Posted on 03/17/2019 5:13:23 AM PDT by Liz
Reuters bragged Friday about its scoop that Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke was once involved in a notorious hacker group, but revealed in the process that one of its reporters willingly sat on the story until after O’Rourke lost his Texas Senate race to incumbent Ted Cruz. Reuters’ Joseph Menn reported exclusively Friday morning that O’Rourke, a former member of Congress and the latest Democrat to join the 2020 presidential race, had a secret membership in an infamous hacking group.
The group, known as the Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC), is the oldest and perhaps most influential collection of hackers in the US,. O’Rourke was a member as a teenager; the group has protected his secret for decades in order to avoid damaging his political career. But journo , who has a forthcoming book about the CDC cult, first learned that O’Rourke was a member over a year ago, in late 2017.
Reuters “backstory” explained that Menn held onto the story until after O’Rourke’s high-profile Senate race in exchange for an on-the-record interview. Menn says he was on leave from Reuters at the time in order to work on his book. Menn had been looking into the CDC for years and “found out that they had a member who was sitting in Congress … and then I figured out which one it was.”
However, Menn said the CDC wouldn’t confirm that O’Rourke was the member in question unless the reporter agreed to hang on to the information “until after the November election” in 2018. After agreeing to the group’s terms, Menn approached O’Rourke for an interview with the promise that it would not be published until after his Senate race. O’Rourke agreed.
Menn defended his decision, Tweeting that he only had a “guess” that O’Rourke was the cult member in Congress and “zero sources.” The reporter did not explain how he came to guess O’Rourke’s involvement and if he had enough information at the time to independently verify his hunch without the CDC’s confirmation. "To be clear, I offered @BetoORourke an embargo because it was for a book I was on leave to write, not for my day job, and because no one else who knew would confirm the facts before the election."
In his interview with Menn, Beto O’Rourke spoke positively of the CDC......through which he engaged in illegal activity. According to Menn’s reporting, O’Rourke accessed cracked gaming software and stole credit card numbers in order to place free long distance phone calls. “There’s just this profound value in being able to be apart from the system and look at it critically and have fun while you’re doing it,” O’Rourke said of the group. “I think of the Cult of the Dead Cow as a great example oof that.”
Menn’s agreement with the CDC that prevented voters from learning about O’Rourke’s hacking calls to mind NBC News’ decision to sit on newsworthy information about then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in fall 2018. In late September, Julie Swetnick claimed Kavanaugh had participated in gang rapes; it was an allegation her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, said could be corroborated by another woman. NBC revealed in late October — weeks after Kavanaugh’s tense confirmation hearings — that the second woman contradicted Swetnick’s story during a phone interview on September 30. Rather than publish the information at the time when Kavanaugh was facing the allegations in the Senate, NBC opted to hold it until after the judge was already confirmed.
In addition, Menn said he agreed to CDC’s terms because he “wanted the full story” for his book on the group “rather than 1 scoop ahead of a state vote.”
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So, he dressed up in a dress and thought he was cool for it... what, 30 years after Frank Zappa and the Mothers did it first?
This was only released because someone in the Democratic power base decided that Beto is not the one. If he were the ‘chosen one’ like Obama, then it would never have been allowed to see the light of day.
Full fledged weirdo......
Good point......nails it.
It will be interesting if any journalism schools are involved in the admissions scams. Just look at the low quality of journalist. Look at the writing that appears and is read here.
Since Reuters - even tho ‘world wide’ - is a Brit company, wouldn’t this crap be considered ‘collusion’ to decide a US race?
I really don’t see all the ‘stink’ about all this, after all, JCarter has been ‘monitoring’ and assisting in foreigners being ‘elected’ in overseas countries.
Collusion or just a case of ‘libs know better’ what is for you?
Good point.......Nanzi’s daughter, Alexandra Pelosi, graduated from the prestigious University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication in 1993.
True, very true. Hillary still has her power base inside the Beltway, inside the DNC leadership positions. She is not going to die (er, fade away) gracefully. Never has. And she hates the (younger, prettier, lower weight) women who are replacing her in front of “her” TV cameras, in front of “her” presidential race so far.
Fake News: The definition of “campaign contribution” by deliberate propaganda and publicity, by deliberate ignorance and hiding the evidence.
(yet they believe a “do not disclose” agreement from Trump's lawyer to a former date for consensual sex is an impeachable offense for a campaign finance violations? )
LA Times: Refused to release a speech Obama made to a Muslim crowd (promising them ????) before the 2008 election.
Ny Times, CNN, ABCNNBCBS (all of them): Charging Kavenaugh with perjury and rape while withholding interviews that proved their own charges were false.
O'Rourke. Hiding criminal behavior, hacking, credit card felonies (theft).
Clinton: Hundreds of crimes. Hidden, trivialized the ones they did report, discounted the impact, ignored.
Every part of the Russian Collusion Charges against Trump.
My first thought regarding the Beto was a hacker story is that it was released to counteract what our lying eyes tell us about Beto: he’s an empty suit.
President Trump pegged him immediately - crazy.
This foolishness is getting out of hand.
I guess I should give up ALL hope of becoming Pres since as a yute I belonged to an organization that spoke in languages that few mere mortals did or understood.
I was/am a Morse Code Operator.
I belonged to a cult with a ‘secret’ password... the question is ‘Are you a turtle’ and only ONE answer will suffice.
I did and still do drink Black Coffee and order it that way. Does that disqualify me?
On occasion I have referred to ‘disastrous’ situations with such phrases as ‘Black Friday’, ‘Bad guys wear Black’ while ‘Good guys wear White’, ‘A Dark cloud hung over us’, ‘Don’t eat the yellow snow’, a ‘Black mark’ was considered bad. etc etc
I ‘lived/visited/worked’ in Japan when most Far Easterners were referred to as ‘Buck tooths’, ‘Gooks’, ‘Slant eyes’
I used to SHINE my shoes, get SPOOKed out, studied to be a SPOOK, referred to COON hunting,
gathered on the ‘Strand’ to observe Grunion running & Submarine Races,
Laid Black asphalt to be ‘covered’ with White stripes (sometimes Yellow).
Since I don’t/won’t vote for Liberal Blacks I am considered a Racist,
don’t/won’t vote for Liberal/Crazy Women (or men) I am considered a Sexist,
don’t/won’t vote for a (whatever ‘they’ are called these days) just because their only claim to fame is that they ARE LGBQU...I am considered homophobic.
I guess it is good I am at the age where I should seriously consider Burial at Sea or which National Cemetery to ‘visit’ forever, but the way I feel these days I should live another 20 or 30 years which will put me up there with the centenarians +...
Then again, there is always the chance of chance.
Like the guy that declared to his buddies that he had stopped drinking, smoking and ‘whoring’ around and one of the wags asked “WHY?”
He answered “To live a longer life”
Wag “WHY? what is the use?”
Why do I think O’Rourke’s handlers said “let’s get all this out of the way now so we can call it old news when and if the campaign takes off”? Cooperating or duped “news” outlets then carry their water.
The Dems are teeing this nut up to get the idiotic youth vote as Veep on a ticket with the steady, experienced Biden. The far left will see transvestitism, hacking, identity theft, perverse rally bad poetry, etc. as important qualifications. Mainstream Dems will interpret fantasizing about running over children as being ahead of the curve on post-natal abortion. Next week: Beto makes blackface cool again...
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When the media sits on a story, democracy dies in darkness.
Beto was only useful as long as he was running against a Republican. Now he’s going to find out he’s expendable as he runs against Democrats that are female, non-white and sexual deviants. He will never be on the ticket.
here’s a better and more hysterical version of it:
Wax My Ass: A Poem By Beto O’Rourke
Ted barely acknowledged there was a race. There were Beto ads running on tv every other minute but none for Cruz. Still, he won with barely lifting a finger.
The lib Austin KLBJ radio station had a caller with a black accent get all hyper over the dj’s telling him the Irishman wasn’t Hispanic. Lots of people still think he’s Hispanic.
The fake Mexican will be up against the La Raza non-NBC Castro in Texas so that will slow him down in the POTUS race.
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