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(voters duped) reuters journo withheld damaging info til after beto's tx senate race
dailycaller.com ^ | 3/16/19 | AMY ATHEY, White House Correspondent

Posted on 03/17/2019 5:13:23 AM PDT by Liz

Reuters bragged Friday about its scoop that Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke was once involved in a notorious hacker group, but revealed in the process that one of its reporters willingly sat on the story until after O’Rourke lost his Texas Senate race to incumbent Ted Cruz. Reuters’ Joseph Menn reported exclusively Friday morning that O’Rourke, a former member of Congress and the latest Democrat to join the 2020 presidential race, had a secret membership in an infamous hacking group.

The group, known as the Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC), is the oldest and perhaps most influential collection of hackers in the US,. O’Rourke was a member as a teenager; the group has protected his secret for decades in order to avoid damaging his political career. But journo , who has a forthcoming book about the CDC cult, first learned that O’Rourke was a member over a year ago, in late 2017.

Reuters “backstory” explained that Menn held onto the story until after O’Rourke’s high-profile Senate race in exchange for an on-the-record interview. Menn says he was on leave from Reuters at the time in order to work on his book. Menn had been looking into the CDC for years and “found out that they had a member who was sitting in Congress … and then I figured out which one it was.”

However, Menn said the CDC wouldn’t confirm that O’Rourke was the member in question unless the reporter agreed to hang on to the information “until after the November election” in 2018. After agreeing to the group’s terms, Menn approached O’Rourke for an interview with the promise that it would not be published until after his Senate race. O’Rourke agreed.

Menn defended his decision, Tweeting that he only had a “guess” that O’Rourke was the cult member in Congress and “zero sources.” The reporter did not explain how he came to guess O’Rourke’s involvement and if he had enough information at the time to independently verify his hunch without the CDC’s confirmation. "To be clear, I offered @BetoORourke an embargo because it was for a book I was on leave to write, not for my day job, and because no one else who knew would confirm the facts before the election."

In his interview with Menn, Beto O’Rourke spoke positively of the CDC......through which he engaged in illegal activity. According to Menn’s reporting, O’Rourke accessed cracked gaming software and stole credit card numbers in order to place free long distance phone calls. “There’s just this profound value in being able to be apart from the system and look at it critically and have fun while you’re doing it,” O’Rourke said of the group. “I think of the Cult of the Dead Cow as a great example oof that.”

Menn’s agreement with the CDC that prevented voters from learning about O’Rourke’s hacking calls to mind NBC News’ decision to sit on newsworthy information about then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in fall 2018. In late September, Julie Swetnick claimed Kavanaugh had participated in gang rapes; it was an allegation her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, said could be corroborated by another woman. NBC revealed in late October — weeks after Kavanaugh’s tense confirmation hearings — that the second woman contradicted Swetnick’s story during a phone interview on September 30. Rather than publish the information at the time when Kavanaugh was facing the allegations in the Senate, NBC opted to hold it until after the judge was already confirmed.

In addition, Menn said he agreed to CDC’s terms because he “wanted the full story” for his book on the group “rather than 1 scoop ahead of a state vote.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Texas; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: alreuters; beto; betoorourke; bobblehead; cdc; cultofthedeadcow; josephmenn; mediabias; reuters; tedcruz; texas; unitedkingdom; votersduped
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1 posted on 03/17/2019 5:13:23 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz
Seems to be a recurring pattern...
2 posted on 03/17/2019 5:14:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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BETO THE (GAG) POET-——Beto’s poem entitled “The Song of the Cow,” published in 1988
by “cDc (Cult of the Dead Cow) communications”......a group in which he held membership.
“I need a butt-shine,” the poem begins … and it really all just goes downhill from there:

I need a butt-shine,
Right now
You are holy,
Oh, sacred Cow
I thirst for you,
Provide Milk.
Buff my b***s,
Love the Cow,
Good fortune for those that do.
Love me, breathe my feet,
The Cow has risen.
Wax my a**,
Scrub my b***s.
The Cow has risen,
Provide Milk.

Beto’s poem, for better or for worse, has been preserved forever
by the Google Wayback Machine as a part of the weirdo group’s former website, cultdeadcow.com.


3 posted on 03/17/2019 5:14:52 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: BenLurkin
Collusion all around.

It was revealed that the Congressional Black Caucus, which set up the Halfrican's meeting, also suppressed the damaging picture.

4 posted on 03/17/2019 5:19:11 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz

We were told to shut up and sit down, remember? All this stuff was out there.


5 posted on 03/17/2019 5:21:41 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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Journos have signed up as faithful mouthpieces for the loony left.


6 posted on 03/17/2019 5:25:16 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz

House Committee on Naughty Activities:

“Are you now, or have you ever been, a teenage boy?”


7 posted on 03/17/2019 5:26:58 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: BenLurkin
Notice how the media whitewashes this story by claiming O’Rourke was a member of a "hacking group". He was a member of a "cult", plain and simple. A cult with its own weird beliefs, deviant practices, and rituals. David Koresh/Jim Jones stuff.

O'Rourke is a psychotic freak who should be in an asylum, not competing for the Presidency.

8 posted on 03/17/2019 5:27:02 AM PDT by 10mm
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To: BenLurkin
Ted Cruz must have had a crack team of ex-Bush/McCain/Dole people researching Beta.

Hey Ted! Maybe the President can loan you some people for 2024... ones that aren't playing Washington Generals basketball.

9 posted on 03/17/2019 5:28:00 AM PDT by niteowl77 ("I am equally hostile to unbridled power whether exercised by the head or tail of society." - MD)
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To: Liz

Reuters has now admitted to being part of the elect Irish Bob senate campaign. I suppose we will have to wait until after the democrat primary before Reuters admits which democrat candidate they are now working for.


10 posted on 03/17/2019 5:31:44 AM PDT by hardspunned
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To: 10mm
O'Rourke is a psychotic freak who should be in an asylum, not competing for the Presidency.
He was a member of a "cult"with its own weird beliefs, deviant practices, and rituals. David Koresh/Jim Jones stuff.

Amen.

11 posted on 03/17/2019 5:35:16 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: hardspunned
Reuters has now admitted to being part of the elect Irish Bob senate campaign.....we will have to wait
until the democrat primary before Reuters admits which democrat candidate they are now working for.

Heh....nice take.

12 posted on 03/17/2019 5:36:54 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz
...O’Rourke was a member over a year ago, in late 2017.

Did he hack Cruz and does he know any Russians?

13 posted on 03/17/2019 5:37:16 AM PDT by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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To: BenLurkin

What passes for “journalism” in the US is about the same standard as for the old Pravda in the Soviet Union; print what damages those you disagree with, hide that which hurts those you support. This isn’t new, goes back to the “press” hiding information about JFK’s dalliances and not giving a damn about LBJ’s history of corruption and odd connections to at least eight murders.


14 posted on 03/17/2019 5:40:11 AM PDT by laconic
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Politico Writer Labels Beto O'Rourke a 'Semigogue'
Newsbusters ^ | March 16, 2019 | P.J. Gladnick / FR Posted by PJ-Comix
At the very least, the Beto O'Rourke candidacy for president is certain to be the inspiration for a lot of humor. Abe Greenwald of Commentary magazine already labeled him as the Seinfeld candidate and that it is a "Campaign About Nothing, Not that there's anything wrong with that." No, nothing wrong with that as long as Beto doesn't turn into a demagogue. The good news is that Jack Shafer, the Politico senior media writer, assures us that is unlikely. The reason, Shafer asserted on Thursday, is that O'Rourke is probably what he calls a "semigogue" in "The Semigoguery of Beto O’Rourke." (Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...

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CONCLUSION He's a "semigogue" with clean teeth, a credit card fraudster, a software pirate, a (gag) Poet, punk rocker, skateboarder, keeps his teeth clean, and hoists one too many.

Drunk driving mug shot.................................... Punk rocker.

BETO SLAPPED DOWN BY THE LEFT----Left-wing activists and liberal journalists slammed and mocked “Beto” O’Rourke after he told Vanity Fair that he was “born” to run for president. The left says he "reeks of white male privilege." (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...

He instagrammed this over the net.

His chief political asset (he thinks).......he looks like Robert Kennedy.

15 posted on 03/17/2019 5:42:22 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz

The leftist media lies again to further their radical, anti-constitution and anti-freedom agenda.

JoMa


16 posted on 03/17/2019 5:44:04 AM PDT by joma89
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To: Liz

I’d respect him more if he was actually coding. Was he a script kiddie? Or, just a hanger on?


17 posted on 03/17/2019 5:45:50 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: proxy_user

I was no angel as a teenage boy, but I never stole credit cards or credit card numbers.

Crosses a line to me.


18 posted on 03/17/2019 5:46:50 AM PDT by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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To: Liz

He looks more like Jeb Bush


19 posted on 03/17/2019 5:48:50 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: Liz

When his #MeToo moment breaks, NO ONE will be able to hold it back...


20 posted on 03/17/2019 5:48:59 AM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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