Des Moines Register Fires Brooklyn Buzzfeed Scalp-Hunter

A #CancelCulture Warrior got canceled. How sad.

But the Des Moines Register is doing damage control and dishonestly spinning for itself here.

We hear you. You're angry. Here's what we are doing about it.
We took appropriate action because there is nothing more important in journalism than having readers' trust.
The Des Moines Register staff has heard from hundreds of people in the past few days upset over our handling of a story on Carson King, the 24-year-old whose Busch Light sign on ESPN's "College GameDay" show launched more than a million dollars in donations to an Iowa children’s hospital.
We've listened with an open mind to everyone, but especially Iowans, the people who are our neighbors, who care as much as we do about our state and everyone who lives here.
And we hear you: You're angry, you're disappointed and you want us to understand that.
I want to be as transparent as possible about what we did and why, answer the questions you’ve raised and tell you what we've learned so far and what we'll try to do better. For one, we’re revising our policies and practices, including those that did not uncover our own reporter's past inappropriate social media postings. That reporter is no longer with the Register.
...
The Register reporter writing the profile had discovered the tweets on King’s public timeline earlier in the day, and he asked King about them. King, to his credit, expressed immediate regret.
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You've asked instead why we chose to look into King's tweets in the first place. Some of you then noticed questionable tweets by the reporter himself, which the Register then began to investigate.
I’ll discuss some of the steps in our decision-making later. But rest assured, we’re examining all of our processes with fresh eyes. In response to this week’s conversations, we're focused on:
Our policies for backgrounding individuals in stories, with particular attention to acts committed by juveniles and to the newsworthiness of that information years later.
The shift in social media culture and how activities on those platforms reflect upon a person’s newsworthiness in general.
Our screening policy and social media vetting for employees.
Some of you wonder why journalists think it’s necessary to look into someone’s past. It's essential because readers depend on us to tell a complete story.
In this case, our initial stories drew so much interest that we decided to write a profile of King, to help readers understand the young man behind the handmade sign and the outpouring of donations to the children’s hospital. The Register had no intention to disparage or otherwise cast a negative light on King.
In doing backgrounding for such a story, reporters talk to family, friends, colleagues or professors. We check court and arrest records as well as other pertinent public records, including social media activity. The process helps us to understand the whole person.
There have been numerous cases nationally of fundraising for a person experiencing a tragedy that was revealed as a scam after media investigated the backgrounds of the organizer or purported victim.
As journalists, we have the obligation to look into matters completely, to aid the public in understanding the people we write about and in some cases to whom money is donated.

This is all bullshit designed to evade -- not answer -- the question: if such "routine background checks" are necessary for every non-journalist who happens to stumble into the public discussion, why aren't such "routine background checks" necessary for journalists?

Why aren't all of their social media posts vetted? Their divorce histories? Affairs? Their drug use? Their arrest records?

Who's doing blow and fucking someone else's spouse in the back room? We know you guys all know.

Matt Lauer was an open secret.

If the public needs such information to judge whether or not to trust a 24 year old fundraiser, then how can the media deny us such information about the crucial, vital Firefighters of the Media? How can we evaluate their stories without having a full Routine Background Investigation appended to every article they write?

They won't answer that, of course. Because they're a Guild who asserts the Absolute Right to attack and destroy any non-journalist citizen in the world, but which shrieks "We are the press! We need to be protected!" when the same treatment is suggested for them.

They're currently shrieking merely about criticism -- true criticism, as they full well know. They know they're liberal. But if high-ranking Republicans say they're crusading liberal partisans -- which they know they are; they give each other awards in recognition of this -- they shriek that we're "endangering the press" and trying to "chilling the First Amendment."

And meanwhile, they just keep adding to their bloody pile of citizen scalps.

They really do believe -- and intend to codify it as law -- that the First Amendment exists only for the credentialed liberal professional class. They're just hesitant to say it until they're sure they have the power to impose that law.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 12:26 PM

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1 First?

Posted by: FrodoB, learning to reload at September 27, 2019 12:26 PM (wpA/B)

2 oliie ollie otter free!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019 12:26 PM (d7Ww2)

3 not first

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 12:26 PM (q80AH)

4 nice to see the left eating their own.

Posted by: henry at September 27, 2019 12:27 PM (JMDly)

5 Good.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 12:27 PM (vEIlU)

6 Fuggin Crepes

Posted by: dananjcon at September 27, 2019 12:27 PM (u6xw0)

7 Ahahaha

Posted by: Redenzo at September 27, 2019 12:27 PM (14qvS)

8 Great, now fire the editors who approved the jerkoff's dox post, and fire Anheuser Busch because their beer is shite.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 12:28 PM (AFSld)

9 They fired him for his own old tweets , not for his exposure of a 16 year old. No actual justice.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 27, 2019 12:29 PM (cN1tG)

10 But muh freedom of the press!

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at September 27, 2019 12:29 PM (KUaJL)

11 there is nothing more important in journalism than having readers' trust

Good one.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2019 12:29 PM (VIIPP)

12 It says a lot about King that he still donated the money to the hospital. Honestly, if that happened to me, I'd say, "Fuck you, I'm keeping the money to ease my trauma the media gave me."

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 12:29 PM (AFSld)

13 And meanwhile, they just keep adding to their bloody pile of citizen scalps.

He probably cried like a little baby and used the n word again.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 12:29 PM (vEIlU)

14 Ha ha ha.

More scalps, please.

I like to go back to college wearing a pork pie hat and instead of a raccoon skin coat, an SJW scalp coat.

Bonus! Becuz I refuse to be williowed...

Yeah, that's within the realm, but I'm gonna stick with my gut on this one and say that they shouldn't meet anyone ever.

The closest should be something like an unknowable intelligence far beyond our own comprehension, sort of like V'ger in The Motion Picture before they actually figured out that it was Voyager 6 looking for its daddy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 12:24 PM (q80AH)

Sounds like you want -

Star Trek: Ad Astra

Be careful what you wish for.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2019 12:30 PM (XCfh1)

15 Learn to Corn.

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2019 12:30 PM (sM1uH)

16 I am glad Iowans were pissed off enough to call in and get this idiot fired which I am sure what not an outcome she expected.

Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 12:30 PM (a0IVu)

17 Someone on Twitter said, basically, hey editor at the Des Moines Register, your job is not to fire the guy because of his past tweets, but keep him from writing about the other guys past tweets.

Thank you for keeping cancel culture going, assholes.

Paging DLamp. Mr Diogenes Lamp, to the white courtesy phone, please.

Posted by: blaster at September 27, 2019 12:30 PM (9VeU0)

18 KARMA'S A BITCH!

Posted by: redridinghood at September 27, 2019 12:30 PM (wiXsO)

19 Great post! Nailed it as Barbra Streisand! The media have taken it upon themselves to be scalp hunters. Again, great post!

Posted by: Locke Common at September 27, 2019 12:30 PM (23/7P)

20 Storming the beaches....and, btw "twitter" ain't "news".

Posted by: BignJames at September 27, 2019 12:30 PM (X/Pw5)

21 Notice how they reflexively refer to themselves as "journalists." No. They're reporters. It's like whores referring to themselves as "escorts."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2019 12:30 PM (VIIPP)

22 I saw a cogent tweet from someone (I know, right?) that said that the DMR's most egregious mistake was that the editors let that article go to print in the first place.

You could also point out that the hiring of the hack in the first place could and should be a firing offense as well.

Posted by: filbert at September 27, 2019 12:30 PM (NiXyF)

23

Like Tucker said, just cancel your subscription. Stop buying that paper.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 12:30 PM (vEIlU)

24 fuck the des moines register. actually, fuck iowa. the only good thing about iowa is leaving that shithole.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 27, 2019 12:30 PM (KP5rU)

25 I feel like cancel culture is starting to get beaten back a little bit, starting with Chappelle. At least one SJW I know has gotten *really* defensive about the entire concept.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 27, 2019 12:30 PM (ZGrMX)

26 This is rare.
Pig farmers must have been pissed.

Posted by: Roland THTG at September 27, 2019 12:31 PM (88+cf)

27 "Some of you wonder why journalists think it's necessary to look into someone's past. It's essential because readers depend on us to tell a complete story."

GMAFB with this shit.

Posted by: Jordan61 at September 27, 2019 12:31 PM (Ez6QX)

28 Learn to Corn.
Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2019 12:30 PM (sM1uH)

"Learn To Detassle Corn.
You're Too Stupid To Code."

Posted by: filbert at September 27, 2019 12:31 PM (NiXyF)

29 If I happened to see a reporter being vigorously beaten on the sidewalk with a length of logging chain, I would not join in.

I believe this makes me a moderate in the Moslem world.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 27, 2019 12:31 PM (P+Keb)

30
We hear you.

We understand you.

We offer you a glass of milk.

That dose of strychnine we gave you was against our standards, and we regret it. We can see you twisting in pain, and we get it. We get it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 27, 2019 12:31 PM (13CQC)

31 For those of you who haven't seen what he looks like....just what you'd expect.

https://images.app.goo.gl/zjPRELCy9fi5AVJm7

Posted by: The OA at September 27, 2019 12:32 PM (FiUMj)

32 They need to experience more of cancel culture. Up close. Personally. For a long time.

Posted by: Mikey NTH -Support Your Sagging Self-Worth with Poses & Postures from The Outrage Outlet! at September 27, 2019 12:32 PM (hLRSq)

33 >>>I saw a cogent tweet from someone (I know, right?) that said that the DMR's most egregious mistake was that the editors let that article go to print in the first place.

Agreed. The author is scum, but the editor, Carol Whatever, is the one who did all the damage.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 12:32 PM (AFSld)

34 Off OA sock

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 12:32 PM (FiUMj)

35 AB is crappy beer. They like to buy out smaller breweries to try to absorb the shine from those. End up making them just as crappy.
The Des Moines Register has long been a solid D paper and I would not trust their weather reports, their obits and if they told me the sun was rising in the east I'd go outside and look for myself.
This, "Explanation", is pure ass covering to keep whatever readership they may have left.
Screw them.

And, Good Morning Horde!

Posted by: Winston a dreg of society at September 27, 2019 12:32 PM (7EIHE)

36 http://bit.ly/2nSCISo
*******
Britons Still Betting On Hillary Clinton to Win the Democratic Nomination - Sara A. Carter

Posted by: Derp State is in Deep Shit at September 27, 2019 12:32 PM (BqBId)

37 OT

Republicans see impeachment backfiring. Democrats fear they may be right

| Reuters

Posted by: Ha at September 27, 2019 12:32 PM (B/g/o)

38 "In doing backgrounding for such a story, reporters talk to family,
friends, colleagues or professors. We check court and arrest records as
well as other pertinent public records, including social media activity.
The process helps us to understand the whole person.

There have been numerous cases nationally of fundraising for a person
experiencing a tragedy that was revealed as a scam after media
investigated the backgrounds of the organizer or purported victim."

So, which part(s) of Mr. King's tweets (from seven years ago) where he was quoting a comedian, led the Des Moines Register to believe that the fund-raising might have been a scam?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at September 27, 2019 12:32 PM (9LIpg)

39 For those of you who haven't seen what he looks like....just what you'd expect.

This guy is the definition of "just what you'd expect". Someone needs to Photoshop him into flannel PJs.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 27, 2019 12:32 PM (ZGrMX)

40 'whose Busch Light sign on ESPN's "College GameDay" show launched more than a million dollars in donations to an Iowa childrens hospital.'

from what i read, the donations went directly to him. HE made the decision to give everything to the hospital. which THEN 'launched' the action of the other companies matching his money

way to cover the story. "with a pillow. until it stops moving."

Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at September 27, 2019 12:32 PM (RKQ/v)

41 Get in the van. It's just for some routine questioning. Schnell!

Posted by: Late 1930s Gestapo at September 27, 2019 12:32 PM (q1Pj5)

42 heard a song about iowa.
corn,corn,corn,corn,corn, there's a tree, corn corn,corn.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 27, 2019 12:33 PM (KP5rU)

43 Interesting that she writes "no longer works here".
Never saw the words 'fired' or 'let go'. Maybe permitted to resign with generous severance.

Posted by: Lebron Horowitz at September 27, 2019 12:33 PM (UFgOG)

44 >>>It's like whores referring to themselves as "escorts."

Stop calling my escorts whores!!!

Posted by: GOB Bluth at September 27, 2019 12:33 PM (PbpT7)

45 29 If I happened to see a reporter being vigorously beaten on the sidewalk with a length of logging chain, I would not join in.

I believe this makes me a moderate in the Moslem world.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 27, 2019 12:31 PM (P+Keb)

I won't join in either but I may offer kind words of encouragement.

Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 12:33 PM (a0IVu)

46 If I happened to see a reporter being vigorously beaten on the sidewalk with a length of logging chain, I would not join in.

I believe this makes me a moderate in the Moslem world.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 27, 2019 12:31 PM (P+Keb)

Infidel! A logging chain is a symbol of the corrupt West!

Use rocks like it is WRITTEN!

Posted by: filbert at September 27, 2019 12:33 PM (NiXyF)

47 How long before MSNBC hires him? 72 hours?

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 12:33 PM (FiUMj)

48 Fired is fired.

If an own-goal wins the game it's all good.

Posted by: 13times at September 27, 2019 12:33 PM (K3B2k)

49 J'accuse Ace is best Ace

Posted by: Hands at September 27, 2019 12:33 PM (786Ro)

50 Life is too short to drink rice beer.

Posted by: Roland THTG at September 27, 2019 12:33 PM (88+cf)

51 The purpose of social media is so that the overlords of society would have a means to destroy whomever they deem necessary to destroy.

PERIOD. FULL STOP.

Don't help them by putting the hook through your own nose.

Posted by: you need to protect yourselves at September 27, 2019 12:33 PM (Uk8fe)

52 >>>AB is crappy beer. They like to buy out smaller breweries to try to absorb the shine from those. End up making them just as crappy.

Also yes.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 12:33 PM (AFSld)

53 >>If the public needs such information to judge whether or not to trust a 24 year old fundraiser, then how can the media deny us such information about the crucial, vital Firefighters of the Media? How can we evaluate their stories without having a full Routine Background Investigation appended to every article they write?

THIS

*I recall Stetler saying Twitter depends on journalists, which is why the "pounced" on Learn to Code. What happens when media companies tell journalists to quit twitter/Instagram/facebook,?

LOLGF Twitter!!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2019 12:33 PM (bDqIh)

54 AB is crappy beer. They like to buy out smaller breweries to try to absorb the shine from those. End up making them just as crappy.

*sobs*

Posted by: The Glory That Was Rolling Rock at September 27, 2019 12:33 PM (wzVKm)

55 A couple years ago I might have been conflicted about this. Now? BWAHAHAHAHAHA learn to code motherhumper!

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at September 27, 2019 12:33 PM (RD7QR)

56 "Some of you wonder why journalists think it's necessary to look into someone's past. It's essential because readers depend on us to tell a complete story."

Unless he's running for President and is named "Hussein."

Then, not so much.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2019 12:34 PM (VIIPP)

57 http://bit.ly/2mbNi6E
********
Police locate Jeffrey Epstein's 'missing' French associate in South America, say reports
********
Welp! next to be Arkancided

Posted by: Derp State is in Deep Shit at September 27, 2019 12:34 PM (BqBId)

58 hiya

Posted by: JT at September 27, 2019 12:34 PM (arJlL)

59 The same people keep Ted Kennedy as an icon regardless of anything he said or did.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 27, 2019 12:34 PM (oVJmc)

60 Republicans see impeachment backfiring. ~~Democrats fear~~ Reuters fears they may be right

| Reuters
Posted by: Ha at September 27, 2019 12:32 PM (B/g/o)

FIFY

Posted by: filbert at September 27, 2019 12:34 PM (NiXyF)

61 Book deal.

Posted by: klaftern at September 27, 2019 12:34 PM (RuIsu)

62 2 oliie ollie otter free!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019

*
*

Oh, God, the otters are back!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM (ClOmq)

63 In doing backgrounding for such a story, reporters talk to family, friends, colleagues or professors. We check court and arrest records as well as other pertinent public records, including social media activity. The process helps us to understand the whole person."

First, WTF is "backgrounding", and second, let's see your "backgrounding" on other "reports"...

Oh, you have none? Hmmm.

Bless your hearts.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM (6qErC)

64 They would be well served to look into the past of any of their heroes. Like Che, Stalin, Pol Pot, chairmen Mao, Ho Chi Minn. Castro.
Not guilty of distasteful tweets so I guess OK.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM (cN1tG)

65 Say what you will, the goofy headlines in most newspapers is good for a bout of hysterical laughter to start your day.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM (e1mEI)

66 That kid did the exceptional thing right away and gave to a children's hospital. He didn't wait weeks or months and do a PR deal. He just did the right thing and quickly.

Eff anyone who wants to roast this kid for stuff said when he was 16.

Also, I'm screwed if anyone looks into stuff I've said, here or anywhere. Hoo boy.

Posted by: Seems Legit at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM (jUVms)

67 Interesting that she writes "no longer works here".
=========
Transferred to main office - Open Society . . .

Posted by: Soros at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM (JhkYB)

68 What does this have to do about corn prices, you might ask? - Des Moines Register

Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM (gmo/4)

69 so a public outcry got the reporter fired, which is good. (yeah, they were kinda forced to do it, and the paper lied about their real motives)

I am hoping this is why Ukraine gets a a more thorough investigation ... because of massive public outcry at the gross corruption in government will demand it. (but as we see, the MFM is willing to destroy all it's few remaining vestiges of integrity to cover it up)

So far the engineered public outcry that makes news is all "OrangeManBad" ... but that is astroturf. This Biden thing could become a Hillary thing, then the whole RussiaGate will be seen as the Coup it is. I hope.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM (Cus5s)

70 Bernie Sanders: Under government healthcare takeover

https://tinyurl.com/y5wxazfl

Posted by: redridinghood at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM (wiXsO)

71 >>>from what i read, the donations went directly to him.

Yes, and I heard legally he could have kept the money. In hindsight, I wouldn't blame him if he did after all this trouble.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM (AFSld)

72 "Some of you wonder why journalists think it's necessary to look into someone's past. It's essential because readers depend on us to tell a complete story."

All those instances of media suppression say otherwise.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM (oVJmc)

73
I couldn't stand to read the whole rambling, condescending note. Enough of the infantilization. Your whole problem here is that you failed to act like grownups in the first place. Bad editorial decision-making from the top down.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM (13CQC)

74 Oh, God, the otters are back!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
>>And I tried not to get involved.

Posted by: FrodoB, learning to reload at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM (wpA/B)

75 no more otters.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM (KP5rU)

76 31 For those of you who haven't seen what he looks like....just what you'd expect.

https://images.app.goo.gl/zjPRELCy9fi5AVJm7
Posted by: The OA at September 27, 2019 12:32 PM (FiUMj)

Jeez, he looks 14.

Posted by: Jordan61 at September 27, 2019 12:36 PM (Ez6QX)

77 Great.

Now fire the editor, and every other person at the Des Moines Register who approved publication of this article.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 27, 2019 12:36 PM (I2/tG)

78 Kid better keep receipts so the IRS doesn't decide all that was income.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 27, 2019 12:36 PM (oVJmc)

79 fuck the des moines register. actually, fuck iowa. the only good thing about iowa is leaving that shithole.
=======

After having driven through it this year and having never been there before, I concur with your sentiment.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 27, 2019 12:36 PM (vg8iE)

80 Sterilize! Sterilize!

Posted by: The Des Moines V'Ger at September 27, 2019 12:36 PM (mwIW1)

81 I'm having trouble breathing--all the odor from the horsesh!t Des Moines Register article is crowding out the oxygen.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 27, 2019 12:36 PM (E+OcO)

82 "there is nothing more important in journalism than having readers' trust."

There's nothing more important in crossing a river than having the frog's trust.

-- The scorpion

Posted by: Hands at September 27, 2019 12:36 PM (786Ro)

83 The DMR was sure sticking up for their reasoning on the "routine background check" the day this went down.

Too bad their "journalist" liked him some n words and had pedo tendencies.

I'm really happy the victim came out smelling like a rose by actually getting ahead of the story, which is something the left can never do.

I'm really glad there was no social media - or internet - when I was 16. Or 30.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 27, 2019 12:37 PM (Z1ykJ)

84 >>>
*I recall Stetler saying Twitter depends on journalists, which is why the "pounced" on Learn to Code. What happens when media companies tell journalists to quit twitter/Instagram/facebook,?

LOLGF Twitter!!

...

yes, that's a very good point. The Twitter Addicts hate this partly because their employers might start controlling their precious twitters.

Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 12:37 PM (PbpT7)

85 http://bit.ly/2nSCISo
*******
Britons Still Betting On Hillary Clinton to Win the Democratic Nomination - Sara A. Carter
Posted by: Derp State is in Deep Shit at September 27, 2019 12:32 PM (BqBId)

Rush mentioned it too. Said he wouldn't put it past them to put her in. And that they are going to slowly tank Biden without it looking like they did. I guess Solomon did them a favor, but there is more to the Ukraine story than Biden.

It's Soros. I heard he had a lawsuit against him too, and the Biden event stopped it. And that his company was competing. He wanted control of Ukraine. He will destroy anything in his path.

IF this ends up at Soros, I mean outing him, that would be something for a change.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 12:37 PM (vEIlU)

86 72 "Some of you wonder why journalists think it's necessary to look into someone's past. It's essential because readers depend on us to tell a complete story."

All those instances of media suppression say otherwise.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM (oVJmc)

_____

Would someone please link the Register's thorough back ground story on Obama? Churches, passports, grades, papers, etc..

Posted by: Seems Legit at September 27, 2019 12:37 PM (jUVms)

87 AB is crappy beer. They like to buy out smaller breweries to try to absorb the shine from those. End up making them just as crappy.

The irony being AB itself got bought out by the Belgians.

Now they're Eurosnobs without the beer to back it up.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 27, 2019 12:37 PM (ZGrMX)

88 Good. Every reporter needs to be anxious: is this the story that will get them fired and unemployable? A better society would see them tarred and feathered for their treachery, but this will do. For now.

Posted by: trev006 at September 27, 2019 12:37 PM (6ikLp)

89 For those of you who haven't seen what he looks like....just what you'd expect.

My testosterone level dropped 5% just viewing that image. He's like a vampire.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 27, 2019 12:37 PM (P+Keb)

90 I think cancel culture will end at the national scale when something like this happens:

Republican senate candidate is running against a Democratic incumbent.

A known media personality (Rachel Maddow for example) is the first out with a story about how the candidate said something mean in a yearbook/Facebook/Twitter/whatever 10 years ago and blows it up.

Republican ignores report.

Media organization terminates media personality.

I think it's then that the right would be willing to lean back on countering cancel culture, and not before. We'd need the institutional left to take out a popular lefty without outside pressure.

Which is to say...it's never going to end.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 12:37 PM (q80AH)

91 Burn the Des Moines Red Star to the ground.

Do it. For Iowa's sake.

That shit stain has been tainting that state for my entire lifetime. It's influence cannot be overstated, it is THE newspaper for the whole fucking place. No competition, ever.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
The Democrats hate you
and want you dead.
Buy ammo at September 27, 2019 12:37 PM (bcbK8)

92 For those of you who haven't seen what he looks like....just what you'd expect.

Mad man across the otters.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 27, 2019 12:38 PM (wzVKm)

93 Carol Hunter has to be fired.

Posted by: WOPR at September 27, 2019 12:38 PM (xFPy5)

94 First, WTF is "backgrounding"

It's a form of "verbing."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2019 12:38 PM (VIIPP)

95 94 First, WTF is "backgrounding"

It's a form of "verbing."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2019 12:38 PM (VIIPP)

=========

Excuse me, I'm going to sandwich and then I think I'm gonna bed for a while.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 12:39 PM (q80AH)

96 "Some of you wonder why journalists think it's necessary to look into someone's past. It's essential because readers depend on us to tell a complete story."
======

And that's total bullshit. Complete story my ass. Irrelevant.

The only significant part of the story was that someone donated money to a children's hospital. It shouldn't have been an anal probe of who donated it. It was the whimsical story surrounding the donation and the good that was done.

Fuck these fucking fucks.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 27, 2019 12:39 PM (vg8iE)

97 Once again: Twitter Ruins Everything

Posted by: Hands at September 27, 2019 12:39 PM (786Ro)

98 >>"Some of you wonder why journalists think it's necessary to look into someone's past. It's essential because readers depend on us to tell a complete story."

Apparently your HR team does not.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2019 12:39 PM (bDqIh)

99 For those of you who haven't seen what he looks like....just what you'd expect.

A dirty little Stazi?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 27, 2019 12:39 PM (oVJmc)

100
So far the engineered public outcry that makes news is all "OrangeManBad" ... but that is astroturf. This Biden thing could become a Hillary thing, then the whole RussiaGate will be seen as the Coup it is. I hope.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM (Cus5s)

This is why it is the perfect time for Hillary to announce, with infinite regret and sadness, how poor Joe is so badly damaged, and how the others just haven't caught on, that she needs, yes must, do her duty to party and nation and sacrifice her golden years by once more offering her service to the nation as its chief executive.

Posted by: Mikey NTH -Support Your Sagging Self-Worth with Poses & Postures from The Outrage Outlet! at September 27, 2019 12:39 PM (hLRSq)

101 99 For those of you who haven't seen what he looks like....just what you'd expect.

A dirty little Stazi?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 27, 2019 12:39 PM (oVJmc)

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No.

Quite clean Stasi.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 12:39 PM (q80AH)

102 76 31 For those of you who haven't seen what he looks like....just what you'd expect.

https://images.app.goo.gl/zjPRELCy9fi5AVJm7
Posted by: The OA at September 27, 2019 12:32 PM (FiUMj)

Jeez, he looks 14.
Posted by: Jordan61 at September 27, 2019 12:36 PM (Ez6QX)

Rachel Maddow got fired? Excellent.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2019 12:39 PM (VIIPP)

103 First, WTF is "backgrounding"

It's a form of "verbing."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2019 12:38 PM (VIIPP)
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Maybe it's like "adulting."

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 27, 2019 12:39 PM (vg8iE)

104 Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 12:37 PM (vEIlU)
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If she couldn't beat PDT when he was laughed at by Drive By Media & had a huge fundraising advantage, what makes them think she can win this time around?

Posted by: Derp State is in Deep Shit at September 27, 2019 12:39 PM (BqBId)

105 100
This is why it is the perfect time for Hillary to announce, with infinite regret and sadness, how poor Joe is so badly damaged, and how the others just haven't caught on, that she needs, yes must, do her duty to party and nation and sacrifice her golden years by once more offering her service to the nation as its chief executive.
Posted by: Mikey NTH -Support Your Sagging Self-Worth with Poses & Postures from The Outrage Outlet! at September 27, 2019 12:39 PM (hLRSq)

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How amazing would it be if she jumped in formally and then she never rose about 5% in any poll and was out of the race after Iowa?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 12:40 PM (q80AH)

106 I WAS going to give the money to the Children's Hospital, but thanks to that piece of kaka, the Des Moines Register, I'm keeping it all! You can thank the Des Moines Register. - That Guy.

Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2019 12:40 PM (gmo/4)

107 >>>Once again: Twitter Ruins Everything

True. It is by far the worst, the most damaging social media platform the world has ever seen, yet people continue using it.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 12:40 PM (AFSld)

108 Media "vetting" does not try to make an overall assessment of a person's character, as the editors of this newspaper claim. They see if they can find anything that, taken by itself or even taken out of context, can be used to besmirch someone's reputation no matter how much the "gotcha" find misrepresents the whole.

Posted by: Alec Rawls at September 27, 2019 12:40 PM (Pw6wN)

109 Some of you wonder why journalists think it's necessary to look into someone's part. It's essential because readers depend on us to tell a complete story.

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Bull-freaking-manure. There was no justification for delving into someone's teenaged social media, which happened to be multiple years in the past. It had no bearing, or interest, with regard to this "feel good" type story of this person donating major bucks for kid's cancer. Carol Hunter can stuff her "rest assured..." right up her wazoo.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at September 27, 2019 12:40 PM (JoUsr)

110 63 In doing backgrounding for such a story, reporters talk to family, friends, colleagues or professors. We check court and arrest records as well as other pertinent public records, including social media activity. The process helps us to understand the whole person."

First, WTF is "backgrounding", and second, let's see your "backgrounding" on other "reports"...

Oh, you have none? Hmmm.

Bless your hearts.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 27, 2019

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*

In actual English, "doing backgrounding" used to be written as "researching."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 27, 2019 12:40 PM (ClOmq)

111 No, we don't depend on you to tell a "complete story." So every news story should have the subject's entire background?

Local man raises money for children's hospital - but first, fifty paragraphs about his experiences in high school.

When you do a recap for a baseball game, every time you mention a player, you need to mention where he was born, what college he went to, what round he was drafted in, his favorite food, how many affairs he's had, and whether he has ever said "y'all are gay" in a group text.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 12:40 PM (oZ6kz)

112 Carson King is named seven times in that column, and Aaron Calvin isn't named once - only referred to as the "reporter."

Posted by: ShreddyK at September 27, 2019 12:40 PM (wWHZw)

113 87 AB is crappy beer. They like to buy out smaller breweries to try to absorb the shine from those. End up making them just as crappy.

The irony being AB itself got bought out by the Belgians.

Now they're Eurosnobs without the beer to back it up.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 27, 2019 12:37 PM (ZGrMX)

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InBev and SABMiller own every beer company in the universe it seems.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 12:41 PM (FiUMj)

114
They really do believe -- and intend to codify it as law -- that the First Amendment exists only for the credentialed liberal professional class. They're just hesitant to say it until they're sure they have the power to impose that law.

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I strongly believe Speech Licenses of this type are on the agenda, and will provide SM companies with a convenient legal fig leaf for deplatforming people who say Wrongthings on the grounds that they are Fake News, without compromising their position as platform instead of a publisher.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 12:41 PM (AzW6q)

115 Iowa is fine with some lovely sights:

https://tinyurl.com/y6scrpbo

The DMR is not, nor is the guy who felt like he needed to try to destroy someone just because he could, but then I expect those leftists are in every state n big cities and small.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2019 12:41 PM (j0JAA)

116 They really do believe -- and intend to codify it as law -- that the First Amendment exists only for the credentialed liberal professional class.

They're just hesitant to say it until they're sure they have the power to impose that law.

They won't have the power until they destroy the 2nd Amendment.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 12:41 PM (DlU13)

117 Excuse me, I'm going to sandwich and then I think I'm gonna bed for a while."

Sounds better in the original German.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 27, 2019 12:42 PM (6qErC)

118 We run the Senate, right?

Then why in the fuck isn't there 6 Senate committees running hearings on Joe and Hunter Biden's corruption?

Posted by: jwest at September 27, 2019 12:42 PM (/roJx)

119 Hopefully we're nearing the point when the public realize that it was always pure fantasy that the media could ever be "objective reporters of the news."
If you don't have a bias, then you're either lying or stupid, in which case I trust the person who admits their bias much more than you.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 27, 2019 12:42 PM (KUaJL)

120 54 AB is crappy beer. They like to buy out smaller breweries to try to absorb the shine from those. End up making them just as crappy.

*sobs*
Posted by: The Glory That Was Rolling Rock at September 27, 2019 12:33 PM (wzVKm

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Aka, the General Motors Gambit

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 27, 2019 12:42 PM (RHNmi)

121 Rush and I think alike.

Posted by: jwest at September 27, 2019 12:42 PM (/roJx)

122 117 Excuse me, I'm going to sandwich and then I think I'm gonna bed for a while."

Sounds better in the original German.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 27, 2019 12:42 PM (6qErC)

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Shakespeare?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 12:42 PM (q80AH)

123
Then why in the fuck isn't there 6 Senate committees running hearings on Joe and Hunter Biden's corruption?
========

That's not who we are.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 27, 2019 12:42 PM (vg8iE)

124 Otters? We don't need no stinking otters! - Mexican shellfish Banditos

Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2019 12:42 PM (gmo/4)

125 Iowa is fine with some lovely sights:
>>
Looks like a good place for an otter ranch.

Posted by: FrodoB, learning to reload at September 27, 2019 12:42 PM (wpA/B)

126 Which is to say...it's never going to end.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 12:37 PM (q80AH)

I wouldn't say it will "never" end, because there is one pathway to ending it - we make the lives of everyone on the left, and everyone who works for a media company, and everyone who holds office in a major corporation, a living hell by allowing access to all private records and publicizing them relentlessly. We give it to them 10 times as worse as they are dishing it out now, and THEN maybe they'll start to see the wisdom in ending the practice.

That's how wars are fought.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2019 12:43 PM (Kpl3J)

127 Don't we need a full understanding of who is telling us the story?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 27, 2019 12:43 PM (oVJmc)

128 full Routine Background Investigation = social media colonoscopy

Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at September 27, 2019 12:43 PM (wW1da)

129 118 We run the Senate, right?

Then why in the fuck isn't there 6 Senate committees running hearings on Joe and Hunter Biden's corruption?

Posted by: jwest at September 27, 2019 12:42 PM (/roJx)

Other than Graham and Rand Paul, I don't know if any of the other R senators have said anything? Anyone heard from Cruz or Mitch?

Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 12:43 PM (a0IVu)

130
How amazing would it be if she jumped in formally and then she never rose about 5% in any poll and was out of the race after Iowa?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 12:40 PM (q80AH)

she would do it just to get in front of the camera, national tv, and more grift. She's probably running low on luxury

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 12:43 PM (vEIlU)

131 As far as the paper goes, I don't see the folks of Iowa letting this go quickly. There will be a couple more scalps at the Register before this blows over.

Posted by: Inogame at September 27, 2019 12:44 PM (W5VS3)

132 How amazing would it be if she jumped in formally and then she never rose about 5% in any poll and was out of the race after Iowa?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

She'll simply steal it again. We're like that.

Posted by: DNC at September 27, 2019 12:44 PM (5ztcy)

133 "Then why in the fuck isn't there 6 Senate committees running hearings on Joe and Hunter Biden's corruption? "

To ask the question is to answer the question.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 12:44 PM (FiUMj)

134 When you do a recap for a baseball game, every time you mention a player, you need to mention where he was born, what college he went to, what round he was drafted in, his favorite food, how many affairs he's had, and whether he has ever said "y'all are gay" in a group text.
Posted by: Broseidon

How many girlfriends he beat, how many wives he cheated on, how many baby daddies he is...

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 12:44 PM (DlU13)

135 >>>Then why in the fuck isn't there 6 Senate committees running hearings on Joe and Hunter Biden's corruption?

The same reason the Benghazi Hearings were a joke, the Strzok/Page Hearings were a joke, etc, etc. The GOP talks a good game, but when it comes down to it, they ask a few questions and forget about the matter altogether.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 12:44 PM (AFSld)

136 How amazing would it be if she jumped in formally and then she never rose about 5% in any poll and was out of the race after Iowa?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 12:40 PM (q80AH)

The madness and chaos would be elemental. The Democrats would lock-up like an engine run without oil. At some point the most fortunate or the most vicious, or both - would grab the nomination. Deeply wounded, the snarling victor would club the remains of the party into a sullen column and march them towards November and the final clash with the Golden Scalp Weasel.

Posted by: Mikey NTH -Support Your Sagging Self-Worth with Poses & Postures from The Outrage Outlet! at September 27, 2019 12:44 PM (hLRSq)

137 Maybe it's like "adulting."
Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 27, 2019 12:39 PM (vg8iE)

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I can't stand that word.

Posted by: SMH at September 27, 2019 12:44 PM (RU4sa)

138 i wouldn't allow anyone to take a photo of me in iowa. i didn't want anyone to know i was stupid enough to drive through there. fucking ethanol gas only pile of shit. place isn't fit for slop jockeys.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 27, 2019 12:44 PM (KP5rU)

139 It's not over until the idiot editor loses her job too.

Posted by: Ernst Schreiber at September 27, 2019 12:44 PM (xmKbk)

140 This is why it is the perfect time for Hillary to announce, with infinite regret and sadness, how poor Joe is so badly damaged, and how the others just haven't caught on, that she needs, yes must, do her duty to party and nation and sacrifice her golden years by once more offering her service to the nation as its chief executive.
Posted by: Mikey NTH -Support Your Sagging Self-Worth with Poses & Postures from The Outrage Outlet! at September 27, 2019 12:39 PM (hLRSq)

Nah. Her best play is to sit and wait until the DNC comes to her and pleads with her to run. Thrusting herself into the fray would be disastrous for her chances, and just remind everyone of why they didn't like her before.

But if she reluctantly agrees to run for the sake of her party, the psychology works in her favor.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2019 12:44 PM (VIIPP)

141 "Yes, and I heard legally he could have kept the money. In hindsight, I wouldn't blame him if he did after all this trouble.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM (AFSld)"

He definitely could have - he wasn't scamming, lying, or claiming that the money would go to a certain cause.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 12:45 PM (oZ6kz)

142 >>yes, that's a very good point. The Twitter Addicts hate this partly because their employers might start controlling their precious twitters.

And then Twitter goes into the dumpster because their current business model is squelching conservative voices and independent journalists while promoting click-baity blue check, particularly MSM user effluvia.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2019 12:45 PM (bDqIh)

143 Oh Otter Day night's alright for fighting
Get a little action in

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at September 27, 2019 12:45 PM (RD7QR)

144 Iowa is fine with some lovely sights:

https://tinyurl.com/y6scrpbo

The DMR is not, nor is the guy who felt like he needed to try to
destroy someone just because he could, but then I expect those leftists
are in every state n big cities and small.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2019 12:41 PM (j0JAA)

Don't they have The Worlds Biggest Frying Pan, or Ball of String?

Posted by: Roland THTG at September 27, 2019 12:45 PM (88+cf)

145 >>>Then why in the fuck isn't there 6 Senate committees running hearings on Joe and Hunter Biden's corruption?

FFS the Benghazi hearings essentially concluded no one did anything wrong.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 12:45 PM (AFSld)

146 But if she reluctantly agrees to run for the sake of her party, the psychology works in her favor.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2019 12:44 PM (VIIPP)

I really don't see Warren and Sanders letting this happen.

Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 12:45 PM (a0IVu)

147 In fairness the fundraising WAS a scam - he held uo a sign for beer money and sneakily and dishonestly funneled it to a children's cancer hospital instead

Bacchus was not amused

Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at September 27, 2019 12:45 PM (wW1da)

148 Did he donate the money?

If yes, good on him - nothing about his past matters on this point.

If no, he's an asshat - nothing about his past matters on this point.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, fuck the media.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at September 27, 2019 12:45 PM (xQfPr)

149 117 Excuse me, I'm going to sandwich and then I think I'm gonna bed for a while."

Sounds better in the original German.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 27, 2019

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The verbs would have to be at the end.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 27, 2019 12:45 PM (ClOmq)

150 31 For those of you who haven't seen what he looks like....just what you'd expect.

https://images.app.goo.gl/zjPRELCy9fi5AVJm7
Posted by: The OA at September 27, 2019 12:32 PM (FiUMj)

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OMG. Jim Messina* could even beat him up.

*Not of the Loggins duo.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at September 27, 2019 12:45 PM (JoUsr)

151 All across the country, alleged journalists scratch their heads wondering why they are hated so much. And instead of looking inward at themselves and considering the possibility that they might be in the wrong, they blame everyone else and conclude it is they who are wrong. They are the textbook definition of narcissism.

Posted by: Augustine at September 27, 2019 12:45 PM (BDZWU)

152 For those of you who haven't seen what he looks like....just what you'd expect.

https://images.app.goo.gl/zjPRELCy9fi5AVJm7

Posted by: The OA at September 27, 2019 12:32 PM

****

Media should be force to print pictures of all the writers. I'm a pretty open-minded kinda guy but there is no way this snot-nosed sack of cow dung is smart enough, or experienced enough to "to aid the public in understanding the people we write about and in some cases to whom money is donated."

Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2019 12:45 PM (axyOa)

153

Bullshit, how exactly does a 24 year old kids decision to take a joke that turned into a HUGE fucking windfall and do some SERIOUS good with it, by donating to a CHILDRENS HOSPITAL turn into a need to discover what he tweeted about as a minor?

it's the worst sort of CYA bullshit I've ever seen. and now the kid is tainted with this for the rest of his life, because the internet is forever.

all because his joke turned into an amazing opportunity to help a lot of little children.

I'm not legally allowed to say what I want to happen to that reporter...

but I wouldn't mind finding out rabid squirrels have gnawed on his testicles while he's alive....

Posted by: SturmToddler at September 27, 2019 12:46 PM (8D42x)

154 How many girlfriends he beat, how many wives he cheated on, how many baby daddies he is...
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 12:44 PM (DlU13)

That's for the NFL.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2019 12:46 PM (VIIPP)

155 First, WTF is "backgrounding"

Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM (6qErC)

-----------------------------------

That's when you do something so bad, that grounding you for the rest of your life is not sufficient punishment, so your parents make the grounding retroactive to your birth.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 27, 2019 12:46 PM (CAJOC)

156
InBev and SABMiller own every beer company in the universe it seems.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 12:41 PM (FiUMj)

Which is why local Indy brewers are the only way to go.

Budweiser is a beer for people who really dislike beer, and only drink to look like they're part of the gang. If you think all beer tastes like crap, might as well go for the one with the big ad budget.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2019 12:46 PM (Kpl3J)

157 Too bad, so sad.

Posted by: The Federal Reserve channeling The Hard Bastard at September 27, 2019 12:46 PM (w+Ped)

158 In fairness the fundraising WAS a scam - he held uo a sign for beer money and sneakily and dishonestly funneled it to a children's cancer hospital instead

Bacchus was not amused
Posted by: vmom

The cad! How dare him!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 12:46 PM (DlU13)

159 Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 27, 2019 12:44 PM (KP5rU)

Are you Amish? Were there lots of people clamoring to take your photo along with the buggy and horse?

Are there any leftists in the big cities where you come from?

What do you like about your state?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2019 12:46 PM (j0JAA)

160 What I don't get is why anyone would donate money to a complete stranger for beer. And I mean before the donating to hospital part came in. You see some guy with a sign at a sportsball game and your rush to send him beer money? Am I missing something?

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 12:46 PM (FiUMj)

161 oh and fuck you minx0.7

I just wanted to copy the relevant part of THE BOSSES POST but that's too fucking difficult...

fucking "special characters"...

Posted by: SturmToddler at September 27, 2019 12:47 PM (8D42x)

162 It would be awesome to see Chief Warren fighting Crooked Hillary.

They did it to Biden.
They did it to Bernie.
They'll do it to Fauxcahontas or anyone else they choose.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 12:47 PM (vEIlU)

163 Bullshit, how exactly does a 24 year old kids decision to take a joke that turned into a HUGE fucking windfall and do some SERIOUS good with it, by donating to a CHILDRENS HOSPITAL turn into a need to discover what he tweeted about as a minor?

it's the worst sort of CYA bullshit I've ever seen. and now the kid is tainted with this for the rest of his life, because the internet is forever.

all because his joke turned into an amazing opportunity to help a lot of little children.

---------

Exactly.

Posted by: Seems Legit at September 27, 2019 12:47 PM (jUVms)

164 And during those Senate hearings on the Bidens, I would call Jake Tapper as a witness on one and Chuck Todd on another. Then pick a few more liberal anchors to subpoena for the balance.

Say that the committee has received "credible information" that these anchors have told to "bury" the story about Biden and hide any information about the corruption from the public.

This would make it a public spectacle.

Posted by: jwest at September 27, 2019 12:47 PM (/roJx)

165 In fairness the fundraising WAS a scam - he held uo a sign for beer money and sneakily and dishonestly funneled it to a children's cancer hospital instead

Bacchus was not amused

Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at September 27, 2019 12:45 PM

*****
'
I bet he kept enough for a 6 pack.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2019 12:47 PM (axyOa)

166
The same reason the Benghazi Hearings were a joke, the Strzok/Page Hearings were a joke, etc, etc. The GOP talks a good game, but when it comes down to it, they ask a few questions and forget about the matter altogether.

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Fast & Furious - don't forget that one.

Related: I hear that Issa wants to run again and get back in the House. Presumably so he can again play the Heel to the left's Face in our national wrasslin' show. Must miss the limelight, I guess.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 12:47 PM (AzW6q)

167 Conservative US Senators torpedo Trump's gun grabbing ATF nominee Canterbury.

Posted by: Galil at September 27, 2019 12:47 PM (Pzzpr)

168 i wouldn't allow anyone to take a photo of me in
iowa. i didn't want anyone to know i was stupid enough to drive through
there. fucking ethanol gas only pile of shit. place isn't fit for slop
jockeys.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 27, 2019 12:44 PM (KP5rU)

Try driving through Iowa in July on a motorcycle.
Daggum pig farms will knock you over.

Posted by: Roland THTG at September 27, 2019 12:47 PM (88+cf)

169 Big Mike will 'come to the rescue' before HillDawg

Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at September 27, 2019 12:47 PM (RKQ/v)

170 Does anybody think Carson King's tweets would have been dredged up if he were, say, an LGBT Latino or black guy?

I think we know the answer.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 12:48 PM (oZ6kz)

171 I bet he kept enough for a 6 pack.

Posted by: Diogenes>>
I think I read he kept enough for a case and donated the rest.

Posted by: FrodoB, learning to reload at September 27, 2019 12:48 PM (wpA/B)

172 >>>I hear that Issa wants to run again and get back in the House. Presumably so he can again play the Heel to the left's Face in our national wrasslin' show. Must miss the limelight, I guess.

He'd be an improvement over Duncan Hunter, though.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 12:48 PM (AFSld)

173 Which is why local Indy brewers are the only way to go.

Budweiser is a beer for people who really dislike beer, and only drink to look like they're part of the gang. If you think all beer tastes like crap, might as well go for the one with the big ad budget.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2019 12:46 PM (Kpl3J)

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Most of the "craft" beers on sale at the supermarket are also owned by InBev. As soon as a brewery gets even somewhat big, it gets bought by one of the two giants.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 12:48 PM (FiUMj)

174 InBev and SABMiller own every beer company in the universe it seems.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 12:41 PM (FiUMj)

Hmmm. Probably too late to craft a Ditchweed IPA with a THC of 8% and get bought out by Big Beer.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at September 27, 2019 12:48 PM (e1mEI)

175 We've especially listened to Iowans, because we believe they are most gullible.

FIFY

People I am very close to say they wouldn't wipe their ass with The Register. They told me if you want to see Iowa values, look what Carson King did. Period.

But the minute Carson went on Fox, the same people who are destroying the country with their politics, because nobody shall disagree with them, tried to destroy him.

Got it? Submit or Be Destroyed. That should be The Registers new banner, and they should share it with the quislings who make piss theynty to pass off as beer, AB.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 27, 2019 12:48 PM (8ts9m)

176 155 First, WTF is "backgrounding"

Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM (6qErC)

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That's when you do something so bad, that grounding you for the rest of your life is not sufficient punishment, so your parents make the grounding retroactive to your birth.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 27, 2019

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Happened to me. Only way I could get out of it was to annex Austria.

Posted by: A. Hitler at September 27, 2019 12:49 PM (ClOmq)

177 Which is why local Indy brewers are the only way to go.

Budweiser is a beer for people who really dislike beer, and only drink to look like they're part of the gang. If you think all beer tastes like crap, might as well go for the one with the big ad budget.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2019 12:46 PM (Kpl3J)

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Kinda funny to see the AB HQ in St.Louis surrounded by tons of IPA manufacturers and sellers.

Posted by: SMH at September 27, 2019 12:49 PM (RU4sa)

178 I know how we can take care of this situation.

Someone needs to hack the Register's twitter account.

Tweet "I have information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton"

That oughta do it.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 12:49 PM (oZ6kz)

179 They won't have the power until they destroy the 2nd Amendment.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 12:41 PM (DlU13)

They can't have power until they have 100% confiscation. Which means they will never have the power.

Posted by: clutch at September 27, 2019 12:49 PM (G9oFN)

180 Warren is gonna be the nominee. I'd say that was a cold lock now. Yes, she's a rotten, screechy socialist who's voice makes everyone's ears bleed. But they're stuck with her.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2019 12:49 PM (Kpl3J)

181 How many girlfriends he beat, how many wives he cheated on, how many baby daddies he is...
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 12:44 PM

****

Route this to Sports Editor.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2019 12:49 PM (axyOa)

182 Factory, not HQ.

Posted by: SMH at September 27, 2019 12:49 PM (RU4sa)

183 What I don't get is why anyone would donate money to a complete stranger for beer.

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I thought that the first second I read this story. I'm not giving away my money to anybody on the internet just because they need beer, or gas money, or a boob job, or whatever. I can't believe how people can just throw money at strangers on the internet.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at September 27, 2019 12:49 PM (JoUsr)

184 I really don't see Warren and Sanders letting this happen.
Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 12:45 PM (a0IVu)

Not now, of course. But at the juncture where that might happen (might!) they would be out of the picture, too damaged politically to have any say.

Sanders has precisely zero influence already, as we saw in 2016. How much does Warren have? No idea. But if she gets torched, either by the other hopefuls or by Trump, she'll also have zero influence.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2019 12:49 PM (VIIPP)

185 >>>Does anybody think Carson King's tweets would have been dredged up if he were, say, an LGBT Latino or black guy?

And all this goes back to the problem of Twitter. How many lives have been destroyed for posting the wrong thing or not kowtowing to someone with a blue check mark? It happens every day. Lives ruined, careers ended, for what?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 12:49 PM (AFSld)

186 Fen, my state is full of lefties. Thanks for asking. I'm not Amish, I lean more toward New Age Death Metal, now. Tomorrow, maybe Mormon. I used capital letters in respect to you.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 27, 2019 12:50 PM (KP5rU)

187 I thought that the first second I read this story. I'm not giving away my money to anybody on the internet just because they need beer, or gas money, or a boob job, or whatever. I can't believe how people can just throw money at strangers on the internet.
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at September 27, 2019 12:49 PM (JoUsr)

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Unless they're Hordelings.

Posted by: SMH at September 27, 2019 12:50 PM (RU4sa)

188 InBev and SABMiller own every beer company in the universe it seems.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 12:41 PM (FiUMj)

Thankfully, at least one beer company stands alone. The Gambrinus Company, privately owned, (motto: Beer brings enjoyment to the world) owns both the Spoetzel Brewery in Shiner, TX and the Trumer Brewery in Berkeley, CA.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2019 12:50 PM (q1Pj5)

189 If I happened to see a reporter being vigorously beaten on the sidewalk with a length of logging chain, I would not join in.

I believe this makes me a moderate in the Moslem world.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 27, 2019 12:31 PM (P+Keb)

If I happened to see a reporter being vigorously beaten on the sidewalk witha length of logging chain, I would focus my attention on trying to investigate the beater's social media history. You know, to help me understand the WHOLE person whose doing the beating.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2019 12:50 PM (hku12)

190 180 Warren is gonna be the nominee. I'd say that was a cold lock now. Yes, she's a rotten, screechy socialist who's voice makes everyone's ears bleed. But they're stuck with her.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2019 12:49 PM (Kpl3J)

Hillary and Warren fight for the nom in the stadium of death. Crossbows at 40 paces, and may the screechiest harridan win.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at September 27, 2019 12:50 PM (RD7QR)

191 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2019 12:44 PM (VIIPP)

I think she has to win some primaries.
(1) It is expected that the nominee came from the primary system. Ignoring that may work with the MSM and the lickspittles in the BosNYWash corridor but I don't think it works elsewhere.
(2) She has to win some primaries to prove she still has the political juice. The money fountains dried up after November 2016 and won't start flowing again until she looks like she has the support in the party rank and file to win.
(3) Coming in at the end would give too many people the opportunity to ignore her, "too little, too late, too cowardly". She can't afford to be seen that way, as a risk-averse dawdler.

Posted by: Mikey NTH -Support Your Sagging Self-Worth with Poses & Postures from The Outrage Outlet! at September 27, 2019 12:50 PM (hLRSq)

192 "We took appropriate action because there is nothing more important in journalism than PRETENDING TO HAVE readers' trust."

FIFY.

Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 12:51 PM (mk9aG)

193 This is all bullshit designed to evade -- not answer -- the question
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True, but not new. That is exactly how corporate speak works, and has done so for as long as I can remember. It doesn't mean shit, at least not beyond "We are trying to pretend this verbal thong is covering our asses."

It's always been like that, and always will be.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 27, 2019 12:51 PM (ZbwAu)

194 Which is why local Indy brewers are the only way to go.

Budweiser is a beer for people who really dislike beer, and only drink to look like they're part of the gang. If you think all beer tastes like crap, might as well go for the one with the big ad budget.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2019 12:46 PM (Kpl3J)

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Most of the "craft" beers on sale at the supermarket are also owned by InBev. As soon as a brewery gets even somewhat big, it gets bought by one of the two giants.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 12:48 PM (FiUMj)

I wish someone would tell the craft brewers that hops should not be the main ingredient in beer though.

If I want to drink vinegar, I'll drink vinegar.

Posted by: filbert at September 27, 2019 12:51 PM (NiXyF)

195 185 >>>Does anybody think Carson King's tweets would have been dredged up if he were, say, an LGBT Latino or black guy?

And all this goes back to the problem of Twitter. How many lives have been destroyed for posting the wrong thing or not kowtowing to someone with a blue check mark? It happens every day. Lives ruined, careers ended, for what?
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 12:49 PM (AFSld)

For words.

You cannot say anything except what the scolds approve of. And that changes from day to day.

Fuck that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
The Democrats hate you
and want you dead.
Buy ammo at September 27, 2019 12:51 PM (bcbK8)

196 42 heard a song about iowa.
corn,corn,corn,corn,corn, there's a tree, corn corn,corn.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 27, 2019 12:33 PM (KP5rU)

I thought that was the Indiana state anthem.

Posted by: Keith at September 27, 2019 12:51 PM (jdGlx)

197 What I don't get is why anyone would donate money to a complete stranger for beer. And I mean before the donating to hospital part came in. You see some guy with a sign at a sportsball game and your rush to send him beer money? Am I missing something?
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview

Want to see the poll results?

Posted by: Survey Monkey at September 27, 2019 12:51 PM (5ztcy)

198 I think I read he kept enough for a case and donated the rest.

Posted by: FrodoB, learning to reload at September 27, 2019 12:48 PM

****

Seriously? That's cool! Good for him.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2019 12:51 PM (axyOa)

199 >>>You cannot say anything except what the scolds approve of. And that changes from day to day.

Fuck that.

Correct!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 12:52 PM (AFSld)

200 NPR filled the Ukraine-Biden corruption narrative gap with ten tons of horse manure this morning.

Posted by: 13times at September 27, 2019 12:52 PM (K3B2k)

201 The worst actor in this whole thing is fucking InBev AB or whatever they're called now. Willing to donate what is to them a pittance for the cheap publicity, and when a fucking IOTA of "scandal" hits, they bail like the corporate gladhanding pussies they really are. I'm glad I don't drink any of their garbage.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 12:52 PM (oZ6kz)

202
SABMiller and InBev purchased the entire US brewing industry in the space of about five years. It was astonishing, and sad.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 12:52 PM (AzW6q)

203 Have the two alleged racist jokes been published?

I'd like to judge that for myself as well,

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 27, 2019 12:52 PM (2DOZq)

204 I bet he kept enough for a 6 pack.
Posted by: Diogenes

I think I read he kept enough for a case and donated the rest.
Posted by: FrodoB

He did. One case.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 12:53 PM (DlU13)

205 Learn to Corn.
Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2019 12:30 PM (sM1uH)

"Learn To Detassle Corn.
You're Too Stupid To Code."

Posted by: filbert at September 27, 2019 12:31 PM (NiXyF)

that would be good punishment, as long as they're the ones WALKING. they don't get to ride and clear the tops...

Posted by: SturmToddler at September 27, 2019 12:53 PM (8D42x)

206 135 >>>Then why in the fuck isn't there 6 Senate committees running hearings on Joe and Hunter Biden's corruption?

The same reason the Benghazi Hearings were a joke, the Strzok/Page Hearings were a joke, etc, etc. The GOP talks a good game, but when it comes down to it, they ask a few questions and forget about the matter altogether.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 12:44 PM (AFSld)

I say- I say- impeachment is the political DEATH PENALTY!!!

Posted by: Trey Gowdy, Prosecutor Extraodinaire at September 27, 2019 12:53 PM (w+Ped)

207 heard a song about iowa.
corn,corn,corn,corn,corn, there's a tree, corn corn,corn.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 27, 2019 12:33 PM (KP5rU)

I thought that was the Indiana state anthem.
Posted by: Keith at September 27, 2019 12:51 PM (jdGlx)

Same song. They just have different choruses.

Posted by: filbert at September 27, 2019 12:53 PM (NiXyF)

208 185 >>>Does anybody think Carson King's tweets would have been dredged up if he were, say, an LGBT Latino or black guy?
===

Hey there, remember me?

Posted by: Kevin Hart at September 27, 2019 12:53 PM (BDZWU)

209 Give me Lafayette Zero-6, person-to-person with
Mr. Carson King. That's King with a "K".

Posted by: doof at September 27, 2019 12:53 PM (olgDX)

210 They really do believe -- and intend to codify it as law -- that the First Amendment exists only for the credentialed liberal professional class. They're just hesitant to say it until they're sure they have the power to impose that law.
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Also true. But there have been a few cases where they HAVE pretty much said it. Most well known is Fredo's famous explication of the Special Rights of Jouralismists. (Which is what they get for hiring a complete idiot just because his father was a Made Guy. Suck, it, CNN.)

Posted by: Eeyore at September 27, 2019 12:53 PM (ZbwAu)

211 Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 27, 2019 12:50 PM (KP5rU)

That was my very slight witticism, Chavez.

I didn't really think you were Amish-just that's what I thought of when you said, "I didn't allow anyone to take my picture."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2019 12:54 PM (j0JAA)

212 How many girlfriends he beat, how many wives he cheated on, how many baby daddies he is...
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 12:44 PM

Jizz launch angle and exit velo

WAR = Wives Above Replacement

( Powered by AWS )

Posted by: Hands at September 27, 2019 12:54 PM (786Ro)

213 That explanation of why it was necessary to destroy someone's life is bullshit.

I know that's already been said but I wanted to say it as well.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at September 27, 2019 12:54 PM (Uu+Jp)

214 This is the unfortunate part of the recent destruction of leftwing news sites. The leftist writers get thrown out like shrapnel to places like Des Moines to spread their cancer there.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at September 27, 2019 12:54 PM (0r40K)

215 Milwaukee's Best Light comes out of the same breweries, same production line and same ingredient stock as Miller Lite and costs 30% less because it has zero advertising.

DanMa'am has a palate that only allows Miller Lite or MBL and we happened to live on a street with a Miller distributor that showed me this.

she finally wore me off my craft beers so I run with a shot of Crown between every few 'beers'. Lost some weight too.

Posted by: DanMan at September 27, 2019 12:54 PM (XTiHL)

216 Yuengling and Boston brewing (Sam Adams) are still independent, I believe.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 12:54 PM (oZ6kz)

217 198 I think I read he kept enough for a case and donated the rest.

Posted by: FrodoB, learning to reload at September 27, 2019 12:48 PM

****

Seriously? That's cool! Good for him.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2019 12:51 PM (axyOa)

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When I first heard the story, I heard that he was getting a year's worth from AB, including a can with his picture on it. Don't know if that's still the case, though.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 27, 2019 12:54 PM (CAJOC)

218 I think ppl sent him money because his sign made them laugh

entertainment value I guess

Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at September 27, 2019 12:54 PM (wW1da)

219 Warren is gonna be the nominee. I'd say that was a cold lock now. Yes, she's a rotten, screechy socialist who's voice makes everyone's ears bleed. But they're stuck with her.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2019 12:49 PM (Kpl3J)

Nah... there is, another. Not yet revealed.

These people "running" are just placeholders. They're probably still trying to convince their eventual nominee to take on the role, and lots of money has to change hands. LOTS of money.

Oprah don't come cheap... oops, did I say that out loud?

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2019 12:54 PM (hku12)

220 201 The worst actor in this whole thing is fucking InBev AB or whatever they're called now. Willing to donate what is to them a pittance for the cheap publicity, and when a fucking IOTA of "scandal" hits, they bail like the corporate gladhanding pussies they really are. I'm glad I don't drink any of their garbage.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 12:52 PM (oZ6kz)

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Excellent point.

Posted by: Seems Legit at September 27, 2019 12:54 PM (jUVms)

221 202
SABMiller and InBev purchased the entire US brewing industry in the space of about five years. It was astonishing, and sad.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 12:52 PM (AzW6q)

The fuck you say.

Posted by: Yuengling at September 27, 2019 12:54 PM (w+Ped)

222 "In doing backgrounding for such a story, reporters talk to family, friends, colleagues or professors. We check court and arrest records as well as other pertinent public records, including social media activity. The process helps us to understand the whole person."

Why? Why do they need to "understand the whole person?" Who the heck do they think that they are that they are able to "understand [a] whole person?"

And who can stand up to this kind of scrutiny? ANYTHING can be offensive now days. ANYTHING can be grounds for losing your job. How is this not going to keep people from doing anything newsworthy, anything that might make them stand out?

This guy raised a million bucks for a children's hospital but that was overshadowed by a couple of tweets from when he was a kid. A million bucks wasn't enough to tip the scales in his favor. What about the little league coach who gets his kids to nationals? Or the guy who runs into a house to save a kid? If this guy isn't safe are they safe?

Posted by: 29Victor at September 27, 2019 12:55 PM (BJKQV)

223 OT

Did not know this. No wonder.

A new report from Vanity Fair describing the chaos inside Fox News -- where Ryan serves as a board member -- reminded readers that he's still something of a player in conservative politics. And according to the report, written by journalist Gabriel Sherman, Ryan is now, after having given up all his constitutional power, finally interested in standing up to the president.

...

The ultimate referee of this fight will be Lachlan Murdoch. In recent months, Rupert's oldest son has been holding strategy conversations with Fox executives and anchors about how Fox News should prepare for life after Trump. Among the powerful voices advising Lachlan that Fox should decisively break with the president is former House speaker Paul Ryan, who joined the Fox board in March. "Paul is embarrassed about Trump and now he has the power to do something about it," an executive who's spoken with Ryan told me.

Ryan
Another case of revenge like Nappy.
Another infiltration from lowlifes.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 12:55 PM (vEIlU)

224 I think I read he kept enough for a case and donated the rest.

Posted by: FrodoB, learning to reload at September 27, 2019 12:48 PM

****

Seriously? That's cool! Good for him.
Posted by: Diogenes

He was going to do that when he had only collected $600. Then, when word got out that he was donating the rest to the hospital, the donations exploded.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 12:55 PM (DlU13)

225 Two silly racist tweets by a 16-year-old VS. $1,000,000 donated to a children's hospital. Sure, let's ruin a guys reputation over the racist tweets done as a kid. I wonder if those tweets had been, for instance, anti-Christian, anti-Trump, etc, if this would have happened?

Posted by: Becky at September 27, 2019 12:55 PM (kj0P/)

226 "Hey there, remember me?
Posted by: Kevin Hart at September 27, 2019 12:53 PM (BDZWU)"

Yes, but you're an already famous person. Carson King wasn't - he had to be destroyed because he's a white cishet male who likes toxic things like beer and college football.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 12:56 PM (oZ6kz)

227 Has anyone looked closely into Carol Hunter's (editor of the Des Moines Register) social media posts? Maybe go to her house, protest a little too loudly for the neighbors? Get in her family's faces? Tail her to dinner and yell at her while she trys to eat?

Firing the "reporter" is not sufficient. She's the problem.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 27, 2019 12:56 PM (PlceE)

228 What I don't get is why anyone would donate money to a complete stranger for beer. And I mean before the donating to hospital part came in. You see some guy with a sign at a sportsball game and your rush to send him beer money? Am I missing something?
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview

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Because people like to laugh, so they say "ah, hell, I'll kick the guy $5 for the giggles," and then it turns out it made a couple of hundred thousand viewers have the same reaction.

Example: I was walking down 17th one day years ago, and a guy scuttled out of the alley and said "I just got out of a stint in the joint over on Court this morning, and this 'ho over here will give me a beejer if I can get five more bucks. Help a brotha out? It's been awhile, man."

It made me laugh, and I gave him five bucks.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 12:56 PM (AzW6q)

229 the last beer i had was a miller lite. i don't know what it is, but it's not beer. i'm sure bud anything would be the same.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 27, 2019 12:56 PM (KP5rU)

230 I think it's time for scum doxxing reporters to start having their lives destroyed.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at September 27, 2019 12:57 PM (Uu+Jp)

231 Journalism no longer exists as a mainstream profession. There are scattered rebel remnants still dedicated to its storied ideals, operating from various outposts, foxholes and redoubts. The bulk of the industry is a cross between a whoredom and an ideological psy-ops collective.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at September 27, 2019 12:57 PM (H8QX8)

232 "All across the country, alleged journalists scratch their heads wondering why they are hated so much."

No they don't! The scandal is that they just don't care about their reputation anymore, because they are on a mission. They think they serve a higher purpose by slamming all us deplorables, and deceit is now a legitimate tool for them to use. They want to remake America in their own woke image, by any means necessary.

They. Hate. Our. Living. Guts!

Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 12:57 PM (mk9aG)

233 I work in media. My experience has taught me that members of my profession have no special skills that others don't have. I am not exaggerating when I say that EVERYONE has access to the same resources that journalists have, including access to an audience. Technology and infrastructure is at the point where EVERYONE is a journalist! This is why access to the internet is vital for everyone. No more deplatforming. No more cancel culture. Those are assaults on the First Amendment.

Posted by: Editor at September 27, 2019 12:57 PM (6RbuA)

234 Yuengling and Boston brewing (Sam Adams) are still independent, I believe.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 12:54 PM (oZ6kz)

New Belgium as well, and they are nationwide now. Huge variety for numerous tastes. It's not all IPAs and sours. they've got lagers, pilseners, and some really mild summery wheat brews.

ODell is not as large, but they also have a great selection. Both are stubborn in their refusal to be bought out.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 27, 2019 12:57 PM (xPJvm)

235 SABMiller and InBev purchased the entire US brewing industry in the space of about five years. It was astonishing, and sad.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 12:52 PM (AzW6q)

___

How long before Amazon buys them both? Or Google?

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 12:57 PM (FiUMj)

236 Ryan

Another case of revenge like Nappy.

Another infiltration from lowlifes.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette>>Can we train up some attack otters and send them to Ryan? I heard maybe river otters were the way to go.

Posted by: FrodoB, learning to reload at September 27, 2019 12:57 PM (wpA/B)

237 I can't speak to the specific situation with the Des Moines Register and their reporter, but I work in the media and can offer a bit of perspective.

We routinely check up on people we feature prominently in our coverage, even for soft-soap "human interest" pieces. There are two reasons for this:

First, as the Register notes, media outlets routinely encounter scammers trying to use the media for publicity to reel in new victims. Doing some background digging helps us weed such people out. Occasionally it's even allowed us to uncover scams that everyone else thought were legitimate.

Second, people sometimes turn out to have very dark secrets in their past. We once did a human interest puff piece on a guy (with his full cooperation!) who turned out to be wanted in another state on serious child molestation charges. Our cursory background check didn't turn that up, because, seriously, WTF. I guess you could say that story had a "happy ending" because it was our coverage that actually helped the authorities in the other state finally track this guy down, but we still looked pretty foolish after playing the guy up as a model citizen.

Anyway, that's why media outlets dig into people's past even for minor "human interest" pieces. You want to know who you're giving all this free publicity to.

Posted by: Ex-liberal at September 27, 2019 12:57 PM (20v0t)

238 Which is why local Indy brewers are the only way to go."

St Arnold.

FWIW, their newish "brewpub" is a cathedral. Seriously - it's designed as a typical cathedral, with a narthex entrance, high ceiling nave w/beams and windows, transept, then "altar" , along w/a half dozen niches, all decorated w/their logos/artwork.

It's a great place to spend a couple of hours or so...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 27, 2019 12:57 PM (6qErC)

239 Democrats privately admit this week was a complete disaster for them. Thus, their useful idiot trolls are out futilely trying to change the narrative.

Posted by: Polls, Polls, Polls! at September 27, 2019 12:58 PM (4Eo4+)

240 178 I know how we can take care of this situation.

Someone needs to hack the Register's twitter account.

Tweet "I have information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton"

That oughta do it.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 12:49 PM (oZ6kz)

If I were a hacker, I'd do that with a different high-profile Leftoid every week.

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at September 27, 2019 12:58 PM (J+mig)

241 Sam Adams merged with Dogfish earlier this year. They're getting pretty yuuuuge. Maube they can start buying some other American beers back from the two giants.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 12:58 PM (FiUMj)

242 Some conservative MegaDonor just needs to buy controlling interest of Gannett that owns most of these regional newspapers and make life miserable for Democrats.

You could probably do it for a few hundred million, far less than what Republicans spend every political cycle.

Posted by: Blago at September 27, 2019 12:58 PM (sjTfF)

243 Democrats privately admit this week was a complete disaster for them. Thus, their useful idiot trolls are out futilely trying to change the narrative.
Posted by: Polls, Polls, Polls! at September 27, 2019 12:58 PM (4Eo4+)

They are attacking the crap out of Solomon.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 12:59 PM (vEIlU)

244 Bringing up Oprah is a good example of why that kind of thing can't happen - the Far Left has taken over the Dem Party, they are not going to go for ANYONE who doesn't buy into the Far Left Mantras. Bernie Sanders, as decrepit as he is, will get their support before Oprah does.

Not to mention that Oprah hasn't actually done anything at all in years. Donald Trump is the unicorn - the old, rich person who decided to put all of his time and energy into the political arena. People like that only come around once a generation, at most. Oprah certainly will never put herself in the line of fire for any criticism at all. Neither would anyone else like her.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2019 12:59 PM (Kpl3J)

245 I think ppl sent him money because his sign made them laugh

entertainment value I guess
Posted by: vmom

He was honest. "Need beer replenishment" instead of "Will Work for Food" with no intention of working.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 12:59 PM (DlU13)

246 I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning.

Posted by: Splunge at September 27, 2019 12:59 PM (ed8K1)

247 Carol Hunter = cat lady

Posted by: WOPR at September 27, 2019 12:59 PM (WVeiZ)

248
Some conservative MegaDonor just needs to buy controlling interest of Gannett that owns most of these regional newspapers and make life miserable for Democrats.

--------

So far as I know, no such animal exists. Maybe the Mercers?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 12:59 PM (AzW6q)

249 235 SABMiller and InBev purchased the entire US brewing industry in the space of about five years. It was astonishing, and sad.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Sierra Nevada is still family owned

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019 12:59 PM (d7Ww2)

250 211; I know Fen. I enjoy the sparring with you. You're a treasure. Never change. Peace.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 27, 2019 01:00 PM (KP5rU)

251 " I wonder if those tweets had been, for instance, anti-Christian, anti-Trump, etc, if this would have happened?"

Hateful anti-white tweets are PRECISELY the reason why NYT hired Sarah Jeong and that other recently exposed shitbird.

How much evidence do you guys need? The press hates us! They hate traditional America. They were _educated_ to hate America and its history.

Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 01:00 PM (mk9aG)

252 I like Rahr Brewery out of Ft. Worth. Also, Lazy Magnolia out of Mississippi. And there's some even smaller indy's around here I'm a fan of.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2019 01:00 PM (Kpl3J)

253 I feel bad for the blue collar workers at AB - they've got nothing to do with what corporate spews out. Pretty much the same thing as union rank and file have nothing to do with what corrupt union stewards and reps are up to.

Posted by: 13times at September 27, 2019 01:01 PM (K3B2k)

254 The board that okayed dredging up tweets of a person when he was 16 should also be let go. Or at least, dig up their own "problematic" past statements.

Because when BuzzFeed Boy proposed including 8 year old tweets in an article about a young guy who decided to give all of his windfall to charity, the response should have been, what the hell is wrong with you? Get out of here.

Posted by: chique d'afrique at September 27, 2019 01:01 PM (9hauA)

255
Also, Lazy Magnolia out of Mississippi.

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I read that as "Lazy Mongolian," lol.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 01:01 PM (AzW6q)

256 Ok they looked into his background and found nothing to indicate he was running a scam...just a few unpc tweets from his youth.

So...why report on tjose tweets?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 27, 2019 01:01 PM (3cfl2)

257 Ex-Liberal: All well and good - none of that excuses digging for old tweets from a teenager. Due diligence to make sure your fluff piece protagonist isn't a child molester and to weed out scammers trying to nab more victims, fine. This wasn't that.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 01:01 PM (oZ6kz)

258 Beers I dont see much of anymore:
Schlitz.
Burgie.
Olympia.
People's.
Brown Derby.

Think tbe LA county jail sits on the site of the old Brown Derby brewery.
Miller hi-life seems ok by me. Aldi has had a german pils Wernesgruner brand $6 bucks a 6-pack, mmm mm good.

Posted by: adobe juan kenobe at September 27, 2019 01:01 PM (wGg4r)

259 In 10 years from now all the editors at all the newspapers will be this guy.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 01:01 PM (FiUMj)

260 106
I WAS going to give the money to the Children's Hospital, but thanks to
that piece of kaka, the Des Moines Register, I'm keeping it all! You can
thank the Des Moines Register. - That Guy.

Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2019 12:40 PM (gmo/4)I have now decided to keep the money in case I have to file lawsuits to protect myself. If the money doesn't go there, I'm waffling between hiring researchers to sift through the social media presence and do background character checks of everyone working at the DMR, or using the money to investigate local factories hiring illegal aliens in an effort to keep someone else from getting Mollie Tibbetts'd.

In either case, you can thank your friendly neighborhood Des Moines Register!

Posted by: TheHoser at September 27, 2019 01:02 PM (IDjUx)

261 When you're tailgating you want a nice light beer. You can't shotgun some handcrafted IPA. Ok, maybe once.

Posted by: brak at September 27, 2019 01:02 PM (0d1zy)

262
Well, if you were a middling IQ, not terribly driven, what's the word, douchebag; and you found even dumbed-down present day college too hard; and fell into 'Journalism' as a major you could actually pass; and in the curriculum, they stressed that you weren't a lazy fuck-up, you were a hero; and those prick bastard achievers out there who'd left you in the dust hadn't beaten you, that they were actually your moral inferiors and it was your right and your duty to torment and degrade them; well, there you go.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 27, 2019 01:02 PM (oarq5)

263 Two silly racist tweets by a 16-year-old VS. $1,000,000 donated to a children's hospital. Sure, let's ruin a guys reputation over the racist tweets done as a kid. I wonder if those tweets had been, for instance, anti-Christian, anti-Trump, etc, if this would have happened?
Posted by: Becky at September 27, 2019 12:55 PM (kj0P/)

If I heard correctly, they weren't even "racist tweets." They were Daniel Tosh jokes.

Tosh has made a career out of saying the most outrageous things, and occasionally he's funny. You probably can't go too far into a Tosh quote without being legit offensive.

We're going to ruin a kid's life because he quoted Tosh? What're they doing to Tosh these days?

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2019 01:02 PM (hku12)

264 Lefties ruin everything. EVERYTHING.

No one can have fun, no one can be happy.

F*ck them all.

Posted by: Seems Legit at September 27, 2019 01:02 PM (jUVms)

265 For those of you who haven't seen what he looks like....just what you'd expect.

https://images.app.goo.gl/zjPRELCy9fi5AVJm7
Posted by: The OA at September 27, 2019 12:32 PM (FiUMj)

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My, oh my. Isn't he precious?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 01:03 PM (AzW6q)

266 AB InBev bought Karbach Brewing (Houston) in 2016.
The Beer Borg is assimilation is still happening.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2019 01:03 PM (q1Pj5)

267 Anyway, that's why media outlets dig into people's past even for minor "human interest" pieces. You want to know who you're giving all this free publicity to.
Posted by: Ex-liberal at September 27, 2019 12:57 PM (20v0t)

Would you go back eight years in a 24 year old guy's twitter account looking for posts when he was 16? Would that be necessary to make sure he was not a scam artist or child molester?

Posted by: 29Victor at September 27, 2019 01:03 PM (BJKQV)

268 The Gambrinus Company, privately owned, (motto: Beer brings enjoyment to the world) owns both the Spoetzel Brewery in Shiner, TX and the Trumer Brewery in Berkeley, CA.

Shiner hit the big time. back in the day we had to drive west of Katy to even buy it. The once a year for about a month you could get Shiner Bock.

In college back in whatever I brought a keg of Shiner Bock to our BOS party. The profs with patches on their sleeves thought us civils were so hoity toity for having 'fancy' beer. Back then it was cheaper than Miller Lite or Bud.

Now the regular stuff is called Blonde and every other run they make is named something and sells for a premium.

Posted by: DanMan at September 27, 2019 01:03 PM (XTiHL)

269 126 Which is to say...it's never going to end.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 12:37 PM (q80AH)

I wouldn't say it will "never" end, because there is one pathway to ending it - we make the lives of everyone on the left, and everyone who works for a media company, and everyone who holds office in a major corporation, a living hell by allowing access to all private records and publicizing them relentlessly. We give it to them 10 times as worse as they are dishing it out now, and THEN maybe they'll start to see the wisdom in ending the practice.

That's how wars are fought.

__________________

And Crom looked down from his hall and smiled, for what he saw was strength in their metal.

Posted by: fox at September 27, 2019 01:03 PM (hdFyL)

270 calling SABMiller and InBev brewers is playing fast and loose with facts not evident. They are for profit only swill purveyors.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 27, 2019 01:03 PM (KP5rU)

271 Which is to say...it's never going to end.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 12:37 PM (q80AH)
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Seems like the path to ending is fight fire with fire. Vet every damn person in the twitter world or instagram world and then selectively destroy the lefties. That is how to hurt them. Make them live by their own rules. If Matt lauer was an open secret, then he could have been taken out sooner. It doesn't take government to act as John Solomon demonstrates. Hell, wasn't Ace instrumental in torpedoing Weiner when her was still in office?

Posted by: Drc at September 27, 2019 01:03 PM (vbaSG)

272 > 105
100
"This is why it is the perfect time for Hillary to announce, with
infinite regret and sadness, how poor Joe is so badly damaged, and how
the others just haven't caught on, that she needs, yes must, do her duty
to party and nation and sacrifice her golden years by once more
offering her service to the nation as its chief executive."--Posted by: Mikey NTH
>>"How amazing would it be if she jumped in formally and then she never
rose about 5% in any poll and was out of the race after Iowa?"

--Posted by:The James Madison

This is a woman whose health was obviously very shaky four years ago. What are we going to witness this time around if she's the nominee again? Video of her falling down a flight stairs? Uncontrollable jerking motions of her arms and legs having a petit mal seizure in the middle of a televised debate?

Mind you, this is even assuming that she hasn't already been criminally indicted before then.

Posted by: Anonymous 7 at September 27, 2019 01:03 PM (LUhuk)

273 Anyway, that's why media outlets dig into people's
past even for minor "human interest" pieces. You want to know who you're
giving all this free publicity to.

Posted by: Ex-liberal at September 27, 2019 12:57 PM (20v0t)

Those are more along the lines of checking police records, etc. It's not digging back into when someone was 16 and shockingly posted something offensive. There's no excuse for it. Plus, if they aren't doing that same level of examination with their own staff, then it's a double standard.

Posted by: WOPR at September 27, 2019 01:03 PM (WVeiZ)

274 "My, oh my. Isn't he precious?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 01:03 PM (AzW6q)"

This simulation is getting too predictable. Can't at least one of these cancel culture zilches look like a burly mountain man or a frat Chad?

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 01:04 PM (oZ6kz)

275 267 Anyway, that's why media outlets dig into people's past even for minor "human interest" pieces. You want to know who you're giving all this free publicity to.
Posted by: Ex-liberal at September 27, 2019 12:57 PM (20v0t)

Would you go back eight years in a 24 year old guy's twitter account looking for posts when he was 16? Would that be necessary to make sure he was not a scam artist or child molester?
Posted by: 29Victor at September 27, 2019 01:03 PM (BJKQV)

And if you did find bad things he'd written as a kid would that be relevant to the story?

Posted by: 29Victor at September 27, 2019 01:04 PM (BJKQV)

276 Lefties ruin everything. EVERYTHING.

No one can have fun, no one can be happy.

F*ck them all.>>Makes note: no lefties allowed in otter ranches.

Posted by: FrodoB, learning to reload at September 27, 2019 01:04 PM (wpA/B)

277 Same song. They just have different choruses.
Posted by: filbert at September 27, 2019 12:53 PM (NiXyF)

Right... forgot that.

corn,corn,corn,corn,corn, there's a tree, corn corn,corn.
--- Windmills, windmills, windmills

Posted by: Keith at September 27, 2019 01:04 PM (jdGlx)

278 This is a woman whose health was obviously very
shaky four years ago. What are we going to witness this time around if
she's the nominee again? Video of her falling down a flight stairs?
Uncontrollable jerking motions of her arms and legs having a petit mal
seizure in the middle of a televised debate?

Mind you, this is even assuming that she hasn't already been criminally indicted before then.

Posted by: Anonymous 7 at September 27, 2019 01:03 PM (LUhuk)

Actually, the betting pools on who has what ailment on stage first would be huge.

Posted by: WOPR at September 27, 2019 01:05 PM (WVeiZ)

279 233 I work in media. My experience has taught me that members of my profession have no special skills that others don't have. I am not exaggerating when I say that EVERYONE has access to the same resources that journalists have, including access to an audience. Technology and infrastructure is at the point where EVERYONE is a journalist! This is why access to the internet is vital for everyone. No more deplatforming. No more cancel culture. Those are assaults on the First Amendment.
Posted by: Editor at September 27, 2019 12:57 PM (6RbuA)

Can we all sleep with members of Senate staff now?

Posted by: blaster at September 27, 2019 01:05 PM (9VeU0)

280 As ace often says, tit for tat isn't just the best strategy, it's really the only moral strategy. Refusing to go tit for tat isn't being kind, it's being cowardly.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 01:05 PM (oZ6kz)

281 The Register had no intention to disparage or otherwise cast a negative light on King.
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That was your intention. Otherwise, why publicize the tweets.

There have been numerous cases nationally of fundraising for a person experiencing a tragedy that was revealed as a scam after media investigated the backgrounds of the organizer or purported victim.
_____

Was this a scam? No. So what was the points.

I hope the media/press realize they are a massive joke, but I doubt they are smart enough to be self aware.

Posted by: chique d'afrique at September 27, 2019 01:05 PM (9hauA)

282 I'm angrier at Busch for dis-avowing the Kid

Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2019 01:05 PM (O2RFr)

283 265 For those of you who haven't seen what he looks like....just what you'd expect.

https://images.app.goo.gl/zjPRELCy9fi5AVJm7
Posted by: The OA at September 27, 2019 12:32 PM (FiUMj)

Looks like he's getting ready for his shift at the Greyhound terminal.

Posted by: Mikey NTH -Support Your Sagging Self-Worth with Poses & Postures from The Outrage Outlet! at September 27, 2019 01:05 PM (hLRSq)

284 Truth is irrelevant to Internet journalism. All that matters is clicks.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at September 27, 2019 01:05 PM (Uu+Jp)

285 It's kind of funny how this #cancel article meshes with that is going on with "The phone call" and the "Whistle blower" as well with the entire GOP field.

Starting with Nunes who looked and acted like his pet dog was run over and killed just before entering the hearing.

So here is how the #cancel ploy plays out.

1. Dem/socialists rail on with whatever they want to say unabated. Just lunacy to the hilt.

2. Republicans give a 60 second weak tea,rebut as they come off as someone had just ripped out their heart or batteries or whatever they may run on and in some cases act shocked at what the POTUS has done or didn't do.

3. The media, especially FOX acts like the "Whistle blower" who is obviously 2-3 steps removed from any actual intelligence will be encased in stone as these media types ignore the massive T-Rex in the room that is the law firm who wrote up and controls the narrative from the shadows.

4. The election is close at hand and due to this "unprecedented" nature of this phone call individual states must do the honorable thing and remove the POTUS from being able to run for POTUS in 2020 which gives the Dem/socialists their dream of bastardizing the electoral college to keep the president from running but also gives the weak willed, frauds known as Republicans the cover they need to just back out of the way and let it happen.

Yeah, hey. I know. It sounds whacked out but have you, ummmm, paid attention to what is going on at the moment?

Posted by: Drider at September 27, 2019 01:05 PM (R/UH9)

286 Oh.

https://bit.ly/2nT6bLZ

Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2019 01:06 PM (ZLI7S)

287
Seems like the path to ending is fight fire with fire. Vet every damn person in the twitter world or instagram world and then selectively destroy the lefties. That is how to hurt them. Make them live by their own rules.

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The selective part is key... I heard for years how Dem infidelity and other moral scandals were ok, because they weren't the hypocritical Party of "family values," so only Republican scandals matter.

Well, surprise bitches! We aren't the hypocritical party of sanctimonious SJW witch hunts. So that ONLY applies to you guys. 'K?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 01:06 PM (AzW6q)

288 Love the NeverTrumper types saying the reporter shouldn't have been fired. I mean, what about muh private corporations should have carte blanche control to hire/fire whomever for whatever reason and we must not criticize them.

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at September 27, 2019 01:06 PM (hdzef)

289 OK that's half a great response by the paper and half lame ass covering nonsense. There was no need to dig into this guy's past and court records etc since he didn't keep the money. You only dig into someone's past like that if they're pretending to be a charity.

And you do it with everyone, not just some random dude. Where's their in-depth reporting on United Way or the local Democrat politician??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 01:06 PM (KZzsI)

290 232 "All across the country, alleged journalists scratch their heads wondering why they are hated so much."

No they don't! The scandal is that they just don't care about their reputation anymore, because they are on a mission. They think they serve a higher purpose by slamming all us deplorables, and deceit is now a legitimate tool for them to use. They want to remake America in their own woke image, by any means necessary.

They. Hate. Our. Living. Guts!
Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures!

tough but fair

Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 01:06 PM (PbpT7)

291 267 Anyway, that's why media outlets dig into people's past even for minor "human interest" pieces. You want to know who you're giving all this free publicity to.
Posted by: Ex-liberal at September 27, 2019 12:57 PM (20v0t)

Maybe they could look back at Hunter Biden's past? Anything interesting there you think?

Posted by: blaster at September 27, 2019 01:06 PM (9VeU0)

292 Anyway, that's why media outlets dig into people's past even for minor "human interest" pieces. You want to know who you're giving all this free publicity to.
Posted by: Ex-liberal at September 27, 2019 12:57 PM (20v0t)

How about you stop doing puff pieces and stick to reporting the news.

That would solve the problem of having the stank of someone you fluffed, coming back on you.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2019 01:06 PM (hku12)

293 A routine background check is necessary for a humor piece about a guy holding up a sign that says I need beer money?

And even if you are so very diligent that you feel that check is necessary, once he donates the entire amount to charity, doesn't it negate it anyway???? Even if he turned out to be the Grand Poobah of the KKK, if he isn't keeping the money, who the hell cares and what the fuck business is it of anyone else's what he said when he was 16?

The reporter was just being a bitch, plain and simple. He wanted a gotcha scoop to polish his SJW badge.

Posted by: Velvet glove, iron fist at September 27, 2019 01:07 PM (lwWOo)

294 As ace often says, tit for tat isn't just the best strategy, it's really the only moral strategy. Refusing to go tit for tat isn't being kind, it's being cowardly.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 01:05 PM (oZ6kz)

Agreed. It is unilaterally disarming and leaving innocent people victims to the whims of these so-called journalists. It's the only way they'll stop.

Posted by: chique d'afrique at September 27, 2019 01:07 PM (9hauA)

295 You know, if the Des Moines Register had done 1/10th the "backgrounding" on local illegal aliens as it did on a guy who led to the donation of several million dollars to a hospital, maybe this woman and her two kids would still be alive.

https://tinyurl.com/yxjxn5nj

Posted by: TheHoser at September 27, 2019 01:07 PM (IDjUx)

296 Zod hears you. You are apologetic.

You will be reduced.

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2019 01:07 PM (hgpSN)

297 And yeah, what is the "notability" standard for including info that comes up in a background check?

If a 27 year old running a charity gets a puff piece done, and a background check shows that at 18, he got his license temporarily suspended for speeding tickets (hitting 12 points), should that be part of the story? Why?

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 01:07 PM (oZ6kz)

298 Towergate mike been correct all along. It will be Hillary.

Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at September 27, 2019 01:07 PM (Jj+59)

299 -We're going to ruin a kid's life because he quoted Tosh?

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

It won't stop. Ridicule is a sport, demeaning others is an occupation, envying goodness and success is big business.

Posted by: Alice McD at September 27, 2019 01:07 PM (2CtSR)

300 Ugh.

The office computers are acting a bit goofy today.

Maybe Chinese hackers testing the US internets again.

Or the Russians.

Or maybe aliens.

...

...

...

Probably aliens.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2019 01:07 PM (XCfh1)

301 "InBev and SABMiller own every beer company in the universe it seems."Posted by: Lurking Lurker

it might not work for all products, but with beer, the corporate LBO powers could be taken down with a fervent "Buy Local, Buy Real Beer" type movement. Maybe that would work with many food items, dairy, various items ...

The Corporate leveraged buyout beer thing also demonstrates the problem with easy money policy, that has made wall Street and especially the corporate raider types so incredibly rich, (which Romney is still protecting I guess).

AB InBev has been buying other brewers, and Northern Brewer (home brewer supplier) so they control everything ... the rich get so rich (from easy money policy, and the Greenspan Put) they can just buy everything, eliminate competition. Easy money can get an economy moving, done correctly. But infinite money, infinite debt becomes communism by proxy of monetary policy ... and a few control everything (while debt piles up on the children's credit cards).

Easy money for China (Bannon's rap) ... but not so easy for the American entrepreneur ... that must be flipped, for one thing.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 27, 2019 01:08 PM (Cus5s)

302 no more otters.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 27, 2019 12:35 PM

I agree. Cuddly-assed warm fuzzies little shits, while I get nothing but bloodcurdling screams and whacked with a broom.

Posted by: Face-sized spider at September 27, 2019 01:08 PM (COzlW)

303 This "reporter" will have a new job in no time. There really is no consequence to them for doing this, and they know it.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 01:08 PM (FiUMj)

304 Yeah, hey. I know. It sounds whacked out but have you, ummmm, paid attention to what is going on at the moment?

Most people are paying no attention to this.. Even the Mail Mans son said as much.. Only hysterics are on the CNN/ Msnbc channels... No one watches them anyway

Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2019 01:08 PM (O2RFr)

305 Ex-Liberal: All well and good - none of that excuses digging for old tweets from a teenager. Due diligence to make sure your fluff piece protagonist isn't a child molester and to weed out scammers trying to nab more victims, fine. This wasn't that.
Posted by: Broseidon

And if they don't do deep background on EVERYONE, not just routinely, then they are hypocrites.

Mrs. Gliddings, 98, of Council Bluffs, got jiggy in 1943 with the grocery delivery boy while her husband was in France fighting Jerry.
Oh, Mrs. Gliddings said her onions grew amazing this year.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 01:08 PM (DlU13)

306 300 -- Crowdstrike??

Posted by: doof at September 27, 2019 01:08 PM (olgDX)

307 lolgf^infinity

Learn to eat shit, motherfucker.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at September 27, 2019 01:08 PM (jYnPD)

308
Oh.

https://bit.ly/2nT6bLZ
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2019 01:06 PM (ZLI7S)

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That could be nothing - if it were initially submitted as a Word doc (as noted in the application notes), the PDF export could well have happened later.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 01:09 PM (AzW6q)

309 When I was a kid I never really told black jokes. I told:

"Polack" jokes, dead baby jokes, guy with no arms or leg jokes, Mexican jokes, and probably a bunch of other jokes that I've blotted out of my memory.

If I had been a teen in the Twitter age and had those in my social media history and been worried about losing my livelihood or reputation over them...well, I have to say that it would have definitely effected how I lived my life as an adult. I would never have stuck my head above the crowd for anything.

Posted by: 29Victor at September 27, 2019 01:09 PM (BJKQV)

310 Have ANY of the GOPe made the point that Schiff was outright lying yesterday when "quoting" the transcript?
When in the fuck is our side going to man up and realize these assholes on the left play for blood? Are we ever going to fight back at all? John Soloman cant release all of the docs he wants, but until our DOJ actively starts prosecuting these motherfuckers, all the public sees is the tornado of lies the dems seem to endlessly create.
this is so frustrating and maddening...

jackstraw what say you? Where is our fight? When the hell are we going to locate our testicles and punch back?

Posted by: Getcha Pull at September 27, 2019 01:09 PM (aR6C/)

311 I'm angrier at Busch for dis-avowing the Kid
Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2019 01:05 PM (O2RFr)

Pretty much any product you enjoy, any business you support with your money, if they're large enough, they have a team of lawyers deciding whether or not something the do causes any consternation to harpies, guys in dresses, or race baiters.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2019 01:10 PM (hku12)

312 Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2019 01:06 PM (ZLI7S)

F'ing Jeebus.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 27, 2019 01:10 PM (Z1ykJ)

313 OH!

https://bit.ly/2nfdXQ5

Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2019 01:10 PM (ZLI7S)

314 Oh, I think the press is puzzled that so many people hate them. I think they view themselves as heroes, white knights jousting with the forces of evil, they see themselves as superheroes battling monsters and everyone should love them for it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 01:10 PM (KZzsI)

315 " Yeah, hey. I know. It sounds whacked out but have you, ummmm, paid attention to what is going on at the moment?
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Most people are paying no attention to this.. Even the Mail Mans son said as much.. Only hysterics are on the CNN/ Msnbc channels... No one watches them anyway"

Yeah I saw him say that and then again, I've watched him say a lot of things, most of which I would never hang my hat on.

Posted by: Drider at September 27, 2019 01:10 PM (R/UH9)

316 It makes me crazy that anyone tries to read "freedom of the press" as being about any person. It is clearly not.

The "press" is just a machine used to print pamphlets so that the "freedom of speech" right extends past how far you can be heard. It is a god-given right belonging to everyone to broadcast.

To read the constitution any other way is truly foolish.

First, the 1st amendment is written as a run-on sentence, separated by semicolons, to describe that "Congress shall make no law ....." about a few things. The purpose of the sentence is clearly to describe god-given rights belonging to each individual, not to describe a profession of some kind.

Second, a few jobs are listed in the document such as the President, etc. In every case, that position includes a description of how that person will be elected or selected, what their duties are, and what their term of service will be. Why would the authors do that, and then mindlessly anoint another group of people with a job title based only on receiving a paycheck from someone who owns a press? Why would they do it in the middle of a sentence like it is an explanatory thought? If they truly wished to set up a special group of people, why not explicitly write it down just like every other job they described in the document?

Third, the constitution as amended clearly does not create special classes of citizens. Sure, you can elected or selected based on the provisions of the constitution described above and then be a Senator, judge, etc., but all of that is described with at least some degree of detail.

There are no "special, anointed by media paycheck" citizens with more rights than the rest of us. It is a scam by media scam artists. In the eyes of the constitution they are no better than you, or me, or anyone else.

Posted by: jc at September 27, 2019 01:10 PM (PuMKG)

317 no more otters.
Posted by: chavez the hugo

Cut.Jib.Newsletter

Posted by: Clams at September 27, 2019 01:10 PM (786Ro)

318 So vetting local heros who give tons of money to a local children's cancer center is policy but vetting your "journalists" is not.

got it.

Posted by: Regular joe at September 27, 2019 01:10 PM (6/uwW)

319 Otter Water! Buy our premium h2o in which cute furry otters have swum!

Posted by: adobe juan latest fad kenobe at September 27, 2019 01:11 PM (wGg4r)

320 >>the rich get so rich (from easy money policy, and the Greenspan Put) they can just buy everything, eliminate competition.

This its acceptable.

Resume your toil.

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2019 01:11 PM (hgpSN)

321 Did pillar of integrity Mitt express dismay over Pencil Neck's lies?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at September 27, 2019 01:11 PM (Uu+Jp)

322 286 Oh.

https://bit.ly/2nT6bLZ
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2019 01:06 PM (ZLI7S)

Oh man someone's getting lateralled to HR!

Posted by: blaster at September 27, 2019 01:11 PM (9VeU0)

323 To catch you up, the latest lib argument is that, get this, there is no such thing as Cancel Culture. That it doesn't exist. It's a figment of your racist alt-right snowflake imagination. Anyone who has, been hurt by something they have done at any time in the past is just being held "accountable". If you are afraid of Cancel Culture its because YOU should be canceled.

That is all real. You'll be hearing it soon if you haven't already. This is what we are up against. The same arguments will be made in favor of the camps.

There are no camps. If you think there are camps it's because you need to be in one.

Snowflake.

Posted by: ... at September 27, 2019 01:11 PM (fe8qf)

324 We live under a soft tyranny of libel, slander and defamation.

The media are the secret police who do the enforcement work.

Wake up America. Its almost too late.

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2019 01:11 PM (P4COh)

325 For those of you who haven't seen what he looks like....just what you'd expect.

seriously is there some kind of Douche Cloning facility in New Jersey or something?

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfCollusion at September 27, 2019 01:11 PM (Rarvo)

326 What if the beer-charity guy had responded to the call from the des Moines Register by saying, "go fuck yourself. Free speech."

Has anybody ever tried this?

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at September 27, 2019 01:12 PM (H8QX8)

327 Oh.

https://bit.ly/2nT6bLZ

Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2019 01:06 PM (ZLI7S)

The pdf was made by the same sooper genius that prepped Obama's 'birth certificate'?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2019 01:12 PM (q1Pj5)

328 I'm angrier at Busch for dis-avowing the Kid
Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2019 01:05 PM (O2RFr)

Their leadership should also have their past statements and unsavory actions dug up and publicized.

Same thing should have happened to the Harvard folks who decided to take away that conservative kid's admission {and when it was too late to get in anywhere at that).

Posted by: chique d'afrique at September 27, 2019 01:12 PM (9hauA)

329 Yea Zod!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
The Democrats hate you
and want you dead.
Buy ammo at September 27, 2019 01:12 PM (bcbK8)

330 290 232 "All across the country, alleged journalists scratch their heads wondering why they are hated so much."

No they don't! The scandal is that they just don't care about their reputation anymore, because they are on a mission. They think they serve a higher purpose by slamming all us deplorables, and deceit is now a legitimate tool for them to use. They want to remake America in their own woke image, by any means necessary.

They. Hate. Our. Living. Guts!
Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures!

tough but fair

Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 01:06 PM (PbpT7)

It is getting to the point that the kamikaze attack / Banzai Charge is their first choice in tactics, not what you do when you are all out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas.

Posted by: Mikey NTH -Support Your Sagging Self-Worth with Poses & Postures from The Outrage Outlet! at September 27, 2019 01:12 PM (hLRSq)

331 21 Notice how they reflexively refer to themselves as "journalists." No. They're reporters. It's like whores referring to themselves as "escorts."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

=======
No, you've got that exactly backward. 'Reporter' is the more honest activity, one who *reports*, not fabricates. Harkening back to the time when it was a trade learned by apprenticeship.
Nowadays journalists don't report, they concoct.

Newspapers have always been untrustworthy trash, see Hearst vs Pulitzer and the yellow press, but it's become worse, just more slick, as it's 'professionalized' and become university credentialed.

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at September 27, 2019 01:12 PM (ySnWN)

332 Can not really boycott either the DR or AB since I neither live in Iowa nor drink any Budweiser related product.

Would be happy to see both companies take a major hit to their bottom lines and the reporter unable to get a job flipping burgers.

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclops at September 27, 2019 01:12 PM (B06Zw)

333 Posted by: Getcha Pull at September 27, 2019 01:09 PM (aR6C/)

Because the GOPe long for the days of their gimp suit and waiting in the box.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 27, 2019 01:12 PM (Z1ykJ)

334 313 OH!

https://bit.ly/2nfdXQ5
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2019 01:10 PM (ZLI7S)

It's like the two sides are viewing the same information and coming to radically different conclusions. And one of them is wrong.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at September 27, 2019 01:13 PM (RD7QR)

335 Two words : Yuengling lager

Posted by: Josephistan at September 27, 2019 01:13 PM (5FJGp)

336
This "reporter" will have a new job in no time. There really is no consequence to them for doing this, and they know it.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 01:08 PM (FiUMj)

------

Oh, for sure.

He's shown beyond any doubt that he has no shame, and will ruin anyone - even a super nice, regular guy - in service of the NPC hive.

He's got "big-city news bureau material" stamped on his forehead.

Look for him at NYT ar WaPo inside of a year.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 01:13 PM (AzW6q)

337 258 Beers I dont see much of anymore:

Schlitz.

Burgie.

Olympia.

People's.

Brown Derby.

Falstaff was bought out by Chinese brewers and moved lock, stock and barrrel to China.

Posted by: 13times at September 27, 2019 01:13 PM (K3B2k)

338 "This "reporter" will have a new job in no time. There really is no consequence to them for doing this, and they know it."

Bingo! All these shitbirds cover for each other. Nobody in the Woke Stratum ever pays a price, no matter how despicably they act. Govt, schools, press; the scumbags always land on their feet. The rest of us peons auger in.

Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 01:13 PM (mk9aG)

339 To catch you up, the latest lib argument is that, get this, there is no such thing as Cancel Culture. That it doesn't exist. It's a figment of your racist alt-right snowflake imagination.

Wow, that is just what they say about sanctuary cities.

Posted by: blaster at September 27, 2019 01:13 PM (9VeU0)

340 313 OH!

https://bit.ly/2nfdXQ5
Posted by: JackStraw

can't open at work, wtf is it?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019 01:13 PM (d7Ww2)

341 >>335 Two words : Yuengling lager
Posted by: Josephistan at September 27, 2019 01:13 PM (5FJGp)

You are entitled to the wrong opinion.

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2019 01:13 PM (hgpSN)

342 336 Look for him at NYT ar WaPo inside of a year.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 01:13 PM (AzW6q)

========

CNN.

They have a division he'd fit right in with.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 01:13 PM (q80AH)

343 303 This "reporter" will have a new job in no time. There really is no consequence to them for doing this, and they know it.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 01:08 PM (FiUMj)

Who exactly is hiring "reporters" at the moment? This guy has pretty much already worked himself 3/4 of the way down to bottom of the barrel.

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at September 27, 2019 01:14 PM (hdzef)

344 I think Cancel Culture will eventually wane and diminish, but right now its fresh and new and makes reporters feel like they're actually out working "my thumbs are exhausted after, what, it had to be at least twenty minutes scrolling through this dude's twitter feed! I'm journalisming!!!!"

This stuff all exploded onto the scene without time to build any kind of cultural framework or sense of rules and propriety, and worse in a culture and time that rejects very concept of rules and propriety.

In the past, things developed more slowly and people would come up with rules of proper behavior and polite etiquette of how to handle things. Nobody does that any more so you get wide open crazy.

And in a time when likes and retweets and shares are considered better than currency, anything, anything that gives you more is sweeter than honey.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 01:14 PM (KZzsI)

345 locate our testicles and punch back?

I regularly punch guys with my testicles!

Posted by: corey hand to god hetero booker at September 27, 2019 01:14 PM (wGg4r)

346 339 To catch you up, the latest lib argument is that, get this, there is no such thing as Cancel Culture. That it doesn't exist. It's a figment of your racist alt-right snowflake imagination.

Wow, that is just what they say about sanctuary cities.

Posted by: blaster at September 27, 2019 01:13 PM (9VeU0)

========

And voter fraud.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 01:14 PM (q80AH)

347 279 Can we all sleep with members of Senate staff now?

Gotta admit, I'm not sure what you're getting at here.

Posted by: Editor at September 27, 2019 01:14 PM (6RbuA)

348 309 When I was a kid I never really told black jokes. I told:

"Polack" jokes, dead baby jokes, guy with no arms or leg jokes, Mexican jokes, and probably a bunch of other jokes that I've blotted out of my memory.

If I had been a teen in the Twitter age and had those in my social media history and been worried about losing my livelihood or reputation over them...well, I have to say that it would have definitely effected how I lived my life as an adult. I would never have stuck my head above the crowd for anything.
Posted by: 29Victor at September 27, 2019 01:09 PM (BJKQV)

When I was a teen everything was gay. Everyone was gay. Every variation on sucking peener, you could pretty much guarandamntee, that was going to be the go-to manner of ridicule and even just joking with friends.

Can't do that now. You can't even say "don't ask/don't tell" or "not that there's anything wrong with that."

You're a homofob just for thinking such things.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2019 01:14 PM (hku12)

349 326 What if the beer-charity guy had responded to the call from the des Moines Register by saying, "go fuck yourself. Free speech."

Has anybody ever tried this?

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at September 27, 2019 01:12 PM (H8QX

If he said "I don't talk to enemies of the people, and I have spare money," the reporter would fuck off quickly.

Posted by: trev006 at September 27, 2019 01:14 PM (6ikLp)

350 332 Can not really boycott either the DR or AB since I neither live in Iowa nor drink any Budweiser related product.

___

You probably do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AB_InBev_brands

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 01:14 PM (FiUMj)

351 >>Oh.

Move Along!

Nothing to see here!

Posted by: Comments at September 27, 2019 01:14 PM (sM1uH)

352 When I was a kid I never really told black jokes. I told:

"Polack" jokes, dead baby jokes, guy with no arms or leg jokes,
Mexican jokes, and probably a bunch of other jokes that I've blotted out
of my memory.

If I had been a teen in the Twitter age and had those in my social
media history and been worried about losing my livelihood or reputation
over them...well, I have to say that it would have definitely effected
how I lived my life as an adult. I would never have stuck my head above
the crowd for anything.

Posted by: 29Victor at September 27, 2019 01:09 PM (BJKQV)

No Little Johnny jokes? Imma disappoint.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2019 01:14 PM (q1Pj5)

353 Well now who could have seen this coming?

Adam Schiff and a bunch of other Democrats and their staffs just spent a week in Ukraine sponsored by the Atlantic Council.

https://bit.ly/2nOpdmx

We are going to need a lot more people in HR.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2019 01:14 PM (ZLI7S)

354 Punishing people now for what they did in the past is about making people afraid to express themselves NOW.

Posted by: ... at September 27, 2019 01:15 PM (fe8qf)

355 Cyclops, even if you have never drank an AB product in your life, you can still lie to them and send an e-mail that you've been a lifelong customer and won't ever be buying again.

I guarantee the left does that shit all the time.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 01:15 PM (oZ6kz)

356 CNN.

They have a division he'd fit right in with.

McCabe was bloviating about Trump and how much of a liar he is and a disgrace to this Country... Doesn't sound like a person who expects to be charged with anything

Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2019 01:15 PM (O2RFr)

357 340 313 OH!

https://bit.ly/2nfdXQ5

Posted by: JackStraw

. NPR unleashed the counter narrative this morning.

Posted by: 13times at September 27, 2019 01:15 PM (K3B2k)

358
OH!

https://bit.ly/2nfdXQ5
Posted by: JackStraw

=======

I just saw it live on MSNBC. The guy's English is so bad I couldn't tell what he was saying (plus I was across the room making coffee), but Andrea Mitchell promises us more later in the day.

I'm staying tuned, but the other MSNBC reporters are slogging along as if Engel's interview hasn't happened.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 27, 2019 01:15 PM (13CQC)

359 The pdf was made by the same sooper genius that prepped Obama's 'birth certificate'?
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2019 01:12 PM (q1Pj5)

-------

The BC was a laughably bad forgery. Blatant. They wanted people to know it was fake.

With this, the date of the PDF export from Word doesn't mean anything, in and of itself. Could be legit. Who knows?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 01:15 PM (AzW6q)

360 This guy is a barnacle on the ass of Good Ship Media. I think he may have to learn to code.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at September 27, 2019 01:15 PM (Uu+Jp)

361 340 313 OH!

https://bit.ly/2nfdXQ5
Posted by: JackStraw

can't open at work, wtf is it?
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019 01:13 PM (d7Ww2)

I'll tell you what it's not. It's not a topless Jolene Blalock in a thong smiling coyly over her shoulder.

Sadly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
The Democrats hate you
and want you dead.
Buy ammo at September 27, 2019 01:15 PM (bcbK8)

362 The pdf was made by the same sooper genius that prepped Obama's 'birth certificate'?

oh just your usual DeepState sloppy retconning!

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfCollusion at September 27, 2019 01:15 PM (Rarvo)

363
NPR unleashed the counter narrative this morning.
Posted by: 13times

======

Countering Shokin's statement? What is it (let me guess), Shokin is corrupt and can't be believed?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 27, 2019 01:16 PM (13CQC)

364 321 Did pillar of integrity Mitt express dismay over Pencil Neck's lies?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at September 27, 2019 01:11 PM (Uu+Jp)

He's concerned that conservatives might pounce or seize. It's vital for democracy for people on the right to curl up in a ball and take their beating.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at September 27, 2019 01:16 PM (RD7QR)

365 Brown Derby.

Posted by: 13times at September 27, 2019 01:13 PM (K3B2k)

I remember when that stuff was < $4/case...I also remember why it was <$4/case.

Posted by: BignJames at September 27, 2019 01:16 PM (X/Pw5)

366 29 If I happened to see a reporter being vigorously beaten on the sidewalk with a length of logging chain, I would not join in.

=====
I would not hesitate to whip out my phone and call for help--

"No is it 912, nope
900, nope
888, oh look at the boobies...
well dang"

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at September 27, 2019 01:16 PM (ySnWN)

367 I'll tell you what it's not. It's not a topless Jolene Blalock in a thong smiling coyly over her shoulder.

Sadly.>>Sigh.

Posted by: FrodoB, learning to reload at September 27, 2019 01:16 PM (wpA/B)

368 Falstaff was bought out by Chinese brewers and moved lock, stock and barrrel to China.
Posted by: 13times

They are welcome to every drop.
(And my grandfather just started spinning in his grave)

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 01:16 PM (DlU13)

369 Mind you, this is even assuming that she hasn't already been criminally indicted before then.

Posted by: Anonymous 7 at September 27, 2019

*
*

Those indictments are overdue. Should have been handed down in February 2017.

Posted by: A. Hitler at September 27, 2019 01:17 PM (ClOmq)

370 "And we hear you: You're angry, you're disappointed and you want us to understand that."

Obviously, they have no idea why people are mad. People didn't give a shit about the "reporter's" possibly shady social media posts in the same way that nobody gave a shit about the fund raiser's social media posts.

What everyone's wondering is:
WHAT THE FUCK DID A HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL POST HAVE TO DO WITH THE STORY?

It was a gratuitously SJW-stoking bit of flotsam added to an otherwise benign, cheerful human interest blurb. Its ONLY purpose could have been to fluff the woke street cred of the hack who wrote the story.

Until outlets like the Des Moines Register realize that, they will continue to be beaten with a club that they, themselves, created.

Posted by: red speck at September 27, 2019 01:17 PM (nrC0n)

371 324 We live under a soft tyranny of libel, slander and defamation

Read that as soft tranny.

Posted by: adobe juan kenobe at September 27, 2019 01:17 PM (wGg4r)

372 >>In the past, things developed more slowly and people would come up with rules of proper behavior and polite etiquette of how to handle things. Nobody does that any more so you get wide open crazy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 01:14 PM (KZzsI)

This is correct. It is also obvious. You are cancelled.

Report for cremation.

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2019 01:17 PM (hgpSN)

373 Q: How many black guys does it take to change a light bulb?

A: I refuse to answer that question on the advice of my attorney.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 27, 2019 01:17 PM (2DOZq)

374 No, you've got that exactly backward. 'Reporter' is the more honest activity, one who *reports*, not fabricates. Harkening back to the time when it was a trade learned by apprenticeship.
Nowadays journalists don't report, they concoct.

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at September 27, 2019 01:12 PM (ySnWN)

Good point.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2019 01:17 PM (VIIPP)

375 >>can't open at work, wtf is it?

Otter stew recipe.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2019 01:17 PM (ZLI7S)

376 343 303 This "reporter" will have a new job in no time. There really is no consequence to them for doing this, and they know it.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 01:08 PM (FiUMj)

Who exactly is hiring "reporters" at the moment? This guy has pretty much already worked himself 3/4 of the way down to bottom of the barrel.
Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at September 27, 2019 01:14 PM (hdzef)

___

All sorts of left wing advocacy groups hire people like him.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 01:17 PM (FiUMj)

377 368 Falstaff was bought out by Chinese brewers and moved lock, stock and barrrel to China.
Posted by: 13times

They are welcome to every drop.
(And my grandfather just started spinning in his grave)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 01:16 PM (DlU13)

========

How could someone so fat, golly, and gosh darn British get bought by China?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 01:17 PM (q80AH)

378 ZOD GOTH.

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2019 01:17 PM (hgpSN)

379 And voter fraud.

Exactly what I was thinking. Its hilarious, over and over I've seen the same thing with leftists.

I complain about voter fraud.
They insist in absolute terms that zero exists.
I give them proof of it.
They say that its so little that it doesn't matter (already lost the argument).
I give them dozens of examples.
They claim those are isolated minor cases that don't affect the election (having moved the goalpost so far its in another game now).

A few weeks later...

I complain about voter fraud.
They insist in absolute terms that zero exists...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 01:17 PM (KZzsI)

380 Editor Carol Hunter Goebbels must step down. There is no place in Iowa for Frau Goebbels to promote such a homophobic, racist, fascist newsroom of filth and disgust.

Posted by: Tentotwo at September 27, 2019 01:18 PM (yhf6w)

381
can't open at work, wtf is it?
Posted by: nurse ratched
=========

Richard Engel
@RichardEngel
Former Ukrainian chief prosecutor Lutsenko, mentioned in and central to the whistleblower complaint, tells
@nbcnews
US authorities should investigate the Bidens for conflict of interest and abuse of power, and that he discussed it with Giuliani. More
Coming up
@msnbc
.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 27, 2019 01:18 PM (13CQC)

382 Nope can say with certainty I do not use and InBev products. Clean and sober for three years now. Unless they start taking over the coffee market I am good.

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclops at September 27, 2019 01:18 PM (B06Zw)

383 378 ZOD GOTH.
Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2019 01:17 PM (hgpSN)

==========

Is that what you call the gimp suit Sinema makes you wear?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 01:18 PM (q80AH)

384 Mrs. Gliddings, 98, of Council Bluffs, got jiggy in
1943 with the grocery delivery boy while her husband was in France
fighting Jerry.

Oh, Mrs. Gliddings said her onions grew amazing this year.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 01:08 PM (DlU13)

Stacy's Mom's Mom?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2019 01:18 PM (q1Pj5)

385 In the past, things developed more slowly and people would come up with
rules of proper behavior and polite etiquette of how to handle things.
Nobody does that any more so you get wide open crazy.

You know what would be nice? A cultural framework where a bit of empathy for others is sorta encouraged. Like maybe, oh I don't know, treating others the way you yourself would want to be treated if the situation were reversed. Which it could well be one day.

That might be kinda nice.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism at September 27, 2019 01:18 PM (HaL55)

386 People predicting this reporter getting a new gig at where ever forget that this particular reporter wasn't "owning the cons," he was "own the apolitical rando giving a million dollars to cancer kid treatment."

Not even scum at CNN's Kfile will be particularly interested in associating with that.

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at September 27, 2019 01:18 PM (hdzef)

387 can't open at work, wtf is it?
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019 01:13 PM (d7Ww2)

I'll tell you what it's not. It's not a topless Jolene Blalock in a thong smiling coyly over her shoulder.

Sadly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
The Democrats hate you
and want you dead.
Buy ammo

oh no!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019 01:18 PM (d7Ww2)

388 340 313 OH!

https://bit.ly/2nfdXQ5
Posted by: JackStraw

can't open at work, wtf is it?
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019 01:13 PM (d7Ww2)

Well nurse, when an otter and a walrus love each other very, very much...

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at September 27, 2019 01:18 PM (RD7QR)

389 Beers I dont see much of anymore:

Schlitz.

Burgie.

Olympia.

People's.

Brown Derby.
Falstaff was bought out by Chinese brewers and moved lock, stock and barrrel to China.
Posted by: 13times at September 27, 2019 01:13 PM (K3B2k)

LOL, Schlitz Malt Talls and Mickey's Bigmouth were my go-to pass-out beers at 16. My dad's go-to was Oly. One beer that was actually good was Heilman's Lager, we used to call them frosties. Almost no alcohol content but pretty tasty. Good for wrenching on cars.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 27, 2019 01:18 PM (Z1ykJ)

390 >>373 Q: How many black guys does it take to change a light bulb? Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 27, 2019 01:17 PM (2DOZq)

Five. Until the basketball is removed.

Then, one.

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2019 01:19 PM (hgpSN)

391 Who exactly is hiring "reporters" at the moment? This guy has pretty much already worked himself 3/4 of the way down to bottom of the barrel.
Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at September 27, 2019 01:14 PM (hdzef)

That's what I was thinking. Gannett was involved in a merger a couple months ago and they're downsizing local newspaper staffs across the country. There are no new jobs anywhere.

A Journalism Degree these days is nothing but fancy wall paper.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2019 01:19 PM (Kpl3J)

392 No Little Johnny jokes? Imma disappoint.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2019 01:14 PM (q1Pj5)

It has been a while. Were those the "Mommy! Mommy!" jokes?

Posted by: 29Victor at September 27, 2019 01:20 PM (BJKQV)

393 Mrs. Blaylock ?

are you guys taking shit about me ?

Posted by: Bille Whitelaw at September 27, 2019 01:20 PM (AQBtr)

394 Me: There is voter fraud

Lib: No there isn't

Me: Why don't we have an investigation into it?

Lib: Investigate what, it doesn't exist

Me: Well then let's investigate and prove it one way or the
other

Lib: That's stupid, why investigate something that doesn't exist?

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 01:20 PM (FiUMj)

395 325 For those of you who haven't seen what he looks like....just what you'd expect.

seriously is there some kind of Douche Cloning facility in New Jersey or something?
Posted by: BlackOrchidOfCollusion at September 27, 2019 01:11 PM (Rarvo)

Newark. Gotta stay close to the supply of toxic waste.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at September 27, 2019 01:20 PM (RD7QR)

396 Punishing people now for what they did in the past is about making people afraid to express themselves NOW.
Posted by: ... at September 27, 2019 01:15 PM (fe8qf)

Bingo.

Posted by: chique d'afrique at September 27, 2019 01:20 PM (9hauA)

397 Founders and Great Lakes are also still independent - I'm not the biggest fan of Great Lakes, but I'll usually pump it since it's a Cleveland business.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 01:20 PM (oZ6kz)

398 394 Me: There is voter fraud

Lib: No there isn't

Me: Why don't we have an investigation into it?

Lib: Investigate what, it doesn't exist

Me: Well then let's investigate and prove it one way or the
other

Lib: That's stupid, why investigate something that doesn't exist?
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 01:20 PM (FiUMj)

==========

Wait...is this about voter fraud or the g spot?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 01:20 PM (q80AH)

399 What everyone's wondering is:
WHAT THE FUCK DID A HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL POST HAVE TO DO WITH THE STORY?

Exactly. And what about this guy made this jackwagon think it was important to dig into his past and try to ruin him? He wasn't some right wing icon, he wasn't a conservative pundit, he wasn't "viral" because he waved a flag. He was some goofball that did good.

My guess is this dweeb hates football, hates beer, thinks this guy reminds him of the people who used to give him swirlies in school, and wanted to MAKE HIM PAY FINALLY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 01:21 PM (KZzsI)

400
So, which part(s) of Mr. King's tweets (from seven years ago) where he was quoting a comedian, led the Des Moines Register to believe that the fund-raising might have been a scam?
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So we have a new curse.
"May you live in interesting times"
"May you come to the attention of those in authority."
"May the press look into your social media accounts."

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at September 27, 2019 01:21 PM (ySnWN)

401 >>Is that what you call the gimp suit Sinema makes you wear? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 01:18 PM (q80AH)

No. Zod wears the mouth of a family member of yours. Which member is immaterial. Sinema calls that "the device."

Zod's pyramid is not going to erect itself. Resume your toil.

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2019 01:21 PM (hgpSN)

402 A Journalism Degree these days is nothing but fancy ~~wall~~ paper you wipe your ass with.

FIFY.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 27, 2019 01:21 PM (wtvvX)

403
Who exactly is hiring "reporters" at the moment? This guy has pretty much already worked himself 3/4 of the way down to bottom of the barrel.

---------

When you prove (like this guy) that you'll stoop to any depth for the agenda, even blowing gross old guys to get a lead that hurts the Right, it means you're the cream of the crop.

Posted by: Ali Watkins, NYT reporter at September 27, 2019 01:21 PM (AzW6q)

404 comment not found

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 01:21 PM (q80AH)

405 388 340 313 OH!

https://bit.ly/2nfdXQ5
Posted by: JackStraw

The amazing thing is that it's being put up on MSNBC.

THE CALLS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!

of course the defenders are already saying "aw you can't trust anyone in Ukraine, they're all corrupt".

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2019 01:21 PM (Kpl3J)

406 286 Oh.

https://bit.ly/2nT6bLZ

Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2019 01:06 PM (ZLI7S)

I believe that this latest Ukraine phone call faux outrage is all about attempting to play whatever card the dems can play to prevent the FISAgate docs from being disclosed.

Remember, ODNI was dragging his declassification feet.

ODNI was fired/resigned.

Ratcliffe was nominated and sabotaged and withdrew.

ODNI Sue Gordon resigns in highly publicized huff.

Concurrently, Trump names new ODNI, and Schiff begins the Ukraine Call misinformation op.

The FISAgate material must be deadly. That and the Crowdstrike mention must have hillary shitting her MuMu

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at September 27, 2019 01:21 PM (jYnPD)

407 >>>Countering Shokin's statement? What is it (let me guess), Shokin is corrupt and can't be believed?
That and they literally found a Soros/Kyiv think tank to bat down .. everything. Just go to NPR and listen to the report. I was half asleep listening to the radio and auto-blocked most of the conversation.

Posted by: 13times at September 27, 2019 01:21 PM (K3B2k)

408
Why not run background checks on journalists? We'd find out who they knew, who they're related to, who they screwed to get their jobs. Just like every other Leftie-run business.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2019 01:21 PM (534RT)

409 319 Otter Water! Buy our premium h2o in which cute furry otters have swum!
Posted by: adobe juan latest fad kenobe at September 27, 2019

*
*

I'll just bet swimming isn't the only thing they've done in that water.

Posted by: A. Hitler at September 27, 2019 01:22 PM (ClOmq)

410 366 29 If I happened to see a reporter being vigorously beaten on the sidewalk with a length of logging chain, I would not join in.

=====
I would not hesitate to whip out my phone and call for help--

"No is it 912, nope
900, nope
888, oh look at the boobies...
well dang"
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at September 27, 2019 01:16 PM (ySnWN)

I'd be willing to help. I have an axe handle especially for reporter interviews.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
The Democrats hate you
and want you dead.
Buy ammo at September 27, 2019 01:22 PM (bcbK8)

411
An in-depth investigation established beyond a shadow of a doubt that he did not in fact need beer money.

Shun him. Do not hire him. Make him homeless. And kill all those rotten kid pediatric cancer patients, they're obviously in on it.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 27, 2019 01:22 PM (oarq5)

412 This reporter weighs as much as 10 moving boxes.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 01:22 PM (FiUMj)

413 Gov. Andrew Cuomo blames leftists for impeachment

He seems concerned.

Posted by: Ha at September 27, 2019 01:22 PM (B/g/o)

414 378 ZOD GOTH.
Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2019 01:17 PM (hgpSN)

Is that guyliner?

Posted by: blaster at September 27, 2019 01:22 PM (9VeU0)

415 408
Why not run background checks on journalists? We'd find out who they knew, who they're related to, who they screwed to get their jobs. Just like every other Leftie-run business.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2019 01:21 PM (534RT)

Hadrian is on to something here.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
The Democrats hate you
and want you dead.
Buy ammo at September 27, 2019 01:22 PM (bcbK8)

416 413 Gov. Andrew Cuomo blames leftists for impeachment

He seems concerned.
Posted by: Ha at September 27, 2019 01:22 PM (B/g/o)

==========

But...push polls!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 01:22 PM (q80AH)

417 414 378 ZOD GOTH.
Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2019 01:17 PM (hgpSN)

Is that guyliner?
Posted by: blaster at September 27, 2019 01:22 PM (9VeU0)

Good enough for Razorfist, good enough for Zod

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
The Democrats hate you
and want you dead.
Buy ammo at September 27, 2019 01:23 PM (bcbK8)

418 From the look of it, Joe was laundering kickbacks through Hunter.

Is it laundering if you have your shakedown pay the money to a third party you control to make you look clean, or is there some other term for that?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2019 01:23 PM (xG/b0)

419 Lib: That's stupid, why investigate something that doesn't exist?
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 01:20 PM (FiUMj)

==========

Wait...is this about voter fraud or the g spot?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Yes.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 01:23 PM (DlU13)

420 You know what would be nice? A cultural framework where a bit of empathy for others is sorta encouraged. Like maybe, oh I don't know, treating others the way you yourself would want to be treated if the situation were reversed.

Sure, one that emphasized forgiveness and the natural tendency of us all to do wrong unless lifted up by someone else. Wonder where you could find such an ethic?

The cowboy way was to give someone a break for what they did in the past, but keep an eye on them. Now its DESTROY THEM!!!1!1!! For bitchen clicks!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 01:23 PM (KZzsI)

421 Anyone who would like an explanation for my handle, see this topic.

Posted by: ... at September 27, 2019 01:23 PM (fe8qf)

422 "For those of you who haven't seen what he looks like....just what you'd expect.

https://images.app.goo.gl/zjPRELCy9fi5AVJm7"

Kid with a headfull of Zinn, and that's why he's so sure he's so much better than the people he writes for and reports on.

Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 01:23 PM (mk9aG)

423 >>McCabe was bloviating about Trump and how much of a liar he is and a disgrace to this Country... Doesn't sound like a person who expects to be charged with anything

Sounds like a guy who was fired for lying trying to make it sound like the guy who got him fired* is the big, fat LIAR.

Trump tweeting "wonder if he'll make it to retirement in 30 days before he's fired?" has still gotta sting.

*His lies were to get Hillary elected/Trump beat, so I am sure he blames Drumpf!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2019 01:23 PM (bDqIh)

424 >>410 366 29 If I happened to see a reporter being vigorously beaten on the sidewalk with a length of logging chain, I would not join in.

You could attempt to interview the reporter. "Yes. Yes, well, I see that your jaw has been shattered into five pieces, but is still attached to your face. Can you tell the viewers if you're in pain. And if so, how much? No, please, speak into the microphone...it's...it's right here. I'll hold it in front of where your face used to be...."

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2019 01:24 PM (hgpSN)

425 418
From the look of it, Joe was laundering kickbacks through Hunter.

Is
it laundering if you have your shakedown pay the money to a third party
you control to make you look clean, or is there some other term for
that?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2019 01:23 PM (xG/b0)

Joe Biden had a lot of buffers.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at September 27, 2019 01:24 PM (jYnPD)

426 Wonder if you take out Bernie and Biden, what would be the cumulative name ID of the remaining occupants of the Klown Kar ??

Posted by: REDACTED at September 27, 2019 01:24 PM (AQBtr)

427 Lib: That's stupid, why investigate something that doesn't exist?
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 01:20 PM (FiUMj)

==========

Wait...is this about voter fraud or the g spot?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 01:20 PM (q80AH)

See...some people say they are both conspiracies, but I've seen things...dirty things.

I'm convinced both exist.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
The Democrats hate you
and want you dead.
Buy ammo at September 27, 2019 01:24 PM (bcbK8)

428 I'll just bet swimming isn't the only thing they've done in that water.

"That's what makes it so great! OTTERS!"
--National Amalgamated National Otter Corporation

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 01:25 PM (KZzsI)

429 Who exactly is hiring "reporters" at the moment?
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The FBI and DNC, pretty much.

Posted by: ... at September 27, 2019 01:25 PM (fe8qf)

430 Joe Biden had a lot of buffers.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at September 27, 2019 01:24 PM (jYnPD)

His face is weirdly shiny.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at September 27, 2019 01:25 PM (Uu+Jp)

431 Lib: That's stupid, why investigate something that doesn't exist?

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 01:20 PM (FiUMj)

If we had an opposition party, they'd have called the libs on the whole Russia tampering thing, to at least do something about the voter rolls somewhere. CA shouldn't be allowed to participate in federal elections, period. I'd say the fact that we've probably got a minimum of 1M illegals voting is a good enough reason.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 27, 2019 01:25 PM (Z1ykJ)

432 This guy is a barnacle on the ass of Good Ship Media. I think he may have to learn to code."

FWIW, were we not told just a few days back that the "bowl" haircut around the back was a strong sign of the white supremacy?

Hmmm

Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 27, 2019 01:25 PM (6qErC)

433 Its almost lunch time! Woot!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'newly recruited otter eater' at September 27, 2019 01:25 PM (O5bec)

434 431
If we had an opposition party, they'd have called the libs on the whole Russia tampering thing, to at least do something about the voter rolls somewhere. CA shouldn't be allowed to participate in federal elections, period. I'd say the fact that we've probably got a minimum of 1M illegals voting is a good enough reason.
Posted by: clutch cargo at September 27, 2019 01:25 PM (Z1ykJ)

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Didn't California just have to purge 1.5 million people from its voter rolls?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 01:26 PM (q80AH)

435 >>Is that guyliner?
Posted by: blaster at September 27, 2019 01:22 PM (9VeU0)

"Yes." (Looks up from eating flesh). "Yes, it is."

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2019 01:26 PM (hgpSN)

436 I mean I'd love to help a journalist that was being pummeled to death after enjoying a bit of knockout game fun with a group of aspiring Soundcloud rappers, but a guy trying to save the day physically? That's so toxic. Wouldn't it be better to moderate a discussion between those parties?

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 01:26 PM (oZ6kz)

437 My guess is this dweeb hates football, hates beer, thinks this guy reminds him of the people who used to give him swirlies in school, and wanted to MAKE HIM PAY FINALLY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!

The dweeb grew up in Iowa, before escaping to Brooklyn to work for Buzzfeed.

I'm sure that the beer guy reminded the dweeb of everything he hates about Iowa.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 27, 2019 01:26 PM (I2/tG)

438 The amazing thing is that it's being put up on MSNBC.

THE CALLS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!

of course the defenders are already saying "aw you can't trust anyone in Ukraine, they're all corrupt".
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2019 01:21 PM (Kpl3J)

"Next up: Authorities in Chicago assert that ... "

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2019 01:26 PM (VIIPP)

439 You could attempt to interview the reporter.

"Tell me. And remember, this is for posterity, so be honest -- how do you feel?"
--Prince Humperdink

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 01:26 PM (KZzsI)

440 Tomorrow belongs to me!

Posted by: Greta Thunberg, meatball-scented Druid philosopher at September 27, 2019 01:26 PM (vtcmf)

441 Stroh's Beer (remember them?) used to have funny tv commercials.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2019 01:26 PM (q1Pj5)

442 440 Tomorrow belongs to me!
Posted by: Greta Thunberg, meatball-scented Druid philosopher at September 27, 2019 01:26 PM (vtcmf)

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"Thoughts on Islam?"
-Barack Obama

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 01:27 PM (q80AH)

443 FWIW, were we not told just a few days back that the "bowl" haircut around the back was a strong sign of the white supremacy?

"Damned right!!!"
--Miley Cyrus

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 01:27 PM (KZzsI)

444 ...all 18 months of it.

Posted by: Greta Thunberg, meatball-scented Druid philosopher at September 27, 2019 01:27 PM (vtcmf)

445 "That's what makes it so great! OTTERS!"
--National Amalgamated National Otter Corporation
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019

*
*

NANOC? Conan O'Brien, is that you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 27, 2019 01:27 PM (ClOmq)

446 Stop making fun of Greta you monsters, 16 year olds are not fair game.

>Nick Sandmann intensifies
>Carson King intensifies

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 01:28 PM (oZ6kz)

447
Good. Every reporter needs to be anxious: is this the story that will get them fired and unemployable? A better society would see them tarred and feathered for their treachery, but this will do. For now.
Posted by: trev006 at September 27, 2019 12:37 PM (6ikLp)

Operation Pipewrench!

*sigh*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 27, 2019 01:28 PM (veoSD)

448 Rainier Beer here in the Northwest had some fun ads. Its where Bud got their talking frog idea from.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 01:28 PM (KZzsI)

449 Humma straps on a false staff for hillary.

Posted by: adobe juan kenobe at September 27, 2019 01:28 PM (VudRE)

450 >>THE CALLS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!

Zod plays at night in Pelosi's house
Zod lives another life
Pretending to swim
Pretending to swim.

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2019 01:28 PM (hgpSN)

451 446 Stop making fun of Greta you monsters, 16 year olds are not fair game.

>Nick Sandmann intensifies
>Carson King intensifies
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 01:28 PM (oZ6kz)

==========

Intensifies?

Is that a Dragon Ball Z thing or something?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 01:28 PM (q80AH)

452 If Chris is "Fredo", does that make Andrew "Mikey" ??

Posted by: REDACTED at September 27, 2019 01:28 PM (AQBtr)

453 I had a homeless guy turn down 20 bucks yesterday when I saw in my twitter lines I had dissed Joel Osteen.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 27, 2019 01:28 PM (JFO2v)

454 What's their excuse for Anheuser Busch cancelling their connection with him before the article was published. They did that right? More than likely because the author contacted them, just like has happened previously so they could include that in their clickbait story.

Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2019 01:28 PM (Z7lwY)

455 Nah, it's an old meme.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 01:29 PM (oZ6kz)

456 Radio host sends himself an anti-gay tweet
#FakeHate
https://tinyurl.com/y3ft6gs4

Turns out he just wanted to extort money out of the radio station

Posted by: McCool at September 27, 2019 01:29 PM (sZaoP)

457 Otter Water! Buy our premium h2o in which cute furry otters have swum!

Posted by: adobe juan latest fad kenobe at September 27, 2019

*

*

I'll just bet swimming isn't the only thing they've done in that water.

Posted by: A. Hitler at September 27, 2019 01:22 PM (ClOmq)

*snickering*

Posted by: The Fishes at September 27, 2019 01:29 PM (q1Pj5)

458 412 This reporter weighs as much as 10 moving boxes.

Haha!

Posted by: doof at September 27, 2019 01:29 PM (olgDX)

459 448 Rainier Beer here in the Northwest had some fun ads. Its where Bud got their talking frog idea from.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

R-Bo and running with the rainiers were hysterical commercials. there's a burger joint in west seatttle that plays all the old rainier beer and Ivars commercials on an old black and white tv set in the corner. it's awesome

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019 01:29 PM (d7Ww2)

460 A wounded animal is the most vicious and dangerous animal. Demorats are definitely wounded.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 27, 2019 01:29 PM (2DOZq)

461 455 Nah, it's an old meme.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 01:29 PM (oZ6kz)

==========

Meme?

Is that a Richard Dawkins thing?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 01:30 PM (q80AH)

462 I'm sure that the beer guy reminded the dweeb of everything he hates about Iowa.

still tho... it does seem weird to target a potentially non-deplorable in this way!??!

maybe some of the revealed Tweets suggested he was right-leaning

he seems like just an amiable goof? there must have been OTHER wrong think, not just liking Tosh

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfCollusion at September 27, 2019 01:30 PM (Rarvo)

463 I have an ex I'm still friendly with who was an actual whistleblower, and took a ton of serious shit for it.

She's barking mad over this Deep State operative being misnamed a "whistleblower."

Posted by: Guy Smiley at September 27, 2019 01:30 PM (u//oP)

464 451 446 Stop making fun of Greta you monsters, 16 year olds are not fair game.

>Nick Sandmann intensifies
>Carson King intensifies
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 01:28 PM (oZ6kz)

Children should be OFF LIMIT

SHAME ON ALL OF YOU

Posted by: Pussy Hunter Biden at September 27, 2019 01:30 PM (AQBtr)

465 >>Sounds like a guy who was fired for lying trying to make it sound like the guy who got him fired* is the big, fat LIAR.

All of what is going on right now by the left is designed to make Trump and us look like dishonest liars. They need to discredit the people who are about to charge them.

Oldest PR strategy in the book.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2019 01:30 PM (ZLI7S)

466 If I happened to see a reporter being vigorously beaten on the sidewalk with a length of logging chain, I would not join in.

Not my monkeys, not my circus.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 01:30 PM (DlU13)

467 OTTER WATER!

SCREEEEEEEEEE!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019 01:30 PM (d7Ww2)

468 Rudy says he has signed affidavits and lawyer papers from Bidens Lawyers implicating Biden. I know Rudy is a bit nuts, but he does have "stuff".. Solomon has done good work with a bunch of "stuff" too... We shall see

Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2019 01:30 PM (O2RFr)

469 CNBC warning Dems over impeachment?

Huh

Posted by: Ha at September 27, 2019 01:30 PM (B/g/o)

470 When they see my twitter disses of Icebacks and snow people....

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (JFO2v)

471 465 >>Sounds like a guy who was fired for lying trying to make it sound like the guy who got him fired* is the big, fat LIAR.

All of what is going on right now by the left is designed to make Trump and us look like dishonest liars. They need to discredit the people who are about to charge them.

Oldest PR strategy in the book.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2019 01:30 PM (ZLI7S)

============

I'm just gonna say that it feels like behavior from people who've seen an unredacted IG report and have heard that the DOJ is planning on indictments.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (q80AH)

472 Yes, he invented memes in between stints at the Family Feud and Match Game PM.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (oZ6kz)

473 441 Stroh's Beer (remember them?) used to have funny tv commercials.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2019 01:26 PM (q1Pj5)

Bearwizz Beer! It's in the water!

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (RD7QR)

474 313 OH!

https://bit.ly/2nfdXQ5
Posted by: JackStraw

can't open at work, wtf is it?
=====
The whistleblower form is only two days old.

The format of the form was changed - last revision of format was August 2019 -during the pendency of the report potentially.

The older versions of the form on the wayback machine DO NOT include an provision for submitting info from second hand sources.

Speculation that somebody revised the form to make it look legit to submit second hand hearsay info - and then they ginned up the report.

Seems really weird.

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (6ojyJ)

475 453 I had a homeless guy turn down 20 bucks yesterday when I saw in my twitter lines I had dissed Joel Osteen.

I had a homeless guy throw a glass beer bottle at my head last week. I called the police and had the MFer locked up.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (u//oP)

476 A wounded animal is the most vicious and dangerous animal. Demorats are definitely wounded.

yeah unfortunately they're also massive, huge and fat - like Godzilla on a bender - and determined to take as many innocent people as possible down with them as they lurch along to their ruin

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfCollusion at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (Rarvo)

477 468 Rudy says he has signed affidavits and lawyer papers from Bidens Lawyers implicating Biden. I know Rudy is a bit nuts, but he does have "stuff".. Solomon has done good work with a bunch of "stuff" too... We shall see
Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2019 01:30 PM (O2RFr)

I am rooting for Rudy - hope he has no fucks to give.

Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (a0IVu)

478 >> I had dissed Joel Osteen.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 27, 2019 01:28 PM (JFO2v)

Actually listened to that guy driving from Rock Hall, MD to home, and back--three hours, straight.

If memory serves, he refers to Old Scratch as "the adversary" or "the enemy."

Beautifully mutated.

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (hgpSN)

479 Rush just played excerpts from this YouTube video.

It's titled "This Video Will Get Trump Elected."

https://youtu.be/G2qIXXafxCQ

Disclosure: I became aware of the existence of this video via "Q." Make of that what you will.

In other news: SpaceX Boca Chica is in the process of putting the top fairing section on top of the first Starship.

https://youtu.be/-aDOpyUmfL4

Posted by: filbert at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (NiXyF)

480 Stop making fun of Greta you monsters, 16 year olds are not fair game.

>Nick Sandmann intensifies
>Carson King intensifies
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 01:28 PM (oZ6kz)

Children should be OFF LIMIT

SHAME ON ALL OF YOU
Posted by: Pussy Hunter Biden

16 isn't a child.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (DlU13)

481 After Biden pressured Ukraine to fire the prosecutor that was supposedly lax on corruption (but who WAS investigating Burisma)

Ukraine appointed a guy with ZERO legal experience to take his place

Biden liked that much better apparently.
https://tinyurl.com/y644toyy

Posted by: McCool at September 27, 2019 01:32 PM (sZaoP)

482 Stroh's Beer (remember them?) used to have funny tv commercials.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2019 01:26 PM (q1Pj5)

"fire brewed"

Posted by: BignJames at September 27, 2019 01:32 PM (X/Pw5)

483 Didn't California just have to purge 1.5 million people

Mmmmm, epsom salts.

Posted by: adobe juan stand back kenobe at September 27, 2019 01:32 PM (VudRE)

484 480 16 isn't a child.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (DlU13)

===========

"You bet it is."
-26 year old on daddy's health insurance plan

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 01:32 PM (q80AH)

485 >>Is that a Richard Dawkins thing?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 01:30 PM (q80AH)

Yes, but different context.

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2019 01:32 PM (hgpSN)

486 I'll just bet swimming isn't the only thing they've done in that water.
Posted by: A. Hitler at September 27, 2019 01:22 PM

If the abalone shell is rocking', don't come knockin'.

Posted by: The Otters of The Villages at September 27, 2019 01:32 PM (DMUuz)

487 Guy, you should have called Kamala, she'd have had him in prison for life.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 01:32 PM (oZ6kz)

488 Radio host sends himself an anti-gay tweet

Did they trace it back to a Subway?

Posted by: That irredeemable guy who always asks... at September 27, 2019 01:33 PM (vtcmf)

489 I notice the meme the left is pushing now - after hitting the full court press this week, the left ran some push polls and is saying "PUBLIC MOVING IN FAVOR OF IMPEACHMENT!!!"

I think it's interesting who they're lobbying with this - the public hasn't moved much, they just know there's noise and wonder what's going on. But the moderate dems have been saying "No Impeachment!" on the grounds that polls were against it, so this is the far left trying to push the middle left into capitulating.

I think the dems have gone too far down this road - I think they have to vote for impeachment now, even if the story falls apart. They're committed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2019 01:33 PM (Kpl3J)

490 >>Rudy says he has signed affidavits and lawyer papers from Bidens Lawyers implicating Biden. I know Rudy is a bit nuts, but he does have "stuff".. Solomon has done good work with a bunch of "stuff" too... We shall see

If Rudy's got 'em, Barr has got 'em.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2019 01:33 PM (ZLI7S)

491 What's their excuse for Anheuser Busch cancelling their connection with him before the article was published.

They had no real connection to begin with, that's what puzzles me. Their only connection was "hey, we'll match his donations!" and he was on their show once in a crowd. That's it. Its not like he worked for them or was sponsored or something.

She's barking mad over this Deep State operative being misnamed a "whistleblower."

Yeah that angers me as well, just from the sense of purity of language and justice. I yell at anyone who uses that term unironically, because all they are doing is playing into the left's hands.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 01:33 PM (KZzsI)

492 A wounded animal is the most vicious and dangerous animal. Demorats are definitely wounded.
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Cornered animal.

Always leave your enemy a perceived means of escape. Sonny Tsue.

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2019 01:33 PM (P4COh)

493 Come and enjoy our Friday Otter Palooza Buffet!

..and get free tater tots!!!

Posted by: Endangered Species Resturant and Bar at September 27, 2019 01:34 PM (O5bec)

494 If Rudy's got 'em, Barr has got 'em.

And the Special investigators too

Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2019 01:34 PM (O2RFr)

495
I'm just gonna say that it feels like behavior from people who've seen an unredacted IG report and have heard that the DOJ is planning on indictments.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (q80AH)

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From your lips to G-d's ears, TJM. Hopefully that's the case.

But it brings up something that bothers me... The IG law needs to be changed.

Just why the fuck should government goons get what none of us get - a chance to look at the police investigation of ourselves long before a warrant is issued for our arrest?

It just gives them time to get ahead of their crimes and weaponize the media and government in their own defense.

It's disgusting, and unjust.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 01:34 PM (AzW6q)

496 Rudy says he has signed affidavits and lawyer papers from Bidens Lawyers implicating Biden. I know Rudy is a bit nuts, but he does have "stuff".. Solomon has done good work with a bunch of "stuff" too... We shall see

If Rudy's got 'em, Barr has got 'em.
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they both got em from Durham.

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2019 01:34 PM (P4COh)

497 16 isn't a child.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (DlU13)

THAT'S WHAT I SAID!!

Posted by: zombie epstein at September 27, 2019 01:34 PM (VudRE)

498 474 313 OH!

https://bit.ly/2nfdXQ5
Posted by: JackStraw

can't open at work, wtf is it?
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The whistleblower form is only two days old.

The format of the form was changed - last revision of format was August 2019 -during the pendency of the report potentially.

The older versions of the form on the wayback machine DO NOT include an provision for submitting info from second hand sources.

Speculation that somebody revised the form to make it look legit to submit second hand hearsay info - and then they ginned up the report.

Seems really weird.
Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (6ojyJ)

Sometimes the goal post are moved to another venue.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 27, 2019 01:34 PM (JFO2v)

499 Impeachment might be the necessary catalyst.

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2019 01:34 PM (hgpSN)

500 SHAME ON ALL OF YOU
Posted by: Pussy Hunter Biden

16 isn't a child.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (DlU13)

Anything under 50 is a child

next year, 51

Posted by: Pussy Hunter Biden at September 27, 2019 01:35 PM (AQBtr)

501 >>What's their excuse for Anheuser Busch cancelling their connection with him before the article was published. They did that right? More than likely because the author contacted them, just like has happened previously so they could include that in their clickbait story.

Yes, it is SJW journo SOP to contact any associated corporations when covering one of these scandals. If they're calling Tucker Carlson a white nationalist, then they call his advertisers and ask, "We're doing a story on white nationalist Tucker being a white nationalist, what is your company's comment on supporting a white nationalist -- I'd like to include it in the story."

They say it's to research the story, but they know their request for comment is a threat to "out" them as being tainted by the target of their hit-piece. The whole point is to break the link between the target and the corporation to punish/harass their target.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2019 01:35 PM (bDqIh)

502 nood poll

Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 01:35 PM (a0IVu)

503 Nurse Ratched, a professional question: Do recovery room nurses love it when patients coming out of anesthesia start speaking languages other than English without warning?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2019 01:35 PM (xG/b0)

504 I'll just bet swimming isn't the only thing they've done in that water.

Posted by: A. Hitler at September 27, 2019 01:22 PM (ClOmq)

*snickering*
Posted by: The Fishes at September 27, 2019

*
*

Water? Pah! Fishes do fumblydiddles in it.

Posted by: Max Bialystock at September 27, 2019 01:35 PM (ClOmq)

505
Stroh's Beer (remember them?) used to have funny tv commercials.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Don't surprise me none.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2019 01:35 PM (aKsyK)

506 I wouldn't say it will "never" end, because there is one pathway to ending it - we make the lives of everyone on the left, and everyone who works for a media company, and everyone who holds office in a major corporation, a living hell by allowing access to all private records and publicizing them relentlessly. We give it to them 10 times as worse as they are dishing it out now, and THEN maybe they'll start to see the wisdom in ending the practice.

That's how wars are fought.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2019 12:43 PM (Kpl3J)

In WWII Stalin's goon squads would set up machine guns behind their own lines and kill any of their own soldiers if they hesitated or retreated from attacking German positions.

The dems are doing the same thing. Example: Tulsi Gabbard.

Posted by: Sooner at September 27, 2019 01:35 PM (Fs5vw)

507 17 Someone on Twitter said, basically, hey editor at the Des Moines Register, your job is not to fire the guy because of his past tweets, but keep him from writing about the other guys past tweets.

Thank you for keeping cancel culture going, assholes.
....

This.

No one really cares about some shit-tweeting. No one really cares about what some 16 year old says, if it's in his tweets or in front of the UN, frankly.

People care that there are a bunch of inquisitors who will sift our backgrounds for a off-color or deliberately naughty joke or crabby post or tweet and then try to destroy you.

Posted by: Synova at September 27, 2019 01:35 PM (BD/yx)

508 >>they both got em from Durham.

Quite likely.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2019 01:36 PM (ZLI7S)

509 478 >> I had dissed Joel Osteen.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 27, 2019 01:28 PM (JFO2v)

Actually listened to that guy driving from Rock Hall, MD to home, and back--three hours, straight.

If memory serves, he refers to Old Scratch as "the adversary" or "the enemy."

Beautifully mutated.

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (hgpSN)

He considers the adversary real churches that take his money.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 27, 2019 01:36 PM (JFO2v)

510 Just why the fuck should government goons get what none of us get - a chance to look at the police investigation of ourselves long before a warrant is issued for our arrest?

My guess is that was the only way to get the IG bill passed in the first place. They had to include that language or it was dead in the water.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 01:36 PM (KZzsI)

511 Don't forget our Artisans, who's secret abodes (inside women't bras) were discovered once it started getting cold, and their noses started poking out.

Posted by: Olympia Beer at September 27, 2019 01:36 PM (DMUuz)

512 "Is it laundering if you have your shakedown pay the
money to a third party you control to make you look clean, or is there
some other term for that?"Posted by: Kindltot

diGenova called it a shakedown ... the money going to the son isn't really laundering, that is pretty direct. Hillary ran it through her illegal foundation ... I think that is laundering maybe.

Many of the foundations are tax free scams, money used for political and personal power ... and it is always "commies" that manage to take control of them ... or globalists, (modern commies ... centralized control via BigMoney influence over government, to put power in the oligarchs' hands)

HSBC was caught laundering $2B in drug cartel money, only paid a fine ... global banking cartel intervened and got Lynch to stand down on prosecution that was already signed and sealed ... got halted on the delivery part.

So now the Shadow Government has met in Ukraine, to make further battle plans against our Republic? WAR.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 27, 2019 01:36 PM (Cus5s)

513 >>I am rooting for Rudy - hope he has no fucks to give.

It sounds like he has at least one foot back up on the wagon.

Posted by: Galil at September 27, 2019 01:36 PM (Pzzpr)

514 29 If I happened to see a reporter being vigorously beaten on the sidewalk with a length of logging chain, I would not join in.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 27, 2019 12:31 PM (P+Keb)

Is there a blacksmith in the crowd? We're gonna need a link repaired.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at September 27, 2019 01:36 PM (e1mEI)

515
If memory serves, he refers to Old Scratch as "the adversary" or "the enemy."

Beautifully mutated.

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (hgpSN)

I don't like Joel Osteen much, but in that particular, he's quite correct. "Adversary" is a direct translation from the Hebrew, I believe.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2019 01:37 PM (Kpl3J)

516 Speculation that somebody revised the form to make it look legit to submit second hand hearsay info - and then they ginned up the report.

Seems really weird.
Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (6ojyJ)

Sometimes the goal post are moved to another venue.
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Oh that Sh!+ happens to us ALL THE TIME.

Posted by: The Cleveland Browns at September 27, 2019 01:37 PM (6ojyJ)

517 409
I'll just bet swimming isn't the only thing they've done in that water.

do you have any idea what floridians have done in the floridated water you drink every day?

Posted by: Anachronda at September 27, 2019 01:37 PM (sGtp+)

518 I love the throwing out there oh we wanted to be sure he wasn't a scammer, you know, just to make sure they he maybe he's a scammer notion floats about.

Here's why that's stupid: He held up a sign asking for beer money for himself. He wasn't fund raising. He wasn't boo hoo I have cancer when he didn't. He said point blank hey I need money for beer and then decided to give to charity. So even that excuse doesn't fly.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at September 27, 2019 01:37 PM (GbPPJ)

519 MSLSD doesn't want Sloe Joe Bidet to be Nominee they want Fauxcahontas or Bernie "I comb my hair with a balloon"Sanders

Posted by: Derp State is in Deep Shit at September 27, 2019 01:38 PM (BqBId)

520 498 474 313 OH!

https://bit.ly/2nfdXQ5
Posted by: JackStraw

can't open at work, wtf is it?
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The whistleblower form is only two days old.

The format of the form was changed - last revision of format was August 2019 -during the pendency of the report potentially.

The older versions of the form on the wayback machine DO NOT include an provision for submitting info from second hand sources.

that tweet is not about a doctored form.

Posted by: kallisto at September 27, 2019 01:38 PM (DJFLF)

521 That entire response is a huge heap of bullshit. And I think it points to a way forward - I recall someone terming it Mutually Assured Cancellation the other day.

If the press thinks their job is to crush random nobodies, then we're going to hold them to the same rules. Or at least try to. Most of you are not aware that the larger media organizations have access to most, if not all of your private activity on FB, Twitter, etc. In some cases this includes things you deleted from public view years ago. Private messages, photos, and posts - EVERYTHING.

Posted by: lurker (the other one... spelled with a P) at September 27, 2019 01:39 PM (eAshZ)

522
So largely thanks to the internet, the fraudulent nature of mainstream journalism was exposed, and briefly the gate-keepers were bypassed by true citizen journalists. And now the corporations that control internet access are engaged in a coordinated effort to silence citizen journalists or any other parallel source of information.

The same people who did this, want to control your self-driving car and make society cashless. You can have transportation and money until you say the wrong thing. Then they'll de-platform your car and your bank account.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 27, 2019 01:39 PM (oarq5)

523 > "469
CNBC warning Dems over impeachment?

Huh

As this latest Democrat fiasco unravels I expect other media outlets to follow suit. Oh there'll be the usual gang of leftist diehard idiots who will clutch the "collusion" anchor until it takes them straight to the bottom. The smarter ones will wise up and admit to themselves "Oh crap... we stepped in it AGAIN??"

Posted by: Anonymous 7 at September 27, 2019 01:39 PM (LUhuk)

524 If memory serves, he refers to Old Scratch as "the adversary" or "the enemy."

Beautifully mutated.

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2019 01:31 PM (hgpSN)

I don't like Joel Osteen much, but in that particular, he's quite correct. "Adversary" is a direct translation from the Hebrew, I believe.
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also like accuser - in the sense of adversary that is against you in a trial . . .

Posted by: translations all limp at September 27, 2019 01:39 PM (vjXU3)

525 sometimes the goal post are moved to another venue.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 27, 2019 01:34 PM (JFO2v)
*******
So it was done by one of the NOthing is gonna Happen people here. who move the goalposts a lot ?

Posted by: Derp State is in Deep Shit at September 27, 2019 01:40 PM (BqBId)

526 Whenever a news organization smears a private citizen over some irrelevancy, an orchestrated digital mob takedown of every single staffer should ensue, a deep search and dissemination of every available embarrassing public record going back years. But not all at once. Soon as they manage to scrub, produce more. Whether the staffer was involved doesnt matter. Make them know the response will be assymetrical and enduring. Make them know what social persecution feels like when it's unleashed on us and people we care about.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at September 27, 2019 01:41 PM (MB9+R)

527 The whistleblower form is only two days old.

The format of the form was changed - last revision of format was August 2019 -during the pendency of the report potentially.

The older versions of the form on the wayback machine DO NOT include an provision for submitting info from second hand sources.

that tweet is not about a doctored form.
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If you follow that "tweet" to the account the guy has a whole thread now. He's been working on it. So I went the extra mile and read the whole thing. Yeah, I 'm helpful like that. Sue me.

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2019 01:41 PM (vjXU3)

528 That editorial is one of the most insufferable heapings of BS/progressive-cliche-doublespeak that I've read in a while.

And I'm sure the author has been patting herself on the back ever since she wrote it. Virtue signalling in nearly every para. They should fire this be-yatch too. Then Iowans would really know they were heard.

Posted by: Forheremenaremen at September 27, 2019 01:53 PM (HB5Gm)

529 Hey Des Moine Register - Want to know how you can really show Iowans they've been heard.
Fire your editor's boney, virtue-signalling ass.

Posted by: Forheremenaremen at September 27, 2019 01:55 PM (HB5Gm)

530 23

Like Tucker said, just cancel your subscription. Stop buying that paper.

I highly recommend this. I complained about the Boston Communist Globe for 30 years, and then finally made the decision 15 years ago to cancel my subscription. It's amazing how good it feels when you realize you've cut off funding to these a-holes.

Posted by: Forheremenaremen at September 27, 2019 01:57 PM (HB5Gm)

531 If the editors are so morally feckless that they can fire the reporter and still defend his actions, the whole newspaper should be fired.

Posted by: Grouchy's brother at September 27, 2019 02:16 PM (stINE)

532 I have long contended that all journalists, reporters, talking heads etc should disclose if they belong to a union. Especially if they are assigned to report on govt agencies/employees many of whom belong to unions. Potential conflict of interest, right?

Posted by: Devan at September 27, 2019 02:48 PM (CT/of)

533 31 For those of you who haven't seen what he looks like....just what you'd expect.

Yes, this is a face that begs to be accessorized with 4 feet of logging chain.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 27, 2019 03:26 PM (TlVa0)

534 257 Ex-Liberal: All well and good - none of that excuses digging for old tweets from a teenager. Due diligence to make sure your fluff piece protagonist isn't a child molester and to weed out scammers trying to nab more victims, fine. This wasn't that.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 27, 2019 01:01 PM (oZ6kz)

Like I said, I don't know what the Des Moines paper was thinking. I know if it had been us, we wouldn't have done something like that. At least I hope we wouldn't.

I was just explaining why they felt it necessary to dig into his past in the first place. We were doing that long before "cancel culture" -- long before even social media.

My 2 cents: Once the paper realized, "he tweeted a couple of dumb things as a teenager," they should have let it pass.

Believe it or not, not everybody in the media sits around plotting to ruin people's lives. Our reporters routinely find embarrassing information about the lives of people we cover that we don't report on because it's not relevant. That's what should have happened here.

Posted by: Ex-liberal at September 27, 2019 03:42 PM (R1mDg)

535 The media is filled with people who consider themselves generalist intellectuals but who were too stupid to get into a decent law school and too corrupt to pass a government background check.

Posted by: Nikola's Notion at September 27, 2019 03:43 PM (hrHLc)

536 So, they fired she-dud for having a bad tweet in his own back ground, not for being a useless shit destroying a good persons life by bringing up tweets from when they were a juvenile?

Posted by: TSgt Ciz at September 27, 2019 09:21 PM (af5xa)

537 Poor antifa thug, he can learn to code.

Posted by: I am not corey Booker at September 28, 2019 01:11 AM (Ju2mK)

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