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How TV murderer was reprimanded for wearing an Obama badge to report on elections(trunc)
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 8/27/2015 | Ben Ashford

Posted on 08/27/2015 9:05:29 AM PDT by rktman

Warped TV reporter Vester Lee Flanagan exasperated bosses with his 'stiff and nervous' delivery, his inability to use a teleprompter - and by wearing a President Obama badge during an election report, Daily Mail Online can reveal.

Management at WDBJ dubbed the failed newsman the 'human tape recorder' because he frequently parroted what interviewees had told him rather than doing his own journalism.

Flanagan, 41, clashed repeatedly with photojournalists, belittling them in public and intimidating them with his violent temper, according to internal reports.

He was also censured for wearing an Obama sticker while recording a segment at a polling booth during the 2012 US Presidential Election - a clear breach of journalistic impartiality.

The complaints are outlined in court papers seen by Daily Mail Online that include a scathing performance review carried out prior to his termination in Feb 2013.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; affirmativeaction; banglist; deranged; guncontrol; killer; obamalegacy; racist; secondamendment; vesterflanagan; vesterleeflanagan; virginia; wdbj
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To: TBP

Would it be wrong to tell my leftist associates that I think it is unfair that everyone is associating this murder with other Obama voters?


41 posted on 08/27/2015 9:56:03 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: lowbridge

“Why did they hire him in the first place anyways? Affirmative action hire maybe?”

Affirmative action is the ONLY reason to hire someone like this. The chances are minuscule that there were not numerous better qualified candidates available. Not to mention ones that would not bring the risk of racial drama and a chip on the shoulder attitude that certain groups have.


42 posted on 08/27/2015 10:08:07 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: rktman

So will they now stop hiring incompetents just to fill a quota?
I doubt it.


43 posted on 08/27/2015 10:08:36 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Starstruck

he bought 2 Glock 19’s....and did pass the background checks.


44 posted on 08/27/2015 10:21:40 AM PDT by basalt (r)
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To: FreeAtlanta

What’s unfair about it?


45 posted on 08/27/2015 10:25:28 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

Nothing. Just a way to get a message across to them using fake compassion.


46 posted on 08/27/2015 10:31:42 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: rktman
Iman Obama is constantly re-enforcing all the racist & bigoted views of the Perpetual Black "Victim".

Cops are unfair to Blacks

Whitey is unfair to Blacks

Businesses are unfair to Blacks

Opportunities don't exist for Blacks.

47 posted on 08/27/2015 10:34:21 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: gorush

Your pics, my post # 47.


48 posted on 08/27/2015 10:35:23 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: TexasCajun

Hidebeast says many civilians and cops are “too eager” to pull a gun out and use it. Or something else lame. Sit down and shut up clowns. Meanwhile isis/isil/is is cruising around in confiscated equipment that somebody didn’t make sure was locked up in a safe, out of the hands of crazy people that you KNOW want to kill you. Sometimes with assault knives too.


49 posted on 08/27/2015 10:41:32 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
..., how difficult is it?...

Charles Barkley doesn't have a problem reading a teleprompter:

I'm a dumba--

50 posted on 08/27/2015 10:50:35 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: rktman

So he was a violent and bullying black racist. Color me shocked. I thought black racists were respectful, nice, peaceful people.


51 posted on 08/27/2015 11:45:48 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: rktman
Bttt.

5.56mm

52 posted on 08/27/2015 11:46:59 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: rktman

Well San Francisco State did confirm he graduated in 1995 with a degree in RadioTelevision Film. More than we can say for Barky.


53 posted on 08/27/2015 11:47:01 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Kipp

Don’t television reporters have to submit audition tapes sufficient to show their on-air skills or lack thereof?


54 posted on 08/27/2015 12:31:21 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Cecily
See post #29.

I wonder if this incident sparked pMSNBC's relegating the Bammy rep to the weekends, when fewer of them, the elite useful idiots, are around for targeting?

55 posted on 08/27/2015 1:43:49 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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