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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 12:53 PM Mar 2015

It didn't take Old DemocratSinceBirth long to learn about some of DU's newest hero




One of Fournier's job options: McCain


Before Ron Fournier returned to The Associated Press in March 2007, the veteran political reporter had another professional suitor: John McCain’s presidential campaign.

In October 2006, the McCain team approached Fournier about joining the fledgling operation, according to a source with knowledge of the talks. In the months that followed, said a source, Fournier spoke about the job possibility with members of McCain’s inner circle, including political aides Mark Salter, John Weaver and Rick Davis.

Salter, who remains a top McCain adviser, said in an e-mail to Politico that Fournier was considered for “a senior advisory role” in communications.

“He did us the courtesy of considering the offer before politely declining it,” Salter said.

He added that Fournier was an attractive target because of his knowledge about the political process, not because of his ideological or partisan leanings. Salter says he still does not know what, if any, those are.

Fournier has taken lumps in the left-leaning blogosphere in recent weeks, following the disclosure of a friendly e-mail exchange with Karl Rove from 2004. This was followed by an analysis of his work by Media Matters, a watchdog group that critiques news coverage from a liberal perspective. The group alleged that the influential Washington bureau chief has revealed a pro-McCain bias.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=70AFE0F1-3048-5C12-001A56872008C572
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It didn't take Old DemocratSinceBirth long to learn about some of DU's newest hero (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 OP
no surprise from me, especially in regard to AP still_one Mar 2015 #1
Fournier used his post at NYT to undermine Kerry campaign at every turn. blm Mar 2015 #2
I didn't know he worked for the NYT as you mentioned so I googled his name./NT DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #5
I call out the corporate media hacks here a lot - Fournier is one of the worst. blm Mar 2015 #10
YES. I remember all that VIVIDLY. closeupready Mar 2015 #9
OUCH! BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #3
K Cha Mar 2015 #4
I don't like the cut of his jib. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #7
Trey Gowdy is their true hero. NCTraveler Mar 2015 #6
Why? Anyone with a working braincell knows Gowdy and GOP congress have been lying blm Mar 2015 #11
Learn who he is and his connections with the email issue. NCTraveler Mar 2015 #12
I know everything about Gowdy. I know everything in public record about Benghazi. blm Mar 2015 #14
Who is that guy Gowdy? mylye2222 Mar 2015 #15
Another Republican LIAR/Congressman who only impresses the Idiocracy blm Mar 2015 #16
He is the winger heading up "email gate." NCTraveler Mar 2015 #18
Correction, he has plenty of the Idiocracy drooling. blm Mar 2015 #24
You clearly missed the point. NCTraveler Mar 2015 #17
LOL - Not impressed. blm Mar 2015 #23
Yet I am given a hard time and told I am deflecting when I question him. hrmjustin Mar 2015 #8
Sure thing, Kommissar! When do we start the purges of these jeff47 Mar 2015 #13
You mean RW'ers? Bobbie Jo Mar 2015 #19
I'm sorry, I keep getting confused. Are we crazy leftist radicals this week jeff47 Mar 2015 #22
Some times they do each others bidding unknowingly./NT DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #26
That's right. The radical left wing deploys massive numbers of shock troops... Orsino Mar 2015 #32
BOOM/NT DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #27
As soon as news organizations hire journalists and not shills for the right wing. tabasco Mar 2015 #20
Yes, this is this posters first post. They have never written anything else. jeff47 Mar 2015 #21
" Sure thing, Kommissar..." DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #28
Actually, Kommissar is German jeff47 Mar 2015 #29
kicking. hrmjustin Mar 2015 #25
Can I assume this man reported information you didn't want to hear? /nt Marr Mar 2015 #30
He's the author of AP's Clinton Email story. jeff47 Mar 2015 #31
Ah. I kind of suspected as much. Marr Mar 2015 #33
Unfortunately, it's looking more like incompetence. jeff47 Mar 2015 #40
FOX reports information I don't want to hear too... DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #36
And who can forget Hillary and Bill's support of McCain in the 2008 primary Oilwellian Mar 2015 #34
Res ipsa loquitur: DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #37
Kick Hekate Mar 2015 #35
isn't this a favorite tactic of right wingers? someone says or does something they disagree with.. frylock Mar 2015 #38
I wasn't making an ideological point but thank you for bumping my thread. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #39

blm

(113,065 posts)
2. Fournier used his post at NYT to undermine Kerry campaign at every turn.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 12:59 PM
Mar 2015

Fournier has been a Bushie for many years.

Jeb is his 'new' assignment and he was put at National Journal to target moderate voters for Jeb.

blm

(113,065 posts)
10. I call out the corporate media hacks here a lot - Fournier is one of the worst.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 01:09 PM
Mar 2015

Mainly because he has been doing it from publications considered to be non biased. He finds a way to describe any action by Dems as sinister while finding ways to take sinister actions by Bushies and cast them as benign.

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)
3. OUCH!
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 12:59 PM
Mar 2015

Also, Media Matters for America is one of the best, if not the BEST, source for news in the United States. We get fed propaganda day in, day out, but MMfA separates the wheat from the chaff each and every time. Naysayers call MMfA "a liberal blog" but in all truth, based on their reporting and catching the subtle pieces of propaganda woven into news, MMfA is the premier watchdog of U.S. news propaganda that we're fed on a daily basis from all U.S. media, in print, broadcast, cable, and radio airwaves.

blm

(113,065 posts)
11. Why? Anyone with a working braincell knows Gowdy and GOP congress have been lying
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 01:12 PM
Mar 2015

through their teeth about Benghazi since it happened.

Why should anyone watch his presser?

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
12. Learn who he is and his connections with the email issue.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 01:17 PM
Mar 2015

The presser isn't about Benghazi.

"Watch press conference with Chairman Gowdy and Members of the Select Committee on Secretary Clinton Emails"

This is where the committee on Benghazi has gone. I thought this was well know at this point.

blm

(113,065 posts)
14. I know everything about Gowdy. I know everything in public record about Benghazi.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 01:41 PM
Mar 2015

Gowdy is being full of shit about everything - and he knows it.

I am not impressed with your urging to spread Mr FullOfCrap.

blm

(113,065 posts)
16. Another Republican LIAR/Congressman who only impresses the Idiocracy
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 01:44 PM
Mar 2015

who think he's their warrior god. He never met a talking point from Moonie News he didn't repeat.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
17. You clearly missed the point.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 01:49 PM
Mar 2015

It is also clear you didn't know "everything" as you claim. Your reply to me is clear proof of that. I find that when people claim to know everything about something or someone, that they actually know very little. I am also not the one spreading his crap. It is all of those drooling over the right winger and the "email scandal" who are propping him up. It could be no more clear you weren't aware of "everything."

 

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
8. Yet I am given a hard time and told I am deflecting when I question him.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 01:03 PM
Mar 2015

This place makes me scratch my head at times.

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
13. Sure thing, Kommissar! When do we start the purges of these
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 01:24 PM
Mar 2015

horrible people who dare to have different opinions?

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
22. I'm sorry, I keep getting confused. Are we crazy leftist radicals this week
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 02:02 PM
Mar 2015

or right-winger false flag operatives?

Do you have a schedule I could print out? Thanks.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
32. That's right. The radical left wing deploys massive numbers of shock troops...
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 03:10 PM
Mar 2015

...backed by the biggest donors, and invented the concept of following right-wingers' lead.

 

tabasco

(22,974 posts)
20. As soon as news organizations hire journalists and not shills for the right wing.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 01:56 PM
Mar 2015

Your post indicates a lack of critical thinking skill.

It's much easier to be spoon-fed what to think, isn't it?

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
21. Yes, this is this posters first post. They have never written anything else.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 02:00 PM
Mar 2015

And there is no history of this poster attacking other DUers for holding differing opinions.

And the post is entirely about journalism, which is why the post title ends with "DU's newest hero"

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
29. Actually, Kommissar is German
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 02:53 PM
Mar 2015

The Russian word only has one M. The term also predates communism, though mostly as "police captain" as opposed to a party official.

In any case, you make a lot of posts that attempt to limit the allowable opinions on DU. I'd suggest we would be better off actually discussing these differences instead of tossing overboard people who do not agree with you.

You might find out interesting things. Like apparently Clinton's email system was actually horribly insecure. They never replaced the factory default encryption key. So anyone could decrypt everything going to or from her email.

Also, there's a typosquatter at clintonmail.com (No "e" in front of "mail&quot . No information available about who this is, but the domain was registered not long after the real one. You can't typosquat a .gov address, because only the US government can give those out.

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
31. He's the author of AP's Clinton Email story.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 03:01 PM
Mar 2015

Now, the guy is a right-wing hack. And he left out the important detail that the regulations he claims Clinton violated did not exist until she left office.

But hosting your own email as SoS is a really, really bad idea. Doubly so if you're as much of a scandal target as Clinton.

 

Marr

(20,317 posts)
33. Ah. I kind of suspected as much.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 03:17 PM
Mar 2015

That's the part that still knocks me out, too. I mean, this is a no-brainer. Even if we put laws and rules completely aside, it just looks awful and suspicious.

How could Hillary Clinton, a person who has had a front row seat for a whole series of scandals, both real and manufactured, a person whom the whole world knows will be running for President in one year against a party that lives and breathes manufactured scandals, possibly do something so stupid?

Even if her defenders are 100% correct and she was not trying to hide information from the public/future investigative bodies, the action still speaks of either deep arrogance or utter incompetence.

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
40. Unfortunately, it's looking more like incompetence.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 04:48 PM
Mar 2015

At least based on the security of her server.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-04/clinton-s-e-mail-system-built-for-privacy-though-not-security

They left the "factory default" encryption key in place. Anyone who wanted to read everything to or from her server had an almost-open door.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
36. FOX reports information I don't want to hear too...
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 03:37 PM
Mar 2015

Doesn't mean I have to give them cyber blow jobs either.

frylock

(34,825 posts)
38. isn't this a favorite tactic of right wingers? someone says or does something they disagree with..
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 04:04 PM
Mar 2015

so then that person is labeled as the "hero" of their perceived enemies?

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