Politico Writer Shares Gif of
Himself Burning American Flag
by Matthew Boyle 20 Nov 2013, 3:30
PM PDT
After Breitbart News had reported
on Politico magazine writer Ian
Murphy’s Twitter meltdown where he said former President Ronald Reagan “fucks Satan
in hell,” Murphy tweeted out a gif of himself burning an American flag.
“Some of you folks are unfairly
questioning my patriotism,” Murphy tweeted with a link to the animated image.
“So here I am on a very typical Tuesday evening.”
Soon after, he riffed on an
earlier tweet where he taunted a critic, saying, "Reagan fucks Satan in
Hell":
Politico had published a screed
from Murphy in its new magazine this week, in which he recounts how he
prank-called Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker pretending to be one of the Koch
Brothers. When Politico published Murphy’s reporting, it was lending its media
platform to someone who raged against the concept of societal respect for the U.S. military.
In a 2008 piece titled "Fuck
the Troops," Murphy argued that anecdotal evidence of misbehavior by
American soldiers should be universalized to a general disrespect of the
military. He specifically complains that in the public's view, "there are
only bad apples, never bad orchards." Sprinkled in the text are casual
references to service members as rapists, "rubes," and
murderers—while describing amputee veterans as having "cool robotic
limbs."
Politico has not responded to
inquiries from Breitbart News on whether the publication was aware of Murphy's
anti-military article before printing his anti-Walker article.
Politico
Robert L.
Allbritton is the publisher for Politico,
and a board member for the Lyndon Baines
Johnson Foundation.
Note: Robert S. Strauss
is a board member for the Lyndon Baines
Johnson Foundation, a partner at Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, and a senior adviser at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
Committee
for a Responsible Federal Budget was housed at the New America Foundation.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. was a board member
for the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation,
is a senior counsel for Akin, Gump,
Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director
at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), a life trustee at
the Urban Institute (think tank), and
a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory
Please note: This link for the
members of the Commercial Club of Chicago can no longer be found.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Joseph A. Califano
Jr. is a life trustee at the Urban
Institute (think tank), and a board member for the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the New America Foundation, the Brookings Institution (think tank), the Urban Institute (think tank), and the Center for American Progress.
George
Soros is the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was a
supporter for the Center for American
Progress.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress, and the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
Tom Daschle is a director at the Center for American Progress, a board
member for the Lyndon Baines Johnson
Foundation, and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Robert L.
Hutchings is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), the dean of the Lyndon
B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and a board member for the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation.
Robert L.
Allbritton is a board member for the Lyndon
Baines Johnson Foundation, and the publisher for Politico.
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