Drudge report, conservative blogger, manipulate story -- dupe volinbham

#26
#26
If he wanted to get out of the closet he could but would have had to leave the whole damn thing. Technically locked up? No.

Is this thread ridiculous? Yes.
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#27
#27
Vol Mania 21 said:
so he wasn't held in there? i'll be damned i thought that he tried to come out and they told him to basically get back in the closet.
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it clearly wasn't a closet and he wasn't locked up. More like a work release program
 
#28
#28
LG accusing someone of having an agenda is rich. Very rich.
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#29
#29
milohimself said:
If he wanted to get out of the closet he could but would have had to leave the whole damn thing. Technically locked up? No.

Is this thread ridiculous? Yes.
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if the staff member told him to get back inside the second he left it how could he leave? he clearly wanted to get out otherwise he wouldn't have attempted to do so.
 
#31
#31
droski said:
the reporters own words:

They closed the door. I sat to wait, mistakenly thinking it would be only a few minutes. The door wasn’t locked, though every time I opened it and stepped out to see what was going on a staffer told me I couldn’t come out yet

Almost word for word what the first article said.
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That's completely out of context, though you of course realize that.
 
#34
#34
why apologize if nothing was inappropriate?

Biden spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander said in a statement Sunday that the decision to put Powers in the storage room was a "mistake" and that the reporter accepted her apology on Wednesday.
She said that reporters often gather in "hold rooms" when the Vice President makes appearances, but that "a hold room, however, should not be a storage room."
Powers also told Drudge that Ginsburg called him on Friday to apologize.
"He said he had no idea they'd put me in a closet and was very sorry," Powers said. "He said he was just following their lead and was extremely embarrassed by the whole thing."
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#35
#35
also seems to be some backtracking by the reporter

Powers said of his treatment: ‘It was frustrating and annoying that I was not given a chance to do my job fully and properly.
‘This was an extreme, and extremely inappropriate way of handling the press… it was essentially a rude and uncomfortable way to treat a reporter.’
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#36
#36
It depends on your definition of closet. Makes all the difference in the world.
 
#37
#37
does this look like a closet to you?
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#38
#38
I take back my earlier comment, this thread is clearly warranted as it perfectly displays LG's complete and utter lack of anything resembling intellectual honesty.

I bet if this reporter had been black and this episode occurred during the Bush administration, LG would have been apoplectic (a la Lawrence O'Donnell or Ed Schultz) in demanding a civil rights investigation.

Instead, hilarity merely ensues.
 
#40
#40
utvolpj said:
why apologize if nothing was inappropriate?
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Didn't say it wasn't inappropriate. Point was, it was wildly and intentionally exaggerated and overclaimed.


utvolpj said:
also seems to be some backtracking by the reporter
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He writes quite a bit about that. His setting the record straight has caused some to attack him, implying that he's an apologist.

But that's par for a conservative reporter/blogger. Step 1: Take someone's report and manipulate and take out of context to create false impressions. Step 2: When that someone points out that is not all what they said, claim they are part of the conspiracy.
 
#41
#41
lawgator1 said:
But that's par for a conservative reporter/blogger. Step 1: Take someone's report and manipulate and take out of context to create false impressions. Step 2: When that someone points out that is not all what they said, claim they are part of the conspiracy.
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The irony is simply stunning.
 
#42
#42
he was put in a storage room (happy?) and not allowed to do his job as a reporter by the group that wanted to promote an "unprecedented level of openness in Government."

yep, nothing to see here
 
#47
#47
lawgator1 said:
You just refuse to read or at least acknowledge the facts, don't you?

Unbelievable. I mean, its not as bad as what Breitbart did, but its basically on par. These conservative bloggers and reporters, and Durdge in particular, haveno shame in taking facts and twisting them to the point they are not recognizable in order to drum up some false outrage.

Pathetic.
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More or less your general M.O., is it not?
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#48
#48
lawgator1 said:
I think that it is important when a post is established to be so far from the truth, so blatantly manipulated to fit an agenda, that yes, the post/thread needs to be called out on it.
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If we followed this logic there would be a new thread created 95.7% of the time after you post. (Note: please allow for rounding errors.)
 
#50
#50
IPorange said:
None of these argued details change the story in any meaningful way.
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You think that a situation where a reporter is told he can't participate in a party/reception and must wait in a cramped space until the speeches begin, and then he can have an interview = "imprisoned" ?

Wow.
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