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Why I hardly ever read anything from that site. They contribute absolutely nothing to the political dialog, despite their name.
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politico???
fixed noise want-a-be!!
Nope, itâs NOT journalism!
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The trade name POLITICO, owned as a GOP web presence, means anything that issues forth from that business, is froth.
So who is Mike Allen, and why should we care?
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So the reporters âshould have obeyed policeâ Mike? If you read Loweryâs account of what happenedâŚ
âŚinside a McDonaldâs where the two were recharging equipment and answering Tweets, the cops walked in, heavily armored and Lowery began to video tape them as they approached. The officer told him to stop and Lowery asked him if it was not his right to tape and the cop didnât press it further.
Then the police ordered the two reporters out of the McDonaldsâŚthere did not seem to be a clear rationale for doing soâŚthey were not out on the street, and both, Lowery notes, were wearing Press ID (despite which the cops demanded ID).
Then the cops began hustling them out and when Lowery wasnât sure which door they wanted him to go through and tried to catch his backpack which was slipping off his shoulder, he was grabbed and slammed into a soda machine. He says he immediately turned his back and put his hands behind him and said, 'I am not resisting." To which the cops reportedly repliedâŚâYouâre resisting. Stop resisting.â
CNN is sadly right when it advises, do what the cops tell you, but at the same time, cops may tell you all sorts of things that you actually donât have to do, like orders to stop video taping. You really have to know your rights though, and sadly, even when you know them (like demanding the names and badge numbers of officers) if they donât comply, what ability do you have?
Sure, you can go to court, but you will be hard pressed to find any case in which cops get hauled into court and donât immediately claim that they felt their lives were in danger, or that the âsuspectâ was âresistingâ or ârefusing ordersâ and judges and juries give them the benefit of the doubt. Note Loweryâs assertion that he wasnât resisting and the immediate retort that he was. My guess is that modern cops 101 advises patrolmen to assume that there might be a recording going on. Lowery had been recording. So quickly making a statement claiming Lowery WAS resisting would be a handy way to muddy the waters if that tape ever wound up in court.
The one potential saving grace these days is video and digitial photos which can at least provide countervailing evidence as witness the NYC attempt to give a lengthy prison term to a woman for âresistingâ and the Oakland rubber bullet firing at point blank range that sent a civilian to the hospital with a severe head wound.
But for all their ineptitude in handling things on the streets, the Ferguson police department seems to have gotten excellent training in CYA. Will be interesting to see if they can cobble up an excuse for the shooting of an unarmed young man.
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â[A world] defined by overlapping and possibly coterminous circles of sources, friends, and paid advertisersâŚâ
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â[L]apdog to power and ethically compromised industry spokesmanâŚâ
Truer words were never written of Mike Allen, Politico, or the whole Perpetual-Georgetown-Cocktail-Party industry.
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Allen is a dick.
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The bitches of the Village work in mysterious waysâŚ
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Alex Pareene: âAllen exemplifies the sort of political journalist who thinks his job is faithfully reporting what mendacious professional liars tell him.â
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Mike Allen has the same journalistic credibility that FoxNews doesâand he has all the appeal of a dentistâs drill and the personality of a dead otter.
Other than that, heâs aces.
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Thanks to the TPM crew for watching Fox and reading Politico so I donât have to
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I tried to read Politico a couple times and it was too much to handle without vomiting, projectile vomit at that. I truthfully thought it was an official in the open GOP site. Also I saw Allen a few times un muted and thought that is one weird guy, why is he on television saying this shit. If they will pay me as much I will go on tv and act stupid too>
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Politico = Drudge with better graphics and no stupid hats.
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Mike Allen - isnât he the âjournalistâ known as the go-to-guy when the subject of a report wants to pay for favorable coverage?
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One of many, many reasons to HATE Politico. Bunch of hacks over there.
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Chances are slim you will ever see Allen chasing a story anywhere near danger. Riot? He most certainly will run the other way. It is much easier kissing asses and pandering to print the usual fluff and meaningless drivel he is used too. For sure facts need not enter into what he wants to say because background checking is what is done by young, aggressive reporters. He sucked when he was at WaPo and he still does. I flip the channel when he pops up on Morning Joe.
Who the hell cares what Mike Allen says? Every time I see this little weasel I want to punch his face. And Iâm a pacifist.
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Allen is both an idiot and a right-wing tool. He tries to come across as centrist but when anything important happens, heâs always on the side of the corporations, money, and power. Not actually a journalist. Just another unaware talking head.
I donât pay any attention to ANYTHING Mike Allen writes (or says), because, after all, heâs on the receiving end of look-at-me speed dial phone calls from Sarah Palin. He must have done SOMETHING for her to trust him that much.
You just provided the short version of IrasDadâs post.