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Times Bomb [Jayson Blair's inside story, from Newsweek]
Newsweek ^
| May 18, 2003
| Seth Minookin and others
Posted on 05/18/2003 9:23:19 AM PDT by summer
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To: Helms; Timesink
a fortunate = a fortune
121
posted on
05/18/2003 12:30:53 PM PDT
by
summer
To: proxy_user
Raines is typical of many arrogant managers who want to "break up a stodgy corporate culture" and "bring in new young people and exciting ideas"...but not to take their places until they are retired. So many phony guilt ridden white fools want blacks to take your place but not theirs. There are no black broadcast anchors, but all of them want affirmative action for your jobs, theirs are secure by contract. None of the guilt ridden white fools want blacks to become their bosses but if they get in by quota you are supposed to accept a feeble boss. I watched a series of Nightline reports about managers/coaches in sports and all of the white fools reporting thought it was such a good idea but not one of them has been replaced by a black reporter. I hope the blair case becomes part of the arguement in the Michigan case.
122
posted on
05/18/2003 12:31:40 PM PDT
by
RWG
To: RWG
Obviously, the NYTimes (and its daughter the Boston Globe)
ALSO support murderer Malvo.
Therefore, those who buy the NYTimes and Boston Globe support terrorism.
123
posted on
05/18/2003 12:34:11 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.)
To: summer
Liberals never do anything wrong. Either they are victims of mistreatment at the hands of others, or they go through learning experiences that make them better people. In the end, this guy will be given a free pass. First we must pity him. Then he will become a hero because he overcame the emotional trauma of the situation.
The wrong-doing is never personal. But the ability to overcome the devastating emotions are a laudable, personal achievement. That is the pattern that will play out in this story. Watch for this guy on the lecture circuit.
To: Gothmog
RE your post #120 --
125
posted on
05/18/2003 12:45:11 PM PDT
by
summer
To: aristeides
That was posted as you said by a freeper.
His eratic behavior appears to be that of a very addicted person to drugs, alcohol, junk food and the power of his lies printed by the New York Slimes. Lies that captured the weak minds of those who believe in the New York Slimes.
126
posted on
05/18/2003 1:21:04 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Has The NY Slimes ever printed the truth in your life time?)
To: NittanyLion
NL posted two interesting observations re the left wing lunatics self destructive behavior:
"Today's liberals just can't get out of their own way.
They're constantly backtracking, denying, and spinning against their own positions.
"You really have to give Pres. Bush a ton of credit for setting the agenda and aggressively pushing to achieve it. By doing so he's forced the Democrats into a totally reactive mode, and it seems that 90% of their reactions are the wrong ones.
Then, thanks to the internet, conservative talk radio and Fox News, their mediot friends can't hide this behavior anymore. Their orgy at Wellstone's funeral cost them the election in MN and more due to their massive inappropriate behavior. That massive inappropriate behavior was seen by moderates and conservatives, and it cost them that senate seat in MN.
127
posted on
05/18/2003 1:39:48 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Has The NY Slimes ever printed the truth in your life time?)
To: Miss Marple
Thought you might find this interesting... according to Newsweek, Mr. Blair was into cocaine and not cleaning his apartment, as well as identifying with none other than Lee Malvo, the DC sniper suspect.
128
posted on
05/18/2003 1:55:25 PM PDT
by
summer
To: aristeides
Some FReeper was very quick to conclude cocaine use. I don't remember who it was, but he was sharp. I was just thinking the same thing! I saw several people here suggest that (unfortunately, I can't remember their screen names), and they were right on the money.
To: Dog Gone
Just think Blair could have been a brain surgeon.
To: razorback-bert
Blair didn't even have a college degree. Yet he was hired and put on the prestigious national desk. Isn't affirmative action wonderful?
To: bigfootbob
This may sound superficial, but what's with the photo of Blair taking a big hit off of a cigarette? Subtle demonization? We know the libs hate tabacco smokers. I just thought it odd.Excuse me, but if Blair is a liberal and he is smoking a cigarette, doesn't that mean that liberals don't really "hate" tobacco as much as their reputation suggests they do???
My goodness. If you want to paint tobacco as some sort of sanctified conservative cause I guess you can twist anything to "prove" it!
To: summer
LOLOL! Love the part where Blair thanks all those "friends" who "don't believe everything they read in the paper [about him]." This is one psychotic with a great sense of humor. The way he got right by Raines reminds me of the Clinton WH, where few were subject to FBI background checks and every sort of instability and criminality was on display.
To: Zionist Conspirator
"If you want to paint tobacco as some sort of sanctified conservative cause I guess you can twist anything to "prove" it!"Just the opposite. I see that picture as a liberal attempt to make a fool look worse than his employer. The NYT suck and conservatives know it, this picture IMHO, is designed to whip up the nico-nazi's that consider the NYT the bible of daily record. Make Blair as unlikeable as possible to spare the ones higher up the food chain.
I live in the PNW, I've seen how these liberals think, (excuse me, FEEL), up close and personal. That picture meant something.
To: proxy_user
I'm afraid that if we starting sending people to jail for being stupid, we're going to have to put a wall around the country and ask the smart people to leave.I just stole the above......THANKS.
135
posted on
05/18/2003 3:59:44 PM PDT
by
S.O.S121.500
(ENFORCE THE BILL OF RIGHTS.....NO QUARTER ASKED---------NONE GIVEN)
To: bigfootbob
Just the opposite. I see that picture as a liberal attempt to make a fool look worse than his employer. The NYT suck and conservatives know it, this picture IMHO, is designed to whip up the nico-nazi's that consider the NYT the bible of daily record. Make Blair as unlikeable as possible to spare the ones higher up the food chain.My moralistic, Bible Belt, and decidedly non-libertarian view of tobacco and smoking (to both of which I am adamantly opposed and which I hope to see eventually outlawed as moral vices and not for health reasons) are well known on this forum, as is my lonely fight against making a pro-tobacco position an "essential" of conservative ideology (I even reject the prevalent belief that pro-smoking sentiment is the "politically correct" conservative position). My enemies on this issue know my position just as I know theirs and I have no intention of being dragged into another fracas over tobacco (in which my fellow-anti-smoking conservatives, in the Bible Belt and elsewhere, have decided to leave me unsupported). I will insist again that you pro-smokers have no right to run the conservative movement or to make pro-smoking a plank of the conservative platform. That is my position and I am not going to repeat endlessly to a series of personal attacks.
And to you extremely nasty tempered pro-smokers out there who will now doubtless be posting personal attacks on me for the rest of the night, I have a preemptive response: go to freaking h*ll. Please let that suffice and allow me to get back to other issues.
To: aristeides
"Any money Blair gets, can be the object of civil suits. Who did Blair commit torts against that can sue?"The Newsweek article revealed that Blair is a diagnosed manic depressive (bipolar disorder). IOW, he's legally insane. Is it likely a NYC jury would find him responsible for, say, the NYT's losses?
To: Grampa Dave
Their orgy at Wellstone's funeral cost them the election in MN and more due to their massive inappropriate behavior. That massive inappropriate behavior was seen by moderates and conservatives, and it cost them that senate seat in MN.It cost them a LOT more than just Minnesota. Despite the desperate attempts by the "mainstream" media to cover it up (the gave the funerally a little play the same day, and then dropped the subject altogether), it was just about the only thing the country was talking about from the moment it happened until Election Day itself. And where were we talking about it? On cable news, on the Net, on talk radio. The "mainstream" media was completely circumvented and rendered totally irrelevant. And millions of swing voters went GOP as a result.
Something similar will happen next fall. God only knows what stupidity the RATS will end up performing, but when they do, they'll pay the price.
To: razorback-bert
Just think Blair could have been a brain surgeon.
Gumby Brain Specialist
Close up on a sign saying `Harley Street'. Stirring music. Mix through to interior of a smart, plush, ever so expensive Harley Street consultieg room. The music smells and fades. Knocking at door, a short pause, then T. F. Gumby enters, backwards.
T. F. Gumby (Michael.) - Doctor! Doctor! DOCTOR! (he goes up to the antique desk and bangs the bell violently; he smashes the intercom and generally breaks the desk up) Doctor! Doctor! DOCTOR! DOCTOR! Doctor! Doctor! Where is the Doctor?
A pause. Then another door opens and another Gumby appears.
Gumby Specialist - (John) Hello!
T. F. Gumby - Are you the brain specialist?
Specialist - Hello!
T. F. Gumby - Are you the brain specialist?
Specialist - No, no, I am not the brain specialist. No, no, I am not...Yes. Yes I am.
T. F. Gumby - My brain hurts!
Specialist - Well let's take a look at it, Mr Gumby. Gumby specialist starts to pull up Gumby's sweater.
T. F. Gumby - No, no, no, my brain in my head. (specialist thumps him on the head)
Specialist - It will have to come out.
T. F. Gumby - Out? Of my head?
Specialist - Yes! All the bits of it. Nurse! Nurse! (a nurse enters) Nurse, take Mr Gumby to a brain surgeon.
Nurse - Yes doctor...
She leads Gumby out. In the background the specialist is grunting and shouting.
Specialist - Where's the `Lancet'?
Nurse (to T. F. Gumby) - He's brilliant you know.
Specialist - Where's the bloody `Lancet'? My brain hurts too.
Ambulance racing. `Dr Kildare' theme. Cut to operating theatre. The surgeon is not a Gumby.
Surgeon - (Graham) - (putting on Gumby props) Gloves... glasses...
moustache... handkerchief... (Gumby voice) I'm going to
operate!
We now see he is surrounded by Gumbys. T. F. Gumby is on operating table.
All -Let's operate.
They begin to use woodworking implements on T. F. Gumby.
T. F. Gumby - Hello!
Surgeon Gumby - Ooh! We forgot the anaesthetic!
Operating Gumbys - The anaesthetic! The anaesthetic!!
At that moment a Gumby anaesthetist comes crashing through the mall mith two gas cylinders.
Gumby Anaesthetist - I've come to anaesthetize you!!
He raises a gas cylinder and strikes Gumby hard over the head mith it. Bong. Blackness. Into the oblivion of animation.
To: Bonaparte
The Newsweek article revealed that Blair is a diagnosed manic depressive (bipolar disorder). IOW, he's legally insane. Is it likely a NYC jury would find him responsible for, say, the NYT's losses?Manic depression doesn't even come close to fitting the definition of legal insanity. He might as well claim a groin injury.
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