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    11/10/09

    In reply to How ABC News' Brian Ross Cooked His 'Hasan Contacted Al Qaeda' Scoop
    Good work, Mr. Cook. There are some in this thread and in other threads who are criticizing you for devoting so much effort to painting Nidal Hassan as something other than a terrorist. I, for one, haven't come to this conclusion. You certainly aren't engaging in that kind of supposed moralizing here. You are simply calling out a well-known journalist who regularly appears on a nationally-televised nightly news program for a misleading, poorly-sourced, and potentially inflammatory report. It's received widespread attention and has already been misappropriated by those who would like use this incident as evidence for a broader Islamist conspiracy. It's unlikely that Ross will retract the story or even deign to provide any clarification. If the mainstream media refuses to enforce the necessary journalistic accountability, then at least we have lowly bloggers like you to point out the inconsistencies. #nidalmalikhasan
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    11/10/09

    In reply to How ABC News' Brian Ross Cooked His 'Hasan Contacted Al Qaeda' Scoop
    ABC News has been a muted Fox doppelganger for a while now. Ross is just proof of this. #nidalmalikhasan
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    Image of HandsomeBwonderful HandsomeBwonderful
    11/10/09

    In reply to How ABC News' Brian Ross Cooked His 'Hasan Contacted Al Qaeda' Scoop
    Your nitwitted nit-pickery is awesome. The guy shot and killed over a dozen people. He did it in the name of Islam. He reached out to a radical cleric in Yemen. He's part of the storm on the horizon. Cry to Keith Olbermann, maybe you can get on MSNBC. #nidalmalikhasan
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    11/10/09

    @HandsomeBwonderful: Hey thanks for calling me awesome! "He reached out to a radical cleric in Yemen" is actually an accurate statement. Congratulations--you're a better reporter than Brian Ross. #nidalmalikhasan
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    11/10/09

    @John Cook: thanks for unstarring me. You weild the power! Awesome. ly petty. #nidalmalikhasan
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    11/10/09

    @HandsomeBwonderful: I figure starred commenters should actually be readers of the site, and if you read the site, you'd know that myself and many other Gawker writers have repeatedly criticized and mocked Keith Olbermann and that Gawker has been repeatedly attacked by him. #nidalmalikhasan
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    11/13/09

    @HandsomeBwonderful: Accuracy is important. Misinformation and misleading is just wrong. Remember when Judith Miller of the NYT reported that she had multiple persons reporting that they had found WMDs. Over 100,000 deaths later, and there are no WMDs. Words are important - they are tools to mislead in Brian Ross' hands.

    Plus, if that is your only way to define a terrorist, then we are ALL terrorists. You are an assumed Christian Terrorist. Didn't you sneer at the Muslims?

    There is a clear definition of "terrorism"; please don't try to redefine words so that they meet your small view of the world.
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    11/10/09

    In reply to How ABC News' Brian Ross Cooked His 'Hasan Contacted Al Qaeda' Scoop
    and what you knew is nothing new. another reason to ignore network "news". #nidalmalikhasan
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    11/10/09

    In reply to How ABC News' Brian Ross Cooked His 'Hasan Contacted Al Qaeda' Scoop
    Liar liar liar liar. #nidalmalikhasan
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    11/10/09

    In reply to How ABC News' Brian Ross Cooked His 'Hasan Contacted Al Qaeda' Scoop
    Who knew ABC had a Glenn Beck? Now the world does. Sad. #nidalmalikhasan
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    11/10/09

    @Cynner: He's not a Glenn Beck, he's just a shitty reporter. He's aching to break a big story, and will make one up if he has to. #nidalmalikhasan
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    11/10/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Yes, Glenn Beck is not a shitty reporter, just a shitty human being. #nidalmalikhasan
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    11/10/09

    @Ack: Precisely. #nidalmalikhasan
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    11/10/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Or is he just like "most men" and stretching the truth just a little? :) #nidalmalikhasan
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    11/10/09

    @Cynner: What? That comment makes no sense whatsoever. #nidalmalikhasan
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    11/10/09

    In reply to How ABC News' Brian Ross Cooked His 'Hasan Contacted Al Qaeda' Scoop
    I would be fired if I ever did any of this. And I don't work for anything approaching ABC News. #nidalmalikhasan
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    11/10/09

    @eatsshootsleaves: This is the network that employed John Stossel for decades. Quality reporting is not what they're known for. #nidalmalikhasan
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    11/10/09

    In reply to How ABC News' Brian Ross Cooked His 'Hasan Contacted Al Qaeda' Scoop
    With the timely passing of Robert Novak, I crown you, Brian Ross, the new Douchebag of Liberty! #nidalmalikhasan
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    11/10/09

    In reply to How ABC News' Brian Ross Cooked His 'Hasan Contacted Al Qaeda' Scoop
    Dammmm. #nidalmalikhasan
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    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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