iraq in 2003.

Yeah, I always thank soldiers by making myself part of their trials and tribulations to make it look like I'm a brave hero too!

Williams claims to just have "misremembered," but he sure had a lot of details to the incident when he recounted it to David Letterman, just a couple years back:
https://www.youtube.com/...

You can skip to the 2:30 mark if you like that's where the storytelling begins.

People on Reddit are complaining that links to and information about this story are being removed as fast as they go up. That's pretty spooky. Who's looking out for Brian Williams, and why?

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By the end of the month

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Never; he was part of some larger narrative

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Never -- as long as people keep watching

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Humbled Pie

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Govt Crackdown on Media in Gulf for 4th of July

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Saturday July 03, 2010 · 5:31 AM PDT

2010/07/03 · 05:31

I've got to say, as a PR guy, that the cynical strategy to pick 4th of July weekend to put the hammer down on news coverage of the effects of BP's catastrophic oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is worthy of the Bush Administration. Crisis communications strategy, timing category, at its finest. People will be traveling, partying, getting outdoors, not watching a lot of TV or reading newspapers or blogs, reveling in their patriotism. Nobody wants to knock their country and its freedoms during Independence Day! It's a celebration!

Wouldn't have caught this myself if somebody didn't put it up on Facebook this morning. There was nothing in my NYT today.
http://www.youtube.com/...

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die in a pool of your own vomit, Obama-hater

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strawberry/blueberry PIE with whipped cream for ID4, please!

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I May Not Vote for Corzine

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Thursday October 08, 2009 · 6:08 AM PDT

2009/10/08 · 06:08

I've weighed in (so to speak) a few times here in response to others' diaries about my state's Governor Jon S. Corzine, making the point that to me he's just another arrogant billionaire who wants to control people's lives and that Dick Codey is the guy who should be running the state. I've also said that I would hold my nose and vote for him. Now, I'm about at the point where I might just sit out the Governor's race entirely. I just can't stand this guy.

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Monday May 07, 2007 · 9:37 AM PDT

2007/05/07 · 09:37

Hi, everybody. Pardon me for a less-than-serious diary, but I'm amazed by the number of people at work who are telling me today that the new Spiderman movie really, really sucks. Are the 20-something people who populate my ad agency just a little too jaded? I by-and-large trust the judgments of the many folks who populate this site....what's the general feeling? I loved the first two movies, got turned away at the sold-out-all-day long Saturday showing and had family stuff that kept me away Sunday; should I just wait for DVD at this point????

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TWO STARS - Eh.

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ONE STAR - Right up there with "Brenda Starr"

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NO STARS - An Insult to Humanity

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Blaze Guts MD Spy House -- Media Pix Confiscated

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Friday October 27, 2006 · 9:54 AM PDT

2006/10/27 · 09:54

Hi. I read Kos every day and post here once in a while, but I still miss stuff (how can you not?), so forgive me if this has already been posted.

Wonkette has a series of interesting/disturbing links today to stories about a fire....

"Late Friday, a crazy six-alarm fire gutted the three-story Building 54, where the 902nd Military Intelligence Group did its special work...includ[ing the] allegedly-banned Total Information Awareness and TALON surveillance monstrosities that DARPA was forced to hide...and conducting "counterintelligence activities in support of Army commanders and to protect Army forces, secrets and technologies by detecting, identifying, neutralizing and exploiting foreign intelligence services and international terrorist threats."

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A Soundtrack for our Times: Graham Parker's "Acid Bubblegum"

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Wednesday February 15, 2006 · 7:29 AM PST

2006/02/15 · 07:29

That's the funny thing about Art: It might be ten years old, but it's right on time.

In 1996, Graham Parker released one of the best CDs of his career, "Acid Bubblegum." It didn't get much press and I paid no attention to it a decade ago, but it's been the soundtrack for my life over the past six months after a pal turned me on to it, and I wanted to share it with all my virtual friends at Daily Kos because it's exactly the kind of smart, angry, progressive and INSPIRATIONAL music that people here will probably find a shot in the arm while the Administration is doing its best to keep shooting people in the face. Read More

WaPo Removes Online Chat w/ Editor Jim Brady

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Friday January 20, 2006 · 12:30 PM PST

2006/01/20 · 12:30

Hmmmm. I just went to the Washingtonpost.com site to read the rest of today's chat w/ Jim Brady, the online editor who made the decision to pull comments on the paper's obfuscatin' Ombudsman Deborah Howell, and....it wasn't there!

I had been reading about the first half of it during lunch, then had a couple meetings. When I got back....it was gone!

The chat was pretty much worthless, anyway. Brady refused to talk about the work of Ms. Howell itself, the only thing he would address was his decision to pull the blog comments. He said the same sort of thing over and over: "People were profane, we didn't have the (wo)man power to keep deleting the nasty posts, etc." He said the paper was considering taking the best comments and putting them in the paper, but I doubt it.

Top NJ Newspaper Endorsements: 3 for Forrester, 1 for Corzine

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Wednesday November 02, 2005 · 12:13 PM PST

2005/11/02 · 12:13

My apologies if this has been posted previously. But I was surprised to read through my newspapers over the weekend and find Corzine not the NJ gubernatorial candidate of choice in three of the state's four top papers.

Trenton Times - Corzine
http://www.nj.com/...

Newark Star-Ledger - Forrester
http://www.nj.com/...

Bergen Record - Forrester

Asbury Park Press - Forrester

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Holding my nose to vote for Corzine and his "EZ Vote" strategy

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Friday October 21, 2005 · 9:36 AM PDT

2005/10/21 · 09:36

I thought this mailer was a little weird when I got it over the weekend....couldn't tell right off it was a Corzine promotional piece, and that's exactly the way they wanted it. Basically it's an application for an absentee ballot that's made to look official, but actually it promotes Corzine and tears down Forrester.

Here's the link to the story from today's Bergen Record, which is doing a pretty good job covering the race as well as a bunch of stories about toxic dumping by Ford.

http://www.bergen.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2MDcmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY3OTU0NjIm eXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXky Read More

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