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One of Fournier's job options: McCain
Before Ron Fournier returned to The Associated Press in March 2007, the veteran political reporter had another professional suitor: John McCains presidential campaign.
In October 2006, the McCain team approached Fournier about joining the fledgling operation, according to a source with knowledge of the talks. In the months that followed, said a source, Fournier spoke about the job possibility with members of McCains inner circle, including political aides Mark Salter, John Weaver and Rick Davis.
Salter, who remains a top McCain adviser, said in an e-mail to Politico that Fournier was considered for a senior advisory role in communications.
He did us the courtesy of considering the offer before politely declining it, Salter said.
He added that Fournier was an attractive target because of his knowledge about the political process, not because of his ideological or partisan leanings. Salter says he still does not know what, if any, those are.
Fournier has taken lumps in the left-leaning blogosphere in recent weeks, following the disclosure of a friendly e-mail exchange with Karl Rove from 2004. This was followed by an analysis of his work by Media Matters, a watchdog group that critiques news coverage from a liberal perspective. The group alleged that the influential Washington bureau chief has revealed a pro-McCain bias.
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=70AFE0F1-3048-5C12-001A56872008C572
still_one
(92,492 posts)blm
(113,129 posts)Fournier has been a Bushie for many years.
Jeb is his 'new' assignment and he was put at National Journal to target moderate voters for Jeb.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)blm
(113,129 posts)Mainly because he has been doing it from publications considered to be non biased. He finds a way to describe any action by Dems as sinister while finding ways to take sinister actions by Bushies and cast them as benign.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)Disgusting Bushbot, he was (and is).
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)Also, Media Matters for America is one of the best, if not the BEST, source for news in the United States. We get fed propaganda day in, day out, but MMfA separates the wheat from the chaff each and every time. Naysayers call MMfA "a liberal blog" but in all truth, based on their reporting and catching the subtle pieces of propaganda woven into news, MMfA is the premier watchdog of U.S. news propaganda that we're fed on a daily basis from all U.S. media, in print, broadcast, cable, and radio airwaves.
Cha
(297,935 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)He looks like the guy who forecloses on granny.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)This shit is disgusting.
They can watch their hero's hold a press conference here: http://benghazi.house.gov/
blm
(113,129 posts)through their teeth about Benghazi since it happened.
Why should anyone watch his presser?
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)The presser isn't about Benghazi.
"Watch press conference with Chairman Gowdy and Members of the Select Committee on Secretary Clinton Emails"
This is where the committee on Benghazi has gone. I thought this was well know at this point.
blm
(113,129 posts)Gowdy is being full of shit about everything - and he knows it.
I am not impressed with your urging to spread Mr FullOfCrap.
mylye2222
(2,992 posts)blm
(113,129 posts)who think he's their warrior god. He never met a talking point from Moonie News he didn't repeat.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)He has plenty of people drooling.
blm
(113,129 posts).
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)It is also clear you didn't know "everything" as you claim. Your reply to me is clear proof of that. I find that when people claim to know everything about something or someone, that they actually know very little. I am also not the one spreading his crap. It is all of those drooling over the right winger and the "email scandal" who are propping him up. It could be no more clear you weren't aware of "everything."
blm
(113,129 posts).
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)This place makes me scratch my head at times.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)horrible people who dare to have different opinions?
Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)From day one around here, or so I thought.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)or right-winger false flag operatives?
Do you have a schedule I could print out? Thanks.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)...backed by the biggest donors, and invented the concept of following right-wingers' lead.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)Your post indicates a lack of critical thinking skill.
It's much easier to be spoon-fed what to think, isn't it?
jeff47
(26,549 posts)And there is no history of this poster attacking other DUers for holding differing opinions.
And the post is entirely about journalism, which is why the post title ends with "DU's newest hero"
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)Red baiting, are we, seems illiberal.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)The Russian word only has one M. The term also predates communism, though mostly as "police captain" as opposed to a party official.
In any case, you make a lot of posts that attempt to limit the allowable opinions on DU. I'd suggest we would be better off actually discussing these differences instead of tossing overboard people who do not agree with you.
You might find out interesting things. Like apparently Clinton's email system was actually horribly insecure. They never replaced the factory default encryption key. So anyone could decrypt everything going to or from her email.
Also, there's a typosquatter at clintonmail.com (No "e" in front of "mail" . No information available about who this is, but the domain was registered not long after the real one. You can't typosquat a .gov address, because only the US government can give those out.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Marr
(20,317 posts)jeff47
(26,549 posts)Now, the guy is a right-wing hack. And he left out the important detail that the regulations he claims Clinton violated did not exist until she left office.
But hosting your own email as SoS is a really, really bad idea. Doubly so if you're as much of a scandal target as Clinton.
Marr
(20,317 posts)That's the part that still knocks me out, too. I mean, this is a no-brainer. Even if we put laws and rules completely aside, it just looks awful and suspicious.
How could Hillary Clinton, a person who has had a front row seat for a whole series of scandals, both real and manufactured, a person whom the whole world knows will be running for President in one year against a party that lives and breathes manufactured scandals, possibly do something so stupid?
Even if her defenders are 100% correct and she was not trying to hide information from the public/future investigative bodies, the action still speaks of either deep arrogance or utter incompetence.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)At least based on the security of her server.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-04/clinton-s-e-mail-system-built-for-privacy-though-not-security
They left the "factory default" encryption key in place. Anyone who wanted to read everything to or from her server had an almost-open door.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)Doesn't mean I have to give them cyber blow jobs either.
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)Hekate
(90,978 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)so then that person is labeled as the "hero" of their perceived enemies?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)DemocratSinceBirth