Politico: True Colors Flying

[Stinky The Clown]

I have long maintained they are simply a kinder sounding, gentler sounding, better looking version of Fox News. Indeed, it would not surprise me to see Fox turn left if the money were better. Politico on the other hand is all right wing all the time.

But they've been quiet about it. Appearing generally even handed.

But a little gild fell off the lily today with this dickhead, Jonathan Martin.



He decided it was his job to get in the president's face and challenge him (rather quite rudely, I thought) on some arcane issue.

Go here are read and watch:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17831.html

This organization has reached the top with NO VISIBLE MEANS OF SUPPORT and after not having paid ONE FUCKING CENT in dues. They are, simply, right wing funded and a right wing front.

President Obama would be wise to simply deny them access now and just get it over with. The country KNOWS Fox is a cartoon. Not so with Politico, who work Oh So Hard to appear credible.

THEY

ARE

NOT

Note to self: Tell this story as long and loud as it takes to make sure everyone hears it.

[RelativelyJones]

1. Politico and RealClearPolitics

RCP publish 2 crappy right-wing spews for every article written by a lib, virtually day-in, day-out.

[catzies]

2. I've wondered WTF they are and HTF did they ascend so quickly?

From obscurity to prominence so quickly even Jeff Gannon would blush! They were put into place when they were to be in place when Bush left office. So who planted them? Scaife? Murdoch? Another evil player to be named later?

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Albritton (TV Guide money)

Very right wing.

As in Sciafe-esque

[SoCalDem]

15. They used affable, clean-cut shills, and wormed their way onto MSM

just as they were looking for "filler", and finally accepting "teh bloggers"..

The name "Politico" sounded perfect..and of course they CLAIMED to be unbiased, which was probably true at the time...they did not like ANY of the candidates much..right or left..

[stillcool]

3. They've done a great job of bait and switch...

they start out being perceived as somewhat credible, build up an audience, and then insert one story here and there that sky-rockets on the net, creating a false-hood into concrete reality. Mission accomplished. Once it's disproved, it's forgotten, until the next time.

[nc4bo]

6. Follow the money with Politico and no one should be shocked.

Politico = The Allbritton Family = Riggs Bank.

Which Allbrittons? These ----> http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=joe_l._allbritton

Father: Joseph L. Allbritton, the Chairman of the Board, was inducted into the Washington Business Hall of Fame.
Son: Robert L. Allbritton, Chief executive and chairman of Riggs National Corp.

Joe L. Allbritton was a participant or observer in the following events:
February 25, 2005: Riggs Bank Officials Pay $9 Million in Reparations for Victims of Pinochet; Bank Laundered Money for Dictator Riggs Bank and two of its executives, Joe L. Allbritton, and his son, Robert, agree to pay a total of $9 million to victims of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet for the bank’s alleged role in laundering $1.6 million from Pinochet’s bank account in London to the Riggs branch in Washington in 1999. Joe and Robert Allbritton will pay $1 million while the bank will pay the remaining $8 million. The suit was brought against the bank in a Spanish court by Madrid prosecutor Baltasar Garzon. In Spain, anyone can be tried for genocide, torture, or other human rights abuses that are committed against Spanish citizens. In exchange for the payment, the Spanish court has agreed to drop criminal charges against current and former directors and officers of Riggs.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15462-2005Mar7.html

Riggs Bank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riggs_Bank

Scandals

<snip>
Saudi money transfers

A Saudi named Omar al-Bayoumi housed and opened bank accounts for two of the 9/11 hijackers. About two weeks after the assistance began, al-Bayoumi's wife began receiving monthly payments totaling tens of thousands of dollars from Princess Haifa bint Faisal, the wife of Saudi ambassador and Bush family confidant, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, through a Riggs bank account.<1> (Jonathan Bush, uncle of President George W. Bush, was an executive at Riggs Bank during this period.)
</snip>

<snip>
Pinochet's frozen funds

Further information: Augusto Pinochet's arrest and trial

Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator of Chile, has been widely accused since 1973 of corruption, illegal arms sales, and torture. In 1994, Riggs officials invited Pinochet to open an account at Riggs Bank. Arrested in 1998 in Britain for possible extradition to Spain, his accounts were ordered frozen by court orders. A recent U.S. Senate report has revealed that Riggs executives helped Pinochet disguise millions of dollars. By using shell companies and hiding accounts from federal regulators, Riggs illegally allowed Pinochet to retain access to much of his fortune <2>.
</snip>

<snip>
Allegations of violating Right to Financial Privacy Act

In February 1994 U.S. Navy sailor Norbert Basil MacLean III filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleging Riggs and other institutions violated his financial privacy when it turned over bank records to Navy investigators. On February 16, 1994 the Washington Post ran a front page article on its business section breaking the news.<2> Thereafter other newspapers across the country picked up the story.<2>
</snip>

<snip>
Equatorial Guinean funds

In July 2004, the US Senate published an investigation into Riggs Bank, into which most of Equatorial Guinea's oil revenues were paid until recently. This showed that accounts based at the embassy to the United States of Equatorial Guinea were allowed to make large withdrawals without properly notifying federal authorities. At least $35 million were siphoned off by long-time dictator of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, his family and senior officials of his regime. The same Teodoro Obiang Nguema bought, on November 2006, a $ 35 million house in Malibu, CA
</snip>

Politico has a sort of richness to its history, just follow the names and the money.

NO ONE should be surprised. They're like a snake lying in the tall grass.

[stillcool]

12. oooh baby...the gangs all there...

and then some. Cheese & Crackers...check out what seemslikeadream has on Riggs etal,
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1671656

[nc4bo]

13. What an amazing country we live in. It's obnoxious what is allowed to go on.

Thanks for the DU link stillcool.

[stillcool]

16. something that truly amazes me..

is that you can take a simple word like Politco..and write a frigging book, but not even come close to providing any clarity of the big picture. I get lost reading a book about the BCCI, because I can't distinguish the names, the countries, the banks, etc. I need a cheat sheet to get through a sentence.

[devilgrrl]

4. You tell 'em! Politico is a joke and it pisses me off that people post their shit here.

:grr:

[Jazzgirl]

11. Me 2 devilgrrl.

[devilgrrl]

5. Check out this bullshit article...

Seven reasons for healthy skepticism

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090121/pl_politico/17714


:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

[madamesilverspurs]

8. Yep.

There was always a whiff of Bush in Politico's air, but I hadn't had time to run it down. The Riggs Bank bit did the trick. Phew!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

9. Glenn Greenwald calls it a right-wing cesspool.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/30/allen/index.html

[Jazzgirl]

10. It really pisses me off when I click on a link to a story and

it goes to Politico. Not only do I not immediately back out I refuse to click on any links to them. I figured them out a long time ago. I don't even know why they have any "credibility" status. Asshats!

[devilgrrl]

14. K&R

And another BS Politico story http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4897893

[sfpcjock]

17. All their reporters are former bar bouncers

:rofl: kidding. Looks like the meaning applied well to Neocons recently departed.

politico

po·lit·i·co
(plural po·lit·i·cos)
noun
politician: a politician, especially one whose words are dismissed as trite or whose motives are disapproved of as self-serving (informal)

(Mid-17th century. < Italian or Spanish , "politician")

-- well the etymology of the word is from Greek "polis" meaning city. :D

Microsoft® Encarta® 2006

[NJmaverick]

18. There is no doubt Politico is an anti Obama site masquerading as a news site

[spanone]

19. i don't think he appeared 'irritated'....

[sfpcjock]

22. I kno.

The Prez jes looked a little tired on a Friday night with probably little sleep this week. The Politico stooge looked like a big fat meathead--no offense to Mo, Larry and Curley.

[Marr]

20. Remember when Politico was launched?

I do, because it was covered by the corporate media as if it was an event. This blog's launch was an event, and they were deemed credible and worthy TV pundits right off the bat. That's upside down in the blog world-- bloggers generally only get a mention in the corporate media when they have massive web traffic and a relatively long track record.

I assumed Politico was some kind of corporate, establishment shot at co-opting of the "blog" phenomenon, and it still seems that way to me.

[FrenchieCat]

21. More info on this Man-Made Propaganda News Outfit

which poses as a Web Voice. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=6730613

Since the Corporate Powers-that-be couldn't outdo the Internet,
they decided to join it.

It's all a front....but as long as we use it as a credible news source,
we are supporting the growth of this a Fox-like web presense.
They are the last thing that we, as Democrats, while we are in the majority, need.

And yes, when they see that we are ignoring them, they will play fair for a couple of days,
to bring us back into the fold. Don't let them fool us!

[QueenOfCalifornia]

23. Question

You are still married to Sparkly, right Stinky?

:P

[Stinky The Clown]

24. Yes, indeedy!

:)