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kpete

(72,006 posts) Tue Feb 23, 2016, 05:10 PM Feb 2016

After calling 1 CNN contributor a "fat negro" & another "Entitled Diva Bitch"-CNN booted Roger Stone

CNN has pledged to stop booking Donald Trump supporter and regular guest Roger Stone after he wrote a series of incendiary tweets against network personalities.

In a statement released today to Media Matters, a CNN spokesperson said of Stone: "He will no longer appear on CNN."

Stone is a notorious "dirty trickster" who recently co-authored The Clintons' War on Women. The 2015 book is dedicated to -- and cites research from -- a Holocaust denier who blames a "Jewish plot" for the 9/11 attacks. Stone's history includes forming an anti-Hillary Clinton group named "C.U.N.T." during the 2008 election.

Stone worked for Trump's presidential campaign last year and is now organizing against Clinton's campaign again. He is a frequent presence in the media because of his long ties to Trump; their friendship and professional relationship goes back decades.

MORE:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/02/23/cnn-trump-supporter-roger-stone-will-no-longer/208751

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After calling 1 CNN contributor a "fat negro" & another "Entitled Diva Bitch"-CNN booted Roger Stone (Original Post) kpete Feb 2016 OP

How was booking him ever a good idea? Kber Feb 2016 #1

A little ironic coming from Media Matters, but okay. Qutzupalotl Feb 2016 #2

You might be right, but I don't understand. skip fox Feb 2016 #4

He smeared Anita Hill in the 90's Qutzupalotl Feb 2016 #5

I'll keep my eyes open. skip fox Feb 2016 #7

There are some damn sexy frogs out there. NobodyHere Feb 2016 #10

If you want to identify someone's character, examine the friends he sits with.-Hazrat Ali SummerSnow Feb 2016 #3

Gee, he seemed like such a swell guy. Arugula Latte Feb 2016 #6

Stone v Brock: 2 hippos squaring off in a turd propulsion contest. Eleanors38 Feb 2016 #8

Hell of a job, Roger: Gabi Hayes Feb 2016 #9

from Stone's own website: Gabi Hayes Feb 2016 #12

The New Yorker's own link, with the less fun picture Gabi Hayes Feb 2016 #13

he put a witness-protection bar over his own face? and then published it? MisterP Feb 2016 #14

fuck him and CNN. it would have been ok with them if he used those terms JI7 Feb 2016 #11

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving annabanana Feb 2016 #15

jewish conspiracy theories and sexist racist attacks were just ok with CNN JI7 Feb 2016 #16

Kber

(5,043 posts)

1. How was booking him ever a good idea?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 05:14 PM

Feb 2016

Does no one do background checks anymore?

Qutzupalotl

(14,321 posts)

2. A little ironic coming from Media Matters, but okay.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 05:24 PM

Feb 2016

Being called a smear merchant by David Brock's organization is like being called ugly by a frog.

skip fox

(19,359 posts)

4. You might be right, but I don't understand.

Reply to Qutzupalotl (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 05:29 PM

Feb 2016

I admit I don't know much about Brock so ha may have smeared people. But "smearing" seems to me to be much more than accurately blowing the whistle on them. It implies malicious falsehoods were used.

Maybe Brock has done such, and I would like to know if so.

Qutzupalotl

(14,321 posts)

5. He smeared Anita Hill in the 90's

Reply to skip fox (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 05:34 PM

Feb 2016

("a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty&quot and is using similar tactics against Sanders on Hillary's behalf via Correct the Record.

skip fox

(19,359 posts)

7. I'll keep my eyes open.

Reply to Qutzupalotl (Reply #5)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 05:37 PM

Feb 2016

The Sanders Clinton race is pitting all sorts of good people against each other. But there's no excuse for lying. Thanks.

NobodyHere

(2,810 posts)

10. There are some damn sexy frogs out there.

Reply to Qutzupalotl (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 07:33 PM

Feb 2016

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)

3. If you want to identify someone's character, examine the friends he sits with.-Hazrat Ali

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 05:25 PM

Feb 2016

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)

6. Gee, he seemed like such a swell guy.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 05:36 PM

Feb 2016

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)

8. Stone v Brock: 2 hippos squaring off in a turd propulsion contest.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 07:16 PM

Feb 2016

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)

9. Hell of a job, Roger:

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 07:30 PM

Feb 2016

In September 2003, BuzzFlash wrote a news analysis asking this question: "Where Did A Republican Party Operative Accused Of Placing 'Swinging Couple' Ads Get $150,000 During The 2000 Recount To Finance A Campaign To Oust Florida Supreme Court Justices?" (The ubiquitously devious Stone was assisting the Bush cabal with stealing the 2000 Florida election.) As we noted then, Stone, "in 1996, was forced to resign his consulting position with presidential candidate Bob Dole after two supermarket tabloids reported that he and his wife, Nydia, had advertised on the Internet and in 'Swing Fever' magazine for couples interested in engaging in group sex. Yes, dear readers, it is. For the record, Stone claimed he had been set up, though he acknowledged the Internet advertisements were paid for with his credit card."

Another Web site is more blunt, "We've written about the GOP operative Roger Stone before, and how the charmingly amoral hedonist rolls from S&M sex party to swinger gathering in between calling Hillary Clinton vulgar names."

Then he started this group:

Citizens United Not Timid, an anti-Clinton 527. Nice acronym, yes?

they don't come any creepier/sleazier than this guy.

As the article mentions, he is this: "a sort of combination of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove with a penchant for swinging -- of the sexual kind."

It's a fun link

http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/roger-stone-is-a-sleazebag-swinger-who-may-have-had-a-role-in-bringing-spitzer-down