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A top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unleashed a lewd tirade of insults at a reporter who questioned his, as well as his employer's, handling of the attack on the Libyan consulate in Benghazi earlier this month.

In an email exchange published by Buzzfeed, reporter Michael Hastings revealed the vitriolic slew of attacks levied at him by Philippe Reines, Secretary Clinton's longtime aide and personal spokesman.

The correspondence slowly disintegrates to jabs and barbs over the United States' handling of Ambassador Christopher Stevens' death as well as the location of his journal, two topics that incited the seasoned spokesperson to call him an 'unmitigated a**hole' and to 'have a good day...And by good day, I mean F*** Off.'

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Holy shit! You mean Story is really Dick Cheney?!

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Ever the faithful sycophant, huh?

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but Bush!

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And it's funny that you claim I've never criticized Bush or the GOP. Done so, many times.

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And it's funny that you claim I've never criticized Bush or the GOP. Done so, many times.

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Really? Like what?

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Son, you claimed that you criticized Bush, but now you're appealing to Kwicko to back up YOUR claim? Do you any idea how pathetic you are? Wow.

Done with you here too.

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ha-ha.

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And it's funny that you claim I've never criticized Bush or the GOP. Done so, many times.

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Really? Like what?

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Ask Kwickie. He's got every post of mine on record.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

He LOVES to dig up random quotes from me, from years back, and re-post them, though usually completely out of context.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
As a matter of fact, party criticism should only count when it comes from WITHIN the party. That way, everyone knows its genuine and not just partisan slavering. In that regard, I nominate Jongsstraw and Frem and myself for the "Criticism from Within" award.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
As a matter of fact, party criticism should only count when it comes from WITHIN the party. That way, everyone knows its genuine and not just partisan slavering. In that regard, I nominate Jongsstraw and Frem and myself for the "Criticism from Within" award.

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But, erm, uhh... I'm not a Democrat!
Criticism from an Anarchist who doesn't even get on well with other Anarchists isn't from within, it's more strategic level bombardment from range, innit ?

I wonder how many YOU SUCK! flyers you could fit in a B52F....

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The plane crossed stealthily into Belarussian airspace and headed for the capital, Minsk. At the appointed moment, the cargo doors opened, and an invasion force of tiny plush freedom fighters parachuted to the ground.

Belarus was under attack — by teddy bears.

Three members of a Swedish advertising firm planned and carried out the operation last month, adorning more than 800 plush bears with signs promoting democracy and denigrating Belarus’s authoritarian government.

Comedic touches aside, the security breach has become a major embarrassment for President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, who has channeled his country’s meager resources into maintaining a calcified police state.

Though the government at first tried to cover up the incident, which occurred on July 4, the many photographs and videos of the bear drop uploaded to the Internet made it impossible to ignore. On Tuesday, Mr. Lukashenko fired two generals: the head of the border service and the head of the air force.

“How do you explain the provocation with the airplane that not only crossed our borders, but entered the territory of Belarus unpunished?” Mr. Lukashenko fumed last week in a meeting with security officials, according to the government’s Web site. “Was this the stupidity of specific actors or systemic mistakes in the defense of the airspace?”

The Swedish organizers of the bear drop, two cousins and an associate, are at pains to explain how they avoided detection by Belarus’s air defenses.

“We expected that the plane would be forced down,” said Per Cromwell, who monitored the operation from the ground. “My job was to drive the getaway car, to pick up the pilots when they landed and get to an embassy,” he said by telephone from Sweden.

As it turned out, the small single-engine propeller plane, which took off from an airport in neighboring Lithuania, spent about an hour and 20 minutes in Belarus airspace and flew back unmolested after dropping its cargo. Mr. Cromwell said the plane was piloted by his cousin, Tomas Mazetti, and their associate, Hannah Frey, who wore fuzzy bear masks during the flight. Mr. Mazetti had received his pilot’s license only several weeks before the operation, Mr. Cromwell said.

At one point, he said, air traffic controllers in Minsk tried to communicate with the two pilots in Russian, but neither could understand what they were saying.

Things could have gone much worse. In 1995, two Americans in a hot-air balloon accidentally drifted into Belarussian airspace. On orders from Mr. Lukashenko’s security officials, a helicopter gunship intercepted the balloon and fired a missile that killed the men.

The bear drop was the latest and most complex in a series of political protest actions by the cousins, who founded and run a small advertising firm called Studio Total based in Malmo in southern Sweden. Last month, they collaborated with a Swedish feminist party to burn about $13,000 worth of Swedish kronor in public to protest unequal wages for women. And last year, just for fun, they organized what they called the Pillow Fight World Cup at a community center in Brooklyn.

“Every year we try to use the money we earn to do something that we think is important,” Mr. Cromwell said. “We thought it was a brilliant idea to criticize and attack a dictator with teddy bears.”

Mr. Lukashenko, who has never been accused of possessing an excessive sense of humor, has hit back hard. In addition to firing the two generals, he also delivered an official warning to the minister of defense and his deputy.

Two people have been arrested. One, Sergei Basharimov, a real estate agent, rented an apartment to Mr. Cromwell for his brief stay in Minsk. The other was Anton Suryapin, a young blogger and journalism student, who seems only to have posted witnesses’ photographs of the incident on his blog.

Both are being held in Minsk, said Tatyana Revyako, who works for the human rights group Vyasna, based in Minsk. She said the authorities had released no details about the charges against the two men.

Mr. Cromwell said neither of the men had anything to do with the operation.

Teddy bears are not the only toys to have taken shots at Mr. Lukashenko’s authoritarian rule. In February, stuffed dogs, bears and a raggedy rabbit gathered in central Minsk for a plush-toy protest against Mr. Lukashenko.

The human organizer of that action, Pavel Vinogradov, was arrested and sentenced to 10 days in prison.

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Teddy Bears might be better. ;)

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Der Leader does not like being questioned.

Incredible incompetence on display here, from the top down.

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What an absolutely ASININE thing to say!!! The person who wrote that is completely out of his head to try to make such comparisons!

An AIDE--is of course the same as Obama, you betcha. Incompetence? Then you have to stick it next to that aide from the other side and his asinine statements to the press person, then you can stick them both where they belong...

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Originally posted by Niki2:
Some of his actual STAFFERS were filmed making "war whoops" and "tomahawk chops". These are not just "some folk", or even Brown supporters, they are his STAFF: Identified in video making the chop are Brown's Constituent Service Counsel Jack Richard (camoflage shirt) and Massachusetts GOP operative Brad Garrett, front and center with tan baseball cap and gray hoodie, gleefully leading the whoops and chops. Also present was Brown's Deputy Chief of Staff Greg Casey.

Bear in mind these are people directly connected to Brown's campaign, his senior staff, and their salaries are taxpayer financed. How could they do what they did without Brown knowing about it or condoning it? If they could, what does that say about his control of his campaign?

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As for the Scott Brown thing, it's irrelevant. A PLANNED action by numerous people is completely unequal to two off-the-cuff remarks engendered by frustration, one from each camp.

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We don't KNOW when it started...

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What an absolutely ASININE thing to say!!! The person who wrote that is completely out of his head to try to make such comparisons!

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Apologies to anyone who may have posted anything RELEVANT, but I'm not going to bother with another one of "those" threads. All I have to say is it was stupid, the person should be rebuked at the least, and while I certainly understand the frustration, there's no excuse for this. Period.

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"You're wrong. I'm right. And no amount of phony indignation on your part can change any of that.

Deal w/ it."

And this is what passes for intelligent discussion in little rappy's mind.

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"You're wrong. I'm right. And no amount of phony indignation on your part can change any of that.

Deal w/ it."

And this is what passes for intelligent discussion in little rappy's mind.

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