Picture of KOOK aka Russell Mokhiber
Posted on 02/16/2005 1:27:11 AM PST by kcvl
Left-Wing Activist Poses as Reporter At White House Press Briefings - Where's the Outrage from the Media? February 11, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Accuracy in Media charged today that a liberal activist and associate of Ralph Nader has been obtaining access to White House press briefings while claiming to be a legitimate news reporter.
Russell Mokhiber, who sells a $795 a year newsletter that bashes corporations, attends the briefings to make obscure anti-Bush political points. Recently, for example, he asked spokesman Scott McClellan whether President Bush violated one of the Ten Commandments by invading Iraq. Mokhiber, who told AIM that he has never taken a journalism class in his life and was denied a permanent White House press pass, posts his ludicrous questions and answers on a far-left web site under the title "Scottie & Me."
Other Mokhiber topics have included industrial hemp, Israel's 1967 attack on the USS Liberty, possible war crimes charges against Bush, and Halliburton.
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With this headline, I thought the article was going to be about Helen Thomas.
(Exasperated sigh at the double standards of the liberal press corps.)
Yeah, but is he gay??
AND...do you have pictures, or at least a memo?
But based purely upon a cursory reading of his curriculum vitae, it sounds as if he's an antisemitic, socialist, barking moon-bat.
In other words, a prospective member of Democratic Underground.
AIM editor Cliff Kincaid said Mokhiber's attendance at the briefings makes it clear that the controversy over Jeff Gannon attending the same briefings was manufactured by left-wing bloggers and liberals in the media because they don't want conservatives in the White House press corps. Gannon resigned from Talon News, a conservative on-line service, and announced that he was leaving journalism altogether because of a left-wing investigation of his personal life that followed objections to his anti-Democrat question at a presidential press conference. One of many charges made against Gannon was that he lacked proper journalistic credentials."The case against Gannon boiled down to being too pro-Republican," said Kincaid, "writing stories with a conservative slant, and being linked to conduct, homosexuality, that is accepted and celebrated by those who were going after Gannon in the first place. The standard of the liberal thought police is evidently that someone's private life should be protected―except when the accused is a conservative"
Bump/ping!
Who gives a rat's ass?
Mokhiber: Ari, the Federal Communication Commission requires that if you're going to have a broadcast license you have to be of sound moral character. So when you make the application, you have to answer whether you've ever been convicted of a felony.
They are now going after a gentleman in Missouri who's been convicted of a felony --
Ari Fleischer: Be careful, there are many broadcasters in this room.
Mokhiber: I understand, that's why I'm raising the question. This gentleman was convicted of a felony, child molestation, and they're trying to strip him of five radio licenses. On the other hand, General Electric, which owns NBC, has been convicted of felonies, and they're not being stripped of their license. Why the double standard?
What, only one?
"Russell Mokhiber, who sells a $795 a year newsletter that bashes corporations, attends the briefings to make obscure anti-Bush political points."
I love it. A anti-capitalist, socialist, anti-corporation moonbat who charges $795 a year for a newsletter that I'm guessing tells people how bad capitalism is.
You have just got to love liberal hypocracy.
Someone please let me know if we get a picture of this kook.
Someone should have asked the previous administration if there was a Commandment that President Clinton had NOT violated.
Obviously, you do or you wouldn't spend your time making snide remarks on a thread you didn't care about.
Picture of KOOK aka Russell Mokhiber
Does anyone know to whom this guy was refering? Radio station owner from Missouri with felony convictions? I do know of such an individual, who also owned stations here in my hometown. He lost his licenses after being convicted of multiple counts of sex with minors.
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