Apparently the U.S. media has chosen this week to once again reassert itself as the epitome of broadcast propaganda; Pravda must have been giving them a run for the ruses.
One of the examples today comes from the nascent Jake Tapper of CNN who rallied the proverbial troops around a claim that Donald Trump “brought up Vince Foster” while campaigning for President.
After a two minute diatribe on his framework Tapper begins the panel discussion by saying: “how do you respond to Donald Trump bringing up Vince Foster?”
Except there’s a problem; you know, the pesky truth,… Donald Trump didn’t bring up Vince Foster, a reporter did.
As outlined in the Washington Post:
[…] When asked in an interview last week about the Foster case, Trump dealt with it as he has with many edgy topics — raising doubts about the official version of events even as he says he does not plan to talk about it on the campaign trail.
He called theories of possible foul play “very serious” and the circumstances of Foster’s death “very fishy.”
“He had intimate knowledge of what was going on,” Trump said, speaking of Foster’s relationship with the Clintons at the time. “He knew everything that was going on, and then all of a sudden he committed suicide.”
He added, “I don’t bring [Foster’s death] up because I don’t know enough to really discuss it. I will say there are people who continue to bring it up because they think it was absolutely a murder. I don’t do that because I don’t think it’s fair.” (link)
But the truth of origination with a reporter bringing up the issue didn’t stop Jake Tapper from attributing the entire conversation as originating with Donald Trump.
Presidential candidate Donald Trump mentioned a debunked conspiracy theory about the death of Vince Foster in an interview with The Washington Post. CNN’s Jake Tapper reports.
See how that works?
Reporter: What do you think about the mysterious nature surrounding Area 51?
Trump: I don’t know enough about Area 51 to discuss it, but people have theories.
(Moments Later)
Jake Tapper: Donald Trump espouses wild conspiracy theory exists around Area 51.
And this same Jake Tapper wonders why politicians don’t answer the questions from reporters.
Go figure.
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Gary Aldrich’s book ‘Unlimited Access : An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House ” was a serious eye opener from 1998. So much more is known now. These people were and are a piece of work. Once they are gone, the next generation will get some truths that need to be exposed. Chelsea will not be able to stop the flow.
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GET HIM SUNDANCE.
AIRHORN
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He also said Foster “suffered from depression” yet there was never any diagnosis from a qualified medical professional. That was what was said only AFTER the alleged suicide (i.e., “the narrative”).
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Notice once you quoted him, he no longer responded. You would think Mr. Tapper would correct the record if he was wrwrwrwrrrrrrong
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Fun Fact: Jake Tapper was Press Secretary for Congresswoman Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky. She is Chelsea Clinton’s mother in law.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/04/jake-tapper-cnns-future-or-its-past-105903_Page2.html#.V0T0Ocj3anM
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Interesting. The relationships of these so called reporters should be disclosed at the beginning and end of each broadcast. That would be a government regulation that would be worthwhile.
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Had no idea and just disgusted. Another democrat party/media hack.
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thanks,sundance, for calling out tapper…a really arrogant and stupid jerk.
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Going two years (or more) back…
Accomplished a very deliberate survey of Jake Tapper (with my brother): reading columns, intel analysis of his reporting, commentary, twitter. Read what I could find from his bio. Looked at what “industry and peers were saying about him.
Tapper is well aware of communist, and now CIA tactics, for propaganda and for GASLIGHTING. His work is “schoolhouse example after example of gas-lighting. Very obvious gas lighting in his written work. I found no “parallel” for level of “industry” praise for Tapper, his work, his “superb questioning”: it was all a set up. I’m sure. It was an internal press corps maneuver to place Tapper in a position of “asking tough questions” when he was ACTUALLY soft balling the WH and blocking for obama. East coast ivy league liberal “cred” did nothing to lower my radar.
ABC (?) to CNN move was a “play” called by his side in the “info-war”.
I called him on it via twitter — citing articles and examples. Blocked within the hour. Appeared “over-sensitive” to me. As he should be.
Malpractice would come to mind if journalism had any standards for truth or any professional qualifications beyond ratings and a “tour working in the WH press corps”
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Try reading this book. A little dry but a good book on media bias. https://goo.gl/2LY2qB
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I expect dishonestly from the Clinton News Network.
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“…a run for the ruses.”
Ba-da Bing! Sundance.
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media parlor tricks and games of light and shadow won’t work in this election….we,the people are tuned in,well informed and wide awake….it’s our country and we’re taking it back!!!
Trump can’t become our next Commander and Chief fast enuff!!!!
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this is a lengthy post that i have not vetted. it was a post made over at ZH by a commenter aka colonel klink. this is a copy/paste of his comment. it is lengthy.
Let me save everyone some time.
Here is the latest body
count that we have. All of these people have been connected with the Clintons
in some form or another. We have not included any deaths that could not be
verified or connected to the Clinton scandals.
Susan Coleman:
Rumors were circulating in Arkansas of an affair with Bill Clinton. She was
found dead with a gunshot wound to the head at 7 1/2 months pregnant. Death was
an apparent suicide.
Larry Guerrin:
Was killed in February 1987 while investigating the INSLAW case.
Kevin Ives & Don Henry: Initial cause of death was reported to be the result of
falling asleep on a railroad track in Arkansas on August 23, 1987. This ruling
was reported by the State medical examiner Fahmy Malak. Later it was determined
that Kevin died from a crushed skull prior to being placed on the tracks. Don
had been stabbed in the back.
Keith Coney:
Keith had information on the Ives/Henry deaths. Died in a motorcycle accident
in July 1988 with unconfirmed reports of a high speed car chase.
Keith McKaskle:
McKaskle has information on the Ives/Henry deaths. He was stabbed to death in
November 1988.
Gregory Collins: Greg
had information on the Ives/Henry deaths. He died from a gunshot wound to the
face in January 1989.
Jeff Rhodes:
He had information on the deaths of Ives, Henry & McKaskle. His burned body
was found in a trash dump in April 1989. He died of a gunshot wound to the head
and there was some body mutilation, leading to the probably speculation that he
was tortured prior to being killed.
James Milam:
Milam had information on the Ives & Henry deaths. He was decapitated. The
state Medical examiner, Fahmy Malak, ruled death due to natural causes.
Richard Winters: Winters
was a suspect in the deaths of Ives & Henry. He was killed in a
“robbery” in July 1989 which was subsequently proven to be a setup.
Jordan Kettleson:
Kettleson had information on the Ives & Henry deaths. He was found shot to
death in the front seat of his pickup in June 1990.
Alan Standorf: An
employee of the NSA in electronic intelligence. Standorf was a source of
information for Danny Casalaro who was investigating INSLAW, BCCI, etc.
Standorf’s body was found in the backseat of a car at Washington National
Airport on Jan 31, 1991.
Dennis Eisman:
An attorney with information on INSLAW. Eisman was found shot to death on April
5, 1991.
Danny Casalaro: Danny
was a free-lance reporter and writer who was investigating the “October
Surprise”, INSLAW and BCCI. Danny was found dead in a bathtub in a
Sheraton Hotel room in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Danny was staying at the
hotel while keeping appointments in the DC area pertinent to his investigation.
He was found with his wrists slashed. both of his wrists were cut 10 times. All
of his research materials were missing and have never been recovered.
Victor Raiser:
The National Finance Co-Chair for “Clinton for President.” He died in
a airplane crash on July 30, 1992.
R. Montgomery Raiser:
Also involved in the Clinton presidential campaign. He died in the same plane
crash as Victor.
Paul Tully:
Tulley was on the Democratic National Committee. He was found dead of unknown
causes in his hotel room on September 24, 1992. No autopsy was ever allowed.
Ian Spiro:
Spiro had supporting documentation for grand jury proceedings on the INSLAW
case. His wife and 3 children were found murdered on November 1, 1992 in their
home. They all died of gunshot wounds to the head. Ian’s body was found several
days later in a parked car in the Borego Desert. Cause of death? The ingestion
of cyanide.
Paula Gober:
A Clinton speech writer. She died in a car accident on December 9, 1992 with no
known witnesses.
Jim Wilhite:
Wilhite was an associate of Mack McClarty’s former firm. Wilhite died in a
skiing accident on December 21, 1992. He also had extensive ties to Clinton
with whom he visited by telephone just hours before his death.
Steve Willis, Robert Williams, Todd McKeahan & Conway LeBleu: Died Feburary 28, 1993 by
gunfire at Waco. All four were examined by a pathologist and died from
identical wounds to the left temple. All four had been body guards for Bill
Clinton, three while campaigning for President and when he was Governor of
Arkansas.They also were the ONLY 4 BATF agents killed at Waco.
Sgt. Brian Haney, Sgt. Tim Sabel, Maj. William Barkley, Capt. Scott
Reynolds: Died:
May 19, 1993 – All four men died when their helicopter crashed in the woods
near Quantico, Va. – Reporters were barred from the site, and the head of the
fire department responding to the crash described it by saying, “Security
was tight,” with “lots of Marines with guns.” A videotape made
by a firefighter was seized by the Marines. All four men had escorted Clinton
on his flight to the carrier Roosevelt shortly before their deaths.
John Crawford:
An attorney with information on INSLAW. He died from a heart attack in Tacoma
in April of 1993.
John Wilson:
Found dead from an apparent hanging suicide on May 18, 1993. He was a former
Washington DC council member and claimed to have info on Whitewater.
Paul Wilcher: A
lawyer who was investigating drug running out of Mena, Arkansas and who also
sought to expose the “October Surprise”, BCCI and INSLAW. He was
found in his Washington DC apartment dead of unknown causes on June 22, 1993.
Vincent Foster:
A White House deputy counsel and long-time personal friend of Bill and
Hillary’s. Found on July 20, 1993, dead of a gunshot wound to the mouth — a
death ruled suicide
Jon Parnell Walker:
An investigator for the RTC who was looking into the linkage between the Whitewater
and Madison S&L bankruptcy. Walker “fell” from the top of the
Lincoln Towers Building.
Stanley Heard & Steven Dickson: They were members of the Clinton
health care advisory committee. They died in a plane crash on September 10,
1993.
Jerry Luther Parks:
Parks was the Chief of Security for Clinton’s national campaign headquarters in
Little Rock. Gunned down in his car on September 26, 1993 near the intersection
of Chenal Parkway and Highway 10 west of Little Rock. Parks was shot through
the rear window of his car. The assailant then pulled around to the driver’s
side of Park’s car and shot him three more times with a 9mm pistol. His family
reported that shortly before his death, they were being followed by unknown
persons, and their home had been broken into (despite a top quality alarm
system). Parks had been compiling a dossier on Clinton’s illicit activities.
The dossier was stolen.
Ed Willey:
A Clinton fundraiser. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on November 30,
1993. His death came the same day his wife, Kathleen, was sexually assaulted in
the White House by Bill Clinton.
Gandy Baugh:
Baugh was Lasater’s attorney and committed suicide on January 8, 1994. Baugh’s
partner committed suicide exactly one month later on February 8, 1994.
Herschell Friday: A
member of the presidential campaign finance committee. He died in an airplane
explosion on March 1, 1994.
Ronald Rogers:
Rogers died on March 3, 1994 just prior to releasing sensitive information to a
London newspaper. Cause of death? Undetermined.
Kathy Furguson:
A 38 year old hospital worker whose ex-husband is a co- defendant in the Paula
Jones sexual harassment law suit. She had information supporting Paula Jone’s
allegations. She died of an apparent suicide on May 11, 1994 from a gunshot
wound to the head.
Bill Shelton:
Shelton was an Arkansas police officer and was found dead as an apparent
suicide on kathy Ferguson’s grave (Kathy was his girl friend), on June 12,
1994. This “suicide” was the result of a gunshot wound to the back of
the head.
Stanley Huggins:
Huggins, 46, was a principal in a Memphis law firm which headed a 1987
investigation into the loan practices of Madison Guaranty S&L. Stanley died
in Delaware in July 1994 — reported cause of death was viral pneumonia.
Paul Olson:
A Federal witness in investigations to drug money corruption in Chicago
politics, Paul had just finished 2 days of FBI interviews when his plane ride
home crashed, killing Paul and 130 others on Sept 8 1994. The Sept. 15, 1994
Tempe Tribune newspaper reported that the FBI suspected that a bomb had brought
down the airplane.
Calvin Walraven:
24 year old Walraven was a key witness against Jocelyn Elder’s son’s drug case.
Walraven was found dead in his apartment with a gunshot wound to the head. Tim
Hover, a Little Rock police spokesman says no foul play is suspected.
Alan G. Whicher:
Oversaw Clinton’s Secret Service detail. In October 1994 Whicher was
transferred to the Secret Service field office in the Murrah Building in
Oklahoma City. Whatever warning was given to the BATF agents in that building
did not reach Alan Whicher, who died in the bomb blast of April 19th 1995.
Duane Garrett:
Died July 26, 1995-A lawyer and a talk show host for KGO-AM in San Fransisco,
Duane was the campaign finance chairman for Diane Fienstien’s run for the
senate, and was a friend and fundraiser for Al Gore. Garrett was under
investigation for defrauding investors in Garrett’s failed sports memorabilia
venture. There was talk of a deal to evade prosecution. On July 26th, Garrett
canceled an afternoon meeting with his lawyer because he had to meet some
people at the San Fransisco airport. Three hours later he was found floating in
the bay under the Golden Gate Bridge.
Ron Brown:.
The Commerce Secretary died on April 3, 1996, in an Air Force jet
carrying Brown and 34 others, including 14 business executives on a trade
mission to Croatia, crashed into a mountainside. The Air Force, in a 22-volume
report issued in June of 1996, confirmed its initial judgment that the crash
resulted from pilot errors and faulty navigation equipment At the time of
Brown’s death, Independent Counsel Daniel Pearson was seeking to determine
whether Brown had engaged in several sham financial transactions with longtime
business partner Nolanda Hill shortly before he became secretary of commerce.
Charles Meissner:
died: UNK – Following Ron Brown’s death, John Huang was placed on a Commerce
Department contract that allowed him to retain his security clearance
by Charles Meissner. Shortly thereafter, Meissner died in the crash of a small
plane. He was an Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International
Economic Policy.
William Colby:
Retired CIA director was found dead on May 6,1996 after his wife reported him
missing on April 27,1996. Apparently, Colby decided to go on a impromptu
canoeing excursion and never returned. Colby who had just started writing for
Strategic Investment newsletter, worried many in the intelligent community.
Colby’s past history of divulging CIA secrets in the past were well known.
Strategic Investor had covered the Vince Foster suicide and had hired
handwriting experts to review Foster’s suicide note.
Admiral Jeremy Boorda:
Died on May 16,1996 after he went home for lunch and decided to shoot himself
in the chest (twice) rather than be interviewed by Newsweek magazine that
afternoon.
Lance Herndon:
Herndon a 41 year old computer specialist and a prominent entrepreneur
who received a presidential appointment in 1995 died August 10, 1996 under
suspicious circumstances. He appeared to have died from a blow to the
head. Police said no weapons were found at his mansion, adding that Mr.
Herndon had not been shot or stabbed and there was no evidence of forced entry
or theft.
Neil Moody:
Died -August 25, 1996 Following Vincent Foster’s murder, Lisa Foster married
James Moody, a judge in Arkansas, on Jan 1, 1996. Near the time Susan McDougal
first went to jail for contempt, Judge Moor’s son, Neil died in a car crash.
There were other reports that Neil Moody had discovered something very
unsettling among his stepmother’s private papers and was threatening to go
public with it just prior to the beginning of the Democratic National
Convention. He was alleged to have been talking to Bob Woodward of the
Washington Post about a blockbuster story. Witnesses said they saw Neil Moody
sitting in his car arguing with another person just prior to His car suddenly
speeding off out of control and hitting a brick wall.
Barbara Wise:
Wise a 14-year Commerce Department employee found dead and partially naked in
her office following a long weekend. She worked in the same section as John
Huang. Officially, she is said to have died of natural causes.
Doug Adams: Died
January 7, 1997- A lawyer in Arkansas who got involved trying to help the
people who were being swindled out of their life savings. Adams was found in
his vehicle with a gunshot wound to his head in a Springfield Mo. hospital
parking lot.
Mary C. Mahoney:
25, murdered at the Georgetown Starbuck’s coffee bar over the 4th of July ’97
weekend. She was a former White House intern who worked with John Huang.
Apparently she knew Monica Lewinsky and her sexual encounters with Bill
Clinton. it has been said that Lewinsky told Linda Tripp that she did not want
to end up like Mahoney.
Ronald Miller:
Suddenly took ill on October 3rd,1997 and steadily worsened until his death 9
days later. (This pattern fits Ricin poisoning.) Owing to the strangeness of
the illness, doctors at the Integris Baptist Medical Center referred the matter
to the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner’s Office. The Oklahoma State Medical
Examiner’s Office promptly ran tests on samples of Ron Miller’s blood, but has
refused to release the results or even to confirm that the tests were ever
completed.
Sandy Hume:
On Sunday, February 22nd, 1998, Sandy Hume, the 28 year old son of journalist
Britt Hume, was reportedly found dead in his Arlington, Virginia home. Aside
from the statement that this was an “apparent” suicide, there remains
in place a total media blackout on this story, possibly out of concern that the
actual facts will not withstand public scrutiny. Worked for Hill magazine,
about Congress for Congress.
Jim McDougal:
Bill and Hillary Clinton friend, banker, and political ally, sent to prison
for eighteen felony convictions. A key whitewater witness, dies of a
heart attack on March, 8 1998. As of this writing allegations that he was given
an injection of the diuretic lasix has not been denied or confirmed.Died on
March 8, 1998
Johnny Lawhon: 29,
died March 29, 1998- The Arkansas transmission specialist who discovered a pile
of Whitewater documents in the trunk of an abandoned car on his property and
turned them over to Starr, was killed in a car wreck two weeks after the
McDougal death.. Details of the “accident” have been sketchy — even
from the local Little Rock newspaper.
Charles Wilbourne Miller: 63, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head on
November 17, 1998 in a shallow pit about 300 yards from his ranch house
near Little Rock. Police found a .410 gauge shotgun near Miller’s body and a
Ruger .357-caliber revolver submerged in water. Investigators concluded the
Ruger was the weapon used by Miller to kill himself. Yet, two rounds in the
handgun’s cylinder had been spent.
He had long served as executive vice president and member of the board of
directors for a company called Alltel and was deeply involved in his own
software engineering company until the day he died. Alltel is the successor to
Jackson Stephens’ Systematics, the company that provided the software for the
White House’s “Big Brother” data base system and that was behind the administration’s
plan to develop the secret computer “Clipper” chip to bug every
phone, fax and email transmission in America.
Carlos Ghigliotti: 42, was found dead in his home just
outside of Washington D.C. on April 28, 2000. There was no sign of a break-in
or struggle at the firm of Infrared Technology where the badly decomposed
body of Ghigliotti was found. Ghigliotti had not been seen for several weeks, commercial
cleaning companies may have been contacted in order for the
offices to be cleaned.
Ghigliotti, a thermal
imaging analyst hired by the House Government Reform Committee to review tape
of the siege, said he determined the FBI fired shots on April 19, 1993.
Tony Moser: 41,
was killed as he crossed a street in Pine Bluff, Ark on on June 10, 2000.
Killed 10 days after being named a columnist for the Democrat-Gazette newspaper
and two days after penning a stinging indictment of political corruption in
Little Rock.
Police have concluded that
no charges will be filed against the unnamed driver of a 1995 Chevrolet pickup,
which hit Moser as he was walking alone in the middle of unlit Rhinehart Road
about 10:10 p.m
Police say they have ruled
out foul play and will file no charges against the driver because he was not
intoxicated and there was no sign of excessive speed.
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I’d like to see Trump bring up how the corrupt media covered up the real reasons Bill Clinton was going to be impeached by sliming our culture with the scuzzy Monica Lewinsky.
I’d like to see him bring up Sonny Bono.
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93? When was Whitewater boiling over JT? When was Vince Foster suicided?
JT sure has no bias here… /s
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Smackdown! Kick his ass Sundance.
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Just watched Charlie Rose interview tonight with the Wapo reporter Robert Costa discussing the state of Trump’s campaign. (Costa does say HE brought up the Foster matter to Trump BTW). Best part was hearing them lament the fact that Trump is a media genius who counterpunches relentlessly…against his political opponents & THEM. Some pretty long faces amongst the ol’ lsm minions nowadays. They don’t like their information monopoly being destroyed & there is nothing they can do about it. Good times!
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