Enquirer's Pecker blackmails Bezos' pecker, loses

By PeraclesPlease on Thu, 02/07/2019 - 6:39pm |

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https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146e3922310f

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Interesting perspective here:

The Duke of Wellington was once supposedly blackmailed by a courtesan of the time, to which he responded, "Publish and be damned!"

Now @JeffBezos is doing the same, and publishing the blackmail email to boot.

The constant references to 'Mr. Pecker' are gold.

Bravo, Jeff. https://t.co/AiFAd9CcGG
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) February 7, 2019

Especially as regards the whole thing of the still relatively new use of social media for the political smear.

by artappraiser on Thu, 02/07/2019 - 7:21pm

What's that smell?

I and at least one other prominent journalist involved in breaking stories about the National Enquirer’s arrangement with Trump fielded similar “stop digging or we’ll ruin you” blackmail efforts from AMI. (I did not engage as I don’t cut deals with subjects of ongoing reporting.) https://t.co/kHQdWIkVjV
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) February 8, 2019

J.
F.
C. https://t.co/TiN3PaYv5A
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 8, 2019

This should be getting more attention > https://t.co/6E8VlovDxw
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 8, 2019

AMI is awfully worried about something Bezos’s investigation might uncover. What? It can’t be just generalized sleaze. That’s not news. I’ve got to think AMI is panicked about something particular. Odds that it’s Trump-related?
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) February 8, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 02/07/2019 - 11:27pm

Fuck Bill Kristol.

by A Guy Called LULU on Fri, 02/08/2019 - 12:03am

Bill Kristol has had a paradigm shift, and I LOVE IT!

by CVille Dem on Fri, 02/08/2019 - 3:06pm

Oh don't let Lulu get to you, in basically thinking the past is the same thing as the future and therefore tribal grudges must be continued. Keep on thinking people can and do change and new coalitions and matches of interest can be built. (Actually isn't it some kind of natural law that if they don't change, not just they but also their kind may die off eventually?)

There's so many good classic quotes about this--

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein

There are more here; this one is a particular personal favorite:

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Isaac Asimov

by artappraiser on Fri, 02/08/2019 - 7:15pm

Did Trump illegally grab Bezos texts?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/07/jeff-bezos-national-e...

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 02/08/2019 - 11:04am

Peracles, how do you get any work done at all? It would take me hours to come up with a title like this one!

by CVille Dem on Fri, 02/08/2019 - 3:07pm

Don't ask, I have to test every lede under real life conditions. This one was probably the hardest.

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 02/08/2019 - 3:29pm

National Enquirer's reporting on Jeff Bezos under scrutiny by federal prosecutors

By Brian Stelter, Evan Perez and Kara Scannell, CNN Business, Updated 11:11 AM ET, Fri February 8, 2019

[....] Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are reviewing the National Enquirer's handling of their Bezos reporting to determine if the company may have violated last year's deal, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN on Friday.

A spokesman for Bezos declined to comment on whether he has contacted the FBI or other law enforcement authorities about American Media's actions [....]

by artappraiser on Fri, 02/08/2019 - 7:27pm

Preet Bharara retweeted this version of the same story 7 hrs. ago, and I imagine he may have sources to back up these sources:

NEW: Federal prosecutors are reviewing the National Enquirer’s handling of its story about Jeff Bezos’ extramarital affair to determine if the company violated an earlier cooperation deal with prosecutors https://t.co/hoCr2Y8C5f
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) February 8, 2019

by artappraiser on Fri, 02/08/2019 - 7:32pm

Meanwhile I was thinking how Qnon et. al. must be going crazy about the spread of Teh Deep State.

by artappraiser on Fri, 02/08/2019 - 7:39pm

John Schindler:

As promised ===>https://t.co/Mfgg3FjfKf
— John Schindler (@20committee) February 8, 2019

by artappraiser on Sat, 02/09/2019 - 12:20am

Trump has made a career of bullying people who couldn't or wouldn't fight back, with the help of sleazebags like the Enquirer/Pecker & Cohen and various corrupt foreign entities who saw an opening.
His run is nearing its end. He's punching above his weight now, & will see why he should've stayed in the flyweights.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/09/2019 - 7:44am

Enquirer's Pecker blackmails Bezos' pecker, loses

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