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DrEvil » Tue Oct 20, 2020 4:46 pm wrote:I get what you're saying and I would dearly love to see Facebook and Twitter burned to the ground, but they're well within their rights to ban whatever they want for any reason (pretty sure Murdoch-controlled tabloids aren't a protected class. Yet). The alternative would be to force people to carry speech they disagree with or legislate specifically for companies like FB and Twitter. The NY Post doesn't have a right to use someone else's soap box.
norton ash » Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:25 pm wrote:Trump and the Republicans need to be fucking CRUSHED. Biden's badness and the corporate Dems can be sorted out later. The NY Post story sure smells like bullshit, btw, and Biden's smart not to respond to it unless he has to.
norton ash » Tue Oct 20, 2020 9:37 pm wrote:Agreed on the smelly sourcing, and the banality of nepotism/grafting/influence in this climate. Like anyone would care.
norton ash » 21 Oct 2020 02:37 wrote:Agreed on the smelly sourcing, and the banality of nepotism/grafting/influence in this climate. Like anyone would care.
JackRiddler » Wed Oct 21, 2020 6:59 am wrote:norton ash » Tue Oct 20, 2020 9:37 pm wrote:Agreed on the smelly sourcing, and the banality of nepotism/grafting/influence in this climate. Like anyone would care.
But I do and everyone should. Just because it's routine and old news is no excuse for tolerating systemic corruption on this scale, or (even worse) the new kind of cover-up in which the obvious is denied by corporate-media fiat. It is not appropriate, it should not be routine, it is wrong, it damages all of us. This should not be downplayed any more than the Trump Org/Mob operations should be ignored. As the now openly fascist candidate, Trump has to go first, sure. And after that Biden and the corporate Democrats have to be unseated.
stickdog99 » Wed Oct 21, 2020 12:05 am wrote:norton ash » 21 Oct 2020 02:37 wrote:Agreed on the smelly sourcing, and the banality of nepotism/grafting/influence in this climate. Like anyone would care.
I guess that I just don't get "by any means necessary" partisan hack apologists.
Consider if the NY Times' account and any and all accounts linking to the NY Times' article were all banned by Twitter and Facebook for publishing Trump's tax returns because of "shady sourcing." Where would you stand on that development? So how is it somehow OK when it's done to benefit your "team"?
norton ash » 21 Oct 2020 16:59 wrote:stickdog99 » Wed Oct 21, 2020 12:05 am wrote:norton ash » 21 Oct 2020 02:37 wrote:Agreed on the smelly sourcing, and the banality of nepotism/grafting/influence in this climate. Like anyone would care.
I guess that I just don't get "by any means necessary" partisan hack apologists.
Consider if the NY Times' account and any and all accounts linking to the NY Times' article were all banned by Twitter and Facebook for publishing Trump's tax returns because of "shady sourcing." Where would you stand on that development? So how is it somehow OK when it's done to benefit your "team"?
I don't have a "team" and I agree that corruption should be exposed at all levels. Facebook and Twitter also stink, and if they censor, there are other places to go. I'm glad that Trump's China banking is coming to light. Jared and Ivanka make tens of millions. So I'm saying the Hunter Biden stuff is pretty small in this rotten context, and I'm pleased as an individual-- not for my 'team --that Trump's attacks are going to be weak even if the Biden stuff is true. Trump is much worse on China, Ukraine, and nepotism already.
As deadline approached, editors pressed staff members to add their bylines to the story — and at least one aside from Mr. Golding refused, two Post journalists said. A Post spokeswoman had no comment on how the article was written or edited.
Headlined “BIDEN SECRET E-MAILS,” the article appeared Wednesday with two bylines: Emma-Jo Morris, a deputy politics editor who joined the paper after four years at the Murdoch-owned Fox News, and Gabrielle Fonrouge, a Post reporter since 2014.
Ms. Morris did not have a bylined article in The Post before Wednesday, a search of its website showed. She arrived at the tabloid in April after working as an associate producer on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, according to her LinkedIn profile. Her Instagram account, which was set to private on Wednesday, included photos of her posing with the former Trump administration members Mr. Bannon and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, as well as Roger J. Stone Jr., a friend and former campaign adviser to Mr. Trump. (In July, the president commuted the sentence of Mr. Stone on seven felonies.)
Ms. Fonrouge had little to do with the reporting or writing of the article, said three people with knowledge of how it was prepared. She learned that her byline was on the story only after it was published, the people said.
Towards the end of the film, 24-year-old actress Irina Nowak, playing the role of Borat’s 15-year-old daughter Tutar Sagdiyev, sits down for an interview with Giuliani in a New York City hotel room. After she gins him up with a series of compliments and red meat questions related to China, she invites Giuliani into the next room for a drink. Once in the bedroom (which has been rigged with hidden cameras), Giuliani sits on the bed and begins touching Tutar’s back. She removes his microphone, and Giuliani untucks his shirt and reaches into his trousers.
Borat, wearing a red bra and panties, then bursts into the room and yells, “She’s 15! She’s too old for you. Please, take me instead!” Giuliani promptly exits the room, and Borat and Tutar are then seen running down the sidewalk to the wail of police sirens.
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