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...TV murderer was criticized by bosses...reprimanded for wearing an Obama badge to report
Daily Mail ^ | August 26, 2014 | BEN ASHFORD

Posted on 08/26/2015 4:19:23 PM PDT by maggief

Warped TV reporter Vester Lee Flanagan exasperated bosses with his 'stiff and nervous' delivery, his inability to use a teleprompter - and by wearing a President Obama badge during an election report, Daily Mail Online can reveal.

Management at WDBJ dubbed the failed newsman the 'human tape recorder' because he frequently parroted what interviewees had told him rather than doing his own journalism.

Flanagan, 41, clashed repeatedly with photojournalists, belittling them in public and intimidating them with his violent temper, according to internal reports.

He was also censured for wearing an Obama sticker while recording a segment at a polling booth during the 2012 US Presidential Election - a clear breach of journalistic impartiality.

The complaints are outlined in court papers seen by Daily Mail Online that include a scathing performance review carried out prior to his termination in Feb 2013.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: demagogicparty; gaykkk; homosexualagenda; libertarians; livetvshooting; medicalmarijuana; memebuilding; obamalegacy; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; vester; vesterflanagan; vesterleeflanagan
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To: maggief

A little lower in his performance evaluation, his supervisor states “His shooting has and continues to improve...” Eerie.


41 posted on 08/26/2015 5:05:01 PM PDT by IAMNO1 (Enough with the divisions. Lets get somebody in there who'll fix this mess.)
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To: BenLurkin

Another over the top theatrical mass murder. First it as Newtown, then it was the Colorado theatre, then the church killings in South Carolina, now a killing on live television. Somebody is working very hard to drive the point home—you can’t trust Americans with guns.

I don’t believe every conspiracy theory that I hear but I don’t disbelieve every conspiracy theory that I hear either. I really do believe that people can be hypnotized to commit murder especially if they are mentally unstable.


42 posted on 08/26/2015 5:05:13 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: BenLurkin

Another over the top theatrical mass murder. First it as Newtown, then it was the Colorado theatre, then the church killings in South Carolina, now a killing on live television. Somebody is working very hard to drive the point home—you can’t trust Americans with guns.

I don’t believe every conspiracy theory that I hear but I don’t disbelieve every conspiracy theory that I hear either. I really do believe that people can be hypnotized to commit murder especially if they are mentally unstable.


43 posted on 08/26/2015 5:05:19 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Obviously I missed the meeting where white privilege cards were given out. Used to live in Northern Virginia, now known as Southern Maryland. You’d be amazed at the wealth of Middle Easterners who choose to live there. If you include them as white it certainly raises the numbers of whites in McMansions.


44 posted on 08/26/2015 5:05:58 PM PDT by Boomer One ( ToUse)
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To: Vermont Lt

Some people develop these traits of blaming others for everything that they do wrong but Black people are always being fed the victim poison by the spoonful everyday.


45 posted on 08/26/2015 5:09:10 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: ilovesarah2012

Getting Welfare is a job?


46 posted on 08/26/2015 5:11:42 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("No punishment...is too great for the man who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin."-G.W)
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To: Vermont Lt
He seems to fit her profile: not very good at his job and everything that went wrong was somebody else’s fault.

Why does this remind me so, so much of "somebody else" who also happens to be black?

But instead of just murdering a couple of whiteys from work, he is murdering us all!

47 posted on 08/26/2015 5:13:33 PM PDT by Gritty (For the GOP-e the issue is Trump; for the base the issue is the GOP establishment - Mark Steyn)
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To: tanknetter
We need a screencap of him wearing that Obama badge.

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It's called a Barastika!

48 posted on 08/26/2015 5:15:40 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Honor the Commandments because they're not suggestions; stop gambling on forgiveness.)
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To: maggief

He was an incompetent affirmative action jerk who was only hired because he was black. Now two people are dead and one seriously wounded because of this sick clown.


49 posted on 08/26/2015 5:35:07 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: maggief

another gentle giant


50 posted on 08/26/2015 5:39:52 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: maggief

LIJ....Low Information Journalists should NEVER be allowed in front of a CAMERA!!


51 posted on 08/26/2015 5:39:52 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Warped TV reporter Vester Lee Flanagan exasperated bosses with his 'stiff and nervous' delivery, his inability to use a teleprompter - and by wearing a President Obama badge during an election report... Management at WDBJ dubbed the failed newsman the 'human tape recorder' because he frequently parroted what interviewees had told him rather than doing his own journalism. Flanagan, 41, clashed repeatedly with photojournalists, belittling them in public and intimidating them with his violent temper... was also censured for wearing an Obama sticker while recording a segment at a polling booth during the 2012 US Presidential Election... complaints are outlined in court papers... that include a scathing performance review carried out prior to his termination in Feb 2013.

52 posted on 08/26/2015 5:41:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: maggief

I am surprised the bosses criticized him.

He should have been fired.


53 posted on 08/26/2015 5:41:15 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

He would have been if he was not a protected species.


54 posted on 08/26/2015 5:42:38 PM PDT by sport
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To: cradle of freedom

There are plenty of white folks who like to blame everyone else for their problems. My children were like that when they were about 7. They were all done with that when they were about 7 1/2.


55 posted on 08/26/2015 5:43:30 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: re_nortex
...it was a CBS station after all

The local news station is a cBS affiliate and they do the top of the hour national news. Last time(and I do mean last time)I listened to them I thought I had accidentally tuned into NPR...with their flaming liberal slant on every story.

56 posted on 08/26/2015 5:47:37 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo
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To: maggief

Demented man. These “victims” will never get enough of whatever they insist we give them.

From the looks of the reports written by his employer he was on an endless quest of blaming everyone.

And an Obama voter, to boot.


57 posted on 08/26/2015 5:50:14 PM PDT by SE Mom (Dear God, restore our beloved country, amen.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would never had guessed. /s


58 posted on 08/26/2015 5:53:16 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: maggief

More blood on Obola’s hands.


59 posted on 08/26/2015 5:53:44 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: RckyRaCoCo
The local news station is a cBS affiliate and they do the top of the hour national news. Last time(and I do mean last time)I listened to them I thought I had accidentally tuned into NPR...with their flaming liberal slant on every story.

There are a handful of execeptions, notably OANN with Sarah Palin. But cBS, ABC, NBC and even Faux are just communist propaganda outfits.


60 posted on 08/26/2015 6:16:41 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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