14 thoughts on “Stuff to Read”

  1. Lara Logan.
    Well, she asked for it, didn’t she?
    She was begging for it!
    If you read that Rosen guy (who’s farily liberal and usually NOT an asshole, but went WAY over into that camp with his comments), then said what he what he said about Logan wan’t funny or nice – but couldn’t stop there, and said that if they’d sexually attacked Anderson Copper, now THAT would have been funny.

    Mr. Rosen, I hope you never find yourself in either of the situations that happened to Cooper or Logan, but if you do, I hope your cracker-jack sense of humor lets you laugh at what’s happening to you if it does.
    Schmuck!

  2. And the ever-heinous Debbie Schlussel was quick to jump on her regular line of racism, noting how the assault [of Lara Logan] happened in a “country of savages,” because that never ever happens anywhere else, and it’s never committed by light-skinned people!

    Debbie, meet frat boys everywhere.

    Gulag– there’s an update to the Logan link that Rosen was forced to resign from NYU because of his ugly tweets. Too bad Debbie Schlobfest can’t be made to resign from the human species.

  3. Gingrich explained on ABC’s “This Week” that Obama was right to side with the freedom-loving protesters in Tahrir Square but should have done so privately

    How exactly does the most powerful and high-profile individual in the world send a message to thousands of protestors in Egypt and keep it “private”? What a dumbass.

  4. joan,
    Yeah, Rosen goes, but there’ll be no repurcussions, zip, zero, 0, zilch, for anyone on the rights.
    And, at least Rosen apologized for both comments, and pulled his tweet’s – too late, but at lest he did.
    I’ll take a forced resignation over nothing. And yet again, it’s the left that holds people accountable, while the right continually slathers layer upon layer of insane lies, and vicious comments, like frosting on a sugar addict’s dream cake.

  5. It’s the left that holds people accountable, while the right continually slathers layer upon layer of insane lies, and vicious comments….

    Amen to that. I don’t know Mr. Rosen, but his resignation statements indicate he is aware and ashamed that he tweeted some horrible things. Meanwhile we have examples like Sarah Palin, who keeps on tweeting horrible things day after blessed day, nary a clue.

    Newt Gingrich is a moron. Also.

  6. Regarding Madoff, I still contend that he only was prosecuted because he made the fatal error of cheating rich people. If he had confined his frauds to ripping off middle-class investors or pension funds, he’d still be on Wall Street earning fat bonuses, while his lobbyists would be bringing home the bacon (ie TARP bailouts, QE2 funds, etc).

  7. Just after I made my post, I found this (by the great Matt Taibbi:

    Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?
    http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-20110216?page=1

    …Nobody goes to jail. This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world’s wealth — and nobody went to jail. Nobody, that is, except Bernie Madoff, a flamboyant and pathological celebrity con artist, whose victims happened to be other rich and famous people…

  9. “Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?”

    Why aren’t Americans in the streets, like in Egypt, demanding change? Obama does his best– I voted for him; canvassed for him– but, the fact is “the System”– is too big for any one president to fix. The System has devalued our homes, sent our jobs to Chinese serfs, destroyed the dollar, redistributed our collective wealth to oil barons and CEO’s who get billions REGARDLESS of performance.

  10. Lara Logan was not at fault. My hat is off to the news outlets who refused to be shut out of the story in Egypt. BUT – wake up guys. Covering a revolution anywhere in the world is unsafe. Cover the story but have some security. It could be nothing more than a dozen Egyptian students paid to tag along behind the corespondent. Near as I can tell, these people are going out with almost nothing, expecting the credentials of a camera will keep them safe. I want the story – the truth – or as close to it as you can find – but be smart.

  11. NPR had a story on this yesterday. According to NPR, Lara logan had a crew with her and almost certainly a security team as well. I don’t have television, but from what I gather from public radio and blogs like this one, she was separated from her crew and security team in the confusion of the moment. This sort of thing happens even to combat veterans on occasion. Crowd dynamics are easier to judge looking down on the scene from a long perspective. In the midst there is often chaos.

    She was a professional doing a job that required commitment and courage, she should be respected as much as anyone else who risks their lives to do a risky but, necessary job.

    Of course, I will have to eat some of my words if CBS admits that there were no security elements in her crew.

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