Why does the media think John Pike is a "national security expert"?

Media and GlobalSecurity.org | January 17, 2001

[Cincinatus' Wife]

A boon to lazy producers.

No kidding!! It's taken him years to become a .......a......a self-promoting gas bag.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

FYI

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[justanotherfreeper]

Pike isn't a scientist, he plays one on TV. ;)

Thanks for the quote from The Washington Post, I hadn't seen that before.

[norraad]

Just the name "Pike" turns me off, Pike is a "good ol'boy Sneakyman Inc. family name from way back in the gov/corp. crime timeline.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!!

[El Sordo]

"It makes me nervous that, like the British, we've acquired an empire in a fit of absent-mindedness,"

How does one absent mindedly acquire an empire?

[N. Theknow]

Sorry, I didn't realise that "it takes some beating" was a British expression. It means "it's hard to beat".

Just like "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" doesn't have a thing to do with primate genitals.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

How does one absent mindedly acquire an empire?

That's the "pithy" Pike gently reminding us he's a "sane" LIBERAL!

[chimera]

John Pike is a professional talking head, sort of like the Zsa Zsa Gabor of scientist wannabes, you know, famous for being famous. He's the go-to guy if you want a left-wing opinion on any kind of technical subject, be it space science, defense policy, or energy technology.

Steven Aftergood made his bones with a crackpot organization out of LA with the dubious name of The Committe to Bridge the Gap, and their forte was intervening in many proceedings and cases involving reactor licensing, especially educational and research reactors. The Congressional Record is rife with his drivel on the subject. It got so bad I had to send in some comments on a subject using the pseudonym of Marvin Supergood, of The Committee to Blow the Bridge.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

When you don't have a degree, like Mr. Pike, you feel free to share your "expertise" on everything.

[mrsmith]

'Pike isn't a scientist, he plays one on TV. ;) '

And "on short notice". About sums it up, I think!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I concur. Didn't he work under Madeline Albright for a time, spreading the message of gun control to folks in Afghanistan, etc...I have the same question about this ambulance chaser media darling:
Sen. John Edwards: Intelligence Expert?.

This one has even fooled Bill O'Reilly.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

This one has even fooled Bill O'Reilly.

O'Reilly thinks he has everyone fooled.
Personally, I can't take his populist act anymore.

[Gracey]

(Pike)He's an expert in the MEDIA!!!

Another leftist space expert is John Logsdon. However John does have a PhD and is a professor at George Washington University. He is of the same ilk as Pike except he has official "papers."

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Exactly right Gracey. Logsdon is a blowhard with his papers in order.
Big media flocks to soundbite media-cultivating suck-ups because they willingly fill the spot.
Big media is lazy and not interested in thinking. Dime a dozen talking heads make it easy for them.

Pike is expecially offensive because he is a disarmament adovocate, trying as he say's to
"bell the cat" (U.S. Defense complex) while passing himself off as a "national security expert!"

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

(Feb 27, 2002) The clock is a 11/2-foot-square wooden mock-up in the magazine's office at the University of Chicago. It was started two years after the bulletin began as a newsletter among scientists of the Manhattan Project - the top-secret U.S. effort during World War II to develop an atomic bomb.--(AP)--- Doomsday Clock Moved Ahead

Doomsday clock closer to midnight--[Excerpt] Members of the Bulletin's board of directors listened, weighed the evidence, and announced their decision at a press conference the next day. "To say there is a return to the cold war is too extreme," said board member and U of C political scientist Stephen Walt. "But the trend is in the wrong direction." Besides chilly U.S.- Russian relations and deteriorating nuclear controls, he said, the board considered aggravating global circumstances like ethnic warring and weak support for U.N. peacekeeping. Despite some progress in world security, added John Pike of the Federation of American Scientists, "governments and people are complacent about the fact that much of our doomsday machinery is still in place." [End Excerpt]

Federation of American Scientists founded by Manhattan Project Scientists.………..Source Peacewire.org

[Cincinatus' Wife]

NASA'S MIDLIFE CRISIS -Poll: Space program generates low enthusiasm in public--- John Pike, space-policy expert and director of the defense think tank Globalsecurity.org, was more blunt. "Rich white men like the space program; other people don't," he said. "Rich people are prepared to spend money on luxuries that poorer people aren't."

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Pentagon Report Discusses Nukes - John Pike posts national defense information on web-- On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld publicly lamented the disclosures and said the person who leaked the information had violated federal criminal law.