theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 2/23/2009
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CBS News kicked up a big controversy over the weekend when the news broke that the network had hired as its new public relations chief one Jeff Ballabon, a conservative Orthodox Jew who helped Bush's reelection campaign in 2004.
huffingtonpost.com - 2/20/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
Today, I learned that CBS News named Jeff
Ballabon, a New York Republican activist, to serve as
the Senior Vice President of Communications. What is CBS thinking? This guy is very far out there with his partisan rhetoric. A decade ago, I debated ...
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Ira Forman: CBS News Pick Claimed Democrats are Bad People
voiceofwarriors.blogspot.com - 2/17/2009
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voiceofwarriors.blogspot.com —
Everyone who has been in the military, especially
to Iraq or Afghanistan, within the last few years
needs to watch the first part of this video. Look at the "military equipment" CBS is pushing as recently stolen or "looted" from US Forces. You ...
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CBS News fooled by Faux military equipment in Pakistan
mudvillegazette.com - 2/17/2009
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mudvillegazette.com —
The Voice of Warriors : Everyone who has
been in the military, especially to Iraq or Afghanistan,
within the last few years needs to watch the first part of this video. Look at the "military equipment" CBS is pushing as recently stolen or "looted" from US Forces. You will notice that it's ...
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CBS News fooled by bogus blackmarket U.S. military ...
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New CBS News Communications Exec Called Obama "Incredibly Dangerous" For Israel
TPM Election Central —
... to meet -- without any pre-conditions -- with the terror-supporting president of Iran shows his naivete. And even his Jewish advisors want to pressure Israel to divide Yerushalayim and to make sacrifices of defensive positions against the will of the military and security experts in Israel. They want desperately to appease the UN, the Europeans, the Arabs.
On the bright side, Ballabon is denying an allegation that he called Democrats evil. Greg Sargent reports:
"I never said Democrats are evil," he told me by phone just now. ...
The revolving door
Political Animal —
... Greg Sargent talked to Ballabon this morning, and he insisted, " I never said Democrats are evil ." Asked if he still believes the president is "incredibly dangerous," Ballabon declined comment. If Jay Carney making the switch from Time to Joe Biden's office is evidence of some kind of systemic predisposition in American media, what are we to assume about CBS News making Jeff Ballabon its new senior vice president for communications? And for those keeping score at home, Ballabon's move from Bush's team to traditional major media outlets is hardly unusual. He joins Michael ...
CBS News senior exec won't back off his earlier claim that obama is "incredibly dangerous"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
While the country moves to the left with a Democratic House, Senate and White House, CBS moves to the right.
CBS's Ballabon: 'I never said Democrats are evil'
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... that new CBS News PR executive Jeff Ballabon "is very far out there with his partisan rhetoric." And right now, HuffPost's media page promoting the post with its banner: "NEW CBS NEWS EXEC: 'OBAMA IS INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS.'"
Forman wrote that Ballabon once called Democrats "inherently bad people," and linked to a Daily News item where Ballabon called Obama "incredibly dangerous."
So the Post's Greg Sargent caught up with Ballabon for comment on these past quotes:
“I never said Democrats are ...
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Forman Post on New CBS VP Featured Throughout Blogosphere
NJDC Blog —
... and Democrats indistinguishable? It would be funny if Jews weren’t being killed.” Ironically, Ballabon told JTA, following his new CBS News appointment, that he “always worked well with Democrats and Republicans.”
Forman’s post was picked up by AlterNet, Media Maters, Political Base, Jossip, Mediabistro, Politico, JTA, Washington Monthly, Gawker, TPM, The Plum Line (A Washington Post Owned Blog), and others.
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CBS's Ballabon: 'I never said Democrats are evil'
politico.com 2/26/2009 — On the Huffington Post, Ira Forman wrote that new CBS News PR executive Jeff Ballabon "is very far out there with his partisan rhetoric." And right now, HuffPost's media page promoting the post with its banner: "NEW CBS NEWS EXEC: ...
Front Page of HuffPo: “CBS News Pick Claimed Democrats are Bad People”
njdc.org 2/23/2009 — Ira’s piece titled, “CBS News Pick Claimed Democrats are Bad People,” is currently being featured prominently on the Huffington Post’s front page.
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What is CBS thinking? This guy is very far out there with his partisan rhetoric. A decade ago, I debated ...
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