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Corruption at The Washington Post
So the Post could have written a very different story about the Keystone Pipeline. The Post could have written that opposition to the pipeline is being funded in large part by [billionaire Tom Steyer] who has a personal financial interest in the pipeline not being built. And that’s not all! The billionaire is a political crony who has used his connections in Washington to get rich and to fleece consumers and taxpayers. Now, with Keystone, he is doing it again! How is that for a story that would “stir and inflame public debate in this election year?”
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So we have a contrast that couldn’t be clearer: the Washington Post published a false story about support for Keystone because it fit the Democratic Party’s agenda. It covered up a similar, but true story about opposition to the pipeline (and about “green” politics in general) because that, too, fit the Democratic Party’s agenda. I don’t think we need to look any further to connect the dots.
And yet, a still deeper level of corruption is on display here. Juliet Eilperin is a reporter for the Washington Post who covers, among other things, environmental politics. As I wrote in my prior post, she is married to Andrew Light. Light writes on climate policy for the Center for American Progress, a far-left organization that has carried on a years-long vendetta against Charles and David Koch on its web site, Think Progress. Light is also a member of the Obama administration, as Senior Adviser to the Special Envoy on Climate Change in the Department of State. The Center for American Progress is headed by John Podesta, who chaired Barack Obama’s transition team and is now listed as a “special advisor” to the Obama administration. Note that Ms. Eilperin quoted Podesta, her husband’s boss, in her puff piece on Tom Steyer.
Oh, yes-one more thing. Guess who sits on the board of the Center for American Progress? Yup. Tom Steyer.
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But it soon became obvious this was no CBC Sunday school primer in corporate tax, nor was it an instructional seminar in which the straight facts would be exposed by an expert. From top to bottom, this was a set up, with Mr. Enright as chief wolf and protagonist. Nothing was fully presented, backgrounds were unstated, journalistic methods were highly questionable, the facts were mangled and the objectives hidden.
The interviewee, Dennis Howlett, is not a tax specialist, let alone a corporate tax expert. He’s a long time social activist who has held a variety of posts, including executive director of the National Anti-Poverty Organization. He’s been a relentless campaigner over decades for social justice, wealth redistribution and soak-the-rich government intervention. He’s a star in NDP circles.
Heh
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— Mandy Jenkins (@mjenkins) March 21, 2014
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According to the Washington Post…
You might expect the biggest lease owner in Canada’s oil sands, or tar sands, to be one of the international oil giants, like Exxon Mobil or Royal Dutch Shell. But that isn’t the case. The biggest lease holder in the northern Alberta oil sands is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, the privately-owned cornerstone of the fortune of conservative Koch brothers Charles and David.
Oops.
Who is Post reporter Juliet Eilperin? Among other things, she is married to Andrew Light, who writes on climate policy for the Center for American Progress. The Center for American Progress is an Obama administration front group headed by John Podesta, who is a “special advisor” to the Obama administration. CAP’s web site, Think Progress, has carried out a years-long vendetta against the Koch brothers that has focused largely on the environment. Ms. Eilperin’s conflict in writing about environmental issues has already been a subject of controversy at the Post.
Related: ‘People Would Be Surprised At The Level Of Cooperation Reporters Have With Politicians’
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“It was a very busy day. We started here shortly after 8 o’clock with a coffee with press secretary Jay Carney inside his office in the West Wing,” says the reporter.
“And this was the off-the-record so we were able to ask him all about some of the preparation that he does on a regular basis for talking to the press in his daily press briefings. He showed us a very long list of items that he has to be well versed on every single day.
“And then he also mentioned that a lot of times, unless it’s something breaking, the questions that the reporters actually ask — the correspondents — they are provided to him in advance. So then he knows what he’s going to be answering and sometimes those correspondents and reporters also have those answers printed in front of them, because of course it helps when they’re producing their reports for later on. So that was very interesting.”
Update: The plot thins…
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WATCH NOW: The @CBC campaign to elect #olivia4mayor launches ! http://t.co/WncjsGIbKL @22_Minutes #OurTaxDollarsAtWork
— Katewerk (@katewerk) March 19, 2014
This Is Awkard
“…this is why you don’t just put the camera on some producer’s Twitter feed while talking about a helicopter crash.”
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Reporter on radio just asked scientist “on a scale of 1 to 10 where does a 4.7 earthquake fall?”
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AP “apologizes” for accusing pro-lifers of calling their opponents “Satanist” — after the pro-abortion demonstrators chanted “Hail, Satan.”
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Murray Mandryk, political columnist for the Regina Leader-Post and Janet French, reporter for the Star Phoenix, in conversation with Dan Florizone (Deputy Minister of Education) and Saskatchewan health professionals.
I wonder if LEAN has powerup cards like Pokemon? If so, can @dustin_duncan and @Pr could save money faster? http://t.co/VhDjq0iqep #skpoli
— Murray Mandryk (@MMandryk) March 13, 2014
But read the whole stream. It gets better.
Reference: Introduction to Lean
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Lean News blog (from Saskatchewan Health Care)
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“I certainly didn’t mean to offend anybody. The use of the swastika was simply aligning the Harper government’s policies with the Nazis…”
How Blogs Changed Everything
“When a dozen dead tree newspapers determined the agenda, the media’s chief power lay in not reporting a story…”
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Neil Macdonald Uses Crisis in Ukraine to Attack Israel…
But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One
Before their hour-long interview with Glenn Beck on Monday, Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen made some comments that Beck thinks will “drive the left out of their mind.”
Speaking about Beck’s move from traditional media to building his own network, TheBlaze, Schmidt said people in his industry are “shocked at how successfully he navigated this transition.”
h/t Kathy Shaidle
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
…alienating older white male readers means ‘we’re doing something right.’
In the Mail
I received a peculiar e-mail this morning:
The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft at Bergen, Norway
Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.
Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.
Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt, the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.
By the way, I apologize; I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post – 91 years ago.
Snopes h/t Maxine K.
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TIME notes that the repercussions of the Ukraine incursion aren’t exactly rosy for Putin, either.
I think, however, that TIME isn’t thinking it out as long term as they should. Unlike some alarmists, I don’t see an escalation by the Russians as an end game. I think Putin’s end game is already here.
- Polls change, especially if you’re deemed the ‘winner’,
- He’s secured the warm water ports,
- As TIME notes, his ‘red line’ was enforced,
- Obama’s reputation is in tatters,
- He’s realigned eastern European influence,
- The Ukraine is effectively a satellite state of Russia now.
Pushing further (aside from peaceful assimilation of Ukraine) would invoke treaties, real treaties. Putin isn’t stupid and he isn’t backed into a corner. War with the West wouldn’t end well for anyone.
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Hey, Bobby (you don’t mind if I call you that, do you?), all your side had to do was pass a couple of budgets. You know, like the Law states they were supposed to.
I realized just how depressing last October, when Congress voted on legislation that would raise the debt ceiling — allowing the Treasury to pay the debts Congress had already incurred — and keep the government open. This was exciting, but perversely so. On Oct. 16, 162 members of Congress, 144 in the House and 18 in the Senate, voted “no,” votes meant explicitly to drive their government into bankruptcy, when there was a real chance that their view might prevail. Here was an entirely new style of public service, and it turned my stomach.
Well, at least he called the Democrats stupid.