💼 Careercow Kurt Eichenwald / Roy Rogers / Andrew McDonald - Litigious Failed Journalist, Epileptic Sped, Trump Derangement Incarnate, Hentai Weeaboo Racist, Sexist, Suspected Pedo, Living Centrist Democrat Meme

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AnOminous said:
Eichenwald is deathly afraid to mention the people who actually dug this up were not "alt-right" anything. They were far left.

He'd lose a lot of the audience who will mindlessly reject anything if you just claim it's from the "alt-right" if they knew it was actually CounterPunch.
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Meanwhile I've been seeing people here and there calling Eichenwald himself a "neo-con". Apparently the excommunication process has begun.
 
Feline Darkmage said:
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Kurt is blaming all his problems on other people again.
The replies are a circlejerk of gross asspatters I don't want to cap.
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Someone who is more contemplative than Kurt might consider that his own actions, disgusting behavior and ridiculous justifications might be what inspires all of that. But to Kurt it's just all a conspiracy because he's... I don't know why he thinks he's so important, actually.

AnOminous said:
Also Debbie Nathan apparently did another article on this general subject, this one focused on Bernie Ward (formerly a liberal talk show host who served a sentence for CP distribution).

https://www.counterpunch.org/2007/12/10/the-perils-of-journalism-and-child-porn/

Unlike the one on Eichenwald this is still up...
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He never runs out of excuses. Journalism. Accidental CP. It goes on.
Bernie Ward, a San Francisco-based liberal talk show host, was indicted late last week on federal child pornography charges. His is the second such indictment brought against a media figure who then claimed he had the porn merely to do research and reporting. Meanwhile, a third journalist, a former New York Times reporter who engaged in similar behavior, has not been indicted. The inconsistency suggests that the government chooses whom to go after and whom to leave alone.

Yeah, that's concerning. They should simply go after anyone who possesses porn unless that person is law enforcement, on-duty, and pursuing a criminal investigatio. You can't just let people off the hook because they claim to be journalists. This article is going in a good direction.

And it makes clear that the media needs a First Amendment exemption or license allowing reporters to examine child pornography legally.

(sound of scratching record) Uh...

Before his indictment on December 6, Ward – who is 56 and married with four children—had two programs on San Francisco’s KGO-AM radio. One was a nightly political and news talk show; the other aired weekly and dealt with religion. In the 1980s ...

Ward’s lawyer, Doron Weinberg, told the San Francisco Chronicle that Ward accessed and distributed only a small amount of child pornography three years ago, for research he was doing to write a book about hypocrisy in America. The Chronicle quoted sources familiar with the case saying that “authorities noted that Ward was monitored as he went on a chat room and sent and received images.”

SENT and received images. SENT IMAGES. The very theory of making child porn illegal (and saying it isn't Constitutionally protected) is that the distribution and collection of the materials is victimizing the kids again. So even if you want to say that a reporter collecting images for a story isn't hurting the kids- and I think that's a dubious assumption- this guy was sending them to other perverts. That's exactly what the laws are made to punish. .

Indictment papers released on Friday support Ward’s claim that the government was involved in the case as early as 2004 but waited years to indict.

Ward’s case is strikingly similar to that of Larry Mathews, a media figure who faced child porn charges in the late 1990s. Mathews was a Washington DC-area radio reporter in his late 50s. He had won press awards and was known for covering social issues, including the problem of internet child porn. When arrested, he said he had acquired illegal material because he was impersonating a pedophile in order to do another story.

The government countered that Mathews had no notes or story assignment from a media outlet. The ACLU, National Public Radio, and other press and First Amendment organizations spoke out for him and filed supporting legal briefs. But an appellate court later ruled that journalists have no right to acquire or distribute child pornography while doing research. Mathews was convicted and served several months in a halfway house.

And that's because (one) reason why child porn can't be covered under some 1st Amendment claim of journalism is because there is no accepted legal definition for journalists. Anyone can do journalism. Anyone can CLAIM to to journalism. Anyone can decide to 'do' journalism because they get their rocks off on child porn.

If convicted, San Francisco’s Ward faces a maximum 15 years for each of three criminal counts.“The government knows that Bernie was doing this for an investigation he was doing for a book,” the Chronicle quoted attorney Weinberg saying.

Did 'Bernie' know that, as stated above, it doesn't matter?

“But the government believes he violated the letter of the law, and they have gone ahead and prosecuted him….The fact that these events happened three years ago – and they are just being prosecuted – shows the fact that nobody believes that he is a child predator.”

No, that's just how the feds work and prosecute cases.

The Examiner seemingly attempted to explain how Ward could have avoided prosecution by citing a federal law—which the paper mistakenly said “forgives” possession of three child pornography images if they are destroyed and promptly reported to authorities. In fact, that statute, which is part of U.S. Code 2252, allows only two images. And some legal scholars interpret 2252 as “forgiving” someone only if he or she came to possess child porn by accident rather than intentionally. A reporter deliberately researching child pornography would thus hardly qualify for “forgiveness” under 2252. In addition, the law is merely an “affirmative defense.” To exercise it, one would have to first be indicted. There is no case law indicating that any journalist has ever used 2252 to justify their work after being charged with possession or distribution of child porn.

However, the statute was cited in August 2006 by the New York Times. Kurt Eichenwald, then a Times reporter, said he accidentally accessed a few illegal images while doing month’s-long reporting on Internet child pornography. In a sidebar to one of Eichenwald’s articles, the Times said that a law – presumably 2252– excused the reporter’s encounter with the illegal material. But Eichenwald’s published work implied he had accessed far more than two images.

First of all, of course it was more than two images. Cause pedo. But more importantly, you don't 'accidentally' access child porn, Kurt. This is not a normal thing. And even if you do, because of 'journalism,' you don't download it and keep it on your hard drive. Nobody gets arrested for seeing random CP on an image board that a troll put up. You have to move your little mouse cursor over it and right click that shit (or, more likely, go through a number of more complicated procedures to 'access' it from torrents, deep web, whatever.)

Further, Eichenwald in 2005 obtained and used administrative sign-on privileges to explore a commercial porn website containing images of a 14-year-old boy masturbating. Eichenwald went on to write a major Times story based on reporting he did about this site and the people who ran it.

Eichenwald took the young man who ran the site to federal authorities, where he turned state’s evidence against his business partners in exchange for prosecutorial immunity. As a result, four people were arrested and convicted. Eichenwald’s work also led to Congressional hearings – at which he testified – where witnesses made unsubstantiated claims about the prevalence of Internet child predators and pornography. Those hearings were a run-up to passage of the 2006 Adam Walsh Act. It requires states to put children and very low-level offenders, such as public urinators and people caught with small amounts of child porn, on sexual offender registries for years – a policy that has since been condemned by Human Rights Watch. Since 9/11, the government has used unsubstantiated claims about the extent of child pornography to defend sections of the Patriot Act which intrude on internet privacy.

Treating people who technically committed indecent exposure (because they were drunk and pissing somewhere dumb) as if they were child diddlers is dumb. But none of that is what Kurt or these other guys did.

Eichenwald claimed he became involved with child pornography to find out about the problem. In some instances, he did not tell Times editors what he was doing. Later expose of his activities provoked intense controversy in the media world, and currently he is not working as a journalist. However, he has not been criminally prosecuted.

If KGO’s Ward is being truthful about why he was involved with child porn, the government is treating him differently than it has former Timesman Eichenwald. Is that because the feds don’t consider Ward such a good friend as they do Eichenwald? Does the DOJ deliberately go after certain types of media people and leave others alone? It’s too early to tell, since only three such individuals have been publicly implicated as involved with child porn. Meanwhile, the media has no way to cover the topic. To accurately describe the extent of the problem, to compare government claims with reality requires work that invites prosecution.

Journalists need some kind of system or First Amendment permit to allow them to do their reporting. Otherwise, the public will remain ignorant about what’s really going on with child pornography. And media people trying to find out will risk indictment, or worse.

Maybe next we will have to give journalists a license to kill people so they can tell us what it's like. After all, otherwise we may remain ignorant of how it feels to skin someone. And the public totally needs that information.
 
Found this on Twitter.
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Chan the Wizard said:
Eichenwald, who has two other sons (then ages 7 and 10), was haunted by the comparison. He showed the picture to his wife, Theresa, a physician. “I remember him saying, ‘This could be ours, this could be our boy,’” she says.
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This guy is seemingly incapable of not involving his family in his fuckups.

First he goes into detail about how his wife flipped out and had to call 911 when he had a (totally real) seizure after receiving the gif, then he tried explaining his hentai porn by claiming that he and his children were just trying to prove to his wife that it existed, and now he's saying he showed child porn to his wife and compered the child to his own sons.

I get the impression that he keeps dragging them into this as a misguided attempt to show the world "See !!! I have a wife and kids, I'm a totally normal person and don't have any strange quirks or fetishes to speak of"
 
76LD910 said:
I get the impression that he keeps dragging them into this as a misguided attempt to show the world "See !!! I have a wife and kids, I'm a totally normal person and don't have any strange quirks or fetishes to speak of"
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"I'm super duper straight and do not like children at all, that is why I 'accidentally' showed a tab of straight MILF porn."
 
Let me tell you, if you ever had contact with a Pedophile as a child, Kurt is in fact triggering. It took me awhile to put my finger on it. But everything he says and does is almost exactly the same as a monster from my childhood. A Pediatrician who was similarly "only in it to help protect and rescue the poor children" a true pillar of the community! Who held his Lovely wife and 2 charming children up as shields to hide his behavior in a way very similar to Kurt here. It was always all about him in the same way. (When the DA finally caught that asshole they had 1700 confirmed cases. Plus another 3500 kids that they were pretty sure of but who were outside the SOL. They convicted him of the worst 27.)
 
Blue Jerkop said:
Bernie Ward, a San Francisco-based liberal talk show host, was indicted late last week on federal child pornography charges. His is the second such indictment brought against a media figure who then claimed he had the porn merely to do research and reporting. Meanwhile, a third journalist, a former New York Times reporter who engaged in similar behavior, has not been indicted. The inconsistency suggests that the government chooses whom to go after and whom to leave alone.
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I should emphasize that this story's coverage of the whole Bernie Ward affair is unadulterated bullshit, and reiterate again that CounterPunch is not a reliable source. This author obviously sided with Ward based on politically liking him, something where Eichenwald didn't get the benefit of the doubt. Ward actually sent CP to a woman he was cybersexing. She was disgusted and horrified and immediately reported him.

Maybe the story is correct the feds were already investigating him, but if they were, they had good cause for doing it.

"Ward admitted to a single felony charge of distributing child pornography and signed an admission of distributing between 15 and 150 images via email." 'nuff said.
 
Huh, I guess we missed a golden opportunity to visit Kurt's house and see his CP/hentai collection in person. In April, he held an estate sale at his 1.9 million USD house in order to liquidate many of his possessions including boxes and boxes of "research" material.

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Dallas author Kurt Eichenwald research files from Enron, FBI, Gitmo and other notable items were part of his estate sale on Friday. (David Woo/The Dallas Morning News)

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/new...d-offloads-history-massive-fourth-estate-sale
It began simply enough, with a chair, then a dining room table, then all the furniture in the house. It ended with a 1906 letter handwritten and signed by Winston Churchill, books dating to the 1600s and a garage filled with boxes and binders stuffed with once-classified information about, for starters, the 9/11 terror attacks, serial killers, al-Qaeda, infamous insider-trader Ivan Boesky and prisoners detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Usually one waits till death to part with one's earthly possessions. But Kurt Eichenwald, who has chronicled the fall of Enron and the rise of Donald Trump and once wrote a book that turned into a movie starring Matt Damon, is very much alive. This is simply how a best-selling, headline-making author downsizes: Everything must go. Like, everything.

"My wife and I finally realized we have built up 30 years of really interesting stuff, and it came time to say, all right, we don't really do anything with it," Eichenwald said a day before the sale began. "So we decided on selling it."

Which is why at 9 on a Good Friday morning, some 100 people lined the walkway leading to his Preston Hollow manse. John Tabor, 72, of Fort Worth arrived two hours earlier to be first in line for the estate sale, which had been heavily promoted online and circulated among the estate-sale regulars.

Tabor is a seller of collectibles on eBay and lined up early for a crack at Eichenwald's overstuffed bookshelves, which, until Friday morning, were crowded with centuries-old titles nestled among classics of more recent vintage, as well as the author's own works, among them Conspiracy of Foolsand The Informant, translated into various tongues.

Tabor, like many standing in the drizzle awaiting the front door's open at 9 a.m. sharp, didn't really know Eichenwald's name, only that he was "kind of a sort-of famous author" — which Tabor picked up on Google.

"I did some checkin'," said Tabor, a grin peeking through his untamed white beard. He glanced toward the house. "He's obviously doing pretty well."

Others who researched his name discovered recent news stories detailing how Eichenwald, a senior writer at Newsweek, had suffered an epileptic seizure after a Twitter user sent him an animated photo of a strobe light. A criminal case involving a 29-year-old Maryland man is in federal court in Dallas.

But, truth told, Eichenwald's estimable biography, which includes a long stint at The New York Times, and recent notoriety meant little to those who'd descended upon the house on Lupton Drive. They were not lured by the promise of redacted FBI documents, which a few folks thumbed through out of morbid curiosity, but the usual reasons people flock to estate sales: to snatch up the good stuff and resell it online or in their booth at an antique mall.

"I like fountain pens," said Junior Lopez, a good-natured 73-year-old who'd driven down from Oklahoma City. "I go to pen shows, almost every weekend. Not sure there will be many pens here, but I came because the ad said it was a $1.9 million house and it belonged to a best-selling author. His name is kinda hard to pronounce. I'd heard he'd written books."

Tabor knew most of the people who'd lined up early. He pointed out who they were and what they were there buying: "That guy there, in white, he's here for the jewelry," and so on. He pointed out Stan Gold, who's been buying and selling other people's belongings since the 1960s and, at 84, is semi-retired.

Gold said before the internet, he would spend a month driving and picking his way through the Northeast, and make a mint selling the stuff he shipped back to Dallas. But now anybody can sell anything to anyone anywhere.

"The world shrunk with the internet," he said. Gold pointed to the slowly massing crowd and said he, too, spied several sellers among the could-be collectors and curious.

"Everybody's friends till they walk through the front door," Gold said.

The sale, which runs through 4 p.m. Saturday, is being conducted by DFW Estate Liquidators, whose owner, Cory Crites, is a picky sort, specializing, he said, in "upscale larger sales" like Eichenwald's. Before doors opened at 9 a.m., he walked the house, making sure price tags were added to big-ticket items — among them, the "Fundamentals of Corporate Finance" document circulated among Enron executives in the late 1980s.

"I want to put $100 on that," he told one his many employees deployed throughout the house.

He said Eichenwald had originally planned to shred the tens of thousands of documents liberated from storage warehouses in which they'd been stored. Crites persuaded the author to sell them instead. "They're a draw," Crites said.

Eichenwald's research materials include the medical records of Harold Shipman, the British doctor convicted of committing 15 murders but believed to have been responsible for upward of 250. Those, too, were in a warehouse, along with Shipman's appointment book. Eichenwald forgot he owned them until he went back into the warehouse to look for some old Trump documents.

"But I have no use for it," said the author, who will stop by the sale at 2:30 Saturday to sign books — or anything else. "Maybe somebody who likes serial killers will like it."

An hour after doors opened, more people were plowing through the rooms full of Halloween decorations and kitchenware and artwork and DVDs than the redacted documents. Some found the reams of paperwork fascinating; others, intimidating. J.R. Anderson, 60, flipped through a binder of World Trade Center schematic reports done after 9/11, and said they were "kinda cool and might be something to read." But he decided against it. Someone else had made off with a few Enron documents.

Eichenwald probably should have donated his archives to a museum or university. He briefly considered it, he said, only to discover "a backup of people trying to turn over their documents to get tax deductions." He said he couldn't find a library anywhere that "didn't have 100 people clamoring to get their stuff in there and had the room for it."

And he most certainly could have sold his antique books and Churchill letter through an auction house. But, he said, he just wanted to be rid of it all, at once, and an estate sale was just easier.

So, for $1,500, 32-year-old roofing company owner Andy Yelton walked out the door with the letter written 111 years ago by the man who would become Great Britain's prime minister during World War II. Yelton said he bought it for his England-born grandmother, now 100 years old.

"Stuff like this doesn't come available very often," said Yelton. "And my grandmother will get a kick out of this."
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Also the article had this funny photo of Kurt channeling his inner Costanza.

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millais said:
Huh, I guess we missed a golden opportunity to visit Kurt's house and see his CP/hentai collection in person. In April, he held an estate sale at his 1.9 million USD house in order to liquidate many of his possessions including boxes and boxes of "research" material...
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I'd be careful at that yard sale if you buy any of his "Anthrax investigation" stuff. If he treats it the way he does CP you'll probably inhale some spores...
 
He's really fucking shameless about promoting his vision of himself as a grand hero, isn't he?

Wonder if he feels that righteous when he's whacking it to pictures of little boys?
 
He probably uses the "I've rescued little boys!" shtick to prove to himself that he's different from this nasty child molesters. He's helped the children, you see. His love is pure.
 
Karl_der_Grosse said:
He probably uses the "I've rescued little boys!" shtick to prove to himself that he's different from this nasty child molesters. He's helped the children, you see. His love is pure.
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Certainly.

It's like the arsonist who helps clean up a home he burned down, or the murderer who willingly hops in front of the news cameras to vow they'll help keep their neighborhood safe; they love the attention, and use their "good deeds" as a smokescreen.
 
Karl_der_Grosse said:
He probably uses the "I've rescued little boys!" shtick to prove to himself that he's different from this nasty child molesters. He's helped the children, you see. His love is pure.
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Remember that he actually paid money to start up a child porn site that had previously been shut down, which immediately posted porn of a 14 year old boy, which was manufactured using funds provided by Eichenwald himself.

So he "rescued" kids from the porn site that literally wouldn't have existed without his money.

If you or I did this, guess where we'd be?

This dude, instead, is still walking around free pimping himself as some superhero.

Also, there should be some looking into the procedural history of all this. Because according to the CounterPunch (I just realized that abbreviating them as "CP" would be confusing) articles, he hired a criminal defense attorney and negotiated for immunity. I.e. he went state's evidence like any other criminal accomplice would have done.
 
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