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UTUSN

(70,681 posts) Sun Jun 22, 2014, 10:16 AM Jun 2014

@jonathankarl is the biggest BFEE bootlicker since @brithume

So for 30 seconds before I pulverized the clicker, there was one Dick CHEENEE's mug yammering about WMD and how he means NO disrespect AT ALL for the twice elected (in the real sense) POTUS, but that he is the most dastardly schmuck destroying this country.

One might think the Dick would have slunk away to the hole for awhile after registering the nation's reaction to him last week, but NOoooo, not the Dick.

And when the camera went to the "reporter" giving him all this venue legitimacy, who was it, who could it be?!1 Why @jonathankarl, of course.

For years, every time @jonathankarl has substitute hosted on This Week he has managed to dumpster dive *some* BFEE-related favorable topic, whether gushing over Jeb Crow Shrub or over Poppy's birthday or Poppy's purported "heroism" or Poppy on Father's Day. Last year he featured Poppy in the role of Our Father of the Homeland.

********Am using "@jonathankarl" in my low tech way thinking it might get picked up by him somehow, although as the commercial says, "That's not how it works!1 That's not how any of this works!1"

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@jonathankarl is the biggest BFEE bootlicker since @brithume (Original Post) UTUSN Jun 2014 OP

Got on the bus... Octafish Jun 2014 #1

Thank YOU, Oct, for the usual fantastic research. I only have my gut to rely on!1 n/t UTUSN Jun 2014 #2

FAIR pegs him as a ''Right Wing Mole at ABC News'' Octafish Jun 2014 #3

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

1. Got on the bus...

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Sun Jun 22, 2014, 11:37 AM

Jun 2014

...and he never got off.

From his official bio:

EXCERPT...

Karl joined ABC News in January 2003 as the network's Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent covering the State Department. He traveled around the world with Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. In 2004 he spent several months on the campaign trail covering the Bush-Cheney campaign, and he also co-anchored election night coverage on ABC News NOW – anchoring for more than 14 straight hours.

In December 2005 Karl was named Senior National Security correspondent. He has traveled the world for ABC News, reporting from more than two dozen countries on five continents. He reported more extensively on the situation in Darfur, Sudan, than any other network correspondent, visiting Sudan three times in 2005. He also broke several stories on Iran's nuclear program and covered the 2004 presidential elections in Russia. Before joining ABC News, he served as a congressional correspondent for CNN. In his eight years with CNN, he covered Capitol Hill, the White House and the Pentagon. While there, he reported on two Presidential elections, President Clinton's impeachment, the NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia, and congressional reaction to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

During his time on Capitol Hill for CNN, Karl was the first to report on two of the most significant congressional stories in recent years: Sen. Jim Jefford's decision to leave the Republican Party and Trent Lott's decision to step down as Senate Majority Leader. In 1998 he was the first reporter to obtain the Starr Report, one of the most sought-after political documents in recent years.

Prior to joining CNN, Karl worked as an investigative reporter for The New York Post, covering Rudy Giuliani's City Hall and the 1994 Cuomo-Pataki gubernatorial race. He has also worked as a researcher and reporter for The New Republic, where he covered a variety of issues ranging from international affairs to American politics to education.

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http://abcnews.go.com/News/jonathan-karl-abc-news-official-biography/story?id=127047&singlePage=true

Why ABC leans BFEE...

ABC (the CIA) and the Rise of Rush Limbaugh

by Steve Kangas

In 1985, ABC was taken over by Capital Cities, a conservative, Roman Catholic media organization with extensive ties to the CIA.

(If you think we're making this up, you should know that the Capital Cities takeover of ABC is one of the most analyzed in history, and the subject of many books by Wall Street experts and scholars. Especially recommended is Networks of Power, by Emmy Award-winner Dennis Mazzocco.) (1)

Capital Cities was born in 1954, and rapidly prospered. Many of its founders had previously worked in the U.S. intelligence community and had a great amount of wealth, social contacts and influence in government. Yet they opted to keep the company's actions out of the public eye -- they did not flaunt their wealth with private planes and lavish offices the way so many successful companies do. Just exactly how well-connected Capital Cities was to the CIA is unknown, but it is clear that the CIA concerned itself with the company at various times. The fact that the CIA has often used private businessmen, journalists and even entire companies as fronts for covert operations is not only well-known by historians, but legendary. (Recall Howard Hughes and Trans-World Airlines...)

One of Capital City's early founders was William Casey, who would later become Ronald Reagan's Director of the CIA. At the time of Casey's nomination, the press expressed surprise that Reagan would hire a businessman whose last-known intelligence experience was limited to OSS operations in World War II. The fact is, however, that Casey had never left intelligence. Throughout the Cold War he kept a foot in both worlds, in private business as well as the CIA. A history of Casey's business dealings reveals that he was an aggressive player who saw nothing wrong with bending the law to further his own conservative agenda. When he became implicated as a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, many Washington insiders considered it a predictable continuation of a very shady career.

Another Capital Cities founder, Lowell Thomas, was a close friend and business contact with Allen Dulles, Eisenhower's CIA Director, and John Dulles, the Secretary of State. Thomas always denied being a spy, but he was frequently seen at events involving intelligence operations. Another founder was Thomas Dewey, whom the CIA had given millions to create other front companies for covert operations.

Capital Cities prospered from the start; its specialty was to buy media organizations that were in trouble. Upon acquisition, it would improve management and eliminate waste until the company started turning a profit. This no-nonsense, no-frills approach, as well as its refusal to become side-tracked with other ventures, made it one of the most successful media conglomerates of the 60s and 70s. Of course, the journalistic slant of its companies was decidedly conservative and anticommunist. To anyone who believes that the government should not control the press, the possibility that the CIA created a media company to dispense conservative and Cold War propaganda should be alarming. Rush Limbaugh himself calls freedom of the press "the sweetest -- and most American -- words you will ever find." (2) Apparently, he is unaware of the history of his own employers.

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http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-libmedia.htm

And still leans that way.

Thank you for the heads-up on JK, UTUSN. The guy seems to always be at the right place at the right time.

UTUSN

(70,681 posts)

2. Thank YOU, Oct, for the usual fantastic research. I only have my gut to rely on!1 n/t

Reply to Octafish (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 22, 2014, 11:44 AM

Jun 2014

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

3. FAIR pegs him as a ''Right Wing Mole at ABC News''

Reply to UTUSN (Reply #2)

Sun Jun 22, 2014, 12:54 PM

Jun 2014

A Right-Wing Mole at ABC News

Jonathan Karl and the success of the conservative media movement

By Peter Hart
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, July 1, 2011

Conservatives don’t just complain loudly, endlessly and inaccurately about liberal media bias. They also train right-leaning journalists to make their way into the supposedly hostile terrain of Beltway media. And one of the most famous alums of a conservative media training program is now a major star at a network news outlet: ABC’s senior political correspondent Jonathan Karl.

Karl came to mainstream journalism via the Collegiate Network, an organization primarily devoted to promoting and supporting right-leaning newspapers on college campuses (Extra!, 9-10/91)—such as the Rutgers paper launched by the infamous James O’Keefe (Political Correction, 1/27/10). The network, founded in 1979, is one of several projects of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, which seeks to strengthen conservative ideology on college campuses. William F. Buckley was the ISI’s first president, and the current board chair is American Spectator publisher Alfred Regnery. Several leading right-wing pundits came out of Collegiate-affiliated papers, including Ann Coulter, Dinesh D'Souza, Michelle Malkin, Rich Lowry and Laura Ingraham (Washington Times, 11/28/04).

The Collegiate Network also provides paid internships and fellowships to place its members at corporate media outlets or influential Beltway publications; 2010-11 placements include the Hill, Roll Call, Dallas Morning News and USA Today. The program’s highest-profile alum is Karl, who was a Collegiate fellow at the neoliberal New Republic magazine.

After a stint at the New York Post, Karl soon found his way to CNN, but he was still connected to ideological pursuits; he was a board member at the right-leaning youth-oriented Third Millennium group and at the Madison Center for Educational Affairs—which, like the Collegiate Network, seeks to strengthen young conservative journalism. After moving to ABC in 2003, Karl contributed several pieces to the neo-con Weekly Standard, such as his April 4, 2005 article praising Bush Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as out to “make her mark with the vigorous pursuit of the president’s freedom and democracy agenda.”

Karl’s high profile at ABC demonstrates that conservative messages can find a comfortable home inside the so-called “liberal” media. Karl channeled former ABC corporate cheerleader John Stossel with a segment (3/5/11) complaining that regulation of the egg and poultry industries was “almost embarrassing,” since different government agencies regulate different aspects of the industries. “Got that?” Karl asked. “Fifteen separate agencies have responsibility for food safety.”

During the rollout of Paul Ryan’s budget plan, Karl (1/26/11) gushed that the Republican media darling was “a little like the guy in the movie Dave, the accidental president who sets out to fix the budget, line by line.” And while Democrats were saying Ryan “is a villain,” Karl was clear about which side he was on: “Ryan knows what he sees.... Paul Ryan is on a mission, determined to do the seemingly impossible: actually balance the federal budget.” (Actually, even with its draconian spending cuts and absurdly optimistic economic assumptions, the Ryan plan still foresees a cumulative deficit of $62 trillion over the next half century—Congressional Budget Office, 1/27/10.)

On a This Week roundtable (2/20/11), Karl declared that state budget debates were “the Tea Party’s moment” and “also the Chris Christie phenomenon. Will politicians be rewarded for making tough choices—again, something I don’t think we’ve ever seen happen?” Of course, it’s hard not to conclude that the “tough choices” made by Christie and other Republicans are the ones that ought to be rewarded.

And in one World News segment (2/14/11), Karl likened the federal budget to stacks of pennies in order to demonstrate that deeper spending cuts would be necessary in order to balance the budget. Karl concluded that “the bottom line, Diane, is unless you’re willing to talk about cutting entitlements or defense or both, really, there’s no way you can even think about balancing the budget.” This is not actually true—one could raise revenues by increasing taxes on the wealthy—but it is how Republicans want to frame the budget debate.

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http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/a-right-wing-mole-at-abc-news/

PS: I trust you and your gut, UTUSN. You give a damn for democracy.

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