TIME Journalist: I Can't Wait To Write About The Drone Strike That Kills Julian Assange

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TIME Journalist: I Can't Wait To Write About The Drone Strike That Kills Julian Assange
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Time magazine senior national correspondent Michael Grunwald sent out a controversial tweet Saturday evening that advocated for a drone missile strike against Wikileaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange.

Here's the tweet, which has been deleted:




The ethically and legally questionable statement immediately received a flurry of responses. Grunwald later deleted the tweet and apologized.

http://www.businessinsider.com/grunwald-tweet-about-drone-strike-on-assange-2013-8?

[MrSlayer]

1. If that's how you really feel, own it.

Don't retract and apologize. He's within his rights to feel that way.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Assange won't be droned.

He looks like "one of us" and is well known.

IIRC, in Nazi Germany, until 1942 or so, one could be a dissident as long as they were outspoken and public about it - the closet dissidents would get disappeared, but the known ones were generally left alone because disappearing them would be too obvious.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. It will live in the intertubes, and that is that

own it...

[PowerToThePeople]

4. I see an unemployment line in his future.

[zbdent]

6. only if he doesn't own up to it. Bragging about "political correctness" should

get him a spot on Faux, if not the rest of the "liberally-biased media" ...

[hrmjustin]

5. That is a horrible thing to say. I am not a fan of Assange but he is a human being and I

do not wish him harm.

[Vinnie From Indy]

7. This guy appears to be a neocon asshole!

He is just another example of the rot and decay in our modern mainstream media.

[Caretha]

8. The new fuck you & up your butt

nastiness brought to you by the USA typical American hyped up on friggin Wheaties or some such sick nonsense.

Drone this & Drone that.

What sick minds, and what a sick society. We all own it.

[last1standing]

9. This is the Ann Coulterization of the MSM.

It is now acceptable to support murdering those with opposing political viewpoints.

Seriously, if Time doesn't fire this guy then they have no business being in business.

[Demo_Chris]

10. Well said. nt

[fujiyama]

11. His opinion is sadly, probably in the mainstream

The NSA threads have been revealing. Many even on this site have the same jingoistic, cowardly mentality as Grunwald. There are three people this government fears - Greenwald, Snowden, and Assange... And these three scare them a hell of a lot more than any terrorist boogeyman they've had in the last 12 years.

Grunwald is stating the prevailing voice of his class - the mainstream media chattering class. The sick and incestuous DC cocktail circuit crowd. The kind that laughs when presidents joke about fake WMDs and droning innocents.

[Marr]

12. Your "liberal media" at work, ladies and gentlemen.

People who advance in the corporate media aren't necessarily the most talented-- they're just people who naturally think in the... "correct" way.

[Luminous Animal]

14. Kick.

[MrMickeysMom]

15. I don't know who this idiot is...

But, that tweet should live on forever...

[Egnever]

16. I suspect there are many here that

are surprised he hasn't had a chance to write that story yet.

[davidpdx]

17. As much as I dislike Assange, the tweet was in bad taste

It was pretty stupid on his part to say that the US would conduct a drone strike on the Ecuadorian Embassy in the UK.