Paranoid Right Wing “Journalist” Sharyl Attkisson to Host “Investigative Journalism” Show for Sinclair

The inmates are taking over the asylum
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The woman who invented a brain-dead paranoid fantasy about the NSA deleting her articles as she typed them gets rewarded by the Sinclair network with a show on “investigative journalism.” Focusing on “accountability,” which she herself has somehow completely avoided.

Our media just gets more pathetic every day.

The show, Sinclair announced, will mix both investigative and political journalism. It will also focus on “accountability.” In 2013, Attkisson alleged that both her personal and professional computers had been hacked by the U.S. government for more than two years during her time reporting on the Benghazi attack.

Note that Attkisson deleted her video from YouTube that purported to show the “hacking” as it happened.

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1 Iwouldprefernotto  Apr 23, 2015 6:22:37pm

Maybe she can find the missing plane.

2 Charles Johnson  Apr 23, 2015 6:25:13pm

This is just fucking unreal. Instead of being shunned for inventing a paranoid fantasy, she’s being rewarded with her own show.

What. The. Fuck.

3 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 23, 2015 6:28:39pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

This is just fucking unreal. Instead of being shunned for inventing a paranoid fantasy, she’s being rewarded with her own show.

What. The. Fuck.

She appeals to a largely paranoid audience.

4 Charles Johnson  Apr 23, 2015 6:30:40pm

Wake me up when the world isn’t insane any more.

5 Iwouldprefernotto  Apr 23, 2015 6:36:18pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Wake me up when the world isn’t insane any more.

That will be never. The world is getting crazier and crazier. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: LGF is my oasis in a desert of insanity. Thank you and good night.

6 Belafon  Apr 23, 2015 6:45:46pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Wake me up when the world isn’t insane any more.

People have too much time on their hands. A good plague, meteor strike, or war might actually do some good.

(What’s the symbol for half joking?)

7 GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 23, 2015 6:45:52pm

Surprise (not really). The cops that killed Jason Harrison will face no charges. When will this end?!?!

cnn.com

8 TedStriker  Apr 23, 2015 6:47:26pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

This is just fucking unreal. Instead of being shunned for inventing a paranoid fantasy, she’s being rewarded with her own show.

What. The. Fuck.

Wingnut welfare to its logical conclusion.

9 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Apr 23, 2015 6:51:04pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

This is just fucking unreal. Instead of being shunned for inventing a paranoid fantasy, she’s being rewarded with her own show.

What. The. Fuck.

Glenn Glenn will be her first guest. I’m calling it now.

10 TedStriker  Apr 23, 2015 6:52:01pm

re: #9 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Glenn Glenn will be her first guest. I’m calling it now.

And/or Snowjob.

11 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 23, 2015 6:52:58pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Wake me up when the world isn’t insane any more.

Let me get you a comforter, you may be down for a while.

RBS

12 CuriousLurker  Apr 23, 2015 7:04:20pm

re: #11 RealityBasedSteve

Let me get you a comforter, you may be down for a while.

RBS

LOL, I was thinking the same thing: “Gee, I hope he has someone to stop by every couple of weeks to trim his hair & beard and clip his fingernails & toenails or he’s gonna wake up looking like a sadhu.”

13 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 23, 2015 7:05:53pm

re: #12 CuriousLurker

LOL, I was thinking the same thing: “Gee, I hope he has someone to stop by every couple of weeks to trim his hair & beard and clip his fingernails & toenails or he’s gonna wake up looking like a sadhu.”

ROFL…. I did have to look to see what a sadhu is. I was was thinking “Rip Van Johnson”

RBS

14 Charles Johnson  Apr 23, 2015 7:07:57pm
15 Charles Johnson  Apr 23, 2015 7:10:08pm

(Yes, I’m getting irritated at the far left obsession with drones again.)

16 Charles Johnson  Apr 23, 2015 7:12:15pm
17 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Apr 23, 2015 7:15:24pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

The firebombings were awful. Seems people forgot Kurt Vonnegut.

18 wrenchwench  Apr 23, 2015 7:16:20pm

This may be Sharyl Atkisson’s least recent stupidity: She’s an antivaxxer.

19 Lord Of The Pies  Apr 23, 2015 7:16:34pm

TCOT are in a frothing rage over Hillary having personal wealth from speaking fees, book sales and whatnot, but these same assholes think that CEO’s “work hard” for their $9200/hr, unlike the “lazy, unmotivated” minimum wage employees.

20 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Apr 23, 2015 7:17:11pm

This is just heartbreaking:
What I Wish I Could Tell Them About Teaching in a Title I School

I’m in my fifth year of teaching English at a Title I middle school. Title I schools are public schools that receive special grants because of their high number of students who have been identified as at-risk. I adore my students and my teaching team. I love teaching. I’m really good at it. I respect my administration and feel valued by them.

But at the end of this year, I’m leaving. I’m not sure if I’ll continue teaching elsewhere or start a new career. If I do leave, I’ll be one of the 40-50% of teachers who leave during their first five years. A drop in the bucket.

To other teachers, I’m sure this isn’t surprising. Without knowing me or where I teach, they can probably easily guess why someone who loves her job and is good at it would be leaving.

But it’s not teachers who need to know what it’s like. It’s everyone else. People who have no idea what it’s like teaching in a Title I school. Some of these people are even making important decisions about education.

21 freetoken  Apr 23, 2015 7:17:24pm
Our media just gets more pathetic every day.

I blame the internet.

Really.

There is very little of the traditional (news, general) print media left. Paying advertisers are now going elsewhere. It’s just a bad business.

If you read 19th century newspapers they can be a real treat, but they inherited lots of bad practices from their ancestors, the sheets produced in the 18th century.

I’m not sure if we can identify when the news media peaked in credibility, if the idea even works, but it probably stretches from Edward Murrow to Walter Cronkite.

22 CuriousLurker  Apr 23, 2015 7:17:36pm

re: #12 CuriousLurker

LOL, I was thinking the same thing: “Gee, I hope he has someone to stop by every couple of weeks to trim his hair & beard and clip his fingernails & toenails or he’s gonna wake up looking like a sadhu.”

Speaking of sadhus, I’m (sort of) wondering what part of his anatomy this naga (naked) sadhu is suspending those big rocks from: flickr.com

If it’s what it looks like, ow, ow, owwww….

Man, I soooo need to start curbing my curiosity. //

23 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Apr 23, 2015 7:18:59pm

re: #21 freetoken

I blame the internet.

Really.

There is very little of the traditional (news, general) print media left. Paying advertisers are now going elsewhere. It’s just a bad business.

If you read 19th century newspapers they can be a real treat, but they inherited lots of bad practices from their ancestors, the sheets produced in the 18th century.

I’m not sure if we can identify when the news media peaked in credibility, if the idea even works, but it probably stretches from Edward Murrow to Walter Cronkite.

I’d say it peaked during Watergate.

24 #FergusonFireside  Apr 23, 2015 7:20:31pm

Ya’ll I posted @ the end of the last thread, but ICYMI, I really hope you read this and especially the comments.

From @koshersoul Michael Twitty in regards to Ben Affleck’s embarrassment:

I can’t hide mine, please don’t hide yours

25 Lord Of The Pies  Apr 23, 2015 7:24:02pm

HAH. Somebody reworked this wingnut meme==>

26 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Apr 23, 2015 7:24:47pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

In the last century, we fought wars by

i feel quite strange having vivid personal memories of a century now in the past which is beginning to seem more primitive and quaint with every passing day

i seem to remember days strongly marked by the scent of hairspray and cigarette butts

27 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Apr 23, 2015 7:25:22pm

re: #24 #FergusonFireside

Ya’ll I posted @ the end of the last thread, but ICYMI, I really hope you read this and especially the comments.

From @koshersoul Michael Twitty in regards to Ben Affleck’s embarrassment:

I can’t hide mine, please don’t hide yours

I posted on a Gawker thread somewhere that I understood (somewhat) Ben Affleck’s embarrassment. I have relatives who fought for the confederacy. I’m not proud of that. That said, I’m not a huge star, and I don’t know his motivation. I’m glad he seems to be dealing with it.

That said, it’s not the crime, it’s the coverup that gets you. I hope he can move past this. He seems like an alright dude.

28 freetoken  Apr 23, 2015 7:27:01pm

re: #20 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I would tell them about how policies that have been designed to not leave children behind are also teaching them that hard work doesn’t matter.

It’s here that some will chime in CHARTER SCHOOLS!!

Fundamentally, I believe that a parent cannot be replaced by a teacher. From whatever nuclear family a student springs has such profound effects on that student that the best teachers will be stymied.

I guess I’m glad that the dedicated teachers accomplish the amount they do. Our society is better for it, but there is only so much a teacher can do.

29 #FergusonFireside  Apr 23, 2015 7:27:16pm

re: #20 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

This is just heartbreaking:
What I Wish I Could Tell Them About Teaching in a Title I School

Very. :(

30 #FergusonFireside  Apr 23, 2015 7:28:49pm

re: #22 CuriousLurker

LOL CL!!

31 #FergusonFireside  Apr 23, 2015 7:39:20pm

Oh this is awful. Sorry for posting, but another person recorded the cop & caught him.

32 Kragar  Apr 23, 2015 7:40:01pm

re: #31 #FergusonFireside

Guessing she was not related to a US senator running for President.

33 retired cynic  Apr 23, 2015 7:45:55pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Wake me up when the world isn’t insane any more.

Long sleep.

34 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Apr 23, 2015 7:47:48pm

OMG, Jeff Goldblum is in “Death Wish”!?

35 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Apr 23, 2015 7:48:23pm

… women all decked out the same with teased blonde bubble hairdos reeking of hairspray, frosted pink nailpolish on deadly looking long pointed fingernails, dresses compulsory also apparently heels men had to have a part in the right place in the hair, black people sometimes even had the part shaved in “why do you have to wear those awful jeans you look like a farmer why cant you wear some nice slacks” rock n roll music never serious always fun contrasting primitively with adult lounge type music sam and janet evening, musak always always in elevators and supermarkets, tailfins on cars, boys obsessed with baseball cards, endless softball games, tee vee consisted of stupid sitcoms, soap operas, game shows, old movies, heeeeeere’s jonny! you’ll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with pepsodent

36 jaunte  Apr 23, 2015 7:50:04pm

re: #31 #FergusonFireside

I think a cop should be able to control a drunk woman smaller than he is without slamming her head on concrete.

37 freetoken  Apr 23, 2015 7:51:19pm

re: #35 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

… adult lounge type music sam and janet evening, musak always always …

Um… is that a request?

38 #FergusonFireside  Apr 23, 2015 7:52:54pm

re: #36 jaunte

I think a cop should be able to control a drunk woman smaller than he is without slamming her head on concrete.

He could have killed her right there.

39 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Apr 23, 2015 7:53:07pm

re: #37 freetoken

Um… is that a request?

urk!

40 Kragar  Apr 23, 2015 7:57:04pm

re: #37 freetoken

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41 jaunte  Apr 23, 2015 8:00:49pm

re: #31 #FergusonFireside

September 2014:

“…Federal agents have arrested 22 people linked to two steroid distribution rings in Austin, Texas after a lengthy undercover investigation named - “Operation Blue Juice.”

The steroid ring is alleged to have operated from two areas in Austin, Texas, but specifically Leander and Round Rock.”
……
The resident agent in charge of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency office in Austin, Greg Thrash, went on to explain steroid use by bodybuilders, recreational users and athletes is a growing problem.

“The steroid culture is extremely pervasive in Austin.”
steroidal.com

42 Charles Johnson  Apr 23, 2015 8:02:21pm

Chuck’s CLINTON SECRET OPPO PROJECT is still stalled at $1030, a full day after I checked last. The grift isn’t going well this time around.

43 retired cynic  Apr 23, 2015 8:03:15pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

Chuck’s CLINTON SECRET OPPO PROJECT is still stalled at $1030, a full day after I checked last. The grift isn’t going well this time around.

I also wonder how much of that is just glorified seed money.

44 #FergusonFireside  Apr 23, 2015 8:04:05pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

Chuck’s CLINTON SECRET OPPO PROJECT is still stalled at $1030, a full day after I checked last. The grift isn’t going well this time around.

$1030 is way too much.

Although he’s blowing it in Vegas right now.

45 The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 23, 2015 8:04:17pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

Chuck’s CLINTON SECRET OPPO PROJECT is still stalled at $1030, a full day after I checked last. The grift isn’t going well this time around.

And that, ladies and gentleman, is why you don’t fuck the chicken that lays the golden eggs.

46 Charles Johnson  Apr 23, 2015 8:05:05pm

…

47 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 23, 2015 8:05:32pm

re: #44 #FergusonFireside

$1030 is way too much.

Although he’s blowing it in Vegas right now.

How does that work. If he doesn’t make his goal, does the money go back to the donors, or is it his to keep even if he did fall woefully short.

RBS

48 Charles Johnson  Apr 23, 2015 8:07:18pm

…

49 William Lewis  Apr 23, 2015 8:07:19pm

re: #47 RealityBasedSteve

How does that work. If he doesn’t make his goal, does the money go back to the donors, or is it his to keep even if he did fall woefully short.

RBS

At gofundme you get the money as it comes in and there is no timetable or penalty for not meeting your goal. I, for one, am glad of it but would still wish more people were interested in helping me than him :D

50 Kragar  Apr 23, 2015 8:11:48pm

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51 Charles Johnson  Apr 23, 2015 8:12:41pm

…

52 Kragar  Apr 23, 2015 8:13:59pm

re: #51 Charles Johnson

…

53 Belafon  Apr 23, 2015 8:14:01pm

re: #50 Kragar

I’m still waiting for the Kids Bop version of Crazy Bitch.

54 Charles Johnson  Apr 23, 2015 8:14:08pm

Yes, I’m in a Red Peters kind of mood.

55 retired cynic  Apr 23, 2015 8:15:11pm

re: #54 Charles Johnson

We could tell.

56 Targetpractice  Apr 23, 2015 8:15:43pm

re: #40 Kragar

[Embedded content]

I will forever associate that song with the remake of Dawn of the Dead.

57 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 23, 2015 8:17:46pm

re: #20 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I’ve never taught Title I classes, or even any at-risk students, but I’ve experienced many of those same triumphs and frustrations that writer has. Education of young people is much, much more than test scores and pushing “product” out the door. It’s an intense person-to-person interaction, with one teacher interacting with 30 students or more in each class, five classes a day, five days a week. And if you do it the way it should be done, it’s fucking exhausting work. You come home drained each day, with a stack of homework to grade and the next day’s lessons to plan, and maybe a set of phone calls to make.

America’s corporate education reformers have no fucking clue what they’re talking about. And Michelle Rhee should be ashamed, as a former classroom teacher herself, to be part of that “reform” movement — not to mention that whole Washington, DC, testing scandal under her watch.

58 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 23, 2015 8:19:25pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

Chuck’s CLINTON SECRET OPPO PROJECT is still stalled at $1030, a full day after I checked last. The grift isn’t going well this time around.

That’s enough for one “private eye” for one, maybe two days.

59 Kragar  Apr 23, 2015 8:21:16pm

re: #53 Belafon

I’m still waiting for the Kids Bop version of Crazy Bitch.

Might be a tall order there. In the meantime, we can try this:

…

60 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 23, 2015 8:21:38pm

Gamers:
If you have a Steam account you can play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for free through this weekend. Skyrim is on sale for 75% off ($4.99) or you can buy the Legendary Edition with all of the expansion packs for $13.59.

61 Targetpractice  Apr 23, 2015 8:23:01pm

re: #60 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Gamers:
If you have a Steam account you can play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for free through this weekend. Skyrim is on sale for 75% off ($4.99) or you can buy the Legendary Edition with all of the expansion packs for $13.59.

(insert “arrow to knee” joke here)

62 The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 23, 2015 8:23:35pm

…

63 William Lewis  Apr 23, 2015 8:24:48pm

re: #53 Belafon

I’m still waiting for the Kids Bop version of Crazy Bitch.

I thought it humorous when I ran into the Glee TV cleaned up version of Halestorm’s “Here’s to Us” on youtube…

…

Sorry but I prefer the F-bombs in the original…

64 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 23, 2015 8:25:38pm

re: #58 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

That’s enough for one “private eye” for one, maybe two days.

Or 104 liters of Svedka vodka.

65 Kragar  Apr 23, 2015 8:28:05pm

I actually like this version better than the original

…

66 gwangung  Apr 23, 2015 8:30:57pm

re: #57 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’ve never taught Title I classes, or even any at-risk students, but I’ve experienced many of those same triumphs and frustrations that writer has. Education of young people is much, much more than test scores and pushing “product” out the door. It’s an intense person-to-person interaction, with one teacher interacting with 30 students or more in each class, five classes a day, five days a week. And if you do it the way it should be done, it’s fucking exhausting work. You come home drained each day, with a stack of homework to grade and the next day’s lessons to plan, and maybe a set of phone calls to make.

America’s corporate education reformers have no fucking clue what they’re talking about. And Michelle Rhee should be ashamed, as a former classroom teacher herself, to be part of that “reform” movement — not to mention that whole Washington, DC, testing scandal under her watch.

Education is customized; unique for each student.

Reformers are trying to make it mass produced, treating all “parts” (that is, students) as essentially similar and interchangeable.

Yeah. That’s gonna work. Righhhhht…

67 William Lewis  Apr 23, 2015 8:34:21pm

re: #65 Kragar

I actually like this version better than the original

[Embedded content]

Video

:big thumb up:

68 William Lewis  Apr 23, 2015 8:34:40pm

And with that off to the hotel. Later lizards.

69 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 23, 2015 8:53:26pm

re: #66 gwangung

Education is customized; unique for each student.

Reformers are trying to make it mass produced, treating all “parts” (that is, students) as essentially similar and interchangeable.

Yeah. That’s gonna work. Righhhhht…

The history of education in America has these big cycles: school as factory, school as individualized learning place, school as factory, etc. Whenever one phase become too extreme, the pendulum swings to the other phase. It’s been like this in the public schools since the late 19th century. Dewey’s teaching philosophy (now currently in disfavor by the “reformers”) was every child deserved a broad academic and moral education and needed some kind of schooling tailored to their skill set. It replaced the factory model of churning out literate, blue collar workers.

In the 1950s, Sputnik scared the crap out of Washington, and there was a big push in what we now call STEM education, to produce a generation of scientists and technologists. The 1960s and ’70s were more touchy-feely and Dewey-like. Now we’re back to the factory model, with students being measured like widgets by examinations that are tied to funding and school rankings. Moreover, we’ve got this new “free market” notion that government should let any Tom, Dick or Harry open a school and offer parents vouchers to send their kids to Tom’s Charter School. It’s so much easier for politicians to pass the buck this way, than to struggle with how to improve public education. Let Tom worry about the details and the angry parents.

Time for lunch. I need a break, because this topic is near and dear to my heart and I get really pissed off about these so-called education reforms.


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