The more people get to know Hillary, the less they like her.

They don't know where the leak was so they assume it must have been at the top?

Billy Bob Green, a retired electrical line worker from Ithaca, New York claimed today that Bill Johnson, a former military aide at the State Department, couldn't find his ass with both hands and a map. While having no proof of this allegation, Billy Bob said he also had it on good authority that Mr. Johnson regularly failed to come to a full stop at 4-way stop signs and went as far as insulting that Mr. Johnson often left the seat up in the bathroom, making things quite uncomfortable for his wife.

See. It's easy. Cuts both ways once we decide that proof is incidental to the story.

We have an incompetent former aide who runs stop signs and leaves the seat up. And we're going to believe him about covert ops....

fact and source guidelines.

Regards to quality and ethics of source, Newsweek knows better than make a phony smear out of one's imagination and post the smear on an internet forum as an anonymous poster.

Seriously. When you look at the entire landscape of the past 12-15 months, would you conclude that the media has approached their campaign coverage with "some degree of fact and source guidelines"?

I submit that most, if not all, of the media outlets with a legacy brand to protect (and I include Newsweek in that group) have moved to a standard of speed and sensationalism...the desire to speak first and think later in the race to scoop other outlets combined with framing topics in a way to "cut through all the noise" of the information stew now available via the web.

I also submit that most, if not all, of today's media outlets have some degree of ideological bias driving their "news" coverage. This bias is driven predominantly by the political leanings of their ownership. We see that easily with Fox News or MSNBC. Maybe less so with Newsweek given it's lesser status and reach relative to the major networks.

Newsweek today is NOT the venerable global news organization created in 1933. After having been sold for $1.00 in 2010, Newsweek today is owned by the small, very private firm IBT Media. While little is known about the owners, they are graduates of Olivet Nazarene University, a lesser known conservative Christian university in Illinois. There are indications (although no proof) that the head of Journalism at ONU is an inventor in Newsweek.

ONU as been in the news for a variety of typical issues. The president banned a biology department book that included evolution on the basis that such theory based curriculum only served to confuse students. Newsweek covered the story supporting his authority over content material. Eventually he resigned over the issue.

ONU is equally challenged in their view of sexual orientation, including a specific policy that denies counseling services to any student who admits to "homosexual tendencies". The only exception to that policy is if the student in question commits to their version of conversion therapy design to "cure" their issue.

So...why the long review ? To answer the question "Is it likely that today's Newsweek has an agenda?" Might they have a reason to give an individual (who might also have an agenda) a mouthpiece to slam on a presidential candidate with whom the ownership disagrees?

Respectfully, I don't believe today's Newsweek "knows better" and given the current state of their business and the secrecy of their ownership, I'm not sure they're a lot better than an anonymous poster...maybe smarter because they bought a venerable brand name to create a cloak of legitimacy...but not much better.

Most of us recognize that the media has degenerated into propaganda.

One wonders about how much the agenda of the Nazarenes is promoted by Newsweek?

Conservative Christians do not have an obvious candidate left for POTUS 2016.

Sanders is a liberal secular Jew.

Trump is a libertine that promotes some conservative Christian values.

Hillary Clinton was raised in a Methodist background and has a documented relation with the conservative Christian group now led by Doug Coe and based in the Washington DC area called "The Family".

The Nazarene church came out of the Methodist church and shares the core beliefs first espoused by John Wesley. The Nazarenes are most certainly more conservative and less socially progressive than the Methodists. The Nazarenes are active world-wide in their evangelism and creation of educational institutions.

Hillary Clinton is somewhat the cipher in her spiritual beliefs, obviously more liberal in her politics than her upbringing and some of her relations, and specifically more liberal than the Methodist Church (which has itself had modern schisms over cultural issues). Clinton herself has been targeted by far right Christians.

So I am not really going anywhere with this and my morning coffee seems to be done.

Interesting point about HRC being somewhat of a cipher. When this comes down to HRC vs. Trump is could end up being one of the most agnostic elections ever. Trump will court the Evangelicals through his Supreme Court list...certainly not through his quoting "the good book". Clinton will be their enemy because she's progress (relative to the same book).

Coffee ended my morning post too...so it seems to be the common closing ritual for many of us.

Have a good one.

circumvents the relatively secure system that's in place FOR A REASON...

Our Lady Of Poor Judgement Strikes Again...

I posted the last bit to highlight that this guy at least is no RW nut job.