Posted on 11/14/2006 9:29:45 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Over the weekend, authorities arrested 39-year-old Chad Castagana on suspicion of sending threatening letters to media outlets and the homes of several public figures including "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann.
On Tuesday, Olbermann spoke to Radar Online senior writer John Cook who has been covering the story. Cook said Castagana appeared to be admirers of conservative pundits Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin and Laura Ingraham.
"Ann Coulter and Malkin...sort of present a kind of rhetorical world view where they have their troops out there," Cook said, "and I think he thought of himself as one of their troops and wanted to live up to their standards."
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Castagana has also been identified as a gushing online admirer of Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin and Laura Ingraham. And the Web site RawStory reports that many bloggers believe he is also a contributor, under a different name, to the conservative Web site FreeRepublic. In fact, the name used is supposed to be Marc Costanzo.
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COOK: Well, we should point out the evidence is not conclusive, butits circumstantial, but its good evidence. It appears that Mr. Castagana was a poster to the FreeRepublic, which, as you know, is an online library of some of the most thoughtful right-wing thinkers out there. And histhe Marc Costanzo alias that he used, his profile said, Ann Coulter is a goddess and I idolize Malkin and Ingraham. And there are a lot of posts that suggest that hes a big fan of Malkin and Coulter.
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OLBERMANN: Until it, you know, bursts into gunfire. Nobody wants to see that in any direction. Its madness.
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(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
"I'm shocked to see MSNBC called Free Republic "some of the most thoughtful right-wing thinkers out there", instead of far right wingnuts."
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I saw it (don't ask me why I was watching). Cook was being sarcastic. He's a moonbat.
Here's what Cook posted on his website. FR mentioned:
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2006/11/the-castagana-correspondence-right-what-you-know.php
"Hmm no terror attacks since 9/11 on Bushes watch huh? Oh wait there was the anthrax...then the ricin attack in my home state and now this. Its kind of funny there are no terror attacks in the United States as long as they are not directed to anyone on the left. Good Job guys." ~ sewards1
Hmmmm....you know you're right, newby! Our enemies have been attacking us non-stop right under our very noses during the GWB presidency. Some of them even have *a twinge of conscience about it from time to time, but it doesn't last long. I say we need to impose the "fairness doctrine" on THEM.
Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the press, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. -Mark Twain
* March 22, 2006
Excerpt of end of radio interview: Hugh Hewitt with guest Christopher Hitchens
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1601335/posts
HH: ...Well then, in 30 seconds, if the Democratic Party returns to power in this country, you get thirty seconds now, what happens?
CH: I'll just tell you something a very senior person at a well-known network. I know this sounds a bit odd, but I just can't tell you who he is or which network. I don't have the right to do it. But you'll have to believe me, okay?
HH: Okay.
CH: He called me the other day. This is not a guy who's in any way a conservative, and said you know, we've known each other for a bit. He said you know, I'm beginning to think you must be right, because it really worries me what we're doing, when we are giving the other side the impression that all they need to do is hang on until the end of this administration. Do people know what they're doing when they're doing this? One doesn't have to make any allegation of disloyalty, but just...if it worries him, as it really does, I think it should worry other people, too, and it certainly worries me.
HH: It certainly should. Christopher Hitchens, as always, a pleasure.
audio here http://www.radioblogger.com/images/03-22hitchens.mp3
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ABC News Listens to Viewers' Concerns About Iraq Coverage
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1601903/posts
March 23, 2006 Over the last 24 hours, ABC News has been reading hundreds of messages sent in by viewers in response to President Bush's claim that the media are undermining support for war in Iraq.
Viewer opinions ran the gamut, but the vast majority believed the media were biased in their Iraq coverage.
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Mark Halperin of ABC and his written directions to slant the news in favor of the Democrat candidate- acknowledged by ABC management.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15511
"Our job is not to give people what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."-Richard Salant, former president of CBS News
"We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage, by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with."- Richard Cohen, Senior Producer, CBS Political News
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."- Thomas Jefferson
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The Press at War http://www.opinionjournal.com/federation/feature/?id=110009203
What ever happened to patriotic reporters? BY JAMES Q. WILSON
Monday, November 6, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST
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"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague." - Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Orator --- 106-43 B.C.
This troll was zotted very quickly.
The ones which concern me are the so called conservatives with on board dates earlier than mine, who hate GW and Republicans more the Clintoons and Saddam.
Mine is a brand-new account here, and I likely won't be reading the forums often, if at all--I'm a liberal.
However, I do want to say that I'm glad I bothered looking to see what you guys had to say about this person.
As much as I disagree with your views, I'm glad to see that he wasn't a welcome member of this community.
Welcome, Dmitri! We're glad you joined.
Stay around, if for nothing else than to read. Our posters put up some GREAT things you won't see elsewhere.
Glad you got the somebitch, Jim. Good-on-you!
Stay well, pally............FRegards
Keith Olbermann is showing himself to be an absolute paranoid goofball. As he sees it, one bad apple is representative of the whole bunch.
What's even more concerning about this whole ordeal is that given his infleunce, he can very easily find some vulnerable state's attorney general and put that person in his pocket. This unforuntately seems to be the problem here in Oklahoma where we made a big mistake in re-electing one such person to another term.
As Keith and his kind see it, it's not Saddam or Al-queida that poses a National Security threat to this country. It's christians and conservatives who pose this threat.
What Mr. Olbermann has essentially done is branded everyone of us as terrorists or potential terrorists who need to be spied on. Apparently he seems to feel that it's his mission tp protect this nation from us.
This kind of B.S. and C.F. is why PMSDNC is contuining to and will continue to lose audience. Because of goofballs and sorry, lazy, miserable, good-for-nothing low life douche bags like Olbermann who are so damn chicken-hearted and scared of people with differing points of view than they have that somehow it's goverment's responsibility to protect them and this nation from these people.
These goofballs have absololutely no idea or concept of where the real terror threats to this country are coming from. G** help us that we make it through the next two years without any problems whatsoever.
Regards......
Only 21 posts until a troll showed up.
You're doing a great job considering that FreeRepublic is open to anyone (even the kooks).
Intelligent debate is healthy and informative.
That's what we do here.
Welcome to FreeRepublic.
Welcome. Stick around and debate a while...we might all learn something.
Cop Killer Andrew McCrae
student on the far left campus of Evergreen State College
son of a college professor
regular poster on leftwing websites, particularly Indymedia.
Secondly, whether anyone wants to believe it or not, these news media organizations aren't our friends, they're our enemies and I'm going to continue to address these issues. Mr. Olbermann is not someone you want to defend on a conservative news forum. His audience is shrinking and everybody knows it. This isn't the kind of person I want governing my community, state or country.
And quite frankly this Democrat Congress isn't going to last very long. Tax and spend is not something people are willing to go for.
My problem with Mr. Olbermann is he seems to think he and his kind are the United States of America and the rest of us aren't. I'm not the only person who feels this way. there are far more who agree with me than agree differently. that's all there is to it.
Nobody forces you to read or to visit FR or any other conservative website. If you don't like what people are saying or reading than don't read or listen to it.
The last thing this nation wants or needs is people telling us we can or can't say. This isn't China or Cuba, this is America.
We've had way too many cases of conservatives being blamed everytime one of their own does something bad. And there were call in the Clinton adminstration to have it's political opponents and adversaries spied on with programs such as Carnivore and Key Encryption.
This was an adminstration that showed itself to be very poor sports when it came to people blowing the whistle on them. I've heard of several freepers who were paid visits by the Secret Service for daring to blow the whistle on the Clinton Admistration and their unethical and illegal activities.
The Democrats and their willing accomplishes in the MSM are very poor sports when it comes to people questioning their actions. And, if they could theywould gladly missuse and abuse their power to spy on their political opponents and adversaries.
These aren't the kind of people you want to be taking up for here on FR.
It is paranoia. Are you really suggesting that a Republican president would arrest Noam Chomsky under the provisions of MCA06? Or a Democratic one would imprison Ann Coulter? Patent nonsense.
The old saw you cite - composed by a famous conservative, by the way - about absolute power corrupting absolutely, does not apply to the president of the United States, because he has never wielded absolute power and, as long as the US remains a constitutional democracy, he (or she) never will. Chomsky and Coulter, protected by the Bill of Rights, are safe. They'll never be tossed into prison on a presidential whim. If any president were mentally disturbed enough to try it, the ultimate check and balance -- an election -- would act as the corrective it is meant to be.
But in times of war, special powers must be assigned to the Commander in Chief in the interests of the welfare of the entire American people. So it was for Lincoln, and for FDR, and so also it must be for any president, from either party, who commands the US military effort against global terror. MCA06 concerns itself with enemy combatants as defined by those in charge of waging the war. If you cannot muster the confidence in those so charged to apply the criteria fairly, then I can only question whether anyone could ever exercise legitimate power, however delimited, in a manner which you would find satisfactory.
The truth of the matter is Clinton wasn't a good sport about people questioning his actions. Now, like it or not that's the reality. Bush has never said any such thing that you've tried to imply
There's major differneces between the Republicans and the Democrats. The big differnece is we recognize where the real threat is and are working to neutralize those threats.
The sooner the Dems realize this, the better off we'll be as a nation.
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