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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 02:24 PM
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'NY Post' Makes Fun of MSNBC's Olbermann Getting Letter (white powder)

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003187334

'NY Post' Makes Fun of MSNBC's Olbermann Getting Letter -- At Home -- With White Powder


NEW YORK One would think journalists might not make fun of a high-profile industry colleague, in this day and age, receiving an envelope -- at home -- which contains white powder. But that seemed to be the case at the New York Post's "Page Six" today in reporting on an alleged incident involving Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC's "Countdown."

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Here is the Post item, which appeared under the headline, "Powder Puff Spooks Keith."

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MSNBC loudmouth Keith Olbermann flipped out when he opened his home mail yesterday. The acerbic host of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" was terrified when he opened a suspicious-looking letter with a California postmark and a batch of white powder poured out. A note inside warned Olbermann, who's a frequent critic of President Bush's policies, that it was payback for some of his on-air shtick.

The caustic commentator panicked and frantically called 911 at about 12:30 a.m., sources told The Post's Philip Messing. An NYPD HazMat unit rushed to Olbermann's pad on Central Park South, but preliminary tests indicated the substance was harmless soap powder. However, that wasn't enough to satisfy Olbermann, who insisted on a checkup. He asked to be taken to St. Luke's Hospital, where doctors looked him over and sent him home. Whether they gave him a lollipop on the way out isn't known. Olbermann had no comment.


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NVMojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 02:26 PM
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1. disgusting rag ...delusional too.
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Efilroft Sul Donating Member (827 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 02:27 PM
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2. Wasn't so long ago the Post itself got one of Bush's love-letters.
So the Post thinks getting a terroristic letter is funny? Those sadistic bastards. I hope they all die from ass cancer.
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 02:32 PM
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3. The post isn't worthy of lining our numerous litter boxes.
KO obviously struck a nerve. Gawd forbid anyone should speak truth to power.

Stay safe, Keith, and stay off of small aircraft.
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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 02:33 PM
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4. It is a sorry place this world has gotten to be
A mysterious package sitting in the mailroom closing down Congress is considered serious. But white power mailed to a non-Bush supporter's home is funny.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 06:01 PM
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24. Freudian Post o'the Month!
But white power mailed to a non-Bush supporter's home is funny.

Wanna bet the 'thrax wannabe worships the Minutemen as well as Bush**?
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SDDEM06 Donating Member (157 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 02:40 PM
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5. Editing
"Powder Puff Kills Stevens."

The Sun photographer flipped out when he opened his mail at work yesterday. The slimy photojournalist was terrified when he opened a suspicious-looking letter with a California postmark and a batch of white powder poured out. A note inside warned Stevens, a creepy paparrazzi, that it was payback for unflattering photos of celebrities.

Stevens panicked and frantically called 911 at about 12:30 a.m., sources told The Post's Philip Messing. An NYPD HazMat unit rushed to Steven's pad on Central Park South, and preliminary tests indicated he had inhaled deadly anthrax powder. For some reason, Stevens insisted on a checkup. He asked to be taken to St. Luke's Hospital, where doctors looked him over and pronounced him dead on the scene.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks

Glad this rag thinks anthrax is funny.
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RufusEarl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 02:40 PM
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6. Americans that speak out against this administration,
are no longer safe in this country. This wasn't a prank, this was a warning! They let Keith know and he'll let us know, that we're all in the cross hares.

Scary shit!!

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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 02:48 PM
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9. You damned right! The administration would rather he shuts up than
Edited on Wed Sep-27-06 03:31 PM by Judi Lynn
to drop dead immediately, as that would draw too much attention to what he has been saying, and put them under suspicion.

However, if he won't take the hint, there's no doubt whatsoever they would kill him in a heartbeat.

Any possibility they are really open to criticism is only an illusion. Freedom for all Americans is really the LAST thing on their minds.
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 02:42 PM
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7. I'm sure the Post would be in stitches with laughter if they were
recipoents of envelopes full of white powder.

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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:21 PM
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12. That's what makes it so sickening.
They got the real thing 5 years ago.
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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 02:47 PM
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8. According to the Post
Terrorism is funny, because he's not Republican.
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 02:53 PM
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10. Exactly -- and when DID a Rethug ever get one of those envelopes?
They ALL went to Dems! And NO ONE has been charged? Seems like they're doing a Janet Parshall ("lalalalala, I don't hear you").
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EST Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:30 PM
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13. Oh thank you, thank you, thank you!
I have been trying to remember that intellectual travesty's name for days, now. I have the picture from c-spin where she was trying out for the part of Randi's fart, or maybe she was trying to pull a Ms. Puff from Sponge Bob S.P. by sticking her fingers in her ears and blowing hard or yelling real loud.

Now I can label the dern thing as I should have. many moons ago.
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Julius Civitatus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 04:05 PM
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17. Sorry, but the NY Post did receive an anthrax letter in 2001




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Julius Civitatus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 04:04 PM
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16. They reacted very differently back in 2001, when they received anthrax






WHen it was about them, they took it very seriously.
These despicable people at the NY Post now find terrorism funny when it's not one of their own, or a political rival.

Words fail me.

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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 06:37 PM
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25. Words fail me, as well. n/t
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aaronbees Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 10:03 PM
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32. Unbelievable hypocrisy....
Someone should e-mail those images to Olbermann (though he probably remembers them) .... good candidate for worst person in the world, the Post is.

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EST Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:14 PM
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11. Pollyanna checking in...
Watta relief!
Actually, this could be a good thing. Keith is, I would think, fully cognizant of the gravity and dead nuts serious aspect of this battle royale pitching ideology against philosophy, weak souled me-too-ism and its concomitant pole axed frontal lobe stunned conformity, inlaid with ditto'd rushbot authenticity, versus wide ranging kitten curiosity coupled with spotty memory at holding grudges.

The wingwit responsible for this idiocy, although eligible for a rather limited future, may have done K.O. a bit of a favor, just in case he has missed, concealed none too successfully, the deadly bitter, nut cutter viciousness that is the gold standard of wingerism.

Keith is very smart and he is, thankfully, doing his grande activism for himself, not for us, at least not the part where character is created and manifested, then for the integrity team, and he reacted, I am convinced, that he reacted nothing like these schiess mongers would have us believe.

My family, our family, has been threatened. I want to hold onto this bit of questionable comfort, pending further developments.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:38 PM
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14. Horrible. That lollipop quip was Maureen Dowd's re: Bush testifying
to 9/11 Commission with Uncle Dick Cheney holding his hand.

Seems when they try "humour' they have to recycle Liberal's stuff. Lacking in self knowledge that they cannot come up with their own quip.

Idiots.

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OhioChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:44 PM
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15. Funny?
Bastards.
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file83 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 04:16 PM
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18. I think the DHS should search that author's office and home.
KO was the victim of a crime - sending a threat like that is considered terrorism. So anyone writing about this crime as if it were funny and who obviously has it out for KO should become a suspect in that crime.
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Mithras61 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 04:26 PM
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19. I'm sure that this article...
doesn't have ANYTHING to do with K.O.'s comments on a roomful of reporters & our current secretary of State...

At the same time, the president‘s top diplomat lashing out at former President Clinton for having defended himself in an interview with Fox News against charges that his administration is actually to blame for this mess, because it did not wipe out al Qaeda on its watch, Secretary of State Rice launching herself before a friendly audience indeed, a room full of reporters and editors from “The New York Post,” Mr.—Ms. Rice telling the newspaper that the Bush White House tried just as hard to go after Osama bin Laden as the Clinton White House did, quote, “What we did in the eight months was at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in the preceding years. The notion somehow for eight months the Bush administration sat there and didn‘t do that is just flatly false—and I think the 9/11 commission understood that,” end quote.


My emphasis added...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15029655/ (about 1/3 of the way down)...
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 04:26 PM
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20. I'm sure the "MSNBC loudmouth" will have a few words about it
And I'm equally sure that the New York Post will not find them flattering.

--p!

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high density Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 04:27 PM
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21. News Corp must gang up on the liberals!
Edited on Wed Sep-27-06 04:28 PM by high density
First a Condi interview bashing the Clintons, now they're bashing Olbermann. I'm definitely recording tonight's show.

All of Frank Luntz's nimrod polls must be going in our favor.
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donkeyotay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 04:27 PM
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22. They can't handle the truth
As journalism, this is pathetic. As propaganda it's desperate. The rightwing is so far beyond having any moral ground to stand on that this is all that is left them: to bully and threaten like self-appointed gestapo. We're not human to them. If you're compliant and silent they'll let you live out your life in the wreckage of our country. But if you speak the truth, they react with the only weapons they have: fear.

Keith's words were strong. Very. I wondered when I heard him what price he would pay. Job loss? Death threats? Death? It takes courage to do what he did, and I am grateful to him.




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w4rma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 05:35 PM
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23. Rupert Murdoch did get his "journalistic" start by faking a diary from a
young girl who he blasted as being an example of our promiscuous youth. She committed suicide over it.
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NotGivingUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 07:49 PM
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29. wow...i didn't know that...so he's been a scumbag for a very
long time, eh?
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kangaroo77 Donating Member (19 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 06:54 PM
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26. The NY Post costs 25 cents, and it still can't sell
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Anakin Skywalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 07:25 PM
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27. White Powder? Send Me Some! I'd Like to Snort That.
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nolabels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 11:06 AM
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37. Why do I always get the feeling the righties are always trying to .......
Edited on Thu Sep-28-06 11:08 AM by nolabels
dare the left side into a more lawless approach (like they seem to be operating in). Traditionally over decades and maybe centuries, the right seemed to be for the things they are now opposed to. When did this total flip happen? 2000 maybe, just kind of wondering :shrug:


Maybe I am generalizing or mis-characterizing too many but is this the way the vast majority of them on the right operate. They think the way go is to follow the party no matter what the cost, or is it just a few that seem to have taken the reigns?
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Anakin Skywalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 07:37 PM
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43. I Don't Think You are Generalizing.
This flip happens because most of these rightists are HYPOCRITES. They are in power now, so the things once condemned are OK.

This is why BALANCE is so important, but most people don't realize that.
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chill_wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 07:43 PM
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28. Should we hope that the Bush loving terrorist who sent that
Edited on Wed Sep-27-06 07:43 PM by chill_wind
is interrogated under some rather extreme fashion (that he/she undoubtedly approves of as an insistent Bush loving terrorist?)
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RadiDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 08:00 PM
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30. The scum on Olbermann Watch think it's funny>
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Mister Ed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 09:27 PM
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31. Olbermann Debunks the Post's Sleazy Story...
...here on his blog:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15036633/


The Bureau asked us not to report any of the details so that the person or persons responsible would not know any of the threats had been received by any of the targets -- and we of course complied.



The New York Post never called NBC News or MSNBC seeking any comment. They would have been told that the FBI had requested we try to keep this quiet.

But of course that would have interfered with the New York Post making fun of a terror threat.

It's almost melodramatic to ask why the New York Post would choose the side of domestic terrorism, rather than choose the side of the FBI.

It's interesting too that Murdoch's paper was able to get a jump on this story so quickly -- nearly as quickly, as if they'd known it was coming.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 10:37 PM
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33. The New York Post just fucked with the wrong man!
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humbled_opinion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 10:42 PM
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34. It is a crime n/t
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 11:17 PM
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35. exactly!
the WP paper thanks it's funny someone committed a crime on KO.... nice. What an evil rag.

if I had a subscription I would call them and say because "you're evil fucks, cancel my subscription and stick it up the editorialists ass, thank you."
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 11:11 AM
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38. You mean the "New York Post" don't you?
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 04:55 PM
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42. woops. thanks! late post. n/t
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 08:14 AM
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36. The Post has always been a Third Reich Rag...
Its only use is lining bird cages.
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The Wizard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 11:50 AM
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39. Since Murdoch
is willfully aiding and abetting terrorists he is subject to the provisions of the Patriot Act and other statutes on several levels. KO should file both criminal civil complaints against Murdoch and all his affiliates. Stick a red hot poker up his ass.
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civildisoBDence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 12:00 PM
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40. Uh, does the Post Office deliver to the NY Post?
Not that I'm suggesting anything, mind you.

Newsprism
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 12:07 PM
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41. Keith made the mistake of not bribing Page 6
Notoriously corrupt, greedy, loathesome pigs, caught shaking down rich people to keep negative news out of the column.
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