Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Walks Out of CNN Interview

[MrObama]

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Wikileaks Press Conference - 23 oct 2010 (part 1 of 4) -->>

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x518100

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[ProfessionalLeftist]

1. The lame$tream media are trying to make Assange the issue...

....and he isn't.

This is a distraction.

[stray cat]

3. he does not appear to be an unwilling participant to media play

[ProfessionalLeftist]

6. In a very specific way, no. However I stand by my statement. n/t

[liberation]

29. LOL at the lame attempt at blaming the victim...

... niiiiiiiice. Keep it up!

[EFerrari]

7. She tried to hijack the event with personal smears.. Presstitute. n/t

[ProfessionalLeftist]

9. Bingo. n/t

[suffragette]

12. Exactly. And when he directly confronted that, she stated

"No, I'm not" and then proceeded to do the same thing again.
More than once.

[EFerrari]

19. I can't catch her name? Did you? n/t

[suffragette]

26. Atika Shubert

Here's a link with that info:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/23/julian-assange-walks-out-_n_772837.html

[EFerrari]

27. Thank you!

:hi:

[suffragette]

34. de nada

:hi:

[swilton]

22. + 1

Classic Rovian (Republican) tactics - if you don't like the message, attack the messenger.

[tabatha]

10. Yep the same sensationalist journalism

that keeps gossipy type stories as headlines - and not the more serious issues of harm to other countries, the planet, etc.

They are also trying to discredit him.

[xchrom]

2. You used an exclamation point - did you think

He should have done something different?

[ProfessionalLeftist]

4. He SO did the right thing. I wish more people would stand up

to media bullsh*t the way he did.

[EFerrari]

5. What a disgusting hack this woman is.

What is her name? Her whole deal was to attach Julian personally.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

8. Exactly. They wanted to make it personal - about him, rather than..

...about the issues his org is uncovering. Cheap media & political trick. Usually Republicans use that one.

[whathehell]

13. Cnn is very Republican. nt/

[ooglymoogly]

43. Cee en en is very up in intelligences' ass and or visa versa.

Making a non story out of something as sensational expose of war crimes and treason. This is an old pug trick.

She is following in the shyte tracks of the wolf. She was warned about 5 times and just kept up with the inane and the insane.

He should have given, or should give, an interview with Kieth or Rachel to get to the bottom of these earth shattering things instead of this crap, an attempt at covering them with the absurd.

Cee en en should stick to runaway brides and lost little blond girls.

[JDPriestly]

50. Assange sure did not fall for the beautiful, sexy woman

sits with you for a few minutes and tries to make you make a fool of yourself.

Puts the whole story of his alleged sexual vulnerabilities in doubt.

He is a pretty cold fish. The woman was trying to fish herself, but caught nothing.

Good for Assange on this one.

Oldest trick in the book. Get a pretty woman to change the subject. Unbelievable.

[bc3000]

11. Culture clash: a serious person meets american media silliness.

I commend him for walking off and not dignifying CNN's 'Entertainment Tonight' imitation of journalism.

[suffragette]

14. Well said

[Radical Activist]

15. Ironic.

She says there's criticism that his personality will eclipse the stories. Then she avoids the real story by attacking him personally. It would appear that CNN is avoiding the substantive issues raised by wikileaks.

[rainy]

16. He warned her three times that he would walk if the discussion

didn't get back to the deaths exposed by the BRAVE leakers at wikileaks. She blew it big time.

[glitch]

23. She probably thinks she's "tough" and counts it as a victory.

They are that silly.

[liberation]

30. Or maybe she thinks she is so "smart" that a slight rephrasing of the question would not be noticed

She was fishing for sound bytes and when he wasn't playing along, she just got stuck. She was obviously following a script and she did not know how to move away from it in real time.

[glitch]

33. Probably. Whatever she "thinks" it won't be that she is a jackass.

Which is what everyone else (except her employers, or maybe them too) thinks.

[tomm2thumbs]

17. interview questions & interviewer paid for by the CIA ?

just asking - I had to ask the question

[Papa Boule]

57. Just a little Wurlitzer music for our entertainment

A couple of things:

1. I get the feeling that a lot of people commenting on this are a lot more circumspect or "respectful" in what they're saying -- because now in the back of everyone's mind is the troubling awareness that our government has new power (and therefore willingness) to whisk "enemies" away in the dead of night and torture them. Even if the government doesn't do it to domestic citizens, the fact that the government does it at all is having an intimidating, suppressive effect on the discourse.

2. Check out some of the comments on this Reddit thread. There's a lot of speculation about the possibility the interview was manipulated in several subtle ways.

http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/dvdg6/wiki_leaks_founder_walks_out_interview_with/

[peacetalksforall]

18. Isn't it true that when someone is asked to be interviewed that there is an

agreement about what the subject is. Clearly, he didn't agree to this subject. Perhaps he would have had it taken place about half way between the releases. It's obvious to an imbecile that the interview should be about the latest release. CNN - acting on behalf of the Barons, Bilderbergers, Tri-Lateral's, CForeignRelations members, the Pentagon, the (previous?) State Dept and Executive Office and all profit driven corporations a service businesses. How many millions in contracts were signed per month?

[Charleston Chew]

20. US, British govt lies about Iraq casualties

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x518034

[RetroLounge]

21. Good for him

She's was a total Press-titute.

RL

[EFerrari]

24. If you have the time, please go to YouTube and leave a comment!

[AlinPA]

25. Who is that slimy questioner? She probably calls herself a "journalist". nt

[karmkay]

28. He warned her at least three times that

he would walk if she did not abandon that line of questioning so one must assume that she wanted him to terminate the interview. What a dumb jerk. She gets her moment of cnn fame and we don't get the info that she could have gotten.
It was clearly all about her.

[liberation]

31. Did anyone notice the lighting in the interview?

Assange had the dim "evil" dark red light, the CNN "journalist" was under the "pure" white light. Very subtle, and quite telling.

Also the so-called "journalist" did not seem to understand the difference between "interview" and "interrogation." She kept asking the same question because she wasn't getting the answer that she wanted to hear. Either she was following a script or she was obviously trying to follow a specific narrative to fit their "creative" editing later on. Good on Assange for not playing ball.

It is also amazing how with each leak, the American media rushes to defend the government... Oh, my how things have changed in less than 40 years, we went from the Pentagon Papers, and the US media fighting the government... to the current state in which the media and the government are literally in bed with each other. Disgusting.

[kgnu_fan]

40. You noticed very important point, thank you. US media is dead

[flyarm]

60. Operation Mockingbird...look it up! eom

[Enrique]

32. shouldn't she be reading the released documents?

400,000 is a lot to read, CNN needs all available personnel to help out.

[Celtic Merlin]

35. You vill anssswer zee kvestion or vee vill asssk it AGAIN !

Vee have vays of making you talk!

This woman had a real shot at one Helluvan interview and SHE BLEW IT! "Stick to the script! Stick to the script! Stick to the script!" In trying to make the interview about Assange personally ("Your personality is overshadowing the organization" and "Charges in Sweden"), she blew a shot at scooping every other media organization on the planet. What an idiot. If she worked for me, her next interview would be with a 1st grade class in Peoria - the whole class, one at a time.

Celtic Merlin
Carlinist

[Scruffy1]

36. Screw CNN-unplug your TV

It's time for all of us to get rid of your TVs and think for yourself. The whole media is one vast propaganda machine.

[Ghost Dog]

37. Bingo.

[EFerrari]

42. Support the independent media. Start with LInkTV and FreeSpeechTV.

They need our help.

www.linktv. org

www.freespeech. org

[Devil_Fish]

54. +1. did it a long time ago.

[David Zephyr]

38. CNN cheer led both wars by whipping up fear. These two wars are CNN wars.

Wolf Blitzer and Aaron Brown fed the Cheney lies with relish to CNN audiences and the blood of millions are on their hands.

Where's that interview?

[ooglymoogly]

46. +1 for the truth. nt

[flyarm]

61. ahh MSNBC and Fox did it as well..big time! as Did ABC,NBC and CBS.

they are all guilty, 100%.

To say other wise is to lie,

[Subdivisions]

39. As he should do. Good for him. Atika Shubert has the chance to do some

real journalism and all she wanted was sensational dirt on Assange, making him the issue and not the deaths of thousands and thousands and thousands of murders committed by our government in our names.

[sabrina 1]

41. Good for him.

Far too much airtime is given to propganda and smear tactics by the MSM here. She came off looking like an amateur.

Most likely her bosses were whispering in her ear 'ask him about the legal issues'.

But she was unmoved when he mentioned all those deaths. Far more important to airheads like her is the gossip.

There are no journalists left in the this country. Which is why Wikileaks must survive.

The media is totally controlled by the MIC when it comes to telling Americans the truth about War.

[Pharaoh]

44. good for him!

[EFerrari]

45. CNN feedback form.

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?47

And btw, great comments at YouTube! :yourock:

[sabrina 1]

47. Lol, the comments at Utube are 100% in favor of Wikileaks

so far. Just left another one. I guess the operatives haven't arrived yet.

I'll send some feedback also, not that they care .....

[Pharaoh]

53. Thanks Liz

Just sent them a nice note O8)

[jimlup]

48. Way to play it Julian!

That is crap like that should always be dealt with. We could learn a lot from Julian Assange.

[Dave From Canada]

49. That guy's a scumbag. He's done the same thing Plame had done to her. Except he's done it to

dozens and dozens of people.

[EFerrari]

51. You really don't know the difference between a whistle blower and Dick Cheney?

:wow:

[sabrina 1]

52. Was Valerie Plame lying people into a deadly war?

Did she order the torture of untold numbers of people? Did she tell the American people that if they didn't support an invasion of IRaq they would be nuked by that country? And did she and say that Iraq had WMDs?

I know this will come as a shock to you. But the rest of the world overwhelmingly opposed that war and they went ahead anyhow.

Wikoleaks is not an American enterprise. Fortunately because all of our media is censored. They do not have to be concerned about the leaders of countries whose lies they expose as they are neutral.

Do you like your government lying to you? Killing innocent people in their own countries?

Why would you object to the lies being exposed? Seems to me there is no downside to truth.

[NobleCynic]

55. The comparison is flawed

He is not a government official throwing an underling under the bus for political gain. He isn't even an American citizen. As such you can't consider his actions to be a betrayal. He does not consider himself an ally of the American government or the American military. Consider him scum if that is your inclination, but find a better metaphor.

[flyarm]

59. Is this the new talking point? I have now seen this same bullshit on another thread

almost verbatum.

Now repeat after me..

Democrats don't do talking points..

Democrats don't do talking points..

Democrats don't do talking points........

[Bullet1987]

56. This dude is the real deal...he has real intelligence not some fake crap trying to sell books

And the media isn't taking him seriously. Or rather, they want to divert attention to his personal life and not talk about what's really important and he doesn't have time for those old games. I'm glad he walked out!

[flyarm]

58. This gals mommy and daddy need to get their money back from what ever Journalism school this gal

attended..it was not money well spent! In Fact I would call it ..mal practice!

She should have her degree revoked.