Posted on 11/10/2005 2:29:24 PM PST by Republican Red
I love suspense, keeps you intrigued. I'll have some of that popcorn with butter. Please!
Rathergate or Watergate?
Something is rotten.
Bump for later read.
Bump for later read.
WaPo violated the law it appears, and certainly violated the confidential user agreement between MD4Bush and FreeRepublic.... and certainly severely violated Steffen's privacy, since he had reason to rely upon the terms of the FreeRepublic user agreement - he was not posting the controversial comment on any open forum with public access, it was made in a 1-on-1 private email communication. Anyway, as everyone has pointed out, it is MD4Bush who was playing the active role of spreading rumors and Steffern who was merely giving a passive and PRIVATE "yeah I heard that too".....
This was an obvious set-up, and the gross journalistic misconduct in this case needs to be compared with the parallel behaviors of the various MSM journalists who were (while not accessing private emails, so far as we know) dragging Libby and Rove into their own cesspool of rumor-mongering about Valerie Pflame and then Libby gets burned because of MSM whores.......
"Talk radio, Free Republic and the Pajammadeen have inflicted a mighty blow for "truth, justice and the American way".
Which is why we will be outlawed by regulations next.
Very interesting post.
"..The Washington Post clearly didn't have a very good weekend. First, circulation numbers continue to drop. Then, the Washington Post Company's third-quarter earnings dropped. And Jack Shafer takes them to task for royally excessive coverage of Charles and Camille (as in "10 pieces totaling 11,500 words" excessive"). Then there's this interesting--and fairly underreported--news item. Post reporter Matthew Mosk "may have violated a federal privacy law and the newspaper's ethical code when he used an unidentified person's account to view private conversations that linked a former aide to Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich's administration to a whisper campaign about a political rival."
Will the Post, like the White House, have to urge its staffers to "Let's Get Ethical! Ethical! I want to get Ethical! (Let me hear your body talk...)"?.."
I'm hoping that it does, and that it is a very big hammer.
I'm hoping it is in the form of a US Attorney and a Grand Jury. That would bypass the democratic controlled legislative
committee in Maryland that has no intention whatever of investigating who MD4Bush was.
Are you just stupid? Laws don't apply to liberals! </disgusted sarcasm>
Delicious
"Delicious!"
What is the really good news? Their poor stock performance may just be the appetizers with the main coursea and deserts to come. Many newspapers will not be around when GW watches his replacement sworn in in Feb 2009.
That's not your sculpture, I hope!
A Congressional hearing would be interesting.
I don't comment much on these MD4Bush threads, but I sure have a grin while I read them. It seems my grins get wider with each new development. heh heh ☺
Nam Vet
The Post was involved in a domestic spying operation.
From a "lets get rid of old MSM" that is good news indeed. But I still like to get my news in the morning via hardcopy, rather than staring at a screen. I have pretty much learned over the past few years how to believe what I think is plausible and what is obvious MSM bias. For example I don't believe in any of these polls and it became so apparent in the Clintoon admin when he had a 70% approval rating during impeachment -comon!!
"Did the Washington Post Violate the Electronic Communications Privacy Act?"
"Possibly" is the Post most favorite response. The Post, like Mapes, wants eveyone else to prove them wrong. I'm thinking the grand jury investigation, if it's legitimate, will find lots of things to blast the Post with.
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