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bpjam (not verified) says:
Okay, let me get this right. Brian Ross is a brilliant 'investigative' journalist because?
On Mark Foley, he was the one to take the bait on the year old emails being peddled by C.R.E.W. (an AFL-CIO front group) about a gay GOP congressman diddling pages. Turns out there was no THERE there. The leak was timed for the 1006 election and Ross helped get the GOP out by putting three more congressmen on the chopping block for 'failing to prevent' Foley from doing these kids. yeah, Brilliant! Did he report on the Cantwell aide who wanted to do a hairless 14 yr old boy? Hmmm. probably wasn't leaked to him.
Ross also accepted the leak from one of the CIA employees who was trying to stop Bush from fighting Al Qaeda by leaking the story about CIA prisons in the EU. Ross, who had nothing to follow up with by the way, did was kind of 'reporting' there? He published a leak in which a gov employee committed a felony. I'm sure Zawahiri reads Ross regularly now.
So, Brian Ross is a go to source for people who leak or plant things to attack - how do I put this delicately.......Republicans. Apparently, its broad public knowledge in NY and DC that Ross will print anything regardless of ethics, truth or propriety. If you want to attack Bush, the GOP or anything unliberal Ross will run with it. Even when the majority of the NY/DC media won't run lead stories about a gay congressman, Ross is your guy.
I'd love to see the list of stories that Ross DIDN'T run with which have been leaked to him. I think it would be incredibly illustrative of who he is and who the 'special interests' believe he is. Betcha there are no leaks from anybody on the Right to Ross.
Okay, let me get this right. Brian Ross is a brilliant 'investigative' journalist because?
On Mark Foley, he was the one to take the bait on the year old emails being peddled by C.R.E.W. (an AFL-CIO front group) about a gay GOP congressman diddling pages. Turns out there was no THERE there. The leak was timed for the 1006 election and Ross helped get the GOP out by putting three more congressmen on the chopping block for 'failing to prevent' Foley from doing these kids. yeah, Brilliant! Did he report on the Cantwell aide who wanted to do a hairless 14 yr old boy? Hmmm. probably wasn't leaked to him.
Ross also accepted the leak from one of the CIA employees who was trying to stop Bush from fighting Al Qaeda by leaking the story about CIA prisons in the EU. Ross, who had nothing to follow up with by the way, did was kind of 'reporting' there? He published a leak in which a gov employee committed a felony. I'm sure Zawahiri reads Ross regularly now.
So, Brian Ross is a go to source for people who leak or plant things to attack - how do I put this delicately.......Republicans. Apparently, its broad public knowledge in NY and DC that Ross will print anything regardless of ethics, truth or propriety. If you want to attack Bush, the GOP or anything unliberal Ross will run with it. Even when the majority of the NY/DC media won't run lead stories about a gay congressman, Ross is your guy.
I'd love to see the list of stories that Ross DIDN'T run with which have been leaked to him. I think it would be incredibly illustrative of who he is and who the 'special interests' believe he is. Betcha there are no leaks from anybody on the Right to Ross.