DOJ: California man charged with threatening to kill Boston Globe employees

[loyalyolayal]

I am not from Cali.

Fake news.

 

[nac386]

Both sides should just reign it in. Just today some Dem congressman or candidate went into a tangent on how Bin Laden and Trump have so much in common. There are people on news shows saying Trump is a traitor

Both sides need to chill

Cuomo just called ICE a bunch of thugs. If somebody puts a hit on ICE, like we've seen law enforcement randomly targeted in the past, it's not going to look good on Cuomo.

People need to turn down the volume. Everybody is getting a bit crazy.

 

[Pessimystic]

Remember when Obama declared FoxNews illegitimate?
I do.

Attacking the news media is a time-honored White House tactic but to an unusual degree, the Obama administration has narrowed its sights to one specific organization, the Fox News Channel, calling it, in essence, part of the political opposition.

“We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent,” said Anita Dunn, the White House communications director, in a telephone interview on Sunday. “As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.”

In 2009, the White House's position on Fox News was that it was "an opponent," at "war(!)" with the White House. And that they were not, in fact, a legitimate news organization.

They were to be treated as fake news. It was White House policy.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/0...d-fox-news-is-a-legitimate-news-organization/

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/weekinreview/18davidcarr.html

https://townhall.com/columnists/cal...ia-forget-how-obama-treated-fox-news-n2270406

On Oct. 22, 2009, Dag Vega, the White House director of broadcast media, wrote to a Treasury official that “we’d prefer if you skip Fox please.” Deputy White House communications director Jennifer Psaki wrote the official, Jenni LeCompte, and other colleagues about a report by Fox anchor Bret Baier on the network’s exclusion that “brett baier just did a stupid piece on it -- but he is a lunatic.”

The next day, Psaki wrote: “I am putting some dead fish in the fox cubby – just cause.” And deputy press secretary Josh Earnest wrote LeCompte that day: “We’ve demonstrated our willingness and ability to exclude Fox News from significant interviews…”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-targeted-fox-news

Obama’s Justice Department accessed the personal email of a Fox News reporter and surveilled the reporter’s parents and colleagues. They seized the home, work and mobile phone records of journalists at the Associated Press.

Risen, who fought the administration to protect his sources, got so deep in his own legal battle with Obama that he selected a reading list for prison before the government finally backed off.

White House officials subverted the press in a number of ways while touting themselves as the most transparent in history.

Obama routinely banned news photographers from official events. He went months between press conferences and used social media to circumvent reporters.

First lady Michelle Obama took policy trips overseas with no press on her airplane. The White House scrubbed public visitor logs of names it didn’t want in the news.

The Obama administration posted the worst record in history for fulfilling requests for public records under the Freedom of Information Act.

https://variety.com/2018/politics/news/trump-press-war-obama-administration-reporters-1202782264/

Once again, spare us the faux outrage bullshit.

 

[WTF2008]

A California man has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Boston Globeemployees after the newspaper coordinated a series of editorialsdenouncing President Trump’s attacks on the media, the Justice Department said Thursday. Robert D. Chain, 68, of Encino, California, was charged with making threatening communications in interstate commerce. He allegedly made threatening calls to the Globe about 14 times between August 10 and 22. On Aug. 16, the day hundreds of newspapers published editorials promoting the freedom of the press in coordination with the Globe, Chain called to say he would shoot Globe employees in the head “later today, at 4 o’clock,” prosecutors said. According to the DOJ, Chain referred to the Globe as “the enemy of the people,” echoing Trump’s rhetoric.




Showing up armed at a pizzeria was bad enough but now his supporters are being arrested for threatening to kill members of the press while using the language he uses. Only question is when will he be pardoned?

Lol. Do you really want to compare political violence on a left vs right basis?
Probably not.

Possibly dementia. Possibly too old to give a fuck any more.
Definitely not a rational person.

 

[SBJJ]

Of course not, that would have implied he was including Fox in his tirades. He merely meant everyone besides Fox.

BTW, please reply to my PM. Thanks.

I don’t care what he meant. People saying he said THE PRESS are wrong. He did not say that. Like NAC said, look at Cuomo. Both sides are doing this. Trump needs to pull this stupid shit back and so do others

 

[WTF2008]

Cuomo just called ICE a bunch of thugs. If somebody puts a hit on ICE, like we've seen law enforcement randomly targeted in the past, it's not going to look good on Cuomo.

People need to turn down the volume. Everybody is getting a bit crazy.

That Dallas one was nuts. That guy really knew what he was doing.

He's a piece of shit for doing what he did, but he was really good at it.

 

[computer fogie]

...Just today some Dem congressman or candidate went into a tangent on how Bin Laden and Trump have so much in common. There are people on news shows saying Trump is a traitor..

Those are reports of other people's words, and opinion pieces, not factual news reports about Trump's words and actions, which is what he has gone crazy over. I don't call Hannity a news reporter either, as stupid and influential as he is. Trump can't stand anything that doesn't paint him in a favorable light, period.

 

[all caps]

"The Fake News hates me saying that they are the Enemy of the People only because they know it’s TRUE. I am providing a great service by explaining this to the American People. They purposely cause great division & distrust. They can also cause War! They are very dangerous & sick!"

Hate to say it but, this is a great and true quote.

 

[SBJJ]

Those are reports of other people's words, and opinion pieces, not factual news reports about Trump's words and actions, which is what he has gone crazy over. I don't call Hannity a news reporter either, as stupid and influential as he is. Trump can't stand anything that doesn't paint him in a favorable light, period.

No politician likes that. Trump does get crucified more than others. The media is incredibly biased. Still does not mean Trump should say what he says at times

Both sides need to chill. If you don’t agree with me on that, no biggie. We just disagree

 

[WTF2008]

" But saying they are liars or propagandists - and not that they have an understandable systemic slant in favor of longstanding policies and parties because of their business relationship with them - is not only silly: it's dangerous."

What you describe is lying and propaganda. Why is the truth "dangerous"? If you were honest you'd say "when it doesn't fit with my opinion or beliefs".

I'm sure you will say that this study is crap and the long time director of NPR is full of shit, but I'll post it anyway:

"Conclusion
Although we expected to find that most media lean left, we were astounded by the degree. A norm among journalists is to present “both sides of the issue.” Consequently, while we expected members of Congress to cite primarily think tanks that are on the same side of the ideological spectrum as they are, we expected journalists to practice a much more balanced citation practice, even if the journalist’s own ideology opposed the think tanks that he or she is sometimes citing. This was not always the case. Most of the mainstream media outlets that we examined (ie all those besides Drudge Report and Fox News’ Special Report) were closer to the average Democrat in Congress than they were to the median member of the House."
"The mainstream media does not have a liberal bias. . . . ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, the New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek and the rest -- at least try to be fair." --Al Franken. (2003, xx) Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.
The main conclusion of our paper is that our results simply reject such claims."

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/GrosecloseMilyo.pdf

https://nypost.com/2017/10/21/the-other-half-of-america-that-the-liberal-media-doesnt-cover/

I like to try and find the same story on
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/
And
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/
Just to see how differently people interpret things and twist them to their own views.

 

[lilelvis]

No matter which side a reporter or newspaper leans, a fact is still a fact. A quote is still a quote. Mainstream news outlets can be taken to court when they intentionally report something that isn't true (and they're held accountable when they screw up).

So it doesn't matter if the right moved super far to the right and the newspapers didn't follow them. If the think tanks that the papers use have work that can be proven wrong, then prove it wrong instead of complaining about the stupid metric of "fair and balanced"

Spinning stories based on your ideology is for editorializing and it’s fine as long as you are honest about what you’re doing.
Anyone that can’t detect the spin, selective coverage and loaded language in the media is a drooling moron.

 

[AndroidRage]

The guy should be locked up for a very very long time.

However he didn't actually try to carry it out, say like the guy that shot up the the softball shooting.

If this is Trumps doing then that was Obama's.

When did Obama call any American the enemy of the American people? Oh, never. Nice try though incel.

 

[lifelessheap]

Yep, Trumps attacks on the press are totally harmless.

Obama's attack on law enforcement got a whole lot of police killed.

 

[AndroidRage]

Why the fuck would he? They burried and brushed past every scandal and wrongdoing and cupped his balls for 8 years. What is your suggestion, exactly? That Trump shouldn't call them on blatant bias and half-truths because there might be a nutjob in a population of 350 million?

You're a fucking moron. They tried inventing scandal after scandal while Fox news kept churning out propaganda against the guy. Claimed he wasn't a US citizen. That was a lie. Claimed he was a Muslim, lie. I mean it goes on and fucking on. Obama was so clean they had to make shit up. Where Trump has scandals popping up regularly and lies daily.

 

[WTF2008]

You're a fucking moron. They tried inventing scandal after scandal while Fox news kept churning out propaganda against the guy. Claimed he wasn't a US citizen. That was a lie. Claimed he was a Muslim, lie. I mean it goes on and fucking on. Obama was so clean they had to make shit up. Where Trump has scandals popping up regularly and lies daily.

Right. Just a conspiracy theory.

 

[Quequeg]

Obama's attack on law enforcement got a whole lot of police killed.

Just shut up!

 

[nostradumbass]

You're a fucking moron. They tried inventing scandal after scandal while Fox news kept churning out propaganda against the guy. Claimed he wasn't a US citizen. That was a lie. Claimed he was a Muslim, lie. I mean it goes on and fucking on. Obama was so clean they had to make shit up. Where Trump has scandals popping up regularly and lies daily.

Oh yeah, fast and furious, using the IRS to target opponents, Benghazi, spying on reporters' families. Squeaky clean. How's that dick taste, you fucking hack?

 

[AndroidRage]

Oh yeah, fast and furious, using the IRS to target opponents, Benghazi, spying on reporters' families. Squeaky clean. How's that dick taste, you fucking hack?

I don't know cock sucker, how does dick taste? You just spouted off a bunch of Alex Jones CT bullshit.

 

[lifelessheap]

Just shut up!

It is true. Obama threw gas on race relations to set them on fire, and for good measure he shit all over our police officers and riled up people to the point of cops getting shot.

 

[nostradumbass]

I don't know cock sucker, how does dick taste? You just spouted off a bunch of Alex Jones CT bullshit.

Go home, you're drunk.