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Breaking: NYU Fellow Resigns After Controversial Sexual Assault Tweets

NYU’s Center on Law and Security has just released a statement about fellow Nir Rosen. Rosen has come under fire for posting appalling and insensitive tweets about the sexual assault of CBS reporter Lara Logan. Now, the center says Rosen has tendered his resignation, and it has been accepted.

Executive Director Karen J. Greenberg issued the following statement:

Nir Rosen is always provocative, but he crossed the line with his comments about Lara Logan. I am deeply distressed by what he wrote about Ms. Logan and strongly denounce his comments. They were cruel and insensitive and completely unacceptable. Mr. Rosen tells me that he misunderstood the severity of the attack on her in Cairo. He has apologized, withdrawn his remarks, and submitted his resignation as a fellow, which I have accepted. However, this in no way compensates for the harm his comments have inflicted. We are all horrified by what happened to Ms. Logan, and our thoughts are with her during this difficult time. [Emphasis hers]

One of Rosen’s tweets suggested Logan was a war monger and would become glorified for what happened to her:

Breaking: NYU Fellow Resigns After Controversial Sexual Assault Tweets

See the rest of the tweets here.

Comments (129)

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  • Volsense
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:23am

    Just another liberal exposing his hatemongering attack on someone he disagrees with and then whining like a victim when he gets called on it. Being NYC Law, nothing new here.

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  • Mackerel
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:23am

    I see the position of “Tweet Czar” in his future.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:32am

      Puh-leeeeeze! Don’t give Obama any help!

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  • Pray for USA
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:23am

    I hope he will use some of this time to examine his attitude toward his/our country. I got the impression he thinks the USA is an evil country.

    Pray for his conversion. Pray for Laura and all those who were attacked and will be attacked.

    Pray for true peace.

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  • tonyedward
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:22am

    They should have denied his resignation and fired him.

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  • djeffcoat
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:21am

    Spread cheeks insert head. What an idiot!

    There is a God!

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  • sdranger
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:19am

    Exactly all to fast for my taste. He had a job already lined up.

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  • tinydd
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:16am

    Nope, Holder’s right hand man in 5-4-3-2..

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:14am

    For he’s a jolly ex fellow, he’s a jolly ex fellow, he’s a jolly ex fellow… which nobody can deny.

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  • ISeeDanger.com
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:14am

    “tendered”???

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    • Showtime
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:29am

      Yes, that is an odd word to use in his case.

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  • smithclar3nc3
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:13am

    Was his comment offensive sure,but what harm could a comment cause? This is straight up B.S.
    First we as a society attacked those who inflict damages through physical force and now we are attacking offensive speech as if he causes harm. Well if that’s the case anyone who says anything that someone finds offensive is causing harm…..REALLY

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    • MONEY_FOR_NOTHING
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:28am

      Thank you for illustrating exactly what political correctness has done to our society. Thanks to the need to not offend anyone, no one can say anything.

      However, a small measure of decency is in order in any society. If Ms Logan was your wife, or sister, or even your friend would you appreciate someone saying she deserved to be attacked?

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    • Edgar Bennet
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:51am

      Plus Freedom of Speech allows for reaction due to said speech. It‘s not like he’s facing charges, there’s consequences when you go against social norms

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    • lovepeace
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 12:13pm

      You are failing to make some important distinctions here. As @Edgar Bennet says “there are consequences for violating social norms”. There is the side of RIGHT and there is the side of WRONG as surely as there is GOOD and EVIL. Ask a woman in your life what she thinks.

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    • lovepeace
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 12:40pm

      @Smithclar3nc3
      “What harm could a comment cause?“ This goes beyond ”offensive speech”.
      In a CIVILIZED SOCIETY (you moron) rape is illegal, unacceptable and deplorable. Rape is a crime. A crime of power over an individual (most often a woman) in a completely different way than if you had just punched the person in the face. It can nearly destroy your soul.
      Mr Rosen was saying in essence that she deserved it- for her views on war. He was saying that this violence is acceptable, laughable even.
      I am going to assume that you are actually so horrified by this that you have some kind of strong internal denial reaction going on. I dare you to talk to a woman family member or friend about this.
      As a conservative and former liberal I stand strongly for the value of every individual life.
      A society that fails to honor and protect it’s women is a society that is doomed.
      Mr Rosen spouting his hateful support of what happened to Lara Logan needs to be denounced. Thank God he was.

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  • MONEY_FOR_NOTHING
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:12am

    “:Mr. Rosen tells me that he misunderstood the severity of the attack on her in Cairo.”

    The very first story released reported that Ms Logan was sexually assaulted and beaten several times over a long period of time. What about those statements did he misunderstand?

    Oh, I’m sorry. I expected the NYU “journalist” could understand the English language. Too much to ask?

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  • stinkybisquit
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:08am

    Begins working at Center for American Progress in 5-4-3-2…

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  • Notorrius
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:06am

    I don’t understand why some people feel its so bad that this azz wipe said what he did. Let them say how they feel so we can see just what kind of people this Rosin guy is. He meant every word and thats his right in this country. Doesn’t mean we agree with it.

    I just think all these people who want to shock our systems need to speak the truth so we can ignore them. What happen to Mrs Logan is a crime but she knew going in things like this could happen. I pray for her to heal and I think we should all shun people like Rosen.

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    • LLATPOH
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:19am

      I’ll agree with your initial point. He does have a right to say it. Hence our right to respond.

      But, to imply that this reporter should have seen it coming because there’s a possiblity that she could be mob-raped? Really? I‘m hoping that I’ve simply misunderstood your message.

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    • Edgar Bennet
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:49am

      WTF

      She‘s a reporter who’s naive and has the liberal narcissistic mind set of ‘won’t happen to me’. That does NOT mean she has kinky tendencies and wants to be raped by some dirty Egyptians. I’ll be accepting your resignation as soon as you get it to me also

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    • donh2
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 12:25pm

      Re Edgar… Given the number of years Laura has been reporting in this part of the world your excuse of her actions as simple “naive liberal idealism” is simply not credible , …I am within my rights to wonder if Laura needs some professional therapy like that blonde reporter who lost control of her speech at the grammies for the insanity of putting herself in that situation.

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  • powhatan
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:05am

    Very sad how easy it is for any of us to put out very damamging words. It is so easy to get caught up in it. Lara was so kind to my son in Afghanistan. She even sent me a personal note and some raw footage with my son in it. I will be forever thankful. I pray for her healing!

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  • ExpertShot
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:04am

    What‘s scary is the fact that he’s going to be a lawyer some day…wonder how many witnesses he’ll end up intimidating?? (I can’t imagine him being on the prosecuting side of any case). Hopefully some “un-official notation” will be made about him so when he tries to take the bar exam, this incident will be brought back up & he can be watched very carefully..

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    • etetetet
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:21am

      He’s going to be a lawyer – well that says it right there.
      Root cause of many of US problems: this stat is a few years old but, I would like to think it has not changed that much; US has ~ 6% of the worlds’ population —- US has ~ 66% of the worlds’ lawyers. It will never change without a revolution of some type because the law makers (Congress) created so many elements of the US society to live by, that their firms (after they leave Congress) or their friends firms etc. – The Big Business of Legal – will benefit for 20-40 years after something is enacted.
      Just saying

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    • biggreenboo
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 12:38pm

      @ etetetwhatever

      Damm!t… I was trying to prove your math wrong… but it is pretty close.

      Oh well, guess we have to get rid of a few lawyers so my math will be correct.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:03am

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    Tweet That Fool…..

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  • bdbill0629
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:03am

    that‘ll teach a lib to speak what’s in his/her heart!

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  • LLATPOH
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:03am

    I‘m going to say it’s not nearly enough, and he should be set in front of an angry mob and given a dose of vigilante justice.

    I know, I know. I’m a hateful slimeball for promoting violence against this scumbag.

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  • Colhauser
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:01am

    I hope that my twitter message caused it!

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:59am

    .
    Still who did not know 200,000 guys and 1 Blonde was just asking for trouble?

    Someone at CBS needs to resign for what happened to that woman…….

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    • Showtime
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:13am

      I agree with you!

      And, what took the NYU guy so long to resign?! I’d say he was called into the office.

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    • Muslim in Chief
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:23am

      Actually it was 200,000 sexually repressed angry Islamic men who have a piss poor vision of women to begin with, and one blond who was asking for trouble

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:23am

      She has to take some of the responsibility for her own safety. You’re right, a mob of sex starved men is not a safe place for a good looking woman. I doubt anyone forced her to go in. She wanted a story. Common sense should trump a story though. Send in Geraldo Rivera, nobody will care too much if he gets thrashed.

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  • ImBatman
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:58am

    At least Mr. Rosen had the decency to resign, which is the only decent thing he’s done during this horrible time for Ms. Logan.

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    • lovepeace
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 12:05pm

      I would bet that Ms Greenberg asked for his resignation or strongly suggested that was his only route. Out the door.
      No woman – not even a progressive-can hear this story of Lara Logan’s and not be completely horrified at her experience and what this means for her life. Mr Rosen is a a self-indulgent lying worm and I hope progressive women everywhere seriously question what the heck they are doing with their lives and who they are “sleeping” with.

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  • dirtypolitics
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:58am

    Serves him right.

    My prayers are with Ms Logan.

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  • brntout
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:58am

    Wonder which media outlet he got his news from?Misunderstood? Really?

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  • SolGXP
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:57am

    Well, Hallelujah. We dont need that kind of “speech” degrading a reporter who was just scarred for life.

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    • Timmtamm
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:41am

      Thank heavens he exercised his right to free speech. It makes it easier for people to tell the creeps in this world from those who have noble intentions. Actually we need more people like this to voice their opinion. Please speak out! Don’t hide your agenda. “Let’s have the discussion.”

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:57am

      There were a lot of Blazers who behaved like creeps, too. How a man can be insensitive or dismissive about ANY woman getting raped is beyond me. I don’t give a d@mn if she’s a prostitute. No woman deserves to be raped.

      As to the other common comment here blaming CBS for sending Logan to Egypt, women are sent to war, and that is insane too. It is not just CBS, but the whole American culture that has lost touch with reality.

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    • ProgessiveFail
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 12:19pm

      It was very foolish to send an ex swimsuit model into that crowd. Although Helen Thomas probably would have been ok….

      “Sexual harassment of women is an all-too-common occurrence on the streets of Cairo. But many women noted a complete absence of it in the early days of protests in Tahrir Square

      However, in the final days, and especially after the battles with pro-Mubarak gangs who attacked the protesters in Tahrir, women noticed sexual assault had returned to the square. On the day Mubarak fell, women reported being groped by the rowdy crowds.”

      full article here :

      http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110215/D9LDGRHO0.html

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    • Timmtamm
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 1:03pm

      @kryptonite
      Why are you changing the subject? The discussion is on this NYU professor. You seem all ready to excuse his actions by comparing it to some anonymous trolls who post on blog sites. Any idiot knows that every blogsite has its trolls. No need to do some generalized statement about “Blazers.” It serves no purpose other than to try and insult someone on this site.
      As for the professor, and the same for any else who justify rape and sexual assualt, their words are as condemnable as any who speak about such acts as justified, or even as a “joke.”

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:25pm

      @Timmtamm
      “Why are you changing the subject? The discussion is on this NYU professor. You seem all ready to excuse his actions…”

      Actually, I was picking up on a qualifier you used. You seem to have missed my comment to A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right @ T-2.

      “….by comparing it to some anonymous trolls who post on blog sites. Any idiot knows that every blogsite has its trolls. No need to do some generalized statement about “Blazers.”

      Any idiot knows I was referring to Blazers, not trolls. Any idiot also knows that “a lot” means just that; not all, but many. Maybe you did not read the comments that were made regarding Logan. Maybe you did, but you think conservatives are above reproach, no matter what we say or do. Regardless, you are way off base.

      “It serves no purpose other than to try and insult someone on this site.”

      My purpose was to express my chagrin. And yours was… to insult me?

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  • T-2
    Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:56am

    That was quick. I wonder if he’ll be working with Oberman?

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    • Muslim in Chief
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:03am

      He is actually going to be taking Olblahblahmen’s place

      Obama Bin Lying  
    • Taquoshi
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:05am

      I’m sure that Albore will be thrilled to have him join the team.

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    • nothingbuthetruth
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:08am

      Soros will pick him up

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:08am

      Good riddance.

      Though, I would like to add, for what it’s worth, that it did seem, based on his tweets, as though Nir Rosen did not know the extent of the attack.

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    • Michiganjohn
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:12am

      I‘m a high school drop out and I’m smarter than this idiot.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:15am

      @Michiganjohn
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:12am
      I‘m a high school drop out and I’m smarter than this idiot.
      —————————
      Obama is believed to be college educated, but you’re smarter than he is, too.

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    • Hobbs57
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:20am

      This is one of these young idiot’s who is driven by his extreme anger at the US Government for lying about WMD in Iraq. Even though nearly al.l of Congress and the Senate believed he did as well.

      Here is an article from Salon.com, as they praise this Anti-American-Anti War hate monger … It is an interview with him as he expresses just how angry he is. So Angry that he is willing to put his life on the line to gain the truth. Just like me,being an X-Addict, if I go to any city or town in America I can find drugs and illegal activity if I want to find it. If I want to write a story about how messed up America is and how Americans are just a bunch of junkies, I am certain I can find the people to give that story. However, as I have become sober and do lot’s of volunteer work, I can give story’s about hope and the great compassion of our people in America, in the very same town I find the story painting America as a horrible place. Sadly, these youth’s have been indoctrinated and trained to sniff out their fellow cohorts who hate the West and America. Then act as if this is the opinion of the whole world. These people make me sick to my stomach.
      Here’s the article of this idiot — http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/radio/2010/12/13/rosen_transcript

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:26am

      @A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Oh really? He felt she deserved it, because she had supported McChrystal, period. The “grope” statement was a lie, posted to excuse his cruel anger, once he realized he was in deep water. You don’t become a martyr because you have been groped. This b#$%^&# has no excuse for what he wrote.

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    • JayCee
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:59am

      What a lowlife scumbag.

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    • 8jrts
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 12:40pm

      @A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Seem you don‘t either or you wouldn’t be making excuses for him.

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    • exdem
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 12:49pm

      I looked him up. He is an Israeli that sides with the Palestinians. BIG SURPRISE!!!!
      I think he’s going to work for Helen Thomas now.

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    • Hugh Williams
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 1:06pm

      I don’t know if his is but, he looks like a muslim. If he is a muslim this explains his remarks. Women are worthless to muslims.

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    • jblaze
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 1:25pm

      James 3:2-10 (King James Version)

      2For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

      3Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

      4Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.

      5Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

      6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

      7For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

      8But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

      9Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

      10Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

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    • Michael Vick
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 1:40pm

      Twitter is a dangerous thing…

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 2:21pm

      Good, I hope he will never work in the education field again, polluting young minds. He sounds like a Media Matters kinda guy, sort of rude, crude and socially unacceptable.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 2:30pm

      Good thing he is gone now.

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    • DrFrost
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 2:34pm

      On one hand I’m horrified at what he wrote. On the other hand… if we all end up getting fired when we say something that offends someone, what happens to freedom of speech?

      Lara Logan has my deepest sympathies and the freedom of speech has my deepest devotion.

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    • leftiesaredangerous
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 3:16pm

      @DRFROST

      That’s exactly what I think.

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    • jzs
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 3:26pm

      I wonder what his Blaze user name is. Sounds like a lot of the posts I read here.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 4:52pm

      Good thing Obama called for civility. You can always expect the left to respond in a sensitive, compassionate, and caring manner. NYU is full of these trash-ass people. The leadership at NYU is no doubt approving of his actions, they just asked him to resign so as to not have the spotlight shined on their little cockroach school. They foster this type of disgusting human behavior and call it liberalism. Hope he doesn’t have a daughter.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 4:55pm

      Good one. His Blaze uername is beckisnuts, encinoma, encinoman, techengineer, walkwithme1966 whatever. I’m sure he has several other alias that were assigned to him by media matters.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 4:58pm

      and last i knew he didn’t get fired, he resigned his fellowship. I am pretty sure he will still be there tomorrow indoctrinating peoples children. I‘m also pretty sure that there is a scumbag rapist out there who has his eye on this guy’s wife or daughter. He’ll change his trash-ass liberal tune one day.

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    • JoeBtfsplk
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 6:21pm

      According to a National Enquirer report, Logan is at the center of a bitter divorce between Joe and
      Egyptians may have been aware of National Enquirer article about Lara Logan.
      Seems Logan is a homewrecker!

      Kimberly Burkett. Joe Burkett is a U.S. State Department contractor who was in Baghdad alongside Logan, which is reportedly where the affair began. From the National Enquirer:

      The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively that CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes foreign correspondent, Lara Logan, has been named as the “other woman” in a Texas couple Joe and Kimberly Burkett’s bitter divorce.

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    • jzs
      Posted on February 16, 2011 at 6:56pm

      No, slap the left, they were yours. Man up. I see the Blaze delected some of the most despicable quotes (good job Blaze) but here is one still on the intitial thread:

      “Just watch a few episodes of “ Little mosque on the praire” and you’ll be OK lady [Logan].”

      Cute.

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    • BIGDAN63
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 7:22am

      here is what is posted on Nir Rosen web site; Born in New York City in 1977, Nir Rosen is a freelance writer, photographer and film-maker who has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and other popular tourist destinations.
      tourist destinations if your a terrorist.

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    • mobynowak
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 2:12pm

      @Michael Vick
      Only dangerous to the stupid and the oppressive.

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