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How TV murderer was reprimanded for wearing an Obama badge to report on elections(trunc)
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 8/27/2015 | Ben Ashford

Posted on 08/27/2015 9:05:29 AM PDT by rktman

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: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; affirmativeaction; banglist; deranged; guncontrol; killer; obamalegacy; racist; secondamendment; vesterflanagan; vesterleeflanagan; virginia; wdbj
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Sorry about the truncated header but it was HUGE! So, who could have possibly guess that this pos would have been a supporter of the lyin' king. Weird huh.
1 posted on 08/27/2015 9:05:30 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

I’m surprised MSNBC didn’t hire him.


2 posted on 08/27/2015 9:06:28 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: rktman

All that proves is that he was far more honest than all the rest of them.


3 posted on 08/27/2015 9:08:45 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: rktman

Well, surprise, surprise, surPRISE!

Your typical Obama supporter.


4 posted on 08/27/2015 9:08:52 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: rktman

Face it, he was a sociopathic thug.


5 posted on 08/27/2015 9:08:55 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: BlueStateRightist

Well, if he hadn’t popped himself, they may have hired him once he was found not guilty of the alleged crime.


6 posted on 08/27/2015 9:09:09 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
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To: BlueStateRightist

Oh, he was an Obamabot. What a surprise...


7 posted on 08/27/2015 9:09:45 AM PDT by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted... This time, it's not.)
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To: rktman

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

Sound like someone should have kicked his ass a long time ago.


8 posted on 08/27/2015 9:10:06 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: headstamp 2

Obie supporter=sociopathic thug. One in the same.


9 posted on 08/27/2015 9:10:31 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
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To: jonascord

And his picture and this news will be all over our media, I’m sure.


10 posted on 08/27/2015 9:11:00 AM PDT by Luke21 (Go Ted go.)
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To: rktman

If the shooter once wore an Obama picture, doesn’t follow that all Obama pictures must be removed from stores and public places?


11 posted on 08/27/2015 9:11:53 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Resolute Conservative

When they say photojournalists, are they talking about cameramen?


12 posted on 08/27/2015 9:11:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: rktman

They should ban Obama stickers as the hate-filled symbols that they are.


13 posted on 08/27/2015 9:12:04 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: Resolute Conservative

Uh, that would be double hate crime since he was black and gay. Guess he couldn’t handle the troof.


14 posted on 08/27/2015 9:12:11 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
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To: rktman

When you do live tv events, the newsman/woman sometimes need to think on their feet.

This “his inability to use a teleprompter” jumped out at me. C’mon! You don’t even need to think, just read off the teleprompter, how difficult is it? I am sure they don’t use cursive on the ‘prompter.


15 posted on 08/27/2015 9:13:01 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Raycpa

Well, they’ve all been removed from our house. Oh, wait. That wouldn’t have taken long since there would never be any here in the first, second or third place.


16 posted on 08/27/2015 9:13:29 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
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To: rktman

Hillary had a fine picture made with her supporter, John Wayne Gacy, a Democrat in Chicago, who raped dozens of young boys and buried them under and around his house. Funny how murderers, then and now, support those who don’t value life, and yes, Planned Parenthood’s atrocities come to mind.


17 posted on 08/27/2015 9:13:37 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Sir Napsalot

I thought writing in cursive was declared racist.


18 posted on 08/27/2015 9:14:37 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
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To: rktman

I do applaud his last decision.


19 posted on 08/27/2015 9:15:51 AM PDT by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: Starstruck

Too bad he didn’t make that one first.


20 posted on 08/27/2015 9:18:49 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
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