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Huffington Post Blogger Let Go After Aiding Dramatic Anti-Bank Protest

It was a story that seemed almost unbelievable last week. Union workers were protesting a mortgage bank conference at a posh D.C. hotel, when they suddenly overwhelmed security guards and barged into the meeting much to the bewilderment of the bankers. The lively protest lasted for 10 minutes until more security arrived. But as it turns out, the group had some inside help: a blogger from the Huffington Post.

That blogger has now been let go. But he’s having a hard time understanding why due to his view of journalistic integrity.

The controversy focuses on 24-year-old freelance labor journalist Mike Elk. Elk secured press credentials to the event through his affiliation with HuffPo. But it’s what he did next that many say compromised his journalistic integrity. Instead of keeping his credentials to himself, Elk passed them on to one of the union organizers. By using those credentials, the protesters were able to gain access to the conference.

“I’m sorry to say we are revoking your access to our blog and ending our association,” Peter Goodman, HuffPo’s business editor, wrote to Elk in a January 20 email obtained by Yahoo! News’s The Cutline. “I appreciate that what happened yesterday was a poor decision on your part, one made on the spur of the moment, but it was simply over the line from an ethical standpoint and it would compromise our integrity to have you continue to write for us or represent us in any way.”

Elk, who’s been with HuffPo since 2009 in an unpaid capacity, disagrees. “I never lied to anybody at any step in this process,” he told The Cutline on Friday. “There is a tradition in labor journalism to be active participant journalists,” he added, and as an example cited Michael Moore. “This is a tactic union organizers use all the time.”

The entire story worries NewsBusters writer Lachlan Markay, but it’s the reference to Moore that has him most concerned. “Perhaps Elk’s problem has to do with his invocation of Michael Moore and union organizers as exemplars of journalistic integrity,” he writes.

Cutline author Joe Pompeo agrees that Elk crossed the line:

Of course, Elk was ostensibly there to cover the Mortgage Bankers Association event, not to disrupt it with a protest tactic. And you’d be hard-pressed to find a news organization that would condone one of its reporters doing what he did. But the incident does raise questions about the blurry lines of what counts as proper comportment for the Huffington Post’s mashup of activist-citizen-journo contributors.

The story has set off a war of words between Goodman and Elk. Goodman says Elk broke HuffPo’s rules by not getting permission to cover the event first, while Elk says the “rules” are not clear and that HuffPo is “embracing the corporatist style of ‘objective journalism.”

“We are simply not OK with anyone accrediting themselves as a Huffington Post reporter without prior clearance from an editor,” Goodman told The Cutline. “The real sin here is that he essentially entered into a bogus contract in which he deceived an institution he’s supposedly there to cover. It’s really a very narrow issue. I wouldn’t be OK with that from anybody. It makes no difference what kind of event or what institution we’re dealing with we. We just simply can’t have that.”

When Elk responded he didn’t receive much guidance, HuffPo spokesman Mario Ruiz cited a portion of the site’s guidelines located on an employee-only portion of the site that instructed writers to garner pre-approval.

“We severed ties with Elk for the very simple reason that he abused a media accreditation by handing his pass to someone else, enabling them to disrupt an event he was supposedly there to cover,” Ruiz told The Cutline.

But its Elk’s response that raises serious questions. In an attempt to slam the website, Elk took the odd approach of accusing HuffPo of having stiff view of journalistic integrity.

“It‘s a shame that the Huffington Post is abandoning the blogger’s world of exposing evil through whatever means necessary and embracing the corporatist style of ‘objective journalism,’” he said. “Goodman [who came to HuffPo from the New York Times last fall] and like-minded ‘objective journalists’ believe that they have the sole right to determine what is ethical even though their corporate driven media industry almost always favors big business and other elite voices.” [Emphasis added]

Translation: bloggers shouldn’t be held to the same journalistic integrity standards as “regular” writers. It’s a notion Goodman quickly dismissed.

“We’re not interested in pandering to any ideological position,” he said. “We’re interested in asking tough important questions and holding powerful institutions to account. And that’s an objective that can only be served by us behaving transparently.”

The liberal website The Daily Kos came out in support of Elk, treating him as a hero of sorts. It ran its own version of Elk’s grievance last week under the headline, “H-Post Editor Bows to Bankers and CUTS TIES to Reporter Who Helped Expose Them.”

Seemingly emboldened by the support he’s received, Elk used his Twitter account to discuss a possible lawsuit against HuffPo filing a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board:

Huffington Post Blogger Let Go After Aiding Dramatic Anti Bank ProtestElk is not the same HuffPo reporter who wrote a story on the original union incident referenced by The Blaze last week.

Editor’s note: The headline of this story was changed from “fired” to “let go.” Huffington Post bloggers are not paid and not considered employees. Thus, they cannot technically be fired.

UPDATE:

In an e-mail to The Blaze, Mike Elk clarified that he is not planning on suing HuffPo. Rather, his tweets referenced the possibility of filling a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, “which investigates unfair labor practice allegations made by employees.”

Elk admits he “was not employed by the Huffington Post.” However, he thinks there could be a case made that he was a new “hybrid of an employee” — a worker that answers to one employer but gets paid through others. He says he received forms of compensation through other organizations as a result of his HuffPo blogging.

“This is an increasingly worrisome trend in journalism as more and more journalists get paid by outside funders to write for publications,” he writes in his e-mail. “I am considering using the NLRB process in order to determine what are the rights of employees in this situation.”

When asked what he would do if the NLRB ruled in his favor, he was adamant that he is not seeking a lawsuit.

Comments (95)

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  • BoilitDown
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:33am

    Elk’s actions preclude objectivity which is vital to any real journalist. HuffPo and apparently many other media outlets should probably review their policies on vetting who gets press credentials and precisely how they are to be used.

    If labor leaders commonly use the press as a tool for their message the press violates the Journalist Code of Ethics. That would be a huge story on it’s own.

    Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2011/01/24/huffpo-blogger-fired-using-press-creds-abet-union-protesters#ixzz1C3sQryCz

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  • thetang
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:32am

    Snowleopard is correct in stating the chain reaction theory! I like to think of it as being the ten little indian story? Then there were none,but ofcourse there will always another? Watch the other hand?………

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  • Aub
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:32am

    reporters are to report news not make it… Like peter did while at CNN

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  • Buck_Ofama
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:28am

    Looks like ole Mike’s mom “…may have violated the

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  • kens
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:19am

    Don’t worry about this guy. He‘ll be offered a paid job on Obama’s speech writing team.

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  • MikeinIdaho
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:18am

    And another marxist is let go! Maybe he and Keith can start their own “news” business, huh?
    That sound you hear is the implosion of the Left after the spanking they got last November.

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  • mickey16
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:08am

    He’s going to sue them for firing him from an unpaid position? I hope they award him all of his back pay.

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    • Beckaj
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:13pm

      LOL. That was pretty much what I was thinking.

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  • awiderview
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:59am

    So you don’t think the Huffington Post did the right thing? He represents the Huffington Post- they gave him the credentials. He can try to do what he did on his own, but not using HuffPo credentials. Please give me an example where Glenn Beck decided somebody on his staff went “over the line.” Has that NEVER happened? What are HIS “standards?”
    BTW: Glenn says he started the THEBLAZE with $50 (”or was it $500?”- he wasn’t sure). Does he not have any paid jounalists? Is everything donated? Why does he say those things? I think the bar is set pretty low by Mr. Beck…and he’s proud of it. Is that what we call American “exceptionalism?”

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    • Ex_Masshole
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:39am

      Deflect, distract, redirect.

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    • Slayer
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:40am

      In response to AWIDERVIEW – Um, Beck didn‘t send someone down to a banker’s meeting to swap credentials and help them overwhelm security thus creating what was a volatile situation and could have gotten a lot of people hurt or killed.
      Good try at trying to change the subject. But here‘s right back at ’ya:
      In the last 25 months, Obama has given us record deficits, record unemployment, record bank failures, record death toll in Afghanistan, record number of people on food stamps, record trade deficits, record home foreclosures, record spending, record number of golf games played by a President, consumer confidence at record lows – I could go on, but I’m sure you get the point.

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    • awiderview
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 12:34pm

      @Slayer
      Did HuffPo send this person? Not according to what I read. Isn’t that part of the reason he was fired.
      Much of what you place on Obama’s shoulders comes as a consequence of previous administrations (but especially from Bush). I don‘t understand why that isn’t evident to all (just as many in the incoming Congress wants to “correct” things from the previous Congress- it cuts both ways).
      I see both the Left and Right as pushing their points too strongly (BTW: Glad to see Olbermann is gone from MSNBC), but, really, where does Bech “draw the line?” Actually, he does draw a line on himself- he does apologize from time to time (good for him!).

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  • JohnnyJT
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:51am

    Is that something New?

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  • IntrepidSI
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:48am

    I thought Ms. Huffington had her foot amputated this week? Oh, wait, that was one of the attractive Gabor sisters.

    It’s like James Carvel Cake used to say “You can drag press credentials thru a group of liberals, but it don’t make them reporters”.

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  • jackkemo
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:33am

    Muah hahahahahahahah , Muah hahahahahahah!!!! Lmao

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  • JCoolman
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:26am

    HuffPo has integrity. Hahahahahahah

    I dont know why they had to worry about anything. The FCC (Cass Sunstein, Mark LLoyd and Free Press) are on their side.

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  • dizzyinthedark
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:23am

    Tigers eating their young?

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  • Sandy
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:20am

    Any other time, Elk would be a hero, but at a time when Soros, HPost and lefties are trying to blame the right for the rhetoric that causes violence….blah…blah….blah.

    This blogger stepped out of the Soros line when he tried to continue the same tactics they have been doing for over two years. Soros moved the cheese and Elk‘ster didn’t change quick enough for them. So he’s fired!! Has tire treads on him from the Bus!! When you step out of the libs line, they are through with you. Hitler was the same with his minions. Elkie, you sold your soul to the DEVIL SOROS!

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  • oriondma05
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:13am

    I have a question and it’s a bit off topic. A former friend from college and I were arguing, and socialism came up. He praised socialism, blasted the US for being the only nation without government healthcare, it‘s Bush’s fault, etc, all the lefts usual talking points.

    And I said, fine if socialism is so great, name me a socialist program that actually works.

    He said the military, the military is a socialist program that works and that’s why socialism works.

    At that time, I just ended the argument. Can the military be defined as a socialist program? I wouldn’t even know how to define it as socialist or non-socialist.

    Any opinions or advice is appreciated.

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    • Sandy
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:32am

      The military is a product, not an economic system. They are there to protect a country. Tax payers PAY for the military. It can not support it’s self. It is a tool for the civilian government. Everyone in the military is NOT the same. There is a rank system. They are not paid the same. They are not treated the same. Officers can NOT date enlisted. Military also has NO freedoms while in uniform.

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    • cykonas
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:05am

      Here is my two cents worth. First, the military is not a social program like healthcare would be, or like welfare, food stamps, ADC, education block grants, farm subsidies, etc. So, I wouldn’t try to rebut any argument that was framed as the military being a social program. Almost every form of government that is, or ever was, has had a military component as part of its structure.

      The next time you talk to you friend ask them to name one country that adopted any Statist form of government, meaning socialism, Marxism, communism, etc., that has proven to be prosperous for the majority of the populace. There is not one example in history. Now, if you happen to be at the top of the pyramid in one of these systems life is grand. But for the vast, vast majority they are horrible systems of government.

      Socialism, in particular, is a system of government where the means of production and distribution of goods and services are controlled by the government. In some ways the United States is socialistic. My advise here would be to stay away from labels (socialist, Marxist, capitalist, etc.) in your discussions because there are almost no pure examples of any of these systems that exist. Many will say that the United States is Capitalist, or practices Free Enterprise. To a large extent neither of those statements are true in my opinion. We may be freer than most, but we are not free. Our government doesn’t directly own the means of production or distribution, but they DO control them through tax policies and incentives, subsidies, tons of unconstitutional regulations and many ignorant (my opinion) treaties and trade agreements with foreign governments that inhibit the free flow of commerce.

      My last point would be this. The defense of our country is one of the few Constitutionally mandated powers of the Federal Government. As such, the military is one of the duties our government should fulfill. The social programs, on the other hand, are not Constitutionally mandated and the Federal Government should not be involved in any of them. So, if I were going to discuss the military with someone I would discuss it from this frame of reference. Whether it’s socialistic or not is immaterial to me. Our Constitution says the Federal Government has the duty to protect our country and that’s what the military is for. But, in all honesty, I can’t see where you friend thinks the military is socialistic unless they are arguing from the point of reference that a lot of money is channeled to defense contractors for military hardware and other things.

      Hope this helps a bit and isn’t confusing things further. One last thing…don’t argue…discuss. Unless, of course, your friend is just a plain lefty idiot who will never be convinced anyway.

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    • Slobaphobe
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:00am

      He is probably referencing the fact that military members receive housing, food, healthcare and veterans benefits including healthcare, housing loans etc as part of their compensation and reward for service. I would point out all of these benefits are in lieu of equitable salary in the private sector and, of course, the least we can do for those who volunteer and/or respond to perhaps give their last full measure of devotion to our nation, to quote Lincoln. Consider these “socialist” benefits as rewards for providing for the defense of his nation as required by the constitution. Individual and corporate Welfare and subsidies on the other hand are a reward for not working and producing forcing redistribution of his income to others. This is not found in the constitution. In fact, it is contrary to pursuit of Life,Liberty and Happenstance(happiness).
      I might ask him to compare and contrast the definition of socialism as it relates to a soldier who goes into battle at the command of his President and a farmer paid by the USDA not to plant his fields for artificial price supports.

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    • TonyDarrington
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 12:29pm

      You write like veryseniorcitizen. Is that you matt yglesias? I sense the smugness in your comment, as you figure the stupid blazers will not be able to describe how the thing they most cherish is based on the thing they most despise.
      Soldiers provide a service to the american people in return for a paycheck. Therefore not socialism. I think i had this discussion with you before under another screen name.
      Welfare momma who gets a check from the gov, but provides no service in return is closer to sociaism. That is a miserable failure.

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    • cykonas
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:27pm

      @TONYDARRINGTON
      Sorry to disappoint amigo. Cykonas is the only name that I’ve ever used in here.

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    • TonyDarrington
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:32pm

      @ CYKONAS, My reply wasn’t to you, it was to the original poster. Matt Yglesias, a prog blogger, posts here frequently among a group of people who usually post under “veryseniorcitizen”. He sometimes signs his posts with his last name or initials. He has a particular writing style that tries to come across as a folksy, conversational tone, but has a air of arrogance and condesention only a Harvard philosophy/ journalism major could produce. This post from oriondma05 (sounds like a play on grandmaof5) smacks of the same folksy arrogance that only Matt can produce.
      I apologize to the poster if I am wrong, but I really don’t think so.

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  • Silversmith
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:08am

    When the end justifies the means, rather than justifiable means governing obtainable ends – chaos ensues.

    Progressives do have a tendency to consume each other in their process.

    Silversmith

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  • exdem
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:07am

    Bwahahahahahahahahah!!! Huffy poop says Elk’s behavior was “over the line from an ethical standpoint and could compromise our integrity”!!!
    BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
    That is the funniest line I have ever heard.
    You have to have ethics and integrity in order to compromise it.
    I encorauge him to sue Arianna and her Boy Toy Georgie Soros. I love it when the eat their own.

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  • JUSTSAYIN
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:04am

    “compromise our integrity”,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, now THAT’S funny right there ,, I don’t care who you are,, that’s funny right there

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  • randy
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:02am

    It had to kill Huffpo to fire him. I’m sure they knew about his actions ahead of time, and probably even gave him their blessing. Someone else must have have opened their mouths or threatened to.

    Huffpo with Ethics? Yeah right…….If you believe that I have a bridge in Brooklyn.

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  • Hefsmaster
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:02am

    Huffpo uses a “freelance” blogger to cover banker conferences. What did they think was going to happen? Don’t they read what their bloggers are posting over there? Isn’t this part of the script? Oh yeah,shhhhh.

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  • chazman
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:59am

    Has anyone heard from TAHA of the Choctaw Nation lately?

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:58am

    Another dangerous right winger! Oh wait, the blogger’s a lefty….how can we make this fit our agenda?It aint easy keeping up with all the B.S. the left spreads.

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  • Marcobob69
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:57am

    Oh those loony left bloggers! Never let a crisis go to waste!!! Hell, never let a chance to further your agenda go to waste!!! They(the progressives)keep showing themselves for what they really are!!!

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  • zeakster
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:56am

    huffpo has standards? wow thats a new one. perhaps elk should work for the new york times

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:13am

      Or the Obama administration.

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    • jeff714
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:16am

      he left the times to go work for huff-n-puff,they were not creative enough!

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:40am

      ““Goodman [who came to HuffPo from the New York Times last fall] ”
      ________________________________________________________
      Now there’s a shock. Knock me over with a feather. Who would have guessed?

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  • cykonas
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:55am

    It’s not going to be much longer before almost everyone on the far left is feuding amongst themselves. It’s funny to watch.

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    • historyguy48
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:04am

      Sounds like this unpaid staffer (slave labor) has ticked someone off. Remember, the Libs have a sense of humor, their hero Che used to laugh as he executed “criminals”.

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    • Ironmaan
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:08am

      What is important here is that what was demonstrated is that many “journalists” on the left are not impartial to events, but have an agenda that they further through their writing. They are not to be believed.
      http://guerillatics.com

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:10am

      Lefties vs, Progressives vs, Marxists vs. Communists vs. Looney Enviromentalists vs. Homonsexuals vs. Abortionists vs, Atheists….Should be fun to watch the implosion. It should all fire up really good as soon as the Unions are cut off and the Government runs out of money to feed the feckless….

      Riots in the streets, the government teat suckers and Unions dragging the Elitists out of their offices and mansions. Yea…It’s gonna be bad times for the left…

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:28am

      WHAaaa! A journalists with no integrity! What is this world coming to. All I can say is when it all breaks loose be ready to hunker down and protect your property and family. None of these folks have a conscience. All bets are off when the fun begins.

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    • HillBillySam1
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:37am

      The sad thing seems to be that they are fueding over how far they can push the envelope. Huffpo is more concerned about the “perception” than the actual activism by one of their bloggers. The Daily Kos wants more actism from it’s bloggers and encourages it. Just remember that Progressives are sticklers for the rules. Not for them…..for you. Progressive protest and dissent=GOOD……..Conservative protest and dissent=Dangerous, hate-filled, racist, violence. Anybody know where I can buy the Chinese pianist Lang Lang’s music CD…..I hear that he is very popular in China…..and the White House.

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    • Snowleopard-the artist {cat folk artist}
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:04am

      So now the left is starting the final collapse into the core of liberalism and progressivism? Hope it is so, yet understand that when a star does the same event, the mess of it going nova or super nova is a spetacular explosion; spetacular from a distance, and ultimately destructive at closer range.

      It is from actions of a few leftists like these that the new generation of radicals, anarchists, and the extremists – terrorists will come from. We need to watch, and be ready for any extremists actions to set off a chain reaction.

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    • BlazingInSC
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:30am

      So let the moron sue for lost wages…. What’s that come out to? Ummmmm, ZERO! Someone needs to let Mr. Elk know it’s OK to let go. He’s probably got some old girlfriends (or boyfriends for you PC folk out there) who have given thought to filing stalker charges against him. Now’s the time…

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:37am

      “it was simply over the line from an ethical standpoint and it would compromise our integrity”
      _____________________________________________________________________________
      “Now the rest of you get back to work making up lies and bashing Beck and Palin.”.

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    • So
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:06am

      Holy cow! The huffington post has a line to cross? Wow. When did that happen? I‘m sure it’s a movable line, but good for them that they (cough) have “a” line.

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    • dcwu
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:21am

      Why can him HuffPo?
      He didn’t do anything the rest of you would not have done.
      And he was free.
      Whoa; One can’t do something for nothing long or they die.
      Where did his money coming from?
      Hey Georgie; Is that you behind that curtain Georgie Soros?

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    • chuck
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:27am

      One also has to be pondering the police shotings all of a sudden? 11 in just a few days?
      Yellow journalism is the norm today, by whatever means necessary!

      On 1/17/11-1/20/11:

      In 1 hour we lost 9 jobs, in 24 hours we lose 913 jobs, in 36 hours we lost 2,638 jobs.

      In 1 hour we added 271 Food Stamp recipients, in 24 hours 26,699, in 36 hours 77,000!

      Source usdebtclock.org

      Looks to be a bumpy ride ahead…

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    • KICKILLEGALSOUT
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:30pm

      I love it! Huffington post has more attention thrown at them exposing them by showing what kind of standards they really have there by showing the type of lunatics that they hire as journalists and also another lunatic journalist gets fired in the process. Liberal Dog eating Liberal Dog it’s a fun sport to watch!

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    • pajamash
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:48pm

      Seems to me if you are making news rather than reporting it the act you are performing is questionable. By giving his credentials to others he created a news event.

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    • pajamash
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:58pm

      “He says he received forms of compensation through other organizations as a result of his HuffPo blogging.”

      Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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    • suttonea76
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 2:29pm

      As they say, the rattlesnakes are committing suicide.

      (Mississippi Burning)

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    • Bronco II
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 3:04pm

      Now that’s what I call ENTERTAINMENT.

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    • WTH
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:24pm

      Kind of funny when you hear someone try to say journalistic integrity and Huffington Post in the same breath. I‘m very surprised that they fired him over this and didn’t give him a front row parking space for employee of the month.

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    • drphil69
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:47pm

      I think this guy has spent toom uch time in “the blogger’s world…” Ariana should be careful, and maybe keep better company.

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    • DisillusionedDaily
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:02pm

      The Hufington Post has Objectivity and Ethics? Ya coulda fooled me!

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    • Lunar
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:44pm

      VERY VERY funny to watch. I first however had to get the blood squeegee to get all the blood of the screen as i was trying to read the HUFFINGTON POST TALKING ABOUT JOURNALISTIC STANDARDS!!

      AHHHHHAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! ZEE BLOOD IT IS EVERYWHERE..

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    • backwoods_intellect
      Posted on January 27, 2011 at 3:26am

      Now c’mon. You believe that the HuffPo is imploding faster than the Beck Empire?

      Huffington Post is indeed imploding, they’re tossing out moderates faster than you can say FoxNews. But don’t get cocky, friend.

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