Posted on 09/04/2014 12:00:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s hard to think of a worse candidate for a reporter covering national security issues than a once-committed 9/11 truther, but The Huffington Post apparently could.
“The Huffington Post’s Washington bureau has hired professional football player and 9/11 truther Donte Stallworth as a fellow, covering national security,” Politico’s Dylan Byers wrote in a lede that would not seem out of place in The Onion.
The Huffington Post was apparently not deterred by either Stallworth’s controversial views on the September 11 attacks, or his concern that the swine flu vaccine was part of an elaborate plot, or his criminal record.
In 2009, Stallworth plead guilty to manslaughter after killing a pedestrian while driving drunk in Florida. His plea netted him a light sentence – just 30 days for the DUI charge alone.
Byers noted that some of Stallworth’s comments are well outside the mainstream:
“NO WAY 9/11 was carried out by ‘dying’ Bin Laden, 19 men who couldn’t fly a damn kite. STILL have NO EVIDENCE Osama was connected, like Iraq,” Stallworth tweeted in 2009. Stallworth also doubted tweeted, “Gggrrrrrrrrrrrrr @ ppl who actually believe a plane hit the pentagon on 9/11… hole woulda been ASTRONOMICALLY bigger, God bless lost lives.”
The former football player’s most recent tweet questioning the nature of the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 was sent out less than a year ago, on November 24, 2013.
Via The Weekly Standard’s Jeryl Bier, here are a few more of Stallworth’s greatest hits:
But beyond Stallworth’s problematic political views and personal baggage, it is not entirely clear that he knows that much about national security issues.
Seriously… what is going on in Iraq???
— Donte' Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) June 15, 2014
This tweet, dated June 14, was sent out one day after President Barack Obama revealed to the nation that he had requested from the Pentagon a list of targets for potential strikes in Iraq. “There is a real sense of urgency over here at the White House,” CNN’s Jim Acosta reported on June 13, noting that strikes may come as soon as that weekend. Obama’s decision to investigate strikes came after weeks of warnings from the national security community over the worsening situation in Iraq and Syria.
I just got this documentary on Vladimir Putin's ascension from a kid to being the man in Russia… Wow!! This guy is a beast
— Donte' Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) February 11, 2011
This wide-eyed tweet was sent out in February, 2011. While this was well before Putin mounted his campaign to grab territory in Europe, it was also more than two and a half years after Moscow invaded and carved up northern Georgia. A crash course in what is now indisputably America’s “number one geopolitical foe” is not going to be sufficient to understand the infinite complexities of Kremlin politics or Moscow’s interests in what it refers to as its “near abroad.”
But it’s probably much ado about nothing. After all, amid an uproar, Stallworth confessed to being ill-informed on an unspecified range of issues:
After a lot of reading and researching on it, my views changed… and that's ok.
— Donte' Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) September 4, 2014
Mea culpa, mea culpa. All is forgiven, right? Time will tell…
Right, and all those folks stuck in traffic who saw the plane pass a few feet over their heads and plow into the Pentagon were paid off to lie...
Hey, he only killed one person with his car. So what if he was drunk? It was probably a white guy, or a white Hispanic.
This hiring tells you all you need to know about the Huffington Post.
RE: This hiring tells you all you need to know about the Huffington Post.
The folks at HuffPo explains this by saying “We believe in redemption and giving a person a second chance...”
“We believe in redemption and giving a person a second chance...”
Well, except for George W. Bush...we hate him forever.
I have two questions, 1. What is a huffington post? and 2. What is a donte stallworth? And a bonus question, why should I care?
He and Alex have so much in common. I guess WaPo has lost all sense of shame
RE: I have two questions, 1. What is a huffington post? and 2. What is a donte stallworth?
As if to humor you....
Huffinton Post is an American online news aggregator and blog. Founded by Arianna Huffington, featuring columnists.
The site offers news, blogs, and original content and covers politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, comedy, healthy living, women’s interests, and local news.
The Huffington Post was launched on May 9, 2005, as a liberal/left commentary outlet and alternative to news aggregators such as the Drudge Report.
Donté Lamar Stallworth (born November 10, 1980) is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent (but then, I guess he now wants to be a reporter).
He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the first round (13th overall) of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at University of Tennessee.
And no, you don’t have to care...
Actually, as surprised as you might be, I was going to compliment you on a concise and intelligent response to my flippant post. I salute you.
And he is NOT related to Hall of Fame wide receiver John Stallworth, correct?
I don’t think so.
It’s OK. Not a problem. They’re “progressives”, after all.
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