No biggie, right? As long as the more important story comes out.
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-23-10 07:32 PM
Original message
So, CNN "journalist" Atika Rupert tried to turn the document release into a smear of Assange.
If you haven't already, go see the YouTube video of this "interview" and leave a comment.
For people who can't stream, instead of asking him about the WikiLeak release, she asked him only about himself, about a rumor she got from an ex employee and about the investigation in Sweden. Julian warns her and finally, ends the interview.
Good for him. There he is, trying to get information out and instead of covering the story, Rupert goes right for the rumors and smears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyPIc8ZmZbM
And, here is CNN's feedback form:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?47
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9375470To me, it's not a smear if it's true.
Chan790 (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-23-10 07:42 PM
Response to Original message
2. Sorry, "Sweden" is part of his story.
He can't hide from it and no journalist who wants to be taken seriously as a journalist is going to avoid it or soft-foot about it. You see an attack on Assange, I see a journalist doing their job...and behavior and body-language from Assange that furthers my suspicion that he's guilty of the allegations.
He doesn't get to set the agenda anymore than any other newsmaker walking into an interview...gotcha is the name of the game. It's not about what he wants to talk about, it's about the news. After all the griping here about the media failing to do its' job, nobody has the right to complain about a member of the media doing their job.
for Ms. Rupert...it's good to know investigative journalism and aggressively pursuing the actual news story isn't dead.
Something tells me Charlie Chan isn't going to be getting a lot of DUmp Valentines come February.
mike_c (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-23-10 07:45 PM
Response to Reply #2
4. -1 for right wing talking points....
"Smear the messenger" isn't part of any "actual news story" I'm interested in. Not in the least. What Wikileaks is doing is monumental and important. Julian Assange's personal life? Not so much.
Also sprach der Bug****er. Sexual assault is no big deal.
Chan790 (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-23-10 07:54 PM
Response to Reply #4
11. LOL.
I know you've got to bend over backwards to defend the guy, but it doesn't actually require you to stick your head up your own ass or Julian Assange's. Sexual assault allegations are not an assertably-private part of anybody's personal life. Sorry, you just failed on that one.
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-23-10 07:46 PM
Response to Reply #2
5. Baloney.
Another pithy and profound remark from ELamborghini. Has this woman
ever said anything intelligent in her entire life?
Chan790 (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-23-10 08:03 PM
Response to Reply #5
12. Then you and mike_c and mix...
Edited on Sat Oct-23-10 08:04 PM by Chan790
have no right to ever ask or expect anybody to ambush-question any member of the Bush administration about the war in Iraq or 9/11 or any other subject but the ones they want to talk about.
I'm not going to play that game...unlike Assange I actually believe in revelation of the truth. Assange should answer the questions, same as evil Dick and the boy-king. Or he should concede he's got an agenda too. If lying and obfuscation are wrong (and I think they are), then they're wrong for everybody.
Assange doesn't get a pass because he's some sort of "hero".
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-23-10 08:04 PM
Response to Reply #12
13. Thanks for kicking my thread.
Chan790 (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-23-10 08:12 PM
Response to Reply #13
14. No problem on that...
I'd say on logic points, I'm owning you though.
Nobody yet has even attempted to justify the double-standards intrinsic in defending Assange over actual liberal ideals (like defending the rights of women against unwanted sexual advances and acts...which is what he is accused of, lest you forget) or even the very ideals (transparency of motives and relentless pursuit of the truth) Julian Assange advocates.
If you're seriously expecting any of that, you've got to know by now you're in the wrong place.
Oh, and truthfully, "owning" EMaserati isn't that great a task, is it?
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-23-10 08:17 PM
Response to Reply #14
15. See above. n/t
Erudition practically flows from EKoenigsegg like a wellspring. You tell 'em, Mizz Thang!
Chan790 (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-23-10 08:23 PM
Response to Reply #15
16. Don't care.
Edited on Sat Oct-23-10 08:23 PM by Chan790
Still winning. Continued inability to rebut me makes you look like you can't. I'll gladly keep kicking that.
Further proof that DUmmies will climb into bed with any slime, forgive any transgression, make common cause with anyone, even sworn enemies of their own country, to score their political points. Sick wastes.
