SCARBOROUGH: I hear it on the Hill, I’m sure you hear it on the Hill all the time, it’s not reported but so many Republicans tell me this is a guy that is not the hardest worker in the world. After 5 o’clock, 6 o’clock at night, he is disengaged at best. You can see him around town. He does not have, let’s say, the work hours of Newt Gingrich. … Every Republican I talk to says John Boehner by 5 or 6 o’clock at night, you can see him at bars. He is not a hard worker.

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very nice Hal

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To tell the truth, this is the essence of his argument, he thinks liberals are not good honest Americans.

I got more the message that he wants chaos to reign, expect you can't have heroin

Lara Logan, You Suck



Posted: June 28, 2010 4:45 P.M. EDT | By Matt Taibbi



Lara Logan, come on down! You're the next guest on Hysterical Backstabbing Jealous Hackfest 2010!



I thought I'd seen everything when I read David Brooks saying out loud in a New York Times column that reporters should sit on damaging comments to save their sources from their own idiocy. But now we get CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan slamming our own Michael Hastings on CNN's "Reliable Sources" program, agreeing that the Rolling Stone reporter violated an "unspoken agreement" that journalists are not supposed to "embarrass [the troops] by reporting insults and banter."



Anyone who wants to know why network television news hasn't mattered since the seventies just needs to check out this appearance by Logan. Here's CBS's chief foreign correspondent saying out loud on TV that when the man running a war that's killing thousands of young men and women every year steps on his own dick in front of a journalist, that journalist is supposed to eat the story so as not to embarrass the flag. And the part that really gets me is Logan bitching about how Hastings was dishonest to use human warmth and charm to build up enough of a rapport with his sources that they felt comfortable running their mouths off in front of him. According to Logan, that's sneaky — and journalists aren't supposed to be sneaky:



"What I find is the most telling thing about what Michael Hastings said in your interview is that he talked about his manner as pretending to build an illusion of trust and, you know, he's laid out there what his game is… That is exactly the kind of damaging type of attitude that makes it difficult for reporters who are genuine about what they do, who don't — I don't go around in my personal life pretending to be one thing and then being something else. I mean, I find it egregious that anyone would do that in their professional life."



When I first heard her say that, I thought to myself, "That has to be a joke. It's sarcasm, right?" But then I went back and replayed the clip – no sarcasm! She meant it! If I'm hearing Logan correctly, what Hastings is supposed to have done in that situation is interrupt these drunken assholes and say, "Excuse me, fellas, I know we're all having fun and all, but you're saying things that may not be in your best interest! As a reporter, it is my duty to inform you that you may end up looking like insubordinate douche bags in front of two million Rolling Stone readers if you don't shut your mouths this very instant!" I mean, where did Logan go to journalism school – the Burson-Marsteller agency?

It is a good thing that Woodward and Bernstein did not have to listen to Lara Logan.



The job of the media is not to protect sources, but to get the truth out to the public. This way, the public can make informed decisions. If the top general in a war has disdain for the civilians above him, that is news and can impact the success of that war.



I think that Logan was too worried about fitting into polite company than serving the public good. Thomas Jefferson wrote that a free country needs an informed citizenry. I am not sure if Logan is familiar with President Jefferson's remarks.



So, Miss Logan, I am proud to present to you the weekly lap dog reward. Now, role over so that someone from the military industrial complex can rub your belly and give you a treat.

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Wow. Midnight Oil. That's a blast from the past. But a perfect song to describe the shit going on right now. Oh.... sorry..... the "ballet" of oil cleanup.

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Morning all! Ugh end of month, end of fiscal year is today!



Isn't one of the members of Midnight Oil a minister of the current Australian government?