Comments on: Journalist asks FBI director hard-hitting question: ‘So I can’t ask you to be my Facebook friend?’ http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:18:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: bluestatedon http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965848 bluestatedon Fri, 16 May 2008 20:28:14 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965848 "... Foundation awards for outstanding coverage in 2007 of the presidency and national defense." Their are actually three NPC separate awards President Cheney will be handing out: • "NPC Foundation Award for Outstanding Stenography" (last year's winner: David Broder) • "NPC Foundation Award for Superior Sycophancy" (last year's winner: William Kristol) • "NPC Foundation Award for Embarrasingly Servile Questioning" (new category; current favorite is Mike Allen, Politico) “… Foundation awards for outstanding coverage in 2007 of the presidency and national defense.”

Their are actually three NPC separate awards President Cheney will be handing out:

• “NPC Foundation Award for Outstanding Stenography”
(last year’s winner: David Broder)

• “NPC Foundation Award for Superior Sycophancy”
(last year’s winner: William Kristol)

• “NPC Foundation Award for Embarrasingly Servile Questioning” (new category; current favorite is Mike Allen, Politico)

]]> By: Leftside Annie http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965670 Leftside Annie Fri, 16 May 2008 19:44:43 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965670 'Scuse me, Ralph? Would you please pass me my "Unknown American" bag...? Thanks. ~ A ‘Scuse me, Ralph? Would you please pass me my “Unknown American” bag…?

Thanks.

~ A

]]> By: Wayne http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965638 Wayne Fri, 16 May 2008 19:34:27 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965638 <em>ralph the wonder llama Says: I really need to get me one o’ them “Troll Scorecards” they sell outside the stadium.</em> The way they change names, like they change sock(puppet)s, a scorecard wouldn't help much. I just assume all trolls are Mr. Pee, chances are I am right 80% of the time LOL ralph the wonder llama Says:
I really need to get me one o’ them “Troll Scorecards” they sell outside the stadium.

The way they change names, like they change sock(puppet)s, a scorecard wouldn’t help much.

I just assume all trolls are Mr. Pee, chances are I am right 80% of the time LOL

]]> By: Freedom Rebel http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965618 Freedom Rebel Fri, 16 May 2008 19:27:25 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965618 I went to the National Press Club website to find out who that "Journalist" ( I use that term very loosely) was. They didn't have anything. <em>But guess who they are going to have there on June 2nd? </em> Vice President Dick Cheney will address the National Press Club on Monday, June 2, during an <strong>annual journalism awards presentation </strong>luncheon for the Gerald R. Ford Foundation. <strong>Vice President Cheney will present Foundation awards for outstanding coverage in 2007 of the presidency and national defense</strong>. The Vice President, who served as President Ford's chief of staff, will be accompanied by Jack Ford, President Ford's son and chairman of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation. Cheney passing out awards for outstanding coverage of the presidency and national defense, <strong>are they kidding</strong>!!! I just lost all respect for the NPC, If that is the best that they can do. I went to the National Press Club website to find out who that “Journalist” ( I use that term very loosely) was. They didn’t have anything.

But guess who they are going to have there on June 2nd? Vice President Dick Cheney will address the National Press Club on Monday, June 2, during an annual journalism awards presentation luncheon for the Gerald R. Ford Foundation.
Vice President Cheney will present Foundation awards for outstanding coverage in 2007 of the presidency and national defense. The Vice President, who served as President Ford’s chief of staff, will be accompanied by Jack Ford, President Ford’s son and chairman of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation.

Cheney passing out awards for outstanding coverage of the presidency and national defense, are they kidding!!! I just lost all respect for the NPC, If that is the best that they can do.

]]> By: Zimzone http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965588 Zimzone Fri, 16 May 2008 19:19:01 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965588 Ralph, don't try to score with a Troll. STD, you know... ...on the other hand, they do come cheap, nowadays. Ralph, don’t try to score with a Troll. STD, you know…

…on the other hand, they do come cheap, nowadays.

]]> By: ralph the wonder llama http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965580 ralph the wonder llama Fri, 16 May 2008 19:15:19 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965580 I stand corrected, gum. I really need to get me one o' them "Troll Scorecards" they sell outside the stadium. I stand corrected, gum. I really need to get me one o’ them “Troll Scorecards” they sell outside the stadium.

]]> By: gummitch http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965574 gummitch Fri, 16 May 2008 19:13:54 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965574 <em>ralph the wonder llama Says: I gave Prytania the benefit of the doubt when she dropped in at the tail end of the Ellen Degeneres thread, but this post above proves that she’s simply a new troll name — my guess is Trajan in new outfit.</em> Not even new, Ralph. This name has been around before and not that long ago. Spelling is too good to be Trajan, though. ralph the wonder llama Says:

I gave Prytania the benefit of the doubt when she dropped in at the tail end of the Ellen Degeneres thread, but this post above proves that she’s simply a new troll name — my guess is Trajan in new outfit.

Not even new, Ralph. This name has been around before and not that long ago. Spelling is too good to be Trajan, though.

]]> By: ralph the wonder llama http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965568 ralph the wonder llama Fri, 16 May 2008 19:11:23 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965568 I gave Prytania the benefit of the doubt when she dropped in at the tail end of the Ellen Degeneres thread, but this post above proves that she's simply a new troll name -- my guess is Trajan in new outfit. I gave Prytania the benefit of the doubt when she dropped in at the tail end of the Ellen Degeneres thread, but this post above proves that she’s simply a new troll name — my guess is Trajan in new outfit.

]]> By: Wayne http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965566 Wayne Fri, 16 May 2008 19:10:50 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965566 <em>Zimzone Says: I’m wondering when the press is going to start asking McCan’t some serious questions. Like…</em> "When did you stop beating your current wife?" Zimzone Says:

I’m wondering when the press is going to start asking McCan’t some serious questions.
Like…

“When did you stop beating your current wife?”

]]> By: Max-1 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965562 Max-1 Fri, 16 May 2008 19:09:21 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965562 . Not Diamonds or Pearls...? . .

Not Diamonds or Pearls…?

.

]]> By: McWars http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965560 McWars Fri, 16 May 2008 19:08:37 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965560 Prytania -- <em>I’m wondering when the press is going to start asking Obama some serious questions. Like, “If you could have a discussion with the Iranian Predsident as you say you would like to, what would you say to him about the Iranian weapons that are reaching al-Qaeda in Iraq?</em> When Obama claims he's going to negotiate with a rogue leader, why do you think he's doing that? To plan an attack on the country he's leading? Because that's what the right seems to think. You take up a skill with words before a skill with weapons. That's the smart thing to do. As for Iran, the U.S. could have finished neutralizing Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, therefore limiting Al-Qaeda's expansion to other territories. But Georgie just had to invade Iraq and lure Bin Laden's cohorts onto the Iraqi people, didn't he? If the U.S. wasn't in Iraq, we wouldn't have to speculate about Iran. Prytania — I’m wondering when the press is going to start asking Obama some serious questions. Like, “If you could have a discussion with the Iranian Predsident as you say you would like to, what would you say to him about the Iranian weapons that are reaching al-Qaeda in Iraq?

When Obama claims he’s going to negotiate with a rogue leader, why do you think he’s doing that? To plan an attack on the country he’s leading? Because that’s what the right seems to think. You take up a skill with words before a skill with weapons. That’s the smart thing to do.

As for Iran, the U.S. could have finished neutralizing Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, therefore limiting Al-Qaeda’s expansion to other territories. But Georgie just had to invade Iraq and lure Bin Laden’s cohorts onto the Iraqi people, didn’t he? If the U.S. wasn’t in Iraq, we wouldn’t have to speculate about Iran.

]]> By: Tired Of Fighting http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965558 Tired Of Fighting Fri, 16 May 2008 19:07:55 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965558 I knew this was a joke as I saw the word "Journalist" RIP SGT Stephen R. Sherman C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER) KIA 3 Feb 2005 Mosul, Iraq I knew this was a joke as I saw the word “Journalist”

RIP
SGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq

]]> By: Wayne http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965556 Wayne Fri, 16 May 2008 19:07:29 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965556 <em>Prytania Says: I’m wondering when the press is going to start asking Obama some serious questions. Like, “If you could have a discussion with the Iranian Predsident as you say you would like to, what would you say to him about the Iranian weapons that are reaching al-Qaeda in Iraq?</em> You mean the weapons that were first claimed to come from Iran, then proven they did not come Iran under closer inspection. Prytania Says:
I’m wondering when the press is going to start asking Obama some serious questions. Like, “If you could have a discussion with the Iranian Predsident as you say you would like to, what would you say to him about the Iranian weapons that are reaching al-Qaeda in Iraq?

You mean the weapons that were first claimed to come from Iran, then proven they did not come Iran under closer inspection.

]]> By: Zimzone http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965552 Zimzone Fri, 16 May 2008 19:06:22 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965552 I'm wondering when the press is going to start asking McCan't some serious questions. Like... -You flip flopped 4 times on this, how many more can we expect? -Do you want to stay in office for 100 years, or just in Iraq? -Was the land deal you set up in AZ more lucrative for you, or the realtor? -Did you only crash 5 planes, or were their more? -When you dumped your disabled wife, did you take her social security check, too? -How many Vicadin a day is your wife down to now? -Do you change positions with your wife as often as you do on issues? I’m wondering when the press is going to start asking McCan’t some serious questions.
Like…
-You flip flopped 4 times on this, how many more can we expect?
-Do you want to stay in office for 100 years, or just in Iraq?
-Was the land deal you set up in AZ more lucrative for you, or the realtor?
-Did you only crash 5 planes, or were their more?
-When you dumped your disabled wife, did you take her social security check, too?
-How many Vicadin a day is your wife down to now?
-Do you change positions with your wife as often as you do on issues?

]]> By: Zimzone http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965538 Zimzone Fri, 16 May 2008 19:00:09 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965538 That's like asking Dana Perino if she still streetwalks. That’s like asking Dana Perino if she still streetwalks.

]]> By: McWars http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965528 McWars Fri, 16 May 2008 18:57:00 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965528 I still don't understand the obsession with these websites to the point where they seep into the workplace. Our democracy is slowly being ruined. Send that reporter back to school. I still don’t understand the obsession with these websites to the point where they seep into the workplace. Our democracy is slowly being ruined. Send that reporter back to school.

]]> By: McWars http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965520 McWars Fri, 16 May 2008 18:51:09 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965520 Get in the zone, mushbrain. We're in a crisis in this country bound to get worse without leadership with a spine. Be happy: Go shopping, log into MySpace (<em>A Place for Mushbrains</em>), or go to drinking parties. But don't read the constitution. The longer you hold off, the longer you'll support Republicans. Get in the zone, mushbrain. We’re in a crisis in this country bound to get worse without leadership with a spine.

Be happy: Go shopping, log into MySpace (A Place for Mushbrains), or go to drinking parties.

But don’t read the constitution. The longer you hold off, the longer you’ll support Republicans.

]]> By: bluestatedon http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965518 bluestatedon Fri, 16 May 2008 18:49:34 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965518 Jesus, I thought she was going to jump his bones right then and there. Is there any way of finding out who this inane nitwit "journalist" is? The whole world ought to know her name and who she works for. Whatever she's getting paid, it's far too much. She's more qualified to cover the society news for the local Podunk News-Courier. Jesus, I thought she was going to jump his bones right then and there. Is there any way of finding out who this inane nitwit “journalist” is? The whole world ought to know her name and who she works for. Whatever she’s getting paid, it’s far too much. She’s more qualified to cover the society news for the local Podunk News-Courier.

]]> By: tom http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965510 tom Fri, 16 May 2008 18:48:00 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965510 <em>Journalist asks FBI director hard-hitting question: ‘So I can’t ask you to be my Facebook friend?’</em> Just who was it who let Jeff Gannon in to the Press Club, anyway? Journalist asks FBI director hard-hitting question: ‘So I can’t ask you to be my Facebook friend?’

Just who was it who let Jeff Gannon in to the Press Club, anyway?

]]> By: ralph the wonder llama http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4965506 ralph the wonder llama Fri, 16 May 2008 18:44:47 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/journalist-asks-fbi-director-hard-hitting-question-so-i-cant-ask-you-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comment-4965506 I don't have a problem with journalists sharing a light-hearted moment with public officials. It only becomes a problem when that's ALL they do. I don’t have a problem with journalists sharing a light-hearted moment with public officials.

It only becomes a problem when that’s ALL they do.

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