Breitbart Meltdown

Resignations from Breitbart continue. There are exceptions to the "loyalty up, loyalty down" principle but I don't think the Breitbart mismanagement team correctly identified such an exception here.

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[hrtshpdbox]

First!

[hrtshpdbox]

And second!

[hrtshpdbox]

Breitbart can't imagine Trump or his people actually doing anything wrong, so they're not about to believe their own lying eyes.

[hrtshpdbox]

And.........fourth!

[Captain Hate]

A thorough fumigation of that site has been overdue for a long time, including the gazillion browser killing scripts they run.

[derwill]

Will this national nightmare never end!

[glasater]

¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ Happy Birthday, Dear Henry ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸
♥

[Threadkiller]

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[glasater]

Shapiro is a very smart young man and a very good writer. Sad.

[Buford Gooch]

Shapiro will move on to bigger and better things.

[NK]

Happy Birthday henry!

[Threadkiller]

The name of the link: "Statement from Breitbart News Editor-at-Large and In-House Counsel Joel B. Pollak"

But the address is:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/03/14/futures-markets-wrap-dow-continues-uncertain-climb/

What is Joel saying?

[hrtshpdbox]

What is Joel saying?

He's gotta be saying to buy S&P calls.

[Jack is Back!]

As I noted on the last thread: Will Fields end up the new David Brock?

[Miss Marple 2]

If you're all bored with the election and assorted tangential stuff, C-SPAN is airing "Race in America" at 1PM with Ken Burns and Henry Louis Gates, because we don't hear enough about that subject, you know.

[Threadkiller]

:-)

I meant at the link.

[boris]

"Finally, in the ultimate indignity, they undermined Michelle completely by running a poorly-evidenced conspiracy theory as their lead story in which Michelle and Terris had somehow misidentified Lewandowski"

Actually it's worse, the Michelle and Terris was entirely a hoax.

As this video of the "incident" shows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NoMPxomjiw

[NK]

New David Brock? Roger Stone has locked that up.

How are you feeling JiB?

[henry]

Breitbart is not the only media site requiring fumigation.

[Threadkiller]

Maybe Shapiro can land a job with Xerox.

[Threadkiller]

http://m.townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2011/04/13/the_magic_of_donald_trump/page/full

[Porchlight]

NK,

Roger Stone is a wingnut, but in order to be the new David Brock you have to have switched sides. Stone has been on the correct side the whole time.

Shapiro is making a large mistake deciding to hang his credibility on Michelle Fields. But he's a big boy.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Somehow this guy manages to be weird, repellent, compelling and hilarious at the same time.

[Miss Marple 2]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/272896-trump-event-in-florida-with-palin-canceled

Todd Palin was in a serious snow machine crash.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

JOM is the only media site not needing fumigation and even then a can of Raid! comes in handy.

[Threadkiller]

Ann Coulter ‏@AnnCoulter

***SOURCES INSIDE CHICAGO POLICE DEPT: RAHM ORDERED COPS TO MAKE NO ARRESTS AT CHICAGO TRUMP RALLY.***

Ann Coulter ‏@AnnCoulter

CPD: Cops told Trump, “It’s your call, but if you go ahead, it’s going to get real ugly.”

[anonamom]

Join Twitter to follow Ben Shapiro. He's outstanding. He is apoplectic about Trump however, but so is my Fed Soc son who is his age.
(It's because they had such hope for a R resurgenance with the field last fall, and think this is the end of the world.) (Kind of like some people here some days.) (And our host on Twitter).

Michelle Fields made far too big a deal out of getting grabbed for a second by the arm as she came into assassination distance of a presidential candidate, and Breibart goofed in attacking an employee.

Live and learn, you young people.

Lord, Republicans do love to give the MSM plenty to tisk tisk over, don't they? If you want to have a good laugh at the white toga folks, pull up the first hour of Diane Rehm today. Vin Weber and Kathleen Parker are beside themselves. The other two guests have a better grasp of the factors in play.

[NK]

There was internet chatter before the videos came out that the Service Agent (a Shorthaired guy as well) not Lewandowski had jostled/shoved/grabbed her, and Trump fed that fabrication with his punkassed "never happened" lie. And make no mistake, that was an outright lie, because Lewandowski knew what he did, whatever it was. The 12:30 video is the most damning looking for Lewandowski, because in slo-mo it exaggerates Fields reaction, both her abruptly stopping as well as her surprised facial expression.To assert she's guilty of a 'hoax' based on that video, is ridiculous.

[NK]

Roger Stone = correct side? I would have stopped with Roger Stone is nuts.

[DebinNC]

Yep, boris. That short vid clearly tells the tale. MF is a liar, as is her fellow conspirator Terris, who probably hopes to leave the WaPo "Style" section for the big leagues. News that she has a book coming out in June is the icing on the cake.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Pardon the French, but I thought this was really funny;

[derwill]

We've now officially entered the end times. Yesterday two hell fire missiles were intercepted on their way to Portland OR from Beirut, yet I'm supposed to dial it up to eleventy because some woman whom I never heard of (and how devoutly do I wish that blessed ignorance could have been continued), got her arm grabbed at a political rally.

Why are so many people caring so much about this trivial incident? I don't get it.

[Threadkiller]

Here is the transcript picking up after Terris walked past Fields, chatted with C. Lew and went back to Fields:

Terris: “You OK?"

Fields: “Holy sh*t."

Terris: “Yea he just threw you down."

Fields: “I can’t believe he just did that that was so hard. Was that Corey?"

Terris: “Yeah, like, what threat were you?"

Fields: "That was insane. You should have felt how hard he grabbed me. That's insane. I’ve never had anyone do that to me from a campaign."

Terris: “Can I put that in my story?"

Fields: “Yeah, go for it — that was really awful. That’s so unprofessional.”

Terris: “He really just almost threw you down on the ground."

Fields: “He literally went like this and was grabbing me down. "I don’t even want to do what he just did to me. Oh my God, that really spooked me that someone would do that."

Terris: “What threat were you?"

Fields: “Nothing. I was asking about affirmative action."

Terris: “And he probably knows you, right?"

Fields: “Yeah, I don’t understand. That looks horrible. You’re going after a Breitbart reporter, the people who are nicest to you?"

Terris: “I know, I’m going to put it in my story."

NK, does the video match Terris's comments?

[maryrose]

Deb
Advance publicity for the book now that everyone knows her name

[Miss Marple 2]

derwill,

When large forces beyond one's control are in play, sometimes people will focus on a trivial incident they think they can understand. (Media concentration on this as part of the "Trump incites violence" meme is also part of it.)

[hrtshpdbox]

To assert she's guilty of a 'hoax' based on that video, is ridiculous.

I'll bet it comes down to the eye of the beholder, though I can't watch it myself because of my belief that actually viewing or hearing DT or any of his minions must induce some type of hypnotic thought control (it's the only explanation I can come up with). Still, this Breitbart thing is a brand new issue for conservatives to fight with each other about. How odd. Can Ben Shapiro in one day go from top-flight conservative journalist to Alinskyite GOPe troll? Sure, why not, that's good enough for today (tomorrow are the primaries).

[henry]

and further knows to avoid the book.

[Miss Marple 2]

That's it! I am hypnotized! A regular zombie!

Pffft.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Trump fed that fabrication with his punkassed "never happened" lie. And make no mistake, that was an outright lie, because Lewandowski knew what he did, whatever it was.--

So Trump is a liar because of something someone else knew?
And of course as described by Fields and Terris it did "never happen".

--To assert she's guilty of a 'hoax' based on that video, is ridiculous.--

She claimed to Terris she didn't know who did it and that she nearly fell down. Those are both fabrications. She also turned nothing into something; which is kinda the definition of a hoax.

It's like saying a guy in the woods who sees a bear that has a large footprint isn't perpetrating a hoax if he says he saw Bigfoot.

[Threadkiller]

Shapiro is a shill.

[hrtshpdbox]

Shapiro is a shill.

For whom? (GOPe, I'm a-guessin').

[Porchlight]

Roger Stone = correct side? I would have stopped with Roger Stone is nuts.

The conversation was about Fields being the "new David Brock" meaning will she switch to the left. Roger Stone never switched sides, therefore he is not the new David Brock, therefore you were off track asserting that Stone had the "new David Brock" "wrapped up."
Even if they are both nuts.

[Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom)]

Happy Birthday Henry. Hope you have a terrific day !

[NK]

TK-- not wanting to belabor because we are in a country where one of the top 2 primary vote getters can't speak in the Nation's 4th Largest City because of the threat of violence. As I said yesterday repeatedly, the sum of all the videos prove that Fields grossly exaggerated, and WaPo 's Terris is a con man in the Media (same thing) who egged on the hapless Fields. The transcript shows that Fields was grossly mistaken, but it also corroborates that Lewandowski briefly touched her in some manner. The only things of importance to me in this little episode is that the Legacy Media lies all the time, and the disgraceful "never happened" Trumpism. T Fields has quit-- good. Terris should be fired. If Lewandowski lied to Trump about what he did, he should be fired.

[anonamom]

hrtshpdbox, you may be right about watching Trump creating some bizarre mind control. I have been totally at peace about him being the nominee after watching the Dayton rally, and I was regularly waking up in the middle night over it before.

"Every little thing is going to be alright..."

I still don't support him, but IVR. Really, there will be a known worse choice on the ballot in November.

And those RNC people running the convention hopefully won't be so clueless as to make him go third party, because that will be the end of the GOP. But I don't put it past them.

I do now get where The Stupid Party meme comes from.

[DebinNC]

Fields' new book describes her as a regular panelist on the "popular" Sunday FOX "Cashin' In" show and a guest on Sean Hannity's radio show. My guess is she's mined FOX for all she can get, i.e. "cashed in", and this publicity stunt is to pave the way for her move to the dark side on CNN/MSNBC, especially if her new book turns out to bash Rs more than Ds.

[boris]

"grabbed for a second by the arm as she came into assassination distance of a presidential candidate, and Breibart goofed in attacking an employee"

In the video link posted above you can see M.Fields has drifted in between Trump, his security person and Corey Lewandowski. M.Fields appeared unaware that the 3 men were keeping up with Trump as he walked through the crowd.

In order to get around her the security person has room to detour M.Fields on the far side. On the near side C.Lew lacked space to detour and moved her out of the way to keep up with Trump.

The video linked below shows the 3 men keeping pace through the crowd. The video posted above shows what happened shortly after the 3 men and Fields are hidden by the crowd.

https://twitter.com/cspanJeremy/status/708333405692231680

Apparently according to NK this all proves Trump and C.Lew are PunkAss.

[Appalled]

This whole episode could be included in a new book: "Great Moments in WTF"

And, proving that things can always get wierder, we have this:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/03/breitbart-mocking-ben-shapiro-220712

[Threadkiller]

NK, does that mean, "no, the video does not match Terris's comments?"

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I have always liked Ben Shapiro and still do. In fact, I think he makes a very good point in this. Joel Pollak one of the biggest cheeses at Breitbart published a story shortly after the incident that was simply wrong in claiming Lewandowski couldn't have and didn't grab her.
Pollak had a duty to wait until the facts were out and he has a duty to stand by his employees unless or until they are shown to be flakes.
Fields bears the responsibility of exaggerating pretty much nothing into something. Terris bears even more.
There is plenty of blame to go around. If Lewandowski even remembered it he should have fessed up and not denied it. If he didn't remember it he should have said said "oops, it was a busy room and part of my job is protecting my boss. If I inadvertently grabbed her I'm sorry."

Now, the rest of us have no duty in this other than to have as much fun with it and to score as many political points off of others as we can, so, let us carry on. :)

[centralcal]

From Apalled's link:

"In an interview Shapiro denied he was looking to work for Fox News and that he has "never received" a job from the network. Shapiro, who is a Ted Cruz supporter, also said he did not violate his employment contract as the piece originally noted, since he is an "at will" employee.

The unusual piece, which can be read in full here, was even more shocking for Shapiro because it was posted under the pseudonym his father used while writing for the site — William Bigelow.

Shapiro's father, the writer David Shapiro, also resigned from Breitbart on Sunday evening."
--------

Sounds like additional resignations may be coming at Breitbart.

[Threadkiller]

Ahhh. That explains my 12:27, Appalled.

[jimmyk]

The 12:30 video is the most damning looking for Lewandowski

Not again, LOL. The Zapruder video it ain't.

TK @12:20 are those tattoos or bruises on her arm?

[Threadkiller]

One can only hope.

They can find a safe haven at NRO.

[maryrose]

CindyK
Thanks for your post
Appalled
You made me laugh with your comment
Latest addition of WTF

[boris]

the disgraceful "never happened" Trumpism. T Fields has quit-- good. Terris should be fired. If Lewandowski lied to Trump about what he did, he should be fired.

It was the kind of thing most people do not notice unless someone charges "rape!assault!" and there turns out to be a video debunk.

[NK]

David Brock was never a 'conservative' he was looking for a paycheck, and American Specator and others attacking the Clintons were hiring. Brock is and has always be a Lefty scandal monger, this Weekly Standard piece makes that point from the 1996 way back machine.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/how-hillary-rodham-seduced-david-brock/article/9121

[maryrose]

Derwi
It truly is like living in Bizarro world

[Porchlight]

Can't see into the guy's heart NK (unlike you, I guess) but Brock worked for the right, and then he worked for the left. Give it up.

[Threadkiller]

Those are stains from Terris's brown nose, jimmy.

[boris]

Bottom line is Fields went to the cops over this.

[NK]

But Brock's methods have remained the same, scandal mongering.

[anonamom]

BTW, Scott Adams will support that MM is hypnotized. He maintains Trump is all about using classic hypnotherapy techniques.

Heard local political reporters this morning talking about our primary. They won't call the Rs. Trump and Cruz in the lead.
Say HRC is polling 20 pts higher than the Bern--JUST LIKE IN MICHIGAN!

Difference is that many of our colleges are on spring break, dag gummit.
Plus our voter ID begins with this election, after the three year period people had to get their act together and get an ID. So disenfranchising. Like they need to buy pseudophed.

[DebinNC]

Thanks to whomever reminded us "Fantastic Lies", about the 2006 Duke Lacrosse Hoax, was airing on ESPN last night. It was very well done. That Crystal Mangum lied about being assaulted was made clear, as was despicable, disbarred, Democrat, DA Mike Nifong's perfidy. All his old cases are now being reexamined.

[Threadkiller]

This was the satirical Breitbart piece:

http://archive.is/zEt98

LOL!

[NK]

Fields filed a PD report over an 'incident' which 'never happened' because Lewandowski never got near her, because she misidentified the short- cropped hair Service Agent, who never touched her in any event. Loyalty is no longer owed to a subordinate that lies to you. Terris should be fired, as should Lewandowski if he lied about where he was and what he did; otherwise you take ownership of his lie.

[boris]

"Can Ben Shapiro in one day go from top-flight conservative journalist to Alinskyite GOPe troll?"

Actually a disappointing number of conservative journalists are willing to go full Alinsky over anything Trump. So Shapiro can be both without "going" anywhere.

[Porchlight]

Maybe so, NK, but the speculation was about whether Fields would go work for the left, not about her methods. Personally I don't think she will - there will be plenty of anti-Trump outlets happy to have her.

[Breaking News]

"#GrabGate Debunked - Michelle Fields Cries Wolf. NEW ANGLE PROVES SHES LYING!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NoMPxomjiw

[Appalled]

When tempests in a teapot get this powerful, is it proof of global warming?

[cheerleader]

The theme of her upcoming book is being upstaged by the MAGA movement.

Barons of the Beltway: Inside the Princely World of Our Washington Elite--and How to Overthrow Them
Jun 21, 2016
by Michelle Fields

Available for Pre-order. This item will be released on June 21, 2016.

[Breaking News]

"Trump breaks 50% in national support for the first time [Trump 53%]

Showing little sign of a "ceiling", Donald Trump has only grown in support with the exit of Ben Carson and Marco Rubio's collapse

In the last two weeks, Republican front runner Donald Trump has won more delegates in primaries and caucuses, even while his opponents have launched new attacks and questions have been raised about his supporters. The week’s Economist/YouGov Poll finds Trump still at the top of GOP voters’ preference with a wider lead, while Florida Senator Marco Rubio seems most damaged by the two weeks of attacks and counter-attacks.

This is the first time Trump has garnered the support of a majority of Republican primary voters nationwide. YouGov's February 24-27 survey marked his previous high, at 44% support."

https://today.yougov.com/news/2016/03/14/trump-rises-national-support-rubio-falls-and-carso/

[Momto2]

Why are so many people caring so much about this trivial incident? I don't get it.

It is crystal clear to me why this is the new Malaysian Airliner story- it feeds into their narrative that they constructed - Trump people are thugs, Trump supporters are idiots, Trump surrounds himself with mafia types, Trump tells people to be violent, Trump's tone is the root of all evil.....

As there is little to NO solid evidence to support the above narrative (other than one or two comments from Trump and some old guy attending a rally and punching someone) They are desperate for proof and examples. Soooo - along comes Michelle and this horrible, horrible incident that could occur anywhere from a rock concert to a black Friday sale - and BINGO - it's all Michelle 24/7 all the time.

Amazing how that works!

[James D]

It's time for another edition of "What would the Democrats do with this information?"

Today's topic: the murder of 138 innocent American citizens by illegal aliens released from custody by the Obama Administration:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ice-124-illegal-immigrants-freed-from-jail-later-charged-with-murder/article/2585720

Take a look, too, at the actual letter from ICE (linked in the article):

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2016-02-11%20ICE%20to%20CEG%20Flake%20Sessions%20%28Criminal%20Aliens%29_Redacted.pdf

So...if the Democrats had hard proof that a Republican administration had released 121 known illegal alien criminals, who then went on to murder 138 American citizens (in addition to Heaven only knows how many other crimes), what would they do with that information?

Would they use it in their campaign ads? Would we see images of blood-spattered crime scenes and weeping families mourning their dead, with an announcer reminding us that the killers were all in custody, but were set free by George W. Bush and John Ashcroft?

Would be we told, endlessly, that the blood of all these victims was on the hands of every Republican, a stain that could never be washed away?

Would the Democratic candidates for President raise the issue at every opportunity?

Would they demand answers from the GOP candidates seeking to succeed Bush?

I kind of think they would. And I kind of think it would be really, really effective.

Yet we do not see the GOP candidates doing this, even when there clearly IS blood on the hands of Obama and Holder/Lynch and their lackeys at ICE and elsewhere in the administration. Even when they do not even bother to apologize for their policy that has resulted in such bloodshed and tragedy.

We do not see ads. We do not hear party leaders standing up for the citizens who have become the prey of these murderers.

We hear crickets.

We heard crickets on PP. We heard crickets on the Bowe Berghdal trade. We hear crickets on EVERY FREAKING ISSUE that they could use to hammer the Democrats and, you know, also protect the Americna people.

[henry]

Appalled at 1:34... everything else is proof of that, so why not?

[Porchlight]

DebinNC,

KC Johnson of Durham-in-Wonderland fame live-tweeted the ESPN broadcast and "storified" it:

https://storify.com/kcjohnson9/fantastic-lies

Really excellent. Without him who knows what would have happened?

[Ghost of Breitbart]

Good Riddance!

[Buckeye]

Terris should be fired, as should Lewandowski if he lied about where he was and what he did; otherwise you take ownership of his lie.

coulda, shoulda, woulda.

I know one thing, I am not taking ANY ownership of any of this. Zero, Zip, Nada.

We are looking down the barrels of a Parker side-by-side and now we need to worry about the neighbor kid playing with matches??

[Threadkiller]

What is the C. Lew statement that is being tested for truthfulness, NK?

[DebinNC]

Fields: “He literally went like this and was grabbing me down. "I don’t even want to do what he just did to me. Oh my God, that really spooked me that someone would do that."

I hope we all agree there was no "grabbing me down". There may have been a "Corey grabbed my arm and pushed it down" but that's all, and the trauma she feigns is ludicrous and done with evil intent imo. How many media peeps don't know that reaching out as if to touch a passing SS protected candidate would invite a negative reaction?

[cheerleader]

Scott Adams admits that he himself has dabbled in hypnosis so it's more likely that he's using hypnotic suggestions himself to get people to take his crap seriously.

[narciso]

allegedly in tetris's report, he admitted to something,

[Porchlight]

In addition to what Momto2 said, the reason this incident is being blown up is because both Fields and Terris saw their golden ticket to "I
Took Down Donald Trump!" status float before their eyes just in time for Super Tuesday II.

Any Trump losses on Tuesday, if they're close, will be at least partially "credited" to Brave Michelle and Brave Ben.

[henry]

From CNBC on twitter: BREAKING: Russian President Putin orders withdrawal of 'main part' of Russian military in Syria - Reuters & Interfax

[James D]

Thinking about all the issues on which the Dems are vulnerable, here's a question.

If the $125 million that Jeb flushed down the toilet had instead been spent attacking the Democrats with a whole series of nationwide "battlespace preperation" ads featuring vicious, hard-hitting attacks against failed Dem policies that have cost hundreds of lives and wasted billions of dollars...how different would the Presidential race look right now? How different would the polls look? How much worse would Hillary's numbers be? How much better would the GOP's odds be for November?

[narciso]

so I guess it's mission accomplished, Carlos Slims sort of admitted the Pax Volodya had worked, kinf of,

[henry]

the toga cleaning bill would exceed $125 million James.

[NK]

Truthfulness? Fields/Terris tell their tale, then:

Trump: Corey what happened back there behind me? Did you grab this Fields woman?

Corey: Not me boss, I never got near her, never touched her, never happened, she must be mistaking me for the Agent;

Trump: Agent did you grab this woman?

Agent: No sir, I heard a commotion, turned around and saw Corey going past me, I didn't see or do anything else;

Trump: OK Corey you handle this, I've got more important things to do.

Those sort of possible lies to your boss.

[Momto2]

I nominate JamesD to design & write the campaign commercials for our nominee! Great points and I agree 100%!!

[boris]

What if Corey Lewandowski told Trump "It was a crowd, I may have bumped some people, don't know M.Fields but did not do what she and Terris claim to anyone. Period."

Lie?

[cheerleader]

Porchlight, everyone's competing for the Stump the Trump trophy, including the lout who tried to jump the stage.

[NK]

There will be a big Parade in Moscow, and Assad will hand out lots of medals, ......and give Putin whatever he wants.

[boris]

"I heard a commotion, turned around and saw Corey going past me"

There was no commotion. Corey did not go past him. Your credibility on the stuff is way negative dude.

[narciso]

yes, but where would Mike Iceberg Murphy be without his 34 million dollar cut,

[Thomas Collins]

Has the clip boris linked above and on at least other thread been validated as the one showing the alleged assault? If so, why weren't Fields and Terris fired by their respective employers.

If that video is all their is to this story, any filing of a criminal complaint by Fields would be abuse of process.

[NK]

I made like JamesD and posted the civilized statement Trump could have made before the videos came out. That statement simultaneously supported a trusted subordinate, but hedged against potential contradictory evidence. The 'campaign' opted for punk, not civilized.

[James D]

narciso, if Murphy did something useful and helpful to the GOP cause with the rest of the money, I'd be happy to see him get his $34 million cut.

[NK]

in this friday afternoon video, you can see the Lewandowski guy catching up to trump/agent, doing whatever he did to Fields and then passing the Agent who turns to see what happened. Plain as day: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/432714/video-donald-trump-campaign-manager-grabs-michelle-fields-criminal-charge-filed

[narciso]

yes, but he hasn't for a long time, since the medici's last campaign in 2002, probably,

[narciso]

you would think there would be a performance clause in these contracts, of course, how would rove ever get paid, under these circumstance, dr. evil wisely has retired from the biz,