Discussion:

the Cubans knew where to find fertile ground to plant the story.

I strongly suspect Havana Ted…

WOT?! No comments on the Palin thread???

I am having a sad. Josh doesn’t trust us!

What I learned today - Charles C. Johnson thinks he’s aircraft carrier and someone named Tor has Lois Lerner’s emails.

ABC News smelled a rat right off, but Johnson and the other conservative journalists walked right in. Not much professional integrity in that camp.

One big difference is Johnson interviewed the women by phone through an interpreter and ABC insisted on a face to face interview. They had the ability to evaluate credibility.

The biggest difference, however, is Johnson and the others really, really wanted the story to advance their cause.

There is a story here, but it involves common, garden variety corruption, the FBI and Menendez’s eye doctor funder/friend. That story isn’t as sexy as a story about under age prostitutes in the Dominican Republic.

Tucker Carlson went from right winger to moderate and than back to right winger when he discovered there was more money in it.

Please stop referring to Charles C. Johnson as a journalist. He’s nothing of the sort.

USS Charles Johnson aircraft carrier results:

Communist propagandists had Tucker and Chucker in mind when they talked about “useful idiots.”

Calling the three guys Carlson, Boyle and Johnson “journalists” is an odd way of spelling “political operatives”

Someone suggested The Daily Castro.

worth keeping in mind: “David Martosko, the Daily Caller’s executive editor at the time, penned several follow-up articles on the prostitution allegations, including some that were co-authored by Johnson. Martosko now serves as the U.S. politics editor at the London-based Daily Mail newspaper.”

Tor is an Open Source browser capable of spoofing your IP to a destination.
Named for Linus Torvalds-- principal behind development of Linux.

jw1

Yeah, I didn’t really think it was some guy named Tor.

You perhaps assume that correct vs. wrong information is relevant to successful post-modern “journalism”? If what such “journalists” traffic is only consumable product to be exchanged for followers, clicks, branding, or better jobs (as with Boyle and Martosko), then the pursuit of verifiable “truth” becomes an unjustifiable overhead expense.

Nor do the consumers of the addictive product complain about its quality or stop consuming it.

Pontius Pilate was criticized for being a venal cynic when he asked, “Truth? What is truth?” He should also be recognized as an early and famous harbinger of our po-mo zeitgeist. We are all witnesses and agnostics!

This was orchestrated by the Cuban born senator from TX. He has close contact with the Cubans. He is not as ignorant as he pretends he is plant by Fidel.

It’s not like they were peddling yellow-cake, after all.

And when they are ultimately exposed to have been full of s##t, they pay no consequences.

The so-called conservative “journalists” are classic communist dupes, agents or communist fellow travelers. This is right out of the Soviet Union’s intelligence operation “playbook” that has been used since 1917. The question is whether they were Cuban Communist dupes, Cuban Communist agents under deep cover, or Cuban Communist fellow travelers operating under cover. And, have the Cuban Communist intelligence operatives shared them with others such as Russia, China and North Korea.

"Obviously we’re skeptical, but we’re making calls right now to see what we can dig up."

Isn’t that what “journalists” are supposed to do before they publish?