That was a first step, now for that recording, I certainly still want to hear what exactly it was that he said.

So long, scumbag.

Internets: 2
MSM: 1

GANNON!

I'm guessing that his bosses at CNN saw the videotape.

Good for him!

But ... but Jeff Gannon!

/lll

Another One Bites The Dust.

Awww. Veracity, mendacity. Whats the difference? CNN doesn't know.

the yeoman's arrow strikes again:-)

#4

That was my thoughts... someone had the goods and they knew it would get out soon...

Bwahahaha! And, as I emailed you, Charles, Nancy Rabinowitz was forced to resign from Hamilton.

Is the tide slowly turning?

Sha Na Na Na
Na Na Na Na
Hey Hey Goodbye

Welcome to lgf apollo3000.

I wonder how many people are going to say - He said WHAT?
Why didn't I know anything about this?
Why would he resign if if there is no story? How are they going to explain not covering this?
But everyone knows about this dumb Gannon?Guckert thing.

Apology not accepted, dickweed.

If he didn't mean to imply that, maybe he shouldn't have said it... LAST NOVEMBER TOO:

The Guardian (UK) reports that last November, Jordan said the following to "news executives at the News Xchange conference in Portugal":

"Actions speak louder than words. The reality is that at least 10 journalists have been killed by the US military, and according to reports I believe to be true journalists have been arrested and tortured by US forces."

([Link: www.guardian.co.uk...]

Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being “unfairly tarnished” by the controversy.

Why can't somebody just accept responsibility for their actions for once!

Buy Buy TRAITOR !

May you burn in hell, along with all your leftwing fascist friends.

Typical Lef/Lib reaction to getting caught. Resign for the good of CNN, but I never did it anyway. He'll pop up again in another MSM post, still proclaiming his innocence

Shouldn't he say it is because of threats against the parking attendants and because some right-wing fanatic tried to lace the tuna salad in the cafeteria with broken glass?

What is he trying to do here, act semi-accountable?

Oh, I'm sorry...Thank you missah Jordon, thank you!

#6 American Infidel

Without hearing the recording this is about as satisfying as Wacko Jacko buying off some kid.

Keeping score:

MSM: 0
Blogosphere: 2

Losers: CBS, CNN

Next?

#13 mommydoc:

I emailed Charles about that too, but my guess is Charles is a busy busy guy today.

Wow. A resignation without ever having a major news agency even bringing up the story.

This is an interesting demonstration of grass roots power.

he said he "believed" the journalists were targeted--Oh, the attempts at misinformation are wearing thin these days. Haven't they figured out yet that it isn't working any more?

I think the Blogs are the ultimate expression of the First Amendment.

G-d,

Thank You for the the brave men and women who founded this great Country of ours. Thank You for inspiring them to write the Constitution and include in it a Bill of Rights. Because of You and them, we still have brave men and women willing and able to stand and fight --with weapons and words for those wonderful documents.

Amen

Bye, Eason. But what about Jeff Gannon? (just where ARE those military porn sites, anyway? - I mean, just askin'...)

Another one bites the dust.

Gucker who?

Eason Jordan resigns. Oh good, now CNN can get back to doing a GREAT job at reporting the facts.

NOT!

Probably the best thing this mope ever did.

CNN still owes us full disclosure of the video. If they could run Abu Graib photos practically non-stop 24/7 -- they damn well better run this video a few times.

#2 Thom

So long, scumbag.

LOL! Wait for the book deals...

I want the video, too.

Not because this guy matters any more, now that he's resigned. But we need it as a record of what we were actually facing with today's media. The role of the fourth estate is too important to let this sort of thing go.

Release the tape!

Let's see that beautiful video. I suspect I will soon.

#25--its not 0-2; its 0-4-- don't forget Trent Lott and Howell Raines

Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being “unfairly tarnished” by the controversy.

Dan Rather and Peter Arnett rush up to greet Mr. Jordan from the Land of the Untarnished.

Typical leftist, he's playing the victim.

“I never meant to imply U.S. forces acted with ill intent when U.S. forces accidentally killed journalists, and I apologize to anyone who thought I said or believed otherwise,” Jordan said in a memo to fellow staff members at CNN.

We'll never see that video tape released.

He'll probably find a job with al jez.

Does being involved in robbery and serving time on federal weapons charges help move you to the top positions at colleges these days... sheesh...

Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being “unfairly tarnished” by the controversy.

CNN "unfairly tarnished" ? Is that a joke ?

All your left-wing deceitful journalists are belong to us!

#19 Luigi

Ah yes, unfair.

It could be unfair because he didn't actually say what he is supposed to have said - but in that case he would have asked for the tapes to be realesed.

Hence, he must have meant that it was unfair that CNN had such an idiotic CEO.

The EasonJordan situation can be traced back to Hugh Hewitt via the original blog post. on his show a couple of weeks ago, he shined the blog-signal (think bat signal, with the copy of BLOG replacing the bat wings.) asking bloggers to post about it. many people did. it snowballed out of control from there.

Thanks Hugh!

OT -- not sure I'll be around for FNDT

Hey Charles, who's faster (better), Al Di Meola or John McLaughlin?

Currently, I'm leaning towards Mahavishnu John, he of the the scalloped fretboard.

/losing sleep over this, gots to know

Jeff Gannon for Eason the treason, or nothing. A friggin martyr that Jordan Crossing fella. My kind of man.

Muskrat luv...

Don't stay gone for too long Eason, I'm sure you are already re-employed by similar ilk.

I guess that you were pseudo-expendable Eason, if in fact you ever were.

I feel like flounder in Animal House, THIS IS GRRREAT.

Another POS sucks wind...Congrats to all

#4 Meryl Yourish 2/11/2005 04:31PM PST

I'm guessing that his bosses at CNN saw the videotape.

I'm guessing they saw the Davos tape and a bunch of other wack-o shit he's been saying for a long time. It will be very interesting to see what is still to come out.

#18 Bostonian 2/11/2005 04:33PM PST

If he didn't mean to imply that, maybe he shouldn't have said it... LAST NOVEMBER TOO:

'zackly
The funny thing is, this story really hadn't "broken out" yet. The fact of his resigning is probably going to force it into the big media now, big time.

Another biased member of the MSM removed by exposure to bright light and fresh air. A wonderful victory for truth and the common man ( in pajamas)

Ithink it's too soon to declare victory, though...

These are simply easy, early victories for the Blogosphere?

In Vietnam, (as in every war, really) the enemy learned from their early losses and became better at defense.

The survivors become more and more difficult to rout out of their holes. The executives at CBS told to resign over Rathergate, still haven't done so, as far as I know.

It's going to be a long battle for truth, justice, and (remember this one before the left became embarrassed by it?) the American way.

Why aren't the rest of the MSM demanding the release of the tapes? Does Peter Jennings hear the bell toll? Does he dare ask for whom it tolls? Time to clean out all of the "news" executives and their stables of "news" actors.

It's all part of the nazi-Republican machine. They will do whatever it takes to muffle free speech...even if that speech is meant to bolster approval with foreign associates for personal gain.

The roosting chickens are getting the spotlight in the middle of the night to get in the truck for slaughter...

/Chutch off

/Partry on

I'm going to Duff Gardens! ^5 CJ.

F-ing tool - good riddance! Hey Jordan, I hear UC is hiring - you'll fit write in.

We still need to see that video tape. If Jordan resigned without it being shown publicly, it must be damning.

Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being “unfairly tarnished” by the controversy.

You mean CNN is tarnished ? Seems to me CNN is covered with 10,000 pounds of horseshit

As of this writing CNN seems to have missed the story.

If you know a little something about the news cycle and politics, you'll notice that CNN delayed this until after 5 p.m. eastern. This is a common time for press departents to "take out the trash," which means to release inconspicuously an embarassing story.

By this time, the nightly news broadcasts have already been scripted and run. The Saturday editions of the papers are amongst the least read and you get a couple days for emotions to settle down and other stories to break before everyone goes back to work 60 hours later.

CNN clearly still doesn't understand the need to follow the old political adage of "hanging a lantern on your problem." Instead, they try to take out the trash and continue to bury the story.

#13 mommydoc,
Re: Nancy Rabinowitz' resignation. She's quoted as saying she resigned "under duress" (good!), and that

"What the project needs now is someone more adept at the kind of political and media fight that the current climate requires. "

In other words, someone who's got a clue, and isn't a hopelessly befuddled 1960s-era moonbat.

It's a good day for the blogosphere!

27 hobgoblin 2/11/2005 04:37PM PST
.

Wow. A resignation without ever having a major news agency even bringing up the story

Yes. Which is what makes me wonder what else there is that CNN brass know.s

SO LONG BIAAATCH !

Good.

#55 Paul

We sure do, his resignation only hightens the interest in what it was that he actually said.

It looks like Jordan had been fed his slime rubbish by Nik Gowing of BBC World. It is time for the BBC to apologise too - and to sack Gowing :

[Link: writingcompany.blogs.com...]

Man, think of the pay cut he will take going to CBS News as a segment producer for "60 Minutes II".

27,60 and LGF and the northern alliance are not "major" news agencies?

I'm with those waiting for the tape.
Hopefully, the recording quality will be good enough for all to hear & understand his words.

At least he resigned, unlike someone else we know all too well...*cough* Dan Rather *cough* Hey, now that Rather's planning on leaving CBS, maybe he'll be looking for another job? CNN Chief News Executive, aka more years of trying to screw the Republicans in the MSM?

To Eason Jordan:

Hit the road, Jack,
And don't ya come back
No More, No more, no more, no more,
Hit the road, jack,
And don't ya come back
No more ...

YEEESSS!

While not as glamorous as an ex-60s radical/murderer, some progressive organization will rehire and make a hero out of him.
I can see the future announcement now: "Those right-wing, extremist, nut-jobs harassed Eason Jordan into quitting his job, and now he's back!"
I'm sure he'll "rise up from the ashes" and show up as a pundit on a "news" service near you soon.
Or there's always a consultant position at NPR.

Skippy #58,

Very interesting, but aren't they are using age-old tactics in a new world?

I wouldn’t be surprised when Eason comes out with his book and milks every bit of controversy he can. This is just the tip of iceberg, Something like 90 percent of media are Democrats and while some of them may be pro-American, I’m willing to bet 25 to 50 percent think just like Mapes and Eason. I firmly believe in the right to free speech, but with the American press that simply means sympathetic liberal stories and negative conservative stories. Americans want some balance in media coverage and besides Fox, the MSM is bogged down in liberal dogma. Its time for the blogs to start picking away at the MSM’s choice of politics. The 2004 election was the last straw. To call the treatment of the SBVT allegations as balanced whilst using fraudulent document to attack the conservative is like waving a red flag. No pun intended.

Hmph, he has a little more class than Rather does...
Not much, but a little.
Still doesn't take responsibility and, in fact, plays the "hero" by falling on the sword for CNN. What a great guy.

The video...never goin' to see it.

This is the big story the never made it to the MSM airwaves...

Jordan's Davos comments were despicable, and he's been rightly lambasted for it. But I find it strange that he'd resign over that issue when he didn't resign after admitting that CNN slanted its coverage of Saddam's cruel reign in order to maintain access in Baghdad.

I guess what it comes down to is this: now he can be a martyr. He can claim that his resignation was to save CNN from the Blogrel Hordes of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. To have resigned before -- which was really the only decent thing to do -- would have been to leave in shame. Now he can leave in self-righteous glory.

Amazing how during Easongate, the MSM cubos,commies,facists stalinists, islamists and neo-nazis didnt let out so much as a peep

They desperately hoped this story would die...the MSM is despicable

We will bleed them to to their deaths by pin pricks

# 38 M F

"We'll never see that video tape released"

Who cares? The word is out -- don't spout off against "your" country -- even among your LLL-elitist friends ...

"I hear Everything!"
-G. Costanza

:-)

charles,
you better be careful on that bike ride tomorrow,

not that cnn will mess with the brakes, or anything.

but when you throw up your hands and shout yesss,

you might fall off the bike.

He and CNN cannot be allowed to get away with this baldfaced lie:

I never meant to imply U.S. forces acted with ill intent when U.S. forces accidentally killed journalists

Last November, he said the same kind of stuff in Portugal, to a roomful of news executives.

To paraphrase a wonderful thing I found on some blog:

Mr Jordan; I'd like you to meet my friend The Internet.
Mr Internet this is Mr Jordan. I'll leave you to chat for a while. Have fun, and be careful. Internet remembers everything and he's a real blabbermouth.

Whew, after all the HTML I need a break.

Apparently Al Jazeera is looking for a buyer... Eason would fit right in.

Oh happy day! Eason and Rabinowitz! Time for the happy dance!

What a way to start the weekend whoo hoo!

Ace of Spades is giving the lefties hell over the Eason resignation. *lol

Look Ma, No MSM Involvement

Not even any help from Drudge.

Hello there one and all,

Hasn't this day been so very d e l i c i o u s ?

Two down and gone.. and the hounds are closing in on
The Hunt for Chief Sitting Eagle :-D

#278 jw
From your article link..Notice that last line re..what happened after Ward obtained his complimentary Indian Card

Now, he's complaining about attempts by the media to verify his lineage like a bred dog. Well, if it wasn't important to him, why'd he bother begging a group of people he had no real association with for his pedigree papers?

The irony is that a few months after "getting carded," Churchill was leading the witch hunt on CU's campus that caused at least two white scholars who had spent their careers researching American Indian issues to leave.

I believe I may have had personal/professional contact with these two people. I'll confirm it and get back to you. They might be open to a chat.

Also, I agree with your comments on Ward authoring that AIM document. He's using his dictatorship over the Colorado AIM to misdirect the public away from the national branch. The strategy appears to make the fight appear between equal organizations within the AIM organizational chart.

Wow.

It must be a real bitch to be an ex-olympian of the "news" industry. All those "stories" that brought "greatness" end up in the shitter of history.

Maybe there really is an all powerful VRWC.
Damn, I picked the winning side for a change!

I wonder what part Marianne Pearl plays in all this. My heart breaks for the loss of her husband, but for some reason I think her opinion is involved. I thought I remember reading that she blamed the US gov indirectly (or perhaps directly) for Daniel Pearl's murder. If you don't know, Eason Jordan is dating Ms. Pearl.

Am I just creating my own crazy theory?

Still waiting for CNN to cover this story. Wait..they're leading with the story of a baby tossed out of a car. Maybe its an allegory for the Jordan affair.

E. Jordan,

Reality Sucks. Besides that, it's a B_tch. Carry that torch wherever you go boy, and keep ignitin shit. There is an audience for everyone somewhere. Even you Eason. My regards to your #%&@ing followers.

#72 narley (in response to #58)

Very interesting, but aren't they are using age-old tactics in a new world?

Of course they are, which is why they'll get burned again and again.

double wide traitor trash, crashed and burned.

no offence to double wides.

thinkingMom and mommydoc

I was watching the trackbacks going to the Hamilton alumni site and they were burning up the internet last night and this morning. The army of "Mom and Dad" decided they had enough of Insurrection 101. They're drawing a bead on Madam President as well

Bang! Game over, jerkwad!

NEXT!

IBM Keyboard
Clinton's lie-bary fell?!

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Let Mr. Jordan join Al Qaeda in his continuing attempt to undermine the USA, the obnoxious POS.

#59

What the project needs now is someone more adept at the kind of political and media fight that the current climate requires.

I suppose that "project" would be our "re-education"?

And the "fight" would be the leftist ideaological fight for the reigns of power.

jrsygrl: Is that true? Gross!

CNN covering-up just like the dismissals a CBS. Every bullshit moombat utterance by the LLL nuts ticks their audience downward. Eason is just a rat leaving the sinking ship.

Bye, bye Eason...

You should have been gone long ago - like when
you admitted to covering up for the atrocities of Saddam
Hussein!

DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS!

Little Green Football's new slogan:
"We report, they resign!"

/sarc off

Eason Jordan has already received several job offers:

1. Military affairs specialist for al Jezeera,

2. Editor of the Columbia Journalism Review,

3. Full time "I was a victim of right wing blogs" guest on MSM talk shows,

4. Saddam Hussein's cabana boy.

And still a liar to the end. Why would he resign unless he really did mean what he said? The unconcious mind can be a very powerful force in a person's life and his words that day provided a window into his soul - and he knows it.

Personally, I thought Mr. Jordan would be a tougher nut (pun intended) than that to crack.

When are those people in the Fourth Estate going to realize that they can no longer lie and spin with impunity? Haven't they got it through their thick liberal heads that there is the blogosphere to contend with? It's like throwing water on the Wicked Witch of the West.

Now on to Chief Sitting Bullshit. You're next, buddy.

YeeeHAAAWWW ! ! !

And now for something completely different:

"Our item Wednesday on the contrasting receptions of Vietnam and Iraq veterans prompted an e-mail from reader Jess Harris, who reports being on the receiving end of both gratitude and expectoration:

'As a service member who has not yet been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, I often feel embarrassed by people who want to thank me for my service. I have done nothing special to warrant the attention. But I know that, as one of your readers pointed out, people want to express their thanks. So I tell them I appreciate their sentiment, and I accept it on behalf of all the American men and women who are serving (or are prepared to serve) in harm's way all over the world.

'However, we should note that hostility toward the military is not entirely a thing of the past.

'During the early stages of Operation Enduring Freedom, I was wearing my Army physical training uniform off post on my daily run when a truck slowed down near me. The driver ranted something about me being a "murdering pig" and spit in my direction. I should point out that he did not technically spit on me since he apparently did not have enough wind to clear the window. But he made his point. Judging by his apparent age and disposition, I assume he was one of the prime spitters of the Vietnam era.

'While most Americans appreciate of the service of military personnel, there are still those who view us as the enemy. They are presumably the same ones who spew absurd dicta like "I support the soldiers by opposing the war." I prefer it when they spew saliva--at least that's honest.'

Antiwar picketers should start carrying signs that read: "I drool in your general direction."

--Best of the Web, today.

#88 jrsygrl

Using Cartesian logic, your theory is crazy.

Living on Planet Earth, 2005- perfectly rational.

#36 levi from queens:

...and Tom Daschle! Even Zapatero of Spain has seen the light and has agreed to "train" Iraqi policemen! I guess the last ETA blast shook something loose and he found himself between the ETA and al-Qaeda with nowhere to run!

#101

Little Green Football's new slogan:
"We report, they resign!"

LOVE IT! ROFL!

Excellent news.

Yo, Eason, you've been blogrolled.

Maybe he'll assert he's part Indian and thus entitled to a full professorship and departmental chair at CU

I bet you that CNN execs will beg him to return, that they do not accept his resignation, and he will return. It seems too easy, IMHO, that he is just resigning.

OT

I heard this story from some Dutch people and the link is in Dutch too, but its just too good to be missed:

A junkie rape victim was giving police in The Hague an account of her ordeal when she developed withdrawal symptoms and wasn't able to continue.
Police figured she needed some cocain and drove her downtown to find a dealer. After they couldn't find one they asked the woman to call her dealer by phone - he duly delivered the coke to the police station where the woman relieved herself of her withdrawal symptoms and finished making her statement.

Only in Holland.

[Link: www.hetparool.nl...]

Just read your headline and wanted to say...

Yesss!

{fist pumping in air}

It seems the war on terrorism includes members of the "esteemed" media and, possibly, they are a front line in the fight to clean out those who harbor and support terrorists. I can't help but think that some lives might have been saved had the media been a more discerning in their coverage at times. How many down, how many more to go before this is in hand? And that is not to say free speech must be quashed but, for G-d's sake, we are at war. Do these people not yet understand that fact?

YAY!

Anyone notice that the PETITION IN SUPPORT OF PROFESSOR WARD CHURCHILL'S RIGHT TO FREE EXPRESSION (TM) is starting to resemble a typical FNDT on a certain blog?

Just askin'...

This whole affair reminds me of the recent Bill O'Reilly-Andrea Mackris lawsuit.

Bill denied everything; Mackris said she had tapes of his lurid phone calls. The case was settled, out of court, REALLY QUICKLY. Speculation at the time was that Mackris called O'Reilly's bluff, produced the tapes, and shamed him into settling.

The Jordan story is barely 2 weeks old. Why did he resign so quickly? My intuition tells me that the upper echelons of the CNN/Turner empire managed to get either a tape or a transcription of the Davos meeting where Jordan participated.

Anyone want to guess what the CNN/Turner board of directors heard on that tape?

Bye, Eason. Maybe you and Mary Mapes can get together and start your own news network. I'll bet that you two would hit it off immediately. And don't forget to bring Peter Arnett along with you as well.

It's a beautiful thing when the truth reigns supreme. And it's not the "right wing," or the "conservatives" or the "Republicans" who are victorious today. Today is a victory for the truth. The MSM is no doubt beginning to learn that there are legions of bloggers in the nation, on both side of the issues, that will hold them accountable to only one standard: the unbiased truth.

The new gold standard has been set, and all in the mainstream media, liberal or conservative, best beware.

World Debate

Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being “unfairly tarnished” by the controversy.

Unfairly? Sorry.

Eason has a habit of shooting his mouth off.

Just last November:

Eason Jordan, chief news executive at CNN, said there had been only a "limited amount of progress", despite repeated meetings between news organisations and the US authorities.

"Actions speak louder than words. The reality is that at least 10 journalists have been killed by the US military, and according to reports I believe to be true journalists have been arrested and tortured by US forces," Mr Jordan told an audience of news executives at the News Xchange conference in Portugal.

And of course his word were used as fodder to denigrate our troops:

US military 'still failing to protect journalists in Iraq'

81 - bigel - a wellput question, but note that is is now 1:10a.m. in London and JOhn may not respond until tomorrow -- in fact I would repost the Q in the a.m.

Can anyone deny that the invention of the internet (Thank you again America) is any less important then was Guttenburg's printing press?

WOW...can you imagine in the days before the net that these scumbags like Eason and Rather and Churchill would have been given a free press by their cohorts in the MSM!

And now look...the 5th estate is held accountable by WE THE PEOPLE! Isn't this something!

No wonder people like Hillary Clinton and other elites loathe and hate the blogging community so much...

Great work by all of you out there...

Devon in Alberta

#113 hm,

Two years ago I watch a documentary that showed heroin being sold in a church basement.

#13 mommydoc

Great line. But the reality is that the tide isn't turning. The blogosphere is turning it. And it doesn't want to turn, but just like it turned in the late 30's, turn it will as long as the blogs report the FACTS. Good things don't happen because they are good things, they happen because good people make them happen.

#98 mommydoc

which part...the dating, definitely true. In fact, I believe he is married w/kids and left his wife for Ms. Pearl.

the accusation...I don't remember if it was an inference or something along the lines of "we (the US) made the terrorists angry because they have no dreams, nothing to look forward to in life." How WE did this specifically I really have no idea. More left-wing drivel.

@121 levi from queens

OT

Hope you are feeling better. Were you able to make it into NYC?

#123 *sigh*edit that word to "watched"

“I never meant to imply U.S. forces acted with ill intent when U.S. forces accidentally killed journalists..."

So, there are times then when the U.S. deliberately targets journalists? Give Mr. Jordan credit for a crafty, Clinton-esque "apology."

#124 dgd:

Good point; good things happen because good people MAKE them happen. Due diligence and perseverance made Eason resign. Now on to Ward Churchill and each and every one of these phonies that sticks its head out; we'll play whack-a-mole with them and their phony degrees! and manufactured news! Good riddance, Eason Jordan, and don't come back in another life form either!

#89 Luigi

[Link: edition.cnn.com...]

#84 Ariana:

Yes, Jackson seems well-equipped to smack Churchill around, doesn't he?

Because up to now, he's been fairly tarnishing CNN...

#123 Ariana

I suppose calling a doctor never even crossed their minds.

#105

Lady of Shalott

You should see the kooks who who frequent a main entrence to the Pentagon to "protest." They position themselves so that service members coming out of the Metro transit station reporting for work are their only target audience. It is not so much a first amendment protest as it is a direct in-you-face insult directed at those in uniform.

Under duress? To make a telephone resignation?

POS Jordan must have been "targeted" by the military.

When the Moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Ward
Then the weird will guide the planets
And the frauds steer the stars

This is the dawning of the Age of Raelians
The Age of Raelians
Raelians!
Raelians!

Quiting and resignations
No sympathy or trust abounding
More falsehoods and derisions
Nasty dreams of visions
Crystal clear damnations
Are Eason's true connotation
Raelains!
Raelians!

bigel

Blogging has hardly started in the UK yet. biased-bbc.blogspot is one of the few - and attracts very few hits.

There is no free talk radio or cable channels in the UK . All channels have to have poltical balance. In effect this leaves the BBC clear to bias everything leftwards and anti-US.

The BBC is up to its neck in the Eason Jordan business. Jordan virtually lifted his script from Nik Gowing of BBC World, and the main defence of what he said at Dacos was by Richard Sambrook, now at the World Service but previously Head of News in the UK nd the main defender of gilligan in 2003 - for which he was trenchantly criticised in Lord Hutton's report.

Killian Bundy wrote:

Hey Charles, who's faster (better), Al Di Meola or John McLaughlin?

Currently, I'm leaning towards Mahavishnu John, he of the scalloped fretboard.

It depends what you mean by "faster." They're both fast. DiMeola excels at repeated patterns with a minimum of pick-crossing. But McLaughlin does some astounding things with both picking and fingering, amazingly quickly. Overall, if technique's your thing, John is El Supremo.

The scalloped fretboard of his acoustic is intended to emulate (and produce some of the sound quality of) the Indian vina.

126-- I'm better and have been to NYC, but not to see RW as he is reasonably afraid of my infectious smile. But, next week-- and thanks.

Another demonstration of the rising and incredible power of blogs in today's media! That sucking sound that you hear is CNN and Ted Turner being pulled into the quicksand while the internet fills up the vacated space.

And it's one, two, three, four,
What are we fighting for,
Don't ask cause we don't give a damn
Next stop is that God damned Fake Indian Ward
we gonna kick his ass through the door
Don't stop and wonder why
Whoopee, Ward's gonna cry...

/Counter Counter Culture Music...

(#134 continued)

I'd like to take a picture of the scene one morning. However, photography is prohibited in the area due to the proximity to the building. A fact that is a bit ironic and unfortunate in that I cannot capture an image of the hateful stupidity.

The great thing is, Nancy Rabinowitz still doesn't get it. She doesn't understand that people of good conscience find the likes of her and Churchill repellent; she thinks, like the Democratic Party at large, that she just didn't explain her poisonous garbage clearly enough for the proles...

I never liked the look of the whole Davos setup anyway. George Soros was heavily involved - and there are far too many Arabs there, paying top dollar for the trappings of respectability

#131 jw..

I think there is a line forming as we speak :-D
I checked to find out if the two historian mentioned in that article were a couple I knew a few years ago. I checked their teaching history and they began at another university ,and so have a different story. However, they married and team teach the history of Native Americans in the same department at Chapel Hill.

The academic world is so quiet about this situation in public. But behind closed doors there is a great deal of discussion

#133 hw

Apparently legalizing the sale of narcotics has created all sorts of enterprises for the ambitious drug dealer

FROM CNN

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan resigned Friday, saying the controversy over his remarks about the deaths of journalists in Iraq threatened to tarnish the network he helped build.

Jordan conceded that his remarks at the January 27 World Economic Forum were "not as clear as they should have been." Several participants at the event said Jordan told the audience U.S. forces had deliberately targeted journalists -- a charge he denied.

"After 23 years at CNN, I have decided to resign in an effort to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regarding the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq," Jordan said in a letter to colleagues.

"I have devoted my professional life to helping make CNN the most trusted and respected news outlet in the world, and I would never do anything to compromise my work or that of the thousands of talented people it is my honor to work alongside.

"While my CNN colleagues and my friends in the U.S. military know me well enough to know I have never stated, believed, or suspected that U.S. military forces intended to kill people they knew to be journalists, my comments on this subject in a World Economic Forum panel discussion were not as clear as they should have been."

The resignation sent shock waves through CNN -- with Jordan long admired by his peers, from executives to the rank-and-file. Jordan joined CNN as an assistant assignment editor in 1982 and rose through the ranks to become CNN's chief news executive.

CNN News Group President Jim Walton said that under Jordan's leadership, the news group "literally circled the globe with bureaus, from Baghdad to Johannesburg to Havana to Sydney to Hong Kong."

"The regard in which he is held by people from every walk of life in virtually every corner of the world has added incalculably to our ability to cover such historic events as the Gulf War and the war in Iraq, the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the crackdown in Tiananmen Square and the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon," Walton said in a written statement to colleagues.

The controversy over Jordan's remarks gained steam last week, with bloggers posting their accounts of what transpired at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, an event attended by political, economic, academic and media figures from around the world.

The Davos organizers have said the session, like most at the forum, was off-the-record, and they have refused to release a transcript to preserve their commitment.

At the heart of the dispute is what Jordan said about the deaths of journalists in Iraq. Several participants said he told the audience that U.S. forces had deliberately targeted some journalists.

But Jordan strongly denied that he had made such a suggestion and said he did not believe journalists had been deliberately targeted.

In his letter to staff on Friday, he said he had "great admiration and respect for the men and women of the U.S. armed forces," noting that he was embedded with them in Baghdad, Tikrit and Mosul. He said he has also spent time with U.S. soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen in Afghanistan, the former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Kuwait, Bahrain and the Persian Gulf.

"As for my colleagues at CNN," he said, "I am enormously proud to have worked with you, risking my life in the trenches with you, and making CNN great with you.

"For that experience, and for your friendship and support these many years, I thank you."

Bubbles,

Hi gal :)

I had a dream last night that you were Ann Coulter incognito
;-D

I am referring to your quick wittiness

That whole Marianne Pearl thing is just icky. Well, whaddaya want, she's French.

Eason Jordan should have resigned or been canned after revealing that CNN knew all about Saddam's torture pecadillos and didn't say anything so they could retain "access."

I hope this whole business does bad damage to CNN's ratings. I find CNN bad enough when I see it in the US - but the version we get here, CNN International, is rabidly anti-American.

To any members of the US forces - thank goodness we have seen a news panjandrum kicked out for sliming decent soldiers.

What we still want is the Davos videotape. Oh - and Kerry's service papers.

But John -- the next places are London and Copenhagen. What would it take to get a northern alliance in place in Glasgow and an LGF in Stockholm (or Jutland) ? I know -- you don't have Charles or big trunk, etc. -- but my acquaintances in the City seem to me to be equally capable.

#135

"Under Duress" defined:

Normative - "They had a gun to my head, I had no choice but to..."

moonbat - "They were going to expose my unvarnished ideas to the light of day and challenge me with critical thinking and morality, I had no choice but to..."

The memory of this night is SEARED...SEARED into my memory.

From the archives if the jwpaine department of near-palindromic redundancies department.

@139 levi from queens

Thanx for all that good news. :)

#149 johninlondon

I wonder if he was forced to resigned because the top CNN brass reviewed the tape behind closed doors, and were informed that it was about to be released to the public?

levi from queens

www.melaniephillips.com is excellent - but she is a journalist, of course. Most of the other right-leaning sites are too extreme for my taste, and are not particularly informative.

We have the benefit of some decent right-wing commentary in UK newspapers, which the US largely lacks. I can read the telegraph online every morning, then skim the Times and have a laugh at the Sun (actually very good condensed political coverage in the Sun). Plus the Mail and the London Evening Standard are mostly right-leaning (- but wrong on Iraq.)

Whereas in the US you seem to have been forced to turn to radio channels, then Fox News, and now to blogsites. In the US the blogsites actually help MAKE the news - that does not apply in the UK.

From Reuters:

Amidst a right wing smear job remiscent of unfair attacks on Dan Rather, Walter Duranty and Joseph Goebbels, hero of the revolution, Eason Jordan was forced at gunpoing to resign from his position as minister of information for CNN, the network largely praised as the al-Jazeera of the western media.

Reached for comment from his villa in Damascus, Jordan quipped: "I have evidence that this attack was coordinated by the neocons in the Pentagon, Fox News, the Likud party and their American amen corner, and Jared from Subway, who knew I was getting close to breaking the story of how his Subway Sandwich Artists refuse to put more than one napkin in with each sandwich order - even the footlong meatballs which are really messy - and refuse to put any napkin dispensers on any of the tables"

Nice going Charles and your comrades in computers. I just got the news on your site, and then went to see what CNN had to say.
The article is in the entertainment section of all places. The headline doesn't mention Eason Jordan's name. It really is entertaining. Another feather in your bonnet.

I am not sure if anyone else has pointed this out, but what Mr. Jordan and CNN have done is to attempt to use Friday night and the weekend as an attenuator to the story. They seem to believe a story carried almost entirely by the Internet--and actively 'ignored' by the mainstream outlets--will be quelled by a Saturday and Sunday.

They do not seem to understand that the rules have changed somewhat since their monolithic order was fractured.

Man, the Looney Left is really gonna start hating the Internet - the truth hurts them horribly. How long before they try to outlaw it, or ban parts they don't like?

Knock knock
who's there?
Eason
Eason who?
E's unemployed

Okay, so it's a stretch.

#156 johninlondon

Conservative access to print media was as limited as their ability to attain tenure in many American Universities. Hence, think tanks and the rise of US blogging provides the balance.
Besides old British Tories never die.

Ariana

I have followed the Jordan story closely - as far as i can tell, nearly all the accounts say that Jordan uttered the allegation, only Jordan disputes it - and Richard Sambrook of the BBC tried ineffectually to muddy the water.

(That guy Sambrook should have been sacked over the Gilligan affair - or should have had the decency to resign. I hope the Jordan thing tarnishes him further)

Charles will be needing some more Chianti to wash down these livers.

#147 Ariana

Hi girl, no kidding? Wow, I hope I didn't get hit with another cream pie? I believe I will be counter counter culturing tonight in honor of the Ding Dong the Sixties Fuddermuckers are finally getting their dues...

PEACE

Ariana

Grooovvvyyy, and Far Ouuuttt, Man.

What's horse$hit about the story FINALLY hitting cnn.com...

It's buried in tiny print on the home page under the

ENTERTAINMENT section!

[Link: www.cnn.com...]

What phukin' BS...

From Larry King's USA Today column:

A good friend Eason Jordan is retiring today . . .

Reminds me of another Jordan who was forced to retire in his prime . . . Jordan Knight of New Kids on the Block . . . He had The Right Stuff . . .

For my money, no one makes a better cotton brief than Fruit of Loom . . .

Hey, Fidel Castro's got some beard doesn't he . . . Reminds me of those guys on the cough drop box . . .

Now that Harry Caray and Yasser Arafat have died, I think I am the only public figure to wear giant black glasses that are way too big for my face . . .

The MSM and academia are learning that "open architecture" isn't just for computer operating systems.

Rayra

Cool, Brother, cool... Puttin on my PEACE headband and my Roach Clip earrings...

Groovy

#Lawrence simon

Knock Knock

Who's there ?

Eason

Eason who ?

E'sonthewayout !

or

E'sonhisbikeouttahere

or

E'sonthedolenow

(Does Eason rhyme with Treason?)

Popping in... Wow, where'd this come from?! Sweet.

Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being “unfairly tarnished” by the controversy.

Ah yes, accurately reporting what you said is "unfairly tarnishing" you. Good liberal! Here's your cookie.

I missed what happened to the video that was promised to be put out. Can someone clue me in please?

The World Economic Forum said they won't release the videotape. Undoubtedly because CNN requested them to hold it until they reviewed it.

#159 addison beat me to it by one post... no one else had pointed it out that the resignation's news was released AFTER MSM nightly news broadcasts. To bad they haven't caught on that the '24' hour news cycle can be strached out by their failure to report news as well.

John -- the reserve strength of the U.S. blogosphere is the millions of people (many with advanced degrees and all with advanced capacities of some sort) who can be drawn to a topic with all of their diverse expertises. The UK is at least a fifth and maybe a quarter in size and certainly a third in expertise and a half in manners and two-thirds in esprit and equal in value. Cannot there be a similar and cross-fertilized movement?

Failing to report the original story, announcing the resignment on a Friday evening, burying the story on the CNN entertainment page - man, do they just not get the Internet, or what?

For starters, many of us do our best blogging/commenting on the weekends, so a Friday at 5 story is like manna from heaven. Gives those of us without dates something to do, gives those of us who are happily paired off something to prattle on to our mates about (while we simultaneously type, mainline caffeine, and play with the cats).

By Monday, I figure the amount of net coverage of this story will have roughly quadrupled. So much for "burying" the story.

OT

Gary Condit is on Larry King.

#28 ggt

That was special! Double Amen !

Let's not forget that Jordan wasn't the only leftist to grab a dead guy's chick on the rebound!

re #179

Make that his kids.

#183 - I can't visit those places. Most of them will probably ignore it for a while; the ones that won't (like the DUers) are just too insane to read.

#183 American Infidel

All Gannon, no Jordan.

C'mon CNN, let's go to the videotape. It must have been really inflammatory. Won't be satiated until I've seen it.

At the risk of drawing an air castle, these cascading ignominious resignations (Raines, Rather, and, now, Jordan) have to me faint echoes of the Battle of Agincourt, you know, the one where Shakespeare stuffs that "band of brothers" speech in Hal's mouth. [Link: www.geocities.com...]

5,000 English longbow armed yeoman took out almost twice their number of the French nobility. Those armored knights, arrogant in their long established supremacy looked to flick away the tiny English army like some disturbing mosquito. The longbow was a weapon the knights neither understood or appreciated. How could commoners cause them any pain?

So now, yeofolk of a new Millenium wield this new weapon, the Internet blogs, against a foe as equally armored in arrogance and fantasy as any French chevalier, the MSM. Old Media is still as uncomprehending as those Comtes and Ducs were almost 600 years ago. And today, we few, we happy few are happy.

Does anyone have the story or quotes from Jordan when he claimed the Israel was targeting "Journalists"?
Link?

#146

Notice it was buried on the CNN homepage under "entertainment" and the time the story was posted:

CNN executive resigns after controversial remarks
CNN
Friday, February 11, 2005
---> Posted: 8:19 PM

E. Jordan,

Reality Sucks. Besides that, it's a B_tch. Carry that torch wherever you go boy, and keep ignitin shit. There is an audience for everyone somewhere. Even you Eason. My regards to your #%&@ing followers.

#189 song_and_dance_man

This is almost like Michael Jackson paying off some kids.

Kimberly (#178),

Failing to report the original story, announcing the resignment on a Friday evening, burying the story on the CNN entertainment page - man, do they just not get the Internet, or what?

No they really don't.

I wonder just how humiliating it must be for a CNN executive to get shot down by kids in pajamas?

We are never going to see that videotape or read a transcript from that meeting in Davos. Thanks to the MSM...

...the same MSM that subjected and continues to subject us to endless video of Rodney King, police 'assaults', Abu Guraib,
the Marine firing at the terrorist fighter, ad nauseum.

These 'journalists' think it is some kind of distinction or honor to consider themselves citizens of the world...above 'nationalist loyalties'. I think they're pathetic.

And, we're never, never going to see THAT video!

Eason Jordan on Israel targeting Journalists:

We're not trying to favour one side over the other we're not going to pull any punches in our reporting but the truth hurts sometimes and it hurts both sides but it's a mistake to target the news media. We've had enormous frustrations in having access to occupied areas of the West Bank and Israeli forces on a number of occasions have shot at CNN personnel and in fact did shoot one CNN correspondent, he was badly wounded. The Israelis say they're actually trying to restrict our access to these areas and they say it's too dangerous for you to be there and my response to that is that it wouldn't be nearly as dangerous if you didn't shoot at us when we're clearly labelled as CNN crews and journalists. And so this must stop, this targeting of the news media both literally and figuratively must come to an end immediately.
Found it at the Captain's Quarters:
[Link: www.captainsquartersblog.com...]

#193 Geepers:

Joe Klein, the guy who made the original remark about bloggers being a bunch of guys in their pyjamas blogging in the livingroom, is the new President of CNN and may well be the guy who gave Eason Jordan his marching orders. Klein's in charge of bring CNN back from the bottom of the cable news heap.

What? No three-month "inquiry"?

Huh.

Compared to CBS, CNN is a model of forthrightness and decency.

#196 foreign devil

Once again, the irony is inescapable.

Since CNN isn't after the truth, seems like the answer is to hit them from the left. Amp up each and every call that "Eason wuz framed by the lying liar lies of the extremist right!" Every time a leftie blogger makes this claim, meet it head on with the challenge that they demand the footage be released to prove he was railroaded.

tarnish 2) To diminish or become tainted.

Self-inflicted, Eason, long before your rant.

57 Luigi --

And as of this writing, CNN still has nothing on the trEASONgate story.

#146 Nightlife

Re Eason's comments: Barf

#201 wordwarp

Thats not true, you just haven't been looking in the right section...

levi from queens

I think some of the leading US blogs draw strength from the interaction with talk radio. We would not have that here.

Yes, it has been heartening to see how things can spread like wildfire in the more informal news nexus that now applies in the US. The Swift Boat Vets phenomenon was classic - it sidestepped/blindsided the MSM.

I wold love to see as vital a blogosphere in the UK. Bt in the meanwhile, I enjoy staying in touch with US blogs - and contributing to at least six of them during the Jordan business.

They are talking about the bloggers and their impact right now on KABC radio in Los Angeles.

This is just too perfect:

"We Are What We Believe"

~ Howard Dean, Dec. 8th, 2004

I am to an Indian! I am! I am!

[stamps little feet]

Thanks John -- I feel I do my bit here by contributing to LGF and elsewhere and I am grateful for your part at LGF; and maybe I am being unfair --- but I do feel we could make a prairie fire across the UK and then Europe (and yanks could contribute to UK and continental blogs) (but its a good night here and maybe I have violated the Iron Fist Rule and am asking too much)

#206 Geepers

That's more like Little Feat!

The board found out he'd been paying off-the-books cash to terrorists for video and access and too many people know about it in the Green Zone.

foreign devil (#196),

Joe Klein, the guy who made the original remark about bloggers being a bunch of guys in their pyjamas blogging in the livingroom, is the new President of CNN

Next thing you know he'll be shooting his mouth off, about how bloggers are intentionally targeting journalists.

I'm already sighting my scope.

ha, you're right -- there it is now, under "Entertainment" ! How funny. Yes, it's entertaining all right.

#123 Ariana

Two years ago I watch a documentary that showed heroin being sold in a church basement.

Religion and opiates for the masses!

#196

Actually, it's Jonathan Klein who now heads up CNN. Joe Kleine is the Newsweek writer who I believe 'fessed up to being the author of Primary Colors, the book about the Clintons.

well-said model4 at 199!

138 Charles -

Thoughts on Alan Holdsworth v. The Bird of Fire?

song and dance man

I have to interrupt the celebration and say...
What is the thing with Feldman and Jackson?

#204 JohninLondon: You're probably aware, but the interaction between blogs and radio seems to be a relatively new development, which could lead to hope that it could happen relatively quickly over there.

What is the radio situation like there btw? Here, we've got lots of local radio stations and it's a competitive capitalist thing. Some local guy does really well, and bumped up to bigger and bigger markets. Then its realized by local stations that syndicating one of the big guys, if good enough, could beat the local guy through syndication. All boils down to what people would rather tune in to.

Meanwhile, if UK radio is as stagnant as I'm guessing, I wonder if radio over the Internet might be the camel's nose under the tent. Especially if programs are available as a download to burn to CD or put on an mp3 player for mobile listening.

My guess is that one of the pivotal blogs as far as linking up with big media was the Wall Street Journal's "Best of the Web Today." I certainly have heard Taranto's thoughts echoed in many other places, and he's likewise steered me to some great writers.

Ahhh...
thanks for the link.

Maybe that is why he was so annoying and whiney on "the surreal life"
not that I watched it, of course.

CNN labels own news division as "entertainment?" That's what their story placement says to me. Yet another hit they can take for the cowardly cover-up.

Man, can't wait til the next time one of their self-righteous leftist tools says that they just ask the tough questions, bravely quest for the truth, see it as their duty to inform the public, blah, blah, blah.

WHAHOOO!
The lying sack o' crap has resigned so as not to unfairly tarnish CNN's reputation. Should this whole incident end here?

I don't think so.

Jordan demeaned the men and women who serve, and sometimes die for, this country. He must be hounded until he either makes a factual claim or apologizes to the American Military for making up lies. Nothing short of this is sufficient!

His "apology" is not sufficient. There is no admission that he made this crap up to look good to his EUnich and RIF buddies

"I never meant to imply U.S. forces acted with ill intent when U.S. forces accidentally killed journalists, and I apologize to anyone who thought I said or believed otherwise,"

Yes, you did Jordan. Quit lying and tell the truth!

FNDTOT
#45 Killian Bundy

who's faster (better), Al Di Meola or John McLaughlin?

Speed is not everything. (That sound you hear is the jaws of my jammates hitting the floor that I would say such a thing! :)

Comparing these two's speed is like comparing the SR-71 to the CIA A-12 anyway, the difference isn't worth measuring.

When I want to feel inadequate as a guitarist, I listen to the "Trio" material they worked together with Paco DeLucia.

When I want to feel inadequate about precision picking, I listen to Al DiMeola.

When I want to feel inadequate as a musician, I listen to John McLaughlin.

Actually the inadequacy feeling goes away in a few minutes and I enter the Emerald Beyond.

More from Eason's memo:

Jordan, a 23-year veteran of CNN, said in a memo to staffers that he is leaving to prevent the network from "being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regarding the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq."

He just can't not get in a last jibe.
How pathetic.

CNN chief resigns over Davos remarks

Scott Ott is on the story!

Eason Jordan Quits, Bloggers Mull Next Target
by Scott Ott
Scrappleface.com
(2005-02-11)

Even as embattled CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan announced his 'resignation' tonight, the ad hoc consortium of unedited writers known as the blogosphere met online to discuss which journalist should be the next to fall.

Still riding high from its role in the 'memogate' firings at CBS and the demise of two editors at the New York Times, the blogosphere took less than two weeks to turn rumors from Davos, Switzerland, into a pink slip for the 23-year veteran of CNN.

In a brief statement just after the networks' Friday evening newscasts, Mr. Jordan condemned the "targeting of journalists by bloggers."

However, some bloggers contend they have not gone far enough in their attacks on the mainstream media.

"So far, we've just weighted [sic] for some one [sic] to say or do something stupid before we ride them [sic] like a coal car into the ground," wrote one unnamed blogger. "But now it's time to get proactive. We're going to pick the next soon-to-be-former journalist and then force him into some career-ending vortex of deception and denial."

< full story >

Innocent men don't resign. This pig is cooked.

Next!

Sure, you right wing blogs have taken down CNN and CBS... Yeah, Mary Mapes and Eason Jordan are gone... But don't forget about that Talon News guy! (What was his name?)

/leftist_dingbat off

Killian #45,

Pat Metheny on John McLaughlin:

"To me, John is one of the most significant figures in the modern history of the guitar. It is usually enough for someone to affect the evolution of their instrument once in their career - John has done it at least three times. First, with the amazing and refreshing conceptual leap that was the record "my goals beyond" where he in one record indicated a way of playing that spawned an entire subgroup of records by guitar players. The second, and probably most important,was the Mahavishnu Orchestra - along with Weather Report, the next giant leap in the evolution of jazz ensemble playing since the breakthroughs of Ornette Coleman's quartet, the John Coltrane quartet, and the Miles Davis quintet of roughly a decade before. and then, Shakti, where he became the first western musician to succesfully function in an environment that had attracted but eluded western improvising musicians for decades. He is a giant - one of my favorite musicians and composers ever."

Model 4

There is not really any talk radio in the UK. All radio channels have to be politically balanced. So there is not any interplay between blogs and talk radio, nor the idea that people could choose a local station that suited their opinions and phone in quite often.

You mentioned Taranto. Actually that is the dog that did not bark - Taranto has made no mention of Jordan.

geepers

The link you posted and this story on Marketwatch ties Jordan's resignation into the wider question of CNN bias :

[Link: www.marketwatch.com...]

232 goto [Link: www.ksky.com...] and you can listen live to some great talk radio conservatives.

This is a great way to start the weekend :)

sweet...

#230 song and dance man

Didn't Vai audition for Zappa by sending him a demo of Black Napkins played in cut time?

58--Skippy-Sure, misses the Today show, which prob wouldn't cover it . CNN gets a pass, too as Sat news isn't much.
Plus so many papers have pre-packaged front Pages, that is stories that have been written weeks ago and could be pub any time. (LA Times, OC REgister)So There is limited space for fresh news anyway and as stated Sat is not much of a paper.
Not a bad week to chose either as next week-end is 3 day weekend so prob friday is bust too. So the Story might only have to weather 4 days.
These network-types just can't believe that news can travel faster than they want it too and that they can't control it any more. The Main stream Media are becoming buggy whip manufacturers.

232 JohninLondon
Thanks for the link. This from the CBS Marketwatch story:

"CBS came under fire in the wake of a disputed "60 Minutes Wednesday" report on President Bush's National Guard service that aired in September. "

"disputed" my ass. The word is Fraudulent.

OT - but maybe not...

Gee, do you think this story will get as much coverage/attention as the "Abu Ghraib" atrocities ?

French U.N. "Peace Keeper" looking for piece in all the wrong places...

A French U.N. logistics expert in the Congo shot pornographic videos in his home, in which he had converted his bedroom into a photo studio for videotaping his sexual abuse of young girls.

Oh, he was Fwench...never mind.

Liars don't seem to be faring very well against the Internet, do they?

For too long, CNN should change its call letters to "PNN", for the "Palestinian News Network".

Short of Al-Jazeera, a more biased news boradcast exists nowhere on the face of the earth.

That Jordan got his ass fired for this (you don't really beleive he resigned, do you?), just shows how incriminating that tape was, because this bunch of terrorist loving Arabphiles would never have tossed him out unless they couldn't survive the heat stemming from it.

You want to hurt CNN? Turn them the fuck off, don't EVER admit to watching it, and tell the world you watch Fox News. Put these pricks out of business.

Or, just go with my bacckup plan:
Kill them. Kill them all.

#232 JohninLondon: Ah, the old "fairness doctrine." Libs most of the time solo, but whenever you have a conservative you have to have a liberal there as well. There's been rumblings about bringing it back, of course from libs who view having less than 95% market share in all media as unfair. Don't think it's going to happen though.

Still, it sounds like on the surface getting around this is doable. If it's just an overall balance, have your conservative show, have your lib show, and let people tune in to what they want. If it's simultaneous, have a Hannity and Colmes type format. That show scores points for conservatives all day long, even though Colmes is the better debater, because he has to try and back positions that are extremely weak.

My oh my, can you say "breakout"?

Mr. Eason apparently will be on page A1 of the Washington Post tomorrow, under the byline of Howard Kurtz.

Several CNN staffers say Jordan, who was distraught about the controversy, saw the handwriting on the wall in tendering his resignation. But top executives are also said to have lost patience with the continuing gossip about Jordan, including his affair with Marianne Pearl, widow of the murdered reporter Daniel Pearl, and subsequent marital breakup.

Howie's story

ted turner hires jordan. jordan's job, PR man for the un and koffi annan. turner calls it a donation to the un and takes a tax writeoff. The US taxpayer gets the bill.

This guy was the first to report on Jordan's allegations at Davos :

[Link: fixtheworld.blogs.com...]

I saw them together a few times in the early eighties, can't recall how many times or where for all occassions. I think Terry Bozio was on drums at that time 82-84. I distinctly remember Mothers Day at a theatre in the round west of Baltimore in 82 and Hollowen at the same place a year later. I believe there were a couple of larger shows with Vai at the Merriweather Post Paviilion in the same time period, Ray white may have been there too, couldn't say for sure, my memory is hazy. I am in my early forties and the eighties were my sixties. I would like to see a compendeum of Zappa's shows with set lists and band members, something like the Deadbase if one exists. Maybe I'll google that. Vai had short blue hair the first time I saw him with Zappa. I was amazed, he had Zappa's tone and voice with better a bit more forceful delivery. Frank would be standing their conducting with his guitar dangleing at his side letting Vai do what I thought no one else could, play Zappa concisely, every note and nuance. When Vai would finish a lead Zappa would turn to the audience and throw his arms to his side towards Vai's direction, jestering to the crowd as to say, "Whadda ya think of that".

Post #248 directed to #240, song and dance man.

Sorry, I forgot the reference tag

so long Eason, say hi to saddam for me...

now it's time to pressure their board of directors to make a balanced network.

KirkPete (#245),

Thanks for the link.

This guy is just too much.

In his statement, Jordan said: "I have great admiration and respect for the men and women of the U.S. armed forces, with whom I have worked closely and been embedded in Baghdad, Tikrit, and Mosul" and other places. "As for my colleagues at CNN, I am enormously proud to have worked with you, risking my life in the trenches with you."

Yeah Eason, those 5-star hotels in Davos are treacherous aren't they?

"Jordan joined CNN in 1982 as an assistant assignment editor on the national news desk. He has won the Emmy, duPont and Peabody journalism awards."

Unfortunately, he exclaimed abject failure when he came in second for the "Golden Fleece International" award. Hang in there Eason, there is still time. Lots of time. LOL.

They are no longer the 4th Estate - they've become the 5th column. The sooner they all sign off for the last time, the better the prospects are that freedom will indeed ring throughout the land. Bye bye, F**kwit! Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. One can only imagine what his golden parachute looks like...probably breathtaking.

Maybe Google will accept you now!

Go Blogs, GOOO!
Power to the people!

I see EAson leaves the ConfusedNewsNetwork with a little shrapnel in his azz.

Made my weekend, let's party. :)

Reuters is actually moving the story now, as of 9:47 my time - credits the bloggers for blowing the Davos "what happens here, stays here" line.

Completely OT - Passion, Grace, and Fire (1982) John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola - Superb!

Many of the Europeans on the left have their Bush Derangement Syndrome. One French author published a best selling book claiming that Bush is the one who planned and arranged for the massacre of 9/11. The paranoia in the European Left against the US, and against President Bush in particular, is atrocious.

A guy like Eason Jordan hangs out with the European leftists, and it appears that some of that paranoia rubbed off on him. The trouble is that a person in his position as the head of CNN news should be able to distinguish between delusion and reality. He lacked a grounding in reality. And that is not good for the head of a news organization.

I think that he should see a good psychiatrist who would be able to recommend some meds to help Eason Jordan overcome his paranoid schizophrenia, and get a better hold on reality. Besides, his judgment is very poor if he cannot keep the product of his demons to himself, but feels the need to blurt it out in a public meeting where a video was made of his outburst.

I understand that Hugh Hewitt observed on his radio show this evening that major US networks are now going to have to report that a network head has resigned over a scandal they had totally failed to report !

nd you can add in LA Times and other major newspapers. I spoke to some old friends in LA this evening - they had heard NOTHING about Eason Jordan from any media source.

To all our brothers/sisters on watch and for those who have come back and are at rest we will always keep the faith.

Truth did win out and I hope Mr. Jordan will someday realize that some things are bigger than just one man.

The pajamahadeen strike again, hurray for the little people! From Nixon until today, it is always the coverup that gets people in trouble. Ask Bill Clinton. Ask Dan Rather. Ask Howell Raines. The blogosphere wasn't around to fell Clinton, but you can bet he would have had to resign if they had been.

It is wonderful to be able to pressure these self important characters. It may even have the effect of improving the MSM over time.

And if you ever needed proof that David Gergen is a spineless git:

Gergen said last night that Jordan's resignation was "really sad" since he had quickly backed off his original comments. "This is too high a price to pay for someone who has given so much of himself over 20 years. And he's brought down over a single mistake because people beat up on him in the blogosphere? They went after him because he is a symbol of a network seen as too liberal by some. They saw blood in the water."

#266 Geepers

Maybe the MSM will realize their role is to provide information and commentary, but not paranoid ramblings or to cover up for dictators. I'm not holding my breath. Eason Jordan has been on my short list of the truly evil since I found out Uday told him about two murders in advance, and Jordan said nothing. Anyone who trusts CNN is a world-class idiot. I'm always skeptical, but CNN is nothing but a propaganda outlet for totalitarian nations in which they have the only bureau (Cuba, Iran).

CNN.com finally posted the news. They put the item under Entertainment not politics. What a crock of crap.

Ann Coulter on Foxl, when asked about journalists being targeted in Iraq.

"If only it were so".

Good riddance, bitch!

Beagle (#267),

The whole "access is more important than truth" thing was a disgrace.

And like you any respect I had for them went out the window when he admitted that they had read verbatim script provided to them by Saddam.

#245

From the Post story:

As of yesterday, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and USA Today HAD NOT carried a staff-written story, and the CBS, NBC and ABC nightly news programs HAD NOT reported the matter. It was discussed on several talk shows on Fox News, MSNBC and CNBC.

Gergen said last night that Jordan's resignation was "really sad" since he had quickly backed off his original comments. "This is too high a price to pay for someone who has given so much of himself over 20 years. And he's brought down over a single mistake because people beat up on him in the blogosphere? They went after him because he is a symbol of a network seen as too liberal by some. They saw blood in the water."

[emphasis mine]

A long time ago I heard Bill Buckely (on his old PBS show) say that a lot of what conservatives regarded as liberal bias was incompetence and stupidity. Probably right, but now there is a way to answer bias, incompetence and stupidity in the media. We no longer have to rely on BIS folks for our news. We can find it ourselves. Thank you Al Gore for inventing the internet. Where would we be without it?

David Gergen: PBS's idea of a conservative. Hah!

Off-topic, but Metheny's comments about McLaughlin are definitely spot-on: the man is an incredible musician beyond his picking ability, and the first Mahavishnu Orchestra was a pretty amazing group before it imploded.

Both DiMeola and McLaughlin have fantastic chops in terms of speed and precision, but I think that McLaughlin's ability to conceptualize a pretty unique strain jazz/rock fusion in the early 1970s makes him the better musician.

McLaughlin also made two really enjoyable albums in the early '80s playing nylon string guitar on top of an electric band that included a synth player and heavy drums. Belo Horizonte and Music Spoken Here are definitely worth looking for, in addition to the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Shakti, and acoustic guitar trio albums.

...And now back to The Eason Jordan Explosion, already in progress!

song and dance man

I just found a Zappa gig list on google. Evidently, I saw Vai in November 1981. Though I think there were other times in that period. The gig list says 82 was spent in Europe, so I guess I missed them that year. All in all I think I saw his bands about 12 times from 78 to 88. Shows in NYC, Philly, Pittsburg, D.C. / Baltimore and Norfolk Va. The Zappa family has opened their vault and was selling original vinyl about six months ago. I would like to buy a set to back up my existing collection, but haven't got around to it.

In addition to the content on this site I new I had found home when I saw the Zappa quotes on the side bar. One that I haven't seen yet was from a talk show in the late seveties, it may have been David Suskind . I can't quote it but I will try to get the idea of what happened accross. Zappa was asked something about the nature of what he did, why his lyrics were so coarse and cynical and were they intended to be satire. He replied no, it is not intended to be satire, I consider myself to be a reality reporter, or something seemingly to me at the time, profound to that effect. I wish I could find that quote it was great the way he said it so deadpan. It articulated exactly how complex and well developed he was as an original thinker. The talk show host probably was expecting some inane badboy comment. This was at the height of the disco inferno and Peaches and Herb were seated beside Zappa as Guests. When Frank gave his answer to the host Herb said, yeah, I know where you are comin from brother, and Frank told him, you ain't my brother. I guess he had artistic differences with Herb who was dressed in somekind of super disco zootsuit. All of this is not verbatim and comes from memory, so no offence or slander is intended. If someone has a better recollection who sees this, please understand. I woulds love to have a vid clip of that show. It may be out there in the cybersource somewhere. Guitars that destroyed the world ! Yeah man, got that too.

This must burn the moonbats up, a Conservative Islamaphobe who appreciates music that most of them couldn't begin to assign key or signiture to.

Zappa gig list

@266 Geepers

Then he just doesn't get it. What Eason did was immoral and unethical. Just means this speaker is either ignorant or as
stupidly evil as Eason is. Maybe he'd better start watching his
mouth too.

@279 Rayra

My grandmother on the distaff side were of yeoman stock.
Too bad none of them still kicking around in England ain't got
no spine now. :(

Compared to CBS, CNN was a model of decency, but seriously WHAT A FUCKING SCUMBAG.

Eason Jordan --in the statement that has caused so much controversy-- was basically offering the services of an international news agency as an assymetrical warfare tool to jihadists by making that statement. He did it knowingly. And supposedly he's "dating" the widow of Daniel Pearl- who was a journalist who was actually killed by jihadists.

Eason Jordan directly and personally benefitted from the jihadi slime who sawed Pearls head off.

Here is Nik Gowing of the BBC, a buddy of Eason Jordan, 18 months ago :

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hi, John in London. You're up late!

Here's a humdinger--a poor widdle terrorist released from house arrest because he's depressed.

The New Criterion

"Democratic civilization," the philosopher Jean-François Revel once observed, "is the first in history to blame itself because another power is trying to destroy it."

I thought of Revel's comment when reading The Daily Telegraph's story about the the 35-year-old Algerian member of al Qaeda who had been been released from prison because he was depressed. Yes, you read that correctly: "G.," as the chap is identified--real names are changed to protect the guilty--"had been released on house arrest after suffering a mental breakdown in custody." Well, you know how these Algerian terrorists are: they don't like to remain cooped-up at home. It makes them nervous.

We don't know much about G., except that in October 2003 he was put in the pokey because the Court had concluded that he had "actively assisted terrorists who have links to al-Qa'eda."

So now the poor baby is depressed. So what? Being bonkers is part of what it means to be a terrorist. Osama (if he is still with us) is probably pretty depressed, too. I certainly hope so.

According to the police, G. violated house arrest by receiving unauthorized "visitors." (I wonder who? Did anyone check their headgear?) The Home Secretary wanted to send G. back to jail.

But the judge, a Mr. Justice Collins, ruled that the Crown had failed to prove "to the necessary standard" that G. had wrongly violated house arrest. G.'s solicitor likened the risk of bail being wrongly withdrawn to the "'sword of Damocles hanging over anyone's head,'" and said that it was the "'ultimate nightmare'" for G. "to be at the mercy of secret evidence that he was unable to disprove."

Well, my ultimate nightmare is the spectacle of convicted terrorists set free courtesy the suicidal machinations of liberal lawyers and conniving courts.

'it was the "'ultimate nightmare'" for G. "to be at the mercy of secret evidence that he was unable to disprove." '

Holy Fargin' Cow. You can't satirize this stuff.

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EJ would not have resigned--nor could he have--if it werent for the work of Barney Frank, liberal Dem and anti-war critic. I interviewed him for awhile--on the record--for a piece i wrote on 2/8. he confirmed everything that had been said, nor did he pull punches about what was said behind the scenes. gergen and dodd had to have it squeezed out of them. BF was legitimately offended by the remarks.

Rod #287; I hate to admit it, but Rep. Frank was actually honorable on this one. He deserves kudos for his role in this incident. Again, I can't believe I am saying that, but even losers like Frank desrve praise when he does good.