Posted on 06/08/2010 7:14:27 AM PDT by Justaham
And he took charge after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor and gave us an inspirational message in December of 1941
Reading Alter is like walking behind the horses in a parade.
EXCELLENT WORK, MAGGIE !!!
Explains the heaping pile of spittle and drool,
blaming Bush, and total brown nosing, justifications,
rationalizations and obvious hero worship of
-0 on last night’s Charlie Rose interview of
Alter.
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11045
(click on the smug mug of Alter)
He was one of the ‘chosen’ so-called journalists
who were given private and totally unethical
access to -0, like Mark Halperin and John Heileman,
to stow their integrity and keep inside knowledge
from the public in order to make $$ with their
books.
Presstitutes, indeed.
LOL..you got to admit it IS pretty funny sending ‘Kermit’ the frog to France....LOL!!
(sorry..couldn’t help but laugh when I read that Rivkin was the CEO of the Muppet Empire).
Excellent links Mags! It’s truly stunning how all of these groups interconnect and morph. It’s just one big money laundering scheme for commie marxists.
Does Spewsweak make money? Or are they propped up by the Washington ComPost?
Delusional.
Simply delusional. Hallucinogenically delusional
One, Obama packaged himself as a "messiah". He was the only one who could save us from the clutches of the evil Dr. Bush. Now, I guess, he really doesn't possess the magic after all.
And two, every president inherits unresolved issues from previous presidents. No one gets to start with a clean slate. Why the Obamaites can't deal with this is beyond me. The primary "problem" that Obama inherited was the collapse of the housing market, which, while a good deal of the run-up to the collapse happened during Bush 43, was the result of a concerted liberal policy to push mortgages on those who could not afford them. This was a policy enthusiastically supported by Barack Obama throughout his public career.
It is clear that more and more, the leftest press is coming to the realization that Obama is not up to the job. We are at the stage where they are trying to place the fault on everyone except for where it belongs. That would be our undocumented Kenyan-Indonesian president.
You might be interested in Newsweek’s Bush basher, Jonathan Alter, Chicago political connects.
Start reading at post #23 - 43.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2530080/posts?page=23#23
Thank you.
If Obama’s stimulus fixed the economy, then broken windows would too:
Broken Window Fallacy [quick summary]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2464021/posts?page=175#175
Full Writing of the Broken Window by Frederic Bastiat
http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html#broken_window
Alter was also on Joy Bahar show defending Helen Thomas yesterday!
Born Joanne Hammerman in Chicago and raised in Glencoe, Alter was the daughter of a prosperous manufacturer of children’s clothing. She was one of the only Jewish students and only Democrats at New Trier High School in the early 1940s.
In 1952, she married James Alter, who ran a family-owned refrigeration and air conditioning wholesaler, and they raised four children on Chicago’s north side. Among the guests in the Alter home over the years were Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Oprah Winfrey, John F. Kennedy Jr., Dan Rather and Kevin Costner, as well as Democratic politicians like Gov. Adlai Stevenson, Mayor Harold Washington, Judge Abner Mikva, Sens. Paul Simon and Richard Durbin, and Rep. Rahm Emanuel. In 2003, she and her husband hosted an early fundraiser for Barack Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign.
Well thats news to FDR.
Brown looks like shoo-in for clerk's nomination
Chicago Sun-Times - Wednesday, November 17, 1999
Author: Steve Neal
She's back.
Dorothy Brown, who nearly won the city treasurer's office last winter in her first political race, is off to a fast start in her bid to win the Democratic nomination for clerk of the Cook County Circuit Court.
Brown, who is the general auditor for the CTA and president of the National Women's Political Caucus of Greater Chicago, has a good chance to become only the second African-American woman to win countywide executive office. Former Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun (D-Ill.) served from 1988 until 1992 as the county's recorder of deeds.
(snip)
Squire Lance, a neighborhood activist who learned grass-roots politics from the late Saul Alinsky, is chairing Brown's campaign. Her campaign committee also includes Glencoe trustee Nancy Alessi, former Water Reclamation District Commissioner Joanne Alter , former Chicago Board of Trade President Pat Arbour, Ald. Carrie Austin (34th), Evanston NAACP President Bennett Johnson, Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th), County Commissioners Bobbie Steele and Deborah Sims, and state SenatorsMargaretSmith,DonneTrotter and Barack Obama , all Chicago Democrats.
//
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Monday, December 20, 2004
NEW YORK — Newly elected Illinois Sen. Barack Obama made the cover of this week's Newsweek magazine for its “Who's Next” issue of people predicted to make news in 2005.
The magazine said it picked the Hyde Parker because he will make most short lists for vice president in 2008 and he has the “star power” to work with the GOP on bridging red state-blue state divisions.
(snip)
The story was written by senior editor Jonathan Alter , who has local roots. He's the son of former Water Reclamation District Commissioner Joanne Alter , a Democrat.
That explains a lot of what is wrong with Newsweek. I guess they can’t figure it out.
Lefty Jonathan Alter caught it from his parents who have been in DEMOCRAT politics his entire life and we are supposed to believe he isn’t biased? /s
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Protecting sources vs. airing the truth: journalist’s dilemma
Chicago Sun-Times - Thursday, July 23, 1987
Author: Michael Briggs
Is journalist Jonathan Alter the kind of reporter his mother would trust?
Joanne H. Alter is a trustee of the Chicago Metropolitan Sanitary District, a reformer who, sometimes as a confidential source, has tried to draw reporters’ attention to what she regards as “creeps” in public office.
Jonathan Alter writes for Newsweek magazine. In this week’s edition, he wrote a piece that fingered Lt. Col. Oliver L. North as a confidential Newsweek source for a blow-by-blow account of the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro and subsequent capture of terrorists who murdered an American tourist on the cruise ship. The story painted Col. North as a double-talker because he had blamed Congress for leaking about the same subject.
Reporters have gone to jail to protect sources. So Newsweek’s exposure of Col. North as a source touched a journalistic nerve.
(snip)
In Chicago, meanwhile, Joanne Alter said she has had her own misadventures on leaks. “You take your chances when you talk to the press,” the Newsweek reporter’s mother said. Information she has tried to slip secretly to reporters has come out in stories that don’t exactly pin the information on her, but “they’ve phrased it so it’s unmistakably me.”
So does Jonathan Alter think Mom would leak a story to him?
“That’s an interesting question. I hope so,” said the reporter
and media critic, who apparently had anguished about divulging that
Col. North was a Newsweek source. “Look, it’s not easy. I’m not saying it’s something one does lightly.”
How about it, Mom?
“I would trust Jon with anything. He’s one of the most honorable people I know,” she said
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Better safe than sweaty - for $850,000
Chicago Sun-Times - Friday, August 30, 1996
Author: Michael Sneed
EXCERPT
John-John & Maria miaaaaaaa . . .
Kennedy rejected the suggestion of bodyguards for his George magazine party, but George hired a bodyguard anyway, provided by the Security Professionals. . . . Maria Shriver Schwarzenegger accompanied cousin John to a party at Joanne Alter ‘s house Wednesday night wearing something resembling big black square-toed Mickey Mouse shoes with white ribbons.
//
Jonathan Alter
Chicago Sun-Times - Wednesday, April 15, 1992
Author: Bob Herguth
HE IS At 34, a senior editor at Newsweek. He writes a column about the media and politics and handles the Conventional Wisdom watch. He’s covering his third presidential campaign for the magazine. PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY “Stay skeptical but idealistic.”
(snip)
A 1968 FIRST “The 1968 Democratic convention was my first. I was 10. My mom was working for Humphrey, my dad was working for McCarthy. And I was running back and forth, underfoot, between headquarters. And I can remember fleeing Michigan Avenue with my parents just as it was getting pretty hot.”
WHITE HOUSE AT 20 “I had kind of a Walter Mittyish experience when I was 20. I went to work in the Carter speechwriting office in the White House. I did write some speeches for Carter, one of which John Fischetti did a cartoon about. I have the cartoon hanging in my kitchen.”
LEARNED FROM FAMILY “My faith in politics, as the only answer we have, comes from my mother. And the writing ability comes from my father.” And, “We have an old family saying from my grandmother: `You’re never sorry for what you do.’ It means don’t pass up opportunities because you’re afraid.”
Nobody ever gets kicked out of the pundit’s club, no matter how incompetent or corrupt they are. Once you’re in, you’re in for life.
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