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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy is Christopher Ruddy ever allowed a seat at any serious political discussion?
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http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/1997/10/the_strange_case_of_christopher_ruddy.html
And the crime against logic being passed off as a book.
His joke-lie-tome on Vince Fosters murder renders him forever valueless as a human, much less a journalist
Sad!
Shameful that he appears on CNN
Don Lemon, I call you out, among others
OK, MSNBC, too
Fat, lying prick
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/trump-confidante-i-did-not-talk-to-president-about-firing-mueller-966355523948
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Why is Christopher Ruddy ever allowed a seat at any serious political discussion? (Original Post)
Gabi Hayes
Jan 2018
OP
B Williams just talked about Ruddy saying T was talking about firing M seven months ago
Gabi Hayes
Jan 2018
#1
I know, but I was listening to the excellent OD panel, and he came on right after
Gabi Hayes
Jan 2018
#6
His military missile-loving is creepy and tends towards romantiziation of violence.
sharedvalues
Jan 2018
#7
Was listening on satrad while in and out of covfefe-induced reverie/fever dreams, FWIW...
Gabi Hayes
Jan 2018
#8
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)1. B Williams just talked about Ruddy saying T was talking about firing M seven months ago
Hmmmm
That jag off needs to pay for his deeds over the last 20+ years
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2009/10/05/tell-us-again-why-we-should-believe-anything-ru/155368
Working at the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, owned by billionaire and avowed Clinton foe Richard Mellon Scaife, Ruddy popularized the canard that Foster had not committed suicide, as determined by five official investigations, but more likely had been murdered -- possibly to cover up corruption in the Whitewater land deal or because of an illicit affair with Hillary Rodham Clinton or both.
Beyond spreading paranoia about the Foster tragedy, Ruddy and Scaife both played central roles in the distribution of nearly half a million copies of "The Clinton Chronicles" and other covert machinations against the Clinton White House - most notably the "Arkansas Project," a $2.4 million scheme to dig up or invent crimes by the president and first lady, with assistance from several unsavory characters, including die-hard segregationist Jim Johnson, a couple of private detectives and a bait-shop owner.
Virtually none of that Ruddy/Scaife-sponsored nonsense ever panned out. And now, 15 years later, the two are forces behind Newsmax, which (surprise!) has become a clearing house for all kinds of hateful and misleading attacks on the new Democratic president.
Writes Conason:
Ruddy was among the most insistent endorsers of the Obama birth certificate myth, playing much the same role he once did during the Vince Foster affair.
He has assiduously promoted the "tea party" movement and the "socialism" meme. When Newsmax published an essay by an obscure former newsman that seemed to urge a military coup against Obama last week (and then removed it), the reverberations were felt across the political spectrum. Every day the site blasts forth a barrage of supposed Obama scandals and embarrassments to be amplified by Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and the panoply of talk radio and cable megaphones, knowing that by sheer volume, some of it will stick.
Beyond spreading paranoia about the Foster tragedy, Ruddy and Scaife both played central roles in the distribution of nearly half a million copies of "The Clinton Chronicles" and other covert machinations against the Clinton White House - most notably the "Arkansas Project," a $2.4 million scheme to dig up or invent crimes by the president and first lady, with assistance from several unsavory characters, including die-hard segregationist Jim Johnson, a couple of private detectives and a bait-shop owner.
Virtually none of that Ruddy/Scaife-sponsored nonsense ever panned out. And now, 15 years later, the two are forces behind Newsmax, which (surprise!) has become a clearing house for all kinds of hateful and misleading attacks on the new Democratic president.
Writes Conason:
Ruddy was among the most insistent endorsers of the Obama birth certificate myth, playing much the same role he once did during the Vince Foster affair.
He has assiduously promoted the "tea party" movement and the "socialism" meme. When Newsmax published an essay by an obscure former newsman that seemed to urge a military coup against Obama last week (and then removed it), the reverberations were felt across the political spectrum. Every day the site blasts forth a barrage of supposed Obama scandals and embarrassments to be amplified by Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and the panoply of talk radio and cable megaphones, knowing that by sheer volume, some of it will stick.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)2. F#*@#!!
Now I cant sleep
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)4. Brian "Beautiful Missles" Williams?
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)6. I know, but I was listening to the excellent OD panel, and he came on right after
Long time ago there were threads discussing his freeper connections
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)7. His military missile-loving is creepy and tends towards romantiziation of violence.
Vomit.
It's cool if you watch him. I'm annoyed at him (and Comcast for putting him on), not you.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)8. Was listening on satrad while in and out of covfefe-induced reverie/fever dreams, FWIW...
Same feelings about creeps like him, Hugh Jass Hewitt, and others having regular access to the airwaves
Hugh Hewitt......just sayin his name sounds like a raspy doggy cough from some old cartoon character
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)9. Hewitt, like Limbaugh, is a liar who harms America and American values.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)3. He's a liar
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)5. How do these monsters live with themselves?
He clearly self medicates away his deep self loathing a la Mr. Creosote