Bernard Kerik is a talking head on a panel tonight-----ON CNN......WTF

[winstars]

Talking head about Michael Brown, referring to his methods and tactics as Police Commissioner and Corrections Commissioner in NYC.

Being called "Commissioner" in conversation.

Bernie fucking Kerik

On CNN, like he never went to fucking jail.

They had to scrape his name off the Tombs, the real name of the lock up (jail) downtown.

Went to jail for corruption.

On CNN.

Tonight.

Wow!

[frazzled]

1. Really, you shouldn't watch CNN ... ever

That is both horrendously shocking and, sadly, typical for that confused, irresponsible, and clueless network. I can't even call it a news channel: it doesn't deserve it.

[sabrina 1]

2. Thanks, I thought I was imagining it also. Giuliani's sidekick, the one who ran around TV after

9/11 using the tragedy to profit from it, as did his old authoritarina, faschist Boss, Giuliani. Bush was going to appoint Kerik to head Homeland Security. The hype from the media at the time, turned this two bit thug into 'America's Top Cop'. Even the NYPD couldn't stand him, as he was NEVER qualified for that job. I believe he used to be Giuliani's driver or something, and he picked him for NYC's Police chief.

They sent him to Iraq to train their police. He left without ever saying why and without completely the job.

Before Bush got to nominate him for Homeland Security, he was arrested and charged with corruption and sent to prison.

Bad cop is putting it mildly when it comes to Keric. He's out of prison now, and yes, the Media, who made a hero out of him after 9/11 can't seem to throw away their old reliable guests who will always be for violence as a solution.

He used to cry crocodile tears over 9/11 on Fox mostly. But it was discovered that he USED the apartment set aside for the workers who were searching for bodies, as his own private love-nest, depriving those for whom it was intended, from using it. His lover was a Fox News anchor, can't remember her name.

He's served his time now apparently and is out, and his new gig appears to be commenting on the integrity of the police on CNN. Unbelievable.

[LuvLoogie]

5. I haven't had a television since the public broadcast signal went digital.

And everytime I catch the MSM at my mom's or elsewhere, I just gag and cringe at the inanity. Such over-produced, over-hyped BS.

[Nictuku]

3. United States of Amnesia

I remember!

[merrily]

4. I knew they should never have let that POS out of jail.

Just think, he could have been head of homeland security.

Lives next door to a New Jersey Housewife (Bravo TV franchise), Caroline Manzo.

Her husand's father was rumored to have had mob connections. In any event, he was shot to death. His son, her husband, runs a wedding, etc. venue in Paterson. He somehow got free health insurance from the State of New Jersey by claiming he lived at that address.

Because of the TV show, Christie caught him at it. I don't think Christie prosecuted for fraud, though. Just cut off the insurance. Maybe. (They're Republicans and she's been on Fox, so maybe Christie is okay with it..)

Anyway....

Two grifters, off to see the world

And living next door to each other in Franklin Lakes.

BTW, I think Kerik, who was indicted on 16 counts, just may be drawing a pension for his police "service."

[catbyte]

6. "Next on CNN, Oliver North will discuss Obama's Iraq War..."

It wouldn't surprise me. How far they have fallen.

[davidpdx]

7. They had one guest who was even worse prior to that

Kevin Jackson who is part of the Black Conservation League (or something like that). The guy is a total and complete asshole.

[liberalhistorian]

8. WTF? What fucking rock did they drag

this crooked, corrupt cad of a cretin out from? CNN has really gone down the rabbit hole this time. Maybe they should send him to the Indian Ocean to find the missing Malaysian flight? I wouldn't put it past them at this point.

[littlemissmartypants]

9. Blow up your television. eom

[underpants]

10. 1week ago I asked as a joke....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1068&pid=17000

[sabrina 1]

11. Never underestimate the utter depravity of the Corporate media. Lol, you and every

other rational person on the planet would have laughed at that joke. But not the MSM. How low can they go? I'm afraid to ask.

[KoKo]

15. Check this out...More on Kerik's "unusual" connections

Decided to refresh my memory on Kerik...and isn't this interesting. He has quite a background...checkered...but interesting in how he has hopped around So. Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iraq:

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Wickipedia

Military and Police Service

From 1974 to 1977, Kerik served in the U.S. Army Military Police Corps. He was stationed in Korea as a military police sentry dog handler and to the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, assuming military police duties and teaching hand-to-hand combat to Special Operations and Special Forces personnel at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School.

Kerik was honorably discharged from the army in July 1977 and worked briefly for the Interstate Revenue Research Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, as an investigator before joining the Morrison Knudsen Saudi Arabia Consortium (MKSAC) in April 1978, where he was employed as a security officer at the King Khalid Military City in Hafar Al-Batin, Saudi Arabia, for nearly two and a half years. Upon his return, he worked for the Cumberland County, North Carolina Sheriff's Office, in the patrol division and later for the City-Country Bureau of Narcotics.

From December 1981 to October 1982 and then July 1984 to July 1986, Kerik worked at the Passaic County sheriff's office, in New Jersey. He served as the department's training officer and commander of the special weapons and operations, and ultimately chief and warden of the Passaic County jail.

Kerik worked from 1982 to 1984 as chief of investigations for the security division of the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Six members of the hospital security staff, including Kerik, were fired and deported after an investigation in 1984 by the Saudi secret police.


In July 1986, Kerik joined the New York City Police Department and was assigned to uniformed and plain clothes duty in the 14th Division in Brooklyn and in the Midtown South Precinct (Times Square). He was later transferred to the narcotics division as an undercover in Harlem, Spanish Harlem, and Washington Heights and was promoted to detective in September 1990. In 1991, he was assigned to the U.S. Department of Justice, New York Drug Enforcement Task Force, Group T-43 until he was transferred to the Intelligence Division in February 1994, where he worked on the protective detail for then-Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.

Interim Minister of Interior of Iraq

In May 2003, during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Kerik was appointed by the George W. Bush Administration as the Interim Minister of Interior of Iraq and Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Presidential Envoy to Iraq, L. Paul Bremer III. He was responsible for reconstituting the Iraqi Ministry of Interior which had dissolved into the community during the U.S. led coalition's invasion of Iraq. The Iraq Interior consisted of the National Police, Intelligence Service and Border and Customs Police. Prior to his departure on September 2, 2003,[23] more than 35,000 Iraqi police were re-instated, 35 police stations were stood up in Baghdad with several more around the country, the senior deputy interior ministers were appointed and the newly established governing counsel appointed the first Iraqi Minister of Interior, post Saddam Hussein, Nouri Badran.[24]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Kerik

[sabrina 1]

17. Amazing, when you look into the backgrounds of these people. Airc, he left Iraq in a hurry not

finishing the job he was supposedly there to do. No wonder though, that Maliki's AND our Iraqi police turned into such abusive, torturing entity.

I see the MSM is bringing back these bad guys, Bremer eg, who may have been the cause of the uprisings after he banned the press there, AND lost about 9 Billion dollars, which to my knowledge, was never recovered. HE TOO left Iraq pretty quickly but was never investigated.

So the MSM brings back these extremely questionable people, one a convicted felon, the other not yet convicted, to give their 'expert' advice on the very failures they are responsible for.

Do they think we have such short memories that we will forget the crimes they participated, and in one case at least, was even convicted of?

Scum of the earth, that is what we appear to revere in this country so long as they are on the 'right' side of our appalling Foreign policies.

[KoKo]

20. There was a DU post this a.m. saying Kerik has been on CNN this week on panel

and will be on someone's show this weekend. It seems, as you say, there is an effort to rehab the image of these criminals. And, yes...I consider Bremmer a criminal because he knew he was an unqualified "put up" for the job in Iraq... made lots of money off his incompetence while costing the lives of so many innocents by ordering Saddam's military to disband which left them jobless, without income, and created chaos in Iraq. PBS Frontline updated their original report on our failures in Iraq and had quite a bit more about Bremmer's incompetence.

BTW: Kerik from his hop scotch background seems like CIA or FBI to me. He doesn't stay in a job for very long and moves around the country and then the So Korea gig being "dog Sentry handler,"etc.

[sabrina 1]

21. You may be right about Kerik. Nothing else explains how an obvious incompetent and even

corrupt individual could get to such a high position in the NYPD, btw, most of them despised him as they felt he was 'jumped' into the position by the corrupt mayor, Giuliani, over other far more qualified people. Airc, he was just a driver for Giuliani whose own record, until they raised him up out of the gutter, as mayor was so controversial that right before 9/11 his political career was mostly over.

Low level tool of the CIA makes sense.

Bremer was also responsible for making the unbelievable mistake of shutting down Sadr's press which caused an eruption of violence that ended up being almost impossible to control. Between 'losing' 9 billion dollars and being the instigator of that uprising, he left pretty quickly after that. Maybe it was 'mission accomplished' rather than total stupidity and incompetence. We did have to 'stay longer' to 'help the Iraqis' restore peace or something.

What a scam it all is and there doesn't seem to be anyone who can expose it and end it and put the criminals where they belong.

[KoKo]

12. Disgusting...Resurrecting that nasty piece of work..n/t

[UTUSN]

13. Will Judith REGAN be co-guesting?

Back in their heyday, when she got her REGANbooks from MURDOCH (she published LIMBOsevic's first book), she had a Saturday night half-hour interview show on Faux, and one of her featured guests was her "author" KERIK. His book was the tearjerker about how he had been abandoned by his mentally impaired or druggie mother, how he couldn't understand why she never showed up at his foster hearing. The Judith publisher, who was well known to be ground glass with underlings, was totally maternal and pitying with this strapping author of hers, the lenses of the cameras dripping condensation as she melted them looking at him.

I suspected something was up with these two, and a few months later came the confirmation, that they had been carrying on a torrid affair at the City-paid apartment that was supposed to be used for rest for the first responders at 9-11.a

That explained THIS exchange: "Where were you when you heard about 9-11?" "Stepping out of the shower." Gasp gasp. "After working out." Gasp gasp.

She didn't have to use her imagination, having inspected every inch herself.

Then came the GHOULIANI nomination, the rottenness of all things Rethug/Shrub.

[eppur_se_muova]

14. They didn't add an "ex-convict" caption to the video ??

Very, very shoddy work in the control room. Should be reprimanded for negligence.

[winstars]

16. I was trying to find the segment to link but couldn't.

Though I might have had to buy a few new keyboards for some here if I did!

[spanone]

18. cnn is in direct competition with faux

[sabrina 1]

19. The dragged out Bremer also to 'advise' us on the results of the crimes he participated in. I guess

they think we won't remember these criminals. The gall of putting these morons, criminals on the air, and the sheer arrogance of the criminals themselves (did we ever find the 9 billion that Bremer somehow 'lost' btw?) for thinking they have any kind of moral authority and actually accepting the invitation to hold forth on 'ethics'? I knew the MSM was bad, but this is a new low.

At least while they had him on the air, they might have asked Bremer a few questions about his own record in Iraq, which he got away with, then went home to live in luxury.

And Kerik, what can anyone say? They guy who took over the apartment set aside for the Emergency workers at Ground Zero to get some rest, so he could SLEEP with a FOX NEWS anchor, using the NYPD to protect his love nest, while shedding tears on the air over the 'tragedy of it all'.