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rcdl
09/03/09

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Maybe next press conference Obama will finally call on Pareene.
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dkissam
09/03/09

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$50 says this was all the ginger bear's idea.
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lil red
09/02/09

In reply to How Gawker Launched a State Department Investigation
Good one Gawker...major fail for Huffington huh?!

Incidentally, there are more private contractors than troops in Afghanistan.
[www.npr.org]
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raincoaster
09/02/09

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"Sexually confused frat boys" ARE the US presence abroad; since when has this been news to anyone? Oh right, the news has finally hit the US.
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Niko Bellic
09/02/09

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Let's hope the next time CIA turns up some intel on a known terrorist group looking to bomb Manhattan they provide some nasty gay erotica to go with that, because otherwise no one will launch any investigation into the matter.
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Steverino Begins
09/02/09

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Hmm, were these photos available anywhere else on the internet before Gawker posted? Because in a way that's to these frat soldiers' credit. To me, the trashiest part of the photo shoot was that they then posted them online and just didn't care who the hell saw them. If it turns out that they were somewhat responsible--totally trashy and tacky, but somewhat responsible, kept the photos to themselves--that changes the situation here a bit, no?
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09/02/09

@Steverino Begins:

It never ceases to amaze me what people will post online. Especially on their facebook pages. I wouldn't be suprised if these pictures were on facebook.
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m4ximusprim3
09/02/09

@Steverino Begins: No, I'm not convinced it does - anytime someone in the public employ drinks vodka out of the ass of another public employee and takes pictures of it, I don't care where they intend the pictures to end up.

It doesn't matter what you intend- when you're on the job on the public dollar, we expect you to have some modicum of decorum. Which does not include the content of said photos, unless your role model is a gay Chris Cornell.
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Steverino Begins
09/02/09

@Party Pooper: If the photos were on Facebook then the boys screwed themselves (figuratively after doing it literally). Or were these just photographs lying around that POGO just found? Highly unlikely, I suppose.

I really don't understand Facebook party photos and photo tagging and such. People do stupid shit and then are so excited to put it online and tag each other. Does not compute.
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thursdaynext27
09/02/09

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3. We called POGO. They are lovely people. Could we see the pictures?

4. Yes! They e-mailed us the pictures.

5. They were gross, so we put them on the internet.

6. Mayhem. Pointless media reflection like this.

7. Televised Senate committee hearing to investigate ArmorGroup for these activities, complete with pictures, videos and distinguished members of the Senate asking about these alternative means of serving potato chips and vodka.
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BlinkyMcChuck
09/02/09

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That guy in #2 is totally going to get pinkeye.
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BlinkyMcChuck
09/02/09

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Nothing quite breaks through the clutter on your screen like watching someone pour a vodka shot down someone's crack.
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naugahydeinplainsight
09/02/09

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"I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures."
-- Boss Tweed

True then. True now.
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Foster Kamer
09/02/09

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...a popular blog website....

That comes from the world wide internet? Anyway. I'm glad Mediaite's being balls out about their association with MSNBC via Abrams; boldfaced jokes like that (also see: Fox News' "fair and balanced" tagline) are revolutionizing the art of bullshit one proto-euphemism at a time. High bars: being set.
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MBM
09/02/09

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1. They e-mailed us the pictures.
2. They were gross, so we put them on the internet.
3. Profit!

Finally!
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PaisleyPajamas
09/02/09

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"...fraternity like behavior, but really that's an insult to fraternities across this nation."

Oh, hon, you've not been around any frat boys in the last 20 years.
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FormerEnglishMajor
09/02/09

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Amazing that investigative journalists, as well as eager j-schoolers, are ripping out their hair figuring out what to do when no one is hiring, when it took merely a phone call and an email to get a story that immediately zoomed to the highest levels of government.

Grade A work, Gawker. Less navel-gazing, more proaction please for the rest.
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Mike Byhoff
09/02/09

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3. We called POGO. They are lovely people. Could we see the pictures?

4. Yes! They e-mailed us the pictures.

5. They were gross, so we put them on the internet.

6. ????

7. Profit.
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