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erronis's JournalFormer Daily Caller Editor Reveals He Was Forced to Publish Oleg Deripaska
https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/08/26/former-daily-caller-editor-reveals-he-was-forced-to-publish-oleg-deripaska/Back in 2018, I was the opinion editor for The Daily Caller. I had worked for the website for about five years as a journalist and editor. I really believed in what we were doing. I believed in what founders Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel said they were building. (More on that later.)
In early March 2018, Deripaska submitted an opinion piece to The Daily Caller. He didnt submit it directly to me or through the Callers conventional submissions process. Presumably, villainous Russian billionaires are above such hoi polloi procedures. Instead, Daily Caller publisher Patel contacted me directly one day saying he had received Deripaskas op-ed. He wanted to know how I felt about it.
I hated it. Anyone with a passing knowledge of European politics would know who Deripaska is and what he represents. I had been in the U.S. foreign service for a bit, so, of course, I knew.
More importantly, Deripaskas op-ed itself wasand remainsan extraordinary exercise in audacious Russian propaganda.
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n the case of the 2018 Deripaska op-ed, which I myself published and placed despite my own doubts and qualms, The Daily Caller was the plaything of a Russian billionaire working directly with Russian spies who used conservative media to spout completely false and fabulous conspiracy theories.
Tucker Carlson. A known Russian asset. And groomed to be a star in the New GOP.
Via MW: Place Your Bets: What's Trump's October Surprise?
https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/08/22/place-your-bets-whats-trumps-october-surprise/... List of past surprises ...
First three of many:
conjures Nikki Haley replacing Pence in early October.
What's your favorite POS that the orange turd and friends will pull?
California GOP Consultant Rues 'Big Mistake' That Led to Family's COVID Infections
Source: Kaiser Health News
SACRAMENTO The tweet Richard Costigan posted July 23 was bluntly honest: We tried our best to limit exposure to #COVID19 but we slipped up somewhere.
Costigan tweeted while waiting anxiously in the parking lot of a hospital outside Sacramento. The veteran Republican political consultant had just dropped his wife, Gloria, off at the emergency room. He wasnt allowed to go in with her.
But they didnt wear masks, he said, and family members went in and out of the house to grab drinks and use the restroom. We thought wed done everything right, and we screwed up, Costigan said in a July 29 phone interview. We made a big mistake.
Now seven of the 10 family members who attended that backyard gathering are sick. Emma and Andrew dont have any symptoms but havent been tested. Exactly who introduced COVID-19 to the group is unclear. No one showed signs of sickness at the time. The first person to become sick was Glorias sister, then her niece then her mom.
Read more: https://khn.org/news/california-gop-consultant-rues-big-mistake-that-led-to-familys-covid-infections/
I have some respect for a (r)epuglicon that can admit some blame, some personal responsibility. Rare.