Editor’s Note: This popular post was first published on here December 1 here. Today is the day that WikiLeaks is going to get a taste of its own medicine. Thanks to an early participant in WikiLeaks‘ operations dating back to 2006 and the beginning of 2007, who became so disgruntled with its leader’s outsized ego, lies [...]
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Joseph Klein | December 5, 2010 | Posted in
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In my post yesterday, I quoted from internal WikiLeaks e-mails pointing towards the real possibility of finding that George Soros was involved in helping to get WikiLeaks off the ground - perhaps by providing seed money to WikiLeaks or providing use of his name and connections to raise money, for example. And even the George Soros-funded Media Matters does [...]
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Joseph Klein | December 2, 2010 | Posted in
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Today is the day that WikiLeaks is going to get a taste of its own medicine. Thanks to an early participant in WikiLeaks‘ operations dating back to 2006 and the beginning of 2007, who became so disgruntled with its leader’s outsized ego, lies and deceitful methods that he quit, we have a treasure trove of internal [...]
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Joseph Klein | December 1, 2010 | Posted in
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Right on cue, the New York Times has proven the point I made in yesterday’s post entitled “The Obama Administration Benefits From WikiLeaks.” I argued that the obliging press, led by the New York Times, is spinning selected cables released by WikiLeaks to bolster the Obama administration’s narrative that it has saved the world from [...]
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Joseph Klein | November 30, 2010 | Posted in
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The Huffington Post is running an interesting article today entitled “The WikiLeaks Release: Blame the State Department, Not the World’s Media,” by a writer for the Guardian and the London Sunday Times, Simon Jenkins. He pointed out that the material leaked by WikiLeaks, and published by the New York Times and other newspapers, not only lacked top-secret [...]
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Joseph Klein | November 29, 2010 | Posted in
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The President of the United States issues an annual Thanksgiving Day Proclamation. In keeping with the Center of American Progress’ suggestion that President Obama use his executive powers to circumvent Congress on a number of key issues that have stalled in Congress, why not also use the Thanksgiving Day Proclamation in a more progressive way? [...]
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Joseph Klein | November 25, 2010 | Posted in
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In this week’s New Yorker Magazine “Comment” column, Hendrik Hertzberg writes about Glenn Beck’s George Soros shows. Hertzberg, a left-wing columnist and former speech-writer for Jimmy Carter, accuses Beck of “turning facts into lies.” Facts are facts, Mr. Hertzberg. Soros can no longer hide his skeletons. Beck quoted Soros – in context – to prove Soros’ hostility [...]
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Joseph Klein | November 23, 2010 | Posted in
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James P. Rubin, former assistant secretary of state for public affairs during the Clinton administration, wrote an op-ed article on November 22nd in the New York Times entitled “Farewell to the Age of the Treaty.” Rubin complains that it is too difficult to get treaties ratified under our constitutional process, which requires approval by two-thirds of [...]
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Joseph Klein | November 22, 2010 | Posted in
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This popular post was first published on November 16, here. Glenn Beck caused quite a stir last week with his three part series on George Soros. Even Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, got into the act and condemned Beck for what Foxman called his “over the top” remarks. What set Foxman and [...]
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Joseph Klein | November 20, 2010 | Posted in
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You thought that bed bugs were sprouting all over the place. They’re nothing compared to the speech censor bugs who are out in full force. In fact, at least one U.S. Senator can’t seem to get the censor bug out of his system. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is so fed up that he wants Fox News and MSNBC off the air. [...]
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Joseph Klein | November 19, 2010 | Posted in
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