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TIME Journalist: I Can't Wait To Write About The Drone Strike That Kills Julian Assange
Paul Szoldra and Michael Kelley 23 minutes ago 367 1
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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
(22,143 posts)Don't retract and apologize. He's within his rights to feel that way.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)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
(154,021 posts)own it...
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)zbdent
(35,392 posts)get him a spot on Faux, if not the rest of the "liberally-biased media" ...
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)do not wish him harm.
Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)He is just another example of the rot and decay in our modern mainstream media.
Caretha
(2,737 posts)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
(11,709 posts)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
(6,234 posts)fujiyama
(15,185 posts)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
(20,317 posts)People who advance in the corporate media aren't necessarily the most talented-- they're just people who naturally think in the... "correct" way.
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Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)But, that tweet should live on forever...
Egnever
(21,506 posts)are surprised he hasn't had a chance to write that story yet.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)It was pretty stupid on his part to say that the US would conduct a drone strike on the Ecuadorian Embassy in the UK.