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Segami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 11:40 AM
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Anatomy Of A " Movement ": INAFJ ( I Need A Freakin Job )" Comes Courtesy Of BREITBART
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" If you were to believe Jeff Baker, you'd think that he was just a disgruntled small business owner who is frustrated with the economy squeezing him to the point where he needed to shut the doors. It's a story we've all heard, one I can even tell with my own specifics.



But Jeff Baker wanted to be sure the President heard him, so he put up a billboard on Interstate 190 that says "I need a freakin job. Period."


It's a really nice website, too. Not a homegrown. boring kind of site at all. It's got merchandise, videos, even "inafj.tv"!


A website like that doesn't come cheap, even if they hire a designer who uses a stock template and stock photos. It's nicely done.


See, here's what they didn't tell you. Scott Baker works for Breitbart.TV.


Scott Baker has reported and anchored television news for nearly 20 years.


He became interested in broadcasting while working on political campaigns during his school years at Wheaton College (Illinois).


He has worked at the Voice of America in Washington, D.C., CBS News in New York, and at local television stations in Erie, Pennsylvania, and Saginaw, Michigan, and for the last 13 years at WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh.


Viewers have come to know Scott best for both his humor and his skills anchoring and reporting during breaking news events.


According to Jeff Baker, Scott Baker paid for the sign, and likely for the rest of their 'movement', too. Or Breitbart did.


A movement? No. A campaign? Yes. Non-partisan? No. Hidden agenda? Yes.


Got it? Good. Now tell everyone else, including the MSM like CNN.com, CBS.com, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and anyone else you can think of, because presenting this as the effort of one disgruntled businessman and his brother is just a lie, and Andrew Breitbart knows it.


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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 11:42 AM
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1. Thanks for posting.
:thumbsup:

I thought it was a bit fishy.
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 11:44 AM
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3. DUPE
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 11:55 AM
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4. Well, thank YOU then.
:hi:
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 11:42 AM
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2. It did seem curious
A whole bunch of out-of-work folks spending their money on a message billboard? Didn't make a lot of sense. But our somnambulent bulldogs of the Fourth Estate were right on top of the visual; not so much on following the money behind it. The real question is whether Breitbart can just play the popular media like a fucking Stradivarius, or if the media are complicit in their own punking.
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